made-in-mb.bsky.social
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I'm happy to join the anti-pumpkin spice club. Vile stuff. 🤢
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He uses "low IQ" at high frequency for Black people. Someone upthread translated it to the word he's almost certainly thinking when he writes low IQ. These white women, questionable as their intellects are, are probably safe in perpetuity from this particular insult.
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If this happens, RFK Jr - the environmental lawyer - loses all credibility regarding caring for health overall, not just his unscientific pet interests. *This* would arguably actually be his wheelhouse, but if it's not part of his zealotry...
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These aren't those kids, either.
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Among those that are distressed, it's often transient and for a specific reason, e.g., "I wish I were a boy because boys don't have to... X..."
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Yes, your logic is faulty because you think a child's doing something that's developmentally normal is relevant in a discussion of early gender dysphoria and consistent trans identity from early childhood, which is a thing. Most girls are never distressed at being girls nor boys at being boys.
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Yeah, these kids do that stuff, too - while they consistently choose, with other things freely available, the stuff that's gender affirming. Either you have never met a young gender diverse child, you didn't realize you did, or you chose to deny it if you think coins up a nose are an equivalency.
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I know 3 gender diverse kids under 10. They have all been gender diverse since they were preschoolers. If they are well-adjusted, have had therapy to address any mental health conditions, and have had a *consistent* gender identity, why should they not have input about puberty?
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Now, what happens when their bodies start definitively changing, at puberty, in the wrong direction? Is it fair to expect them to live through all that dysphoria, and those permanent changes, so they can... wait and try to reverse the changes? Instead of not enduring them in the first place?
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With freedom to choose, those kids will keep choosing gender-affirming stuff because it feels right.
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So your kids did choose... or they didn't? You're contradicting yourself.
As for adulthood, the problem with that is that kids differentiate boy vs girl at 3-4. What this results in is a small subset of kids who can have gender dysphoria starting at age 3-4.
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It's a well-known medical fact that migraines can become debilitating for women in perimenopause. It's known that HRT benefits women with migraine without aura in perimenopause (because they're "allowed" to have it). With aura? Oooohhh... but you might have a stroke! You don't have to work, right?🙃
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Much of the concern stems from combined OCP and estrogen treatment in younger women, not studies in women whose hormone levels are bottoming out. It's a catch-22: no hormone therapy because you have migraine w/ aura, but migraines are worsening because of changes that can be smoothed out w/ HRT.
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I'm personally now considering, in perimenopause, seeing whether a doctor will prescribe me HRT despite a history of migraine with aura. The dogma that it's an absolute no-no because of stroke risk is starting to be questioned.
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I'm grateful her oncologist looked at the whole of her family + personal history in deciding what treatment to offer. She was told about a less aggressive option but also that there was a 10-yr prognosis difference that was particularly significant for someone who could otherwise live 20+ yrs more.
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I'm an HCP myself, as is another family member. We were both seriously PO'd that this doctor would suggest that breast cancer yes/no wasn't an important question for someone without any major risk factors for heart attack or stroke. Breast cancer *could* kill her before something else was likely to.
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Her only meds are her inhalers, the hormone therapy she was encouraged to continue because her bloodwork and bone density remain normal, calcium, and vitamin D + as needed Tylenol for osteoarthritis.
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The mammogram revealed breast cancer in 2 quadrants. She underwent mastectomy, and her nodes were positive. Because her predicted lifespan without cancer was above average, she was offered aggressive chemo in addition to radiation + hormone therapy. Over 10 years out, she's healthy and cancer-free.
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My mom was told she was too old for a mammogram at 72 and to cancel one that was already auto-booked. That felt wrong to her as someone whose only health issue was asthma (and whose grandparents lived into their 90s). She contacted the breast health program, who thankfully told her to ignore the MD.
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Except you expected that other child to wear what you chose until they were 8, including pink things and dresses because "girl" and they hated it. It felt wrong to them, at odds with them - but they're not comfortable enough to show or tell you that because they know you have specific expectations.
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Being free to try things out is how a gender diverse child figures it out. Maybe your 3yo son loves dolls and puts on dresses sometimes but then moves onto dinosaurs and purple everything at 4. Maybe your other son, AFAB, is averse to dresses, loves rough play, and moves from dinos to hot wheels.
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Do your kids have developmental differences? If not, an average 4 year old can assemble an outfit, suggesting you might be controlling and had little respect even for your kids' most basic, minor decisions. Normal development includes developing a healthy sense of autonomy as a *toddler*.
