I prefer to use orders of magnitude to avoid this probkem

do we still have c/cancheck?

I really don't, I hate arguing and it stresses me out, but with comrades I take pains to try and explain why I'm arguing rather than start a shit-flinging fight. Usually I can actually get somewhere with that, not just getting back "nope I see no inconsistency between my repeated shitty, harmful framing and my later professed position on psychedelic therapy, I did absolutely nothing wrong or that could even reasonably be misinterpreted"

"there's technically nothing in the rules that says a dog can't vote"

To me it seems mostly like its just the plain meaning of the words you chose (repeatedly) but

psychological problems people have that are not a result of exploitation should absolutely be treated using therapy

This sentence specifically excludes people whose conditions are a result of exploitation. A condition can be caused by exploitation and still be a health issue (and worth noting, it won't often just go away if the bad working conditions go away).

The issue [...] is using drugs to paper over problems that are a direct result of shitty working conditions.

Again, framing genuine medical treatment as "papering over" is harmful.

When you say in response to this article that "drugging people up shouldn't be used to paper over brutally exploitative working conditions that cause psychological damage." you're implying that what is being done here isn't legitimate treatment and is merely "drugging people up". Which from the article doesn't seem to be the case.

Of course I wouldn't put it past capitalists to push that sort of scheme, but you're framing it as "this is happening" not "this could be happening/would be bad if it did". What is described in the article is just bog standard, physician supervised ketamine therapy, nothing day to day, and nothing during the work day.

FWIW I don't think you necessarily intended for your comments to be taken this way, but several people have now pointed out that they took it that way to you so continuing to argue you didn't say it isn't especially helpful.

I get what you're saying, but you keep wording it in a way that like, implies you think health issues caused by exploitation don't still need to be treated, regardless of their origin. This stuff should be covered for anyone that needs it full stop. AND working conditions need to improve. Unless there's evidence that the medical treatment is actually improper (using much higher than therapeutic doses for example), there's no issue here really (with the covering of novel therapies, specifically)

You can say the increased need for treatment is a sign of damaging exploitative conditions and I'd agree but that isn't what the article is about

the ?si=xxxxxxx is a tracking id btw that they use to map social networks and link sharing.

link without tracking: https://youtu.be/q3_kDiQb7lE

https://www.sevarg.net/2023/12/30/more-flip-phone-sonim-xp3-plus/ This had me interested

they really are downvoting people pointing out his gross shit and defense of pedos

Learned a new word from this one: canalisation

In the first period of re-consolidation of the capitalist regime after the war, the working class was divided by the wages victories and social-political measures through which the Social Democrats canalised the revolutionary movement. . . . The deflection of the revolution into social-political measures corresponded with the transference of the struggle from the factories and the streets into Parliament and Cabinets, that is, with the transformation of the struggle from below into concessions from above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalisation_(genetics) seems to me to be what its referring to, though the river/canal analogy also means more or less the same when applied to politics. Took me a minute of googling and thinking to figure it out and connect it to the concept of capitalist recuperation/co-opting of revolutionary energy and channeling it back into the system.

Edit: I'm dumb definitely is about canals not genetics if it was written in the 30s. Still, love to learn a new word/new context to use existing words

Anyway maybe I'm just pissy

nah you are 1000% correct, medical gatekeeping is fucking bullshit.

also my good friend with PCOS is also trans now that I think about it I was wondering why this post sounded so familiar

Good info. Sounds like OP should take it in for that smog test, considering that's also a prereq for getting state assistance to repair or retire the car

did they tell you what the code was exactly? I'm struggling to figure out what code would be thrown for a minor head gasket leak on a 2003 vehicle... Misfire code would have to be a pretty bad leak, and low coolant idk, seems like a 2003 wouldn't even have a sensor for that, I know cars I've owned didn't. It's possible they're bullshitting you, or that they're telling the truth but the code is unrelated.

Whatever it is, I would bet you could get the code to go away long enough to pass smog, though I'm not very familiar with CA rules. It would eventually get worse though. I would get them to give you the exact trouble codes it threw, or take it someplace else that will read them for free/cheap. Not knowing what those are really changes my answer

As far as doing it yourself: it's a big job but with enough time and tools and patience and shit you probably could. The thing that will drive up the cost/PITA factor even more though, is that if you're doing the head gasket you really should take the head to a machine shop to get milled perfectly flat again, to give it the best possible chance of lasting as long as possible. The last time I did this, I ended up having shot valves in the head that had to be replaced as well (also a suzuki coincidentally), but yours probably aren't that bad.

If you were in the rust belt I'd be telling you to consider throwing in the towel on the car, but in CA its more likely to be worth fixing, as it won't rust out from under you in the next 2-5 years lol.

But I would HEAVILY encourage you to check for yourself what the codes are, get some second opinions, and look for signs of head gasket leaks (coolant in the cylinder will cause it the exhaust to have white smoke, coolant in the oil will make it lighter and more opaque like a milkshake, and probably leave a residue on the oil cap).

Either way I don't think there's much sense in throwing it away until/unless you have to.

Oh, and in addition to the retirement program another commenter mentioned, there is also a program where the state will pay up to $1200 towards an emissions related repair. Its a bureaucratic process and unclear if your repair would qualify but it seems like it would if it caused you to fail smog. I think you'd have to take it for the smog test and have it fail before you could apply for that. link: https://www.bar.ca.gov/consumer/consumer-assistance-program/index#otheroptions

yeah they freaked at the mod who removed one of their shitty comments, opening message called the mod a piece of shit.

emojis are actually built into base lemmy for the past year or two (contributed by a dev affiliated with hexbear, but still), but they don't federate seamlessly and most instances don't use them much, or at all, so app support also seems to be lacking last I saw.

