june

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june ,

I think about this all the time with everything from professions to entertainment. I watch a lot of F1 and those guys are always called the best/most talented drivers in the world, and all I can think of is how the most talented driver in the world is probably a poor kid in India or China who’s starving to death that will never have the chance to develop that talent let alone drive a car.

We are missing out on so many brilliant minds because capitalism requires them to be at the bottom. Meritocracy isn’t real and never will be.

june ,

I watched a video my mom posted of this incident along with claims that he was ‘screaming’ at the press.

Regarding Mexico, I just immediately remembered how I used to talk to my mom about him being a gaffe machine as a kid and waved it away.

As for the screaming, he got forceful because the press kept yelling over him, but not once did he raise his voice.

The criticisms of this man are mind boggling to me.

june ,

Yep. Biden knows how to listen and trust experts. He’d get my vote over trump for that reason alone any and every day.

june ,

Is that a Boston? I’d like to know the source for this photo. If it’s a Boston it’s the exact same coloring as my girl was, and in the 10 years I had her I never saw another one like her.

june ,

A Supreme Court justice making a slippery slope argument is wild to me.

june ,

I’m in a similar spot as you. Doubled my income over the pandemic (though I got laid off in December), bought a house at 4.99%, and moved to a slightly lower cost of living city that’s still in range of Seattle.

I’m mad for all the same reasons.

june ,

Which is great until the law gets changed by a bunch of sycophants in congress.

june ,

They’ve been planning this for 40 years

june ,

I’m racing tiny cars bro!

I help run an RC racing club. In the summer we do parking lot 1/10 scale in road, and in the winter we do 1/28 scale (Mini Z) indoor onroad. It’s a fuckin blast.

june ,

I’d take that over the work week I’ve had

june ,

I lost my dog on Wednesday.

I’m in the mud too feeling the same things. Yesterday morning I was ready to never get out of bed, to just dehydrate and die. I didn’t move until my whole body was numb. It felt like the universe had given me my reward in her spread out over 10 years, but kept tally of all my sins and unleashed my punishment all at once directly on my soul. It was ash in my mouth and salt in my eyes, unbearable and searing pain. Until my partner came over to check on me because I was non-responsive by phone. They bodily got me up, they made me drink water and eat, they got me out of bed and into the shower. Through all my sobbing and wailing and despair they held me and told me it’s ok, that they loved me. They loved me on purpose and took care of me when I couldn’t do that for myself.

And that’s it. That’s the purpose. The point. Love. Grief is always hovering there right next to love we experience, but would you trade a single moment with your cat to avoid this grief and pain? I certainly wouldn’t. I’ll take this a hundred times over for the love I experienced for and from Mercy. It’s why we do this to ourselves when we bring a pet into our lives knowing every minute of the journey that it will end too soon. Because they fill a hole in our hearts and make our lives brighter. Even though right now it feels like there is no light in the world, you need to realize that it only feels dark in comparison to how much light they brought. It’s like being in a bright room and suddenly the lights are cut and you’re blind. I promise, our eyes will adjust, we’ll see again, we’ll breath again, and eventually, all we’ll remember is the love and warmth.

All we have to do is survive this, right now. Let it wash over you, honor them with your grief and pain, but don’t let it control you because that’s not what they’d want. Your cat would want you to continue to find the light, to find joy, and to find love. And you have to stick around for that, and you have to do it for them. You’ll do it because you loved and were loved and will love again.

The point is love.

june ,

It’s worth it.

I lost my girl 2 days ago, the world feels like it’s ended and I can hardly breath.

But it’s worth it. I’d do it all over again. I will do it all over again once the wound is healed. Because it’s worth every ounce of the pain.

june ,

I’m on day 2 right now. I’ve never had the day after be worse than the day of, but yesterday was the hardest, darkest day I’ve ever experienced, even when weighed against losing a parent when I was 12. I thought I’d braced myself and prepared, but nothing could have prepared me.

june ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2bc768a7-b0cb-47cb-bbc3-48005c675d67.jpeg

Out of the thousands I have, this has always been my favorite picture of her.

