treefrog

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treefrog ,

Helping people get on their feet only makes sense if your goal isn't oppression.

treefrog ,

New pipe and inner tune still work fine.

treefrog ,

They also think once world war 3 happens they all get to go to heaven

treefrog ,

They wouldn't be able to do that with a Supreme Court decision

treefrog ,

People do more time for growing medicinal fungus than she will for manslaughter .

treefrog ,

Well that's to bad, I was busy yesterday

treefrog ,

Thanks, I'm going to check these out!

treefrog ,

The problem with that test is that not all animals process visual information the same.

For example, rats have horrible vision but two noses, one just for smelling pheromones. I'm quite positive my rats are self-aware being highly social animals with a theory of mind.

But they'll never pass a mirror test.

treefrog ,

Yeah, I think self awareness is a really low bar that we tend to think we're special for having. And that this fallacy is part of why animal rights are basically shit.

The mirror test does show that an animal is self-conscious, in the sense that, it likely cares what others think and thus has a theory of mind. And you're right, it only proves self-consciousness, it doesn't prove its lack because as I stated earlier in the case of my rats, other senses might be involved that would produce that response.

Dogs too. Seem much more concerned with how each other smell than how each other look.

treefrog ,

All forms of consciousness but, yes, most especially self-awareness. A lot of people really aren't that self-aware compared to a Zen Master. And an earthworm is less self-aware than most people.

treefrog ,

Article was published on the first. 8% of votes did go to Uninstructed delegation.

treefrog ,

As a person with trauma, who has had trauma all his life, I find social interactions draining and stressful. I have trouble developing trust, which makes it difficult to bond with others. And which makes me more lonely in a crowded room than I feel right now sharing my thoughts with you all on the internet.

I guess I'm curious how this study would fair if it was done on self-described introverts. I value my friends, but maintaining those relationships is a burden rather than a joy for me.

treefrog ,

Well then post them! Be the change you want to see

treefrog ,

So, make your own lemmy instance so you can moderate it.

People are allowed to express their discontent with Biden. Even if it costs 'us' the election.

If you feel there should be more positive Biden stories, post them. You'll have my upvotes.

Republicans Worry They Could Lose the House—Before the Election ( time.com )

When Republicans gained control of the House in November 2022, many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history. Some Democrats even speculated if they might be able to take back the House before the term ended....

treefrog ,

You're overestimating the memory of the average voter.

treefrog ,

If both sides are shit Republicans are the kind that runs down your leg in the middle of Christmas dinner while Democrats are the kind that has the decency to wait until you're in the toilet.

In other words, I feel your sentiment but still, fuck this both sides are the same bullshit.

treefrog ,

As long as I didn't make you laugh so hard you shit your pants!

treefrog ,

lmao

treefrog ,

I'm not sure how he was being obedient. He knew he was on felony probation and voted illegally anyway.

treefrog , (edited )

Christians isn't a monolithic entity, the way the headline pretends. There's liberal Christians and conservative Christians. Hell, there's an LGBTQ church down the street from here with a trans pastor and a church trauma support group.

i.e. Not all Christians love what Trump has done and not all Christians hate that he's selling bibles.

treefrog ,

The topics of conversation on here are naturally going to have a larger scope. And I think the point you're trying to make with your /s would have been better said in the opening paragraph without the sarcasm. It seems you're directing your message at people wanting to sit out the election because of a complaint with the national process, and your point is, go vote anyway because your local elections still matter.

And, judging by the responses you've gotten, I think most people missed the point. Assuming I'm reading you correctly.

treefrog ,

And the right keeps doubling down. 2024 might turn out to be alright.

treefrog ,

God speed brother. God speed.

treefrog ,

He's talking about running as a Libertarian, which would pull more votes from Trump than Biden, imo.

treefrog ,

He was talking about running as a libertarian recently. There was a news headline about it just a few days before I made my post.

treefrog ,

If you have Best Buys they have e-waste recycling available year round. It doesn't really solve the problem though, it just ships it off to poorer countries.

treefrog ,

It's free. I believe, Best Buy packages it all up and ships it to China. I believe Chinese companies pay for the waste, and then pay very poor people to pick through it for valuable (and toxic) metals. A lot of the metals etc. end up in the groundwater. In other words, it's still mostly pollution, but dropping it off at Best Buy makes it someone else's pollution...

