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treefrog ,

Provable economic damage is how we have standing for class action lawsuits btw.

treefrog , (edited )

Here I think it's best to delineate the GOP base and the GOP elite.

What you say is most likely (though not always) true for the base. While not likely (though sometimes) true for the elite.

And it's not a delusional disorder. But the effects of propaganda by the elite. (Still technically delusion but I think it's nice to point at the source, as it helps us not fall into the trap of blaming people for being manipulated).

The reason we see more of this recently in broad daylight is because propaganda works. The oligarchs and political elite care about the same things they did during WW2, money and power. And up until Pearl Harbor, there was support for Germany in the U.S.

https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/

And don't forget, the GOP has a history of shitting on minorities that goes back many generations. This isn't new. It's just masks off. Because their base drank the kool aid.

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How much activities are warming climate in 2024

Using scientific datasets, the project applies stats to calculate contributions in 2024.

Energy is notably extracted by investor-owned companies based in NATO countries. The biggest corporate contributors are ExxonMobil, Shell, BP. The carbon-equivalent flux is 5.6 G/year.
Instead following The Paris Agreement countries should decrease annual output by 2% every year.

Extraction of fossil fuels steadily increases: http://data.yt/projections/ @climate

Trends of Greenhouse Forcing from 1998 to 2024 Each activity sector has a different colour and size. Dots represent greenhouse gases sent into the air (in G/year) as observed. Lines represent lid gas sent into the air (in carbon-equivalent-tons per year) as predicted. A band and a line of "requested slope" indicate not the levels but the trend of 2%/year at which emissions should decrease ("to limit climate warming"). A plot of CO2-equivalent throughput shows land-use change responsible for around 25 G/year. This is the highest level of our eight activity sectors. A plot of CO2-equivalent throughput shows that China increased extraction of coal. The dots and lines exhibit the biggest acceleration of our seven activity sectors. China doubled their coal output between 2005 and 2024. Four plots of CO2-equivalent throughput show that state-owned entities continue to extract climate-forcing gases, a little more every year (except during lockdown). The current levels were never seen before. Four plots of CO2-equivalent throughput show that investor-owned companies continue to steadily extract climate-forcing gases. A plot of CO2-equivalent throughput shows that animal products deliver as much greenhouse effect as the total of our 75 investor-owned companies — since 2020.
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    • treefrog ,

    How so?

    treefrog ,

    Oh thanks I only caught the vegan part of it and the hexbear reference went over my head. Was like, I mostly eat vegetables, should I he upset by this?

    treefrog ,

    If I was writing the article I would have pointed out the admission, rather than pointing towards the allegation. Which is based on his admission.

    treefrog ,

    Trump's spiritual advisor resigns after admitting he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old child.

    Much better headline in my opinion.

    treefrog ,

    That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying the liability issue.

    treefrog ,

    I hope there is no statute of limitations on child sexual assault in his jurisdiction.

    treefrog ,

    I took a couple of very cute selfies in a new outfit and had a difficult but fruitful conversation with my girlfriend about some insecurities that I was having in the relationship.

    And thank you for the question! I include this as a good thing that is going on with my weekend.

    What good things are going on with your weekend?

    treefrog ,

    It's been difficult for me. I find understanding helps a lot.

    I view a lot of the abuse and family violence that I both experienced and witnessed, as a sort of generational shame and resentment, partially due to poverty and Catholicism. Coupled with jealousy of people born into more privilege who lived in our community. And a healthy dose of substance use to cope with the above feelings, primarily in the shape of alcohol, but also a lot of stimulant abuse in the family.

    It helps a lot that my father has softened quite a bit. I don't know that he's completely changed in the sense of understanding how he has hurt people. But he seems to treat his current wife well, and with all of the male children out of the house the cycle of abuse seems to have stopped. And he has acknowledged how he's hurt me when I've brought it up, at least generally. And been supportive and not abusive since I turned 18.

    I've also had to do a lot of personal work, a lot of self-discovery. And a lot of work with an excellent trauma therapist using IFS and EMDR, along with a meditation practice at home.

    And all of that said it's a process. Sometimes my trauma gets triggered and I'm right there as a 12-year-old pissed off at him again. Which is to say give yourself some grace too.

    treefrog , (edited )

    Yeah it's really effective. And becomes a practice in its own right of self-care. It's also one of the modalities MAPS is using in MDMA treatment protocols.

