Transcendant

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[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's worse than that. Iirc everytime republicans gain 2 out of 3 of Congress / Senate / president, they rip up enough regulations to cause a global recession.

Thanks, America for taking a shit on the world. Again.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Crazy that I've been downvoted for offering factual help, while the comment which is provably incorrect is up voted

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Yeah. People can avoid all this nonsense by installing one simple app... Duck duck go browser.

You don't have to use the browser. It just sits in the background quietly blocking tracking requests from other apps.

It's absolutely horrifying on first use to see how egregious tracking is.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. And usually if I am replying to another comment later, I can see that balance has been restored by others doing the same :)

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • If I see a freezer / fridge door open in a supermarket, I close it. Not for the supermarket, but for the planet

  • as someone who stacked shelves as a teen, if I take an item and it leaves a gap, I pull the next one forward so the employee doesn't have to keep fussing over the manager's demand for it to be lined up

  • my dad lives in a bungalow, on a small cul de sac of other bungalows. Sheltered housing for old folks. Litter often gets blown in and collects, I'll pick it up every couple of weeks. Also cleared their paths / sprinkled salt when It snowed

  • when old people are in the way, I don't crowd up behind them. I'll take a few steps back and wait so they don't feel pressured

  • if there's an item in the road that could damage someone's car, I'll wait until it's safe then remove the item

  • if I see someone was down voted just for sharing their opinion (assumedly because the down voter is too childish to withstand an opposing opinion), I make sure to up vote it in an attempt to restore balance. Even if I don't agree with said opinion (obviously this doesn't apply to hateful rhetoric etc)

Prob a ton of other little things I can't remember. Thanks for making this post!

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's very basic 'think of the children' rhetoric.

Our emotions are more easily manipulated in this way, because generally people are hard wired to protect babies and children.

So by associating trans people with paedophiles, right wingers are able to more easily hijack into what would otherwise be rational people. It also makes it more difficult to debate against because nobody wants to be labelled as someone who wants to hurt kids.

 

10 years ago, I'd have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn't feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @Gwaer@lemm.ee about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn't giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf