mjsaber

mjsaber , 1 month ago to showerthoughts in There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.

Just heard Plaineclothes Man for the first time last week. I love it when I find new music that really speaks to me, there’s so much good stuff out there right now.

mjsaber , 4 months ago to nostupidquestions in Where are the good political songs?

Lol me neither

mjsaber , 4 months ago to nostupidquestions in Where are the good political songs?

It’s not as punk, but the last three albums by Metric are brilliant in how they discuss the current state of the world.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?

America - where you can get any kind of fast food you want, as long as it’s a hamburger.

-Neil Gaimen

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

As long as they aren’t getting medical advice from you, I’m good with it.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

No, like my initial comment said, number and types of partners are important, as are your partners’ partners.

If you actually read my comment, you can see I’m trying to get people to look past the stigma and actually determine what kinds of risks they have and make safer sex decisions accordingly.

PrEP can have some uncomfortable side effects, and not everyone is able to tolerate it. There are very, very few things in healthcare that we can say “everyone” in a certain cohort should do, and PrEP is no exception.

Your response, which characterizes my post as misinformation, is inaccurate, as I have shown, but I do appreciate the chance to talk about sex and try to normalize it as part of the healthcare discussion 😊

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

I literally posted a link to an article from Stanford that shows what I’m talking about.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

I’m not anti gay, I was an STI nurse for a few years. Anal sex for ANYONE carries a higher risk per interaction, regardless of whether you are the receptive or insetive partner.

My point was not to label all people having unprotected sex as needing PrEP, or only gay people as needing PrEP. My point was to look at the types of sex you have, with the number and types of partners you have, and take a realistic look at what kinds of risks for STI transmission any of those have.

For instance, if you have lots of unprotected oral sex with strangers, you aren’t going to get HIV. You might get another STI, but HIV is virtually un-transmissable via oral sex. But someone reading the comment might get scared and think they need to take PrEP.

stanfordhealthcare.org/…/risk-of-exposure.html#:~…)%20for%20receptive%20anal%20sex.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

That’s not entirely true. Receptive vaginal sex is much less likely to transmit the virus than anal sex (about 17x less). Insertive anal sex is more likely to transmit than vaginal sex, too, so the type of sex you have matters too.

Number of partners, and their sexual habits really matter, too. It’s important to help people really understand their STI risk if we want people to make healthier decisions regarding sex.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

Women of color actually have really high rates of HIV compared to the rest of the population. Working to de-stigmatize both the infection and prevention treatments is a really important part of reducing overall numbers of HIV.

mjsaber , 6 months ago to news in PrEP: Preventative HIV drug highly effective, study says

Descovy, a newer form of PrEP, only had male assigned at birth participants in the study (and the number of non-cis males was very, very low if I’m remembering correctly).

The original formulation has been approved for everyone for a while, but since the new formulation was only tested with a certain population, that’s all it’s approved for.

mjsaber , 7 months ago to mildlyinteresting in Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified.

It truly embiggens the spirit of the game.

mjsaber , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in What the Hell Happened to my Cookies?

It might be too much butter, but I think you’re also light on flour. If you’re using cups, make sure you scoop it a little over-full and then level it off. You can also try measuring if you have a kitchen scale.

mjsaber , 8 months ago to asklemmy in If you could bring back a dead band/musician which one/who would it be?

Bradley Nowell. Sublime was so good, and none of the bands that have followed in their style have had the same lyricism that Nowell had, or have been able to really blend genres like they did to make something completely unique.

mjsaber , 8 months ago to asklemmy in If you could bring back a dead band/musician which one/who would it be?

Such a unique talent. Knowing he died of a heart attack on stage adds a whole other dimension to “Do not go quietly unto your grave”