    There's parallels in my Buddhist practice. Which is in the plum village tradition. Thich Nhat Hanh uses language like embracing the anger with your mindfulness and holding it like a mother would hold a crying infant. So, while the technical language is different it can be very similar to the IFS process and the two help inform each other for me. Compassionate inquiry is another one I've heard of but not studied. Which also has strong parallels.

    Sometimes I catch myself just holding space while two parts have a loving conversation with each other. Which is a nice change from always being at war with myself.

    treefrog , (edited )

    I made a post talking about my personal experience.

    This post is more of a safety check. As a couple of other people pointed out you don't have to. And if the abuse is continuing, focus on your safety first.

    I didn't speak to my father for 6 years. When he came back into my life, I think he understood that he couldn't take the relationship for granted. And that if he treated me like shit, I would never talk to him again.

    I don't know that he really changed. But he does respect my boundaries now. Even if it's more out of fear of the consequences than compassion for me. And trying to understand and forgive has helped me to develop more compassion.

    But I had stopped the cycle of abuse by setting a firm boundary with him. And that had to happen before any sort of trust could be rebuilt. And to be honest, that was his job. He needed to respect my boundaries to earn my trust. Trust is earned it's not given, after all. And without safety and trust, love can't flow.

    So yeah, don't put it on yourself either. You are the victim of abuse. Restorative justice, such as making amends, rebuilding trust, and ultimately hoping that love can be there again, that's the job of the person that did the damage.

    treefrog ,

    Yeah for real.

    I'm so grateful I had someplace to go to. My stepdad was not great either but he was much easier to cope with than my father. And my mom is my role model for compassion in this world.

    Unfortunately in my case the cycle of abuse continued with my stepbrother when my dad remarried. Which is why I have doubts about him really getting the message. And my stepbrother ended up moving out when he was 17 and couchsurfing through the rest of high school.

    Anyway, I made a edit to my post above. I just wanted to point out that we are the victims of abuse. Restoring the relationship is on the shoulders of the person that caused the damage to the relationship right. It's up to them to make amends and rebuild trust. And without rebuilding trust there can't be love. So, it's really not our job.

    Finding compassion and understanding for everyone can still be really helpful though in that it can lead to deeper self understanding. Which requires kind of stepping back and looking at the factors that contributed to the cycle. But that doesn't mean you need to let an abusive person into your life. Or feel warmth towards them. Even if they do try to make amends, it's completely acceptable to just not have the spoons to deal with it.

    treefrog , (edited )

    They're giving the royal family jail time?

    treefrog ,

    Maybe the pilot is a Boeing whistleblower and afraid for their safety?

    treefrog ,

    Excellent article. Just came out as gender queer. It's terrifying being myself, but I 100% agree. They'll keep pushing because it's my very existence that offends them.

    Putting myself back in that binary box feels like death, because it is. It's a spiritual death. Not just for me, but for generations of people to follow.

    So, I'm going to keep dressing how I like even if it offends. Because it also encourages and inspires other people like me and you.

    treefrog ,

    I mostly play roguelikes, which is to say there's a lot of games I haven't finished and have a great time with.

    The last big title I played that was really enjoyable for the first half was unicorn overlord. And I even played through the first half of a couple of times. After that micromanaging the units gets annoying, so I put it down and haven't picked it back up.

    That's the last game I really enjoyed that I didn't finish. But I like to buy games on sale and check them out, partially because I have an interest in-game design and game theory. So even if I only play a game for a few hours, if I get it for cheap I'm still pretty satisfied.

    treefrog ,

    You can grab a copy of entrepreneurial small business 5th edition used for probably 20 bucks. I'm about one semester out from a business administration associate's degree. That textbook was the most comprehensive of anything that I studied over the last year and a half. And the only textbook I made sure to buy a print copy of, so I have it for reference.

    treefrog ,

    Great! I hope it's as helpful for you as it was for me.

    I think my biggest piece of advice would be to set up an LLC, especially if you have any personal assets that you could lose if you would end up liable for stuff related to your business.

    It makes your taxes a bit more complicated, but it shields you from being personally liable for damages that your business incurs on somebody else. And would protect like your house or car from being counted as an asset in a lawsuit in such cases.

    treefrog ,

    Yet everyone who pushes for measures like this self-identifies as Christian, at least in public.

    If Christianity's good name needs to be untarnished, then liberal Christians need to do more. Rather than expecting the media to delineate between the two.

    Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere ( www.scientificamerican.com )

    The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.

    treefrog ,

    I listen to Bauhaus and grow gourmet mushrooms.

