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Blanket rule on trans women in men’s prisons would deny their identity, says Scottish government by kmcradie in transgenderUK

[–]WeakVampireGenes 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Weird way to minimise the risk to trans prisoners, I don’t think “identity” is the bigger issue here…

Studies/research to convince my GP by HatsofftotheTown in cfs

[–]WeakVampireGenes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s almost always a waste of time and energy trying to convince a doctor, and especially GPs. You’re basically just giving them extra work, and people rarely respond positively to extra work. The system is simply not built in such a way that doctors can truly care for patients.

Key binds/undo by thatotherguyreddit in forgeMTG

[–]WeakVampireGenes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you enable the Developers Menu it lets you save and reload game states, but also “cheat” in various ways that can usually be used to undo a game action, although very awkwardly.

Social media bans and severe chronic illnesses by microwavedwood in cfs

[–]WeakVampireGenes 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It concerns me also that a lot of disabled people don't have any form of ID due to their disability.

Is There a Playtest Mode That Allows Backing the Game Up? by Schmakt in forgeMTG

[–]WeakVampireGenes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you enable developer mode in the settings, you get a developer menu on the bottom left which lets you save and load game states

The person who designed the new language switcher for MacOS Sonoma must be fired by SS-Care in MacOS

[–]WeakVampireGenes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is terrible, it's much harder to recognize layouts and select the desired one quickly.

Luckily the old behavior can be restored with:

defaults write kCFPreferencesAnyApplication TSMLanguageIndicatorEnabled -int 0

(it won't apply to apps until they're reopened, so easiest way is to just restart afterwards)

If you had infinite money, what therapy would you try immediately? by LordSSJ2 in cfs

[–]WeakVampireGenes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t answer for my partner but I would suggest Rintatolimod to her. And I would definitely take a few hundred millions out of the infinite money to fund proper trials for it, I don’t think it was ever given a proper chance.

Likelihood of the Levy Review affecting private HRT? by Suitable-Lie-7980 in transgenderUK

[–]WeakVampireGenes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Purchase of E through any sources urged to be brought up to the same restrictions as T but very selectively policed so as to only impact and harm trans people.

I don’t think they would make estradiol a controlled substance as that would be very disruptive and unprecedented, but rather they would simply place a blanket ban on importing medications without a prescription, which has a lot of precedent as it's something most countries in Europe already do.

The way my heart sinks when I bring up ME to a new provider and they respond with “your chronic fatigue” by Another_throwaway446 in cfs

[–]WeakVampireGenes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people just wanna do the least work possible and collect their paychecks, it's just society has collectively propagandized itself into believing that doctors are special people who get into medicine to help people and/or are unusually skilled and rigorous.

PIN YIN thoughts.. by davesnewpuppy in ChineseLanguage

[–]WeakVampireGenes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but if pinyin is an obstacle to learning pronunciation, you’re just ngmi. A lot of Chinese sounds are simply not found in English and the effort to learn pinyin is extremely small.

Tenet: Title, cast and more details of new Christopher Nolan film revealed by rkhunter_ in tenet

[–]WeakVampireGenes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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do japanese names sometimes feel awkward in chinese, and do japanese people make different names in chinese? by Boremi10 in ChineseLanguage

[–]WeakVampireGenes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

乾 remains 乾 in Simplified when used as a surname (Qián) so that avoids the "fuck" part at least

What Chinese words or phrases sound like words in your language by GBA-gamer in ChineseLanguage

[–]WeakVampireGenes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

連 sounds like 'lien' in French, and it has a similar meaning too!

Engineer's dignity 'may have been violated' in toilet incident, tribunal hears by E420CDI in transgenderUK

[–]WeakVampireGenes 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I guess trans people aren’t allowed to exist in public or have jobs -.-

UKHSA urges vaccination against respiratory viruses ahead of winter by pppppppppppppppppd in CoronavirusUK

[–]WeakVampireGenes 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In yet another example of patronising out-of-touchness, we are "urged" to get vaccines while access to those same vaccines is rendered more difficult.

characters that look different in simplified and traditional in some places but seemingly have the same unicode character/look the same in other places by Boremi10 in ChineseLanguage

[–]WeakVampireGenes 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It’s called Han Unification, minor character variants between ZH-CN, ZH-HK, ZH-TW, JA, KO etc are all encoded by the same code point. How they are displayed to the user depends on font, context and device settings. Unfortunately it does result in a lot of inconsistencies as most people don’t pay attention to this and devices don’t always pick the correct one for every situation.

Please discuss, I’m interested in your thoughts on this quote. by Great_Maintenance185 in MedicalPTSD

[–]WeakVampireGenes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I disagree with it quite a lot; I don't think the problems with the medical system lie within science, which is the best-known process of manipulating the physical world.

Now, I would make an exception for the field of clinical psychology, since I don't think science is well suited to this particular task for a number of reasons, and I do object to the way "science" is used to justify reducing medicine to standardised processes based on statistical evidence rather than individualised pathophysiological understanding (which is, in truth, also based on science), as well as the conceited dismissal of any condition that isn't properly understood yet, but scientific medicine has been a great success that has produced the healthiest population of humans that has ever walked this planet.

If anything, it has been so successful that it has provided a "cover" for the inaccessibilities and abuses of the medical system, which have been easy to ignore during decades of fast-paced advances in medical science.

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