do note that this will probably mean US phones will follow this standard as well, as manufacturing streams are much easier to maintain as streamlined as possible, and having two separate standards like this makes it more of an expensive hassle for a company
this is also known as the Brussels Effect, where a regulation in one part of the world (usually the EU) results in new global standards.
The prima ballerina Olga Smirnova, one of Russia’s biggest dance stars, has quit the Bolshoi Ballet company in Moscow after denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It
was announced on Wednesday that Smirnova, who was born and raised in St
Petersburg, has now joined the Dutch National Ballet, where she will
start immediately alongside the Brazilian soloist Victor Caixeta, who
has left the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg in response to the war.
There’s one guy in Columbus Ohio that has a completely unique strain of Covid that we only know about because of how much he is shitting and it is baffling researchers.
His identity is a mystery but they know where commutes to because his shits turn up there too.
Never gonna know them, but shoutout to the healthcare workers who are breaking the law to help their patients get life-saving care. I’ll never see an article about you because knowing you would risk everything including jail time. Nurses who lie on medical records so their patients can get abortions. Doctors making up shit so their patients can have HRT.
Wherever you are, you are keeping your promise to help your patient.
My mom is dead so she can’t get in trouble for this.
Many years ago when she was still healthy enough to work, she was the manager at one of those select-your-own-tests labs. They didn’t take insurance, which meant they had no insurance department, which meant it was actually cheaper sometimes than even getting the same test elsewhere WITH insurance, so her clientele often came in with doctor’s orders, and it is about one such patient I’m about to tell you. He was four years old and had leukemia.
At 3am the day my mom did his labs, she got a stat call. “Stat call” means “drop everything, contact the doctor, these numbers are outside the acceptable range and urgency is required.” She woke me to drive her to the lab so she could try to get in touch with the doctor on the way and say “I live five minutes from the lab I want you on the phone as soon as I get those numbers from my email.”
The doctor did not pick up.
Standard protocol at this point is to wait 20 minutes and call again, repeat until you get an answer.
My mom was not allowed to interpret lab numbers. She didn’t have the official credentials. But she was a medical assistant and had self-taught a lot of medicine to make herself a better MA (call it unofficial continuing education), and she took one look at this little boy’s numbers, and she had to make a judgement call. That call ended up being “Mrs. X, this is Catie from [lab name]. I received a stat call for your son and can’t reach the doctor. I’m not legally allowed to interpret these numbers for you. But pick an ER, I will call them and send the numbers and have them waiting for you. Go NOW. Don’t wait. I cannot stress enough how urgent it is that you GO RIGHT NOW.”
Had she chosen law over life, that little boy would have been dead by morning.
Instead she risked years in prison and being stripped of her license to practice. She got cupcakes and a thank-you card instead. As far as I know, the boy went on to make a full recovery.
When I think of my mom, this is what I want her to be remembered for. Nobody could ever know while she was alive. I want everyone to know now.
(And if you’re a 14-year-old on this website in 2023, and this sounds eerily corroborative to a story your mom has told you, and you grew up in Arizona, hi. My mom would love to meet you if she was still alive. But in her absence, will you tell me how you’re doing? I’ll tell her the next time I get up to her grave. She’d like to know.)
One of the most obnoxious problems with discussing presidential elections in America is that there are a lot of Democrats who believe that whatever weird swagless homonculus they put before us should win in a landslide because they’re the good guys, and they get very angry when they lose and will not listen to ideas like “nominate a better candidate next time” or “run a better campaign next time” or “maybe stop ratfucking your most popular candidate next time.”
This is also why I find the whole “you treat Republicans like bad weather without agency” business so frustrating. Journalists analyzed the 2016 election and the uncomfortable conclusion they found was that Trump’s group just ran a better campaign. Told the right people in the right places what they wanted to hear. Clinton’s camp simply didn’t. Her campaign was quite badly run, frankly. Bill Clinton’s advice was ignored because her staffers thought he was trying to relive the glory days. Turns out “go out and talk to the working class” is, actually, pretty good fucking advice. But what’d he know, he only won two presidential elections.
And the fallout from that was that criticizing Hillary for losing was unacceptable. It was all racists and Russian hackers and Toxic BernieBros and an endless parade of excuses for why it was everyone’s fault but theirs.
Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃
The charity is based in Ottawa and accepts in-person donations as well:
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[ID: Tweet from @OdawaNFC with an attached image. Text:
Odawa Native Friendship Centre is collecting donations for First Nations community members that have recently been evacuated. Drop donations at Odawa’s office at 815 St. Laurent Blvd. When donating online, choose “Wild Fire Evacuees”. Miigwetch, Odawa.
Image Text: Needed: Gently used/clean clothing for babies, children, youth and adult sizes. Food donations, gift cards, money donations.
To clarify, since everyone’s asking— it’s fine if you feel off-put by or apathetic toward furries. That’s your prerogative. My point is that the people who constantly feel the need to announce to the world how much they hate furries (often in a violent way) are 9 times out of 10 telling on themselves about how they regard people they don’t (want to) understand
catch me losing my mind trying to explain to people in my life that AI isn’t one of those “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism so don’t have a panic attack in the grocery store bcs you have to buy something in a plastic container” situations and is instead one of those “hogwarts legacy/eating at chick-fil-a/not wearing a mask in public” type situations where you are actively helping normalize and/or contributing to the financial viability of things that are doing copious amounts of real, tangible harm and you kinda have an obligation to like not fucking do that actually
given the fact that real-life human artists, writers, and actors are already being replaced with AI to the point that it’s one of the big reasons the WGA is striking(and other creative unions may follow suit) as far as I’m concerned using AI is the same as crossing a picket line and if you do it I’m gonna treat you like the fucking scab you are
Correct. The company is not your friend. You may be friends with your colleagues, with your boss, and that’s fine. The reason I’ve stayed at my company for a long time is the people I get to work with. But the corporate entity is not your friend.
I get tasked with finding savings every goddamn quarter. And we’re not talking staples and printer paper. More quarters than not, I have to work out how to make our revised cost targets. If I’m lucky, we have vacancies we can freeze or shut down. If I’m not, it’s colleagues who need to be made redundant. Because market analysts say that we should have a higher margin to be market competitive. So you get taskings from finance to squeeze out ever single dollar saving you can. And it’s the same at every other company, no matter the happy clappy “we’re so chill” marketing.
Stuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it
You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought
Practice illegalism daily to see past the smoke and mirrors that make it look like the way things are is the way they must be. A better world is possible
Disobedience is a muscle that requires exercise. If you envision yoursef a resistance fighting and think you’ll start breaking the law once it becomes absolutely necessary, you will not have the skills, the experience, the realism, connections or the courage once the time comes.
The revolution isn’t an event to happen somewhere, someday, somehow.
It is happening everywhere, all the time, and in all of these different ways that each person has access to.
“You are what you do repeatedly,” and what you do now, immediately, prepares you for what you’ll do next.
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