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Zephorah

@ Zephorah @discuss.online

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  • What books are your favourite and what are you reading now?

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  • I’ve read the expanse twice, it’s always on the lists so I didn’t bother mentioning it. Not so keen on the last book, but that’s a tough landing.

  • AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds | Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

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  • This was always the endgame. Control the public by making AI shift public opinion. The crowd will follow the crowd even if that crowd is actually AI.

    It’s why there’s always that one “guy”saying that similar thing in response to each post. People were reactive on reddit in predictable ways and AI learned at Reddit’s knee. The mimicry may even feel authentic because of the old Reddit experience.

  • What books are your favourite and what are you reading now?

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  • I’ve been on a scifi binge. MurderBot on audio is worth your time. After Atlas was quite good, stands out from the rest. Timothy Zahn’s Icarus series was fun.

    As for fantasy it’s been a slog. We need better search parameters. It took the book people forever to separate scifi and fantasy, but there’s still work to do. Paranormal romance is there for some reason and clutters up Libby’s ability to search. That, and it feels like there’s a glut of books involving either the fae or dragons right now, and little else, not unlike the vampire thing 2 decades ago.

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    CrⒶppy birthday to the enemy forever

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  • They have it set up so the people who will lose the insurance will do it the month the new legislators are sworn in. Stupid exists on the level of blaming those new legislators instead of the current admin.

  • Boycott GTA 6 and be done with it

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  • I don’t understand this. Do something else.

  • Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist

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  • Even before AI, this was a scam. Photoshopped pics. Fake seeds for legit plants, like wasabi, that are harder to find. And so on.

  • MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

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  • Yeah. Take the D&C. The D is for dilation (of the cervix), so the doctor can see into the uterus and use instruments. The C stands for the tool used to scrape stuff out of the uterus. Could be a miscarriage. Could be an abortion. Could be polyp removal (like a uterine version of a skin tag, but can cause bleeding). Obtain a sample from an irritated uterus to test for cancer. Post menopausal women get this procedure. Old ladies. Young ladies.

  • Alito slams birthright decision as ‘serious mistake’

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  • Alito is insane.

  • Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists

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  • This was a forgone conclusion.

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • That’s why I mentioned AOC. She did what we need to do en masse. Granted, most of us saying that won’t be trying it ourselves so it’s a bit weak, putting words where you’re unwilling to put personal action. Myself included.

  • MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

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  • Back in the day, your birth tally, as recorded for every childbearing woman, terminations were terminations. 3 miscarriages? 3 terminations. 3 abortions? 3 terminations. 2 miscarriages and one abortion? 3 terminations. That’s not political, that is the neutrality (ideally) of medicine.

    Gravida: # of times pregnant Para: # of pregnancies that reached viable gestation, alive or not. Termination: # of losses previable

    So this gal, if it was her only pregnancy, would be G1, P0, T1 by that system.

    That’s when I was in school. I’m not in OB, but now they use GTPAL (you guys can look it up in total). I cannot find the year of the switch. But know older terminology may be referenced by some people.

    The P is preterm. Births between 20-37wks, live or stillborn.

    The A is abortion, and includes ALL losses before 20wks. Your body can self abort due to issues with the fetus. A lot of early miscarriages are like that, and, often happen on a toilet. GASP

    By the newer GTPAL system, this gal would be (assuming this was her only pregnancy): G1, T0, P0, A1, L0

    Note that A1 is Abortion: 1.

    I feel no joy in this. For me, it simply is, but this gal will likely continue to see it as something else.

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • I’m not saying don’t vote Dem. I’m saying expect more, like AOC, Mamdani, and Sanders. Old guys can work, if they’re lifelong dedicated to working class, like sanders.

    We need the next FDR here. Full middle class subsidization and fuck the robber barons.

  • MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

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  • The procedures are often the same. A D&C is a D&C, whether it’s used to deliberately abort a viable fetus or to clean out an unviable fetus. It literally means to Dilate the cervix (so the doctor can see inside and get their instruments in there) & Curratage (use a tool to scrape tissue out of the uterus).

    Or popping a pill to expel a fetus, viable or otherwise. Mifeprestone then Misoprostol vs Methotrexate then Misoprostol. In both cases, the first drug stops development, and the second drug expels the fetus.

    In all of these cases, you’re aborting the fetus. The context changes, the act is the same.

  • MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

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  • This seems to be the playbook, every time. Magas blame medical staff, not the laws.

    Licensing is rigorous and as a medical professional, you’re allowed 1 license a lifetime. A doctor spends 12yrs of their life becoming a doctor, goes $200k+ in debt to get there, and these MAGAs talk like they expect doctors to interpret law instead of medicine.

    The law says no, so either the doctor doesn’t do it, or they leave the state and practice in one that allows them to make medical decisions for their patients instead of a lawyer with religion sitting in public office.

    Let’s not forget the doctor that was publically threatened for legally performing an abortion on a child of 13yrs who had been raped and impregnated by her rapist. The child was from a state where abortion was illegal.

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • The P25 team is good at one thing: getting things done. Bad things, but they’re not sitting still. The entrenched Dems are not known for “doing”. Unless people get out there and oust some of these Dems, AOC style, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect much beyond their usual. Jeffries is even on Theil’s secret society membership list.

    I read, daily, looking for those bright sparks, and I’m not seeing any more Mamdani’s grabbing crowd attention, do you? The latest Dem to grab anyone’s attention is Platner.

    Who are they? Where are they?

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • Yes, they also fund the emergency medical services. (911 and ambulance kits).

  • 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

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  • Sure, but it has that 90s visual vibe.

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • Please. No Democrat is building this. There was a large, well funded team working on P25 from 2020 on, like it was a full time job.

    Where’s the Dem equivalent of that? Who is top candidate? Where’s the party?

  • The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

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  • The problem with voting to fund schools is it means voting to raise your own property taxes. This, when property taxes have skyrocketed in response to the housing market in the last 4 years. A relative had theirs go up from $2k to $3.8k since purchasing this decade. That is a lot, for working class. The same as a $150/mo rent increase in a situation that’s supposed to be escaping rent. And it goes up every year.

    Let’s be real about home ownership, most of working class that has a house still on mortgage is house poor. Meaning, they manage to pay the mortgage but can’t afford shit. Rice, beans, eggs. Rent is a max payment per month, mortgage is a minimum payment per month. Stuff breaks, problems happen, and maintenance to prevent more problems from starting is a constant money siphon.

    The fact that state and local lawmakers choose to fund schools on property tax initiatives is fucked up. The last couple in my area failed. Why? Everyone is already squeezed to death financially.

    For schools to be funded, lawmakers need to find another way. How are they funding everything else? Do that.