Cataphract @ Cataphract @lemmy.ml

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I criticize and ask directly all the time. I learned not to post or meme reply like I'm an actual adult having a conversation in those spaces though. It takes some getting used to, but it's possible. People really have a weird skewed view of what it's like to be a .ml user, I see more privacy and meme posts than anything else. All the political crap usually comes from .world in my feed.

I'm assuming everyone was confusing my statement as some type of pro-trump comment or dismissal of the election results?

I was literally talking about everything you just stated. Everyone is worried about what the Trump presidency is bringing when we are already there in terms of disparaging and effecting the population with our government's actions. Everyone's holding their breaths and speculating on what the next presidency will bring while completely ignoring all the crisis's that are on-going currently.

I'm also flabbergasted that everyone is afraid of what the trump presidency will bring while those same problems have happened for generations and like they don't currently exist. I suppose people just want to be outraged and I'm not helping with pointing out he's just making a horrible system become that much worse. These problems existed before Trump for most of the populace.

I was kinda disappointed I couldn't find anything with .ml when all the .world mod drama was going on. Plenty of meme's but nothing in the news and politics communities when I checked at the time.

What we know about Jordan Neely’s chokehold death on the New York subway

Toronto Police Service reported that eight teenagers allegedly swarmed Lee over a three-minute period, repeatedly stabbing him.

Deaths put spotlight on growing US homeless population

"The recent murders of people experiencing homelessness - many who were sleeping at the time - is a cruel reminder that this is a life-and-death issue that must be met with urgency," Jeff Olivet, director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, said.

Those interviewed said that a political climate that stigmatises homelessness, inadequate housing, and gang and drug violence all help create a dangerous world for some of America's most vulnerable people.

I could almost applaud you for some kind of "holier than thou" morality you seem to be trying to project about the UHC CEO murder. Unfortunately your comments expose that you're just a middle-upper class cheerleader who stigmatizes the poor (as proclaimed from above, "No one is murdering the poor. - Except other poor people with guns and drugs. Or themselves" jesus I can't believe you actually commented that).

Poverty is a major public health crisis. Let’s treat it like one.

the key question is what it means to “die from poverty.” As a social determinant of health, the government already recognizes a direct line between economic conditions and health outcomes.

Why the Poor Die Young

Why are America’s poor dying young? According to the paper, the causes are internal. Most of the variation in life expectancy doesn’t come from “external factors,” like murder, but rather from medical causes, like heart disease and diabetes. The poor die early because they get sicker faster.

5 Ways Being Poor is a Crime

5. Fining the homeless for being homeless. If you are homeless in America and have nowhere to go and are down on your luck, it is increasingly difficult to find a safe space in which to exist without being fined for loitering. According to the report, an estimated 600,000 people are homeless on any given night. Though nearly 13 percent of the nation’s low-income housing has been lost since 2001, and many people simply cannot afford housing, 34 percent of cities ban public camping, 18 percent prohibit sleeping in public and 43 percent prevent people from sleeping in vehicles

Poverty Is Deadly

the discovery that the death rate for middle-aged white Americans began rising around 1999 is alarming. The increase is accounted for entirely by those with a high school degree or less. The 2013 mortality rates for midlife whites with that level of educational attainment was 736 per 100,000; for those with some college education it was 288 per 100,000; for whites with a B.A. or higher their death rate stood at 178 per 100,000. In other words, whites who have only a high school degree or less are four times more likely to die between ages 45 and 54 than are college-educated whites.

The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America

Poverty creates more poverty. – financial decisions forced by poverty often end up keeping poor people stuck in poverty.

Poor people spend more of their income on necessities. Lower-income Americans spend more of their income on housing, food and groceries, and transportation, compared to mid and high-income individuals.

Less expensive goods are often less economical. Poor people often buy low-quality goods in small quantities, leading to constant replacement and higher costs over time.

Financial exclusion exacerbates poverty. People with poor access to credit often pay exorbitant interest rates and high fees for basic financial services.

Are you completely unaware of the financial and economical situation going on in America? The rising cost of Healthcare, Education, and housing/life expenses? You're honestly coming off as a shill to everyone, maybe planning on a future political run so have to keep your comments "politically moral" (i.e. make sure the higher up's approve of your message)? Don't want to turn into another Mark Robinson I suppose.

If you have some coherent messaging or reasoning I would love to hear it. So far I'm assuming you hate the poor and blame everyone for their life situations, there are no outside factors that determines someones struggles in life but themselves? The poor die by their own hands or those close to them, no one in a position of power has done anything to cause them problems?

Do you really love or have any feeling towards your instance? I think of it more like an e-mail address than a "name" for like an apartment building or mascots/team name (probably why these posts confuse the shit out of me). My first instance had connection issues/downtime so I switched to .ml. Almost switched from them like a month ago because of slow loading times but seems to be better the past couple of weeks (this is the basics of html, I shouldn't have to "watch" it load).

