Whats_your_reasoning @ Whats_your_reasoning @lemmy.world

In case you can't tell, I'm passionate about rationality and critical think

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I'm curious. Is this a new term, a thing Australians say, a reference from some media I missed, or just something that's fun to say?

This is Michu, he used to live next door to me. He would be outside all the time, even in the freezing cold. Sometimes I’d hear him meowing at the neighbor’s back door to come back in, but nobody would answer. I’d hear the little guy calling out, and nobody would even be home. Sometimes I’d find him curled up on my deck chairs, so I started leaving blankets on them for cold nights. Eventually he started approaching me when I sat outside. We’d chill on the step and watch nature together.

But then a few months ago, he stopped coming. He stopped appearing entirely. When I talked to the neighbors, I learned that he’d contracted a UTI and had died. (Apparently it only takes a few hours for a swollen urethra to kill a male cat.)

Now, I don’t know how much his outdoors lifestyle contributed to his acquisition of a UTI (since they can occur in indoor cats as well, and search engine enshittification is making my search for hard data impossible.) However, I imagine that if Michu had been inside, his people might have noticed he wasn’t healthy.

Honestly, I'm not a vet and I’ve never had a cat, so I don’t feel qualified to tell people how to take care of theirs. This thread just reminded me of how I miss this little guy. He was around 4 years old and still had a lot of love to give. I was just lucky enough to receive some of it.

RIP, Michu ❤️

I'm glad you had the foresight to keep yourself safe, but unfortunately not everybody is as observant or skilled in critical thinking as you are. We all started from ignorance, and no matter how well-learned a person is, they can't possibly know everything. The least we can do is remind ourselves that we're imperfect too, and have some compassion for those that are just discovering things that we have already learned.

He did leave as an utter failure - not because of what he accomplished or didn't accomplish, but because he was already an utter failure of a human being the day he arrived in the White House.

I've noticed that too. For a while, Lemmy users denounced bringing old Reddit baggage to this site. There was a sense of "we are not Reddit, we can form our own culture, without the old toxicity of Reddit." I think a lot of us still believe that, but the recent months have brought waves of Redd-fugees that don't know and haven't adapted to that difference yet.

Weird, I thought they sounded like a professional that doesn't want untrained randos stepping in and throwing off their work flow.

I thought it was a joke about the software making work much less efficient?

There's a substantial number of Lemmy users who reflexively downvote anything that even mentions the word "vegan," regardless of the context, tone, or point of a comment. You got downvoted, I'm gonna get downvoted, and it just goes to show that even in such a seemingly leftist space, the spirit of "reflexively dismiss anything I disagree with" is alive and well.

ONE STROKE, 99 cuts!

Like shaving with an old razor blade.

I unironically love this and can't stop laughing. It's like the "technically correct" of dog drawings.

It's kinda early to make that call for the younger generations, don't you think? Imagine if the legacy of Boomers was tied to what they did in their youth. We'd know them as little more than peace-talking hippies (on one end), to consumerist yuppies (on the other end.) In the decades since their 20s, Boomers have solidified a very different self image. Now, nearing the end of their influence (at least, I fucking hope so), their legacy is basically sealed.

In turn, the current generation of youngin's still has many, many years to make a name for themselves. We have to wait and see until the kids even younger than them grow up, because as the people who will be around longer than the rest of us, they will be the ones choosing what the rest of our legacies are.

Yesterday I drove into my home town, where I grew up. It's been hard to go there since MAGA erupted. In a usually-blue state, my home town (and the surrounding area) goes deep red. I wish I could say it was inexplicable, but I grew up around these people - their current authoritarian boot-licking matches up with everything I always knew about them.

How wonderful this news could've been to hear on the TV 12 hours ago, when I was back in that town, sitting in a waiting room. There was only one other person in the room, a middle-aged white guy who kept loudly saying things in response to the news on the TV. I'm pretty sure he was just trying to chat with someone, but I know how easy it is to accidentally set some people off, and I'm not about to make small talk about the news with a stranger in that town.

So I ignored him. He kept making unsolicited commentary. I kept reading my phone. Thankfully, someone eventually entered the room with a dog, and that gave the man a chance to start a conversation about the good boi, which the dog's owner happily obliged. But now I wonder what he would have said if this story had been on the news at that time. It might have actually been entertaining.

Which is why we should all be joining up with supportive local community groups, like, yesterday. Under this administration, one should best assume that there is no official safety net anymore. The dictator-in-chief can sign an executive order and remove everything on a whim.

We're going to be reliant on our neighbors in a way we haven't seen in generations. Get involved and start making connections now. There are organizations across the country that serve their own communities.

One quick note - be mindful of how those organizations are funded. If they rely on government funding, that means they're beholden to the government. To this government. Which can choose to withhold funding or to attach ridiculous strings to it. On the other hand, if they're completely donation-based by the local community, they can remain faithful to their members' interests and keep running regardless of which politicians are in charge. Just something to keep in mind.

I imagining a mix of grunge and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Not sure how that would work, but I'm sure you'd find a way to rock it.

And the fact that we could see his ear days afterwards without a scratch on it.

I hate how easily I can imagine religious folks seeing this as a positive sign, instead of as a suspicious one.

I pay for an emby share personally.

I read this as "enby share" and thought, "Is that like a queer polyamorous social group? If so, I want in."

(BTW I use emby share to pirate too, so no need to explain. My brain just expects the word "enby" first.)

You're right, there are definitely individuals who do it all as performance, like how Boris Johnson purposely made himself look shabby as part of his image.

I don't believe that's the case for every politician. I do, however, believe there are more "men behind the curtain," so to speak, who we don't see but who know exactly what they're doing. Even if those on camera are fools, the people making up "the face" of the organization aren't necessarily the same people making up "the brain." Which brings us back to your point - it's important to pay attention to more than the façade these people express. The oligarchs pulling the strings are well-practiced in this game.

I understood the comment above to be comparing how public opinion is allowed to shape itself in the fediverse, vs being censored and molded to only fit particular permitted messages in mainstream social media. We can express ourselves without worrying that we'll get locked out of the entire fediverse for stating an opinion that mods or admins don't like. Which makes it fair to wonder how much suppression is going on elsewhere, that we don't see and never hear reports on, because censorship.

I'm not sure where the idea of Lemmy having an effect on public opinion at large came from. It feels like a non-sequitur, but maybe I'm just too tired and I missed something.

Oh god, all the top video clips would be made by people who died minutes after uploading them.

This. If you were in public, you knew. Everyone was talking about it. This was before certain news media fully splintered off into exclusively covering alternate realities, so most people at the time were on the same page information-wise, regardless of where they got their news from.