Seconded, I use a Define 7 and it’s fantastic. Best big black box I’ve ever owned.

Have you checked out United Allergy Services? They claim to have self-administered allergy shots.

Sold by Nrnrnrg, a small “Ukrainian”* family owned company trusted for generations, established last week!

*designed in the Ukraine but assembled and shipped by our “trusted Chinese partners”**.

** partnership also first formed last week, sight unseen.

Linkin Park… 2000… Middle school?!

Fuck, I got old.

TIL agriculture = capitalism. I bet they think the free market is exclusive to capitalism too.

This whole exchange is hilarious as the DK is strong in your counterpart. The best part is how smug and condescending they are (winter child lolol) despite clearly having no idea what they’re talking about. My money is on him being a libertarian.

Edit: hoooooly shit, I was right!

This you?

I know they make terrible shirts.

Whoa, that post history. Now I have to wonder if this is a fetish or if OP has an obsessive/compulsive disorder.

Indeed, this isn’t my only account, nor is it even my primary.

At least on Lemmy.world, it’s now visible when comments are removed. It’s not uncommon that I see multiple comments complaining about what the tankies are going to do and few to no removed comments. Given Lemmy.world is also the instance whose members I see gripe about tankies the most, I currently believe it’s just people using an out group to achieve some sort of personal goal, even if it’s just as simple as wanting to comment but not really having a lot to say.

Tankies are pretty annoying, but what’s much more annoying to me now is people whinging on about tankies that aren’t even there. The amount of comments to the effect of “just wait for the tankies to read this and do (X)” vastly out numbers the number of comments I see from actual tankies. More often than not, those tankies fail to ever materialize.

Right now, many are! Fight back and retake our rightful place as people with rights above those of corporations.

That’s one hell of a slippery slope argument.

Do you think they’ll try to garner votes from murderers and rapists? Maybe they’ll attempt to make pigeons American citizens so they can vote too.

Am I reading this right? Are you conflating pedophilia with transgender support and feminism? Is this a joke or sarcasm of some kind I’m missing?

Edit: wait, is this super meta unpopular opinion?

Welcome to Murica, where you have the FREEDOM to receive subpar care when you need help the most.

I’m a fellow citizen of the bald eagle who also has dealt with psychological issues and the United States’s terrible health and mental care system. I read through your posts and saw you’re thinking of ending it. I don’t know your situation, but I’ve been somewhere similar. I have an incurable, chronic, progressive health condition that causes some disability and just hurts like a motherfucker. Not looking for sympathy, just explaining.

I was dead set on ending it because I couldn’t imagine going through life always in pain, being a burden to my spouse, family, and friends, and just being a big overall sad sack like I was. Obviously I didn’t. I got help and worked through my giant pile of issues and I’m glad I did. I think about how I was then and my life now with my wife and friends and my stupid, silly cats and I always start crying because I love all of them and everything so much and I was so close to giving all of this away.

I agree with you 100% - everyone should have bodily autonomy, including the right to end your life as you see fit. Just give it a lot of thought. It’s fucking morbid, but what kept me going for the first few weeks is that I could always kill myself later. I didn’t need to make a decision then, I could always make a decision later if trying to make things better was as impossible as it seemed. It was a ton of work and it really sucked sometimes but it got better. Even when things regressed hard, I kept looking for ways to keep improving because at the heart of it, I really didn’t want to die, I just couldn’t imagine living, so I worked on making a life that I could believe in.

No matter what, don’t look at this as a failing. People like us can have a certain strength and appreciation for life that others who haven’t had to deal with this don’t understand. If you need to talk with someone who at least might get it, I’m here.

You and many others probably know this already but for those that don’t: in countries like the United States, private prisons actually lobby to make it more likely that previous offenders will return to jail. They seek stricter sentencing so offenders are incarcerated longer and to remove funding for nonprofits and programs that provide rehabilitation.

Relevant article: https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/private-prison-giant-corecivics-wants-corner-mass

Just let that sink in. There are human beings that are doing their best to make sure people fail and are punished without rehabilitation, hoping they become trapped in the prison system, all so shareholders can make a buck. How fucked up is that?

There’s a great book called Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. It’s mostly a primer on how CPTSD works but does have content on what to do about it. Just putting a name to things is huge.

I started with the audiobook, primarily listening to it on my drive home. I knew it had nailed it for me when I realized I had spent an entire week’s worth of commutes home rage crying.

I’m a microbiologist in the US, it’s at least eight years for us.

I just responded to another comment then saw yours. At least in Murica, the person gets the tax break, not the business.

Relevant article: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0

As much as I hate corporations, getting a tax break with your donation is actually something shitty they’re not doing. It’s misinformation, the donator gets the tax break, not the corp. At least in the United States.

Here’s an article explaining it: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0

With that being said, will corporations lobby to change tax policy so they get the write off? Probably!