i havent really thought much about the massive cultural and societal coordination and effort required to clean up a bombed out town

Ramma Damma feels like the tip of an iceburg - do you have any references (ideally translated to english, but ill try to make due if in their native language) of how a town/region dealt with the destruction and infrastructure reset?

Like theres the vivid memory of first hand death and destruction to process, and likely the absence of many able bodied people whod traditionally lead the cleanup but were lost in the war itself, but then theres a collosal amount of work ahead to return to s steady state, and all the idealic potential of how to improve things once theres a blank slate, and the realities of how to reuse/recover resources like stones and pipes and such

It seems such an intense era just thinking shallowly about it, and id like to understand more what that it was like, the problems that arose and how they resolved, and how it got organized

That org highlights the good works of the fed, you can consume their content directly, id just be repeating their reporting

Taking the meme too seriously, but its a common theme that i do want to counterpoint

The US government is way more, and way more good, and way beyond the scope of the whitehouse and the clowns in it, even with its tainting

Theres plenty wrong and bad, but to ignore the good both invalidates all the good works done that is silently ignored, and also spits in the face of the whole yinyang concept

If we only focus on the bad, and ignore all the good, what sort of feedback system does that create for ourselves? Were finding out i beleive.

https://www.goodgovinstitute.org/2025/04/the-unsung-heroes-of-public-service-a-mission-to-restore-trust-in-government/

What trajedy, i hate to see it, i know its happening, and yet i cant help but carry on with my day to day, compelled to work, so i can keep the house and food and safety of myself. Its an immense guilt. Ive thought about quiting my job and liquidating my stocks, and unbanking - starving the economic war machine of at least my self, and put me on a path that only the ones who commit can follow down - but then i thought about the reality of then being homeless, insuranceless, etc in the us, and its ever growing political instability - and i just cant choose that, and its aweful that i have to make that choice at all, and its a trajedy im not selfless enough to meaningfully help beyond just the invisible “thoughts and prayers”

If in 50 years im asked what i was doing during this time, im sure to dissapoint and be viewed as an enabler of these horrors

I dont like how that makes me feel, and i think its important that im uncomfortable, i hope it spurs change in myself - which then hopefully leads to change in the world

Thatd be so cool if they went on the 4th like jefferson and adams

Is this like a higher abstraction level version of looking at a mirror pointed at another mirror type situation?, or help me visualize your idea better

On further thought, it sounds like a hologram theory to me, am i right?

Remember when we could tell by the pixels? Peperridge farms members

The first person on the panel, wearing two monocols and a rainbow progress lapel pin, “well you see, obviously we all want universal healthcare, but the reality is, we just cant afford it” as they say this, they sign another pledge to send billions of bombs to lebanon via isreal and just after an intern crawls in and delivers a bar of gold right in front of everyone as the camera pans to the next democrat who then rags about how progressives are just self defeating losers while he unawarely stands on the neck of a protestor and vocally wonders why they always complain so much as he twists his heel into the protesters larynx, the third democrat on the panel has fallen asleep - once a civil rights champion in the 1830’s, their age has crept up on them, but their district still seems to keep voting their coffin in regardless

Truly, thanks for being one of the people keeping lemmy alive - im a bit of a lurker, mostly upvoting and curating - occasionally commenting and adding in my own way - but i probably wouldnt still be here if it wasnt for all your memes bringing some levity to all the serious news and discussion

Thank you Picard Maneuver!

Yeah the downvotes on yours make no sense to me, i was just adding to your point not even countering it, but the ratio is silly

Got curious, nyc has a population of 8.5m and a city budget of 116b$

If nyc was a state seperate from ny, then it would be the 12th largest state by population - just over washington state, and itd be the 5th highest budget in the nation - just under washington state

It feels way more rational after making that comparison - especially when coupled with how culturally and economically center stage nyc is to america and the world

Dont be a troll, this is pathetic.

Come back to this tomorrow and reread it if you have to.

I’m done, heres your three paragraphs though, i still love you.

This is so frustrating

The commenter was building on top of your argument

You said prohibition wasnt healthy

They said total absence of control wasnt healthy

They implicitly agreed with you that prohibition wasnt healthy

I then spell it out for you that the message being built, that almost certainly you also agree with, is that moderation is the answer.

A counterpoint turns a random point into a line, a line into a polygon, a polygon into a solid, etc.

That counterpoint gave your message an extra and important dimmension. They thought your message was correct but lacking neccisary nuance.

For some reason you got peeved with that, and i think that looks poorly on you, not anyone else.

The world must look so small and scary from your perspective if you think this was opposition to you. Its not.

Dosent to me at all

They didnt even really counter your point, they gave another perspective to form a stronger argument of what your message was already saying

Parents should teach and guide their children moderation, especially for such common and addictive substances like sugar, especially when without moderation serious health and quality of life damages can apply

If a parents goal is to raise healthy humans with a high quality of life - they should be teaching and guiding children into moderation, not prohibition and the shame that goes with it, not hedonism and the shamelessness that goes with that

Its not that sugar is some fearful substance that should be prohobited outright, but its also not a substance without issue and should be moderated and controlled if modersation is not yet possible for such a still-developing human

There are many such substances that need this parental guidance, sugar is just the most obvious one to younh parents - a toddler probably/hopefully isnt hitting a 40 or a roach

Fully agreed, i love brussle sprouts when cooked well

Improved uv protection and longevity are the major points, so youll age more gently long term and you wont have to strictly reapply every 2 hours - since im mostly in doors minus a 20m daily walk, i only apply once in the morning

But also the new sunscreens rub in and blend in better and dont feel as greasy so it not gross to put on and wear everyday

I dont wear makeup, so if the sunscreen is super shiny or pilly my face looks wierd, i dont like how i look, not so with the new filters

With my current sunscreen, its just part of the routine and its barely a thought for me - dosent smell bad, dosent feel bad, dosent make me feel sticky or tacky or greasy or shiny, i just put on 3 pumps (or finger lengths) to appropriatly protect my face, ears, and neck and its easy, and i use a cheaper american sunscreen on my arms to keep cost down

Hard to describe, but i tried a bunch of fda-approved sunscreens once i understood how damaging the sun is and how it affects aging and skin cancer and never found one that i really liked, so i imported some from abroad at the suggestion of a friend and finally found my sunscreen, and now i feel naked without it, wheras it was a chore like eating boiled brussle sprouts before

Finally! Ive been waiting and importing sunscreens for years

This is a big deal

If youre not wearing sunscreen daily, especially so if in the southern half of the us, you ought to be. The worlds sunscreens outside of the us are much more enjoyable and protective to wear than whats previously been approved in the us.

Theres still many great filters not yet approved, ill probably still be importing, i personally settled on the Reimann P20 sensitive skin - but ill definitely be checking out the new bemt filters as they come on US shelves to both save the environmental impact of shipping from europe and cost

Facts matter. Dont lose sight of truth lest you’ll find you yourself to become lost too.

I am forced to use claude daily at work, it smells like claude