Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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it's like riding your fav rollercoaster w/o waiting in line
All you need is love
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https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23StandWithUkraine
until it's victory!
We must help Ukraine boost its military capacity to win against Russia's brutal attacks.
This Christmas, please send your good thoughts to all the brave Ukrainians fighting in the trenches of the frontline to defend peace in Europe.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EPPGroup/status/1738831974142189722#m
[2023-12-24 08:00 UTC]
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Out-of-state travel for abortion surged after Roe was overturned https://t.co/7OcMpZDyjJ
The fans strongly rejected this the first time round, I think some of football is not about the big games but about the history, the derby games are important, the city or inter city rivalry go back to the beginning of history of the clubs.
The FA cup is also unique any team from the bottom of the non league right up to the top of the premier league has a chance to win it, the memorable games are not always between big teams but when a small team beat a big team and progress, it is those moments people find special and magical.
What people fear about the super league is losing a teams identity for profit, which is what this is all about making huge amounts of money and treating football fans with contempt as if their don't matter but teams are happy to take their money.
I think the issue is safeguards, so the decision to be assisted to die is the decision of the individual and not the decision of the family group or others who feel it is 'best'. If a person is of sound mind and can understand and make decisions (but has terminal cancer or other condition, which is why they want to be assisted to die) then that is fine. If a person has for example dementia, or has had a stroke, their ability to make those decisions is reduced or may not exist.
There is a season 1 episode of Star Trek voyager called Emanations that is themed around this sort of issue.
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Probably one of the most informative "error" messages I have seen in years. Informative to technogeeks without being off-putting to normal users. Well done, #Tusky
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"As you know, we weren’t able to take any clothes with us, not even our personal documents. It is freezing cold at night. We cuddle tightly at night because there is no source of warmth.”
"I didn’t expect my daughter would be born in a situation like this. Back at our house, we had a baby bag ready for her. We were so happy and prepared for her birth. I don’t know what happened to us, to everybody. May God help us all.”
Saleem al-Jamalan
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Winter
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/12/24/staying-warm-in-gaza-a-battle-for-survival?traffic_source=rss
Sure how we dress goes BOTH ways.
I have attended interviews where the interviewer is wearing casual clothing compared to me wearing trousers(well walking trousers) a shirt, tie and plain top. So I then feel better dressed.
There was a jobs fair at my local job centre, people to told to dress smart, we make that effort only to find potential employers dressed casually, does not give the right impression from the employer and makes potential interviews rather awkward
If I am paying you to write a website for me, when we meet you need to look professional even if this is smart / casual, when writing that website you could be wearing anythinng from naked to a full dinner suit, I don't care as I have set you a task, set a time scale and set a payment method. Does it matter what you wear when actually coding, esp if you are working from home, it is summer and 30Celcius in temperature or hotter.
There is (or was) an advert in the UK for a personal injury lawyer firm, the person in the advert is wearing a shirt, not done up fully. I would be wary of such a dress code for this context of work, this person needs to represent me in a court so would need to dress far better when appearing before a judge or magistrate. Granted apply common sense here and they would, However it is first impressions from that advert that would suggest otherwise.
When it comes to interviews it goes both ways interviewer is assessing the interviewee and vice versa.
Interiews are designed to look at not only your competence, experience but also your behaviour and attitude, making a good effort to dress in a way that is smart is a good thing, I agree we can't always get it perfect but if everything else goes well then perhaps that is the better candidae, there is no such thing as the perfoect candidate anyway.
Dressing in a way that looks perfect can also be a red flag as you look too perfect and well groomed for the interview.
Indeed, HIV is no longer a death sentence and as you said people can live normal, Thanks to science we have made great progress since the dark days of the 89s
I am not HIV positive, just remember the UK government advert in the 80s warning people about this.
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Oh, and since I moved instances, I need to repost this toot when I "came out" with being HIV+. I think it is informative for a lot of people...
I've been thinking about this for quite a long time and have decided that if we want things to change, people like us have to be more visible. And no, this time, I am *not* talking about being a trans person.
