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wavebeam

@ wavebeam @lemmy.world

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  • Seneca Village

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  • Stupid question, but I’ve been to NYC many times and I’ve always considered Central Park to be one of the only enjoyable parts of the city… am I allowed to enjoy it if it was taken this way?

  • “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

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  • I've been saying for a long time that IG is cigarettes

  • My wife came out as gay last night

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  • This guy is recommending you a book written by Jordan Peterson, OP. I would disregard this comment and the advice linked in it.

  • Sanders says ‘not another penny’ for ICE until Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller are gone

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  • Oh fuck. Is Ron Wyden actually shitty?

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • 32 percent hot is water freezing tho? Idk… 1/3 hot seems like not the right amount for water freezing.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • When I’m running tho, 50 degrees is a medium amount of hot.

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • X is for Nazis, you're right. I actually deleted Facebook in like 2010 and Twitter in 2019 or something; long before Elon bought it. It was already becoming a drain on my mental health thanks to Trump. honestly, it's crazy i kept using it much after 2015.

  • Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

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  • Okay Raiden

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • Delete Facebook and twitter

  • Bondi letter to Walz requests access to Minnesota voting and welfare records, repeal of 'sanctuary' policies

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  • “Illegally provide us with information that isn’t ours, change your laws to our preference, and we’ll stop murdering your people” sure is an innocent and not at all fascist statement to make.

  • White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance

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  • I do want to do this in the west coast alliance. Since we pay directly to the federal government as citizens, the states would need to band together and ensure that they would protect us from federal crimes to allow us to withhold our taxes. I’d even be okay with them setting up a sort of “escrow” where we pay our federal taxes to the states in the name of that protection, and then either get a refund once we leave the union, or to be used for cascadia’s new military. After that, our federal taxes can be reduced and/or reallocated to the new state services.

  • I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.

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  • can't believe you'd pirate a pizza box like this. how will Tony ever recover from this?

  • US boy, 11, allegedly shoots father to death after Nintendo Switch taken away

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  • Sorry I forgot to respond on this! I'm in Oregon. It may be a progressive state on the map and when you think of the general vibe of Portland, but our government is pretty behind in basically any category you can think of. The mental healthcare supports for children in this state is... poor.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • I’ve messed around with Linux for a long time, but daily driver? It’s only really been the last year or so and I gotta say, it kicks ass. Windows can lick my balls. macOS is definitely better than Windows, but Apple has been also letting the influence of ads and services revenue enshittify their OSes. I also don’t love the tighter controls around app installation.

    Since we’re talking about a degradation of freedom around app installs, android is on the same path as macOS in that regard and it’s stupid. Both on an individual basis, and for enterprise. You can’t seriously expect enterprises to use the google play for enterprise system, right? Come on.

    Anyway. I’ve been using Bazzite for a while, and I just got a new powerhouse of a desktop thanks to my position at work, and I decided to go cachyOS. It’s a little bit inconvenient not hating a convenient App Store, but I knew that was how it worked and decided I wanted to lean into the Linux experience of using pacman in CLI for app installs. It’s not been hard at all actually.

    Oh, and thanks to Steam Deck, I really just got stuck with KDE Plasma for a DE. I like it. It’s a little bit windows-y, but tbh I’m not all that picky.

  • The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI

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  • This is a pretty uninformed take, and maybe entirely influenced by the intentional marketing/PR image they crafted, but I get the impression that Anthropocene was more of a “building a practical tool with this technology, and iterating on that practicality” and less “this will be digital god” sort of company. Maybe ther value wouldn’t crater as much since they’ve been selling as a reasonably practical corporate tool than a magical profit box?

  • Trump’s a T-Rex and ‘pathetic’ leaders need to confront him, rages California’s Newsom

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  • you can be a shitty person and leader and still say correct things

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  • Most definitely, but I think in general people underestimate the challenges they can find in adoption. Those kids deserve loving families, it’s just something I know people I personally know who have expressed interest in adopting would not be able to handle.

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  • This is what my wife and I did. I think it is a good thing to do, but if you look at my comment history just one comment down from this, you'll see good reason for what I'm about to say:

    Not everyone should do this. It is extremely challenging, and its not something I think most people can take on successfully. Unfortunately, the fact that a kid is in a situation to be adopted means they have been severely impacted by trauma, which means that they will be considerably harder to parent than a kid you have biologically.

    It is not for the faint of heart. Hell, its not even for those of a strong constitution. I have been nearly broken many times, and I've only been parenting my kids for 5 years. I have wanted to quit countless times.

  • US boy, 11, allegedly shoots father to death after Nintendo Switch taken away

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  • My daughter has "reactive attachment disorder" and she can behave like this. She is adopted from a rough first few years of life and being in the foster system for a while before we took her and her older brother in.

    Like you said below, as she gets older she is getting better at controlling impulses, but not 100% and so when she does get upset she is stronger and more dangerous. 2024-2025 school year was super rough for us. She went to the ER many times, as it was the only support we could utilize for the kind of violence she was exhibiting, and eventually we were able to get her into a child psych unit for a few weeks and then into residential treatment. It was tough; we had to push back on very judgemental hospital staff, drive am hour one-way for weeks to visit her in residential, call the governor's ombudsmen, and just generally do a ton of work to get her the help she needed.

    At one point, the psych unit's family coordinator, who's job was basically to convince us to bring her back home after a week of them basically only sedating her asked if we were ready to bring her back home. And when we told her that we weren't because we expected her to rapidly move back to violent behaviors, she insisted we were going to have to, so I asked "and what if we don't?" She threatened to call DHS. So I leaned into the camera and said "great, let's do that then". I believe this to be the only reason we got a successful referral to residential treatment.

    All of this was necessary treatment for my daughter. She is doing much better now. She has an IEP, which has placed her in an "emotional support classroom" and is on some good meds that are definitely helping. That said, she is still exhibiting violent behaviors from time to time. The trend is moving in the right direction, but she still has rough days.

    So anyway, I encourage you to seek help with this. It can be VERY HARD. You may be forced to make tough decisions and push back against people who are very judgemental and even making scary threats about you being an abusive or neglectful parent. They do not know your child. They do not know you. They do not know your home life. You must do what is right to being peace and safety to your home, even with these challenges. Good luck. Please feel free to reach out with questions or a non-judgemental ear to bounce off of.

  • GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $400,000

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