Technically the US is sending lots of weapons to Russia. Ukraine are even being real Bros about it and trying to deliver the munitions first cuz Russia keeps misplacing their stuff. Not their fault Russia is doing a very poor job of accepting their deliveries.
It’s hard to describe for me. Cuz I don’t actually “see” anything I try to imagine. If I close my eyes and try to visualize say an image of a desk at a window all I see is darkness. The image exists, I can I guess I’d say “feel” it there and i could even draw it. But I can’t “see” it. Like the part of me that’s making the picture is drawing it on a live stream but the part of me that should be seeing the stream has the monitor off.
Same with the whole internal monologue thing. I don’t “hear” the words in my head or “see” them written out in my imagination but I kinda just “feel” them there. It poses a problem when my mind really gets going because there will be often like half a dozen different distinct thoughts I can feel in there. So I end up having to talk to myself out loud in order to keep from losing whatever thread I’m trying to follow.
I have ADHD too but in my case I don’t actually “hear” any of the thoughts. But they exist similar to how you describe. At any given time I can feel multiple different thoughts kind of floating around. When music gets stuck in my head I don’t so much hear it in there as I feel the presence of a song. So I have to talk out loud in order to keep from losing the thread of what I was thinking about.
For me it’s even weirder than that. Those pictures exist in my mind and I can “feel” them there but the conscious part of me that’s supposed to see them can’t see shit. I can describe to you the things that are in them or even draw them out as they exist in my mind, but I can’t see them. The part of me that’s giving directions? It can “see” the map of the building and my position in it just fine like it’s staring straight at a live minimap, but the conscious part of me that should be able to visualize that stuff? Nothing. I close my eyes and try to visualize that dog and I see nothing but black. But I can feel the presence of the image that the part of me that does the mental conjuring of images is making.
It’s like turning the monitor off on a computer. Everything is still running even though you can’t see it.
The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing....
Okay very basically this whole thing started with a hypothetical posed to a bunch of women about which they would rather run into while alone in the woods; A random man, or a bear. A lot of women chose the bear. Reasons varied from “The worst the bear will do is kill me,” to “At least I know the bear wants to kill me,” with a general theme seeming to be that whatever tangible threat the bear posed was preferable to the uncertainty of wondering whether or not a random man would assault them.
The poster’s stated goal with the hypothetical was to get men to think about why the women were choosing the bear. Instead a lot of guys took it as a personal attack, like they were being punished for the actions of other men. Many started attacking the question, insisting that bears are way more dangerous than virtually any man. This led to a lot of dismissive responses of the criticism like “This is why women choose the bear,” or talking about women’s safety being more important than men’s feelings.
I’m simplifying a lot but that’s the basic gist of it.
The ones that get me are the ones that talk about voting 3rd party. A lot of them seem to understand that the 3rd party is not going to win and that their best case scenario is… I guess “Next time they’ll listen to us and we’ll get a real leftist?” So… Your solution to the genocide is wait 4 years to get someone who will directly end it? Bestie, I don’t think Gaza will be around in 4 years. Even if you discount Trump’s stated desire to be a dictator and Project 2025.
Or, what happens by the way if Biden wins in spite of them voting 3rd party? Surely it doesn’t mean that they’ve directly proven to the Democrats that they literally don’t need that voting bloc?
I think you did great tbh! 10/10 teenage me would absolutely 100% never had any idea you were into them. But I also didn’t figure out I was asexual until my mid twenties so idk if I can really count as a data point lol.
Sorry but I’m not taking any kind of advice from an Orange Boi, financial or otherwise unless I’ve got some way to know if they were in possession of the braincell when giving the advice.
My oldest son is autistic and has taste and texture aversions that are powerful enough that he will sooner starve himself than eat something that isn’t right. So when we find something he will just eat? You better believe we are buying as much as our fixed budget can support. There’s a mighty rage to be had from us when something he does eat gets changed or discontinued.
Between my ADHD and the amount of different places we go for groceries I can never remember well enough where anything is to get mad about them changing it. My wife though has finally gotten to the point where the music they play on the radio in the grocery stores is actually getting good which was her sign she’s getting old.
