healthcare, economics
Incredible how much *not being poor* would've changed my HRT journey.
14 months of therapy seeking and waiting times ➡️ 0-1 month
5 months of being bullied by only local gyno willing to take me in ➡️ 0-1 month
9 month (ongoing) struggle finding a public conservation clinic + doc communication ➡️ 0-1 month
Change to less lethal but pricier medication ➡️ anytime
Probably wouldn't have had to go DIY, which is where I'm cornered rn, cause healthcare system is failing me so hard
Ich habe hier einen ganzen Eimer mit Einweg-Kühlpacks rumstehen.
Im Prinzip sind die noch gut zu gebrauchen und für den Müll zu schade.
Hat jemand in #Aachen Interesse daran?
Ich gebe sie kostenlos ab.
@herhandsmyhands Have the workers communicated how they would like the public to support their action? Not buying things, or deliberately keeping up the ordering to increase pressure, or something else?
A website I really miss is browsershots.org
It could create screenshots of a website in a quite a wide variety of browsers
It could be recreated as an open source project though... QEMU/Wine... Kinda expensive to run as SaaS but a modern computer can easily spawn 50+ parallel browsers in a minute I think
http://web.archive.org/web/20190102012353/http://browsershots.org/
@miyuko It's currently accessible at http://joepie91-home.cryto.net:3500/ if you're curious (using test data) - cyan background is a debug indicator meaning it is loading messages from a simulated server that takes about a second to respond. Note that that link can stop working at any time, it's just my dev process running locally
I've linked my work-in-progress chat client in a few places now, and some of the most notable commentary includes "why does it look like basic Qt" and "are you making an IRC client?" which means I'm probably on the right path, given that it's a Matrix client that runs in a browser and the project is partly intended to disprove people's assumptions about what that means
Racism, sexism and bigotry in porn
I remember there once was a meme or a post going around basically saying "are you a white cishet male or are you a porn category?" and I hate how accurate that still is..
Whenever I make the mistake of visiting mainstream porn sites I am reminded that if you want to see people of color, feminine people who aren't straight up underweight, trans people, queerness or otherwise anything that's NOT white people having straight sex you need to look through dedicated kink categories that specifically fetishize minorities. I do not understand how in the year of our lord 2024 it's still ok to have shit like "BBC", "blacked" and other similar "kinks" that reduce people of color to a weird fantasy of dominance on practically all the major porn sites.. If anyone out there is into that while believing it's not blatantly rooted in racism I think they have some serious introspection to do.
Hm.
So if you think about it, if you're looking down at a map, it's easy for you to see the shortest path between two points, but it's hard for a computer to, because it has to walk all the way from point A to point B to see how far it is.
Which makes me think, are all graphs of dimension N more easily solved if they can be viewed from N+1?
@Dylan Ik - en vele anderen - hebben je in een vorige reactie al uitgelegd dat dat gebrek aan engagement en bereik een logische uitkomst is als je er zelf geen moeite in steekt. Met een algemene reactie als deze die, zonder daar op in te gaan, vooral het probleem bij Mastodon probeert te leggen, lijk je dat beeld eigenlijk alleen maar te bevestigen.
De enige andere manier waarop ik dit kan interpreteren is eigenlijk "we willen vooral dat anderen ons het bereik op een dienblad aanreiken zonder er zelf wat voor te doen, en aan die verwachting voldeed Mastodon niet", en die conclusie zou inderdaad kloppen, maar dan zou ik me ook afvragen waar je als publieke omroep dan eigenlijk nog mee bezig bent.
Is het niet jullie taak om dat bereik te *creëren*? Is dat niet specifiek de reden dat jullie als overheidsdienst bestaan?
In school we heard "you won't carry a calculator around all the time" as reason for doing math on paper. OK, that was a total goof, because now we all have phones that, potentially, can serve as arbitrarily powerful calculator anytime and anywhere.
But that's not the gotcha you think it is. I don't think teachers were just blind to technological progress here, they were fully aware of one thing that they neglected to teach: it's a tool, and a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it. If you don't know how something works, you fall back into a magical understanding: you throw in ingredients on one side, and a solution pops out on the other side. There is no way for you to tell if the result is reasonable, or the magical process completely goofed out. Also, you will be completely dependent on the tool where a little understanding could show you shortcuts that make things easier for you, or at least feed the machine easier.
We're now in a worse situation like this concerning LLMs. They are branded AIs, advertised as machines that give answers, and if you don't know the shape of the answer already, and have no idea about the facts, you are completely at the mercy of a magical process that tells you fairytales. When things don't work with that answer, you are completely adrift with no idea how to fix it. Because a tool is only as powerful as the mind that uses it.
Hallo allemaal, we zijn verhuisd van server. Voorheen kon je ons vinden op social.npo.nl, vanaf vandaag zit Pointer, het journalistieke onderzoeksplatform van KRO-NCRV op mastodon.nl.
Ook hier delen we onze onderzoeken, nieuws en oproepen voor tips, deskundigheid etc. Heb je tips voor iets dat we moeten uitzoeken? Deel je ervaring hier op onze site (https://pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/deel-jouw-ervaring) of schiet ons aan hier op mastodon.
Study (N=6K) finds single women are not miserable spinsters. Women may have more social support beyond romantic relationships. Single men are unhappier. Inequitable household labor="more rewards for men & more costs for women in heterosexual partnerships." https://people.com/single-women-are-happier-than-single-men-study-says-8739240
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.