FoxyFerengi

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[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (26 children)

The & symbol they wrote looks like a three I guess. It's saying that "two Black men were lynched &..."

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not here to downplay those problems in China. They are serious. But, that's not the government saying they don't care about children, it's saying that they have their own racist and bigoted political problems.

And, if you've paid any attention, the US is doing really similar things and has been for a long time. We made some progress with the Civil rights movement, but we still have Black people arrested at 2x the rate of white, 37% of the prison pop is Black while they only represent 13% of the general pop. The education system has all but erased the cultural roots of Black Americans, and God forbid a Black teen uses slang to communicate. Most of the sectioning off of voting areas in the US is to minimize their and other minority's voting power. For now it's still legal to say "Hey this influencer really made life bad for me, and I'm okay with him being dead", but it may not remain legal for long. EPA regulations are being dissolved, but the biggest problems will affect traditionally/forced Black neighborhoods.

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Where are you getting the idea that the government in China doesn't care about their children?

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Hey man, you're the one that brought up rules. But while we're talking about international rules, gene editing of embryos and their descendants is legal in the US if it's privately funded. And it's not illegal internationally to do so

Also, I'd be less worried about CRISPR specifically for this use, because it's not always accurate, is limited in what it can actually do, and there are better gene editing tools now

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

But our side has rules, you assume they play by the rules.

China academia has the same problem that US academia has: publish or perish.

And seriously, you can't say something like that and ignore all the BS the US government has been pulling internationally for decades. Trump murdered 14 random people on boats that weren't even in US territory, and seemingly no one on the international stage gives a shit

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

What if I want them to use my spam??

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The original singer of BNL left for mental health reasons, and imo the band never recovered.

But also, I agree with you xD

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

Ooh, oh my gosh that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for the tip ^^

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Those look so good! What kind of air fryer do you have? I don't know if I keep buying ones that don't circulate air well enough or if it's something else, but between the two I've owned I haven't gotten a nice crisp on anything

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I served during a war, but I'm not a combat veteran.

I think putting the focus on being a combat veteran to "earn" disability benefits is unfortunate, because there are things that can disable you even if you aren't at war. I know a lot of people who have broken their backs during routine maintenance, some who lost hearing to insufficient hearing protection on a flight line, a few who lost limbs to snapping arresting wires, some who have had debilitating reproductive cancer at very young ages because of the chemicals we were exposed to.

But I know far more veterans who are like me and weren't kept safe from their fellow soldiers/airmen/shipmates. I don't know if it's different now, but it was really common to just admin separate people who suffered what I did and not provide medical care. My command went so far as to tell me I was not a veteran and not to seek medical care or benefits when they gave me my discharge paperwork. They said that with straight faces, looking at me with my broken face and skull, bruised and sliced body, and barely able to stay awake because my brain was damaged.

Over 10% of female veterans have experienced what I did, 40% have experienced harassment, and about 5% of men also have the same kind of PTSD that comes from sexual trauma. Regardless of combat deployment status. That really points to an institutional problem with the military. So please, point at the commands when you want to take money away, instead of the people who are using the socialized Healthcare we signed contracts for in event of disability during service

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_War

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My understanding is that there were people she knew personally involved, like other rescues as you said, and they spread the harassment through reddit/TikTok. But, we all know how insane reddit can be when there's a "cause". It got intense quickly

[–] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Suicide after a vicious bullying/harassment campaign on reddit. I think some of the criticisms of her rescue are valid, but should not have risen to the level of harassment and bullying that the snark community engaged in

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