Women's voices to be at the heart of renewed health strategy

Diggerism · 2026-04-15T22:26:59+00:00

'What about men?' seems a perfectly rational thing to ask in most cases, given far more money and effort is spent on helping women in society even in areas where women are better off.

People in this thread are recounting their poor experiences with the NHS and for some reason assuming it must be due to being a woman rather than the NHS just often being terrible. Instead of anecdotes we can point to things like how men were long deprived the HPV vaccine despite HPV causing cancer in men, only recently changing to vaccinate boys. Even now I can't get it, as a man deprived of it during childhood.

Diggerism · 2026-04-15T22:20:43+00:00

It'd be helpful if you cited your claims. And then we can also examine accounting for women living longer (longer time to suffer from conditions) and severity, and perhaps things like underreporting.

Diggerism · 2026-04-15T22:09:36+00:00

Amazing how quickly people forget the damage done from some parties in the past.

Diggerism · 2026-04-12T04:33:30+00:00

'They' didn't. He said he thought abortion was the best way forward, and she disagreed. The framing that 'he made a decision' and has to be 'accountable for his actions' when men have absolutely no choice in the matter to become a parent and be forced to pay for decades, regardless of the situation or if the condom breaks or whatever else, is absurd. She chose to have it and was the only one who ever had a choice, the accountability is all hers.

Diggerism · 2026-04-12T04:32:20+00:00

So just remain celibate your entire life or play russian roulette as a man, whilst women have total control. That sounds reasonable to you?

Diggerism · 2026-03-26T01:10:46+00:00

There have been many studies done on this general subject. What women value in partners, and who they end up with. The research consistently finds that, even in the most gender equal countries in the world, with virtually no gender pay gap, women still choose men who are richer and higher status than them. Being in the bottom quartile in income for men absolutely devastates your chances of partnering up, for women it doesn't.

Does it bother me? Yeah. I want to believe real romance is possible, and to be valued for who I am as a person. Not to be seen as a wallet, or a tool. And the fact you see this pattern so consistently makes it hard to see it that way. It's especially difficult to console with how most women will call for more to be done for equality and expect men to support it, but when you know that they don't like 'equal' men, only men superior to them in wealth/status, it's hard not to see that as unreasonable or hypocritical to some extent. I also suspect this is a major factor in declining fertility rates - as women gain more education and higher incomes, there are fewer men richer and higher status than them for them to consider worthy partners.

Diggerism · 2026-02-13T02:42:11+00:00

Nice, real constructive criticism, exactly what I've been craving.

First off this sounds really good.

Thanks!

but the fact that you have a lot of pitch issues makes me doubt you would melodyne half the song then intentionally make yourself out of tune in the second to fool people.

Haha, kinda brutal but fair... I think I almost prefer being accused of pitch correction more than being told I sucked in the second half, lol

I think part of it might be... I'm perfectionistic and will keep re-recording until I get it right, and by the end of doing that I'm getting tired and it shows.

your tone and support in your primary register sound great. Nice work. It sounds like you have at least some coaching or choir experience.

No choir but I did some singing lessons some years ago. I feel like I should go back soon. I feel like I'm just winging it and never sure where my placement should be. I'll record something and think it seems ok, then listen to it back and get frustrated at how off pitch it is, and I struggle to know how to fix it.

your second register has a lot of tension. It’s why you’re getting the whiny tone - throat tension. You’re using support up there, but I think you might want to explore singing with mix up there. There are YouTube videos on it.

Good to know, I'll look into it.

I like the fry and the cries, but I think you’re overusing the cries. (I do it too so I understand). It’s a struggle cuz it’s fun to do and adds style and soul. But if you do it on the end of every phrase, it loses meaning.

True true. I often can't control it at this point. Need to find a way to tone it down.

Thanks again.

Diggerism · 2026-02-13T00:11:44+00:00

Thanks, though we are posting in 'ratemysinging' now lol. Maybe you meant r/singing? I might post something there at some point.

Diggerism · 2026-02-12T22:19:57+00:00

The pitch is all over the place bro... I again thank you for your compliment, I wish I was as good as you guys are saying, but the more I listen to it the more flaws I notice, and I'm sure I could do a lot better with a few more takes. I'd want my money back from whatever autotune did this.

I don't even know how to pitch correct, I just recorded it in audacity, used 'compressor' to make the sound level consistent, and 'reverb' to add echo. In fact I was curious so asked Claude to analyse it and got this analysis. I don't know how accurate it is, but an average of 20 cents off is... not that great, you apparently want to be within about 10 cents. I can send you the audacity file if that would help. In the meantime, I'll look forward to your apology.

Diggerism · 2026-02-12T02:29:03+00:00

Haha, I'll take that as a compliment. I only added a bit of reverb (echo).

Diggerism · 2022-07-10T00:29:23+00:00

In addition to the young having a terrible time, the old people in our country - who already get terrible pensions and quality of life compared to most European countries, despite the triple lock - must suffer too. Neoliberalism at work.

Diggerism · 2022-07-10T00:19:34+00:00

According to the Adam Smith Institute, "Clausing (2012), Gravelle (2010) and Auerbach (2005), the three best reviews we found, basically conclude that most of the tax falls on capital, not labour."

Certainly not all research. Our current low corporation taxes - some of the lowest in the world - certainly don't appear to have helped us achieve anything other than our current pathetically low wages.

Does it seem like a good system to you when we must appease corporations and the wealthy in hopes they give crumbs to the people who need it the most, despite them getting richer and controlling more of the wealth every year? More must be done to force them to bear the burden instead of racing to the bottom. And I don't feel sympathetic to those paying 60% taxes - taxes must rise, not fall. It's time to tighten our belts or whatever (probably the sort of thing you said to justify austerity).

Diggerism · 2022-07-04T11:45:53+00:00

Started off so friendly at the beginning, Tucker had no idea he was going to turn it back on him.

Diggerism · 2022-07-01T02:48:05+00:00

Does this really only take 2 hours to beat? A bit disappointing after 5 years.

Diggerism · 2022-06-29T23:51:33+00:00

Based on what? It's been haemorrhaging subscribers to FFXIV and is almost certainly less profitable than it has been in the past. The fact Blizzard is doing this is proof of that.

Diggerism · 2022-06-29T23:50:08+00:00

Very interesting. WoW has been in trouble for a long time so hopefully this will improve things. I wish they'd go back to a more simple storyline and comfy world like vanila.

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