gosuperdonnie.bsky.social
god’s strongest autistic faggot. psychotic transsexual mess. cat parent. increasingly cyborgic sparkling water fan. pronouns: xe/it.
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obviously bigotry does not follow logic, but for all the blathering (blatant lying) Republicans do about HRT or puberty blockers being “untested” or “dangerous,” they should absolutely support funding animal testing of transition-related medications. but, you know, lol no they won’t.
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Okay, got it. Thank you for taking the time to explain … even if I now wish I hadn’t learned that.
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Ah. So it’s not so much that there’s a laser down someone’s trachea as it is there’s a laser *near* someone’s trachea, they’re in an oxygen rich environment, and something in or around the trachea is not laser resistant.
That is just as horrifying but at least makes more sense.
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anyway I am genuinely happy Tesla owners are taking their business elsewhere but also. would that we all had the moral compass of a middle-aged public school teacher who understands the power of a union.
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also, the (non-union) Tesla factory in Fremont being on the site of the old NUMMI plant, which for decades was a UAW shop employing thousands of workers (including my best friend in elementary school’s dad) probably played a role.
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I get the “fires” part of endotracheal fires, but (forgive my ignorance) not the “endotracheal” part. What circumstances would lead to someone having a laser beam down their trachea? I googled “endotracheal laser” and just got results for laser-resistant endotracheal tubes.
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it is ridiculous and illogical to argue that children of US citizens born abroad should not have US citizenship, and it is also ridiculous and illogical to argue that a child’s citizenship to the country they are born in should be determined by their parents’ “loyalty.”
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this guy has, by all measures, less of a claim to US citizenship than children born to non-citizen parents in the US. it’s only through a series of weird circumstances that he ended up in the US at all.
and yet his citizenship goes uncontested because he happens to be a child of a citizen.
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the only reason this guy I know ended up in the states is a few months after he was born, his dad got a job in the US and his family moved back there. the job ended up being a dud after the company went out of business, but his family stayed in the states.
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not to mention that if you’re dual-covered under Medicaid and Medicare and have an integrated plan, your plan might be called something else entirely. and that’s not getting into how confusing things can get if you are on Medicaid AND get waivered services on top of that.
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like, I have Medical Assistance (Minnesota Medicaid) and my health insurance plan is through the MCO UCare. the actual plan name is something like “UCare Connect Special Needs Basic Care.” I know all this stuff because I’m a nerd with an MPH, but how is anyone random person on Medicaid supposed to?
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good luck
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yes.
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I mean, I think SpEd as a whole needs to be razed and rebuilt from the ground up, but if we accept that the category of EBD is here to stay, we could at least make it so EBD services actually serve students with mental health disabilities.
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like, EBD does not mean “related to disabilities that affect emotions or behavior.” it is a category pretty much solely used to label (primarily Black) students as “noncompliant” so they can be segregated legally, pushed into the SpEd to prison pipeline, and policed through pathologization.
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We need to understand that while all the data points to banning chucking kids in meat grinders as a way to improve outcomes across a variety of measures, the people who chuck kids in meat grinders don’t want to stop and they and their unions are very good at pro-meat grinder propaganda.
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This also ignores that plenty of people who get sick in these outbreaks can’t get vaccinated for age and/or medical reasons, or have gotten vaccinated but didn’t have a great immune response, or have gotten vaccinated but their last MMR was 30+ years ago….
Disease is not a punishment.
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I mean, I don’t think that people who consciously choose not to get vaccinated “deserve” to get sick, suffer, become permanently disabled, and/or die either, but it’s especially heinous to imply/say children *who have no control over their vaccinations* deserve it.
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Outside that fire exit, there's... an emu?!
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there are a whole lot of people out there who act like human rights should be predicated on someone sharing their beliefs and that scares me. you get human rights because you’re human. that’s the only criterion.
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I’m not saying you have to like Trump supporters (although there’s no evidence the CSPAN caller was a Trump supporter). I’m not saying you have to think they’re good people.
I am saying you can’t say “health care is a human right” and then say people who vote a certain way shouldn’t get care.
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EIS officers do incredible work, often in less-than-ideal conditions, and are *vital* to disease detection and control. The EIS is also an *incredible* training program for epidemiology, infectious disease, and other public health and medical professionals.
This is horrifying.
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sorry for yelling but what the actual fuck???????
No one at the CDC is “expendable” but how on earth are EIS staff *first round* cuts??
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I either have to laugh or I’ll cry so, um, insert “I’m joining the war on autism on the side of autism” buff Karl Marx meme here.
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Like, I can tell who actually cares about Mad people and who is just using us as a prop to oppose RFK jr. If your opposition to his grift consists of yelling at people who tell you “psych meds are *meds* with side effects, not miracle cures,” please just stop talking.
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Abilify gave me permanent tardive dyskinesia and Geodon gave me long-term heat intolerance (not to mention the metabolic side effects). I am not arguing that either of those drugs be taken off the market. I am arguing that equating Mad people criticizing psych meds with RFK jr is bad.