Not really, no. The idea of living in a small community makes me feel nauseous and panicky, and the more remote the commune the more intense the aversion.
But I wouldn't mind some sort of arrangement between some others who also like the idea of being off-grid but who loathe the idea of being in a small community, where we'd be off in the wilds with a LOT of space between us, but still come together occasionally to help each other out with various things, or be available be radio or whatever.
Similarly, the idea of being part of a nomadic group seems quite appealing to me, especially if more people join along the way and others dip in and out.
Actually like how Beehaw looks, and the flow of using it is a lot better than the rest of the Fediverse, but on a small screen this "old" style is much easier for me to use.
It'd be cool if one day we could load up *ES settings to run here, but I'd guess two sites are so different under the bonnet, that such wranglings may not be viable.
My grandmother got a massive set as a wedding present, then when she died it went to my mother, whom I live with. Most of it gets used a lot, but we gave some pieces that had never been used to a charity shop some years ago.
Must be nearly 75 years old now.
Added to that in recent years is one of the shallow casseroles with enamelled interior.
Neither educated nor medical, but the first one that was televised looked quite like an absence seizure, only a bit longer.
His staff for that one seemed to handle it fairly smoothly. Couldn't decide if their reactions indicated familiarity with such episodes happening to him, or just decades of media training to glide through the unexpected.
So, so many things have similar design flaws for similar reasons.
Within medical devices & systems, it possibly has the gravest consequences, but all of it combines to add extra stress to those who are not from the dominant group.
It seems now that education is starting to catch up with the curve of reality, mostly because intake has become more diverse than in the padt, but I gather there is still resistance.
True, though presumably they also have staff who have nothing to do with that end of things, and who'd be firewalled from it no matter where they come from?
And, though a majority of refugees might not be possible to vet to the degree necessary for security clearance, this is not true for all of them. Some will have held positions in the US working on highly sensitive matters, others may have worked alongside US military or CIA before they came to the US.
To bring a case before a court, the DOJ would have to be able to show that applicants for jobs at SpaceX were being discriminated against by virtue of their refugee status. If it can be shown that the applicants in question were rejected for some valid reason (such as inability to vet them for a role where that is necessary or just desirable), they'd have no case.
Because they aren't interested in doing so, and know that there are no good ways to define these things.
What they want is the means to impose strict gender norms, and to persecute anyone who does not fit for any reason and in any way.
So, today they want workers who aren't super gender conforming to provide their birth certificates to use the restroom. Then they'll escalate until workers conform or get shoved out. After that, strict gender dress codes for all employees, then gender-specific roles... sometime down the line, a ban on married women working in state organisations, women unofficially barred from most workplaces & most roles, and ideally barred from being out of the house without a male relative as chaperone, blocked from having a bank account or owning property, and in due course... welp now they are property.
Fairly confident that fascists don't want intersex people to exist at all. They won't say that openly yet, but they clearly find them as bothersome as trans and nonbinary people.
Nor do they want cis people wandering around thinking they can neglect to adhere to strict conservative gender norms. Indeed, this is likely what all of their deep hatred toward trans people is really about - the means to rile themselves up enough to inflict strict gender norms on the whole population. Whether they are fantasising about a world which looks like a 1950s advertisement for a refrigerator, or several levels more regressive again, they're not intending any sort of pleasant outcome for anyone whose body or behaviour or identity does not quite fit with the fascist fantasy.
They won't succeed in getting that far, but they absolutely will continue to ramp up their attacks.
EDIT: this is the crux of the phrase "trans rights are human rights". Trans, NB & intersex people are the canary in the coalmine.
Ended a brief romantic relationship. Had a lot of fun, but it wasn't tenable for many reasons, and had already stayed in it too long. Went smoothly but my ex is now acting as if nothing has changed. Retaining a friendship would be nice, though I cannot be close with this person, but will have to be actively distant if it turns out that they're hoping we're actually still a thing.
