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    Fuck, not being able to trust your doctor because some bootlicker in a suit has passed (or is trying to) a law defining your body’s natural processes as a potential murder case?

    Fuck these fascist Republican scumbags.

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      If these fuckers get their way, I will, at some point, start seeing murder cases where the perpetrator is a woman and default to thinking that the charges are bullshit because of this.

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        Yup, and once they fully ban abortion, birth control is next, followed by taking away womens right to choose if they have kids or not. Meaning all girls will have a set amount of time to have their required number of children, following their first period.

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      What do you think happens with universal systems?

      Any doctor office I walk into, gets my entire history based on my PHIN… which is required for me to provide in order to get service.

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    To be fair, you could have the best doctor in the world. The second they enter those dates into the database with the rest of your notes it is out of their hands. The IT department will be responsible for handing over the data.

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      The IT department would never be responsible for handing over said data. Backing it up, making sure it was recoverable, sure. But IT would have no actions with such.

      I assume it would be the HR department or the administrators

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          And they will not. You no nothing about IT do you? All obligations and no pay grade. Never does IT go outside their poor ass pay. HR (Legal) as you say, will have to transfer it. Not in our pay grade

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            You’re talking as if there are no MAGA assholes and corporate cocksuckers that work in IT. I hate to break it to you…

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            You no nothing about IT do you?

            I’m not convinced you do, if you genuinely can’t imagine a scenario where someone with just enough permissions could be convinced to do this, legally or otherwise.

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        We all know there are incompetent people in human resources who will turn to their tech person and ask them to do the job. The tech person won’t even think twice about the actual intended use of the data that they’re sharing.

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      This.

      I have a (well managed) chronic illness. I have to go to lots of doctors at different clinics. All of them are in the habit of just collecting all the information.

      For example, as a patient, there’s no benefit to me whatsoever of the doctor being aware of the day and month of my birth. That’s just the start though, they have my medical concession id number, addresses, et cetera.

      If you express any reluctance at all, you’re made to feel like a pariah. Like a COVID denier or something. For example, there was one clinic I want sure I would continue with, so when I was asked to fill out my details I asked whether it was really necessary given that I might not come on board as a patient, the receptionist and doctor just couldn’t understand why I might be reluctant.

      Last time I saw my GP he asked whether he could record our conversation… “it’s some AI thing we’re trialling”. OMFG. Why on earth would I want that? Why would anyone want that? I want my GP who is an actual person to listen to my circumstances and determine the best course of action.

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        Day and Month of Birth is a basic check to see if you are who you say you are, if you are refusing to give even basic details like that I can see why the medical staff who deal with you would give you confused/annoyed expressions

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          Well, yea, but we shouldn’t use it for that either.

          Google found my day and month of birth in about 3 seconds, and it’s entirely because of this “collect everything” behavior.

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            Same with social security numbers. I’ve lost count of all the sites I’ve had to enter it in over the years, at this point I just assume all of my info is available to a motivated search

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          To be clear, I don’t refuse to provide my Day and Month of Birth, simply because I don’t want to be some kind of privacy pariah.

          That said, while it may have been a reasonable point of ID in the 90s, I don’t believe that remains the case in 2024.

          The basic concept of Australian Privacy Legislation is that organisations ought to collect only that information which they require, and they should disclose the reason why they are collecting that data.

          If the only reason to collect ones Day and Month of birth is so I can repeat it back and confirm it later then that seems very pointless to me. There are other details which they do require which can be used to confirm my identity.

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            That said, while it may have been a reasonable point of ID in the 90s, I don’t believe that remains the case in 2024.

            It’s useful for quickly disambiguating between multiple people with the same name though - the odds that two people with the same name and date of birth are using the same provider on the same day are low enough to consider it useful.

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              I’m certain that fewer than 0.1% of patients at a small medical clinic would share the same first and last names. In those cases, you could differentiate by address and age if necessary.

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                This falls into a “if it aint broke, dont fix it” kind of thing. Month and Year Birthdate are fairly low privacy info that everyone remembers and are used to giving out" it gets used for so many different checks because we all have the understanding that we give this info out to businesses that need them, switching to other things that in a vacuum would be a better fit in that one specific category in only a tiny amount just isnt worth the confusion and pushback that changing it would cause.

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                  It is broken though.

                  You only feel like DoB is low level personal information because you tell it to everyone. According to Australian Provacy Principles it’s “sensitive” which means it should only be collected when required.

                  At my podiatrists office it’s simply not required.

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                I think you underestimate how common the most common first and last names are. In an even small city you are likely to see repeats of the most common names.

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            Which other identifiers would you feel comfortable confirming? Is there a reason you think DoB is dangerous to share?

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              DoB is considered sensitive personal information in the Australian Privacy Act.

              Other identifiers might be street number or last three digits of phone number.

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                Interesting. Asking because I work in a hospital (in America tho) and making our patients more comfortable is better for everyone. We do serve a lot of homeless people tho, so for that we would probably still need to ask DoB since we need to verify two identifiers.