    Unidentified fungi are not equivalent at all to dark energy.

    treefrog ,

    I figured but still wanted to correct the dark matter/dark fungi metaphor in the article and saw an opportunity to do so with my favorite squid as I used to listen to Bauhaus as a kid.

    Twenty years ago most biology books still classified fungus as plants. That's how young mycology is as a science. So, there's lots of unidentified fungus on the planet, but we still fundamentally understand microbiology as a whole.

    Much different than dark matter/energy as we're not sure really what they 'are'. We only know them by their effects.

    treefrog ,

    May he keep Deedee Ramone company until we all get there.

    treefrog ,

    I'm sure it depends on the book. I have a mushroom field guide published in the late '90s that still calls them plants. Which was really weird to me considering it's a mycology book.

    treefrog ,

    That's fair. I suppose I was overestimating the knowledge of the field guide writers.

    treefrog ,

    The Florida laws will hurt undocumented migrants the most.

    Which is to say, don't forget the racism as a motivation.

    treefrog ,

    Depends on if municipalities sue or not to recoup those costs.

    treefrog ,

    In this same poll, Trump fared much worse.

    treefrog ,

    I'm a trans person that lives in a purple state.

    Watching stuff like this happen in other states makes me afraid to get healthcare even here where it's currently safe and accessible.

    So, actions like this affect all trans people. As many other posters mentioned, it's a terrorist act. The intention is to keep trans people afraid so we don't seek healthcare.

    FDA advisors voted against MDMA therapy – researchers are still fighting for it ( www.bbc.com )

    Some 13 million Americans struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Existing therapies only bring relief for a fraction of patients, and new treatments are sorely needed, according to psychiatrists wrestling with the scale of the problem. So, there was distinct disappointment when an advisory committee at the US Food...

    treefrog ,

    Psilocybin is not more effective for treating PTSD.

    It's great for anxiety depression, those are not PTSD.

    And you and I have had this conversation before but you are still spouting the same nonsense.

    Both are needed. And you are minimizing what the FDA is doing here and how it will hurt people with PTSD.

    treefrog ,

    Again you're spouting statistics with no scientific evidence to support them. I remember that study you linked with the 80%. That rate was not for PTSD but other chronic mental health conditions being treated with psilocybin.

    Your claims have no evidence to support them so please stop. Because you're not helping.

    treefrog ,

    I would love to know how many members of this board have stock portfolios in pharmaceutical companies that are currently collecting huge amounts of money from antidepressants being used to treat people with PTSD.

    Antidepressants that really aren't effective in the treatment of PTSD but make the pharmaceutical industry a shitload of money.

    Like most things, when we follow the money we learn why powerful people make the decisions they do. And I imagine this instance is no different.

    treefrog ,

    I love psilocybin. I used to grow them and still am fond of them and encourage others to explore them.

    But it treating similar symptoms to PTSD is not the same as having an 80% success rate with actual PTSD, which is the claim you're making and not the claim your study is making.

    PTSD is not anxiety or depression, even if it can present with similar symptoms. Nor is it substance use disorder. It's trauma and it requires safety and community to unpack.

    Psilocybin is great at helping us develop a deeper relationship with ourselves and life generally. But the hormones released during an MDMA session better facilitate safety and connection.

    Honestly I'm not trying to convince you in particular because we've had this conversation before and you're unwilling to reexamine your own conclusions. But I'll keep correcting the narrative for others who come along.

    treefrog , (edited )

    There's so much projection in your post it's ridiculous.

    PTSD is not treatable with SSRIs. Depression is.

    And the logic you are using is that because psilocybin works well for depression it will be great for PTSD.

    We already know that's not the case when we look at other drugs used to treat depression and PTSD. Such as the SSRIs I just mentioned.

    They're not the same disease and you are drawing false comparisons between the two. I have lived with CPTSD my entire life. I have tried multiple anxiety and depression treatments. And they didn't work that well, because I have PTSD and not anxiety or depression, those are simply symptoms. And I have taken psilocybin probably 50 times if not more. Because I enjoy it and it helps me clarify my relationship with myself. But it's not as good at helping me feel safe and connected to other human beings as MDMA is.

    If MDMA therapy was available I would jump on it tomorrow because I know it would help me more.

    I've been researching this stuff personally for over 30 years. Both through consumption and studying the pharmacology and scientific literature.

    You seem to be like a first-year psychedelic therapist or something because I remember that class description that you linked, which you completely misinterpreted as well.

