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Cake day: June 26th, 2025
  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementiaEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    This a great question.

    This is my way of life for a long time now. And I can’t comunicate well enough that this is how capital powers are kept in check by consumers. It is a necessity now more than ever that this should be the way for everyone.

    The fediverse is being constructed in a way that we will only need to jump instances and domains and not segregate ourselves from the rest. I’m technically not on Lemmy anymore. When lemm.ee shut down I jumped to piefed. But I’m still around. This is the novelty (which is more of a reclaim of the old internet tbh) that is missing from the larger web.

    I use several search engines, I have several emails etc etc To me this isn’t exhausting. It is liberaring. To not be tied down to a single suite or conglomerate.

    As to how to convince others as you asked… I think all the approaches are necessary. Informing, advocating and promoting or even hazing and mocking as some will surely do. All of them will play their part in the broadening awareness and bringing people out of stagnation and complacency.

    We need to show people a redundancy… that the way to move is to keep moving. That a quest for a fixed definitive ground is not only impossible but a mistake to begin with.

    As to the correct approach, like I said, all the approaches will be necessary in my opinion. Even the ones I dislike will motivate people in their respective in-groups.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Cats develop dementia in a similar way to humansEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This year I had to euthanize a cat I had the pleasure to have in my life for almost 14 years. I saw her come into this world right out of her mum, and I was there when she died. Afterwards, we brought her from the veterinarian and buried her in my mother’s backyard.

    She had late stage cancer. I never knew when was the right moment to say “it’s time”. The fucked up part is that we can’t get verbal confirmation that “this is it” for them.

    She could barely walk or breathe by the end and I didn’t know if I was being selfish or if I was stealing time that she still wanted to have. It was brutal. Everyday was just one more day that I wanted to say goodbye.

    And then one day I saw her struggle so much to breathe and said “it’s time”. The meds didn’t work anymore and I couldn’t ease her suffering in any way anymore.

    That moment still sounds far off with your beloved friend. Treasure those cozy and snuggled naps they love to take and be kind to yourself as you navigate it all.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teensEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh, I know and I agree.

    But it’s still ridiculous and awful to see these children, their children nonetheless become victims of abuse while they pretend it’s not happening.

    Because if there’s any single one thing I am supposed to share with these mindless people is an aversion to the abuse of children. And if that were me and my community I would burn that institution to the ground until I found every trace of this.

    If they kept their end of the watch as they claim others should I would at least respect their zeal as true. This way I got nothing for them. Absolutely nothing.

    But I still don’t want that to happen to those kids. This shouldn’t happen. Period. Pointing out their hypocrisy and calling for their outrage to start by “cleaning their own house” works. I’ve seen it first hand. They don’t like it when they know you’re right even according to their narrow view of the world. If we just uphold them to the standard they believe they have, they don’t have an out.

    And less kids end up like this as a result.

  • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.socialtoNews@lemmy.world•Pete Buttigieg Says Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports Raise “Serious Fairness Issues”English
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    2 months ago

    Just have all athletes measured in an index of height, weight, muscle mass and bone density, and redistribute them in even categories disregarding sex entirely as a categorization. For the first time we would have fair sports. Sports were never really fair, and anyone who understands just the simple notions of physics has always pointed this out. They just don’t like it when nerds prove jocks don’t understand the very games they play. And that’s all sports trully are in the end. Games.

    The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence. None of that affects life outside of it. None whatsoever. And I’m sure even athletes want this situation actually solved, instead of just dumbing it even more.

    And by the way I’m speaking of sports, not exercise. For some reason, people conflate the two.

    Exercise is essential.

    Sports are not. They can be fun. But people surely know how to ruin the fun out of it.

    I’m looking forward to moving on to the next important issue. Which to them is probably going to be if there should be male vs female acting categories in award shows. No, there’s no reason for it. But caring about award shows is even dumber than that dumb distinction in them. The Arts would be better off without them. Competitions in Arts is as silly as it sounds.