Sasha

joined 2 years ago
[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

The comparison with the Sydney Metro is silly, they're extremely different projects. Melbourne's metro tunnel isn't a metro, it's a badly named but very welcome change to make some suburban lines through running.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

The fossil fuel industry doesn't pay enough in taxes for it to be worth it tbh, it's just making a handful of very rich people even more so...

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Uhhh the history of how Labour introduced neoliberal anarchy to Australia and then made it queer???

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

None in particular, I want my US friends to be able to escape persecution and be here where they're safe

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

It's always going to be a personal preference kind of thing. Personally I don't really care much about "passing" and I'm usually completely okay being outwardly trans, unless it's being used to harass/bully.

I had a weird experience the other day when getting an ultrasound where I told the tech I was obviously on HRT which she immediately denied. I get she was trying to be supportive, but it kinda just made me feel worse because of how awkward it was lol.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

I love this stuff, I always put it on my face. It's just enough to stop feeling like my skin is as dry as paper and it's not oily, it feels more watery than anything. I switched to it years ago, use it after every shower and now my skin is so nice, presumably just because I'm not leaving my face all dried out, I doubt there's anything special about this stuff.

That said, I do also use a very gentle sorbolene body wash and hand soap because my skin was too fragile for normal soap. If I don't, I tend to get lots of sores on my fingers.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

A favourite phrase of mine that comes up in so many different areas of life is: "soft on people, hard on structures." Individuals tend to be pretty good, genuine and caring people.

It's much like how an atheist might be a great person, but the new atheist movement became a festering cesspool of anti-feminist right wing bigotry. Having a religion doesn't change much really, shit people are universal.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm having too good of a day to argue about this so believe what you will, it's no skin off my back. But I'll say that being poor is not the same thing as being crushed by external forces, I never mentioned anything about anarchy making people rich. Anyway, wealth is literally a meaningless metric to those of us who don't want or believe in money.

The case of the Spanish collectives is a lot more nuanced than that. Regardless, acting as if being disorganised is a result of anarchism is just silly.

Like I said believe what you want but again, there's no reason anarchy is any less susceptible to external forces than anything else. It's just about structuring society and giving a shit about people.

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's my HRT birthday today, two years now and it's really sunny and warm. It's a nice day :3

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand why people think this is the case, anarchy doesn't mean we let shit people do shit things. We still fight back, we still kick them out of our communities and we still protect one another. Real world anarchy has a pretty strong history of fighting back and keeping itself safe, the Zapatista still exist, the Spanish anarchists basically just lost a war and that's not exactly a problem unique to anarchism...

It's no more vulnerable than other societal structures, it's significantly less so given the way that corruption is much much hard to get away with given that individual people can't hold positions of power, only positions of responsibility which may be taken from them at any moment.

It's not it "would work if," it does work.

 

This is Max, my brother's greyhound (hey bro if you're reading this). He was keeping me company today while I took some time to relax and recover from recent traumatic stuff, he's the goodest boy like that.

Not pictured are the two miniature poms who cuddled with me today as well.

 

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
 

I basically listen to music constantly, and when I'm on holiday or riding my bike I generally use USB-C earbuds. I've had way too many wireless buds break and I'm sick of them, but these aren't fairing much better tbh.

Problem is that the cables always eventually stop working, often from my phone being in my pocket while I'm walking or cycling. I've been able to partly extend their life by keeping my phone in the thigh pocket on my cargo pants but it often just falls over and bends the cable more sharply than my hip pocket.

I'm looking for either a pair of highly durable earbuds either USB-C or 3.5mm with a USB-C DAC recommendation, or even better a DSP cable that I could use with IEMs with a 0.78mm connector.

I'm also open to any other suggestions at all.

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