Delvin4519

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[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

and part of an at-risk group - and there are many

Are there any other "at risk groups" that may likely be targeted but are not commonly talked about or targeted at the moment? I know trans, non male/female, green card residents, and naturalized citizens are some of the most at risk groups.

Cheeto has blamed aspergers/autism on vaccinations (?), so I'm not too sure yet whether cheeto plans to go after disabled/neurodiverse/aspergers people next. I have already seen "disabilities" and "disability" on the "banned words" list in the New York Times article about "banned words" at agencies in Washington.

I suspect that if the PRC goes after Taiwan, then that may put any ethnic Chinese in the U.S. into an at risk group.

The problem is that I'm not sure the latter I mentioned qualify for political asylum just yet, aside from the former that are targeted at the moment.

Which at risk groups should plan to leave right now aside from the most obvious?

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, it's pretty dire. Those aformentioned countries are the only places in which to go where learning a new language isn't necessary to get permanent citizenship.

To get permanent citizenship in any other country generally requires fluency in the native local language in pretty much all cases.

If I wanted to move to the EU, say the Netherlands for example, I wouldn't be able to get EU/Dutch citizenship until learning and becoming fluent with the Dutch language, plus x amount of years with residence in the 1 specific EU country. Replace the language/country with whatever EU country and it's the same situation.

Even with Canada, since I didn't take French in middle or high school, that means Quebec is pretty much off the table for me, unless I go through the hassle of learning French as an adult.

Even if Canada could have a threat of invasion from the south, I do not think it would likely succeed, as there are at least 5 border states that are blue/democrat, and Canada would likely get help from other countries. Perhaps Mexico may start a second front from the south siding with Canada, so that there's 2 fronts to deal with? Canada does have the city of Edmonton located pretty far from the US border, so it is not required to live adjacent to the US border in Canada. I would say that fleeing to Canada is about the same risk as fleeing to Finland or Estonia, and the latter two are in the EU.

 
[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Australia and NZ also exist, those countries are likely fine in that no major global trade routes go through there (unlike the Arctic), so that mitigates the risk of war over there. Those I've read somewhere on r/IWantOut that some countries like Australia have a list of medical conditions that would mean one is not allowed to emigrate there.

England/the UK I haven't read much, but that's about as far as one can go, aside from Canada; to go elsewhere means learning a new language is outright required.

I'm in a similar position as OP, and trying to leave with someone else would be even more trickier. Even Canada is very limited in how many family members/friends/relatives that one can sponsor or emigrate with.

I'd feel like being of Chinese descent is more of a liability. If the PRC goes after Taiwan, I could totally see the cheeto crowd go after my ethnicity and be a repeat of what happened in WWII.

I just hope any one country will start allowing asylum seekers to get out before it's too late, but I won't hold my breath given that everywhere in the developed world seems to have a housing crisis all at once.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yea. I actually had !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca filtered, so I had to unblock it and edit my post.

In !australia@aussie.zone, they have a huge banner at the top of the sidebar telling users "Before you post, if it's politics or world news, post it in the specific sub-communities at x and y". It makes a huge difference in how the main Australia community is much less hectic and easier to find discussion and text posts, vs. !canada@lemmy.ca.

The sidebar of !canada@lemmy.ca does not have any banner or mention of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, but is instead buried underneath a collapsed menu. This I would think leads to users posting political and geopolitical news in !canada@lemmy.ca instead of !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca, which the latter is better suited for such posts.

It can also sometimes be hard to distinguish between notable news. For example, if there is a new Prime Minister, should c/Canada allow it?

In those instances, I suppose it is fine to post that in the main !canada@lemmy.ca community if it is that major. I'd imagine there would be text/general discussion posts relating to that issue, so such news would be in the main Canada community anyways in that format.

I think filtering based on link posts vs. text and image posts would be valuable. Perhaps !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca and (world)news@lemmy.ca could become communities dedicated to link posts (posts that link to news sites, etc.), and then !canada@lemmy.ca would be text, image, opinion, and miscellaneous posts. (i.e., open ended discussion, etc.). It seems like right now !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca currently allows text posts as well, but I suppose that is fine and there isn't that big of a need to change that.

