Notices by Charles ☭ H (celesteh@lgbt.io)

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Disappointed to learn that r/fuckcars is not uh, what I expected and is instead very sensible views about private, urban transport.

I hope that the new federated competitors to reddit follow a fediverse vibe and make their version of this community a place to trade deeply disturbing, lewd animated gifs. Of motor vehicles shagging. Because truck nuts.

@goatsarah @hypolite @codybrom

Facebook has been used to coordinate genocide. I'm at a loss for what further information could possibly be needed.

Like, is it too presumptive to isolate a company that makes advertising profit off of murdering minority communities?

@bri_seven @goatsarah

I worked for the IT department at my university and we had meetings about this around then!

Honestly, in the decades since then, a lot of devs have gotten a real sense of entitlement to data. Information wants to be free, etc. Any unencrypted data was fair game in our minds. And, indeed, we saw our users as data-seekers, not the people making content. (Who should be grateful for any attention, etc.)

#Friendica users may want to consider making a feature request that their platform conform to web standards. I don't think its a platform modeled on extractive consumption, so this ought to be noncontroversial, in principle. (Or maybe my impression of the platform's philosophy is skewed because I only follow people I respect.)

#NoIndex

Who owns neighbourhood watch signs in England? What are the consequences of taking it upon oneself to remove one if there's not actually an active group in the area?

What if the fail whale was really just the friends we made along the way?

It's not inherently bad that the supreme court is a major driver of change. The court legalised interracial marriage and ended segregation when politicians were too bigoted or cowardly to do it. They protected medical privacy. They struck down bans on marriage equality.

The problem with them now is not that they're taking substantive action, but rather what this action is actually doing.

If we're going to survive this era, we need to divest ourselves of the fetishisation of form. The content matters.

The primacy of process was a charade used to build coalitions across conflicting values during a time of relative calm. That period is over and the utility of stressing process is at an end. Fighting about court overreach is hypocritical because it's obviously not the problem - it wasn't in the 60's and it's not now. The problem is a corrupt court. The solution is either a major ethics investigation or, copy some hard nosed 20th century tactics and threaten to balloon the court up to as many members as it takes to get a left majority again. This is how anti-trust legislation quit getting struck down. Threaten the fucking court like past left presidents did.

Honestly, fuck the process. Their bad rulings are coming with a body count - people dying from being unable to terminate life-threatening pregnancies, everybody else at the sharp end of things and this is minor compared to people already dying from the fucking climate. We're all at risk - if not from flood or fire or drought, then food shortage.

My dad is confused and watches many problematic YouTube channels, so it may be this guy is not the problem, exactly, but rather that my dad has used a pirism of misinformation and confusion to "do his own research" and draw wildly harmful conclusions.

I do think people reporting on health have additional responsibilities to their audience and even if this dude is not the problem, he hasn't been a solution either.

Update: he's a motherfucker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

He finally saw a competent GP (his previous one was willing to prescribe YouTube's 'protocols').

The new guy looked at his D levels and ordered rush tests to follow up on it and when they came back this morning, he ordered that my dad be taken by ambulance to hospital.

So after breakfast, a nurse came to his room and dialed 911.

A firetuck and like 7 paramedics showed up.

Vitamin D is not water soluble, so it's important not to get too much.

If you get too much, it can cause toxic levels of calcium in your blood. This weakens your bones but it also fucks up your heart, makes you have to pee a lot, makes you very thirsty, and causes confusion. Vitamin D also directly causes intoxication.

It is possible that my dad's recent decline was entirely triggered by his fucking YouTube health advice.

He'd stopped taking D over a week ago and all of the calcium effects were still getting worse because he was eating more.

Anyway, his doctor thinks this is treatable.

Dad told everyone endlessly about his ketogenic diet to prevent dementia and how he was growing broccoli sprouts and eating red meat and so forth in great detail, but it turned out he had gradually (or suddenly?) stopped being able to manage his own food and was barely eating at all.

His mother had the same thing happen. Apparently, its relatively common in elderly people. If you are calling in on old people, check their refrigerator. Ask them what they had for breakfast. Or lunch or whatever. If you eat with them, do they only have a tiny appetite?

Also, obviously unbalanced fad diets are bullshit unless being used to manage inflammation or diabetes or an actual, diagnosed problem. Low calorie / lpw carb diets are being hyped on YouTube as a panacea for aging.

Thank goodness the "zero grain keto" breakfast cereals are actually made of corn…

The reason every doctor asks separately for a full medical history is because they apparently can't access his record?

Do **not** fuck around with high doses of vitamins, y'all. Holy shit.

Like all of my dad's current woes might be triggered by this.

This room is like 15 degrees or less and we've been parked her for nearly 8 hours. My dad's circulation is poor and prefers to be at at least 25. This is crap.

Catholic priest successfully ordered. Hopefully.

Not for extreme unction, just for reassurance.

Well, he can be anointed if he wants, but the treatment seems to be helping. He's much less pale.

Just to reiterate, the person running a care home for elderly people is against covid boosters because Texas.

And my SIL thinks its a likely good fit for my dad, who is also against boosters because dementia and YouTube.

(Also he was super frustrated this morning when I couldn't fill his request for a "lemon breakfast". My brother said he'd noticed a little bit of mild aphasia, so I guess that's getting worse.)

His room now is like twice the size of a room in a UK private hospital. It has a chair for him. A chair for a visitor. A wardrobe. A private bathroom. A sink. A set of draers and a 3 or 4 person sofa!

(Back in the bad old days of St Pete's Andrology, bottom surgery only happened in private hospitals.)

The wild ozone place is far and away the best option. Happy residents out and about, cleanliness generally good, a very engaged staff, a nice flat, nice grounds, a whoooole lot of Jesus, but he likes Jesus.