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  • Idk maybe not everyone has a first language of english and had english lessons.

    Like english is literally my fourth best spoken language. And I’m disabked with cognitive issues.

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  • Public money is spent to benefit the rich more then the poor

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  • It tends to actually be a worse problen in europe than the US.

    In the US the problem is more that doctors tend to diagnose you with something you don’t have and prescribe drugs that won’t help you (pharmaceuticals thanks).

    In europe, where the government strongly controls the medical system, the government has promoted rules that minimise the costs of disability benefits and delegitimise disabling illness as “hysteria” or whatever, so that the government doesn’t have to pay as much disability benefits.

    Take the UK for example, Sir Simon Wessely, who based his career on claiming ME (and now Long COVID) are all in the mind, which was disproven later on. Where is he now? He was knighted by the Queen, serves on the board of directors of the NHS, leads the government’s Science Media Center. Oh and he also earns massive commissions on being a consultant for disability insurance companies.

    His famous quote, which is linked to him advising UK parliament in the 90s, is “[disability] Benefits will actually make these patients worse” (because he believed they were malingerers). A quote that probably led to hundreds of deaths of people with ME starving to death.

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  • Having worked for advocacy groups for my disease, this is literally a universal issue and affects even the best systems. The only cases where this tends not to be an issue are extremely expensive private doctors who take all the time in the world to investigate for you.

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    Trump's plan for Ukraine comes into focus: Territorial concessions but NATO off the table
  • For Ukraine, only NATO membership makes sense to end the war.

    There is literally nothing else that can prevent Russia from invading. They broke their word in 2014, then again in 2022, without NATO membership, Ukraine will just get invaded again and again by Russia until it’s a satellite state or fully annexed.

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  • Ahhh capitalism, where insurance companies pay doctors to pretend everything is fine so they don’t have to spend money.

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  • Yeah. Stop pretending the healthcare system has the resources to deal with unknown diseases.

    If they can’t find a diagnosis, you’ll get told that you’re probably anxious or depressed, or malingering, and get told to exercise and eat healthy. This is what I was told when I was literally bedridden for a year by an undiagnosed neurological disease.

    It’s a pretty horrible position to be in. My disease which is relatively common but not taught in most med schools took me three years and 23 doctors before I got diagnosed, even though diagnosis is based on fairly simple clinical observations.

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    Bridgy Fed: Bridge your Mastodon Account to Bluesky
  • Yeah, bluesky has a bunch of features, notably account portability, which was specifically designed into the ATProtocol.

    The purpose of the ATProtocol was never to federate with Activitypub, it was to build a more feature rich and scalable “federated” protocol.

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    Cats are Healers
  • Possibly. It would make sense, people with poor health who tend to also be poorer financially are less likely to have the ability to take care of a pet.

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    Cats are Healers
  • Cat people have 40% less risk of heart attack.*

    Cat people are also overrepresented cohorts of wealthy people and women, two cohorts who have a much lower risk of heart attack than the most at risk cohort of poor men.

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    Youtube to Reinstate Russia Today on it's website, after war ends, despite breaking youtube's TOS on hundreds of occasions.

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    What happened?

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    Republicans (TM)

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    RFK and "wellness farms"

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    link.springer.com Medical gaslighting as a mechanism for medical trauma: case studies and analysis - Current Psychology

    Being dismissed or disparaged by medical professionals can be shocking and demoralizing for patients, leading to unnecessary harms (e.g., avoidance of medical treatment; depression; shame). This difficulty is further compounded when patients are also the target of wide-ranging stigmatization due to ...

    Just wanted to share here because I know a lot of us have gone through gaslighting from the medical system which often results in extensive trauma.

    You are not alone. And this study shows it.

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    spectra.video Backyard Mouse 2024-11-20-1080

    An eventful morning for our backyard mouse

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18818424

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    [Wildlife] Mouse Hunted by Owl - Peertube

    spectra.video Backyard Mouse 2024-11-20-1080

    An eventful morning for our backyard mouse

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    [Wildlife Video] Coyote

    spectra.video Coyote 2024-11-15 pm

    Spectra is a PeerTube instance dedicated to supporting original content creators, and building the video community within the fediverse!

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    Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like

    www.nytimes.com Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology

    Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18813291

    > Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

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    www.nytimes.com Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology

    Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

    Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

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    cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/24261346

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    www.rfi.fr 'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X

    French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused…

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28363968

    > > French regional daily Ouest-France, the top-selling paper in the country, is the latest in a string of European publications to suspend posts on X, formerly Twitter. The social media platform is accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner Elon Musk, an ally of US president-elect Donald Trump.

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    No matter which sort you use (except for new), content is recommended to you by activity. Depending on the sort (active, hot, top) it uses a slightly different mixture of votes/comments/time since post to determine the order.

    The only exception is scaled, which boosts a little bit midsized communities, but still doesn’t manage to improve visibility of niche ones.

    If lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.

    For example, if I upvote / comment often in a community, there should be an option to have posts from the community be boosted in my feed, even if it’s a tiny community.

    Let’s say I’m subscribed to !world@lemmy.world and !news@lemmy.world because I want to occasionally see news. However, I’m also subscribed to a couple hundred other communities, some of them who don’t manage to get more than a couple upvotes on their biggest posts. And whenever I see them I’m replying/upvoting because I’m passionate about that topic.

    My feed shouldn’t be 95% c/news and c/world because those are the most upvoted and commented. I shouldn’t have to scroll down hundreds of posts to find “big” posts in small communities I interact with at any opportunity I get.

    That’s why I think it would be beneficial to lemmy if the sort/algorithm took into account your engagement in a way.

    It doesn’t have to be complicated, you can have a single number “engagement score” for every community calculated with a basic formula, and that number is used as a boost to the community.

    I’m aware that there are some examples of successful niche communities on lemmy. But that’s mainly because either a significant chunk of the lemmy userbase is into that niche (let’s face it the lemmy community is not a representative sample of the world population, we tend to be very similar people), or because the posts on it are simplified image/video type posts which appeal to people who don’t know much about the subject.

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    ban-x-in.eu BAN X in Europe - Europeans against Elon Musk - Petition to the European Commission

    This petition introduces the campaign for the ban of Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in the European Union.

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853884

    > cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/4853256 > > > To whom it may concern.

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    If you simp for authoritarians stop pretending to be "against heirarchy"

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