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I don't know either way, and I'm not even 100% convinced Karen Read knows for sure because she was blackout drunk. The people at that party know if it was or wasn't them, but 🤷♀️. Everything that followed the death in terms of the cops' behaviour/"investigation" made them unreliable witnesses, too.
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This is a terrible take.
My SIL's sibling was killed by a drunk driver in front of her when she was 4. The guy who killed that child, and traumatized his sister, had the right to drink. He did not have the right to turn his vehicle into a lethal weapon as a result of his drinking.
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Absolutely. The sad part of this case to me is the lack of justice for the victim and his family.
I'm glad at least that she was found guilty of the DUI because, duh - she was driving basically blackout drunk, and there was no question about that. Everything else? The cops created a mess, so 🤷♀️.
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I WTF'd after ~3 bars. Surely Americans picked up on it, too?
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Okay... so I wasn't wrong it thinking that was what I was hearing? Didn't Trump used to play it, complete with lyrics, at rallies and get mocked for doing so (before being hit with a cease and decist)?
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Didn't he also PRE-apologize to any women who might come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct? I mean... the apology bit is unique in this crowd, but how many women could he think he owes that (probably fake) apology to?
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Are you sure RFK Jr doesn't have his hat in the evil ring? He didn't want to commit to not profiting from having been in the HHS position after leaving it - as *already* one of the most well-recognized characters in the $$$ anti-vax movement. Also, there's the stuff with his now-deceased ex...
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This has cats all wrong. I'm insulted on their behalf at this comparison.
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The tournament's being held in Russia after they annexed Crimea and in Qatar despite the anti-LGBTQIA undertones really shows how much FIFA cares about ethics relative to $. And from my own impression of FIFA, I, too, suspect the source of the $ isn't particularly relevant, be it ticket sales or...
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Generally, American-trained specialists are treated as Canadian equivalent here in MB as long, essentially, as their training is equivalent in length. They've been expected to pass specific Canadian exams in the last couple of decades but have also been given time to do so while practicing.
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I know American specialists now practicing in Canada. I haven't heard complaints about pay - and frankly, shouldn't. I know how much their clinical work pays and have a general idea about their non-clinical roles. They're not hurting for money, nor for opportunities for advancement.
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They'd probably take a groveling apology (but hold a grudge forever). Musk seems sensitive to social rejection, so a pathetic attempt to regain (para)social support online might be in his wheelhouse if he sees himself losing it.
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They aren't even fighting well by narcissist standards. Surely, they should have figured out each others' emotional Achilles heels by now and gone straight for them.
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Cat fights are more vicious than this. Musk would have tweeted *details* of the dirty secret, not just alluded to a dirty secret in general terms. Trump would have mentioned exploding rockets and cars and a garbage can on wheels that literally falls to pieces. This is half-*ssed jugular action.
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Yes, social media posts and talking to a camera are very direct. My silly little female mind thought "direct" meant communicating *with* the other person, in a reciprocal exchange, so I appreciate these very manly men's teaching me the phallocentric definition.
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One of our dogs, as a puppy, learned to "hunt" from our cat. He'd crouch silently by gopher holes and pounce when one appeared. He'd then chase and bat it around until it stopped moving, and then bat it a few times more to verify his game had indeed ended.
We would have preferred the litter box.
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(In fairness to you, though, WaPo did decide to put focus on the effects of our deadly fires on your air quality, so responding accordingly probably does make sense - just a sad statement about what the writers thought Americans would actually care about in relation to this story.)
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Compared to loss of life, threatened homes in entire communities, having to leave pets because there isn't space on transports or enough places to receive them where folks are being evacuated to, etc, needing my inhaler after putting garbage out is minor.
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Imagine how my lungs are doing as an asthmatic *in Manitoba* - yet I haven't been on here complaining because I'm not in the fire zones, where thousands are being evacuated and the smoke is much worse.
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^Aus pears have been in at least 3 different stores/chains here in Winnipeg.
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Manitoba has been getting pears from Australia, now some from Argentina.
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I genuinely don't understand, with all the recalls, for more than one reason, how the Cybertruck is still on the market. Wouldn't most companies have pulled them to do more rigorous testing? Produced a better vehicle, ideally one that stays intact?
Quality control appears to be a common thread...
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30%... similar to Trump's unwavering base stateside. 🤔
Is that much of the population susceptible to indoctrination? Limited in critical thinking ability? Purely self-serving? What is their makeup, and how do democracies counter it?