If you're using lemmy.ml on the web not thru an app, you can still try out the emoji picker/autocomplete, it just only has standard unicode emojis. Try typing :a into the comment box or clicking on the little smiley face in the bar above the box!

excellent comment. Anti-tankie leftists would be wise to listen to what is being said by scholars of socialism and history from outside the western liberal/libleft bubble, because many of the things they get angry at us for are simply non-controversial to almost anyone in the world who isn't in that bubble. Even if they don't agree with us on everything, everyone who fights for a better world should be broadly on the same side. (and that isn't the side of Israel, NATO, etc.)

ohhhh I think I misread/interpreted due to the inbox ordering in the screenshots being top=newest. I thought it was an ongoing convo before that. now I see the removed comment that triggered the first message.

edit: changed my mind

Side note: is DM harassment, like, defined? Or is it a "know it when you see it" basis primarily? obviously it's always gonna be case by case to some extent, but the posted screenshots just seem like an ongoing 2 way conversation that got heated. Not my first thought when I hear "DM harassment" personally, though I can see how it might fit

I can't and I won't lol

Its still a smartphone with all the baggage of that, so I'm not personally interested, but that actually seems like a pretty compelling featureset...

• headphone jack
• not enormous
• rear fingerprint reader (the natural place to have it)
• IR blaster
• dual sim or sd card

battery is the weak point really. If they used a weaker SoC and made it just a liiiiitle bit bigger (but still thicc) the battery could probably be a lot better.

good catch, fixed

yeah this, feature phones often have google maps now.

old timey mobster voice He's been shown the door, see?

apolitical people I guess don't think that way. They aren't in the news therefore they don't exist. I should have said as much (or brought up PSL) but I was just holding my tongue trying not to hurt feelings in the process of conveying "yikes, I would not vote for rfk". It was a family gathering of sorts so I didn't want to get too spicy and I genuinely do like this person, didn't realize they were quite that into woo about chemicals (also said aluminum is bad for you and some other stuff that I was like "is it though?")

someone told me last night that they are tempted to vote for RFK because they can't stomach voting for biden and feel RFK is good on things like being against pesticides in food, etc. They were like "I don't like that he's anti-vax buuuut"

I was like you can excuse being anti-vax? We already have one lingering deadly pandemic and it won't be the last. And that one went/continues to go real badly, even with institutions that were not, at least on paper, anti-vax, and were, at the start at least, trying to prevent harm with their limited powers and resources.

Its not like it's going to matter regardless, why vote for someone so deeply flawed?

oh that's all over the US

(also fun fact its effectiveness at all is highly questionable and they literally only put the sensors in nonwhite, overpoliced neighborhoods so no chance of alarms that don't correspond to )

https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16818696/embed Check out a city you're familiar with here.

I still don't fully understand how plan 9 solves these issues if I'm being honest, and I have done some light reading on it. I mean some of the ideas are solid and less of a hack than the stack built on top of linux, but what makes a usable system is critical mass more than anything ig?

:rat-salute:

I have gotten weird vibes off some of these guys so I guess I shouldn't be surprised they're reactionaries

there was an ancient struggle sesh about outdoor cats, basically "its cruel to keep them locked up inside" vs. "they decimate the local environment esp birds" or something. It got legendarily heated

lmao no

I won't elaborate further but suffice to say definitely not

yeah I honestly don't really know what it means so I probably shouldn't have used it as a descriptor.

I just mean software that tries to keep things simple and customizable

I like arch but never ran it on my main computer really. Mostly used KDE with it tho I dabbled in i3 once I keep getting stuck with ubuntu derivatives for "it just works" factor, and for work reasons. I really wanna get into SXMO tho (simple/suckless linux on a phone)

Yeahhhhh

He was wearing a pretty cute pastel colors head wrap thing so I kinda wanted him to not be a chud but

I turn off watch history entirely

It nags you to turn it back on and completely disables the homepage recommended/popular feed but I've grown to like it a lot. I still go through my subscriptions tab to find stuff to watch, and I still get related videos on individual videos that I watch that I can hop to if I want to explore outside that bubble of existing subscriptions. It's like going back to 2014 youtube or whenever they started making the homepage purely algorithmic

I met someone from here IRL. It was slightly awkward but overall chill. Hearing the phrase "hexbear comrade" being said out loud did give me a major pang of something tho, cringe I guess? it was still worth it

dies in office, special election, gets replaced by someone much more ghoulish? Sounds about right to me

Saw a guy yesterday on the bus reading The Second Civil War: Arming for Armageddon by Steve Willis and still trying to decide if he was a nazi or a lib or a comrade. The book seems to be a lib take on the racial tensions of the late 60s but I could be misreading based on summaries. But he was specifically reading the chapter on weapons, was looking a little bit tacticool (nothing overbearing) with his clothing choices, and had yellow/gold patches on his bag that appeared to be cyrillic symbols of some sort, but I didn't get a good look.

He didn't seem like a typical chud but that area has a lot of ukrainian immigrants, so in context I had a little azov alarm bell go off in my head. probably didn't help that his head was shaved.

Mister Kochansky

There are zoomers who weren't even born yet when a lot of those were posted, esp since that's an archive, and his reddit account goes back to at least 2011 (though I bet he had one before that considering the username). There are high schoolers who were born after this man started playing starcraft.