LillyPip @ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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I’ve honestly wondered whether circumcision dulls boys’ empathy?

If the first experience you have in the world is extreme pain in your most vulnerable place, what does that teach you?

Thanks. I appreciate that.

I’m not just talking about myself, but others like me. I’m Lilly Piper, but there are others like me. You can try to save all of us, and I would greatly appreciate your efforts.

Just so these dipshits know, I’m already feeling the cuts to Medicare/Medicaid staffing and services.

I live in the US and rely on Medicare because I’m fully disabled, to the point of being homebound.

Apparently the division that deals with remote visiting technology has been cut, so they can’t legally fill my prescriptions anymore unless I physically travel nearly an hour to their office every 3 months to remain eligible, and my doctor can’t legally renew medications that I’ve been on for 20 years. Within a couple of months I’ll have to stop taking all of my long term maintenance meds because I cannot travel to their office.

This will remove all my quality of life and will kill me slowly. I don’t want to die slowly of neglect, so I’ve got a decision to make, and I’m putting it off because I really don’t want to die yet.

I don’t know what to say except I have a name. I’m Lilly Piper. I’m a very good user experience designer, a pretty good writer, and decent friend.

We’re not faceless or nameless. I just want someone to remember that there are names behind these policies.

I’m good at sewing; I make period correct corsets from the 1800s and before (proof and more proof).

I’m actually great at sewing. I do embroidery and am a great listener. I’m also a good writer and editor. I didn’t need to die like this, but I won’t be homeless again, and I won’t beg in the streets for medicine. I just won’t.

e: links

I wouldn’t change anything except the assumption in the overall medical field that infants can’t feel pain. I don’t know much more about this specific condition, but I have a different condition in which they assumed infants can’t feel pain, and they were wrong enough that I still have trauma from that.

Take any medical knowledge from 20+ years ago that sounds horribly painful with a grain of salt, because that was the assumption relatively recently. Some doctors who learnt medicine more than 20 years ago still think that.

e: Groundbreaking research in 2015 says babies do feel pain. 2015.

It’s not something that needs medical intervention, necessarily, because there’s nothing that can be done, and most live through it. Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.

Turns out they can, though.

e: I can’t spell

Every inch of your body’s skin being hardened and cracked to the point nearly every surface nerve is exposed and raw doesn’t seem that bad?

What does seem bad to you?

If you still believe in a god, google ‘Harlequin Fetus’.

If you don’t, don’t. Seriously, don’t.

‘Three words that made me an atheist: Paediatric Oncology Ward’.

I can’t remember who said that, but it’s spot on.

I really liked that series when it came out. Now it hurts to watch.

If you didn’t vote, you voted for this. This is a representative democracy, and voting is the absolute least you can possibly do.

You don’t get out of your civic duty by abstaining – you’re implicitly supporting the winner by failing to do the bare minimum. You’re doing far worse if you uttered one sentence to convince others to abstain with you, which many, many did.

Unless you live in a literal cave, you’re complicit.

Good job everyone who advocated for 3rd parties or abstained because this ghoul was ‘the same’ as Biden or Harris. I hope you’re sleeping well that razing Gaza is the same as not doing that.

Great work. Perhaps you’ll get a discount on the new trump branded resorts they’ll build on that land, which we fucking warned you he wanted to do years ago.

I’m done trying to warn people. You won’t fucking listen so I’m wasting my breath, and these ‘I told you so’s just taste too bitter.

Wake me when you’re ruffling the ashes of your own countrymen from your hair (or don’t, because I’ll be seasoning your egg salad with what’s left of my bones).

e: MItHC reference, and since I’m both disabled and queer, I’m going down with this ship

Grim, but relatable.

With all due respect, newish Lemmy users won’t become mods or create communities with that attitude.

Everyone is new sometime. We need to make it easy. (Don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy.)

MOISTURISE ME

That’s cool, and I was amongst the biggest Apollo fangirls on the planet, but just because Apollo jumped off a cliff doesn’t mean you have to.

This particular bit of design is not ideal.

I’ve been designing UIs on iOS, Mac, and Windows for decades, and this is confusing.

e: especially for newish users, who we’re trying to attract to Lemmy, right?

Great, thanks. I love all the customisation features Voyager has!

I still don’t understand all the green shields after every commenter’s name, though.

Thanks!

This is what I’m seeing:

It’s not a username colour – that would be ideal. It’s a green shield badge.

e: you said: ‘In addition, for admins, both local and remote it changes to red with or without a checkmark inside of the shield as a signal on what actions can be performed by admins on a given piece of content’

I have no idea what you mean by this. We were talking about username colours, and that made sense, though I haven’t seen that. Now we’re on checkmarks, which I see, but doesn’t make sense. Does that make sense?

Someone just told me these shields mean I’m a mod and can interact with these posts, but that’s not what it meant to me. To me, it means ‘this user is a mod’, which was super confusing.

I’d instead color the edit menu ellipsis green, not add a shield.

Those tags, like this shield, convey information about the user’s status, not what I can do. The ellipsis tells me what I can do.

Awesome, thanks for letting me know you don’t see everyone as mods. That helps me.

Oh, that’s all? Followed.

e: thank you.