This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.

Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.

They truly have no standards anymore.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386

Rubin finding a bunch of new Near Earth Asteroids is going to be a fun time. For some of them it takes less delta-v to land on an asteroid far from earth than it does to land on the moon. Would be great to see a $20M all-in asteroid survey and lander mission, basically CAPSTONE but deeper space.

Notifications of possible future collisions are going to increase.

Achievement unlocked:

actually cum via removing features from my own project.

https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug/issues/730

So, looks like I might now end up working towards #Eindhoven providing blood-tests for people who have to rely on DIY-HRT. (I now made contact with members of the city-council for that.)

Now, before someone asks: The municipality cannot just decide to provide medication in violation of national guidelines or anything like that; the best they can do their is put pressure on the national assembly to improve the situation.

They can however decide to provide blood-tests. In fact they already provide free STD-tests for gay men and some other risk groups. So my argument is that there is no obvious reason why they couldn’t also provide free tests for trans people who are forced to self-medicate and can’t convince their GPs to provide the necessary tests.

I noticed afterwards that there are even more things on that level that could be done:

* Provide full testing of vials. This is offered in some places for illegal drugs and while there have been people who managed to get assured of the safety of their medication by initially claiming that it was Heroin (when it really was just Estrogen), they apparently didn’t get the actual concentration; this could be something really inexpensive that could make a big difference for a lot of people. And if a municipality does it in place of underground NGOs it’s also much harder to attack them for it.
* Provide instructions on how to safely self-inject and needle-exchanges for those who need them.

All of these can easily be justified as harm-reduction efforts and might make some nationwide waves to put pressure to the Hague and Amsterdam:

oh wow a Bash OO framework.

This is incredible.

https://github.com/niieani/bash-oo-framework

"No studies have proven that…"

Funny how doctors love to trot that out right before they say something that completely invalidates patients' experiences.

I also don't mean patients' experiences with whatever follows the "that," I mean patients' experiences with _how poorly they are treated into today's medical system_.

The mixture of the paternalistic model of healthcare, absolutely awful biases, and a bizarre set of conceits, the costs, and the executive function load required to navigate it all? And how many of us have been given somewhere between "bad" to "outright gaslighting" guidance from medical professionals?

So first of all: A great deal of medicine is uncharted territory, and you don't realize how much of it that is true for until you get into the weeds of a condition.

Second: If you don't want people looking elsewhere then medical care needs to be accessible and easy to use, and you need to actually listen to your patients.

I don't blame someone in pain trying to find a supplement to that reduces it when every doctor they approach thinks that they either "just have anxiety" and/or are drug seeking opioids;
I don't blame someone with MCAS from listening to advice on forums when the immunologists they talk to will flat tell them that MCAS doesn't exist and if it does exist they don't have it per an arbitrary (and disputed, even among clinicians) blood test;
I don't blame a trans woman from taking guidance from her DIY discord when her experience is that half the doctors she see try to convince her that HRT is a bad thing and the other half keep her levels maxed at what should be her trough.

I'd love if everyone could get the pain support they need.

I'd love if everyone got doctors who believed their symptoms and would be willing to work with them.

I'd love if every trans person had easy access to medical transition if they wanted it.

I'd love if all of these were easy to do and inexpensive to manage.

There are (generally) four pillars of bioethics. Two of them are Justice and Autonomy. What the frak are you doing when those are the lowest priority for you to the point of implementing this paternalistic model and then using that model as an excuse to deny them _actual medical care_?

#rant
#medicine