GlendatheGayWitch @ GlendatheGayWitch @lemmy.world

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What are you talking about with PrEP? It's not tied to having insurance, there are LGBT sexual health clinics where you can get free PrEP even if you don't have insurance. If you go the traditional route for medication and get a prescription through your PCP it'll depend on your insurance, but that's also not always the safest route. Granted if you live away from the city, you will have to go the traditional route, because there aren't likely to be any LGBT clinics nearby unless you decide to drive into the city for your quarterly appts.

In the 90s, health insurance was almosy exclusively tied to your job. There were a couple policies that you could get if your job didn't offer insurance, but they were expensive. Today, if your job doesn't offer insurance or if youre out of a job, you can not only get insurance on the marketplace, but you can even get financial assistance. That financial assistance didn't exist in the US 30 years ago outside of Medicaid. It's not universal Healthcare, as seen in other countries, but the ACA is overall an improvement on the system.

I agree that there are still rights to be won and attitudes to be changed so that people can live their lives openly without threat of violence, just noting that the overall situation is better now than it was 30 years ago. For example, I saw a story about a trans teen in North TX (a small town north of the DFW metroplex) in the last couple years. If that story was from the 90s, it would've been about the death of the teen and that's what I was expecting. Instead, the article was about the teen being kicked out of a school play because they were trans. It was a relief that the teen was still alive, which shows some positive growth, however there's still work to be done.

The younger generations are better at inclusion and I'm hoping that trend will continue. As the Silent Generation and Baby Boomer politicians (who have been ruling for the better part of 60 years) leave office, I'm hoping they are replaced by younger, more open-minded politicians. I've seen articles mention how in some elections that's happening, it just hasn't reached the leadership of the various branches yet. Hopefully, when it does, we can reshape the system to help everyone and build better defenses against those who would abuse their power for the rich. My concern is that if the conservatives are rallying behind a goal, while progressives grow increasingly pessimistic, that we may not see shift that we really need to make progress.

Yes, 30 years ago the AIDS crisis was still going strong and, in the US at least, same-gender relationships were illegal and the LGBT community didn't have a right to work, and on top of that same-sex marriage was illegal. A lot of rights are rolled into marriage, including the ability to remain at the bedside of your loved-one when they are at the hospital or on their deathbed, arranging and/or attending your partner's funeral, and being allowed to remain in your house after your spouse dies. Through the 80s and 90s, gay men were losing partners left and right and some were kicked out of their partners' funerals and then kicked out of the house they had lived in for decades because the title was in their partner's name since they couldn't sign together.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was also started in 1994.

Same sex relationships weren't made legal until June 26, 2003 (Lawrence v TX) Same Sex Marriage on June 26, 2015 (Hodges v Obergefell) Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace was barred in the US June 15, 2020 (Bostock v Clayton)

Even with all the holes Republicans drilled into it, the Affordable Care Act helps many people get health insurance. We also have medication that prevents the transmission of HIV and that prevents the onset of AIDS, saving many lives.

In 1995, the internet was in its infancy, at least compared to today and was largely text-based. If a website had a bunch of pictures, it took take 5-15 minutes to load depending on your location, provided nobody killed the connection with an incoming call.

Sure the mindset nowadays is much more pessimistic, even thought the ruling class from the 90s is aging out of power. We just need people ready to push us forward as more of the silent generation and baby boomer politicians leave office.

I didn't realize kolaches were actually Czech. I looked it up at some point and must've read some bad info.

They're probably the same people that insist on calling pigs in a blanket, a kolache. A kolache, being a pastry filled with fruit, is a food first made in TX by Czech immigrants. It's so disappointing when places say they have kolaches and it's actually just pigs in a blanket.

Without them, we might have been able to boot Cruz from office a few years back when Beto was running. According to an exit poll at the time, native Texans largely for Beto and those that moved here largely voted for Cruz.

Liam Neeson would be a force to contend with.

Qui-Gon Jinn

Zeus

Aslan

R'al al Ghul

A-Team

His character in Taken

Gotta get a pearl necklace to match the pearly gates!

I did not select his name in the ballot box

That's not actually the original pride flag. That's the one with 2 mission stripes that were taken away due to cost. The original had turquoise instead of blue and a pink and indigo stripe, so one color more than the rainbow. Rainbows have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

The 8 striped also symbolized different things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ)

I agree with what you're saying. As they keep adding more things to the flag, it becomes cluttered and harder to see.

Ironic that all the paintings of Jesus show him with long hair.

They would need to have another session to vote to override the veto. So they'd also need a mechanism to reconvene, given they are only in session for 140 days every other year.

By extending that session or adding another, the legislators would need more time off from their other jobs potentially at a pay cut. Legislator are only paid for time in session.

Then legislative positions would be even more inaccessible to those not already wealthy.

TX legislative pay is $7,200 per year plus a per diem of $221 while in session.

"Therefore, the total compensation for a regular session would be $38,140 ($7,200 base + $30,940 per diem). Over a two-year term, the total pay is typically around $45,340 ($7,200 base pay x 2 years + per diem for one 140-day regular session). This relatively low base pay highlights that the legislators’ roles are often viewed as part-time public service rather than full-time career positions."

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/what-is-the-salary-for-texas-legislators/

Yeah, it just keeps repeating itself and gets bigger each time. I meant my comment more to read that this is a repeating theme in the us.

Pick up an outdoor hobby like disc golf, tennis, pickleball, golf, something that you can enjoy with other people. You can usually find an amateur league of various sports/games and that'll keep you going when they ask if you're coming or you're signed up to play on a team for the season.

You may even enjoy the company of those people and do other sports/activities together.

Turning it into a game can also help.

Remember, it's more about slowly creating a sustainable habit of moving your body that's important. You don't need to run a 10K tomorrow to be successful.

Maybe you can make a map of the parks around your city and put a fun sticker on each park after you visit for 30 minutes, regardless the activity. Idk, just kinda throwing stuff out there.

Haven't we seen this headline a few times already? I feel like this was a point made after 2008 and covid lockdown at least.

Why wouldn't you talk about a bear wearing its dresses?

Yes, the bear is wearing multiple dresses.

It is also helping them cover up the brachside resort and golf course and theme park they are building with him.

https://www.newsweek.com/new-trump-golf-course-55-billion-beachside-project-announced-qatar-2066482

There was a study comparing test scores of children from a more poor neighborhood that had city water with fluoride and test scores of children from a rich neighborhood that had its own water system and didn't add fluoride to the water. To nobody's surprise, the rich kids tended to score higher on tests and those publishing the study claimed that it was the lack of fluoride in the rich kids' water that helped them score higher, instead of the inherent food and home security and additional parental support that comes from wealth.

If nobody wants them, then they are worth $0.

It's the character Lucifer from the show Supernatural

This also implies that the denying doctor is ok with breaking an oath to do no harm.