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hrefna

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SRE at Google. Queer. Poly :potion_polyamory: Trans :verified_trans: :nonbinary_potion: Engineer. Ace :flag_ace: Member of AWU-CWA. #ActuallyAutistic :rainbowinfinity: #UnionStrong

Opinions my own. Does not suffer fools gladly.

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lolllllllll
https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/112434950256360322

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A long time ago, the worst project manager I ever worked with tried to get involved in a technical decision around database choice.

See, he had a set of demands that he told us were absolute requirements and in his eye this data store solved those problems neatly.

Except.

We talked to the people who worked on said database and we were not just a little outside of the parameters where they made such guarantees, we were way outside of what they were built for.

This was a recurring theme.

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We tried to push back and get him to help solve the constraint problem, but he refused to even define the constraint problem for us.

For instance, we were told that we needed to use a data source that had a 15 minute delay. The PM wanted us to have < 1 minute resolution.

We were going "you can fight with eng management who told us to use the 15 minute data source, and you would need to drop the requirements for what it gives us."

But no. He could not figure out why we wouldn't just do it.

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At one point he tried to shut down the project we had been working on for a while.

He could do that, but to do that he had to clear it with people who were above him, not just with the team.

We told him so. He took this… poorly and became mealy mouthed around it. He never got the escalations needed to solve the situation.

His reactions made it seem like this was someone who viewed our pushing back as "disrespect."

But we were just trying to do the job and solve the constraint problem.

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@jenniferplusplus Hundreds of gigabytes webscale! (we were in the petabyte range at the time)

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The use of "guys" as a neutral address bothers me, but in part it just makes a relatively good test of respect: if after you repeatedly correct someone they continue to persist in using it, that tells you something about them.

It's just very clearly a gendered term, no matter local conventions around use, and if you are repeatedly asked to not use it by people who are in the group you refer to and you continue to use it anyways that says a lot.

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Okay I know it is trite to complain about the loss of media literacy but holy frak.

Some of y'all need words like "problematic" taken away from you until you learn to engage critically with the material you are reading.

There's a world of difference between met-gala-style "we're not reading the room" and "this character is at best morally ambiguous as a deliberate choice in portrayal."

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Thunderstorm outside and my brain goes "I wonder if the thing about not showering during a thunderstorm is true and, if so, what's the actual injury rate from that?"

I found a meteorologist who estimated it at 10-20 people through all fixtures per year… but they didn't have any hard data to back that up. Several other experts in various fields who all said it was possible and definitely happened… but outside of a few instances on ships I couldn't (at a glance) find any likely candidates.

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Everyone™ seems to agree that this is definitely a thing.

But is it actually? At least if your house is up to code (which, lol, I'm not sure such a thing is ever true, but leave that aside for the moment).

If it is a problem, how frequently does it come up? Are there circumstances where it is more (or less) likely to come up?

I haven't found good search terms to identify this just yet.

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Most sources basically seem to say things along the lines of "there are injuries indoors and it is postulated that it occurs through plumbing fixtures" and then drop it after that.

They sometimes will mention other possibilities, like phones, but I can't find much so far that does more than postulates.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/167698

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Uman, Martin A. 1986. "How Many People Are Killed By Lightning Each Year?" digs into this a little bit and mentions some cases in the 1960s, but it then leaves it at that, and doesn't differentiate between plumbing and house wiring.

It does briefly talk about lightning rod systems going into the plumbing and improper grounding creating arcs, but the numbers we're talking about here are low.

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There's some discussion about the risk to plumbers but not just from lightning, but from, e.g., live wires. But their circumstances and what they are handling is very different from, e.g., a person taking a shower or hanging out in a tub.

Halliday, Chris. "Plumbing: Electrocution in plumbing." Electrical Connection 2 (2022): 38-39

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Mythbusters did a test on it (2005, Episode 30, Son of a Gun, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2005_season)#Episode_30_–%22Son_of_a_Gun%22#Episode_30–_%22Son_of_a_Gun%22)) and declared it to be plausible, but their hut construction is in many ways unlike the dynamics of lightning and houses.

So it may still be plausible, and it may actually happen, but I'm not sure this test is particularly informative on this front.

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There's at least some thought that the majority of indoor issues have historically involved a telephone (Ventura, Francesco, et al. "A unusual lightning death in an indoor setting: a case report." The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 38.1 (2017): 1-4).

