Press release from the Conglomerate Mesa Coalition dated July 30, 2021 (https://friendsoftheinyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/7-30-21-PRESS-RELEASE_-CONGLOMERATE-MESA-SCOPING-BEGINS.pdf):

BISHOP, CA — Today, the Bureau of Land Management announced the opening of the public comment period for the proposed mining project at Conglomerate Mesa, located on traditional homelands of the Paiute-Shoshone and Timbisha Shoshone and about one mile from California’s Death Valley National Park. K2 Gold’s proposal will impact at least 12 acres of Conglomerate Mesa. The company proposes to drill 1,000 feet down at seven locations to collect samples for gold analysis and to develop nearly three miles of new roads. Mining and drilling in the region would permanently destroy cultural resources and traditional cultural use sites, as well as threaten water supplies, wildlife and plants, and recreation.

The public comment period will last 30 days and the general public is encouraged to submit comments on the controversial project before the August 30th deadline. Comments can be submitted via the Bureau of Land Management’s website (click “participate now”). Following this initial scoping period, the Bureau of Land Management will review public comments and issue a draft Environmental Assessment. The general public will also be able to submit comments on this draft EA in the later summer.

“Conglomerate Mesa is a sacred landscape to the Indigenous people of this area. We have protected and cared for these lands since the dawn of time," said Kathy Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone. “Not only is this landscape a place of traditional pinyon nut gatherings, but it is also a transition zone between the Timbisha Shoshone and Paiute Shoshone traditional homelands. We have an obligation to protect the homelands we have and stand in opposition to this project every step of the way. We hope the people will stand with us and make public comments. Now is the time to make your voice heard.”

Conglomerate Mesa is used by tribes native to Payahuunadü/Owens Valley and Death Valley/Timbisha. The drill sites at Conglomerate Mesa are located among pinyon nut gathering sites, hunting grounds, mule deer migration routes, potential burial sites, and numerous individual artifacts.

K2 Gold and Mojave Precious Metals, a Canadian company leading the exploratory drilling project, is also threatening rare desert plants and the region’s scenic beauty. Rare species include the Inyo rock daisy, and the Badger Flat threadplant - a species new to science. Mature and juvenile Joshua trees, currently a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act, occur along K2 Gold’s proposed road at Conglomerate Mesa and would likely be impacted by road construction. The Inyo rock daisy is local to the Inyo Mountains and found nowhere else in the world and the core of its distribution is centered on Conglomerate Mesa.

Phase 1 of K2 Gold’s exploration is complete. Following exploration, K2 Gold aims to sell the rights to another company to develop an industrial-scale, cyanide heap leach gold mine in Conglomerate Mesa. Cyanide heap leach mining uses cyanide to extract gold from the earth and poses significant hazards to local residents, plants and animals. Further, cyanide leach mining is very water intensive and uses hundreds of millions of gallons of water. K2 Gold recently admitted it does not know where water supplies for this project will come from. Advocates assert that there is not enough water available in the area for an industrial mine.

“Allowing a large mining project to proceed here at Conglomerate Mesa will devastate the natural environment, threaten endangered desert species, harm wildlife and their migration corridors and further stress scarce water supplies in Inyo County,” said Wendy Schneider, Executive Director, Friends of the Inyo. “The region’s cultural significance, beauty, and unique plants and wildlife are beloved by local communities and it's our collective responsibility to make sure all of it remains intact for future generations.”

ive found a lot of transmeds think it's funny to include systems in thinks making fun of tucutes and im sick of it. i see things like "ur a system at 14 lol" when making fun of tucutes and its like, do they know what DID is? because it forms in VERY EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS. like, its uncommon and im sure a lot if people fake having it but its really,, real and serious and should be taken like that. like, i really dont think we should be making fun of a disorder formed in EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS BECAUSE OF EXTREME CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND ABUSE.

sure, make comments like "how did you figure out at 14? most people dont know because alters try to hide themselves" but its only natural that people will learn younger and younger when they actually know the words for it and what to look for. its just a natural result of the internet. like seriously its not cute to make fun of such a serious disorder. if anything id say DID systems are the only cases of mogai genders that can exist "in reality" because theyre formed as protection for a CHILD and not really based in reality at all, lots of alters are fictional characters because its a disorder formed by people who were severely abused because they were old enough to develop a sense of personality or self. like,, alters r real in the same way depression and ptsd are real. idont think peoples whos whole thing is "gender dysphoria is a real disorder and should be taken seriously" should really be saying "DID isnt a real disorder and shouldn't be taken seriously" like... dysphoria n did aren't comparable but theyre both disorders n need to be taken seriously,, so yeah.

i know shitty radmeds exist and these people sure are bordering being them.

I don't have enough knowledge on DID to comment on any of the technical stuff you mentioned. However, I will comment on the general idea of the ask. Ie. People dismissing others values because of age, mental illness, or implied stupidity.

And ya, it's pretty sucky. I don't really see it too often. But I also stay away from any posts that are like that for any topic. Overall I'd agree, it's messed up to dismiss someone's thoughts for the example you gave. I think there is something to be said about the trend of self diagnose and seemly lack of information on how mental illness actually works and it's correlation to tuscute ideology.

Like... The kinda people who think that someone can be trans without some level of gender dysphoria (even if it's unrealized) do tend to be the same people who think they have a specific illness based off of online quizzes. There is a very very very large misunderstanding of what is and isn't mental illness unfortunately. Which is why you get so many self diagnosis based off of little research.

That doesn't make it right for people to dismiss their claims ALSO based off of mental illness, or the implied self id-ing of. But I can understand where the thought process comes from at the very least even if I agree that it's wrong. Unfortunately, insults like that happen from both sides. I get quite a few hate messages from tuscutes every now and again.