notacuban

joined 1 year ago
MODERATOR OF
[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that worth losing your temper over? The midwife sent us home because my wife was only a few cm dilated, and active labour doesn't start until about 5 or 6cm dilation, after which it generally takes another 5+ hours before the cervix is dilated enough (i.e. 10cm) to give birth. It's annoying, but it's standard procedure.

It'd be wonderful if the healthcare systems around the world had infinite resources to care for pregnant women, but unfortunately they don't.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 11 months ago (23 children)

I wrote a whole 3 paragraph reply to this, but it crashed and now I'm too lazy to write it again.

But yes, this. "Everyone getting UBI and universal healthcare" is not far left. Far left is firebombing pharmaceutical companies or forceable seizure of private property to distribute amongst others, or enforced working arrangements to bring about equality.

What most Americans on Lemmy call "far left", I'd call "basic respect for your fellow man and the compassion to put others before yourself".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How did you come to that conclusion?

"not being a fan means you actively oppose her"

"I'm not a fan, but I don't actively oppose her" (by way of hospital food analogy)

"okay... So you agree with me?"

Do you think "not a fan of" means "dislike"?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't agree with that line of thought. The taste of hospital food is also very neutral but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of it. I also wouldn't say I'm actively opposing it, and if served it in a situation where I can't get anything else I wouldn't snub my nose at it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think they're a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.

I'd consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they've kept running for years while warning people that it'd eventually be cut off).

Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations

-CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez)

-Conservative politics of any kind

-Capitalism

-Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I have no love for Meta, but this is a case of damned if you do or damned if you don't. If they didn't censor it, how much do you bet there'd be an article posted here that said "Threads allows Covid and vaccine misinformation to spread as cases rise"

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Ah yes, just what the working class desperately needs, a gatekeeper.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn't surprise me that he's more "understanding" of the employees.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Degeneracy is always a Nazi ideology

Degeneracy is the core ideology behind every genocide.

Damn, I didn't think I'd learn something new today, but as it turns out, the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks and the historical Chinese genocide of the Dzungar and the more recent genocide of the Uyghur people were because they were thought to be degenerates by the ruling National Socialist parties.

And here I was thinking 'Nazi' specifically referred to the Nazi Party members and modern white supremacists who support it, and not every nationalistic faction that has ever committed crimes against humanity.

You may not realise it, but you water down the word Nazi when you brandish it so casually. When you go around saying everything is Nazi ideology, people won't listen when something actually is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"tokenboomer", poorly executed references to the "everything is communism" trope, insulting "the liberals"... Come on guy, trolling is a subtle art. You can do better, I believe in you.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In this thread lots of uninformed people misunderstanding how the open source Chromium project works (or the difference between Chrome and Chromium). Vivaldi is a Chromium-based browser who frequently disable the parts of Chromium they don't agree with.

This argument not to use anything Chromium is the same as if someone was fanatically opposed to using Linux Mint or Elementary OS because they're based on Ubuntu, and Canonical bad.

I love Firefox as much as the next person, and probably do a 75% Vivaldi 25% Firefox split, but let's not act like Google isn't bankrolling Mozilla, because they account for 85+% of Mozilla's revenue, and if Google does implement this Web DRM and if it is widely adopted, Mozilla either submits and enables it to make sure daddy Google stays happy, or they die.

 

Every year in July, Hakata, in Fukuoka, hosts the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival, where participants race on a 5km course pushing 1 ton floats. This is a snap I managed to get during one of the practice runs.

 

I was lucky enough to get to Kanazawa the day before the first snow last year

 

Sadly, but necessarily, this was knocked down in 2020 as it was too small to accommodate the number of passengers leaving from this exit.

 
view more: next ›