Seems like an overwhelming number of you are sex negative and thus poorly educated on here. Lemmy sure has turned out to be a disappointing website since I started on here. At least I know where Lemmy stands. Improve yourselves, please. You have more literature to read. More to learn.
Walz' couch reference was sex negative
https://lemmy.world/post/18438496
Walz' couch reference was sex negative - Lemmy.World
Even if JD Vance did some kind of thing on a couch turning it into some kind of
scandal is not in line with the principles of sex positivity. That whole
discourse is a form of shaming that doesn’t need to be put out there. I can’t
believe people still vote Democrat. Learn your lesson - they are just another
fascist party. They’re not advanced enough on mental health issues, Israel and
Gaza, lgbtqia issues, or much of anything else. All the literature is there and
they don’t read it thoroughly enough or value its role enough. Not nearly
enough.
Does it seem like there is a major food crisis in the US right now?
https://lemmy.world/post/17160889
Does it seem like there is a major food crisis in the US right now? - Lemmy.World
Food bank only had raisins. My food stamps were cut by two thirds. Inflation is
way up. Specific shortages. I asked some people around me and they’re also
struggling. No emergency announcements. Feels like a cover up. I heard US shale
oil is peaking. All this and I live in the central valley of California, ag
central. I should have food easily, instead it’s a struggle.
How should I approach having relatively obscure points of lack of privilege?
https://lemmy.world/post/11900497
How should I approach having relatively obscure points of lack of privilege? - Lemmy.World
1. I’m a 2 on the kinsey scale; people seem to think there is just gay,
straight, and bi and are less exposed to the idea of a spectrum. 2. I’m passing
white; part mesoamerican, always grew up knowing I was part native american then
took two DNA tests and it was confirmed at least that I was part native
mesoamerican. 3. I have always struggled with getting a handle on my gender and
biological sex whether it was my year of identifying as nonbinary or people
mistaking me for a female throughout my life or my body issues around whether I
am feminine or masculine in one way or another; as I cover in another post I am
currently trying to wrestle mentally and emotionally with my seemingly feminine
pelvic bone despite being male assigned at birth. These issues are obscure
enough to be ignored by basically everyone, so with more conservative types I
have to suffer gaslighting, covert and overt abuse, and interpersonal neglect,
and with more ‘liberal’ types I have to suffer a different kind of rejection
wherein it is denied that my issues qualify as oppression because there are
simply limits to what any one liberal is educated on. What are some good tips
for dealing with this kind of life situation?
Is it possible I am intersex if I apparently have a very wide female pelvic bone and everything else is male?
https://lemmy.world/post/11687074
Is it possible I am intersex if I apparently have a very wide female pelvic bone and everything else is male? - Lemmy.World
I was assigned male at birth but have increasingly started to notice over the
years that other guys don’t have a big notch on either side of their torsos like
I do. It’s my pelvic bone. I would go to a doctor to see what they had to say
but they’ve seen me plenty of times and said absolutely nothing about being
intersex and now I live in a rural conservative area and they don’t seem to
diagnose the same way in hardly anything that is a conservative third rail. I
just seem to have a really wide pelvis just like a female. Everything else seems
male. I am a very normal weight so it’s not fat tissue - its clearly bone. I
just feel gaslit over it and have been trying to gauge perceptions people have
of me in my life in order to get on with things. I hate to turn to the internet
but this is driving me crazy. I need something to work with, somewhere to start.
How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced?
https://lemmy.world/post/11430899
How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced? - Lemmy.World
Am I not understanding FOSH (free and open source hardware)? I have always
dreamed of open source hardware but it has always seemed unshakeably and
fundamentally reliant on for instance massive open pit mines mining all over the
world in finite dwindling supply wrecking local ecosystems every element
necessary for computer components, factories able to produce at scale fueled by
an enormous amount of energy from god knows where, massive pollution and waste
every step of the way, and every other ill of extraction and production which
seems like it can only be handled by large scale industry almost entirely
capitalist for the foreseeable future. Am I missing something? Is it a pipe
dream? Even if we find a way to get to a point where we can sustainably and
ethically develop any new hardware we need, won’t that require persisting in the
present capitalist paradigm physically? Is this just kind of a microcosm and
reification of the problem of democratizing the economy anyway?
