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  • My dad lost his arm in the late 90s in a work related accident. He described it as painful but was surprised at how it didn’t feel worse right there and then. Probably due to shock.

    He was working alone in the middle of the night with his tractor when it happened, so he picked up what remains of his left arm he could find into a bucket and drove to the local nursery home because he knew there were people awake there 24/7. I guess that’s one definition of grace under pressure.

    Upon arrival he got the emergency help he needed there and then and a while later he told us that while waiting for the medevac helicopter to be summoned, he was annoyed again about the pain, thinking “Isn’t this where I’m supposed to faint?”.

    Later he had the occasional phantom pain. He didn’t struggle with it that much, and it usually passed after a few moments, but he told me that the worst parts was when he had an itch, or a finger was Ina weird position, he could do nothing about it since the limb simply wasn’t there anymore.

    His arm was severed by a tractor-operated snowblower right below the elbow.

    Fun fact: When the thaw of spring arrived he was happy to learn that someone had found his wristwatch in the retreating ice. Still working just fine. A little later someone found a wedding ring and correctly guessed that it belonged to the guy who got maimed there a few months earlier.






  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.worldControlled opposition rule
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    Yup. From the outside, it’s been reasonably obvious since 2007: The current system isn’t working, and the ones who offer to change things are the ones who will actually get the votes.

    This became even more apparent post-covid: Biden offered a return to normalcy, while Trump wanted to “fix everything”. You can say what you want about Trump (and I will probably agree with most of it), but he offered something else than the same old neolib system that has failed more and more people every year.

    The problem with today’s mainstream politicians is that one side tries to return to Obama era “middle ground” policies while the other side can be summed up by this shamelessly stolen comic:

    A sensible politician who wants to win an election needs to understand that “the middle ground” no longer means not stepping on toes. The middle ground these days means shaking up the current system to provide basic necessities for those who have been ignored for decades. People turn fascist for the same reason people turn tankie; when you’re starving and someone promises all the potatoes you can drink, of course that sounds better than the current situation.

    I truly hope Mamdani or someone like him gets to appear as more than “ermagerd scary communist” to the right side, because I’m sure most of those who would insta-hate “The left” actually can get behind a lot of the actual policies once they get beyond the politics.

    I’m all for rainbow-rights, eco-friendly living, and diversity, but most peoples priorities are a lot more immediate: putting food in the table. Let’s all hope the DNC realizes this.





  • bash setup/config/PS1 is your friend here. I frequently find myself with a myriad of terminals between a bunch of usernames and servers at work, and setting up a proper prompt is key to help you keep track.

    My bashrc makes my prompt look like this:

    username@hostname:/absolute/path
    $ inputgoeshere

    … with color coding, of course. Yes, I use a multiline prompt. I somehow never saw that before using ParrotSec despite being a bash user for 25 years. I modified the ParrotSec default to suit my needs better, and I like it:

    • Obvious which user I am.
    • Obvious which host I’m on.
    • Obvious which path I’m in.
    • It’s easy to copy and paste a complete source/destination for pasting into, for example, an rsync comman

    I pasted my PS1 config here: https://pastebin.com/ZcYwabfB

    Stick that line near the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file if you want to try it out.