TangledHyphae

Never even crossed my mind because 'Murica and all but now I know when I use my passport to go full crazy mode ripping my bags apart to make sure. One time I checked in at the airport and had a small spring assisted knife in my laptop bag (utility purposes) but didn't want to risk anything so I tossed in the trash before the scanners. Not worth any hassle, bought a new one instead after I got back. Knives and bullets seem like the worst case scenario in that context.

Also drastically improved overall energy levels all day for me.

Between Tai Chi and meditation and yoga and resistance exercise and hiking, and better eating habits to stabilize blood sugar and overall health.. everything is fine. Things are chaotic online, but people in the real world are happy and cordial around me and are living their lives all the same. Another thing that helped was not being chronically online. Looking at Lemmy/Reddit/etc/etc every day is depressing. Turns out tuning out more often increases mental health for me.

Where did you go in the US if I may ask?

All of my UK/EU coworkers that fly here for business meetings always ask me to take them to the ranges here, they LOVE it because they don't get to do it over there nearly as easily apparently. Everyone has a great time.

One guy from Poland wanted to take a spent casing back as a souvenir, but he said they have dogs that detect any gunpowder residue and didn't want to risk going back with it.

Yeah it's unfortunate it takes this much work to filter out the majority of the extremism, but I'm thinking it might be worth it. It took about 6 months to block the worst users on nextdoor but it made my feed infinitely more useful and pleasant, I am guessing the same thing here, time will tell.

You got me really curious so I prompted ChatGPT to give me a redditor style comment that's anti-Trump followed by another far-left redditor's reply to it and this is what it gave me:

Original Comment (Left-Leaning Anti-Trump Perspective):

"It's honestly mind-blowing how Trump still has a cult following after everything. The man was impeached twice, incited an insurrection, and openly grifts his supporters with fake fundraising schemes. And yet, somehow, people still think he's their 'savior.' The cognitive dissonance is off the charts."

Far-Left Redditor Response:

"Because the system is fundamentally broken. Liberals act like voting blue is enough when the entire establishment—from corporate Dems to the GOP—is complicit in maintaining capitalism's stranglehold. Trump is just a symptom of the rot. The real solution isn’t 'vote harder'; it’s dismantling the system that enabled him in the first place."

^ -- this seems to be disturbingly accurate, I can only imagine this being produced at automated scale at this point.

Yep, someone in another sub once said "I hope your plant dies" and their whole account was permbanned for "inciting violence". Against a plant. Hysterical. That site is cooked.

You an elder millennial by chance?

Same, seems like these are all from the 70s/80s/90s era basically.

The irony is that had the previous administration followed what Obama and Clinton and every other previous administration did on the border topic, they would have won in a landslide. But now the corruption of the last few years is being revealed and it'll be interesting to see the fallout over the next few years.

From what I've seen on the reddit right-leaning subs most of them are very against the entire war and sending money/troops at all.