ihavenopeopleskills

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Take dividends and donate them to Fediverse servers. As your enemy gets stronger, so do you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delay. Suffered another job loss a few months ago and had to work my second job like crazy. A couple accounts are in collections. I flew to see family in Japan, got another job and am looking at ways to boost my income and get ahead. No one's going to do it for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Neurodivergent individuals are a thing. We do have different mechanisms of function for our respective brains.

That having been said, it is our cross to bear and the world isn't necessarily making accommodations for us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Not saying we shouldn't donate to worthy causes, but if we're going to call using free software without paying abuse, then there are many technology users to round up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The front page of Lemmy, much like reddit, is full of fear and arguments.

Fear porn generates clicks and sells ad space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

With all due respect, there's more in the direction you mention, but there's more in the direction of opposing views, as well. This was the entire point of moving to the Fediverse: to get away from the restrictions and whims of u/spez and Big Tech.

Keep looking around and talking to other people. This is a better place than Reddit: you just haven't stumbled upon all of the evidence yet. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Respectfully, I'm giving OP the benefit of the doubt assuming they were either looking to get something c/offmychest or look for a solution. I think we offered them some. :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's nothing wrong with controlling / filtering the things you allow into your news feed.

Yes, there is a need to stay informed, but TBH the only immediate things one really needs are:

  • a weather radio [Canada] [US] to alert of impending doom from volcanic eruption, inclement weather, earthquake or civil unrest
  • local weather forecast
  • local traffic & news

All of which can be accomplished without a Twitter, Reddit or Fediverse news feed.

You can't function if you're in a bad headspace. If you need to restrict your news intake, not only is that OK, but it is at times required and healthy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Google sometimes deplatforms people as well. Regardless of one's politics, one can't be positive it won't happen to them should the winds change.

 

As seen on yesterday's episode of Bearing Arms' Cam & Co

 

I know it's on that other site but until we build our own it's probably the best one around.

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DS Logon (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/veterans
 

This announcement is a companion post to mine on that other site.

If you need to do in-person proofing to get a DS Logon account, DO NOT blindly drive to the nearest VA Regional Office. Neither the VA call center nor the help desk at DMDC will tell you this, but NOT EVERY OFFICE DOES IT.

I just threw away an afternoon I could have worked a security shift only to arrive two hours away and get ramrodded back to the people who told me to drive down there in the first place. This is after the National Archives supposedly sent me my separation documents and ask.va.gov resolved my request without even doing anything.

The vet rep at my congressman's office will be in touch with me on Monday. I need VGLI and my NGB 22, which is only available through...well...nowhere, apparently.

UPDATE: Spoke with my congressman's office. Passing them details tonight. Oh, and I drove another afternoon during the workday down to Fort Wayne IN VAMC only to find that they don't do in-person proofing, either.

UPDATE 2: CONGRIT sent from their office to the DoD.

UPDATE 3: DMDC called me back to recommend I contact my state National Guard records bureau. Since I was last in the Virginia ANG she gave me the following address:

VA ARNG
ATTN: DCSPER, IPERMS RECORDS CUSTODIAN
316 10TH ST
BLACKSTONE VA 23824-3036

UPDATE 4: Congressman's office forwarded my DL and Passport to DMDC. Got proofed and an e-mail to activate my account. Requested records in DPRIS. In 24-48 hours we'll know if this is over.

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Sinnett in Session (64.5.130.41)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/fusionjazz
 

From the campus of Old Dominion University
WHRV-HD Norfolk VA
Sun 1p-5p, Mon-Thu 9p-1a, Sat 1a-5a ET

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Ohio (kbin.social)
 

I don't feel this way about Ohio but it seems everyone else in MI does

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Places to Shoot (kbin.social)
 

#####Northern

Name Address Phone OSM Link Geo Link
Bull Run Shooting Center 7700 Bull Run Dr, Centreville VA 20121 (703) 352-5900 OpenStreetMap Geo
 
 

The Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer, a senior legal policy analyst in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, testified this week on gun control policy before the Virginia State Crime Commission. Over the course of the two-day hearing, the commission heard testimony from law enforcement, gun control activists, researchers, public policy experts, and citizens. They offered solutions to gun violence and shared their concerns about proposed legislation.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/va_guns
 

Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself

This is the organization that organized the rally on MLK Day 2020 at the State Capitol in Richmond during which tens of thousands of gun-rights advocates from within and outside of the Commonwealth descended to make their voices heard: NO MORE GUN CONTROL!

 

As we in the U.S. are on our Christmas-in-July mini-vacation, let us celebrate the departure from yet another evil empire who abused those in their charge for the sake of their own ego.

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