Years ago I had really severe anxiety and intrusive thoughts. I noticed though as my anxiety got better through among other things therapy that the intrusive thoughts took on a new form; Unbidden and often times inappropriate shitposting IRL.
Personally, most of the time I don’t really hear my internal monologue. It’s there but it kinda tends to get drowned out by a constant swirl of other random thoughts unless I externalize it and talk to myself, but I do hear the intrusive thoughts loud and clear. Add those things together and I like to joke that I accidentally manifested a shitpost tulpa.
Then because I found this thought amusing I came up with an entire character to put to it.
For real. I get migraines and one or my big triggers is lights being too bright. With good old Sol being the worst offender. Luckily everyone else in my house is some flavor of autistic/ADHD so pretty much everyone agrees.
Technically we’re a lot closer to that one at the moment. Well, not directly abolishing the Electoral College per se. I don’t have the details handy at the moment because I’m on mobile and my phone keeps closing my Lemmy client when i try to tab out to do anything and I lose my comment.
But if you don’t know about it, there’s this thing called something like the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Basically it’s an agreement where states that have signed onto it pledge to give their Electors to whoever wins the national popular vote. It’s set to take effect as soon as enough states sign on that they account for the 50%+1 electors to win the college. I’m sure I’m not going to get the number right but I wanna say last I knew they were like 20 something short?
Fun fact: My wife ended up with pretty severe malabsorption after her bariatric surgery. Her vitamin A levels went so low that she had almost entirely lost her night vision. For like 6 years now she’s been taking upwards of 125,000IU per day and only just recently her vitamin A levels have gotten just barely into the normal range.
So what I’m saying is my wife could actually eat an appreciable amount of polar bear liver and be fine.
To my knowledge the only sections of wall he’s built were funded by Trump’s Congress before he left office. Meaning he had little choice but to spend the money on what Congress appropriated it for.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather not live in a world where someone like Trump can just decide he doesn’t want to spend portions of the money Congress appropriated. He could just suddenly decide that the federal government isn’t going to pay like Medicaid or SNAP.
Basically yes that’s my understanding. When Congress appropriates money for something, the Executive Branch is obligated by law to spend that money on what Congress appropriated it for.
As much as I hate the whole border wall thing if Biden just said “Fuck Congress, we’re not doing that” it almost certainly would lead to a world where the next Republican president uses that same idea to essentially end things like Medicaid or SNAP.
Taking the funding of those sections of border wall to SCOTUS would have wasted the Republicans time and resources… How exactly? It would be Biden’s DOJ that would have to prepare some kind of legal rationale to challenge the wall funding. Then even if they came up with a perfect ironclad reasoning SCOTUS isn’t even required to grant it cert to even hear the case.
I utterly fail to see any version of this where it wastes more Republican resources than Democrat ones.
If Biden just does it and waits to get sued rather than going to SCOTUS himself to get them to rule that he can divert the funds it opens up a bunch of problems for everyone. Not only does it still not save Biden and the dems time and resources as they still have to argue the case at every level it goes to and still have to be the ones to appeal it higher if any of the lower courts rule against them. But if they win it could arguably be even worse. Sure we stop the border wall, but what is there to stop a future Republican president from saying “I think Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, Section 8, or other federal social program they don’t like are illegal actually and I’m not releasing the funds for them” and us then needing to sue him into complying?
Moreover, by their own stories not only did God intentionally make that person trans but God likely deliberately did so to test the people interacting with said trans person on if they could love the trans person as required by their faith.
But no. It’s never that because the religious argument is just a post hoc justification for the hate.
HeliBoard keyboard is an improved fork of the now-unmaintained OpenBoard keyboard. It does not require internet permission, allowing it to be used 100% offline....
It appears to be from a personality type thing called Enneagram? It seems to be written in the standard XwY where X is the main type and Y is something called a wing which appears to be a subtype? Not totally sure since I’ve never heard of it before and this is just me attempting to research it.
Israel Threatens 'Severe Consequences' for Nations Who Recognize Palestine (www.commondreams.org)
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. (humanities.ku.dk)
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The number of examples I have seen of people being told to shut up about their lived experiences with sexual abuse in the past 24 hours on this platform is deeply disturbing....
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Tap for contextSome woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random man
Can’t stand it when they do that
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