Drusas

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Drusas,

Beautiful trees. We have them down here in Washington as well, though here we call them Pacific madrone. Native Americans used to use the bark as a tea which was supposed to help with things like stomach upset.

Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery. (kbin.social)

It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....

Drusas,

Blocking a person or instance still allows the bigotry to spread.

Drusas,

"In the coming weeks, the agency plans to file a far-reaching antitrust suit focused on Amazon's core online marketplace, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and three people familiar with the case," the report said.

Amazon's marketplace is not their core business. AWS is their core business.

Drusas,

I think schools should use something like the zip code a student lives in. That would allow them to look at the demographic makeup and median income of the area, which are much more equitable factors to consider than race alone. It would enable them to increase academic opportunities for those who are underserved by the current system regardless of the student's race. And as we know, here in the US, the poorer zip codes also have more minorities, generally speaking.

Drusas,

It should be based on primary residence.

Drusas,

They changed pepper distributors a couple years back, so the taste did change.

Drusas,

Secret Aardvark is great, but it's not really a replacement for sriracha. They're very different sauces.

Drusas,

I am very much in favor of protesting against police in general (I'm an American, and they're crooked here), but in this case, the cop was immediately arrested. That sounds like something to praise. Protest is he gets off easy.

Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don't take them seriously (apnews.com)

The nation’s health disparities have had a tragic impact: Over the past two decades, the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.6 million excess deaths compared to white Americans. That higher mortality rate resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life due to people dying young and...

Drusas,

Doctors don't take women seriously. Doctors don't take black patients seriously. Being a black woman is like drawing the losing lottery ticket in terms of healthcare in the US. I'm glad it's at least getting a little bit of attention.

Drusas,

He was also a great conservationist, founding multiple national parks and monuments.

Drusas,

Need to put that trigger behind a spoilers blocker! I'll never unsee it....

Drusas,

The marks/scarring thing is real. I need regular blood draws and infusions (iron deficiency anemia), and I look like a drug user just because my elbows always have marks, and I'm pretty sure the left one is scarred after I needed a blood transfusion a couple months back.

As somebody who has now needed a blood transfusion, thank you, donors! Please donate if you can. In addition to people needing them for injuries and childbirth, some of our bodies are just shit at making our own blood.

Drusas,

The /s is out of place here.

Drusas,

And they were all totally okay with this until it made national attention. We need to scrap our entire police system and have a do-over.

Drusas, (edited )

Brain fog is a real issue for people with a variety of chronic health problems, and one that is entirely underappreciated by the average person who hasn't experienced it.

Edit: further evidenced by the fact that this has already been downvoted just a few minutes later

The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says (apnews.com)

More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.

Drusas,

Dealing with one problem doesn't mean the other can't also be dealt with after. Small steps are good; not everything has to be all or nothing.

Drusas,

I'll just say that there's a reason for the old people eating prunes stereotype.

Drusas,

I've been making a conscious effort to reply to posts I find interesting, even if I'm just adding a sentence or two and not the most engaging of content. At least it helps get things started, I think.

My problem is that I'm experiencing a bug wherein I don't get notifications when people reply to me unless they @ me, so I can only see if somebody has by going back and looking at my own comments through my profile. I assume that'll eventually be fixed, but if others are experiencing the same bug, that will be a huge drag on discussion.

Drusas,

I really hope the fediverse isn't going to be completely overrun with "this", "this is the way", "fuck around and find out". FFS, people, try to have an original thought.

Drusas,

If you are so skittish that you're afraid a cell phone is a gun, you are not emotionally competent enough to be a law enforcement officer.

If you are so stupid that you think a cell phone is a gun, you are not mentally competent enough to be a law enforcement officer.

If you don't understand that it is someone's second amendment right to have a gun on their person on their property, you are not educated enough to be a law enforcement officer.

Drusas,

I did yesterday (or maybe the day before?). Someone wanted validation to their belief that the US is currently the same as Russia circa 20 years ago, or something along those lines. It wasn't a real question.

Casa Bonita eliminates tipping, going against service industry norm (www.denverpost.com)

“In order to provide a higher-than-average, dependable wage, we shifted to a no-tipping model and doubled the hourly rate to more than $30/hr for our service staff. This shift also benefits our guests, who can enjoy Casa Bonita without incurring unexpected costs,” management said.

Drusas,

As an American not from Colorado, I was amused when I learned the same. Apparently it had gone out of business and was recently reopened by the creators of South Park (at significant personal expense) because they were so fond of it as children.

Drusas,

Except they didn't.

There is and can be no baby when there is an ectopic pregnancy. The early fetus will never develop into a baby. It is impossible in the case of a nectopic pregnancy because that fetus needs to grow in the uterus, not in a tiny fallopian tube.

Even if you consider the fetus to be a baby already, there is zero value in preventing abortion because that baby cannot live. All it can do is potentially kill its mother before it also dies.