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                  Firstly, I’m a weirdo and my preferences aren’t indicative of “what makes people comfortable” generally.

                  Secondly, in some cases DoB is really just a code number. Over the last year I’ve started providing an incorrect DoB at new clinics I attend. It’s never caused any problems. As long as I can provide the right code number when asked it has served its purpose.

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            When I donate blood, they ask me for that info like 3 or 4 times throughout the process. While it probably doesn’t apply to a regular doctors visit, I think it’s also used to gauge if you are alert and your memory is good.

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        The AI thing is probably for the doctor to have a summary at the end, notes without needing to type them.

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        I’m always in a “Grab any data that might be useful” mood at the doctor’s office. I’ve had teams of trainees brought into my room to show off any medical problems I have. I love supporting the medical field however I can. My mom was in a relatively famous medical video ages ago and such.

        But if a doctor asked me to train his AI I’d tell him to fuck right off. No way, no how.

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        man, id hate to have you as a client. I’m all for privacy and not wasting time, but you’re just unbearable in this regard.

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    Oh I get it, it’s in response to pregnancy tracking bills in the making. I just thought she was anti-medicine in general, at first.

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      I’m sure you get it, but this is kinda for whoever is out of the loop on this.

      Yeah, right now the meta for pro-choice women is to delete and remove all period tracking apps under the assumption the apps will snitch directly to the government on you, so that, say, Texas lawmakers will know if your period is overdue, and thus you are expected to be possibly pregnant. Then, if that data leads them to certain conclusions, they assume an abortion has happened, and they want that fully criminalized.

      It is not unlikely to expect an incarceration in order to “protect the life of the baby”, even if you have made no move toward abortion, but once the tracker app and its data tell the patriarchy that you might be pregnant, all bets are off.

      Even worse is that sometimes a woman’s period is just irregular, or even disappears for a time, especially if she’s on some serious athletics and a tight diet, so there’s a lot of room for false positive “pregnant” results with possible felony charges on the line, over the fucking tracker app on your phone.

      The same situation drives the daughter’s actions, doctors will often snitch, and the problem of anti-choice doctors getting you incarcerated because they think you might be pregnant is well known.

      Basically this information is now expected to be used to monitor for pregnancy, possibly by law enforcement directly, and it becomes very compromising, especially for a teen girl who already lacks the rights she needs to take herself away from unwanted situations and states. She also likely wants to normalize this behavior for herself, so that others wanting to hide pregnancy do not set off “red flags” when they try to maintain privacy.

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          It is if you view it through this fucked up lens, sure.

          The scare tactic “Fox News” approach alive and well here, I see.

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            Dude. How many links do you want to current horror-level news stories involving anti-abortion laws? And I mean the stuff that’s covered by ten of the biggest outlets across the country, minimum.

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      bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg!

      “But it was the republican-appointed SCOTUS judges who rammed their agenda through, because you people let trump through the door in 2016, you allowed this to happen and seem intent on letting it happen over and over again.”

      bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe!!! MaRy HaD a LiTtLe LaMb LiTtLe LaMb LiTtLe LaMb…!!!

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        The Democrats have had decades to ensure abortion access would be guaranteed, but they decided not to and allowed it to be overturned. Both parties were absolutely happy to do nothing and just raise funds over abortion, but the Republicans had to actually try to force a change.

        If there is a pile of brushwood and gasoline containers next to my house, and my husband wants to light it on fire while my mother wants to keep it there, neither of those people is actually trying to make the situation better.

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          Interesting, the one who doesn’t want to burn your house down is equal to the person who does want to burn your house down in your mind?

          Neither one wants to do what you want so both are equally bad to you, what a shit take.

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              That’s not an option you have right now.

              The choice is between burning it down NOW or not.

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                their answer to raging forest fires destroying 1000s of homes each year:

                just put it out bro. it’s so easy, lol.

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                You should probably ask yourself why you don’t have the option to actually reduce harm. Republicans jave no problem getting their representatives to do what they want. So why do Democrats struggle so much?

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                  Because the Democrats are the big tent party. Republicans are backed by a bunch of idiots, WASPS, and single issue voters. The Democrats have entire core elements that vary by state and region, from urban progressive whites to rural socially conservative minorities sith both groups only agreeing on economics for example.

                  The fact is up until recently the Democrats have had to juggle even more groups that have fallen off, for example in my area there is an Iranian minority that used to back the Democrats but have turned to the Republicans because of LGBTQ issues, because they are a bigoted bunch of weaklings.

                  The point is that the Dems have been fighting themselves as much as the Republicans, which has hindered them quite a lot. The reason for the increased effectiveness in recent times is due to some demographics shrinking, disappearing, or otherwise realigning with more of the national average. Also the Republicans got a helluva lot worse.

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              How do we remove the danger? Specifically? Things the average person can do that will actually help.