I captures her personality perfectly. She was a wonderful girl. The best.

june ,

It doesn’t have either

june ,

It’s to protect people from ‘the tyranny of the majority’. You don’t want the minority to be quelled and silenced just because more people disagree with them than agree. This is a fair and balanced take and ensures democracy works so long as the republicans are the minority. We’d make substantive changes if that were to change because we really want to avoid the tyranny of the democrats minority after all.

june ,

Gross.

Anyone wanna start up a 501c3 to fill in the void?

june ,

Most of us don’t and many of us are skeeved out by this. I recognize that it’s stupid and these eggs are fine, but it still makes me feel gaggy looking at them.

june ,

I’ve got about half my 401k in sp500, as well as a few grand independently in an sp500 index.

june ,

I had a rad weekend in NYC. Got here last Wednesday and am leaving today, sitting in JFK waiting for my delayed flight now.

I came out to decompress after getting laid off last month and that I did. I’m also on a journey discovering my sexuality and I decided this weekend was when I was gonna find a boy to kiss for the first time, and that I did. And I enjoyed it a lot! Wasn’t like an epiphany or anything, but was def good.

Went out and went hard every night and I’m absolutely exhausted now in the most pleasant way. A dozen bagels in my bag, some souvenirs for the people I care about the most, and lots of good memories coming home with me.

june ,

I think we’re gonna learn some things about him after this war is over that we won’t like. He’s doing great as a war time president, but no one is this squeaky clean.

june ,

Ok that’s actually really rad. I’m gonna have to fuck around a bit and see if I can do smth similar.

june ,

I was thinking I could grab one from goodwill. It just needs to be the subwoofer that has the input and it’s g2g.

june ,

I love walking into my kitchen and having the lights come on at an appropriate brightness based on time of day without having to interact with the switch. I love having my gawdy custom LED lights come on in the hallway when I open my bedroom door, and having them super low at night when it’s dark so I can still see without blasting my irises. I like having a heater that runs on one end of the room until the other end hits a certain temp, and more so only having it come on if the temp is below a specific threshold in the morning. I love having my porch lights turn on and off with sunset/sunrise, and having seasonal lighting schemes. I love knowing when my house is entered and exited when I’m away, knowing that I can control many things while out of the house like lights, or if I need to open the garage door for a friend to grab something, or give access to someone once without having to give them a key, or to have the TV room turning on before I head in there so I don’t have to bother with sitting through the power up cycle for everything. Mostly, I like being able to control lights without them having to be on the same circuit. My living room doesn’t have a light fixture with a switch, but I’ve got 4 lamps and two switched down lights (one at my front door and one over the fireplace) that are all controlled from a single wireless switch, button on my phone, or voice command. My bedroom is the same, I don’t have to turn out the lights and then get in bed in the dark. I get in bed and press the action button on my phone (which works conditionally based on time, location, and a couple other consistent factors) and the lights turn off while the fan turns on. It’s a lot of work for a bunch of minor conveniences, but more than anything I really enjoy the technology and seeing what other weird and stupid things I can do with it.

june ,

Glad the economy is recovering.

Now can I please have a job that pays my bills before my unemployment and savings runs out?

june ,

This fucker literally encouraging states to fight the federal government… alternatively known as engaging in civil war.

Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal ( www.nytimes.com )

Biden, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, largely resolved these problems, reducing maximum premium payments (net of subsidies) and eliminating the cliff at 400 percent. The result is to make health insurance coverage substantially more affordable, especially for middle-income Americans who previously earned too much...

june ,

The welfare cliff is, I think, one of the biggest drivers of poverty in the states. Without a system that provides a smooth transition there’s really no way that people can get out of poverty.

june ,

Yep. That’s the cliff. You make enough to not qualify but not enough to survive or even keep up with what you got before. It actively incentives people to not work

june ,

Telekinesis. Definitely. That way I don’t have to get out of the bed where I forget to close the blinds

june ,

Been saying that for 8 years.

june ,

My mother calls him ‘a man for such a time as this’. She references god using a donkey to minister to Paul and says ‘god can use anyone’. She acknowledges he’s not a Christian but still believes he’s the anointed one to lead the country and has prophecies about him, including one about him being assassinated IIRC.

Trump furious as he fails to knock out Haley before South Carolina ( news.yahoo.com )

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Donald Trump didn't just want to win in New Hampshire, he wanted to beat Nikki Haley so badly that his sole rival for the Republican presidential nomination would drop out before the next competitive contest in South Carolina a month away....

june ,

I REALLY hope Haley gets the nod.

