mivox

space_cadet, 1 month ago to random

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: drops teacup

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

RickiTarr, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to random

The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

fraying, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to random

Today I got my first community violation on TikTok. It was a video about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing that went on for minutes but failed to mention that McVeigh was a far right Republican white supremacist. That seemed like a pretty stark omission to me, so I left the fact as a comment. First, I was flooded by hateful responses. Then TikTok deleted the comment and issued me a “strike.” I appealed and was denied. I doubt a human ever reviewed it.

Savvyhomestead, 2 months ago to random

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

Israeli soldiers opened fire on starving families scrambling for scarce food aid, killing 104 and wounding over 700, then they backed over the bodies with their tanks. People had to carry the wounded away themselves as no ambulance could reach them and little if any medical services are available.

#gaza #ceaseFireNow

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid

mivox, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Your periodic reminder that getting #COVID only confers immunity for about a month: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/immunity-from-covid-19-reinfection-could-now-last-just-28-days-heres-what-you-need-to-know/60ysp5t53

Also if you can get boosted three times a year, please do that, because the MRNA boosters’ effectiveness starts to wane after 4 months: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7107e2.htm

h/t to the weekly Pandemic Roundup from @violetblue for the excellent image.

#COVIDIsNotOver

mivox, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to sourdough

It’s been a hot minute since I did a #sourdough photo shoot, but these two loaves turned out so nicely I couldn’t resist…

#BreadPosting #BreadPorn #HomeBaker

*Pls un-tag the sourdough repost bots in your replies! 😅
@teamsauerteig @brotbacken

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

from the 1920s to the 1960s people smoked right in your face - it took 40 years, millions dead, and life-sacrificing activism to change that norm. just for perspective 😕 #CovidIsNotOver

mivox, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Your friendly periodic reminder that #CovidIsNotOver

Roughly 2000 people a week are still dying of #Covid19 in the US.

And as far as I know, there is no specific count being tracked of people dying of post-Covid cardiac events & strokes, so the actual total of Covid-related deaths is likely much higher.

BlackAzizAnansi, 3 months ago to random

Drop one of your controversial opinions.

mivox, 5 months ago to random

It has been a very Climate Change winter up here so far.

Good for my heating fuel bill, bad for… everything else in the world, give or take. https://alaskan.social/@AlaskaWx/111529705572830044

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Getting tired of being a bipedal, please give me other options.

fraying, 1 month ago to random

I’m so tired of watching the most predictable terrible outcome happening and then everyone pretending that it’s fine, actually, because technology.
https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/nycs-ai-chatbot-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law

mivox, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Looks like my prohibition on buying Amy’s mac & cheese and microwave burritos is extended indefinitely. 😫 WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GROW UP TO BE A SOULLESS CAPITALIST FUCKHEAD, AMY??
(h/t @Radical_EgoCom for the screenshot)

[Edited to add: Apparently the facility closure happened about a year ago. But if you—like me—hadn’t heard about it yet, now you know.]

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

An entire diligently-reported NYT article on spiking absenteeism in schools...

that doesn't mention Long Covid

mivox, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Wearing a mask is SO FUCKING EASY, it blows my mind that everybody isn’t willing to do this one simple thing.
#CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #KeepMasksInHealthcare https://zeroes.ca/@DDelgadoVive/110924263566531574

mivox, 1 month ago to random

Heyyyy I finally got my damn website up and running again! Christ there are so many moving parts on these things.

https://mastodon.art/@knezek/112233799892699768

inquiline, 1 day ago to random

Everyone who is worried about being replaced by AI has it all wrong

mivox, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Imagine living in a world where a disease that only killed ~3000 people in a “bad” outbreak was taken seriously? :blobcat_blushplead:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-iron-lung-dead-paul-alexander-b2511827.html

(Oh, and now I’m hearing the man died of COVID… Jesus.)

mivox, 1 month ago to random

And there’s one more country leapfrogging ahead of the US in terms of general social progress. :blobcat_thisisfine:

Congratulations, Australia! https://newsie.social/@estherschindler/112192064822346614

ZachWeinersmith, 3 days ago to random

Stupid econ question:

So it looks like a lot of remaining inflation is rent. In that case, wouldn't you want to lower rates to increase home-building and home-ownership in order to reduce rent pricing?

mivox, 2 months ago to random

Today, made my traditional St Paddy’s dinner (not to be confused with a traditional Irish meal for the same occasion. I don’t even know if there is one, tbh.)… brown bread, colcannon, home-cured corned beef, Alaskan Smoked Porter (not pictured).

A green-glazed dinner plate, filled with sliced corned beef, a pile of colcannon, and a wedge of brown bread generously covered in butter.

redrummy, 1 month ago to random

Of course this fluffy face is my home screen. Show me yours.