What are your thoughts on AI?
That's a big ask to have them take in all that rural NY and PA though! They already got AB and SK to deal with. 😑
I've been feeling that killer buyer's remorse with Fetterman lately, but it was either him or Oz, so what's a PA voter to do?
Replace Donald with RFK and you have my list. It's greatly enhanced QOL. I still get to hear all about those guys from everywhere else, so I'm not "missing out" on anything just making my Lemmy feed much better.
Jetstream is my favorite all purpose ink. I got the refills to put in some of my other favorite pen bodies.
You have some tiny writing with that 0.28! I find 0.5 to be my happy place.
I use it pretty regularly in the US for a few specific things. The bagel store and the Jamaican takeway are the best ones near me, but I also hit it up when out of town to find some local treats on the cheap.
Always got some pretty good stuff, though after a year or so of doing it, I did get very temporarily screwed. Went to the bagel store to pick up my order yesterday and it had closed early. Submitted a refund request with a photo of the deserted store and the sign on the door saying sorry closed early, and I had my refund before I pulled out of the parking spot. So great on them, not so great for the store not notifying me, but they usually give me more than they should and sometimes they even let me pick what goes in my order, so I'm going to let it slide.
Mini Probot of course...
Ferdinand has been dead and gone a long time now, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone in my lifetime associate a German car with the Nazis. Though I did have someone in my neighborhood for a while with a sticker like this that didn't make me feel very welcoming to them.
To me, this is more akin to saying it's 1940 and I think the Type 1 is a good car for me, but I'm feeling conflicted what those profits might be going toward. Elon is a very present day and active entity, unlike Ferdinand Porsche.
My thoughts are:
- It's an inflammatory title. The actual question being asked is a good question given the current state of affairs, but the title feels meant to stir people up. If it was approached like "how do I convince others my objectively decent Tesla vehicle doesn't mean I support what Elon is doing," I feel would come across as a more personal concern than "Tesla drivers = Nazis?" does.
- Potential rule 2 violation since this revolves around politics, especially the way the title and some of the post is phrased.
I responded with my own opinion earlier as I felt it was an overall legit post, but I can see why some wouldn't even bother to read the post after seeing the title and downvote based on either or both the things I mentioned.
I don't think you can really separate Tesla the company from Elon, as even if he was no longer CEO, he still owns so much of the company. Despite them making something arguably good for the world as a whole, many see Elon himself presenting a more immediate danger than the possible emission reductions.
Hurting Tesla financially as a company is a nonviolent way to fight Elon. Hurting someone physically or financially who owns a Tesla does not affect Elon in any way, as the car has already been purchased. Any Tesla employees that may lose a job due to an extended boycott would be an unintentional effect, as I doubt anyone begrudges a regular employee of a company that, politics aside, makes something that isn't inherently bad for people.
If you have concerns of malicious behavior to you or your car, you could always get one of those "I bought this before Elon went crazy" magnets, but in turn, any Elon supporters may now dislike you.
I've been ordering from Trade for about 2 years now. They've got 45 decafs listed right now. You can go through them if you want, or you can look to see what roaster is selling something that sounds good and go to the source.
I didn't recall ever seeing those, but I wasn't into cheez flavor as a kid. My little brother was though. They look fun though, like little stroopwafles, but savory.
The nostalgia taste many times can overpower the actual taste! Looking at you, Elio's slices! 😆
The cookies have the same taste as regular cookies now, it was pretty much just amazing to 8 year old me, or however old I was, that cookies could have multiple fillings and a face! It just seemed so intricate and impossible at the time. So that excitement I don't think could be recaptured now.
But those other 2, you nailed it with visceral! I feel the salt scratching my tongue and the unique concave and teardrop shape of the chips and I can exact chewiness of those fruit snacks these 30ish years later.
The fruit snacks I think would legit still be good today. The chips, perhaps. There are a lot of good chips these days. But I'm surprised no one ever brought those things back, if not just to use the actual skins. What have they been doing with all the skin all these years?!
These are the things I miss most snack-wise from childhood. Especially those Fruit Wrinkles. They had the best flavor and texture of any fruit snacks ever.
I forgot about Mentadent! I used it for so long! I held on to the dispenser base for a long time hoping one day it would come back, but I threw in the towel at some point.
Good article, thank you for sharing.
