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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Your fear is understandable and valid, this is a dark timeline and a really bad outcome.

But being afraid and panicking cannot possibly help anybody, least of all yourself.

Take a few days if you can to reset mentally as much as possible.

Then, get to work building resistance, it's more critical now than ever. Find a leftist org near you and get involved. DSA, a local anarchist group, a worker co-op that needs volunteers, a democratic socialist org, anything leftist that is doing real work locally.

If you can't donate your time, donate your money. If you can't donate either of those, then help them spread the word on your social media. Post all their links and use your social media to advertise their events and meetups, help make people aware.

On the personal side, protect your health. The conservatives largely want to demolish healthcare, especially for underprivileged folks. Your health is so critical, especially now.

Quit your vices or at least, reduce them:

  • Quit smoking/vaping.
  • Stop drinking, at least heavily if you do.
  • Stop eating junk food/candy.
  • Get in shape, hike, calisthenics, walk, bike, etc.

It will not only help protect you from an administration that wants you to have less coverage if you're sick/injured, it will help your mental health and save you money, sometimes tons of money.

Final advice for money, save it as much as you can. Practice frugality, get together with friends to cook and share meals. Get involved socially with people, learn about your community, build solidarity.

We will get through this, I believe in you, and I believe in the human drive for true freedom, equality, and community. Don't let that flame burn out, we're in this together, and only together can we come out victorious. ✊

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

5800X3D is my CPU for the next 3-5 years probs. Maybe even longer, it's so damn good.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Was in a public restroom years ago, I was the only person in it at that moment, taking care of business.

About a minute after I had sat down in the stall, I hear the main door to the bathroom smash open and a male voice desperately saying, "Shit! oh fuck me! Ohmahgaw! Holyshitomagaw! Fuck me!!!"

He slams open the door a few stalls down from mine, all the while never stopping his stream of profanity. I hear his pants ripped off and his belt hitting the floor, and what follows is a massive explosion of farts, liquid-sounding poop, and the entire time, he never stops loudly blaspheming lol. "Ppfffftt!!!OhhhhfuckkkPPRRrrppSPLASH!!!Ohhhmahgaww!PPrrrppprrtttShiiittFuggggohhh!PrrrtprraaaPPSplashhhh!!!Awshhiii!!"

I had to hold in my laughter while trying to wipe, pull my pants up, flush, and haul ass out of there before screaming with laughter the moment I got out of the bathroom lol.

Poor guy, I don't know what he ate, but it came back with a brutal vengeance.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sadly, this seems like it's likely a case of psychopathy. Technically you can't diagnose minors with it, but they have pre-adult terms for the same thing.

Children at that age, at least according to the majority of modern research, have extremely low rates of successful behavioral reconditioning towards socially acceptable norms. It's almost zero.

The best researchers have been able to do, even with extremely intensive treatment, is to slightly curb their most violent and predatory tendencies.

I agree that we should take a non-retributive approach to justice, but the sad truth in these cases, at least as far as we know right now, these folks cannot be fixed and reintroduced into the general population, they are too dangerous.

Their brains, either through genetic misfortune, or through extreme sustained trauma from infancy, are permanently malformed. They lack any significant capacity for empathy or love. They cannot relate to other people on any level, especially emotionally. Their brains are literally not wired for it, as awful as that is.

We shouldn't throw them in a hole though. They should be permanently imprisoned in specialty facilities that constantly treat their mental disorder and try to employ them in productive jobs that can help society. They should be provided proper medical care and resources, possibly tightly supervised short term release in condition of exceptional behavior and treatment response.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Keep it up! 😊😇

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My gaming rig has been running Nobara for years now, it's built off of Fedora by the developer who does the glorious eggroll version of Proton.

It's got multiple desktop environment versions and is optimized for Linux gaming. It has a bunch of gaming-specific kernel patches and optimizations. Extra drivers pre-installed for controllers and Nvidia GPUs, etc.

It has a very easy update wizard, I run it once every few weeks, works awesome.

Nobara Linux

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Getting better all the time!

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Friendly reminder to give your fair and honest Steam review of Apex Legends after EA's most recent changes. 😈

 

Just making sure I'm not missing something obvious:

Self-hosted Linux VM with protonVPN and QBitorrent installed on it.

QBittorrent networking bound only to ProtonVPN's virtual interface with killswitch and secure core enabled.

Auto updates enabled and a scripted alert system if ProtonVPN dies. Obviously everything with very secure unique passwords.

Is this a safe setup to run 24/7 to torrent and seed with?

Are there any significant risks I'm missing? Thanks, fellow sea salts!

 

Does anybody have any studies that look at male loneliness and pets? I know from personal experience that a pet can be the difference between falling into a depressive spiral and not.

I don't know what I would do without my cats, they are wonderful companions, very sweet and they seem to sense when I'm feeling down and come to cuddle with me or ask me to play.

Have any other folks here had similar experiences they'd like to share?

 

Just started using AnySoftKeyboard and I'm loving it so far. But I want to know if it is actually private and safe to use.

Thanks!

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