Not sure how to feel about all of it to be honest. I still recycle at Best Buy, but it's kinda like recycling plastic in the municipal recycling, I know most of it ends up in the garbage, and thus as pollution, ultimately. But I still put it where it's 'supposed' to go.

treefrog ,

Yeah, I can't say I've ever tried recycling large items. But I've dropped boxes off at the stores here in the Midwest, and they've never hassled me over misc. electronic garbage. They used to have kiosks in the entryway. Or maybe still do at some stores.

Stewart Rhodes’ Son Running for Office—as a Democrat ( www.thedailybeast.com )

Democrat Dakota Adams is mounting an uphill battle for a seat in the Montana Legislature in a deep red corner of the state. But even if his campaign fails, he expects a lifelong future in politics—drawing a stark divergence from his father, who founded the far-right Oath Keepers and is serving an 18-year sentence for...

treefrog ,

This young man got a first hand education in the sort of toxic energy that is threatening to unravel our democracy. Then, he chose democracy and rose above it. I don't care if he doesn't know his times tables. If he can guide others out of fascism, the way he guided himself out, that's much more valuable in my opinion than memorizing 9*9.

treefrog ,

Thanks! That's the image of a man I can get behind. Maybe in more ways than one if I was lucky lol

treefrog , (edited )

I sympathize with your annoyance, but your comment is a thinly veiled attack on the homeless because you're annoyed with them.

You say, they choose not to for a variety of reasons: But then list all the problems with homeless people rather than the problems with shelters. You also make a point about how they don't pay taxes. Which might not be true, btw. Some homeless people work. Also, most homeless people paid taxes for decades before becoming homeless. And, many more, are elderly women whose husband's paid taxes for decades while they raised the kids.

I could go on. The articles actually do talk about the safety and sanitation issues inside the shelters, for example. Which is a major reason people choose not to go. Imagine being packed into beds like sardines with people who suffer from chronic mental illness and aren't getting appropriate treatment? Would you feel safer in that room, or out in the woods by yourself?

treefrog ,

I read that article. You cherry picked it just now. See my previous comment. I edited it to be more clear.

treefrog ,

But cherry-picked.

“I don’t want to go to a shelter,” explained Dave Cooper, an unhoused Portlander who sleeps outdoors at Sewallcrest Park in Southeast Portland or other public spaces.

Cooper said shelters aren’t a viable option because of concerns over privacy, personal safety and a strict curfew.

“I couldn’t do it,” said Cooper, sitting next to a shopping cart filled with his sleeping bag and other belongings. “Being out here, it’s freedom.”

A 2019 survey of 180 people experiencing homelessness in Oregon, conducted as part of an Oregon Statewide Shelter Study by Oregon Housing and Community Services, found that the top barriers for using shelters were personal safety and privacy concerns, restrictive check-in and check-out times and overcrowding and unsanitary conditions.

Emphasis mine.

It would have been very easy for you to link the reasons in your original comment, or even your first reply to me, had that been your intention.

And I get it, homelessness is annoying. But homeless people aren't the issue. The article goes on to talk about some ways to make shelters more livable for homeless people as well as paths towards permanent housing, both are good solutions. And, if we can empathize with why people are choosing campsites over shelters, maybe we can find a fix instead of complaining like you did here about them trashing things without paying taxes.

The sanitation and safety issues of campsites on public property are costing cities money they don’t have, for people who aren’t paying taxes to fund it.

Which, I already pointed out, is a bullshit argument to begin with. Be annoyed if you want to be annoyed. But maybe next time just say that instead of going all NIMBY.

treefrog ,

Yet, the articles you linked above cite not having your pets as an exact reason people don't go and as something that the city could address.

They also mention, as you quoted, that shelters aren't good places for people with mental illnesses or who are neurodivergent. This may not be a technical barrier for entry on the part of the shelter, but it's definitely a barrier for people who are sensitive to stimulation or who have severe trauma.

treefrog ,

Big Labor is meant as a pejorative. They're drawing parallels with Big Pharma and Big Oil on purpose. Fuck the NY Times.

treefrog ,

Oh nice catch!

treefrog ,

Oh look, another lemmy poster who mostly posts biased polls talking about how Biden is losing in the biased polls. Every day, I have to put another one of you on ignore. I don't know if you're an ideological leftist or a right wing disinformation specialist, it doesn't matter. Either way you're pushing both an agenda and right wing propaganda.