While I can't speak to the quality, there was also a 2017 systematic review that concluded, in short, that indoor lightning deaths in the US are basically non-existent and the CDC guides are outdated.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.05.23296621

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Men: Let me explain harm reduction to you.

…or, hear me out, what if you didn't.

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  • Enclave Soldiers try to ambush me because I took a heavy incenterator.

  • I run full tilt toward a group of supermutants.

  • I circle back and find that they've largely killed each other.


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I worry about the long-term health of the fediverse.

I worry every time I see my @ auto-populate based on a server that no longer exists, where the person never migrated.

I worry every time I see an account of someone who maintains most of their presence on Bluesky or Threads (or Twitter for that matter), especially when I know they have had a Bad Time here.

I worry when I see petty infighting between servers.

I don't have a solution to these issues, but I worry about them.

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How many people did we lose from the fediverse with the loss of tooters? With the loss of mastodon.lol? Home.social? Universeodon?

How many more that we don't even realize?

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…whut.
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112423082506081414

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@jenniferplusplus This is like the VC-brained person who a while back was talking about how a "NFT of an apple cannot be destroyed! it continues to exist even if the apple is eaten!"

just…

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What the hell about this woman's background makes her suited to be an "independent investigator" of #trans issues?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Cass

There's literally nothing here that ties into any of the fields that are relevant. Her specialization is all in developmental and mental disabilities in high-support-need younger children.

"Independent" evidently means "so far out of her lane that she can't see her lane on this side of the horizon."

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Carnell, Henry. The UK’s New Study on Gender Affirming Care Misses the Mark in So Many Ways. Mother Jones. 10 May 2024.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/cass-review-transgender-health-care-nhs-gender-affirming-care/

“It’s a bad faith claim that we don’t have enough evidence for pubertal suppressants or gender-affirming hormones,” says Keuroghlian, who has worked with over 2,000 trans and gender-diverse patients in their career. “Gender-affirming medical interventions have been used for adolescent gender dysphoria for decades, and we have a large body of evidence linking them to improved mental health outcomes,” says Turban.
Perhaps because of the loose use of terminology, the Cass report describes some gender-medicine research as “poor” even though those same studies were rated “moderate” or “high quality” by reviewers at the University of York. The studies downgraded by Cass all demonstrated the efficacy of gender-affirming medical interventions. On the other hand, other studies that didn’t come to such strong conclusions in favor of intervention were not similarly downgraded.
More broadly, Keuroghlian and McNamara both argue that Cass’ conclusions undermining the observational studies is itself a form of bias. “The review’s conclusions are discriminatory,” says Keuroghlian. “It’s an intentional misapplication of science to deny a minoritized group access to medically necessary evidence-based care.” “Any deviation from basic principles of evidence-based medicine suggests bias,” says McNamara.

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Horton, Cal. Social Transition, Puberty Blockers, and the Cass Review (Podcast Transcript). What the Trans. 7 May 2024.

https://whatthetrans.com/social-transition-puberty-blockers-and-the-cass-review-podcast-transcript/

It found that trans children who were supported and able to socially transition in childhood, had positive levels of mental health, depression and anxiety, levels of mental health similar to their cis peers. This was in direct contrast to research at the same time from populations of trans children and adolescents who had not been supported to socially transition, where high levels of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation or suicide attempts were common. This ground-breaking finding that supported trans children have good levels of mental health is reported by the York systematic review thus “The study found no significant difference in depressive symptoms compared with population averages”. Do you see how the study’s own findings have been distorted to make it sound as though the study result is inconclusive?
Bizarrely they adopt a definition of social transition that is in no way standard, including children who only change appearance or clothing, in order to justify inclusion of a 2013 study in which no youth actually socially transitioned according to today’s understanding of this term.
Being trans is seen as inherently a bad outcome. It doesn’t matter if you are a happy trans teenager, or a healthy trans adult. This is a worse outcome than being a cis adult. The Cass Review utilises HRT to justify this eugenicist bigotry. Trans people, the Cass Review argues, are more likely than cis people to require ongoing HRT – life-long medication. Therefore, the Cass Review argues, policies that can limit and reduce the number of trans people are medically speaking, morally justified.

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