GrymEdm

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[–] GrymEdm 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
  • If you're the owner of the home, know what bylaws there are regarding snow removal near your home. Where I live you can get a fine + snow removal costs if you aren't reasonably prompt getting snow off the sidewalk.

  • Snowy surfaces (sidewalks, driveways, roads) are often icy surfaces = slip and fall hazard. This is especially serious for older folks but it can hurt/injure at any age. This gets worse if it snows then melts then refreezes. Don't run if you don't have to. Sand/grit on these surfaces can help, and in my area you can get sand for free at certain town facilities.

  • Frostbite on exposed skin is a genuine hazard. Look up the weather forecast when it's cold and take time-to-frostbite warnings seriously.
[–] GrymEdm 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's an article on the history of anti-vaccination movements with sources.

  • "The Leicester Demonstration March of 1885 was one of the most notorious anti-vaccination demonstrations. There, 80,000-100,000 anti-vaccinators led an elaborate march, complete with banners, a child’s coffin, and an effigy of Jenner."

  • "...surveys of medical providers in the UK in the late 1970s found they were reluctant to recommend the immunization to all patients."

  • "Although the time periods have changed, the emotions and deep-rooted beliefs—whether philosophical, political, or spiritual—that underlie vaccine opposition have remained relatively consistent since Edward Jenner introduced vaccination."
[–] GrymEdm 44 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

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[–] GrymEdm 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I'd find it odd if I enjoyed the same things as much now as I did when I was say, 6-12 years old. Games and shows for kids are meant for a child-like mind. You can still appreciate them for what they are - I've watched Lazy Town with my nieces and enjoyed the quality of the music and Stefán Karl Stefánsson as Robbie Rotten. But I'm not sitting down to watch it on my own.

Plus game design and definitely graphics can improve over time. E.g. I loved Golden Eye on N64 as a kid, but if I replayed it I think nostalgia would be doing a lot of heavy lifting. I replayed FF7 Classic a year or two ago and did not find it nearly as compelling as I did when I was 16. It was still alright, but it didn't amaze me the way it did in PS1 days.

[–] GrymEdm 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’” This from a guy who discusses deploying troops in America against Americans, yet dodged the Vietnam draft with fake medical issues.

[–] GrymEdm 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think they are political theatre bills to prop up hard-right support ahead of Smith's leadership review. My guess about the UCP attitude is: if they pass great. If they are stopped at any point in the process, oh well they'll have served their purpose as a (twisted, hateful) virtue signal.

[–] GrymEdm 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's a can opener? Kind of NSFW - like not really, but if someone walks in on you watching you'll have some explaining to do.

[–] GrymEdm 42 points 1 day ago

If you want to stop support for Israel's war crimes, Kamala is slightly better than Trump. If you want support for Ukraine to oppose Russia, she's much better. If your issue is the environment/global warming, she's immeasurably better. If you're concerned with things like democracy and rule of law at all levels of government, then she's literally the only choice.

[–] GrymEdm 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was writing something like "I understand but here's why it has to be this way", but then I read comments about not wanting to take the high road and how being nice gets you nowhere. So instead: when I was a young adult in the 2000's, angrily telling someone to "go f themselves" face-to-face might get you punched in the mouth. Someone who started swearing at everyone whenever they were angry was labelled an asshole. It's not like I spent those years in a weak, no-confrontation, "let's hug instead" environment either - my friends and I just didn't put up with regular disrespect. I'll stop there because I don't want to glorify violence - there are better ways to deal with insults and we didn't fight often. Most of the time jackasses just didn't get invited anymore.

My point: online, anonymous communication removed a lot of social and physical consequences of confrontation, but that doesn't make being nasty alright. You may say, "It's just a f you", but your comments make me think that being nasty is the intent. Not trying to shame you but if I'm right about hurting others being the goal then: yeah, admittedly that's not rare anymore but you can do better.

