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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that worth losing your temper over? The midwife sent us home because my wife was only a few cm dilated, and active labour doesn't start until about 5 or 6cm dilation, after which it generally takes another 5+ hours before the cervix is dilated enough (i.e. 10cm) to give birth. It's annoying, but it's standard procedure.

It'd be wonderful if the healthcare systems around the world had infinite resources to care for pregnant women, but unfortunately they don't.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 years ago (23 children)

I wrote a whole 3 paragraph reply to this, but it crashed and now I'm too lazy to write it again.

But yes, this. "Everyone getting UBI and universal healthcare" is not far left. Far left is firebombing pharmaceutical companies or forceable seizure of private property to distribute amongst others, or enforced working arrangements to bring about equality.

What most Americans on Lemmy call "far left", I'd call "basic respect for your fellow man and the compassion to put others before yourself".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think they're a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.

I'd consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they've kept running for years while warning people that it'd eventually be cut off).

Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations

-CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez)

-Conservative politics of any kind

-Capitalism

-Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I have no love for Meta, but this is a case of damned if you do or damned if you don't. If they didn't censor it, how much do you bet there'd be an article posted here that said "Threads allows Covid and vaccine misinformation to spread as cases rise"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Ah yes, just what the working class desperately needs, a gatekeeper.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn't surprise me that he's more "understanding" of the employees.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

That's a completely unrelated issue with Logitech. Firefox is "blocked" because it doesn't support WebUSB (nor does Safari). I understand this web DRM is bad tech and we want to be morally outraged, but spreading misinformation makes the Lemmy crowd look less like activists/enthusiasts and more like chicken little.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We had a bus driver who'd drive away if he had already closed the doors, regardless of if he could see you running for the bus or if other students would tell him someone was coming.

Smug little prick used to whistle like a fucking 1950s Disney character while he did it, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

PBU"B" 👨🏻‍💼📺

 

Every year in July, Hakata, in Fukuoka, hosts the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival, where participants race on a 5km course pushing 1 ton floats. This is a snap I managed to get during one of the practice runs.

 

I was lucky enough to get to Kanazawa the day before the first snow last year

 

Sadly, but necessarily, this was knocked down in 2020 as it was too small to accommodate the number of passengers leaving from this exit.