So, welcome to my block list.

treefrog ,

Denormalizing Western parenting habits and looking at science as well as other cultures isn't shaming. What's shameful is putting your fingers in your ears and telling yourself the way my parents raised me was right, I'm right to do it even if it's not the best for my kids, and everyone trying to educate me as to potentially better methods is trying to 'shame me for being wrong'.

i.e. It's not shameful to not know any better. It's shameful to continue when you do.

treefrog , (edited )

Did you read the article or just kneejerk at the title? Sleeping in separate beds increases the risks of SIDs, for example. It is weird that western parents continue doing this to 'instill individualism' when it literally kills our children and slows down parent/child bonding in primates. Shit, we still circumcise most male babies because the Korn Flakes guy thought it was dirty for boys to touch themselves. We are weird!

If you prefer to feel ashamed rather than learning something when you encounter new information because of a clickbait article title, well, I can't stop you. Or even blame you.

But the shameful part isn't doing something weird out of ignorance, but continuing once we have better information. Putting our pride ahead of our children. That would be a shame.

treefrog ,

It's a civil matter, not a criminal one.

Requiring congress to vote to not allow him to run is legally the same as requiring congress to vote to not let allow a 5 year old to run. Neither Trump nor the 5 year old should have to be proven ineligible They're simply not, under the law as written.

SCOTUS are a bunch of political hacks and they should be charged with aiding and abetting an insurrectionist.

treefrog ,

Capitalism is a domination based economic strategy that's killing most of the life on this planet.

There's also partnership based economic strategies that probably would be more in harmony with the earth as well as other human beings, like cooperatives, non-profits, and of course socialism etc.

So, I guess as far as domination based strategies go, Capitalism is very efficient. And offers a veil of autonomy that feudalism and slavery didn't. But it's only a veil. The rich get richer, the poor relatively poorer. And while the planet burns, most human beings are still slaves to their paychecks while the oligarchs call the shots.

I don't see any benefit in this, but you do?

treefrog ,

It's very efficient at extracting resources from the environment and working class. It's more efficient than slavery and feudalism. That doesn't make it a net benefit for either the planet or the working class.

And plenty of non-Western cultures had economic systems similar to socialism before we colonized them and forced capitalism down their throats. So no, your socialism must follow capitalism equation isn't real. Sorry.

What Marx meant was if we don't evolve past Capitalsm, we're fucked. That's what he meant by socialism must follow capitalism. It's a moral must if we want the planet and species to survive. He wasn't talking about causation.

treefrog , (edited )

First of all, you're cherry picking one paragraph out of three while ignoring my point. Second, you seem to be doing so in hopes of creating a false dichotomy (technology is dependant on capitalism, it's not) and a strawman (that all extraction is bad).

Non-captalist economic systems can certainly extract resources from the environment and they're quite capable of producing new technologies without worker explotation. Capitalism is ruthlessly effecient at it because it ignores things like negative externalities while passing them onto local governments, workers, and consumers. Ruthless being the keyword here. In fact, I'd say it's inefficient and simply irresponsible.

If you want to argue that the economic system we're all watching literally destroy most life on this planet has some benefits the burden of proof is on you. List the benefits and compare them to other systems. If the benefit is that it's better than slavery well, you're basically comparing two diseases to each other and saying the benefit of disease A is at least it's not cancer. If my Dr used language like this I'd fire him.

Capitalism is a disease on this planet. Diseases don't have benefits. Only worse choices. Feel free to prove me otherwise, but you'll have to do better than tired right wing and neo-liberal talking points. I've been through them to many times, sorry.

treefrog ,

Okay, I don't know the logical fallacies by name. I do know when someone isn't arguing in good faith and being dismissive. I do know when they're resorting to passive-aggressive personal attacks, too. So, I'm just going to restate my argument that you continue to dismiss, in plain English, not for you, but for anyone else that comes across this.

Capitalism is a primary contributing factor to global mass extinction that is currently taking place. That's comparable to a disease. Its competitive advantages are not showing to be beneficial because they're based on negative externalities. In the long wrong (i.e. right now), those negative externalities are proving to be destructive, rather than beneficial, for almost everyone that lives on this planet. Its advantage is that's irresponsible. It's aggressive. Most of the life on this planet is not benefiting from this aggressive behavior. And, there were, and still are, less aggressive options.

I may not know all my logical fallacies, but I do know economics.

And you've done nothing to change my mind because ultimately you refused to engage with the argument in good faith.

treefrog ,

As a result, Russian plants in the House of Representatives have begun to scrub mentions of Smirnov from their imploding investigation

fixed

treefrog ,

Thanks, it was early. I thought about spies, but that didn't feel quite right.

treefrog ,

Maybe prison

treefrog ,

Was that quote in the article? I watched that ad and hoped I was going to hear Biden calling Trump a loser.

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