If there’s enough pushback, they’ll eventually either do it or they’ll die.

Have you actually been a parent paying for a psychiatrist? Because I have. This would be laughable if it weren’t so infuriating. You have no idea what you’re talking about, and I pity any children you might have.

My brother in Amerigo Vespucci, there are maps from 500 years ago that show sea serpents on them. Are those real, too?

That’s true. Honestly I remember being a kid, learning about the Soyuz recovery system and being shocked. A 20mph collision with the ground (without the braking SRs, 5mph with them) doesn’t sound like much, but it can still ring your bell pretty good.

Also

We did land on land

For like forty years we did that exclusively

It’s called the Space Shuttle and it’s pretty cool

I’m a Christian and even I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

Nah, that’s just a strip of raw bacon.

It’s an airstrip in a warzone. Every departure is newsworthy.

It’s also worth noting, if you’re not familiar with the US map, that the city of Minneapolis (where the anti-ICE protests are happening right now) is right about where the bottom of the “R” in “TREE” is on this map.

The United States is very big. If you’re from a smaller country (particularly if it’s smaller east-to-west), it can be a little bit hard to comprehend how different the weather can be from one part of the country to another. While the weather does typically travel from West to East, it can change significantly along the way, and it usually takes several days to get from one coast to the other.

The highlighted area on the map is a massive region, wider than France and Germany put together (though much less populated). In fact, it’s quite rare for even this much of the country to have the same weather pattern. The simplest answer to why trees to the east and west are safe is that it’s not as cold there.

There are some other factors, too: just past the Western edge of the highlighted region are the Rocky Mountains, which significantly change weather patterns. The highlighted region consists of remarkably flat land (leveled by glacial action), meaning that there’s not much to break the wind as it sucks away the heat from the trees. To the East if this highlighted region are the Great Lakes, which also change weather patterns.

But the biggest answer is, it’s just not as cold there. Cleveland, OH (at a similar latitude, but further to the East) is going to be almost 20°F warmer than this (which is still bone-chilling, but not tree-exploding), and Boise, ID (similar latitude but to the West) is going to be almost 40°F warmer (practically tropical! /s).

I really respect this eyes-open view of degoogling/FOSS-ing. We can do a lot, but some of the all-or-nothing rhetoric on Lemmy is exhausting. Yes, sometimes living in modern society still requires us to use some non-free apps. You’ve gone far beyond what most people would do in this sort of situation, and even you have reached a point where dealing with other people or necessities of life requires you to have some Play Store apps; so you do what you can to lock them down, but accept that some things are just going to have to be less than ideal for at least a while.

If this is something you’re actually going through, OP, you should know that (1) the trimesters can all feel dramatically different, sometimes even turning on a dime, and (2) it’s definitely always ok to call up your OB anytime if something feels wrong.

I have concerns.

Best privacy

What does “best” mean here? Privacy is binary: either something is private, and only you decide who has access to it, or it isn’t.

and unbiased ad-blocking

Uh-oh. That’s a red flag. When a company makes a big deal out of being unbiased about something that isn’t inherently biased to begin with, I just automatically assume right-wing.

by default.

And how easy is it to change that default if you don’t like it? Or if YouTube kills ad blocking in it? No thanks, I’d prefer it be an extension, thanks.

Handy features like native !bangs

Custom search with extra characters. Firefox has had it for over a decade, and Chrome has had it for a while too.

and split view.

Pretty sure this has been in several browsers recently, too.

No adware,

Thanks, that’s…kind of the bare minimum in a browser?

no bloat,

Degoogled is already that for Chromium, if that’s really what you want. There are several Firefox forks that pull out a bunch of stuff and make it leaner, too.

no noise.

Bold move disabling the sound API. Respect. /s

People-first

Which people? Ok, this is easy to say, but essentially meaningless.

and fully open source.

Isn’t BSD a sharealike license? So they can’t not. Still, props to them.

At the end of the day, I think I’d still prefer a Gecko browser, or Degoogled if I absolutely had to use Chromium.

I can’t find any links to the project itself, only to announcements about the project. Anybody have anything more concrete? How far along is this project?

Yes. If it is built using public money, it belongs to the public.

As far as I know your doctor can prescribe literally anything. Whether or not you can get your insurance company to pay for it is another question

There’s a whole study in a medical journal trying to figure out what disease Tiny Tim had in A Christmas Carol that

1. crippled him, but only in one leg;
2. would kill him over the course of a single year;
3. could be healed with 19th century medicine if a sufferer had access to enough money.

The smart money is apparently on either rickets or distal renal tubular acidosis, the treatment for both basically being oranges and beach vacations (two things a rich guy could provide).

I appreciate the resources, thanks. I’ll look into those.

Also, I’m afraid that I may have implied something about rural folks that I didn’t intend. I don’t think that they’re stupid, by any means; or cruel, or inherently evil. I think that they’re victims of misinformation and indoctrination, that they’re lied to and manipulated every four years to vote against their self-interest, and that at this point they have a generational stake in opposing the word “socialism.” And while I’m certainly no elite who sees beyond the system, having been on both sides of this, I think I have a perspective on both the way that capitalist propaganda warps facts and also the way that rural people (at least certain rural people) interact with that propaganda.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting that socialists hide the end goal; I’m just saying that using the words that conservatives have spent billions of dollars co-opting and redefining for 70+ years is likely fighting an uphill battle. And perhaps not one that can be won. The meaning of the word “socialism” doesn’t particularly matter to the indoctrinated, as the GOP agitprop have discovered; calling anything “socialism” immediately brands it as evil, even if the thing they’re calling “socialism” is companies rainbow-washing their merchandise during the month of June.

As you noted, people license themselves to believe what they think materially benefits them, but the fall of capitalism is showing that the indoctrinated working class has already been conditioned to blame its collapse on socialism, even as socialists are the very people trying to excavate them from the rubble.

So, no, don’t lie or hide intention. Just be clear about the specifics, and avoid charged language.

Then what’s the solution? They’re suspicious of education. They have poor media literacy (and often poor literacy in general). They live in a filter bubble of like-minded individuals, and they’ve been told that everyone outside that bubble wants to kill them or take away their way of life. They’ve essentially been indoctrinated into a cult, and if you start out trying to deprogram a cult member by saying “so actually the devil isn’t so bad,” you’re probably not going to get very far.

I was hoping that my ad absurdum example was clear. I just meant “a very large number.”

Either way, I certainly hope nobody is seriously advocating for that. It would be quite bleak if that were the only way change could ever occur.