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  • For reference, in case anyone wants to see what we’re talking about more directly:

    https://cascadiabioregion.org/nine-regions-of-cascadia

    (I picked this one because I am a blatant Seattle Supremacist /s)

    So yeah, you’d have to overlay this kind of a map with say, county level political maps for the US, apologies to Canadians, I do not know what the Canadian approximate equivalent of a county is.

    But yeah, then look at rivers, origin points, watersheds, dams, other critical infrastructure, etc, to see how this could possibly shake out.

    The Greater Idaho idea was originally to essentially carve off as many counties in eastern WA and OR, basically east of the Cascades, and… move them into Idaho:

    https://moveoregonsborder.org/the-maps/

    I … guess they gave up on trying to take Spokane.

    But uh yeah so basically everywhere between the Cascades, down to Medford, down further to Redding… would potentially be a war zone.

    Like, I5 south of Portland would be a critical artery and thus a warzone, probably same with I90.


    Personally, if this happens, I’m counting it as yet another thing Deus Ex ended up predicting.

    There’s a conversation you can have with an ex NSF soldier, who tells you about how his squad got wiped out at ‘Squalnomie’, by other troops with thermoptic camo.

    Squalnomie -> Snoqualmie, as in Snoqualmie Pass, I would assume.



  • I mean, basically same?

    There was a kind of… cresting wave effect, where it was getting more popular, and some really good stuff was coming out… and then yeah, it became super popular, and the overall quality of any random show just tanked, with the occasional bright spot of course still showing up.

    I’m baffled that this is apparently a controversial opinion, this has happened in basically every format of art ever.


  • Except that therapy actually is expensive, and a whole lot of therapists actually suck at what they’re ostensibly there to do.

    Then, try finding a good therapist who actually is neurodivergent, its nearly impossible.

    A neurotypical fundamentally isn’t capable of actually fully empathizing with a neurodivergent… their brains are literally wired differently.

    You being this dismissive of genuine, deep seated pain… that literally is the problem, people who act like you.

    Why would anyone listen to the advice of someone who doesn’t actually give a fuck about their mental health, about their CPTSD, caused by people like you?

    The… whole problem is that at the most basic level, people repress and internally stew on their feelings, when broader society does not allow them to express them without mocking them.

    Your entire post here is ‘I am better than you and you are pathetic, I sympathize with you though’.

    Do you have no self-awareness?

    … therapy is a good thing, if you can find it, if you access it, if its done by a person who actually knows what they’re doing and can actually relate to you without the sociopathic ‘emotions off/HR mode enabled’ mask that many therapists use.

    We could just have a space where people could just say whats really on their minds, you know, publically.

    Or we can have people like you show up when they do that, tell them they suck, and tell them they need to pay money an expert.


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldclassic
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    No you don’t get it.

    Halal, most literally, means basically ‘approved’.

    In this context, its essentially ‘Family Friendly’.

    Inshallah basically means ‘Godwilling’, genuine, earnest hope that the family is reunited.

    I wonder if anything is going on anywhere in the Muslim world where a story about a family being able to reunite would be a resonant and uplifting story.

    Again, there’s nothing inherently forbidden about … non Muslims existing, and not particularly following all the rules that apply to Muslims… in the view of the vast majority of Muslims.

    Most of the people in this thread are being bigotted by way of presumably ignorance.

    And I’m a kafir, a dhimmi, an Atheist, who just likes to learn about different cultures and religions.



  • The immediate problem would be that Idaho, eastern OR and eastern WA are very very seriously trying to do the whole Greater Idaho thing, and are basically chalk full of armed white supremacist theocrat bigots.

    So… yeah.

    I guess the ‘good’ news is that western WA has JBLM and a lot of Navy bases, and maybe enough of them would align with Cascadia … ?

    The bad news is the Holy State of Greater Idaho would probably be able to dash and seize Hanford, and then be able to make dirty nuclear bombs.

    But anyway…

    Throw in Hawaii and then Cascadia and Japan and SK can form a trading bloc, and theoretically be able to back that up with maybe a little bit of the formerly US Navy?

    Total spitballing here.

    Alaska sure would be completely fucked.

    Airline fuel is pretty expensive these days… for some reason… Didn’t BC/Yukon already basically say ‘fuck you’ to US truckers going between Alaksa and the 48, or I am not remembering that right?




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    … Are the fish Muslim?

    As part of their acting like humans?

    Also, generally speaking, fish are halal to eat.

    So there’s no reason for a non muslim fish to either literally not be halal, as food, nor abide by muslim dress code, as a ‘person’, who does not appear to be muslim.

    The widely varying different standards of Islamic Dress Codes != Halal.

    To conflate the two would be like asking if a Yarmulke is Kosher. Its … nonsensical.