There is only acid rain now - Lemmy.World
I feel like even if I went to go get an objective source there would some kind
of corporatocracy/government/AI/revolving door cover up on the quality of
rainwater today if I tried through like google. I don’t know, I just feel things
are so bad environmentally even the wilderness is being doused with acid rain
and only acid rain whenever it does get rain. Can anyone shed some light on
this? I might be wrong and it may be panicky emotional reasoning, but this is
where I’m at for what it’s worth.
How could a three to five minute level of urban planning be incorporated into larger city systems?
https://lemmy.world/post/11401653
How could a three to five minute level of urban planning be incorporated into larger city systems? - Lemmy.World
My grocery store is 0.25 miles away. I realize that it would be ableist to
expect everyone to carry two tote bags full of groceries back from somewhere
that far regularly walking, but like what if there could be a service for
disabled people to fetch groceries that way in the neighborhood? I saw some old
people walking recently in my neighborhood and was considering doing that for
them in exchange for some pocket change I needed for the laundromat right next
to the grocery store. The farthest I go on a regular basis is a 25 minute walk
to get my cashier’s check my landlord requires for rent. The buses in this town
are too slow and inconsistent for that to make sense for me. I’m actually very
proud that I don’t drive and wish I could make errands for physically disabled
people given my fitness. I find myself comfortable month to month staying within
that 0.25 square mile area. I recently went about 100 miles west to a California
beach for a day and night and I feel like my ordinary lifestyle made it that
much more profound in contrast. It’s strange how that sort of compression and
expansion of a sense of everyday space can change the phenomenology of a place,
make something feeling bigger in an odd way. The ocean was so amazing. And so it
just kind of seems like there’s no singular amount of minutes that should define
your lifestyle but rather like maybe concentric circles with no absolute outer
bound. And so this is very open-ended. Sort of musing here. I could be wrong. I
work from home.
Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc?
https://lemmy.world/post/11390757
Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc? - Lemmy.World
I’ve tried getting into peertube to have something to watch. I’m exploring
copyleft music on open audio / funkwhale. I’m on here in lemmy as of this week.
I’m playing with mastodon and the fediverse. I’ve tried studying psychology and
psychology-adjacent territory like Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault and Derrida
so I can break down what the Facebook algorithms are doing to me, how pop and
mainstream music is designed and produced in conjunction with advertising to
screw with our heads and make us buy things, how YouTube music suggestion
algorithms screw with my head and ultimately make me buy things, and I’ve tried
to start learning to code on a basic level at least so I can convert my
chromebook to Ubuntu and hopefully my android phone, which I’ve paid off
completely, to some kind of fully open source OS. I’ve let my Netflix
subscription wither away after just not paying it and try to not care about it
anymore. I have no idea what to do about Amazon or Amazon Prime. I have some
very important movies like ‘Unhinged’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ on there. I need to buy
certain things in the present framework of my life right now, things that, in a
small town with a particular disability keeping me from driving, I can only get
on Amazon. I’m doing a lot. But I still find myself jonesing for that death
consciousness of mindlessly scrolling through Facebook totally vulnerable to an
AI superpower extracting maximum profit from me perpetually. Moderation no
longer seems remotely realistic. I can’t shut the machine out. Has anybody found
anything else I could try? I’m trying to find as many little strategies as
possible.
It seems like I feel safer now in the inner city than the suburb I grew up in
https://lemmy.world/post/11359587
It seems like I feel safer now in the inner city than the suburb I grew up in - Lemmy.World
Is it just me or do poor neighborhoods of the US have a safer vibe now and the
suburbs like a distinctly threatening vibe? I live in a poor neighborhood and
these days being somewhere like this and seeing like a gangbanger-ish car roll
down the street doesn’t make me nervous but a cop car definitely does kind of
like how those same types of gangbanger-ish cars made me nervous when I was a
middle class kid growing up in a nice neighborhood in the 2000s but police cars
made me feel safe and protected. Like it’s all switched for me. A few days ago I
stayed a few nights at my dad’s huge house in nice neighborhood and I was alone
one night and felt extremely unsafe. I was so relieved to get back to my
apartment alone in a poor neighborhood. Has anyone else had this experience of
such a transition over the last twenty years or so?
