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'He's the guy who beat Trump': Rep. Dean on why she wants Biden to stay in race (www.pbs.org)

Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean is from the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. She hit the campaign trail with President Biden over the weekend and as other House Democrats are asking him to drop out of the race. Rep. Dean joined Geoff Bennett to discuss her support.

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“We believe in the freedom to do, say, and believe exactly what we tell you to.” /s

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Jews are Semitic.

Antisemitism refers specifically to hatred and persecution of Jews.

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Racism is not just a belief or a behavior, but a system of disenfranchisement. The system of reinforcing white as the “default” is part of racism. Someone who harbors no specific beliefs about other races, but acts to support the inequality of racial groups is still being racist.

Or as another user put it more succinctly, “racism with extra steps.”

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Words have roots and meanings, and historical context. The term antisemitism (or Anti-Semitism) does and has always referred exclusively to hatred and persecution toward Jews. Swearing and stomping your feet about it will not change that.

I’ve already provided a link to the definition. You are welcome to consult Wikipedia, Oxford, Cambridge, or any other credible dictionary of the English language and you will find the same. It’s under “A”

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What is this mysterious symbol? What did it mean? Why did it suddenly arise across civilizations in the late 1900s, then just as mysteriously vanish? Find out on: Lost Mysteries of The Schoolyard on the History Channel.

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Organic Maps is fine. It’s what I use, although I am not located in a great area for OSM. Are there any specific benefits to OSMand?

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Of course! I do that all the time, and I agree it’s fun. OrganicMaps uses the same data, I just find it a little simpler to use and clearer to read.

Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer (www.tomshardware.com)

Ersei, the developer behind this so-called Cloud Native Computer, says the project was primarily a “silly” pursuit. There is also a problem with booting from Google Drive currently being very slow. However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to...

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Thanks - I’m also trying to replace google drive and eventually OneDrive so that I can easily access files across multiple devices (Linux, Win, Android) and sync the files. Proton seems like a good alternative until I have a home server set up, which will likely take me a year or two. I’m starting from zero knowledge and have very little free time to do it lol

What the 3.2 Million-Year-Old Lucy Fossil Reveals About Nudity and Shame - Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)

Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-brown fur, with her face, hands, feet and breasts peeking out of denser thickets.This hairy picture of Lucy, it turns out, might be wrong.Technological advancements in genetic analysis suggest that Lucy may have been naked, or at least much more thinly veiled.

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Well, I think it’s more about examining cultural biases in our scientific literature.

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The article addresses exactly that

Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...

UT-Austin spares pro-Palestinian protesters from suspension, offers them probation instead (feeds.texastribune.org)

In letters sent out to students this week, first reported by KUT, university officials said it would be appropriate to suspend them for their actions during the protests but would give them the option to take “deferred suspension” instead, a form of probation that would allow students to remain in class and keep the...

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Is any city ready for the Olympics? Doesn’t this happen every four years?

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Nah, there’s also a bunch of “anti-imperialist” leftist tankies too.

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In some games (metroid, etc) it is an ability, not an item. It just made me think of Zelda first for whatever reason

Is there a way to gift someone a game from my Playstation library?

A couple months ago I tried to buy Ghost of Tsushima but in a drunken stupor accidentally bought Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. I didn’t realize my mistake until I was like an hour into the game (again, drunk) so when I contacted Playstation trying to get a refund they told me I was ineligible for a refund due to already...

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Sort of relevant

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What are you talking about? Teens undergo life changing surgery all the time, whether it is for a sports injury, to correct scoliosis, oral surgery, etc.

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You’re stretching even further now. Most medical care is based on a patient telling a doctor what is bothering them. There’s allergies, soft tissue injuries, psychological needs, sleep disorders, digestive problems, eating disorders,learning disabilities, etc. etc. etc.

Teens shouldn’t be allowed treatment for any of those? Or will you keep drawing more and more granular distinctions to fit your conclusion?

Let’s just take an example that fits your definition: bariatric surgery is 1) surgical 2) not determined by imaging 3) undergone only in consultation with the patient 4) undergone only alongside psychological and lifestyle support 5) related to future health outcomes 6) related to the patient’s body image 7) sometimes appropriate in teens/adolescents 8) requires lifelong lifestyle changes 9) not related to an accute injury or illness 10) it is not an urgent lifesaving procedure

It is in every way exactly like gender affirming care except not being related to gender.

So surely you would argue that bariatric surgery should be banned for teens, based on your position. Their brains are still developing so they cannot possibly make such a decision that will impact the rest of their lives. If they still feel like they need it when they are adults, then they can do it then.

Right?

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You have not been banned for your opinions, but for your conduct. Saying deliberately shocking or offensive things to “gauge the mindset of a community” is trolling, and is not allowed here. I hope that after taking a short break from the community you can return to engage more authentically. Please feel free to PM myself or another mod if you have any questions in the meantime.

