lennybird @ lennybird @lemmy.world

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I can't imagine the nightmare that is being a teacher nowadays, but also that is absolutely the fault of the individual. I had many ways I could cheat in school prior to AI and did not.

I might have that wrong and it may be a full week. I'll ask them when I get a chance and update.

Edit: Yeah my mistake; it's a week.

I'll just say that my wife works in medicine and you have to stop Oz3mpic 24 hours before surgery because of the added risk of aspiration due to the stomach retaining food contents for longer. Seems to possibly put strain on the pancreas (pancreatitis a side effect).

That doesn't sit well with me. Neither does it fix the core problem of what caused the vast majority of weight gain cases: poor dietary habits. Then again, our society has short-circuited evolutionary dopamine-driven behavior so it may necessitate intervention to re-wire it back.

I'm still using old reddit, but I'm very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.

Thanks for this! Very helpful in improving my understanding. Transmedicalism seems kind of absurd to me out of the gate given the entire premise behind what I at least always thought trans meant as in "transitioning"; a state of flux if you will. What point along that state largely shouldn't matter. Yet people attempting to justify their bigotry will of course latch onto extreme edge cases the likes they will never actually feel or experience themselves or are so trivial it's irrelevant or scientifically baseless in the first place — the obvious one being sports.

Thanks for writing this! This makes a lot of sense to me. I echo the same in terms of the aversion to toxicity and competitive nature (like a little friendly competition can be positive, but beyond that...). Here in America that shit is rampant especially among right-wing circles and it's so tiresome. My wife said she was attracted to me because I wasn't like her dad, like most other men in her life that fell into this toxic masculine competitive crap. I'd rather see more cooperative engagement.

Where I diverge is just my lack of interest or desire to wear women's clothing, makeup, poise, etc. Don't get me wrong! I have no problem with anyone along any combination of the sex/gender axis enjoying those things, but yeah just not something I've yearned for myself, which explains why I may not have gender dysphoria? I don't know. But this has helped me understand why others do!

This is so myopic.

• Don't blame the voters for not choosing the obviously better and more probable choice that would lead to protections for Palestinians than the guaranteed binary alternative outcome? Okay.
• Ignore the fact that much of the electorate is completely fucking ignorant and apathetic and duped by literally billions of dollars of misinformation flooding their media, both domestically but also including Israeli and Russian operations spreading disinformation? (something these Uncommitted voters became susceptible too in the boTh SiDes rhetoric, ind you)

I'm Pro-Palestinian. I'm Pro-Civilian. But if these couch-sitters really gave a fuck beyond empty moral grandstanding, then they should've focused on helping to inform their fellow voters why it's important to help Gaza. After all, you want candidates to respect the will of the voters but ignore the ultimate reality that the electorate was clearly split on the issue just the same and made no attempt to influence the electorate? Put another way: instead of protesting the DNC convention, maybe you guys should've started protesting at church parking lots around the country and showing the horrors of Palestine, undercutting the media narrative? That would've been much more fruitful.

Because you're lying to yourself if you think Harris would somehow be worse or equally unreachable like Trump.

Leaving aside the fact that you completely further enabled (a) a loss of LGBTQ+ rights in America, (b) Women's rights by abortion access, c) Climate change, and finally (d) became complicit in enabling Russia's attempted genocide in Ukraine all the same. So please, step off the soapbox.

If comfortable, could you or someone else who is trans try to explain the feelings behind transitioning to me, a cisgender? I support trans rights and maintain the philosophy of live and let live (dare I say, true individual freedom as a leftist); I'm just trying to better understand for my own sake.

More specifically,

• Is it a matter of societal forces imposing masculine expectations because of your physical characteristics when ultimately, what you feel deep down are effeminate characteristics of the true you? (Or am I wrongly assuming that one is transitioning to another gender and not instead to non-binary?)
• If yes to the first, if society was more receptive to, say, masculine women or effeminate men at face-value, would that have made you more comfortable prior to transitioning?
• If no, I'm interested in better understanding how this sort of realignment for lack of a better word improves the feelings of gender dysphoria if it's more an internal pressure than one imposed upon you by society.
• In terms of physical attraction, are say MtF by the statistics more attracted to M or F, or is it split, are the bisexual/asexual/pansexual, or is data unclear? Is the aspect of gender dysphoria entirely decoupled from the notion of partner attraction (gay, straight, etc.)?

