medgremlin @ medgremlin @midwest.social

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Do you know the name of this sculpture or the name of the artist?

"The only moral abortion is my abortion."

I am now rather curious about the context. I saw his comment about being on his boat, but hadn't seen him around prior to that. I don't remember the username though, so I can't look up the profile.

If it's a federal holiday, a lot of employers offer (or, in some cases are required) to give increased pay on holidays, usually time-and-a-half or double-time depending on overtime laws. The increased rate of pay could make up the difference for the list wages from the unpaid time off for voting.

There have been a few problems recently with pharma factories failing inspections in regards to sterile production environments. The last one I heard about was a while ago, but I think I remember a pharma company deciding to close some factories and stop making those products because coming up to code would be too expensive and the products aren't that profitable.

It's important to note that the human populations of northern and southern states were fairly close to even, but the south decided that anyone with a bit too much melanin was property, not a human with rights and a vote....and they were very reluctant to give up that system.

Some states require businesses to give workers a minimum of a certain number of hours to vote, but there are no requirements for that time off to be paid. This means that, even if the workers are allowed to leave to go vote, it is unlikely that they will be paid for those hours, and for some people, missing a couple hours off of a paycheck can be a very big problem.

American businesses are not required to give employees paid time off to vote, and the required amount of time that they have to allow is just a couple hours. So if someone works far away from where they live and/or has 12 hour shifts or something, it becomes a choice of getting paid or getting to vote. And the Republicans have done a fabulous job of making sure that voting is as time-consuming as possible in poor and non-white districts by limiting the number of polling sites. Some people have to wait 8+ hours to vote, and the Republicans have made it illegal to give people who are waiting in line food or water.

Also, you have to vote in the precinct you live in/are registered in. You can't go to just any polling site on election day.

MRI sometimes uses a non-radioactive contrast depending on what you're trying to get images of. MRI is probably the safest imaging modality, but it's very expensive, kind of difficult sometimes due to how long it takes, and isn't useful for every kind of imaging that needs to be done.

They require the certificate to be installed to have access to the network.

I agree with you completely, but I wanted to make people aware that the option exists in case they are able to make use of it. A solution that helps some people but not others is better than a complete lack of a solution.

A lot of states have places for early in-person voting. You might have to drive a bit of a distance, but it allows for in-person voting in a less chaotic environment.

I use Proton when I'm on my university's campus because they switched to using EDUroam for the campus wifi. I used to be a Sys Admin at a different university a while back, and from what I know, EDUroam allows the IT department to monitor basically all of the traffic over the network. I don't know exactly how deep that stuff goes, but if I was doing anything personal or sensitive like banking or whatever, I'd flip on the VPN on my personal computer. I also don't have any personal accounts logged in on the school issued laptop because they have it loaded with institutional spyware. Once I graduate, I'll blank the drive and reinstall the OS to have a decent Lenovo laptop on hand as a spare.

Edit to add: I use Proton because it was the least shady service that I could get for a reasonable price as a student. It is also helpful for finding textbooks. :)

That is a deeply unfortunate genetic mutation. As if life weren't hard enough for them already.

Humans kind of have that with HPV. Get your vaccines!

A lot of "tumors" seen on wild animals are fungal infections from invasive fungal species brought by humans. It really sucks because fungal infections are very hard for mammalian immune systems to fight without help from antifungal medications.

I once got to meet a Tasmanian Devil baby at a zoo. The zookeeper was carrying him around in a little pouch to keep him comfy while his mom was getting a vet checkup. (The picture is one I found on google because the picture I took is buried in some backup folder from about 6 phones ago)

They do feel hardship, but there are quite a few people that see donating to trump and trump merch as necessities (and not all of them are Americans).

I was about to comment a similar sentiment. I didn't realize I stopped existing or had my gender identity reassigned because I'm on lemmy instead of other social media.

At this point, Israel is a rogue terrorist state that needs to be cut off from all material and financial support until they agree to permanent ceasefires and handing Netanyahu and his cabinet over to the ICC.