Porque no los dos

Milk hasn’t been shown to work, best practice is saline eye irrigation (normal water works in a pinch)

Ah ok, I must’ve bought the marketing haha. I remember their whole schtick with the 9 and 10 was the “brand new AI chips” for “better performance and privacy”

If you’re looking to switch to graphene, you’re limited to the google pixel line, which isn’t a bad thing imo. Older models can be had for cheap, and they have good specs.

I’m on a pixel 6 right now and it’s served me well. I’d recommend buying a 7 and up though, as the 6 is nearing the end of its support (I think graphene will support it for a few more years but I’d double check that before buying one). But a standard pixel 7 can be had for ~$150usd so not a bad call. The pixel 9 and 10 have AI chips in them so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’re limited to the 7 and 8 (both still good options). And if you do move to graphene it kinda nullifies the whole AI chip thing anyway.

The default media player on pixels are kinda ass, however. They work fine, but the UI is janky. But there are plenty of media player apps available both on the playstore and through alternatives like f-droid. You can also find cracked versions of most “premium” apps pretty easily online. So if you find a media player you like, but it has ads or some other garbage, you should be able to find a cracked version with little hassle.

And completely unrelated to switching phones, if you’re able to add a private DNS into your wifi settings like I can do on my pixel, you can add base.dns.mullvad.net to the private DNS box and it’ll take care of 99% of ads (can’t speak for youtube specifically) on your phone

If you’re on android, revanced is pretty easy to get up and running, it takes the place of the YouTube app you already have installed so no worries about your limited storage space either

…Mammal?

Absolutely, individual actions will (almost) never solve systemic problems. The only way government employees quitting would make a bit of difference, while ensuring the welfare of those now unemployed workers, would be through robust organization and community support for the dissenting federal workers.

Dual power is essentially non-existent in the states, and those structures would need to be built in order for a strike like this (and broader resistance movements) to be more than a flash in the pan

I’m not gonna be able to condense a 12 page essay into a digestible comment but essentially (read as stripping this part of all of its nuance): if people lived by the morals they claim, they wouldnt be able to sit idly by/ perpetuate a slave state. Can’t have a slave state if the bureaucrats running the slave state refuse to run it anymore. And citizens should not be compelled to pay taxes to an institution they find morally reprehensible.

Fun facts about the Tuskegee experiment, it was funded by the United States Public Health Service, the experiment itself was wholly unnecessary as we had recently found a standard of care that treated syphilis effectively, and almost nothing of value was learned. If the pencil pushers and other associated “little guys” enabling this experiment knew what was happening, they could’ve shut it down swiftly by bringing the bureaucratic process to a halt in an act of protest.

I’m an EMT, and I’ve often found myself in situations where it’s made me question whether I’m doing the right thing by working, and legitimizing, a medical system that feeds off the exploitation of the general populace and medical workers at large. Instead of quitting, I’ve settled on stealing medical supplies from hospitals and distributing them during food shares and free markets run by local organizations. I’m also a protest medic and help get people trained up to be protest medics. My attempts at unionizing have fallen flat in the past but I’ll still engage co-workers and fellow providers in hospitals to encourage organizing.

The people running the machine have an outsized influence on whether that machine runs or not, no matter what their bosses say. A large enough strike (<10% of the federal workforce) could bring this regime to its knees in a matter of days. I don’t wholly agree with Thoreau, but an act of resistance in the spirit of his argument would make a world of difference

Henry Thoreau was a great American author and abolitionist who wrote, among other important works, the essay Civil Disobedience. Written in 1849, the essay was written after Thoreau’s imprisonment for refusing to pay taxes in protest of slavery. The thesis of this essay claims that individuals have a moral obligation to defy unjust laws and institutions. He specifically implores government workers to resign in protest due to this moral obligation.

Here’s an audio version for those that are curious but don’t feel like reading it

Thoreau would like a word with you

Got a real m’eme hot off the presses for you!

Humans are apex predators. You are one of the floaty chair people in wall-e

We all know their service weapons are actually pez dispensers with the best flavors

If a single celled organism successfully divides, is it dead? Wouldn’t a single cell eventually grow into a colony of clones, copying itself indefinitely until some random mutation or outside force prevents it from reproducing? Where would it be considered appropriate for us to consider a single celled organism dead?

Are we certain trump isn’t grover in an elaborate disguise?

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If sky burials were legal where I live I would absolutely do that. Closest to “throw me in the trash” you can get while still “respecting the dead”

wat

Alright so I’m agender and, for as long as I can remember, have never had any feeling that I could describe as masculine/feminine. Seeing as you’ve felt both, what do they feel like? Gender genuinely confuses me. I’ve read the books and done the thinking but I still can’t wrap my head around how one “feels” like a man/woman. Even enbies that experience gender as a secret third thing baffle me. I feel nothing gendered

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