twig

joined 8 months ago
[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

Well that's too bad

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of people apply, but since co-op, market rate and non profit housing initiatives make up such a small portion of available housing in proportion to a population, it's very hard to access.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I used to be kind of low level anti-pharmaceuticals. Nothing too dramatic (never antivax), but definitely quietly on the side of other forms of interventions of any kind being preferable over drugs.

I still acknowledge that in many instances other interventions can be better, but in a lot of cases a pharmaceutical intervention is the quickest, most effective and safest way for people to deal with whatever health or mental health conditions they have. And also lots of drugs are perfectly safe over the long term.

I think I was raised with a lot of ideas around purity, but when I came out as trans is when that started to change in a big way.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

I would assume that it operates in much the same way that other forms of addiction do.

Mental illness, personality disorders, insecure attachments, trauma, social isolation and specific genetic factors are the usual suspects as far as predicting addiction go. I don't suspect that social media addiction is much different.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and that is clearly the reason he purchased the platform.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Possible translation: "Let the wealthiest among us consolidate even more wealth while we wreck shit for the rest of you. We'd like to have complete control over you rubes while shit gets worse."

ETA: This is exactly the same rhetoric that oil and gas companies (and the politicians who've effectively been bought out by them) have used to justify further expansion well after knowing the danger that this poses.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

I really resent the framing of organized bigotry as "activism."

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this just him saying he wants to reinstate DADT, but with extra steps?

The US military has specifically benefited from diversity and inclusivity programs in recent years. The actual size of the US military force is comparatively smaller than in the past, and being more inclusive has benefited the institution in the concrete way of just having a larger number of potential enlistees to pull from.

I'm all for reducing the size of the US military, but to be clear that's the only effect this will have.

[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Bug bounties refer to specific programs that companies put in place to essentially reward white hat hackers for doing freelance offensive security audits.

I get what you're trying to say, but you're specifically referring to black hat hackers. Referencing bug bounties is muddying your meaning.

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