 

In the past few weeks the !canada@lemmy.ca community has grown quite a bit. The growth has mostly consisted of news and (geo)political posts, which is understandable.

However, this makes it hard to follow any text threads like these or non-news/political posts. This leaves the only option of either blocking the !canada@lemmy.ca community completely, or having to use a mobile app with keyword filtering (I'm not aware of any on desktop, and keyword filters do not sync between devices yet).

I'd suggest changing/updating the rules of !canada@lemmy.ca to note to users to post their political (and geopolitical?) news threads in !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca instead. Alternatively, split geopolitical with (world) news into a separate lemmy.ca (world)news community like with !worldnews@aussie.zone? This split community would have a rule that all posts would need to link to a news site or equivalent. Text & image posts would remain at !canada@lemmy.ca.

This would make it a lot easier to find text posts, general discussion threads, and image posts without them being drowned out by the news and (geo)political news threads.

One can look to !australia@aussie.zone and note how that community makes it clear in the rules that politics, (world) news, and geopolitics have to be posted into the Australian politics/(world) news communities. This makes the main Australia community much easier to browse and scroll through without going insane.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Online education isn't exactly great for people with poor self control or focus. At best, online education is good for lectures, but not much else (aside from if commuting or finding a place close by to live is a pain, then I suppose online education may be a tradeoff in that regard).

Everything else is generally better in person. Stuff like group projects and whatnot cannot be done online.

Since COVID, I've found that the growth of technology isn't exactly great for the learning experience. Now a lot of educational work takes place through the distraction vortex (computers and phones are very tempting to do something else instead). Pre-pandemic when education was more paper and pencil based, it is much easier to focus. At "best", you can only daydream or whatnot. Other people would not be as tucked to their phones and laptops like it is since the pandemic.

In a way, online education would also be harmful in reducing social cohesion as well if it becomes the default mainstream, so it's not just limited in excluding certain neurodiverse populations from access to education. Online education isn't exactly more "efficent".

 
[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Unfortunately I'm on the wrong side of the border, so I'm more screwed in a way, but means the incentive to get out is much higher.

 
[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Holy sheesh. Should I take this at face value? Seems plausible.

The thing about implementing tariffs for a day then turning it off again after 24 hours to "test whether cheetoland's or the Canada's ecnomy crashes or not" seems too good to be true. The thing about destabilizing Canada with (social) media campaigns, then I remember the fact that I've already seen dozens of posts of "American media pretending to be Canadian" right here on Lemmy.

This article literally screams "get out ASAP" to me like it's ringing alarm bells. I've never felt so scared or paranoid. Is this the thing that convinces me that I gotta leave my hellscape I'm in and emigrate elsewhere?

 
 
[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Canada clamped down on immigration several years ago, so that option seems, mostly difficult at best if at all. Not sure about Australia, England, and NZ either.

By the time the world allows those who want to leave the hellscape for elsewhere, it's almost certainly going to be too late and much worse off :(.

I feel so scared and paranoid, and I've never been this scared and paranoid for just existing where I've lived my entire life. And yet I've already blocked dozens of news feeds and whatnot, and it still doesn't go away with more slop that gets through the ever growing cracks. Can't hardly focus or do a thing at all.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

A slightly different graph from Fedecan shows the user growth more clearly without the Hexbear blip

Highest daily growth since 2023 at 1.2k per day the past few days.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's slowly starting to look like the next great influx as seen from Fedecan stats.

[–] Delvin4519@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kinda wild. I really gotta leave and get out of this pile of a dumpster fire I'm in, and head to Canada or someplace. This screenshot is just insane. I have no words for what I'm seeing here in this screenshot.

Glad I no longer post to reddit anymore. May go ahead with a essentially full block of reddit and essentially all of Big TV outright at some point. I've thought about cutting off Big TV completely; as hearing from American news media has been driving me on the verge of outright mental insanity, but now seeing this tonight, it seems like I gotta cut Big TV outright.

I've never been so thankful and glad to be on Lemmy and Mastodon for this wild ride since the start. I'm realizing just how dire it is out there. Having to get this off my chest with nowhere to vent to. Now I just need to find a Lemmy community or something that helps with people coping with this insanity, because I might need to hide this community again otherwise for my sanity. I already had most of the news and politics communities hidden on Lemmy to manage the flow of insanity, but went back and forth on this one this week.

