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Cake day: October 15th, 2024
  • belastend@slrpnk.nettoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    2 days ago

    I had a friend who believed in that. She tried to explain to my then GF how her having a symmetrical face means she’s definitely a Libra.

    Now, I loved her to bits but my ex-partner did not have a symmetrical face. Few people have. But apparently the way stars aligned on her birthday meant she must have one, so that friend insisted on it.

    This isn’t reason or just a different jargon. This is woo-woo. Sitting down everyday, trying to manifest a leading role in a famous TV show but doing nothing else to get this because “manifestation will do its thing” isn’t jargon.

    That friend was someone I got along with. Because she did not try to convince me that vaccines are evil and instead I should just do a spirit cleanse. Like others tried to. This “jargon” is accompanied by fundamentally different ideas about how and why things happen and can lead to anti-scientism.

    Lastly, yes, I consider sound healing bogus. The idea that frequencies alone can heal serious injuries is dumb. The difference between acknowledging that vibrations picked up by the brain can assist in a healing process and the idea that this can somehow replace any other treatment is fundamentally unreasonable.

  • belastend@slrpnk.nettoGaming@lemmy.world•My basement wasn't always so clean I admit. Bad habits can be broken.English
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    5 days ago

    Two tips, worked for me, your mileage may vary: Do it little by little. I joined a “Clean the Goblin Horde challenge” which looked a bit like this: Every day:

    • choose a spot, clean it for 10 min. Just take whatever is lying around on the spot, find a new place for it or throw it away. If nothing is lying around on that spot, use a brush to clean up dust, then wipe with something wet, then dry it.

    • Clean up the kitchen. Wash your dirty dishes, put away food containers.

    • for God’s sake, open your windows. Just create a draft for 5 min, then close them.

    • Every 3 days: Wipe down your bathroom sink and your toilet. Takes 5 min and prevents it from getting really nasty.

    • Every 6 days: Do a quick round of vacuuming the main living rooms.

    • Once a month: Change your bedsheets. Trust me.

    1. Do things in between doing something bigger. I don’t know what you do for a living, but when you come home and watch a show or smth, get up between episodes or vids, and pick up clothes for like 5 mins and then get back to your leisure activities.

    Bonus: reward yourself. You’ve cleaned something up, good for you, do something you like.

  • belastend@slrpnk.nettoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•¡Olé!
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    7 days ago

    No problem dude, I am the exact opposite and believe me, it definitely sucks xD I can write on a B2 university Level, but talking in Spanish? Nah, I am shitting myself the moment someone deviates from the exact conversation plan I laid out in advance.

    And as long as you know the difference in pronunciation, the squiggles really don’t matter.

  • belastend@slrpnk.nettoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source
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    16 days ago

    A trade deficit is never exploitation. Lets pretend it is!

    All of the stats Trump put up weren’t tariffs, they were a percentage of much less they would have to import in Goods from a certain country to make for the trade deficit with said country in Goods.

    Not a single stat on that sheet looked at the trade in services. America always had a service trade surplus.

    If we combine the two, a lot of countries that seem to “”““exploit””" the US are suddenly exploited by the US.

    But lets go even further: The countries receiving the highest tariffs are Vietnam and Lesotho, becuase the US has the highest deficit in Goods with these countries. Because both countries are too fucking poor to buy american products. A worker in Lesotho, providing diamonds for the US market, would have to invest about 20 years of wagest to buy the cheapest american import car. How the fuck should these countries reduce their deficit?

    Okay, but still, we assume that a deficit is somehow exploitation. Trump has said that the tariffs are going to do two things, namely bringing back American Industry and forcing trade partner to drop “barriers and tariffs” (i.e. safety regulations).

    For a tariff to do the former, it has to stay until the relevant factories have been built in America and have also paid themselves off. For a tariff to the latter, the possibility of it being removed once the partner comploes has to be on the table. A tariff can’t do both.

    But hey, don’t believe me. Read the paper the White House cited in their Announcement of the Tariffs.