Hopefully I asked these in a way that is both respectful and makes sense. No pressure to respond, thanks.

Unfortunately that path feels like it's closing. Will probably need more shows like The Handmaid's Tale to make learning entertaining. The more people are reminded of the horrors of fascism in parallel fictional arenas, the more likely they will connect the dots.

So not much different than now except cooler, hell yeah!

Can I take my chances and live like a peasant 500 years in the future?

I figure either the world won't exist and I dodge all the existential crap that is fretting death, or I get to fly in spaceships like one flies coach today and maybe conditions will have improved for the bottom 10%.

Whoa this is kind of a big deal:

"I've gone into kidney renal failure, they've given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology," her post says.

This was back at the beginning of April no less.

For those who don't know kidney failure is fucking awful. I'm not going to say how it compares to cancer but it's a way I hope I don't someday go.

Already did. This discussion is useless. Bye.

You need to start reading things more closely. Are you stoned right now or something? If you actually read what I wrote, you would recognize that I had already read those sources. If you read more closely, you would probably know that Tylenol is also not an NSAID.

My dude, what are you actually talking about? Call me a skeptic but I must take with a massive grain of salt what you say when you confuse Tylenol as being an NSAID — something that is very easily looked up; so I can't even tell if you're confusing studies conducted on Ibuprofen versus Tylenol.

The studies you mention elsewhere:

• Yes, if you take FOUR GRAMS within a 24 hour period, that can cause damage. People are dumb and don't read labels and take in excess.
• If you take the recommended dosage of 325mg even every 4 hours as opposed to 6, you're still under 2 grams in a 24-hour period.
• Yes, Tylenol is less effective than Ibuprofen for things like headaches and inflammatory pains because — again — it is NOT a Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
• Don't be stupid: Don't take Tylenol with Alcohol, use it acutely, and follow the instructions and you'll be fine so long as you discuss with your doctor. Not rocket science.

Obviously the dose makes the poison. You can literally poison yourself by drinking water in excess, too.

Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an NSAID.

Ibuprofen is.

Ibuprofen particularly can mess up kidneys and stomach lining with chronic use especially. Meanwhile Tylenol tends to be a bit harder on the liver but is otherwise generally considered safer. This based on my hospital stay as a patient and the doctors veering me away from ibuprofen and toward tylenol, and my wife who is an RN.

I very much avoid both to the best of my ability but ibuprofen in particular (even though for me it's WAY more effective), and the only time I've really used either with any temporary regularity was with kidney stone, pneumonia, sepsis (all three at same time, mind you), and omicron covid I think it was. Tylenol is generally considered to be safer than Ibuprofen, unless you have preexisting liver issues.

Do vitamins & minerals count? Beside those my goal is none and so far so good..

11% of Trump supporters who voted for him in the last election disapprove of him, according to this PEW poll. Honestly more than I thought but who knows how easily Republicans could get them back given their megaphone of misinformation diales up during election time.

Eh big doubt, but ask them what the protocol is for discontinuation of sitter following psych eval improvement and pending discharge.

No not quite. For the record both my wife and I work at hospitals.

The article itself reads:

It isn’t clear what Sarah’s doctors planned for her next step in care. Her family and staff who cared for her said she had shown improvements during the last month.

A discontinuation of a sitter following protocols during a 3 month stay is quite normal, and also a give-and-take of trust. All of this is going to come down to patient charting and whether the doctors followed protocol in discontinuing sitter monitoring for an SI patient. Clearly as the article reads there were signs of improvement and at some point that child would have to be discharged.

They also noted they wanted to move the child to an patient psych facility but they were full. At its core, a hospital is not a long-term care facility. To house a child for 3 months on this is beyond the scope of what most Hospitals are capable of adequately handling as acute care facilities, and yes, she should have been transferred to a pediatric psych facility... But again, the system is backlogged.

This is a system strained to its core. What should be emphasized here is 1) The psych unit would've had the PHYSICAL measures to prevent her from leaving, independent of anything else. Yes, this was a cut. 2) The entire medical system is under immense stress right now. A true crisis. Staffing shortages are absolutely one key aspect of this among others.