abrinael

joined 8 months ago
[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Undermining it is how conservative parties will get rid of it. Keep decreasing funding. Do more with less. Quality drops. Wealthier people start moving to health insurance. Jobs start offering health insurance. Funding decreases further. People start to wonder why it’s even needed.

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The post you responded to was responding to someone that got in trouble for using a pay phone to call home when school was canceled.

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Hey, speak for yourself! Some of us take communion…

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It’s too bad the websites that do this don’t have to put a label on it in the U.S. Something like “Not for consumption in the E.U.” to make people wonder what’s going on.

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 79 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I have MAGA family members and it’s not just 1+1=5. It’s a word-vomit tsunami of absolute bullshit. And if you convince them that point 1/367 is not factual, they won’t accept that it disqualifies anything else (including the idea that he never tells lies), and you will have to re-prove that point 1/367 is not factual a few weeks later. It’s exhausting, and I’m fairly sure that is the point (and I’m fairly sure this is also an actual Russian propaganda technique called a “firehose of falsehoods”, regardless of whether it’s being used in that context).

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I’m in that age group. Kids had vhs and magazines. IMO the faces of death vhs going around was more scarring than any porn.

[–] abrinael@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Nah. I’m in that age group. The kids around me had magazines and vhs. By the early-mid 90’s there was digital porn.

Sometime around 92 (I was leaving my tweens) my mom gave me a stack of magazines (pretty sure she thought I was gay or something). No sex talk. Just hey, have this stack of magazines (I refused out of embarrassment).