๐ก๏ธArmy National Guard Vet Signal Corp โUSN Vet Airborne Electronic Warfareโก๏ธ and Test and Evaluation, ER Nurse. 2A ๐ฎ๐ฑ Support allies. Astrophysics.
Many are familiar with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Physiological: The most basic needs, such as food, water, clothing, sleep, and shelter
Safety: The need for order and predictability once basic needs are satisfied
Love and belonging: Social needs
Esteem: The need for self-respect, strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence, and freedom
Self-actualization: The highest level of the hierarchy, which is the pursuit of personal growth
These needs are universal to all humans.ย If someone is struggling to feed their family, they aren't going to give a fig about LGBTQ rights in a meaningful way.ย In the same way,ย LGBTQ people concerned about their safety aren't going to focus much on the social needs of religious people in a meaningful way. What our political system has done is exploit our needs. This intentional exploitation is committed by the left and the right.ย They create fear and manufacture scarcity to manipulate people into supporting them. This often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fear leads people to endanger others who aren't really a threat. Perceived and real scarcity leads to people hoarding resources. We also have a number of people who have reached the self-actualization stage. Some of them are so far removed from more basic needs that they look down on people struggling to meet the most basic needs for failing to see the world as they do. So before we criticize people for supporting whomever, focusing on whatever, fighting for this, or fighting against that, try meeting them where they are.ย Try understanding their needs. The path that leads to people caring about others leads through the meeting of these needs. This is a reminder to me as much as anyone else. Let's get back to seeing each other as humans with differing needs. Let's help each other meet those needs. Let's resist the forces that divide us.
Here's a final thought. I like to say culture has its own gravity. Once an object is captured gravitationally, it either takes an outside force or expenditure of internal resources to escape it. Most people simply don't have the internal resources or, as a friend, called it, the spoons, to escape on their own. Be the outside force that helps someone break the grip of cultures' gravity. Show them you are kind, decent, and not a threat. Help them meet their needs. Accept them even if you disagree with them. The key to convincing people to care about you is caring about them. It's really that simple.
@GodfreyWar23395@konstructivizm Perhaps the cosmos as we know it is a subatomic component of something bigger. Scale, after all, is a matter of perspective.
@djboone501@flightradar24 The B-52 is capable of delivering numerous nuclear capable and conventional cruise missiles at standoff range. It's very relevant.
@RonFilipkowski Don't be so dramatic. The second bird lost was due to an arresting gear failure. These things happen, and you rarely hear about it. If not for the bird lost on the hard turn last week, this incident wouldn't even make the news. 8 year Navy vet here.
@Baldred@Surians0@POTUS Don't be stupid. Isreal could have killed every living soul if genocide was the aim. It was a horrible war with a lot of casualties. Nothing more.
@thegridpunk@rawsalerts 95% of military aviation flight time is training. That makes it much more likely for something like this to happen in training.
@LolaInaHat @yolitooo11 @rawsalerts They have released a recording of ATC talking to the Blackhawk pilots, asking if they see the commercial flight. My guess is an ATC mistake.
@RobertS95477925@rawsalerts You have no idea what you're talking about. Most military aviation mishaps are during training. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 95%.
@Bfax20 @rawsalerts If you're not operating in a war theater, you're training. In the U.S. military, 95% of the mishaps are in non-combat situations. We train much more than we fight.