Propublica’s investigaion found more than 170 us citizens have been detained by ice

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

This is informative, and unfortunate.

I will be honest, I don’t really expect louis will wade into this issue at all, since he seems to be very uncomfortable with any of the “political” or partisan aspects of the issues he covers.

I can empathize with why one might be that way, but I hope I’m wrong, it would be rather disappointing.

Maybe it’s time for me to open some feature requests on the helicopter repo for futo keyboard features I’d really miss if I left it behind… It’d be good for both projects to be feature rich and competitive anyway.

I mean if it’s mostly one poster it might also be viable to block one or two people. I can understand just deciding this isn’t the space for you

If I remember right there’s also !tonightsdinner@lemmy.world, but I don’t remember if it’s very active at all

I mean it’s cool to see pretty vegan food and all but honestly I kinda wish we didn’t just post random hyper-photogenic stuff from other social media here…

It feels kinda cheap and hollow to me, vs people posting stuff they made, or had at a restaurant

I don’t really wanna see random junk that trends on Instagram, there’s no human connection there…

This has delighted or horrified all my friends, thank you ❤️

Stay safe, things aren’t exactly great here

I’d say maybe icecream? There are some really good classic creameries here, but I don’t really know whether locally made freshly churned icecream is also a thing in lots of other places 🤷‍♂️ NC state near me (a university) makes amazing icecream with their agriculture department

Most things that come to mind are food, and will depend on where you are. Here in NC pulled pork bbq would be a must (with regional variations in the style of sauce), just gotta find one of the good places that do it well. I’d try and learn a little about the food culture of where you’re headed and see what sounds interesting if food stuff beyond snacks interests you

Yeah, I mostly just meant in terms of how much I directly relate with the perspectives of the protesters, it seemed at the time of my comment like most of the commenters looked at things somewhat differently to them (which is fine)

I do think you might really be underestimating how deeply addictive tech can be for many people. For people who grew up on platforms like facebook, Instagram, and twitter, and spent enough time there before reflecting on that pattern, those deeply engrained habits can be difficult to shake to the extent of causing not insignificant anxiety

I had social anxiety as a kid (still do) and so used those platforms almost none because they stressed me out (until I joined reddit in highschool), and even I really struggle with some amount of technology addiction I’m working really hard to replace with better patterns.

I pick my phone up and check all the apps for no reason. I feel a bit anxious if my phone isn’t near by. I run out of time in one app I have a time limit set for and immediately jump to another one. I feel a bit stressed when I have to put it down. Not intensely so, but the more I pay attention the more I can tell it’s there and see how it’s molded my behavioral patterns over time.

I have pretty good solutions to those problems, and think I’m making decent progress, but technology absolutely 1000% has warped my life to be about it. With me often serving it rather than it serving me. I can only imagine how difficult it might be for folks who spent lots of time on those platforms, and are less inclined to tinker with their tech and play with open source stuff, and take alternative technological routes

There were kids in it…? Christ :(

I might be one of the few in this thread who really empathizes with the perspectives of the protesters here

I’m not in a position to cut tech out of my life, but for people who are and dont need or depend on it for something important, it may do a lot of harm for little benefit.

But whether there’s important benefit will vary from person to person. I have a very isolating sleep disorder, and the internet allows me a little bit more connection than I would get otherwise. And home automation helps shoulder some of the load of managing environmental variables that impact my sleep. And there are also technological things that bring me joy.

But not everyone is in a position where their only connection to others is through the internet (if you’re queer in a small town, maybe it is, if you’re queer in a big city or you’re straight that probably isn’t an issue)

There are ofcourse benefits to technology, some of which you can better access through FOSS software, or community projects, or self hosting. But not everyone needs those things, and even those things can have harmful downsides. I think the hyper convenience that much of tech provides is not exactly great for us. Even the fediverse platforms can be addicting, can prioritize stuff that makes you angry, etc, because they copy the underlying design of proprietary social media (even without recommendation algorithms). I struggle to manage how much time I spend engaging with these platforms. Not as much as with reddit, but I still do, and am now creating structure around engaging more in moderation.