Drusas,

I understood. That doesn't mean it's not worth saying.

Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years (www.thedrive.com)

Oregon’s Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be self-service. The bill, responding to industry staffing shortages, also prohibits charging more for full-service than self-service, likely...

Drusas,

Yes, but only for the last couple of years. Most Oregonians have never pumped gas.

Drusas, (edited )

US politicians need to stop sucking "job creator" dick. "Job creator" is basically just another way of saying "someone who doesn't do the work but makes work for other people and benefits from their labor".

Drusas,

As someone who once tried to teach introductory algebra to teenagers who had been largely "home schooled" and didn't understand fractions or negative numbers, I feel this so hard.

Drusas,

It was not all of my students, but a decent percentage of them. At least a third of them.

Even if you put it on the wall (a poster with numbers from, say, negative 10 to 10), they couldn't grasp it. The best way to get them to understand it was to explain it as being like debt, but that didn't make them suddenly able to use negative numbers in even simple equations. It just helped them to mentally understand the concept.

I felt so terrible for those poor kids. It wasn't their fault; it was their parents' faults. Homeschooling needs to be far better regulated in the US.

Drusas,

I'm very sorry to hear you had to live with that. It's especially heartbreaking for the kids who want to learn. At least, though, that gives you a leg up as you search for knowledge on your own. So many kids just fall through the cracks and don't even know how undereducated they are, so how would they know to try to go out of their way to learn more?

Drusas,

I am shocked but so relieved by this ruling. Naturally, all of the other conservative justices voted in favor.

Drusas, (edited )

It's worth noting that it is not currently known whether or not reducing inflammation will have a significant impact on long Covid symptoms. Research is still being done in that area.

Drusas,

If you subscribe to the right subs/magazines/communities/whatever, there is a ton to learn. History, science, archeology, sociology, psychology, medicine, marine biology, mycology, geography, foreign languages, programming.... On and on and on. Social media doesn't have to be utter crap.

Drusas,

Coughs in Buddhist.

Drusas,

A lot of us didn't even believe it at the time.

Drusas, (edited )

For what it's worth, vitamin A is good for your eyes, particularly night vision. However, the carrot thing was in fact a lie. While carrots do have vitamin A, vegetables are not a good source of it; you need a meat-based source in order for it to be readily available to your body (sorry vegans--fortunately, it can be supplemented with pills). And no matter how much of it you eat, you will not get super night vision.

Study finds 67% of individuals with long COVID are developing dysautonomia (www.news-medical.net)

"Our study finds that 67% of individuals with Long COVID are developing dysautonomia. That’s an estimated 38 million Americans with Long COVID dysautonomia, and millions more around the world,” says Lauren Stiles, President of Dysautonomia International and Research Assistant Professor of Neurology at Stony Brook University....

Drusas,

Covid doesn't always cause breathing difficulties, especially some of the more recent variants.

I would guess that once you have dysautonomia, you have dysautonomia and that is that. I have dysautonomia and it hasn't been worsened by catching Covid or anything else--it always just sort of stays about the same.

Drusas,

The idea of getting rid of birthright citizenship is fundamentally un-American.

Drusas,

I would also say that a Twitter post is not news, but unfortunately a lot of politicians have not gotten that notice yet.

Drusas,

They could save a lot of words by just saying that he was a capitalist.

Drusas,

I used to work 911, and butt dials have been a big problem for a long time. When you get a ton of them, it's easy to close the call and ignore it, but you have to take into consideration that sometimes it could be a real emergency and the caller is not able to safely speak. On the other hand, you realistically cannot try to investigate every single one and waste limited, valuable resources. It is a real problem.

Drusas,

There were so many local elections that I would deem to be entirely illegitimate because of how bad the gerrymandering was. I think our country needs a look back at politicians and judges who should be removed from office due to only having been elected or appointed due to illegal activity to begin with.

Drusas,

Just FYI, a "factoid" is by definition not a fact but something that somebody believes to be a fact because it was printed. That definition is clearly changing over time as the English-speaking population as a whole forgets this, but it's not there yet.

Drusas,

Let me break out my tiny violin.

Drusas,

Did this really need to be in all caps?

Drusas,

Flowers attract bees. The best sources of food for bees are wildflowers native to your area. Bees especially like blue and purple flowers because they see this color range particularly well.

Drusas,

...what?

Drusas,

The western diet sure does wonders for pharmaceutical companies' bottom lines.

Drusas,

The proposed resolution "views the use of any tactical nuclear weapon by the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, or their proxies, or the destruction of a nuclear facility, dispersing radioactive contaminates into NATO territory causing significant harm to human life as an attack on NATO requiring an immediate response, including the implementation of Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty."

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Any nuclear attack or disaster in Ukraine would affect neighboring countries.

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