Largely because there’s no way republicans will band together enough to elect a woman to the executive.

june ,

If Haley gets the nod it’ll be because Trump is disqualified. I don’t see any other way that it happens.

june ,

Right, and Biden would sail to an easy victory.

Trump being disqualified or Haley getting the nod both result in a dem win for the executive

june ,

She’s trump lite, but I think she might actually respect democracy.

I’m queer myself, so I understand some of your fears, but from what I know I’d take Haley over Trump. But we’re really choosing between eating a turd sandwich, or eating a turd without the bread.

june ,

Yep. I keep thinking about that myself, particularly if Trump gets the executive again. I have a legitimate fear for my wellbeing and have started thinking about potential plans for getting out of the country. Fortunately I only live a couple hours away from the Canadian border and feel that I could get there rather easily, but I never would have imagined that I’d be having these thoughts. Especially as a white person who is AMAB. It’s appalling the state of things, and worse yet is that my own mother is all-in for the administration that has made me afraid.

june ,

Oh me too. I bought my house 2 years ago and if things can stay even will actually be getting ahead otherwise.

Fleeing is a ‘I’ll die if I don’t’ plan. Nothing else.

june ,

lol I feel all that. I was married at the time and my ex wife’s rich aunt and uncle gave us 40k for… reasons? I think they said it was something to do with taxes. Idk. But that with our savings we had enough for a down payment in a conventional. We didn’t qualify for any other programs but it worked out.

6 months later we broke up and I get to keep the house because my salary can afford it. We have an equity agreement in place for when I sell, but it’s a long term recoup for her. Worked out well for me tho

june ,

It’s ok. It honestly should have happened a lot sooner, but we were in denial when we bought the house. It’s a long story but buying the house changed everything for us. We’re both a lot happier now, so all good. ❤️

june ,

Don’t get lazy. Get out the vote.

june ,

Shit, there was a second where even I thought that Trump might make a good president. I was disavowed of that thought very quickly, but it existed in this progressive’s head for a second. I can forgive 2016 for a lot of people, but I cannot for 2020 or 2024.

june ,

This was before the primaries actually.

june ,

A couple weeks ago when I bought a new wallet. Which I’m very pleased with so far.

DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records ( www.usatoday.com )

A former Internal Revenue Service contractor, who leaked tax information about Donald Trump and other wealthy individuals to news organizations, got his job to intentionally to spread the confidential records, according to Justice Department prosecutors....

june ,

I suspect he never believed he was above the law, but that the law was broken.

june ,

It would be a pretty bad look for Biden to pardon him IMO. I think it would be a mistake for him to do so.

june ,

So I figured out the difference here, and it’s gamed to make you think they’re backward.

The real photos appear to be professionally edited with the light, filters, and bokeh being perfect while the AI generated are more like candids you’d take with your phone. This is an intentional move by the author to make this scarier than it actually is, imo. Next to each other we expect the AI to be more ‘perfect’ than the real photos. Once I figured that out I got them all right.

If they’d put candids next to these AI generated images I’m willing to bet you’d have done better.

june ,

With piss and vinegar and a sincere belief that you deserve better, but with the clear understanding that you’ll likely get nothing.

So set your sights on something realistic and smaller.

I got them to sell me my work laptop for well below its depreciated value (14” M1 MacBook Pro kitted out with memory and storage for $800) which is what I went in hoping for. I had some real strong arguments for more severance which were all expectedly shot down, so when I asked for a discount on the laptop, I got it and I won.

In my case I knew the worst that would happen is they say no. That’s not gonna be true everywhere so there can definitely be some risk of losing the severance all together by asking for more, but if you have a good relationship with management and know they’ll come to the table in good faith it’s worth the time. If nothing else you come to the table and let them know you understand what the severance is all about (the non disparagement clause is all they really care about) and sometimes that’s enough to get them to give you something more.

june ,

I’ve got my house kitted out with quite a bit of intelligence. I’ve spent a lot of time and money getting it working right, and it still has issues with human presence among other things.

I would absolutely not trust any automated system with something like this. It’s like buying tools from harbor freight: anything that makes your life easier is fine but never buy something from harbor freight that you have to entrust your life to. Similarly, never trust an automation that has the potential to end your life.

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