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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I can barely listen to Linkin Park or Soundgarden/Audioslave without getting sad. I remember exactly where I was when Cobain died, that shook my teenage ass hard for a while. Nothing like Chester and Chris though, probably because I'm around the same age as them and like them have chronic depression.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can't tell if they're joking or are dead serious anymore.

I have a mental illness -- 2 of them actually, Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Possibly will get PTSD thrown in that mix soon too. Therapists and Psychiatrists use a little book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5 for short. Unless they can convince the APA to include TDS in the DSM-6 then it's not a mental illness.

This is nothing but thought policing and a way to label someone with mental illness when they really don't have one. It's also causing all of the work that's been done recently by NAMI, MHA, and AFSP to try to end the stigma surrounding mental illness to be set back to the era of mental institutions (something that their beloved Reagan did away with).

But what the hell, might as well add it to the DSM-6 and slap TDS on top of all my other mental illnesses 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Red states won’t because MAGA

Blue states don’t want to risk loosing anymore funding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

For me to rely on Lemmy for news, there needs to be a LOT more action. Right now Reddit can be my sole news source because of how many people are on there.

The problem can be seen when looking at Twitter/X and the exodus that has been happening there. Mastodon was touted as a Twitter alternative but the onboarding was so confusing due to being federated. People don't want to be confused they want things simple. This is why BlueSky took off rather than Mastodon.

Anyone remember Diaspora?*

Decentralization is not a new idea, it's just too confusing to the masses right now. While the Lemmy onboarding process is actually pretty good, picking an instance is a trip up (it was for me for a very long time and I'm tech-savvy). Until that part is solved centralized services will always have more migrating users sadly.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58600090

Interesting highlights:

  • “Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung.
  • “Basically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,” Adam Isacson of the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on X.
 

Interesting highlights:

  • “Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on the social media site X above an article about Boasberg’s ruling. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung.
  • “Basically any Venezuelan citizen in the US may be removed on pretext of belonging to Tren de Aragua, with no chance at defense,” Adam Isacson of the Washington Office for Latin America, a human rights group, warned on X.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

And they confuse the two and think they're being empathetic. I'm not even sure they have sympathy anymore.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

So I'm not so sure this is actually a Science Meme other than proving that sometimes history does repeat itself?

I was skeptical that this was actually real, but it is indeed on the NYT website and the image was taken from their "Timeline view"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

I lost that option when I had to wait 2 years for my SSDI to be approved. 😣

[–] [email protected] 89 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I'm on disability and the last couple of weeks I've been thinking that I haven't been thinking rationally about this situation and that I'd be homeless if my SSDI suddenly disappeared or was clawed back. My therapist considers it catastrophizing.

Turns out my fears ARE rational, we're just living in a completely irrational timeline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • Law & Order SVU and NCIS on OTA TV (antenna)
  • Mythbusters on Pluto
  • C-SPAN website video for the shenanigans--
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a white middle-aged male on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and renting a HUD apartment. The only thing going for me right now is I'm heterosexual. As a member of Elon's "parasite" class, I'm figuring I'll be homeless or in a "camp" in an unknown location within 3 - 6 months -- if not sooner.

Totally not freaking the fuck out. Nope, not one bit. /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anyone saying “they’ll never do it because they don’t want to piss off voters” is missing the real issue and makes the same mistake congressional Dems are. They are assuming we will have fair and free elections in the future.

At the speed with which the chainsaw is moving through federal government institutions, they know they don’t have to worry about elections or voters anymore because we won’t have a republic when they’re done.

Maybe I’m biased because of my reliance on the social safety net completely due to being disabled and have been called a parasite by the richest man on Earth wielding the chainsaw. I’m staring at more carnage occurring at SSA, Medicaid, and HUD all at the same time and wondering how I’ll survive even if one of those gets pulled away from me —let alone all 3.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a middle-aged man I can barely walk, let alone be trusted on a skateboard 😆

 

"“I don’t want the system to collapse,” Dudek said in a closed-door meeting last week, according to a recording obtained by ProPublica."

As a disabled "parasite" this stuff is nightmare fuel and concerning. Given the Senate Democrats basically giving Elon and Trump free reign now with the CR passing, I'm even more nervous.

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