honestly, it reads more like the man with the rifle pointed into a crowd and started advancing towards them. literally protecting others is not larper behavior. a larper would incorrectly identify the time and place, but it's not as though the shooting here was unjustified; an immediate threat to multiple lives was present. now, should the peacekeeper be the one to hold a gun? it doesn't seem like it. i am confused as to why they are not being pursued for charges but whatever, the system doesn't make sense to me anyway.
people were easily swayed by Facebook posts to support and further a genocide in Myanmar. a sophisticated chatbot that mimics human intelligence and agency is going to do untold damage to the world. ChatGPT is predictive text. Period. Every time. It is not suddenly gaining sentience or awareness or breaking through the Matrix. people are going to listen to these LLMs because they present its information as accurate regardless of the warning saying it could not be. this shit is so worrying.
they will never see it this way because they struggle to make connections of what's happening now to what will be happening in the future. right now they are suffering financially and making poverty wages for their labor. it's a dog eat dog world out there and these people become vicious and learn to play the game of capitalism, and whatever the repercussions are down the line, well, that's a problem for the future, they gotta focus on the now. so even if they are an inevitable target of the system, they aren't right now, so.. who cares?
i'd agree but if you read into how they discovered Hortman and her spouse it's because police were sent to the house of Sen. Hoffman and when they arrived they found him and his wife shot which caused them to proactively check on Sen. Hortman and her husband, but when they arrived they found her and her husband dead. doesn't make it not a cop but imitating them is far more common and this sounds politically motivated. they also found the suspect's manifesto with a list of names in his car outside Hortman's home.
y'know it doesn't bother me to target politicians but i just know the people who did this are fascists and i wouldn't be surprised if this was partly in response to the ICE protests in LA and how Trump and his team of demons are categorizing the demonstrations as liberal lefty chaos. these fascists ruin the effectiveness of a good execution.
our election was, literally, stolen. Trump and his fascists have spent years calling his loss to Biden “stolen” which ultimately harmed any real attempts at calling out future election results. many statisticians are sounding the alarm bells—something is wrong. the data doesn’t lie and the voting heavily implies manipulation. there is a group investigating our election results and making their findings public. they are very concerned with what they are uncovering.
outbreaks every so often aren't unusual so i don't want to be alarmist but this is going to happen at a higher frequency because of Trump's appointees. they're all corrupt and were only chosen because they've sworn fealty to him. for example, the dr. who heads the FDA, Martin Makary, used to work for John Hopkins and advocated for vaccines and masking and sounded like your normal average physician during the pandemic. now, a few months in to his role as head of the FDA, he's announced that covid vaccines are going to be limited to only people 65+ older or compromised individuals. you'd think maybe there's some supply chain issue or logistic difficulty or idk anything reasonable that would support the recommendation, but no, Dr. Makary thinks they "aren't necessary." in 2024 he was vocally opposed to vaccine mandates as well and hasn't changed that opinion.
i’m a little uneasy. it seems many are favoring Musk. is that the general feeling on the Right? some are calling for Vance to replace Trump. i could imagine Musk being welcomed back, and with a smarter (or quieter) fascist president for a figurehead Musk can continue pulling the strings. idk.
i don't understand why you're bothered by this, honestly. sounds like you have psychological hangups regarding being given stuff for free and should absolutely not project that shame on your son.
oh yeah? well too fucking bad you dumbasses. should've voted better over the last 100 goddamn years if you loved labor unions so fucking much.
i meannnnnn.. that’s fair. so do i lol. but my job serves the community so it seems more like a service i’m willingly providing than anything. we don’t need “jobs,” we need fulfilling labor that benefits the whole.
I didn’t know AIDS could be this degree of silent. It’s truly scary. I’m partnered for life but would absolutely go on PrEP if I were single. No thank you.
okay so, as someone who has struggled with this my entire life but has recently married these concepts together let me try to give some insight. i truly thought i would never be able to find a personally rewarding job that i am good at and can tolerate well. i resigned myself to a lifetime of taking what i could get while constantly searching for that elusive role at a company that didn’t seem to exist.
the way i found my current job was simply by never giving up. i wish there were more to it. it was merely a matter of time moving forward plus the amount of searching and applying i did on a semi-regular basis. basically, never stop trying to find a job that benefits you as a whole. it’s likely out there and close by but incredibly difficult to obtain because everyone wants it. everyone wants the kind of job you’re searching for. your competition is large but it could always be your turn next.
i work for a business that gives back to my community. it is an amazing feeling knowing that i contribute to something people depend on and does good for the people in this city. i wish everyone had a job with purpose and meaning instead of meaningless tasks that only serve to make some asshole richer.
keep searching! always believe you deserve better because you do.
