I had one the other day, first in like 25 years. It was terrible! : )

I quit smoking July 19, 2026 and drinking Feb 14, 2017. My opinion is addictive habits aren’t going anywhere. That the struggles over addiction of past generations will mirror the struggles of future generations.

With that said, I think some things are changing:

• smoking is pretty stigmatized in more cultures
• drunkenness is unglamorous and may be posted to social media
• MH occupies more space in the public consciousness

Most importantly, it’s profitable to sell addiction. As long as that’s not changing, and it doesn’t seem to be, we we always bear this burden.

I’m not defending Nazis and I think you can see that. My take is that its harmful to label and then use that label to dehumanize a group of people. That type of behavior brings a witch hunt in the best case and genocide in the worst.

Were some people “objectively” witches during the Salem witch hunts? Were others “objectively” communist during the Red Scare? Many victims of the holocaust were objectively Jews.

I can see where you’re coming from and understand why you feel that way: bigotry damages the world. We don’t have to agree that calling people Nazis dehumanizes them and that dehumanizing people is harmful, that’s fine. Peace be with you.

Are you saying that when you call someone a Nazi, you’re describing a demographic group for descriptive purposes? And that you’re not saying it with any malice?

What are you talking about? No one is demanding you bow to anyone or anything.

Go touch some grass, you’re coming off pretty unhinged.

And also with you

Stalin’s USSR used the label Vrag Naroda to dehumanize people resulting in the tragedy at Kolyma. You may feel like you’re doing the right thing by labeling people Nazis or an enemy.

Josef Stalin thought he was doing the right thing. So did Hitler.

I’m not defending the actions of the President of the United States, his supporters (or opponents!). I’m saying that using these tactics is harmful.

You really “slammed” me there. Lol

May the road rise to meet you, God bless.

“Nazi” is another good example of a label that creates “the other.” Words like this are often used by groups to dehumanize people. A good example of this is the use of “Untermenschen” by the German National Socialist party of the 1930s and 1940s. By labeling groups of people Untermenschen, the National Socialists were able to pave the way for the exclusion from society and eventual extermination of several groups of people.

In the US, an obvious parallel is the labelling of people “illegal immigrants.”

There is no use of these labels other than immediate division and eventual dehumanization, so I don’t use em. You’re obv free to carry yourself as you please.

Showerthought:

Labels like “woke,” “maga,” “liberal,” “democrat,” “republican,” etc are in themselves invitations for self-identification or pejorative labels to create the illusion of “the other.”

We don’t have to think or identify with these words.

We can be ourselves and identify with our children, family, friends, and neighbors: the things that are actually important.

Yeah, from my POV that’s a feature. If a process modifies your photo, its no longer your photo and shouldn’t be able to masquerade as your photo.

Obv, integrating GPG w OpenCamera is just an example. GPG could be integrated w social media apps so that after you select “share,” and the image is processed, that modified image is signed before upload.

Or integrate GPG w something like OpenCamera. Then, every time you take a photo w your device… the photo could be signed automatically and transparently w your key.

If that existed and was used, it’d be simple to suppress Sloppy content.

What if, instead of that, property tax was based on the assessed value of the property when assessed for its current use? But also by “current” we mean like 5-10 years ago and when we assess we don’t look at recent neighborhood comps, we look at the previously assessed value.

Probably wouldnt use. I don’t monitor dashboards. I send myself an email when something needs attention. Then, if I find myself needing to check on something, I use ConnectBot.

The journal Regional Environmental Change publishes many articles all the time. Its uncommon for one to make the popular news outlets. That’s what I’m saying.

Use some critical thinking.

Stories like this are dazzle meant to distract from human caused greenhouse gas emissions. Why was this published one week after thousands were killed by flooding in Nepal?

Its obv that ppl are destroying the Everest ecosystem, but claiming their urine melts the glacier a few days after such a devastating event? Shame on them.