Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The reason people are perfectly normal about oral herpes but terrified of Chlamydia is that the latter affects genitals and the former doesn't. Even though it's an illness like any other (a mild one at that), just the fact that it affects a specific, quite arbitrary part of your fleshy vessel makes it taboo and scary and shameful.

And it's so weird that STIs are the scary ones here because it's so very easy to prevent their transmission! Going with the oral herpes example, you're probably gonna kiss (or otherwise exchange saliva with) significantly more people than you're gonna fuck. With illnesses that spread through coughing/sneezing it's even harder to prevent transmission. Meanwhile with STIs it's like, you find out you have one, you simply don't have sex (or use protection) until it's dealt with and then you continue on as usual. This isn't to say you shouldn't use protection otherwise. You should, just in case. But let's drop the STI stigma.

It really cannot be overstated enough: "For-profit health insurance" is fundamentally incompatible with keeping people healthy. UnitedHealthcare did not deny 1 out of every 3 claims because they thought they weren't medically valuable, they did it because they knew they could get away with it. The entire system cannot ever provide health as a meaningful outcome. It must be eliminated and replaced with taxation and a single-payer institution built on care, not resource hoarding.

As with every #STFUfriday post, I'm a lawyer in the USA. These comments are based on law in the USA. (And they apply to all people in the USA, whether or not they are citizens.) Some US states provide more protections than this. /end

It’s #STFUfriday!

When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

- Am I free to leave?

- I am not answering any questions.

- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."

- I want to talk to a lawyer.

Say it with me now, "I want to talk to a lawyer."

I mean sure, You can spend all of this time evading advanced memory corruption detection, ASLR, W^X, etc. But have you considered just shoving funny bash strings into every possible hole and seeing if stuff is so busted that it will just run it anyway?

(This compromised a non zero amount of people)

Your life depends on millions of people.
You and I need millions of people.
We can’t know them all. We will never meet them all. But, self-sufficiency is an illusion, often an expensive and thinly drawn one at that. The more high tech and comfortable your life is? The more true this is.

I do not care if you have a cabin in the woods. I do not care if you “reject modern medicine” —

This is one of those things I find “obvious” but I can imagine it starting a big argument for some.

BDSM practitioner on fedi, AKA the ActivitySub

People on Twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, assassinating a CEO" and then not assassi- wait, I'm receiving word from NYC.

I have been thinking about this ever since years ago Julie explained to me that the reason she dislikes graphical user interfaces is they feel like prisons because to a much larger extent they are an experience fully orchestrated by somebody else.

We choose or are required to engage with a person, organization, business, government. They dictate what software to use for the interaction based on what is most convenient and advantageous to them.

The notion that people choose to use computer applications because they are useful at accomplishing tasks is extremely outdated. The vast majority of software use is not voluntary.

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