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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•This is how I'm explaining my forgetfulness from now onEnglish
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    4 days ago
    I was haunting that ghost last night.

    She was a serial killer when she was alive and a memory feeder in her afterlife.

    To stop her, I had to destroy her trophies, but each time I projected to one of her victim’s bodies I had to work quickly, because she would show up immediately when I touched a trophy and begin darting through me repeatedly, erasing parts of me.

    At the last body I couldn’t remember my name, or anything at all, just the task. And she was already there, frantic and weeping.

    I wasted no time destroying the last of her trophies and made my escape. Bud she grabbed me, somehow, as I vanished. She embraced me, cohabiting my projection, and I instantly knew her story, and understood why she killed all those people.

    But I woke myself shouting the deprojection command. My cat, startled, just blinked at me. My body and memories were intact. It was just a weird dream.

    My eyes felt hot, though, as if I had been weeping.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How'd you argue against a person who says rich people are needed to provide jobs to the poor?
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    14 days ago

    Ask if by rich people they mean funding?

    If no: ask them to discuss functions uniquely fulfilled by rich people in the allocation of funding. They will likely need time to reflect, so plan to resume later, but the best answer is expediency/dispatch via unitary agency, and it’s easy to demonstrate why this advantage (A) is outweighed by numerous liabilities via human fallibility and (B) isn’t actually unique.

    If yes: they have already conceded, but you might then shift to the question: must there be people who are poor?

    That is a meatier conversation, since it challenges their assumption that people require imminent threat of destitution to motivate productivity. You can brute force this argument via strong scientific consensus, but for most you need only rely on their belief in human dignity. Just be aware that the most difficult branches of this conversational pathway are exceptions they might have carved out: groups for whom they hesitate to ascribe human dignity. But the revelation of such bigotry is important for their own personal reflection.

    GL

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtopolitics @lemmy.world•Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
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    15 days ago

    And yet, as with any disease, outlook depends on many factors. The number of cells in the immune system that recognize an infection, for example, can radically alter its progression.

    A sudden widespread immune response may be all that can save the organism following an initial exposure, but often a more targeted, adaptive, and coordinated immune response is possible later. It mostly depends on how much of the body recognizes the infection and does its part to block its spread.

    This judge had a particularly crucial part and played it to a Th.

    It takes a hell of a lot more courage to hold the line with your comrades, like this judge did by laying the groundwork needed for their future victory, than it does to

    1. abandon them because “waving signs and impotent chanting never made a difference,”
    2. take long looks in your mirror to “ask yourself how far you’re willing to go” because “no one is going to save you,”
    3. tell all the comrades currently fighting for your rights that they “should leave” if they’re not willing to be more “outwardly aggressive,” or
    4. otherwise pose for all the other terrified edge lords on here who dismiss activists, predict defeat, lionize fascists, and imply that they’re prepping to do what’s actually necessary to “fix this.”