    Does psilocybin have some potential in treating PTSD? Yes. Does the current scientific understanding suggest that it would be better than MDMA for this? No. In fact it suggests that MDMA is superior in treating PTSD. And psilocybin is superior for treating end of life anxiety and depression, assuming these symptoms aren't being caused by an underlying condition such as PTSD.

    They are very different diseases. Even if the symptomology is similar, that doesn't mean the treatment is the same.

    treefrog ,

    Again you conflate symptoms and disease.

    I think that's all I need to point out for anybody following this conversation.

    treefrog ,

    I'm not telling anyone not to take psilocybin. Don't put words in my mouth.

    I'm questioning the bias in that FDA advisory board. A reasonable question considering decades of prohibition and that historically FDA advisory boards have owned stocks in pharmaceutical companies that stand to lose profits if MDMA is approved as a medication.

    In other words, the 9 out of 11 statistic that you just cited is a statistic that I don't trust because these individuals have historically been biased and are not specialists in psychedelic medicine.

    And your whole argument hinges on this idea that because we have a treatment that could be effective we should not look into more effective treatments. In which case, meditation works just fine for all of this and is much safer than any medication we can put in our body. So, should we not use any mental health medications? And put all of our research money just into meditation? After all it is safe and effective, and much safer than either of these drugs.

    Going through a lot of things, curious about rights and options

    I work full time as a designer/builder of fixtures for a very large corporation (500+ employees). My work directly affects production. I also work in sales for a large corporation (500+ employees). At the part time job, company B (sales) I and other women were harassed. I have proof, witnesses, all of that. I am being sparing...

    treefrog ,

    I also have cptsd.

    Can't help much with the legal questions. But there's medication that can reduce nightmares. Prazosin in particular. It blocks the adrenal response, so you are less likely to go into fight or flight while sleeping.

    Also, PTSD is recognized as a disability. It's not easy to get disability for it, however discriminating against you for having it, when you are requesting reasonable accommodations is absolutely illegal. If you have medical documentation of your condition that will be helpful. If you don't, I suggest you start figuring out how to document it. I see a trauma therapist, and my GP is also aware that I have it, as he's the one that gave me the medication. This is the documentation I'm currently using to try to get disability and it would also work in your instance.

    treefrog ,

    Well I mean when I read through your posts you're pretty hostile to lemmy.

    So maybe it's you.

    treefrog ,

    Well it's more if you feel you'd be better out without us.

    But when I read through your comments, I see stuff like unlike on Reddit downvotes don't mean anything here. Or stuff like, lemmmy users aren't going to get it but I feel this way about combustion engines (which is fine who doesn't love the sound of shit exploding and the hum of an engine lol).

    My point wasn't get the fuck out but you'll probably encounter less hostility if you don't prejudge everybody.

    treefrog ,

    He means his life was better under Donald Trump.

    treefrog ,

    I don't think the Chinese government really gets Buddhism.

    treefrog ,

    Tennessee is hot and humid.

    Temperatures over 104f (40c) were common before climate change.

    104 is the UK record from 2022. 113 for Tennessee, a record set during the great depression.

    This is above the wet bulb level and AC isn't a privilege because without it, people will die.

    treefrog , (edited )

    This was seriously your response was to back track and say, well actually, cold is more dangerous anyway?

    You don't need to reply. You proved to me already that you're not acring in good faith.

    treefrog ,

    Nothing is 100% safe. Which is why harm reduction is an important part of the conversation when discussing drug addiction.

    Water is safer than tea. Tea safer than coffee. All three can in theory kill you if consumed in large enough quantities.

    Anyway, I figured I would dig around more on vaping instead of just glancing at the top search result.

    And, I take what I said back. Nicotine by itself causes cancer. Tobacco just makes it more likely.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

    treefrog ,

    As flying squid helped me see, safer doesn't mean safe.

    Nicotine alone can cause cancer and while vaping is 'safer' than tobacco, in that it's less carcinogenic, it is still a carcinogen. And because of the ROA, vaping is actually more addictive than cigarettes.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222281/

    treefrog ,

    Yeah, my bad for glancing at the top search result before I made my long-winded post above lol.

    Hope you're well, Mr. Squid.

    treefrog ,

    Sorry to hear that. My mental health is finally on the mend. Giving myself permission to be myself for the first time in my life, really.

    Hope things get better for you soon :)

    treefrog ,

    Thanks!

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