laylawashere44 @ laylawashere44 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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America already makes more oil than it uses.

People are going to recommend specialist or convincing them to get hearing aids and what not but that's just not it.

Growing up, my grandad lived with us. And he's exactly as you describe your parents. Deaf and stubborn but refusing hearing aids. Having temper tantrums, etc.

The way to deal with it is honestly to be firm and to set hard boundaries. But at the same time you've got to be able to redirect them and sort of distract them by allowing tolerable BS so as to avoid really destructive bs old people can do.

For example, my parents would indulge my grandfather in his doctor shopping medical bullshit. They'd let him go to different doctors about his diabetes and general age related illnesses and change meds. Inconvenient to take him to clinics and fill his ever changing prescriptions but better than him constantly bitching about his partly imagined health issues to us and to the rest of the family and doing his oh misery is me, nobody cares for me bullshit. We could always deflect by saying you just went to the doctor last month or last week.

We wouldn't let him drive at all. When we moved him in with us we made sure to have his vehicle left at his house in the ghetto. Not driving was a hard boundary. My grandad was prone to getting confused, had poor eyesight and was hard of hearing. So when he'd demand to get his car or want to go off somewhere on his own, we'd always deflect. We'd offer to drive him or offer to do whatever bs menial errand he'd decided was massively important. However, you have to make sure it's at your own convenience. You can let them take over your life like that.

When he'd get upset at something or other like politics, you've got to listen and let it go in one ear and out the other. You can't let your emotions outwardly match theirs. The same way a parent would grit their teeth and flatly respond to a 6-year old child's bullshit, you got to deal with the elderly. You cant be screaming, if they are screaming, it just escalates. You listen, you don't take it personally, and you deflect from that topic as quickly as possible. You tell them, you'll look into it, you'll try. Maybe later. Maybe next week. Oftentimes they'll forget that shit anyways.

Oh and finally, make sure they don't hold any actionable power over you. Like financial power or ownership of the car or house that you use or live in. An old person can be very vindictive and will use it to abuse you if they can. For example, my grandad, had a bunch of money sitting in the bank on account of being a massive miser and offered it to my parents when they were buying a house and stuff. They never took it. My aunt did and still regrets it. He was real mean to her about that loan. It's just not a good time.

This isnt even the first time this has happened in the UK. A group of officers held fake relationships with a climate protester group too.

It is in any military force. If cops want to be trusted to flaunt the aesthetic and use equipment of the military, it stands to reason they should then have the same responsibilities.

Because different castes are generally different ethnic groups. Most people can tell Chinese, and Japanese people apart just by looking at them. You can do the same.

I'm not Indian, I'm Pakistani and while there isn't a caste system in Pakistan, there is definitely discrimination based on ethnicity in Pakistan.

And while most people can't tell Pakistani people from each other in the west, Pakistani people themselves can look at each other and tell if one is Muhajir, or Siraiki or Pathaan or Sindhi.

Yeah, the OOP comment doesn't really make sense. China is being more aggressive about Taiwan because nationalist drum beating is a good distraction from the economic tensions at home and because Biden has been more explicit about the US defending Taiwan than any president before him.

Things can be done a lot quickly if you are given an unlimited budget. Consider how quickly NASA got from nothing to landing on the moon, vs how long it is taking now with their much more limited budget.

Yep, I've used LLM to find historical primary sources for research essays. It of course made up some stuff and gave a few irrelevant sources, but it did find me sources I didn't know about.

Dutch company that is heavily pressured not to sell the machine to China by the US government. All the countries you listed are close allies of the US. You can't fault the US from trying to stop China but let's not pretend this is a free global market.

Making a lithography machine that's on par with ASML is just an engineering challenge. One that's been solved once already by ASML, whose to say it can't be solved again by someone else, especially if they can copy bits of the design.

I think it's like the difference between Van Lifers depicted in Close Zhao's Nomadland who work real jobs to get by, who got into it by necessity, and continue for the love of the freedom and community vs Instagram van lifers in 100K Vans, with nebulous but seemingly unlimited sources of money, whose only job seems to be influencer marketing, and selling a blatantly Disney version of Van Life to the masses.

And this dichotomy exists in so many atypical lifestyle categories. On sailing YouTube you have people go about in new and luxurious sail boats they bought outright which they learned to sail at sailing camp, vs some person in a smaller boat from the 60s, that they just figured it out how to sail, who does their own repairs the best they can and doesnt spend 2 grand a night for a marina spot and doesn't ship their boat across the atlantic and instead struggles across the passage on their own.

Maggie Mae Fish did a whole video on the same phenomenon amongst off grid influencers. One group flies in supplies by helicopter and the other built their own cabin and upgraded it with money they scrounged up from what's left over from their actual jobs.

That census just confirms the stereotype of the average burner being the most annoying person ever. Overwhelmingly non-religious but also overwhelmingly 'spiritual'.

The second largest political group behind democrats (~50%) are non-politicals (only double digit percentage), aka people who are disinterested in politics cause it doesn't affect them, so they don't care (let's be real cause they are overwhelmingly rich, college-educated, white, cis, and straight).

It's definitely the group easiest to judge negatively, and being stuck at burning man is likely the greatest challenge they've encountered in their life and the cherry on top is that they've paid thousands for it.

Mind that the two admins of Blahaj.zone are trans women, which makes it extra ridiculous.

The guardian is such a shit rag nowadays. It's like theyve just embraced the wing of the Labour Party that was convinced Corbyn was a communist antisemite. There is zero spine amongst the editors of the Guardian. They also are a supposed left-wing paper that regularly publishes opinions by supposed 'gender critics.'

At this point you can really only rely on the Financial Times as a vaguely left newspaper that doesn't entertain the culture war nonsense politics.

They should because this needlessly upsets the status quo and puts Taiwan at risk because it forces China to escalate so they can continue to pretend to own Taiwan.

The British Parliament didn't do this because they care about Taiwan, they did it to score brownie points at home.

Most Canadian GO follow a [Purpose] Canada naming scheme. If you want a SIN (equivalent to an SSN) you got to Services Canada. You get your weather warnings from Enviroment Canada. Drugs are related by Health Canada. Natural Resources Canada does the obvious. Parks Canada does National Parks. Transport Canada does highways and waterways.

Youve got to be a complete idiot to think you've never encountered propaganda just because you dont use facebook.

The Global Slavery Index.

That doesn't change the fact that the Anglican Church also considers itself the Catholic Church.

The Act of Supremacy 1558 renewed the breach, and the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course enabling the English church to describe itself as both Reformed and Catholic.