TrickDacy

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Every God awful thing apple does gets copied by Google eventually.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Absolutely yes. I would recommend Firefox to any and every person complaining about chrome. And for times they have to use chrome, there are alternatives that do various amounts of degoogling. Almost certainly one would be able to reinstate copy/paste.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Firefox, one of its forks, or one of the up and coming ones. Or webkit based ones. Or if on apple, safari.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I was fine with Edge until they started cramming more AI features in on a daily basis. Now I use Vivaldi if I have to use chromium based

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Librewolf, Firefox, ironfox, and if I have to, Vivaldi. Fuck Google.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Well because it would be akin to taking away the ability to right click from an operating system. It's been basic functionality for many years and would enrage hundreds of millions of users and drive them to another browser over night.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the recc. I have a feeling I might like it because I've been pretty into Knowledge Fight for a while. If you didn't know about that one, it's a podcast that covers Alex Jones and people in his sphere, including Joe Rogan on occasion.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

That seems to keep happening. Trump was supposed to always be "that guy with that shitty reality show boomers watched" but instead, millions of people wanted that trainwreck to combine with national and global politics. What a great idea that was.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Most people who made it to fifth grade could see how pathetically unscientific and idiotic this fuck is

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah and it's also stupid how short they think everyone's memory is. They say this shit like once a month.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Huh, I'm surprised that other countries aren't big on kitchen gadgets. I'm American and I try to avoid any of those specialty gadgets. I've received several as gifts over the years, though I always end up selling or donating them

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

The wording used here made it exceedingly obvious that it was sarcasm. I'm not sure how or why I would ignore the very sarcastic wording.

 

For me, the only thing that works is spending time with my partner or friends and taking the edge off with cannabis. During the work day, I have felt a lot of despair for a long time. Trump fans and the public's reaction to vaccines and COVID in general lead me to believe that there's just no such thing as peace on a societal level. I'm not sure that ever existed in any way, but I think it used to be incredibly easier to delude yourself into thinking the state of humanity is much better than it is, or at least much better than this.

And I don't think deluding ourselves is even slightly a solution. In fact I think that's a major source of why society is so fucked today. People tuning out and letting shit get worse. Capitalism running wild while most people just shrug their shoulders if forced to address it, but typically never even thinking about it or how things could be better.

We aren't cut out for this shit. The effects of bad news streamed 24/7 like an IV drip has got to be worse for our health than smoking. I suspect I will die 15 years prematurely due to stroke or some other blood pressure related failure.

Another exacerbating factor is vocally negative people. No matter what happens, even if something good happens, there's always someone lurking in comment sections telling everyone how stupid they are if they see anything positive about that news. Some days I really think I need to be a hermit in the woods with no Internet. Because the load of the modern world is just too much to bear.

I've tried therapy and various drugs. Nothing's helped much or for very long. I think about changing careers but that has a lot of risks I'm unsure are worth it. In fact I'm not even sure it would help. Has anyone successfully changed careers and gone from feeling how I describe here to a much healthier state of being? Or have you found anything else that helps? I know hobbies can help, but I'm at the point today where I just have no motivation to get back to mine.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TrickDacy@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

Interview with formerly decorated lawyer under Trump's first term who is now sounding the alarm about lawlessness at the DOJ at direction of Emil Bove.

Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSHMkyM0aE

This feels somewhat significant. Not the first one to serve and later come out against the Trump administration, but every day things seem to escalate further toward absolute authoritarianism and thus it is scarier than ever for whistleblowers to go public.

Thanks @9limmer@lemmy.zip for bringing this to my attention in a comment elsewhere in this community.

 

Nothing scary about this at all.

Update: apparently already backtracked: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-preparing-executive-order-telling-education-secretary-dissolve/story?id=119499614

This might be the normal Trump tactic of floating horrible ideas, so don't be surprised if it comes back later.

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