No. This time I am talking about those of us who are HIV+. We need to be visible, so that people who don't know much about this subject and who are fed wrong "information" know that we are living a normal life, that we are just normal people.
We are not even sick.
We just happen to have the RNA of a virus built into our DNA, i.e., the virus is part of us. The more I think about it, the more it feels weird to talk about "a virus", because: it is me who produces that virus, and that virus is now an integral part of me, of my body. My DNA contains now the RNA of that "virus".
The only problem is that my body produces too much of this virus and if this production is not kept under control, it can just overwhelm my whole system.
It is the same with a lot of other bacteria and viruses we have in our body: if they are not kept in check one of them will overwhelm our system and kill us. The balance between the viruses, the bacteria and the fungi that are part of our body is key to our survival.
Thus, I have to take one pill every day!
And no, I don't have to take it exactly at the same time. There is a window of 18 hours within which I should take that pill. It is an expensive pill. But with that pill I can just live a normal life. I could - if I wanted - even have unprotected sexual intercourse without fear of infecting anyone ... as long as my virus-count is below 50/ml. This count is regularly checked (quarterly) including the CD4-cell count, which should be >200/µl, preferably >400/µl. (On this, please check out "U=U")
My counts are about <25/ml (virus) and ~400/µl CD4-cell (including very high "relative" rate), on average, so, yeah, everything fine (and all the other blood-work results are, I quote: "amazingly excellent").
So, yeah, we are here. There are about 90-95,000 people with HIV+ in Germany, and about 38-40 million worldwide.
Yes, the pill is very expensive here in Germany but that's because we subsidize the same pill in poorer countries. We pay 30 EUR/pill here, and it costs about 1 EUR in India or Africa (production is about 0.2 EUR it seems). (NOTE: Because we have mandatory health insurance in Germany, the pill and the quarterly checks are 100% paid by my health insurance.)
But coming back: yes, I am HIV+, and I've been that for about 10-12 years, of which I've known about it only since 2019 when I was brought into hospital with acute pneumonia. I survived it also thanks to the amazing people at "München Klinik Schwabing".
Today, I live a normal life - including a very good sex-life.
But ... unfortunately it seems to have been a "normal" thing especially amongst trans people to contract HIV. Because we didn't know what/who we were and thus tried to figure it out and sometimes made some really stupid mistakes. I hope future trans people won't have to make this same mistake, won't have to endure what we endured, won't have to take one pill every day just to have a normal life.
And no, we are not infectious. As long as our virus count is below 50/ml, we are not infectious at all. This is proven science and also accepted science by all the experts on this topic, including WHO (again, check out "U=U" on the Internet).
I will probably have to live with this RNA being part of my DNA until I die because so far we don't know how to get it out or how to put it dormant. Maybe, one day, we will but not today.
And as of today I have the Red Ribbon on my profile to indicate that I am HIV+.
We are here to stay until the problem has been solved. We should not hide - we should be visible.
NB: it usually takes about 5-10 years from the initial infection with HIV until any AID-Syndrome, i.e. until one gets really sick... please check out details on Wikipedia...
Originally posted August 25, 2023
Pope Pluis and his complicity in the Holocaust is well documented and known about so the fact the church supported this makes sense,
I am sure this is something they would rather forget and pretend did not / does not happen,, same as for child abuse.
If you are concerned about privacy, you could play YouTube videos through alternative front ends such as https://invidious.io/
But yes, in the meantime we need more content on YouTube
That reminds me of a kenny everett sketch, Broadcasting under manager (BUM)
I am on https://diode.zone/ which is more science / tech related, if that helps
not sure about documentaries but lets see what the community can help with
it is not easy I will give you that, anything specific you are looking for and we can try and help
I will tag
in to see if they can also help
eww, that is cos cats seem to like lying on keyboards or sleeping on keyboards and other computer stuff.
Could have a look at peer tube, it is decentralised so depending on interest there may be a specific instance with the content you are looking for
We have or used to have lots of birds in the garden, don't get so many now for some reason, we do get cats. Sadly the electronic cat scarer things seem to also scare of birds so they are not a solution.
I think foxes are more aligned to the canine family so perhaps a similar device designed to deter dogs would work.
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