Akuchimoya

joined 2 years ago
[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago

We barely rejected the right wing nuts, and they could easily take the next election. While relief is warranted, we should not be smug or complacent about it, either. Lies more faster than the truth, it's still an uphill battle for morality and decency.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, this has absolutely been a thought for me. I am not removing accounts, etc. from my phone pre-emptively, but I will uninstall things like Lemmy and remove specific email accounts if we have to land. (I use multiple emails for different reasons, so it won't be terribly suspicious.)

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 4 points 4 weeks ago

Everyone reacts differently to different things. I know someone who's side effects were worse each Covid shot he got. He still got them, because he was taking care of an elderly family member, but he had to started planning to be bedridden himself. He's not antivax, but stopped getting boosters when the family member died because he didn't want to be laid up for a week at a time.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Just booked a flight to south of the US. Even the most direct flight had a layover. I could have saved hundreds of dollars if that layover was in the US. I opted to pay hundreds of dollars more to have the layover in Mexico.

It was partways about Elbows Up, but it was also I'd rather not get arrested and/or detained and/or deported possibly to an El Salvadorian prison. Avoiding the the non-zero chance of that is worth $500.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Did you not see the part directly after that said he started blaming everyone else?

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago

Duolingo got me enough vocabulary in Spanish to put the simplest sentences together, and then follow more robust lessons. I still think it was a good starting point, but I won't use it anymore on principle.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

*Doug Ford. Rob Ford was his younger brother who was the mayor of Toronto, and who has since died.

I'm not convinced Doug would want the job, maybe in the future. Right now he's got a majority in Ontario and can do whatever he wants within provincial preview. He can, and I believe he will, cooperate with Carney and caucus to do what's best for Canada and Ontario in the face of Trump, because that will also be what's best for him, too. Fair's fair, he did a not-bad job during Covid and had a rare moment of cooperating with federal and municipal governments, and it truly made him look like good leader for a while. (He became his normal self after emergency measures were lifted and started blaming everyone else again.)

If he became federal leader now, he couldn't do anything but blow hot air for a while. It's a bigger stage, but lesser power, and it doesn't really do anything to benefit him. Doug is after dollars, but I think he does not like the maple maga and has no interest in dealing with them. Cut them out of the CPC base, they're not likely to win again anytime soon. Or he could just stay premier and have a lot of actual power.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

When Liberals rob everyday people to give to the rich, they do it while smiling at you. When Conservatives rob everyday people to give to the tich, they do it while simultaneously robbing you of rights and yelling slurs at you.

So yes, Liberals are better. It doesn't mean they're the best, or even good, but they are certainly less bad.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So credit card issuers are bad now?

There's too much to keep track of these days.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bloodletting is therapeutic... for some very specific conditions. For example, hemochromatosis, where the body has too much iron, and there has been some preliminary study that blood donations are a way to reduce the amount of PFAS in blood.

But everyone has PFAS in their blood; not every male has (beyond normal) phimosis.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had one interviewer specially say she was committed to getting back to each candidate, no matter the outcome. I expressed genuine appreciation for that, saying that most places just ghost people.

She ghosted me.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

To be fair, I've gotten texts from/for both Liberals and Conservatives.

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