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  • Welcome to the US (Jen Sorensen)

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  • Someone who has gone through US customs please comment if this actually happened to you. I see way too many straw man cartoons, and I hate to see a Ben Garrison of the left.

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    What instruments have the most relaxing timbre to you?

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  • Get me a good Rhodes and I'm in bliss. A good horn section can squeeze a beautiful chord melody. And a bagpipe is what I send to my enemies.

  • What's something you once had a lot of respect for but now have no respect for?

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  • Idk I'm starting to think dystopia began when we figured out agriculture

  • What's something you once had a lot of respect for but now have no respect for?

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  • 🌈.°`E N S H I T I F I C A T I O N'°. 🌈

  • How would you turn Hell into a tourist destination?

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  • You mean New York?

  • Truly delightful

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  • If anyone likes music theory, Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Charles Cornel, and Open Studio Jazz are all amazing.

    I really would love to hear what a non musician thinks about them too. I bet maths heads would love it.

  • 'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History

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  • Brian Klass is a political scientist who recently put out his own philosophy of chaos theory. I think it's a pretty useful tool to look at contemporary movements and really refutes the "it couldn't possibly happen here" message.

    Pre-2011 there was a paper published on why middle eastern dictatorships were so stable. The next year almost all of them fell. Klass argues that the author wasn't wrong, they just were working with the rules and tools we knew at the time, but didn't know the rules had changed with the invention of social media.

    In his perspective, the idea of a "fluke" is not a fluke at all, it's a data point showing that things are changing and changing fast. Things just feel like flukes when our assumptions of the way things work become outdated.

  • 'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court

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  • More like "I already am, but now I won't have to pretend as much"

  • 'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court

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  • I think this might be to make sure the defacto castration of the courts is now written into law

  • 'Trump says 'big bill' should only help GOP states: 'Don't want to benefit Dem governors'

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  • When I say "not my president", it's not me refusing to acknowledge Trump's authority/ being a sovereign citizen. It's me saying he is acting in a deliberately antagonist way. He sees us as the enemy. He isn't leading, in fact he's doing the opposite.

    Here's what's supposed to be normal: even if you don't vote for someone in office, you are still their responsibility. JB Pritzker still has a responsibility to protect Republicans in Illinois. Greg Abbott still has the responsibility to protect democrats in Texas.

  • Which country do you live in and how much paid time off work do you get?

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  • USA, self employed so 0 hours PTO but also don't have to deal with an HR department to take time off.

  • Pros/cons to legalize marijuana in a country

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  • It does make you dumber, and so does alcohol. As we all know, the only drug that makes you smarter is huffing glue pantsless on a unicycle.

    Saw a dude like that in Portland once. He had it all figured out.

  • Pros/cons to legalize marijuana in a country

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  • Pros/cons to legalize marijuana in a country

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  • It's sad to see a lot of the misinformation here that says there are no downsides to weed. In fact, weed has a ton of downsides that need to be considered in how marijuana is handled in a society.

    If you are a visual/ audio learner, here's a well researched video on the downsides of weed, from a source that acknowledges their staffs personal biases lean towards legalization.

    Kurzgesagt, "We Have to Talk About Weed

    Basically, we need to recognize that due to having criminalized weed for so long, we are only now getting the research into the negative effects of weed, but as it's coming out we are seeing how weed is not all sunshine and rainbows.

    THC potency has increased dramatically since the 60s, and that has led to increased risks of paranoia, psychosis, and panic attacks. It also increases the risk of Cannabinoid Hypermesis Syndrome, where ingesting weed will make you vomit, nauseous, and have horrible abdominal pain.

    My roommate just got this and she is not having fun. Her doctor told her this may be a 6 month T-break, but it's also possible this is permanent, and best to avoid weed altogether.

    I also am sad to see "weed is not addictive" being thrown around. Cannabis Use Disorder (weed addiction) is very real and a quick look up says 10% of users become addicted. Personally I consider myself stuck on a habit since I can control my use to keeping it after 8pm, but I still have trouble not getting high daily. I have a friend who is now 100 days sober, but when he had a relapse last year, it ruined his life.

    That's not to say it's bad, I have another friend who needs weed to help him get through the day with his PTSD. We just need to recognize one person's medicine is another person's poison.

    Most all of the major issues with weed tend to show up with people who began smoking in adolescence. I think a reason I'm somewhat I'm control and my other friend is not is that I started smoking at 22 in college, and he started at 16. I imagine if I waited until I was 25 I'd have no problem making it a weekend thing.

    That said

    My experience and the pain many have dealing with the health issues associated to weed are no where near comparable to the damage that criminalized weed has had on marginalized communities as weed has historically been used to target and oppress minorities by our US government. I also agree to the points that having a black market is FAR worse than having legal weed that needs regulation.

    Personally I'm pro-legalization, but I think we need to be careful at how we are messaging weed to the youths and handling the negative consequences, as the myths of weed just being an innocent plant are super harmful.

  • If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?

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  • A) mental health would absolutely improve so I'd have more energy for

    B) producing more shows and putting on more events. Personally I don't want to retire because I want to create a career where if I did retire I'd just do what I was doing anyway. I'm kinda doing that now but I have more BS and stress to deal with.

  • Elon Musk decimated the government and saved almost nothing

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  • I mean I've been told this is the year to fudge on your taxes since the IRS is fucked so I mean maybe there's some silver lining. Frankly Elon isn't as bad as- hold on someone's knocking on my door, I'll be back in a bit.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • Welcome to American politics, when the 2028 election begins in 2024 and the 2028 primary began in 2020.

    I'm so tired.

  • What's your "this wasn't weird until you made it weird" story?

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    I was recently told of the mom fetish where some women get off on treating their partner like their child- making them dinner while they play videogames and such.

    I remember once dating a girl where she did exactly that, straight up to the way she called me sweetie. I honestly didn't think much of it at all, I just thought "hot damn I get to play Zelda, get made an amazing meal, and then get laid!? This is the best deal EVER".

    From my perspective it wasn't weird, she was just very considerate and hot. I don't know if it was her fetish, but just knowing it could be makes me rethink the whole situation.

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    What's your "this wasn't weird until you made it weird" story?

  • Poll Has AOC Leading Schumer by Nearly 20 Points in 2028 New York Primary

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  • My hope is that more "quiet Democrats" get primary'd. Usually they would say "don't primary me, you'll risk losing us to the Republican candidate in the general and we have a moderate agenda that's the lesser evil".

    Right now they don't have an agenda at all, no rudder, no direction. This is the time to primary tf out of the old Dems.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Do you identify with your country of origin/ citizenship or with another subregion? Why?

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    Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How old were you when your dad gave you "the talk"?

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    I think I figured out what was up with my cat

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What food and or drink will you eat when you are senile and forget you already had it the meal before?

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    Halp

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    People who gave up on "the dream", do you regret it? How are you?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the most irresponsible purchase you made that you don't regret?

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    Harry Potter and the Nuclear launch codes

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    Tinder and Bumble kinda suck tbh.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your plan if Trump wins in November?

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    Pls eat me UwU

  • HistoryMemes @lemmy.ml
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    John Calvin is the reason for 90% of my mental health problems