I just always scroll on All (active), and sometimes subscribed if I'm feeling in the mood so I never even consider my instance unless something technical or posts like this come up. I have a couple of mobile devices that I'm never logged into that I'll pop up lemmy on from different instances (.world, .ee, etc), I actually am less likely to use an instance that advocates heavy defederation.

This is like listening to a drunk uncle rant about "them" after watching a tiktok video that triggered him. "The non tankie users are moving away" "tankies can behave like normal people" "tankies can be anywhere"

The admins of ml are tankies and so are a lot of the communities there

... communities like Memes? How about the most popular AskLemmy community that everyone uses? Linux, Privacy, Programmer Humor, wtf are you even talking about now? You've fully lost it with this "tankie" hate that's apparently being fueled by being on here so often. You've probably associated any/most downvotes or disagreements into this "tankie"-fantasy which is just further driving it at this point.

sniffs your hair deeply

30% of eligible voters elected Trump, Democrats are allowed now to do what they want. Okie-dokie.

Continue on with your "they took the high road" loss analysis. It's been said so many times I don't think anyone even knows what the "high road" is. If you could explain it to me I might be better informed.

If you're taking a few online comments "from a perceived group" and labeling the entire movement and ideology of it bad because "they said mean things to me". Well sorry pal, you were just looking for an excuse.

Try talking to those co-workers and see how nice their word play can be. Should definitely join the people who hold actual hatred than to get over some language critiques so you can properly communicate with a minority group online. You are trying to just communicate right? Just as speaking to a professional or someone without your background you tend to communicate differently to be more effective right?

I get it, you're old-think and stuck in your ways. "I don't actively harm people, so people shouldn't be harmed by anything I do". It's so much easier to just blame everyone else and continue living in your bubble instead of actually learning new perspectives. People stay locked in their ways everyday, why should you have to be any different?

If your intention was to sidetrack any conversation from the gun article and only have a debate about trans people, well you did a good job because all of that above is a hot mess I was not interested in after only a few comments.

Everything you're describing is completely reasonable. For the past decades, left-wing "policy ideas" have floated banning guns or at least some form of gun control. They state statistics, examples from other countries, testimony from gun experts, etc etc all describing how perfectly harmful just owning a gun can be and how unlikely you are to ever run into a situation where a firearm will improve your situation and chances of surviving.

This has been overtaken by the rhetoric of "they're coming for you!^tm". The exact same playbook that was used by the right-wing. Who wins? The gun manufacturers and war profiteers.

It's amazing to see the collective consciousness just completely glaze over from just a few years ago. If you think you're statistically more likely to be targeted, then it's your right to procure a firearm in the United States and I'll leave it at that. But, if you actually look into it, you'll find you will be put more in danger by having a firearm in the house than not.

You're right about the mental aspect, if you own a firearm and are constantly thinking about it and the threats it can protect you from, you've created your own hellscape that many are already in. It's much safer and better for the community to be involved in your neighbors lives and to form bonds with those close to you in a positive manner. Somehow, everyone's forgotten the examples the rest of the world has set forth and have fallen into Americana again.

oh I was thinking Pete Davidson (funnily enough I had to search "druggie snl celeb" for his name and he popped up lol)

I'm the opposite, love dead pan humor though so could be why. Once they start cracking up I'm out of watching SNL. The only times I think it's funny is like "who's line is it anyways" where it's not a scripted scene. SNL tries to do that with prosthetics but it's such a shtick that you can tell the people are laughing because they're supposed to.

It's so interesting to see the complete disconnection on here with everyone else's life.

his politics objectively suck and absolutely will bring harm to them and millions like them. (that is. women. Not to mention racial minorities, immigrants, anyone whose different from the white, cisgendered, conservative male arch type.)

will, will bring harm. Not talking about past harm, not even mentioning current harm. Just FUTURE harm. All of the middle class people on here are just fucking hilarious with their world views. If you're wondering why most of the population sits out of voting, well you're never going to see it. Cue the average ivory tower response,

... You can trust something isn't going to get done, but the blame can be laid elsewhere... ya know? Can be a scapegoat or legitimate (probably bit of both in this instance). Like I trust the DOJ to not be proper or efficient when going after those bad actors that are continuously making the world worse (climate, greed, polarization) but I lay blame on different parts of a shitty system. You blame foreign intelligence and inside actors (there's a Venn diagram somewhere where we start to overlap).

I never said I blamed them, you're just painting a weird conspiracy theory where the DOJ are the heroes/victims but "the rest of the goberment is controlled by RuSsIA AnD rEpuBliCans!!!" It's been apparent for everyone, the rich gets a different justice system. The system has been defunct for a long time and was on full display for the last election. This is easy lay-up policy and legislation, make politicians responsible and accountable while defending democracy. You get crickets from any incumbent, everyone is very comfortable with how the system currently works (if you're a politician).

edit: forgot to comment on the link,

Trump’s attorneys had asked to have until Nov. 21, instead of Nov. 7, to file an up-to-180-page brief arguing why Trump’s efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory

They asked for a 2 week extension, whether it's bullshit or not that's a pretty typical standard request from a legal team. It was more erroneous to imagine the actual court date going through when it was expected.

