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Chetzemoka

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There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: "Evil is boring"

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Oh fuck you, stop lying. The vast majority of Americans agree on reasonable abortion restrictions.

"When asked about the legality of abortion at different stages of pregnancy, about two-thirds of Americans say it should be legal in the first trimester (69%), while support drops to 37% for the second trimester and 22% for the third. Majorities oppose abortion being legal in the second (55%) and third (70%) trimesters."

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx

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These two women would have been able to access abortion services much earlier in the pregnancy, if they were in Europe instead of Oklahoma. This case is the kind of thing that restricting access to legal abortion early in pregnancies causes. This is the fault of the Oklahoma abortion bans

Allegations against Rudy Giuliani and Russell Brand show sexual abuse is a selling point for MAGA (www.salon.com)

“Sometimes, it’s who you most suspect.” That’s what a friend of mine texted to a group chat after the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4 Dispatches released a disturbing investigative report documenting rape and other sexual allegations against British comedian Russell Brand. The actor denies the allegations, but...

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He followed Glenn Greenwald down the "I feel like people don't respect my leftism enough, so I'm gonna join the alt-right" path

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Also the tactics used by bigots to oppress both classes separately are the same. So the resistance to that oppression is better off working together

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Having your literal survival threatened has a way of focusing the attention. We're already reaching the point where people can't afford the bread and circuses.

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"Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)"

https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-does-bible-say-about-refugees#:~:text=Foreigners%20or%20refugees%20are%20not%20to%20be%20oppressed.&text=Israelites%20were%20to%20call%20on,of%20them%20in%20any%20way.

I hope you don't call yourself a Christian.

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Well, I guess at least you're just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.

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Yeah it's because miles are meaningless when you're encountering traffic along the way.

Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US (www.cnn.com)

Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades....

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What a disgusting thing to say about another human being

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We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I'd rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

Why Do Conservatives Attack Abortion and Trans Rights in the Same Ways? (www.nytimes.com)

We were at the sinks in the ladies room, the stranger and I, washing our hands, when a trans woman came out of a stall, looked in the mirror and sighed. After she left, the stranger turned to me and said: “Can you believe that? A man, in here!” She shook her head disapprovingly....

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Stop lying. The massive, coordinated effort to outlaw gender affirming medical care is so much more than "a couple people feel squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room."

benefits and protections generally reserved for females

Omfg, please leave right now

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The secret ingredient is ✨🌈 misogyny ✨🌈

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Oh I thought it was just a couple random people getting squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room? So you admit that it's an organized effort. I don't think I've ever seen someone move their goalposts in the wrong direction before lmao

Outlawing gender affirming medical care has zero impact on sports, you willful liar. No, the truth is that the people behind this movement are targeting trans people because they're the most convenient vulnerable group to rally hateful bigots around right now. Gay people are acceptable, the dog caught the car on the abortion "debate," and they need a new boogeyman to leverage to whip votes

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You know that's not true

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They changed the law after that fiasco. The new 2019 law requires backpay without need for approval

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It's guaranteed now, as of 2019

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As I literally sit here in the cafeteria on my day off rallying for our upcoming union vote 💪

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If by "quitting" you mean we all die, I think you just might be right.

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We'll get there in our time, friend.

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Ok, that was subtle. Well-played and thanks for explaining

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Anticipation of surge? We're already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

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Oof, yeah. It'll be time to break out my N95s again

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Herd animals gonna herd animal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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You ABSOLUTELY can have a cop sued for making a minor mistake. They can carry malpractice insurance, just like I do. Don't give me that shit. There is no reason cops should be immune from lawsuits

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You can’t have a cop sued whenever he makes a minor mistake

Your words

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I disagree with the court. We're allowed to do that

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Most map projections dramatically underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-nemo

We're just not used to seeing this half of the planet depicted, and the Pacific IS almost half of the entire planet.

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Trained people become impervious to chemical fumes.

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The problem is the complete dismissal of subjective evidence as being a valid form of evidence. We have deified objective evidence to the point of hubris, denying the existence of anything that doesn't show up easily using our current technology. In my experience, it's less often gaslighting and more often an embarrassing lack of epistemological humility and a pretense that we are have somehow reached the pinnacle of medical technology already and have nothing left to learn.