After doing my own searching I was able to learn how this death was possible. For those who were just as confused as me, AIDS can become deadly rapidly and suddenly once the immunity threshold is breached and collapses in those with low symptom or symptomless HIV. Basically, his immune system was able to hold back the infections for as long as it could, and when it eventually progressed into AIDS it was like a dam broke and flooded his system. The infections overwhelmed his body and killed him. It's likely that the HIV progressed to AIDS very recently for him. Most people with AIDS live to know they have it, some don't. This is a case of untreated and undiscovered HIV. His body was fighting off opportunistic infections during the HIV stage until AIDS made it impossible and the infection took over quickly.
The Los Angeles medical examiner has ruled Guerrero’s manner of death as natural, brought on by AIDS-related complications.
I am very confused. RIP to Jesus and what an awful disease AIDS is, but.. huh???? Everything I read about this death tells me it was sudden and unexpected. Jesus definitely did not look like he was dying of anything pertaining to AIDS. Also, how does somebody even progress to AIDS in the US in 2025? Especially a rich famous hairstylist? It would be more understandable if he were underprivileged or had difficulty finding healthcare and treatment, but there's literally no way that was the case for him lol.
You're telling me Jesus had HIV for however long, didn't know about it, and then it became AIDS and weakened his immune system to the point where he died of a fungal infection? I find that incredibly hard to believe. Either he kept this hidden from literally everyone and ignored his HIV and kept all his physical symptoms a secret or this isn't an AIDS related death and the suggestion that it must've been an AIDS complication comes off as a homophobic implication.
Can anyone give me some insight? Maybe I'm missing something? I am gay and know a bit more about HIV/AIDS than the average person but what is going on here? Can AIDS develop silently and without symptoms? I hope not because that is horrifying and doesn't seem to make sense given what HIV does to the immune system. You can't hide severe illness much.
people keep asking when will somebody do something but nobody does anything. they are openly saying our deaths are irrelevant now. it's gotten to a new level of depravity and unabashed behavior because they have no fear left. they are shameless because who is there to stop them?
medical fields can be slow to accept new information. hopefully this connection will be made soon.
i have had ADHD ever since i was a child. i grew into a very depressed and anxious teenager and my mental health worsened over time as a young adult. fast forward to November 2024 when i start picking at the wounds healing on my skin. i've done this before. a lot of us have. however, this time i couldn't stop. i would pick until it bled, let it heal, and pick it all over again. then i'd move on to another spot and repeat the process. weeks turned into months and i was still picking at my skin. the areas impacted were spreading. i knew about dermatillomania and assumed i was having an episode for some reason i wasn't yet consciously aware of, but being the curious person i am i did some internet digging and learned way more than i thought i would.
it turns out that skin picking, or excoriation disorder and no longer referred to as dermatillomania, belongs to a newly described category of psychiatric conditions called "Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders." much like how there are several disorders pertaining to anxiety and depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder is a spectrum not limited to classically presenting OCD.
huh.. interesting. wait. this is a form of OCD? i thought to myself.
i continued to read more about OCD related disorders (OCRD) when i made a personally intense discovery. while there are many conditions thought to pertain to the wider spectrum of OCRD there are generally considered to be four primary disorders that are unquestionably obsessive-compulsive: body dysmorphic disorder, hypochondriasis, tic disorders, and body focused repetitive behaviors. when considering the list of wider OCRD disorders, i suffer from seven of 17 common conditions. however, narrowing it down to these few four actually makes things worse for me, because i live with three out the four disorders.
it seems i have been going about the world with untreated OCD my entire life. i couldn't help but immediately reflect over past scenario after past scenario. i spent the next several hours consuming as much information as i could about obsessive-compulsive related disorders and uncovering why i was avoidant and pathologically shy and reserved around others. i was finally finding answers that i had spent 35 years working towards. i was closing in on why i was the way i am.
when i thought i couldn't possibly learn anything more significant about myself i read that people with both ADHD and OCD have higher rates of autism than the average population. in fact, it's a good indication you have autism if you have both disorders.
oh. hm. uhhhhhhhh. fuck. i have wondered over the years if i was on the autism spectrum but never really gave it much thought. things were clicking even deeper. like with OCD i looked into autism and it was like reading a summary of my lived experiences. everything felt right. everything made sense. this is what's going on with me. it's this right here.
i was floored. the very next day i made appointments with professionals who met with me and agreed that i was likely correct and set me up with a psychiatric assessment for June. i will soon be given confirmation of what i know likely to be true: i have ADHD, OCD, and autism. and it took until my mid 30s to put it all together.
if you are struggling and still can't make sense of yourself, it isn't for nothing. this could happen to you too. keep pushing forward because the alternative is to give up. the alternative is you lose.
one of my favorite EBM bands and they only have their debut out so far.
this album would fit in nicely in the No Wave scene of the 70s.
stumbled upon an industrial pop focused Buenos Aires artist the other day and have been sharing ever since. Juana Rozas' other song "Antonio" sounds SOPHIE inspired and if you liked this one then i recommend it.
"Pirouette" is out now if you've not yet listened to Model/Actriz's sophomore release. Their debut was my AOTY when it came out and now this one is my current for the year lol. some of the best industrial rock i've heard.