 

I really cannot understand the fanfare of "warm weather" places like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Hawaii, and the Gulf Coast. I feel like society has a tendency to idolize warm weather destinations like those.

Even living in the northern, more continential parts of North America, I still feel like local meterologists have a pro-summer season bias.

In the late winter and spring local meteroligists would countdown the milestones to the "first day of spring", and the start of "baseball season". It's as if they are biased against mild or cold temperatures. They also make things like "putting on a light jacket" seem like a "chore". I feel like they tend to phrase it as "Don't forget that light jacket if you're going out tonight because the temperatures will drop tonight". Meterologists also seem to idolize beach and pool weather for some reason, as if it's something that is a "good lifestyle" somehow.

T-shirt and shorts weather is terrible. I hate it not being cold enough to wear long sleeved clothing. If it is too hot to wear school uniform or business clothing, then it is too hot, period. I cringe at schools and businesses that previously banned shorts that decided allow it as part of the "uniform" because it got so hot outside. Cold weather is just so much better. People just suck at putting on proper clothes when it gets cold. Unlike when it is cold, when it is hot, one can't just take off clothing within social norms as it gets hotter outside.

A lifestyle in a hot weather place seems like it would just be an awful way to live. Places that shutdown from 2pm to 5pm because it is too hot to do anything outside, wasting hours of daylight and delaying dinner after sunset waiting for the temperature to drop. Or having to get up at 5am to go outside for exercise before the temperature climbs to 32°C (90°F) by 10am. The idea that it is so hot and humid outside that people would need to take showers plus a change in clothing upon arriving at work in the office. It would seem so cumbersome and a terrible way to live in a terrible climate; whereas with winter one can just take off layers as needed. I don't understand society's obsession with beach and pool weather and wanting to go to the pool or beach. What is so good about the pool or the beach such that people idolize them so much?

I hate how ugly window AC units are, both from the inside and outside. They are eyesores to look at and can ruin the urban streetscape as well. They are large, bulky, take up space, and are uncomfortably loud. Come late May or early to mid June, it sucks having to guess how many comfortable days are left before the AC units need to go in.

The fact that air conditioning allows people to live and build major cities in otherwise miserable parts of the world is just a symbol of mankind's arrogance. ACs allows big oil to keep working class citizens forever hooked and dependent on the power grid to not die in the summer heat. Oh man, just wait for the heat index to reach 42°C (107°F) and wait for a blackout power outage to strike. Lots of people are in for a rude awakening as they find out of the consequences of depending on their ACs and living in such awfully hot climates. Unlike the summer heat, at least with winter there's clothes and blankets to put on to stay warm, as well as the fact that buildings trap heat better than radiating heat to cool off.

It's crazy to me how people tend to say "Canadians have a brutal climate", or "The weather in England and Ireland is awful and it sucks", in stark contrast to the idolization of Florida, Hawaii, Texas, and Arizona as places famed for their "warm" temperatures and "mild" climate. On the one hand, Florida and Texas have a heat index of 40-43°C (104-110°F) in the summer. On the other hand; Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto, Edmonton, and London England; each have summer daily maximums around 22-26°C (72-79°F); and it is hard for the temperature to reach 32°C (90°F).

Is it really worth living in an area where the heat index is 40-45°C (104-113°F) months on end, just because people can't stand a temperature of 3°C (38°F) in winter? Man, people are pretty crazy if they rather take a heat index of 42°C (107°F) in the summer; over a 3°C (38°F) winter temperature. The snow is perhaps a gift and reward for those who choose to live in an area with mild summers around 22-28°C (72-82°F), over a more brutal hot and humid climate.

Man, imagine a world without air conditioning. It would be so much better. Perhaps if AC never existed, people would not be living in terrible hot and humid climates. People would not be so harsh to look down on Canadian winters if instead, people had to treat summer heat a lot more seriously. It's crazy how people (or local meterologists) look down on even a temperature of 12-17°C (54-63°F); in stark contrast to the obsession and idolization with the beach, the pool, and wearing T-shirts and shorts.

 
 
 
 
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