Akuchimoya

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[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is basically how we ended up with the burqa. A woman's body is evil because it makes men unable to control their sexual urges, therefore women must be banned. Now, in Afghanistan, a woman's voice must not even be heard.

How long until the USA reaches that point?

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

Heck, people are being arrested just for being in the US, even those who were there by legal means. Even citizens aren't safe if they're not even checking who they're arresting before, during, and after the arrest.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 6 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 9 points 2 months 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 8 points 3 months 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 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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 6 points 3 months ago

I'd imagine he thinks that other evil rich people and sycophants whose immoral compasses are aligned are his friends, but in reality they're around because it benefits them (or they think it does), and they'd stab him in the back as soon as it benefits them. (It's just that so far it hasn't benefited their morally corrupt causes yet.) So people like the deceased Epstein, and Canadian traitors Kevin O'Leary and Gretzky. AB Premier Danielle Smith wouldn't even be an afterthought of a "friend" in this context, but she's trying so desperately hard to be accepted, it's pathetic.

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

Yes, we do eventually find out what G stands for.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago

As bad as American prisons are, they are not on the scale as being deported (is that even the right word in this case?) to what amounts to a concentration camp in a foreign country without any process.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Firefly and Pushing Daisies are staples in these conversations, so I'll throw in a less common one: NCIS LA.

I watched that show for over a decade. It was something predictable and comfortable. The show ending was like losing my favourite hoodie I've had for 14 years. Does it really impact my life? No. Do I miss it nonetheless? Yes.

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