[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago

They'll know I'm breaking the law, because I'll be flying my custom gadsen flag with 7 dildoes on it that reads "Come and count them"

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Hi, it's me, a non extreme feminist! (We agree, except on the word never and always, so just read)

Sometimes it looks like extremes because in order to have equality, or equity, you have to change existing systems that promote the inequality and inequity. This to some may look like favouring the minority (power not number), when in fact it could just be trying to undo some of the damage. For example, changing a system that promotes men over women would involve maybe extra research into women's health, because studies almost always don't take into account that women's bodies are different. BMI was built for men, dosages for medication are typically figured out for men, etc. Same goes with other minorites, btw. This extra research may make a majority group member feel like the system is prioritising others to the detriment of their self, when in fact it's just trying to establish an equilibrium, as that research (from the example) is already there for them.

Now from people? Yes, you are right. Sometimes (you may say often or a hyperbolic always) adherents will be wrong about what feminism is. That's a struggle that the idea has to contend with just like every other movement. But feminism itself isn't about extremes of hate, though the systemic change to bring about feminist goals may feel extreme due to the scale of work to be done.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 51 points 1 month ago

Oops, looks like this editor missed it too. It's spelled r-a-p-e. Easy mistake to make apparently.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 month ago

But wouldn't you want the ones who would uproot their lives because Trump was elected? It's the ones who voted for him that you wouldn't want. If anything, Canada could use all the non-maga you can get.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 month ago

You could make a case that based on his other comments and stochastic terrorist language that what he said was dangerous, but those claiming that this specific instance was a threat either didn't listen closely to what he said (you don't give someone facing a firing squad a rifle of their own), or just listen to those media reports who are purposefully spreading disinformation.

He has made plenty of statements that are prosecutable, people don't need to grasp at straws.

To answer the question, yeah if you said the same thing Trump did about Cheney, you'd be fine. It wasn't a threat. He said give her a rifle and put her on the front lines if she's so eager to have a war, see how she feels then.

That's said, Vote. Vote for Harris. While Trump didn't advocate for putting Cheney in front of a firing squad here, he has asked his military personnel to kill citizens and next time he won't have someone that will stop him.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 months ago

The story goes on to say that numbers are incredibly hard to count, they've put a lot of work into what is supposed to be transitional shelter (single occupant units, repurposed hotels, etc), and work is ongoing to make these transitional housing options truly transitional by working toward affordable housing options in/around the city. Part of the solution is to get people off the "street", but there's more work to be done to ensure there are options for those who can't use the current temporary housing (due to drug use, breaking the housing rules, not comfortable with the mandatory checks, etc). Also still work to be done to, like one person in the story mentioned, ensure that this temporary housing is indeed transitional and not permanent. Their funding is less this year so there's concern the progress being made will be difficult to improve upon.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 8 points 5 months ago

We already did, to New Zealand. Education visa to get a PhD my partner had been eager to get, followed by work visa and/or resident visa. Few more years and then permanent resident then citizenship.

We'd been saving up/planning for a decade because we wanted to leave anyway, the environment that gave us Trump only encouraged us to leave. Years later and I'm still 100% convinced we made the right choice for us.

I suggest finding a culture that fits yours, making a very detailed budget, exploring all the options for visas and plan for future visa extensions/applications, and making some sacrifices to get where you want to be.

Lots of EU countries have generous options if you have lineage, I'd start with that as getting into one of them gets you into all of them eventually.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 7 points 10 months ago

"Don't look down! Don't look down!" shouted the man standing before the crowd, pumping his fist to accent each word. The chant went on for about 15 seconds, around 8 times the Florida crowd copied the politician before them. The crowd hushed as he began to speak again: "This... Is about control" he started. "'They' want you to be fearful, to be obedient... But we're not falling for their nonsense! They tried with the plan-demic and they're trying again with this. Well I say NO. We will be FREE because Patriots like you and me will never let them take that freedom!"

The crowd roared in cheers as the water lapped at their ankles.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 43 points 1 year ago

I already moved. It's not just Trump that's the problem, and even if he loses in 2024, or does in office, the issues still will persist. America needs to figure out how to make the judicial system work properly and norms need to be codified. Vast swaths of the population need to change their culture of "us vs them".

I won't be going back, the way things work with Republicans, you can't just move to a blue state, you have to move out of the country.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago

Some real "I tied a string to my friend's house so it's technically one house and I didn't travel there on the Sabbath" energy

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A game that captures the feeling of when Arthur Dent crash lands on that primitive planet in "The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" and makes a sandwich. I want The Sandwich Maker.

You crash into this procedurally generated world. All the plants and animals are new every playthrough, and you slowly learn about them through experimentation and from the native population who has never heard of a sandwich and really doesn't do much except eat raw ingredients. When you cook the meat from an animal instead of eating it raw, they all lose their minds with wonder and you become the town's chef.

You harvest wild crops and cultivate better ones. You find ways to use the animal fat and meat and "milk", you find plants that work as food, maybe their seeds are great crushed up with a little water into a paste, maybe you need to dry them out, maybe you need to de-seed them and mix them with another plant to make it taste better.. on and on.

You need to work with the people there to make tools, and together you iterate out exactly what you need.

Eventually you have to find something that matches your randomised flavour pallette for the perfect sandwich. You assemble all the ingredients you've collected, cultivated, or created, with the tools and techniques you and the townspeople have developed, and you take a bite. It's perfect. You win.

[-] Aaron@lemmy.nz 43 points 1 year ago

Imagine being in hospice and your birthday still has the power to shut down a major world government.

Jimmy is a good man. He deserves that honour.

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