We're here to treat patients, not test results. If a patient is reporting that they are experiencing distressing symptoms or that something is making them feel better or worse, they deserve to be taken at their word. Ignoring them because our current tests are not sophisticated enough to identify everything invalidates their subjective experience, and that's not patient centered care.

This is the real issue when people are talking about medical gaslighting. Every endometriosis patient being told for years on end that their debilitating symptoms are "normal" period pain. The embarrassing statistics on how long it takes someone with an autoimmune disease to be correctly diagnosed.

We've become too impressed with our technological toys and forgot how to see the real human beings in front of us.

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Yes, but that's different from subjective evidence and I think that's part of the problem. There's a difference between somatic symptoms and subjective evidence.

We differentiate between the two all the time without explicitly identifying it as such. "Patient says the feel a lot better this morning" vs. "patient says they still feel rotten" is valid subjective evidence that we really do take under consideration when evaluating treatment response.

Onset, duration, aggravating and alleviating factors, and consistency of reported symptoms are all things that distinguish evidentiary subjective reports from somatic ones. I've walked psychotic patients through things that were distressing to them that I knew were somatic. And I've caught "real" things where the patient subjective report was really the only indication we had. It IS possible to differentiate.

Granted, this demands more time than the corporations we work for would like to permit us to spend with our patients. Which is a huge part of the problem that we should all be protesting.

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Funny story, instead of referring to groups of adults as " hey guys," I like to refer to them as "hey kids." You know how many grown adults I've had object to this? Zero. Not one. Ever.

We all know it's true

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Jesus Christ

Whoever you are, wherever you are, make the extra effort to make sure you can vote this cycle. Just because of how much they don't want you to

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Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I've ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.

Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds (medicalxpress.com)

Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. The study also shows that in private locations older people, especially older men, are less likely to...

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People also tend to be more hesitant to hurt women, especially elderly women. And CPR done properly HURTS. A LOT.

"Benevolent" sexism is still harmful to women.

Unity issue an apology on Twitter for "confusion and angst" over the runtime fee policy. (nitter.net)

We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical...

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They're game devs, not an acquisition and mergers team. "We signed contract to do business with xyz terms" should be plenty reliable enough for conducting business. Not "Lol, whut? You didn't read the fine print? Psyche! We're changing everything."

Unity deserve to get sued into oblivion for this

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This is silly. They can help between training assignments. It's not one or the other

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Does this person think working shifts are just magic? You show up at 4am on a Saturday unscheduled and they just pay you with no complaint? People just get as much unauthorized overtime as they want?

I understand that's not the kind of work he's suggesting, but it is the kind of work that the vast majority of us do. Stop trying to normalize the hustle. We need to go back to RESPECT for the 9-5 working person and pay them enough to have comfortable lives

Engadget | The future of decentralized social media (youtu.be)

While it is unclear whether Meta’s new Twitter clone, Threads, will provide a viable alternative to X, it undoubtedly has the potential to make significant waves in the realm of social media. While massive changes aren’t slated to come immediately to the app, Threads is likely to join the ever-growing list of apps on the...

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Maybe let's try focusing on content and not personal characteristics of the presenters:

https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU?t=1347&si=wZjBIJkdmK8CwzIm

I'm way more annoyed by that terrible echoey microphone

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Almost 10% of the entire GDP of the Philippines is the money those overseas workers send home:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Philippines/remittances_percent_GDP/#:~:text=Remittances%20as%20percent%20of%20GDP&text=For%20that%20indicator%2C%20we%20provide,from%202021%20is%209.31%20percent.

You're not wrong about the fact that we underinvest in training our own population to do this work though.

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I don't know that it's better; just pointing out that it is kind of how the country works right now. Around 10% of their entire population works overseas at any given time. And those higher paid workers like nurses can bring a lot of value to their families back home.

Is it right? Is it a good idea? I can't speak to that. But the country has developed an entire administration to deal with it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipinos#:~:text=This%20number%20constitutes%20about%2011,be%20young%20and%20gender%2Dbalanced.

(I work with a lot of Filipino nurses who have explained some of this mentality to me.)

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Runway designs are not meant to be usable. They are artistic showpieces. Quite often they don't even have normal openings and fasteners, and the models have to quite literally be stitched into the garment.

"Fashion" happens when these art pieces are used as inspiration for the design of things that can be worn.

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