Otherwise bruised all over & aching joints from trying to change the battery of a smoke detector on a very high ceiling in a very tiny bedroom. No, I didn't fall from a height (or at all) just shoving furniture & ladders around. In the end had to hire someone to come and do it for me, as just don't have sufficient core & hand strength to balance & stretch high with both hands. Inability to do something so basic has me feeling very vulnerable about the future... taking up pilates or whatever would help build strength, and this feeling ought to be motivating, but paralysed with despondence instead.
Oh having the "true" leader of the US in exile would be insanely useful to Putin. Base goes crazy, GOP in disarray, propaganda tool within Russia on perils of democracy etc., bump him off if he kicks off & blame NATO (or whoever).
It does sort of make me dream of a federation of ancom communities, but I like to do that anyhow...
Not sure if it still holds now that most people will stumble upon the history of the confederate flag and how it has been flown since in the US, but as an 80s Eurokiddy, back in the day when we were even more clueless than we are now - it just had some vague "rebel" association. Then people started reading stuff, clued the rest of us in about what it actually represents (inadvertently prodding us out of clueless enthusiasm & into some circumspection), but it took time for that message to get heard enough for the flag to vanish from circles who'd never had flown it had they known.
Anyhow, loathe this version for drawing false equivalences, yet find it grossly fascinating for how it obliquely manifests so many truths about our society under Capitalism.
We're long accustomed to the commodification of causes & the trivialisation of same, but one can look on this and see, endless tidy light grey boxes lit with rows of long lights posed as unflickering mimics of fluorescent tubes, chewing time to unfold tidy folded wraps of glossy paper, encapsulating shine-worn gloss of ticket home (&back) on hard-lit long trains ticking & tilting bright-lit to aching, fretful sweat sotted beds, unfurling blankets... but, for now must choose. By committee.
Or, they laid off 70% of their workers, one of the remainder prompted a chatbot to provide an icon which would "appeal to all Americans" & here we are discussing it, giving them free publicity & putting the pandering fucks at the head of our mind.
Bollocks, have rambled & clean forgotten what I was trying to say. Apologies.
Disappointing, lacklustre, underwhelming, missing, sad, less considered.
I think it is good to reflect on the language we use, but also to be forgiving of ourselves if making the improvements we want to implement isn't always totally smooth.
Misleading title - they're not doing this by applying 4% tax to the income of mere millionaires, they're doing it by applying 4% to the incomes of those with annual incomes one million and over.
That's a much, much wealthier cohort than the title implies.
Doctors, of all groups, seem the least likely to harbour unrealistic fantasies about pregnancy, childbirth & the implications of unwanted pregnancies which come to term.
So though it isn't hard to imagine that providing obstetric care can have joyous aspect which might feel different to helping people who are sick or injured, the statement feels alarmingly divorced from the visceral & emotional realities of human reproduction.
Meantime your words reminded by of an often-quoted comment by a famous US comedian whose name escapes me, to the effect that advocating for the rights of the unborn permits an activist to feel all the passion of fighting for the vulnerable, without ever being confronted by the fruits of their activism whom they dislike as individuals, or whose behaviour they disapprove of, who are ungrateful, who present inconvenient human complexity, who are from groups the anti-abortionist hates, etc.. The activist gets to project their own ideal of innocence onto them all.
Though I strongly believe those who are responsible for pushing anti-abortion rhetoric into a major political issue just wish to ensure an increased supply of people who are more vulnerable to exploitation.
Not really, no. The idea of living in a small community makes me feel nauseous and panicky, and the more remote the commune the more intense the aversion.
But I wouldn't mind some sort of arrangement between some others who also like the idea of being off-grid but who loathe the idea of being in a small community, where we'd be off in the wilds with a LOT of space between us, but still come together occasionally to help each other out with various things, or be available be radio or whatever.
Similarly, the idea of being part of a nomadic group seems quite appealing to me, especially if more people join along the way and others dip in and out.