Trust the DOJ to do their job when they just dropped their charges lol, ok. Sprinkled in some Russian/republican blame instead of a defunct system, chef's kiss. Any other propaganda we need to spread today?

Seriously, it reminds me of SNL sometimes. You know what you're expecting but they hit you with some really good zingers sometimes (Bill Burr SNL - Rorschach Test)

You really should affix the possible reasoning to your comment up the chain

changing a major input, e.g. the microbiota that make a particular mix of short chain fatty acids and other neuro effective compounds, is going to change the cognitive outputs.

This post is wildly running into speculation and I fear several users are taking the wrong implications that "conscious memory" is scientifically being validated as stored in the bodies several organs.

I'm all for implications but I think a little higher level of standards should be practiced since this is c/science.

The title is "misleading" because they're not talking about visual/conscious mind memory as you're doing here.

These non-brain cells also switched on a “memory gene” – the same gene that brain cells activate when they detect information patterns and reorganize their connections to form memories.... "it suggests that in the future, we will need to treat our body more like the brain — for example, consider what our pancreas remembers about the pattern of our past meals to maintain healthy levels of blood glucose or consider what a cancer cell remembers about the pattern of chemotherapy.”

Furthermore, you've jumped onto anecdotal evidence and have declared it Empirical with your linked study

A literature review was performed to explore accounts of personality changes following heart transplantation ... Further research is recommended.

That level of evidence would mean anyone claiming body transfers, alien abductions, past lives memories, etc etc would all be empirical data we must now scientifically accept.

I don't see how you're linking the two studies with the implied "It's more than that". The original study from OP is declaring nothing about actual memories that we're "consciously using" being stored in other parts of the body. It's stating they believe cells have "memory mechanisms" to better function, like a processor getting it's own memory cache (that data storage is used for it's processing purpose and isn't included with your harddrive access).

They are a little deceiving/misleading with the article as well,

The goal of the research was straightforward — to investigate if non-brain cells contribute to memory..... They ingeniously engineered the non-brain cells to generate a glowing protein, which indicated whether the memory gene was active or dormant.... Not only does this research on non-brain cells introduce fresh perspectives to study memory, but it also holds promise for potential health-related benefits.

They tested a gene by bombarding cells with chemical cocktails, showing the gene can be activated. It's a giant leap to then say we have empirical data that we store memories throughout our bodies.

I want to be as gentle as possible and just kinda point some things out that I'm reading as a stranger. I don't think anyone is blaming you or trying to shame you about the ass beatings. You've put up with a lot and not calling the cops kept it from escalating. It sounds like you've got solid boundaries in place now so hopefully you can look back on all of it a little more relaxed and from an outside perspective like I'm forced to have.

You gotta understand, we're all a little crazy dealing with life. Mental health ranges from having a stretch, to full on institutionalized psychiatric care. A person can sit down with a therapist for years and never open up to get a proper diagnosis. Behavior disorders can have no neurological symptoms, chemical imbalances can go for decades without being discovered. Sometimes the systems just aren't able to provide the right support because there's no flashing red sign to point too.

He seems like a functional adult from what you've described. Probably have a lot of "ok" moments with him where it just makes you want to smack him upside the head when he starts doing the fuckery shit. There are so many other things to do in life besides shoving hamburgers in your pocket and giving your parents the worse algorithms after searching "help son stuck on bed post" online. I enjoy gaming and tinkering while also coming on here. I could be carving a special tree in my back woods for some play-time, but I never learned and/or didn't have the wiring to enjoy sexual pain as a release and gratification (not kink shaming, just not built that way).

We all have stupid shit we could be getting into, thoughts that come into our minds or dark paths we decide not to go down. It's that impulse control that keeps you floating above water. You could argue that he "physically has the ability to use that control", but regardless of the wiring, it's not being used. His actions have a negative effect on the people around him and are harmful, even if it's behavioral and a "daddy didn't love me enough" kinda excuse, you will still need support and proper guidance to address the issues (sometimes shit's just too tough for people to handle on their own, a lot of us suffer in silence and some don't even want to know anything's wrong).

Support can have it's limits. But at that point you seek other support mechanisms, we don't really have a functional mental health system that can lead you to the next steps properly. I'm sure there was more recommendations to address his behavior but it probably became circular with no real progression.

A lot of "Ryan's" are in jail because they stole from the wrong person or didn't have a community like you guys were to him. There's a lot of Ryan's running around everyday that you pass by but they keep their shit together for those fleeting moments to seem normal. idk what else to say really, I hope you don't have any more run-ins with the guy. Just sounds like a horrible experience and that's gotta be stressful as a family. I feel sympathy for him though, hopefully he finds what he needs for a more peaceful rest of his life where he's able to make the decisions that benefit him and those he loves around him in the future.