Also you say being nice doesn't get you anywhere. I'd ask: when was the last time you told someone to f themselves and they were like, "Oh, I never considered that. You've won me over." Trading insults online leaves everyone angry and encourages inventive cruelty so the other person is hurt more. Anger is natural - we all feel it and I need to self-censor all the damn time. But there are better ways to deal with being angry, and even to reduce the amount of time you spend angry.

[–] GrymEdm 65 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wouldn't it be nice to be the little spoon once in a while?

[–] GrymEdm 23 points 1 day ago

Get either a piercing weapon to exploit weak points or a bludgeoning weapon to transmit force through the plate, because she's clearly here to do battle. Dinner can come AFTER I've defended my honor.

[–] GrymEdm 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reddit:

  • It has a much larger user base and many heavily specialized boards that nevertheless stay reasonably active.
  • It's a collection of echo chambers. Dissent is usually stomped out by mass downvoting and heavy moderation/bans. It's rare to find a board that allows arguments for a long period of time. Agree with the board's users/mods or get silenced. Posted rules do not matter, and you can definitely be hateful in ways that violate posted rules so long as that type of hate is acceptable on that board.
  • So many users mean that getting content to succeed is a crapshoot. Often posts become lost in the noise, especially on busy boards.
  • I left about a year ago, but apparently there's a lot of bot/AI slop on boards now.

Lemmy:

  • Much smaller user base. Heavily specialized boards move slowly if they exist at all. It's not unusual to see boards where it's just one/a few people posting with days in between new content.
  • More ability to have disagreements. Whether it's because moderating a smaller # of users is easier, the mods are less authoritarian, or whatever you are more likely to be able to disagree. Don't be blatantly racist, celebrating violence, clearly trolling, etc. and you'll probably remain able to participate. I'm sure this isn't universal on all boards, but it's my experience on many boards.
  • For all that I believe the above point, there are still "echo chamber" moments on Lemmy. Sometimes it seems people may be downvoted simply because they are already downvoted. It's still way less egregious than on Reddit, and such is human nature I suppose.
  • Fewer users means you are more likely to get some engagement on your post, at least in my experience. I never sorted my feed by new posts on Reddit because it was an avalanche of posts of questionable quality, so I only saw whatever content had already succeeded. On Lemmy I can look for new posts and see most if not all content on the boards I enjoy.
 
 
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I'm taking linguistic liberty by not saying "the ICU". People say "sent to or discharged from hospital" all the time, so I'm trying to get away with it because the wording works better.

 

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Friday, May 24, that he had decided to "sever the connection" between Spain's diplomatic mission and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over Madrid's recognition of a Palestinian state.

"I have decided to sever the connection between Spain's representation in Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem from providing services to Palestinians from the West Bank," Katz said in a post on X. It was not immediately clear how Israel would carry out the threat.

Asked by Agence France-Presse (AFP) about the practicalities and consequences of Katz's announcement, the Foreign Ministry did not immediately comment. Katz said his decision was made "in response to Spain's recognition of a Palestinian state and the anti-Semitic call by Spain's deputy prime minister to (...) 'liberate Palestine from the river to the sea.'"

 
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So I decided to do a week of these posts and then see how it was going. It seems to have gone well enough, but it's probably time for me to take a break from this format specifically for a while. In true Star Trek spirit though I want to get some use out of the misfit ideas so here's the memes I didn't pick each morning for whatever reason.

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Israel will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the decision by three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday, as its foreign minister denounced the European moves as giving “a gold medal to Hamas terrorists.”

The decision by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right leader who opposes Palestinian sovereignty, threatened to push the Palestinian government into a deeper fiscal crisis. He said in a statement that he had informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would no longer send tax revenues to the authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank in close cooperation with Israel.

Mr. Smotrich’s office signaled that the decision was at least partly a response to Spain, Norway and Ireland recognizing Palestinian statehood, and that the Palestinian leadership bore responsibility for campaigning for the move.

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