Notices by Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)

@sundogplanets
I found it fascinating that Qantas already had to start factoring in falling space junk when it plans departures.

So ... we are going to try Smoot-Hawley again, just harder and with more conviction this time

America: "Oh no, EVs can't handle the cold. They only work in cities. They aren't reliable"
Norway: "Nine out of ten car purchases are EVs and they do fine in the cold, rural areas, and have a lower failure rate and cheaper maintenance than gasoline and diesel cars"

@jacklaridian
Sucks
There are whole books and podcasts about people who have lost loved-ones and friends to MAGA and Q, and not much light at the end of the tunnel for restoring the person.

I gave up reading about the topic because other than just staying in contact and keeping some kind of common link, there just seems no real fix.

@socialistdarling

@jacklaridian
Ugh
@socialistdarling

@jacklaridian
Ah
Would he listen to the AMA, or a medical school perhaps?
Or maybe a foreign source like the NHS or German health department?

@socialistdarling

@socialistdarling
"HIM: ... gender dysphoria is a mental illness?'"

If I may - your FIL may benefit from hearing: The ICD and DSM describe the EFFECTS of gender dysphoria as an illness bc living in that state degrades quality of life and mental health. GD is a result of disparity between biological and mental expression of gender characteristics, and can be resolved by narrowing that gap. In many cases GD is resolved when the person live the mental map of their gender

https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/frequently-asked-questions/gender-incongruence-and-transgender-health-in-the-icd

@slothrop
Yah. I completed the survey and boosted, because helping other researchers is good.
I am unlikely to see her paper though, so not going to ever understand how she used those answers. It just struck me that maybe she was exploring a different construct to what was mentioned in the lead page

@slothrop
The questions and the stated intent do not seem to align very well.
I can't see how those questions would explain why there was a drop off of user activity

Mitch McConnell says "we are in a very very dangerous world right now".

Yeah bub, a world YOU fucking dragged to our doorstep. A world YOU hatched out, celebrated, fed, and nurtured, and which YOU had every possible means and opportunities to prevent, but didn't.

Here we go ... Elno threatening the GOP with primary funding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igAEuU1FpUY

@StillIRise1963
I am pretty sure it is a stable character type, but there are people who feel to their core that being called out on their racism is a far worse thing than the racism itself or its effects on the victims.

@StillIRise1963
It is also not a thing I have encountered much in other countries. In other countries I have lived or worked, people would be reluctant to own their racism, but not to the same order of magnitude of Americans - who will fight to the death rather than admit that something they did was racist.

"I am not a bad person, I can't be racist"

Like, my dude, what do you call what you just did?
Then they ger furious and throw over the metaphorical table and run away

@StillIRise1963
I'm sure you have a limitless supply of examples :)

For my part, I KNOW I am a racist, and even know how much. It's as easy as taking an IAT and getting a measurement. I found it really easy to admit. What happens next is action to reduce it, and that gets hard sometimes, because, y'know, the beast lurks within, and it's sneaky

@SnowshadowII
I grew up in Apartheid ZA, so it was all kinda on the surface, but the first time I really saw institutional racism was Band Aids. The color of Band Aids was designed for ME, for MY skin tone. It made me pause and think what it was like for a lived experience to be when myriad things are NOT made for one. It was a wow moment for me that things could be so natural for me because they were designed for me and how frictionless that experience was

@StillIRise1963

@johnzajac
Oh fuck off, John
Either you know what you just said was bullshit and are just a bad actor, or you are willingly stupid, in which case, well, you are stupid.
Either way, fuck off, John.

@AmandaMarcotte

@GottaLaff
LOL, what now?
Are they actually trying to look stupid, or is this just whomever has a usable grift?

@GottaLaff
Obviously, a big part of the fascist playbook is to just heap outrage upon outrage to exhaust observers and throw chaff so they don't notice the important stuff they are getting up to. I guess they also don't really care if these departments grind to a halt and become useless, so long as they have a nice list of powerless people to blame.

Food quality sucks? Obviously illegal immigrants
Resurgences of childhood diseases? Again, illegals
Drugs unavailable or unsafe? Trans people!

@jon
Kinda how fascism works.
"Buy my shit product, or I will influence the laws to harm you, and sic a crowd of nuts on you"

@brembs
It took me years to build up to 10k followers. I was a big user of Twitter, including hosting my own tweetchat on healthcare quality and safety. I had literally thousands of followers for my blogs, my short stories, and my research work.

Then Dorsey sold that to an arsonist who promptly fucked it all up.

I am sure as hell not investing that sort of effort again, only to have Jake Fucking Dorsey sell it again as soon as the numbers looked good. Fuck him.

@pluralistic