I don’t love creating e-waste though. I get that it’s symbolic, I still think it’s wasteful and has no meaningful upsides. It feels deeply privileged to not grasp how that could be a lifeline for poor people who need a way to connect, keep up with work, handle digital tasks like banking and telemedicine, etc, and to smash it on the ground instead of donating it to someone who couldn’t afford a reliable device.

Yay, glad it was a helpful suggestion! ☺️

Hope you have a lovely day!

I don’t know if it’d be the best solution, but if you’re not aware of the ones you can read from above, looking down into them, they might be an option worth considering :)

I hope you find something that works well for you! ☺️

Joy in solidarity and resistance is so important, it gives us the energy to keep fighting and encourages more people to get involved more than preaching importance ever could

There was an article a while back that talked about how humor was key to the rejection of fascism and that was a huge part of why

Joy in solidarity and resistance is so important, it gives us the energy to keep fighting and encourages more people to get involved more than preaching importance ever could

There was an article a while back that talked about how humor was key to the rejection of fascism and that was a huge part of why

Interesting, I think I follow all of that. Thank you very much for explaining

Gotcha, thank you very much for filling me in, I really appreciate it!

I do think there’s value in ensuring everything low level is open source, but at least with linux phones none of the higher level stuff is really in a good state yet 😅

Its nice to hear this will be an improvement to custom ROMs. Though the future of custom ROMs is feeling a little shaky with the stuff Google has announcing lately 🥲

Is this just an effort to replace binary blobs, or to actually support usable Linux phones or custom roms…? Are those kinda the same thing in this case?

If it’s the latter this might be the first thing the FSF is actually doing during my time with foss that I’m excited about.

If it’s just that they hate binary blobs, that’s great and all but I do kinda wish they’d focus on stuff that has a way bigger user impact 😅 I think they got really hung up on binary blobs with libreboot or whatever it was also

The simple black and white looks lovely!

I mean, you don’t usually need someone’s standard order for healthy places, only for places where you might be grabbing food to take home without them being there with you- like gas stations and fast food places

And you can eat like shit and not be overweight. I eat absolute garbage most of the time and I’m 115lbs, and trying my best to put on more weight 😅

Sorry for the essay lol:

My dad was a workaholic and really only made much time for church, scouts, and Netflix nights with my brother and I when I was little, and my mom doesn’t like and isn’t particularly good at cooking (with a couple exceptions for certain dishes) plus she also worked full time, and as a kid I had an undiagnosed eating disorder that made me picky and food averse to a point of being a health risk (I was 5th percentile in weight at various points)

When we ate at home I ate very poorly because neither of them were great at cooking, so with both my parents being busy and wanting me to eat well, we ate out a ton, often tex-mex, cause that’s what I’d consistently eat a reasonable amount of and we all liked it (my brother would happily eat just about anything lol).

We ate SO much moes lol. The people there all knew us, the manager was a sweetheart and would come chat with us at our table. My dad really liked shouting “welcome to moes!!!” With them when we walked through the door, and if they forgot or were quiet or whatever he’d give them a hard time about it lol. And then ask them for a veritable mountain of cilantro on his burrito 😅

Food just wasn’t a huge part of my family life as a kid. My dad has gotten into grilling now that I’m an adult and makes amazing pulled pork, and his wife loves cooking. My mom is starting to get interested in cooking as she’s now dating someone who for the first time (after my dad) doesn’t cook as a huge pastime/hobby (her last couple boyfriends loved cooking and always wanted to cook for her). She recently even asked if she could borrow my copy of Salt Fat Acid Heat.

But as a kid, cooking and eating was a thing we needed to do but not a big shared experience that brought the family together. Especially once my parents separated when I was in middle-school- they were kinda dealing with their own shit and more or less just left my brother and I to figure out food for ourselves a lot of the time

But that’s when I started learning how to cook myself, which ended up being the single biggest thing I could do to manage and work on my eating disorder, so it ultimately worked out okay :)

Food is much more relevant now to disparate members of my family, but it’s individual interests now moreso than a shared family thing outside of holidays.

Hope this explains what I mean :)

Honestly this probably kinda describes my family, depending on how you interpret it.

My brother and I, and my dad’s wife are all really into cooking now though