I don’t want to discuss the incident in detail because it was very traumatic, but long story short, I had a near-drowning incident when I was 12 (technically not a drowning because I survived). I was technically dead for several minutes.

I saw nothing. total blank. I remember flashes of struggling to get to the side of the pool one moment, and flashes of waking up in an ambulance the next. then it cuts out again, and then I woke up in a hospital room with tubes in all my holes (plus some tubes in new holes) and surrounded by my mom and brothers.

look, I don’t know what your problem is, but you need to get a hobby, kid, lmao

what? didn’t you just comment on the Star Trek sub? what is this?

are you serious? lol

by getting it surgically altered. I could never show the old face ever again.

also, moving and changing my name.

yikes

Plus the Founders caused their own bout of chaos

well, technically, FC assimilated Earth happened in an alternate timeline, but you make a good point about the Domino War and wanting to avoid that. So, yeah, I’d want to arrive after that ended.

oh, definitely TNG-era Star Trek.

Socialist Space Utopia where I can be or do whatever I like anywhere I like, free of need and want? Sounds awesome!

What would I do? Explore the endless opportunities!

where I live + self-identifier

do you really think that, with the mountain of shit Putin is wading through, he has the time and resources to deal with Trump? And for what?

I’m really not experiencing that— because there isn’t The Algorithm feeding you Content™, lemmy is more reliant on you subscribing to specific communities and for them to be active. Personally, I’m subscribed to a lot of communities, but, likewise, I get a lot of active content. Im able to, in a satisfactory way, replicate the experience that I had on reddit— minus 99.9% of the toxicity and hostility, of course.

You may simply find that it’s a mater of fine-tuning your experience here, although the platform itself is still improving. I remember Reddit in its early days, and it, too, took time to improve.

Melon Fusk, CEO of Y, Inc. would never do that!

uh-oh, someone forgot to switch back form their alt account! and that username is a little on-the-nose, don’t you think? lol

And why do you bring Argentina as if the US is free of guilt, you did much worse, and you talk to me about whatabutism when you didn’t even have any single consequence?

Argentina borrowed money from the IMF, not the US, so the US isn’t involved. You’re just attacking the US because you don’t have a defense for Argentina’s actions, and you think it will hurt my feelings. it’s a whataboutism.

Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in “what about…?”) denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation. From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin ‘you too’, term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.

It was not an agreement, it was a debt trap with a corrupt politician and an economic weaponization of debt, that is the only purpose of the IMF and you know it. It wasn’t our failure, it was something your country does to fuck everyone up.

lmao, again, Argentina borrowed money from the IMF, not the US. get your facts straight, lol

nice whataboutism, but this isn’t about the US, it’s about Argentina’s sordid past and its refusing to abide by its agreements to the IMF.

nice try at deflection, though. there’s only so much you can blame others for your own failures.

How is something that happened 80 years ago has anything to do with the current situation regarding the debt trap by the FM

yet you used Operation Paperclip as a defense… so, which is it? you can’t have it both ways.

You come and tell us we are bastards because we choose to do what is best for us?

tell me how harboring nazi war criminals from war crimes prosecution was “best or you"

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I know medical bills are crazy right now

that, and

Why where they not on the phone with 911 while driving

because that’s not only against the law, but, in an emergency when you’re speeding to the hospital, you’re not always thinking clearly.

what I’d like to know if WTF the assh*le cops though thought it was so necessary to endanger everyone’s lives with a PIT maneuver over a speeding violation when they could have gotten the car’s tag and mailed the a ticket? sounds like roided out piggies going crazy with power and endangering lives just because they can. like always. #acab

because it was always done by force from below

European (especially British) decolonization of Africa was mostly the result of 1) the Atlantic Charter negotiated between FDR and Churchill after WWII when FDR told Churchill to stop that shit, and 2) because Europe’s devastated economy couldn’t afford to maintain their colonies abroad anymore anyway.

I wouldn’t say that Europe did any of this voluntarily, however. they were certainly forced by circumstance, highly pressured by the United States who threatened to withhold fund for post-war relief and rebuilding, and, obviously, mounting unrest in the colonies themselves.

religion and the belief in the supernatural/paranormal. also the belief in conspiracy theories.