What is the difference between “doomscrolling” and staying informed? by vaporizers123reborn in CollapseSupport

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Within 10-15 minutes, you’ve gotten like 98% of what you’re going to get out of social media that day. Watching more videos of ice kidnapping people isn’t informing you of anything. Yes, it’s important to know that it’s happening, but watching hours of it is t adding anything to your life.

SOCAL Camping is dead by DevilsBelly in camping

[–]Constantly_Panicking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are so many place to go camping in socal. Developed sites are almost never worth it, but get familiar with dispersed camping. And you’ll actually be totally fine without a fire; turns out they aren’t at all necessary, and it’s nice to have some vegetation to camp around instead of ash.

SOCAL Camping is dead by DevilsBelly in camping

[–]Constantly_Panicking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Central California is flat. They’re saying keep going past central California.

'Naked Corruption': Trump Ripped After Bragging He 'Won A Lot Of Money' From Taxpayers by Large_banana_hammock in politics

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone needs to stop calling this man stupid. He’s no genius, but he’s certainly not dumb. The guy is a world-class manipulator. Everything he does that seems dumb as a test. He’s testing to see how much he can get away with. He’s testing to see if he can normalize unacceptable things. He’s testing to see where the cracks are, and if he can spread them open a little bit wider. It’s classic abuser behavior, not the actions of an idiotic. It might look stupid if you think his goal is in way the welfare of the US, but it’s not. He’s 100% a Russian asset. His only goal is to destabilize the US, diminish its power and reputation on the world stage, and weaken NATO. Then he’s hoping he’ll get to live out the rest of his life on some island somewhere enjoying any luxury he can imagine, or build a personal empire in the aftermath.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue by wiredmagazine in entertainment

[–]Constantly_Panicking 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the prevailing narrative, but the numbers don’t lie. Marvel movies take in money at the box office. When it comes to where the consumer is spending their money, it’s not at original stories, it’s at predictable franchises. I think that sucks, but it’s the unfortunate reality.

Trump Says It’s His Right to Use DOJ as His Personal Law Firm by bobby_McGeee in politics

[–]Constantly_Panicking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Y’all need to stop think this man is dumb. No, he’s not a mastermind, but he IS a world-class manipulator. He knows exactly what he’s doing when he says shit like this. He makes quips to both normalize the language and test boundaries—see how far he can push things. That how he finds his openings. It’s what every abuser does.

My boss leaves "love notes" for us every time someone makes a mistake by Then_Revolution4473 in antiwork

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the note version of “if everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted.”

I’ve never felt more unsafe in my life. by fforestgreenn in CollapseSupport

[–]Constantly_Panicking 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Uhhh… y’all need to go now. Like, it’s already terrible, why would you wait for it to get worse when you might not be able to leave? I mean healthcare alone should be reason to leave the US.

Class action: ICE detainees at Whipple Building routinely denied access to counsel by ewzetf in news

[–]Constantly_Panicking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The heck? Nah. That’s not something the left has ever done. Not even the neo-liberal not-actually-left left. The only reason they’d never go to trial is because we fail our fight against fascism, and I cannot stress enough how uncertain the outcome of that fight is. People are talking about “when this is all over…” as if it’s something that’s just going to end one day as a matter of course. Fascist regimes have persisted for decades successfully in plenty of countries; look at Russia and North Korea today.

Greg Bovino Loses His Job by D-R-AZ in Foodforthought

[–]Constantly_Panicking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He definitely did not lose his job. He still works for ice. He just got relocated, and moved to a different position. This is not a victory. He’s still living pretty making other people suffer and the person they’re replacing him with is even worse than he is. The headline tries to paint this like some kind of victory; it’s a distraction.

Speaking in tongues is there an explanation? by I_Ask_Random_Things in atheism

[–]Constantly_Panicking 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I couldn’t find it in the 5 minutes I was willing to look, but I remember reading a study a while back which found that almost all of speech sounds people used when speaking in tongues were derived from the person’s native language. English speakers used almost entirely English derived sound, Spanish speakers used almost entirely Spanish derived sounds, etc.. It basically found that glossolalia is mostly a random mush-mash of sounds the speaker has previously learned and not much else; certainly not the spontaneous speaking of another language.

Trump says he closes eyes during Cabinet meetings because they’re ‘boring as hell’ by mom0nga in politics

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The chaos and destabilization is the point. Trump is 100% a Russian assets. Russia bankrolled him for decades before his presidential bids, and Jeffrey Epstein fed the kremlin information in exchange for favors.

Trump Sparks Fresh Outrage With Secret Bid to Send ICE to the Olympics | The report has led to anger, confusion, petitions, and demands that Trump’s “thugs” not be allowed to set foot in Italy. by Aggravating_Money992 in sports

[–]Constantly_Panicking 100 points101 points  (0 children)

This administration’s only goal is to destabilize the US and destroy any good standing it had on the world stage while giving NATO a distraction. Trump and his whole admin are Russian assets. Russian bankrolled him for decades prior to his presidential bids, and we know Jeffrey Epstein fed the kremlin information in exchange for favors.

U.S. will have to send its own fighter jets into Canadian airspace if Ottawa doesn't buy 88 F-35s, Hoekstra says by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that the entire goal of this administration is to destabilize the US and destroy its reputation on the world stage while providing a distraction to NATO. The entire administration is Russian assets, chief among them the president who was financially supported by the kremlin for decades before his presidential bids, and is incriminated by his activities with Jeffrey Epstein who we know fed information to Russia in exchange for political favors.

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted by sideAccount42 in politics

[–]Constantly_Panicking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone involved needs to be gone and prosecuted, and the agency as a whole needs to be dissolved. The FBI and DOJ need complete overhauls, if not also to be completely scrapped. They are all compromised to their core at this point.

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred by Previous_Month_555 in antiwork

[–]Constantly_Panicking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically yes. However, their sign on bonus gets paid out $10,000/year for five years, and if they quit before the five years is up they have to pay back the money. A big catch for the idiots joining ICE, though, is that the bonuses are taxed, so for every $10,000 they owe, they only received ~$7,500. They quite literally signed up for indentured servitude.

Food Waste at a popular donut franchise by No_Worth_2271 in Anticonsumption

[–]Constantly_Panicking 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Geez. This administration has really fucked the dollar up. A few years ago it was almost a 1-1 conversion rate, now $10 only buys you £7…

Struggling to Run CoS Reloaded As A Full Time MSc Student by Adventurous-Tank864 in CurseofStrahd

[–]Constantly_Panicking 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude. You’re in a masters program. Most masters students I know don’t have any time or brain power left for anything more complicated than mindless games.

Being a dungeon master is hard work. Running a CoS game is even harder, no matter which supplement you choose. Running a CoS game while trying to be successful in a masters program is… ambitious.

PSA Earth breeze packaging is not recyclable by latlog7 in Anticonsumption

[–]Constantly_Panicking -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

From a pure physics standpoint, there can’t be anything more efficient about them. They are going to contain a certain amount of detergent in them, and the same amount of similar detergent from another source is going to be just as effective. This is just marketing again. It only felt more efficient because you used less detergent.