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Here is where we differ: I believe that the very smart people who go to school to study these exact issues for many years, practice for decades, review one another’s work, and spend a lifetime studying the outcomes of the surgeries are in the best place to decide what should and shouldn’t be allowed.

If an individual, their family, and an entire team of doctors determine that something is safe and advisable, I trust that decision much more than my uneducated feelings.

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When a decision is made to perform surgery on a minor, it is always because doctors have determined that it is more dangerous to wait.

I’m not even going to address the completely unfounded claim of some nefarious cabal of doctors.

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Medical treatment is provided on a basis of best practices established by an entire healthcare community including medical practitioners, clinicians, researchers, and institutions. Studies rely on statistical risk models. That’s why before you go through any medical treatment, a doctor will tell you that no treatment is without risk.

As a result, every treatment includes a percentage of recipients who experience regret. Gender affirmation surgeries have an exceptionally low regret rate.

Compared to, say, pain medication, there is not really a profit motive for doctors to over-prescribe or over-treat gender affirmation treatments.

The suggestion that a minor should not go through any medically necessary “body modification” procedure, is cruel and untenable. That would mean:

  • Sexually active teens be categorically denied birth control
  • Dangerously overweight teens be denied surgeries or other treatment that could add years or decades to their life, as well as prevent knee, hip, and back problems in adulthood (that having the surgery later would not repair)
  • Student athletes be denied surgical joint repairs that could restore movement and prevent future injury (that could not be performed with the same success rate in adulthood)
  • Children with congenital heart problems be denied care which could both add years to their life and improve the quality of their childhood
  • Children who could benefit from ear tubes be forced to face risk of incurable hearing loss -Children who could benefit from cochlear implants be denied the possibility of hearing until they are 18
  • Children with juvenile glaucoma be forced to go through childhood with partial blindness, which may become irreversible
  • Children at risk of lifelong trauma or suicide due to gender dysphoria be denied gender affirming care that can add decades to their life and improve the quality of their childhood

Please stop with the dismissive name-calling and try to think these things through more completely. In all of these cases, medical providers work with a family to assess the risks and needs of a child, make recommendations, and carry out the treatment most likely to have the greatest positive medical impact. The suggestion that anyone outside a child, their family, and their medical providers should have a say in the decision strikes me as arrogant, cruel, and offensive.

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I have enough trouble with the outer demons

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This is so counter-productive because these border immigrant shelters fill an important niche working with government services. There is no government agency with the resources on the border to house all of the people who enter the country to legally seek asylum.

They have to stay somewhere while they are being processed before traveling on to the interior. They also need logistical support in making their way through both the legal system and the US transit system to get to their destination. Border shelters do all that, allowing the government to do its job.

Neil Gaiman Denies Sexual Assault Allegations Made by Two Women (www.rollingstone.com)

Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series *The Sandman *and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports....

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Say it ain’t so 😥

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Definitely this. There is a whole community dedicated to the various great Lemmy apps on different platforms, including the web. Try a couple and see if there is one that meets your needs better.

!lemmyapps

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That is still a growing aspect of Lemmy. There are a few communities that may be interesting to you, such as !Asklemmy or !Asklemmy, !askmeanything, !casualconversation, and probably some others. You can also find some active fandoms by searching, as well as some lifestyle communities (like !fatherverse)

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That is honestly the most unbelievable part of the entire post!

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Why don’t they just go ahead and deregulate everything then? Kids haven’t been getting enough lead in their diet for decades.

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Thank goodness we have Lemmy tbh

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I more meant the AI takeover of the internet in general. This is one of the few online spaces where you can still find real news and interact with real people.

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Sometimes they can be funny, but also legit have the absolute worst takes

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Wow I love reading about these wacky sovcits. They always say the most silly things.

Wait, what? WHO said that? Justice of which court?

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This should be a lesson for every state to enact marriage equality laws. If you think they’re not coming for Obergefell, then you aren’t paying attention.

hi im new to lemmy, some intro and questions

here to discover one more fediverse platform (i have a pretty active mastodon account: @ralen) im interested in tech, specifically linux and other foss systems, like haiku, bsd, redox etc, other foss technologies and software, new hardware, specifically risc-v hardware (tho dont have any myself yet), foss android apps (i build...

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On most cases, there is not much difference in experience between different servers/instances. There isn’t really a local timeline (as in eg Mastodon).

Some exceptions: If you post NSFW, some instances don’t allow that. If you are political, some instances might be a better fit than others. Finally, there are some servers that are not widely federated.

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Any idea if the dev is on lemmy?

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Thanks, I’ve been trying to find them to include in the App Directory, so please let me know if you happen to find out!

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