Sturgist @ Sturgist @lemmy.ca

Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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Nah, I get that. Just wanted to share the fact that won't be possible for some people. I've been turning off my phone when I know I'm about to interact with police for almost a decade. I don't think I have anything to hide, but that doesn't mean something I think is innocuous couldn't be considered a reason for police overreach...they aren't required to know what the law actually is. Makes for situations where you get fucked for something you're legally allowed to do.

So I live in the UK, and they're talking about moving to a digital ID scheme. My resident permit is already digital, so when I enter the country I need to, if I get stopped, access the government site, generate a share-code, provide it. With the proposed digital ID it would be like your G-Pay or ApplePay bank/credit cards, your driver's license would be in your phone's "wallet," or a separate app. I would have no choice but to hand my powers on phone to an officer. There's some things that can be done, on modern android you can pin a page so when you hand over your phone the only thing that can be accessed is the pinned thing. Phone needs to be unlocked to get at anything else, but it'll still accept biometrics.

Check and see if it's owned by Postmedia. Even if not, a lot of news media are guilty of being lazy and just pushing PR without giving it a critical look.... sometimes without even really reading over it....

Not really, they specifically say that you shouldn't use the cloud provided by Google or apple, that you should make a backup image or your phone, and upload it from your pc to multiple cloud services preferably based int the EU.

Your advice won't stop border agents from compelling you to unlock your device with biometrics.

No it doesn't, but regular police basically everywhere are allowed to do that. Really you shouldn't be using biometrics to unlock your phone at all.

Gotcha, sorry, I read the situation through a lens of my own experience.

The aforementioned detox was cold turkey, and I absolutely get how hard it must have been. When you have your new team as support, it might be helpful to give a trusted person a bulk of your meds to be given back on an agreed schedule. Might make sticking to weening off easier. Knowing you only have a set amount until the next time would help me(personally) to not go over what the arranged lower dose is, with the assurance that it is actually available if you say... accidentally dropped half a week's worth down the sink drain opening the container. Which has absolutely happened to me with antibiotics once.

Just like with doctors, engineers, architects....hockey players don't need to be particularly smart, nor good people, to be good at what they do.

You'd think. But a lot of "import" brands manufacture in North America....well, for the vehicles that are for the domestic market anyway. Won't effect boy racer and his Skyline....

Nice, I'll remember that.

So what my physio had said is that that nerve can get trapped/damaged by having your heel pointed in and toes out. And would be advisable to keep your heel as close to the outside of the foot well and your toes pointed in to operate the pedals. 🤷 I'm just a mason who never finished highschool. Idfk if that's legit or not. She's like...26, but went to school for physiotherapy, so I guess she probably knows better than me.

Yeeeesh! Yeah. That's.... that's definitely a reason to get a new Dr.

Half my life ago I was doing....alllllll the drugs. At levels and mixes that quite honestly should have killed me. Of the friend group I had at that time, 7 of us, there's myself and one other that aren't dead, or been in the clink for 15 years and looking at a minimum of another 20.
When I saw the way I was headed, after the first of our group had died, and while I was serving a frankly very lenient non-custodial criminal sentence, I detoxed off coke/crack, meth and heroin (smoked not injected) all at the same time.
I can tell you, not exactly how bad or in what way, it's gonna suck. I really really feel for you. Just make sure you follow advice on how to safely come off it, there's a lot of drugs, legal and not, that can easily kill you if you just stop taking them.
Be safe fam.

So I'm in the UK, and while there's a bit of leeway to see a GP that's not in your catchment area, the next closest to where I live is really far. Also it's not really the GP's fault. They're required to follow protocol dictated by the NHS. He walked me through it. There's a program, you punch in the symptoms, follow the questions down the flow chart, it gives you a likely cause. Things like the intensive testing I've been told to try and get? He's really just not authorised to refer me for that. We've had quite a long chat about it, and it really just isn't something that he's able to do. That would have to be something that a specialist sends me for. I've been on the waiting list for 25 weeks, so only 20ish more to go.
The results of decades of underfunded health care systems.....

I get that, wasn't really what I was trying to say, but looking at what I wrote.... definitely comes off that way...

And 90%+ less likely to be grabbed off the street by plainclothes Nazis and sent to a concentration camp....

This...fuck....my DUDE!

So up until Tuesday I was driving and hour into work and, due to traffic, my way back would be minimum an hour and a half, but sometimes up to 3 hours if everything is fucked. I had considered that I might have a similar issue, mostly from not having cruise control and how I position my leg/foot while driving on the highway. Haven't had a chance to look at the videos yet, but I suspect that they're either the same, or very similar, exercises that my physio has had me doing.

I've not been at it long, so I'll give it time to cook. And, as of Tuesday I've switched depot, so my commute is now a 15min bus ride, with a ~5mins walk on either side of it, so hopefully that'll help too...

✊ fuck yeah! Keep it going!

It's a sign of her patience and character that she put up with my _ball_istic attitude.... actually... she's a fucking saint for putting up with me before all this went down....

People jokingly call their partner their better half. She's literally the best thing that ever happened to me. Also weeeelllllll out of my league.

#blessed or some shit

Ohhhhh... that'd definitely be a hard yes.

Totally. I replied to another comment saying basically the same thing. Check that one if you want some over sharing.

I suppose that's fair. Just so far outside my personal experience, guess that's a me issue...not a reality issue.

While I'm not extremely well versed in statistics, I'm just a lowly Stone Mason after all, I believe that it's quite common knowledge that how data is collected and presented can easily twist what it says.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/socialpolicy/2020/11/04/how-misused-statistics-can-harm-democracy/

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4844680-political-misinformation-data/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2020.1740716#abstract

https://bigthink.com/the-present/consequences-of-political-polling/