It reminded me of the recent resurgence of people finally saying why is the onus of recycling on the individual consumer rather than those producing the trash to begin with. We can only change so much by voting, and only so often. There are (were?) whole departments and branches of government that were supposed to prevent a group of maniacs from taking over as their sole responsibility. Meanwhile they were all as asleep at the helm as the guard monitoring Epstein's cell.
I remember a lot, but my memories often seem to account for things happening much differently. The mind does some amazing things to try to cope!
For me, depression felt like things just stuck to me. Everything negative, from minor and petty things to real major life events. Every time something new would happen, it would get stuck to that pile of things and pull on all that negativity, waking it up again. Like if you'd forget you said you'd help me with something, it would bother me because you forgot, but it would also trigger all the other negative things I could think of about my history with you and me, and often with other unrelated people, making me feel like nobody cared about me, or that I was just a joke of afterthought to everyone in my life, even though it was nothing more than something just slipping your mind. So instead of just sayin, oh no problem, you were probably just busy and got disctracted, i'm glad you're here now, it'd trigger vivid memories of like 100 bad things that happened to me all at once. It's just impossible to function like that.
Almost immediately after I got on medicine that costs me less than Tylenol, all that stickiness was gone. Being able to separate my feelings and deal with them one at a time as they came in instead of trying to cope with a life's worth of issues all at once was so life changing! It finally gave me time to resolve my feelings about those old events and to move on from them instead of dragging them with me everywhere I went.
When I feel really bad now, I feel that weight start to build and it tells me that I need to look inward more seriously again. I feel myself reach the limits of the medicine. I tried to up the dosage (with doctor's permission!), but that made me too tired. I just have to pay attention and assert myself where I can with people causing me issues, and I need to make sure I'm having good times with people and activities I do like. It's like watching your hunger now. You don't want to let yourself starve, and you don't want to get so hungry you pig out on a bunch of junk. I just need to be smart about my emotions. It's way easier still than if I would not be on my medicine. It's so scary to think that I could still be that old way, and if I ever forget to take my medicine I do feel it creeping in. There are a few downsides to meds for me, but I feel they are very minor compared to the depression.
I accept what is done, and I use those things as learning experiences now. I wish I could forget some of it, but now that I can understand what I've done in the past, it makes the lessons really stick now.
I don't know if I'd consider myself "happy" at the current period of time I'm in, because meds or therapy aren't cures, they just let you process stuff in a more productive way. I'm fighting with my job about a bunch of issues I see as them not looking out for my safety, and there's always family drama and I don't have much in common with my own or my girlfriend's family. I'm just able to process all that without flying off the handle or totally walling myself off from everyone and all that fun unhealthy stuff. I'm at least able to appreciate the good things that do still happen though, which I couldn't before.
Talking about it and trying to destigmatize it is part of the responsibility I feel, because while I can't undo any of what I did, I can at least try to help other people to help themselves so they can avoid walking down the same path as I did for so long. It helps them, and all the people that those people run into in life.
Hands down, ignoring my depression for so many years. Cost me countless friends and relationships.
The shame people at least used to put in getting any kind of help for mental health made me try to overcome it all on my own, and for most of my life I've probably made things worse for a lot of people and don't fault them one bit for not wanting to be around me.
Getting help, for me at least, was very easy, cheap, and straightforward, and I almost immediately did a 180 in most every aspect of my life. I hardly recognize how old me used to live now, but I also have the guilt of all I did while I was untreated.
Agreed. I've followed less and less of all content since probably mid October.
Americans are mad, everyone else is mad at us for what happened. I don't fault anyone for being mad, but I feel we've only got like a dozen Trump people on Lemmy, so everyone's just taking it out on each other.
We're gonna be screwed for a long time if we can't stop infighting.
I would probably be a bit more excited if it didn't start coming out during a time of widespread disinformation and anti-intellectualism.
I just come here to share animal facts and similar things, and the amount of reasonably realistic AI images and poorly compiled "fact sheets", and recently also passable videos of non-real animals is very disappointing. It waters down basic facts as it blends in to more and more things.
Stuff like that is the lowest level of bad in the grand scheme of things. I don't even like to think of the intentionally malicious ways we'll see it be used. It's a going to be the robocaller of the future, but not just spamming our landlines, but everything. I think I could live without it.