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                All the average person can do is tell their representatives at the local and federal level what they expect in exchange for their vote. “Vote Blue no matter who” doesntlead to amy actual change unless you leverage your vote for actual policy changes. MAGA is the open admission of what the GOP has been pushing the last few decades actually realized. Republicans who didn’t offer what the base wanted were replaced by people willing to push for that reprehensible agenda. Pressure you representatives to actually protect human rights and replace them if theu won’t do it. The people have actual power, progressives have jist been conditioned to not wield ot since that threatens the power structure in Washington.

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          I’m very curious about what the democrats were supposed to do to guarantee abortion access, perhaps you can clarify this for me. Were they supposed to pass a law that somehow would be immune to repeal from the next republican congress? Executive order? Amend the constitution? Some other form of legislative or executive magic I’m unfamiliar with?

          And your analogy of a literal arsonist being the same as another person just keeping some resources handy is actually very interesting - because by extension, you think that democrats should anticipate and prevent all possible fire-starting the republicans might do, and when they don’t, they’re just as bad?

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            They have been passing laws and changing constitutions at the state level for the past 18 months. Clearly there was political will for that, but they chose to sit on their thumbs and do nothing.

            Something bad isn’t made better just because you compare it to something worse.

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                I did though. Republicans spent the past 40 years saying they want to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and the Democrats did nothing to make that more difficult. Obama had a supermajority in 2009 and could have passed a national law protecting abortion rights, but didnt. States that swing back and forth could have passed similar laws that protected abortion, or put forth ballot initiatives to defend it, but didn’t. They knew what the Republicans wanted to do, and did nothing to prevent it.

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              Having the political will to do something now has zero to do with having the political will ten or fifteen years ago when it literally wasn’t a problem. Further, this idea that the democrats should just spend all their time and political energy finding ways to prevent all future possibilities of republicans doing bad stuff is stupid on its face, as it’s a flatly impossible task (both in scope and actual ability) and takes away from time spent solving other problems.

              Obama had a supermajority in 2009 and could have passed a national law protecting abortion rights, but didnt.

              I specifically asked in my prior comment what would stop republicans from repealing such a law when they had control, such as in 2017.

              States that swing back and forth could have passed similar laws that protected abortion, or put forth ballot initiatives to defend it, but didn’t. They knew what the Republicans wanted to do, and did nothing to prevent it.

              Man, the same thing over and over. Political will rarely exists to fix problems that might happen, it exists to fix problems that are material.

              You know, climate change is important to me, so I think democrats should be expending all their efforts to make the EPA more durable so the next republican congress/administration doesn’t ruin it. Oh wait, anything they pass into law can be repealed by the next congress? Executive orders can be revoked? People can be appointed to run government organizations that only have an interest in destroying that organization? Things can be undone?!

              Man, maybe prior administrations should have done some sort of magic with the Iran deal/Paris Accords/[any issue the Trump admin undid] so it couldn’t have been undone. I don’t know what that magic is, and its probably anti-democratic, but you seem convinced it exists.

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    I tell every doctor “a few weeks ago” and then when they suggest a date I say yes. So every doctor has a different day lol. Hopefully that doesn’t come back to bite me

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      I thought you meant:

      Doctor: “when was your last period?”

      Me: “a few weeks ago.”

      Doctor: “date?”

      Me: yes

      Doctor: great I’ll pick you up at 8

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      Hey if you’re on hormonal birth control I think you can just tell them you use the method that gets rid of periods (not taking the placebo week and just continuing with the hormone pills, this is safe if you also just don’t want to have periods link)

      I have an iud and besides a short time after having one removed to get pregnant with my daughter haven’t had my period in uh, 9 years? I just tell them I don’t have a period and haven’t in years and they accept that readily

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        If you live in a deep red state even that info will be used against you. The GOP wants to make women brood sows and any type of birth control is considered murder/going against God’s plan.

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    Any woman who votes for the right at this point is voting for the handmaid’s tale. Ending no fault divorce, ending a woman’s right to choose, tracking women’s periods, and the list goes on. The right is trying to roll back women’s rights little by little.

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      I remember when the right said things would never get as bad as the handmaid’s tale. It’s not a coincidence they stopped saying that.

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      Red states are obsessed with knowing who is potentially pregnant and increasingly making legislation to punish people who appear pregnant and suddenly aren’t (ie, no periods, then abortion, then having a period). Some of that includes reporting that information, apps for tracking have already been caught sharing that info.

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          Memes are a form of cultural expression, spread from one person to another. This post is a meme. It’s not humorous but it is a meme

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            No, memes follow or aim to create a template / macro. This is just a snapshot of a Twitter post.

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              Meme - In popular language, a meme may refer to an Internet meme, typically an image, that is remixed, copied, and circulated in a shared cultural experience online.

              This post is a meme. It is an image that is circulated in a shared cultural experience (this post and it’s many reposts)

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                Maybe - but “memes” like this don’t have the remix portion. It doesn’t even really have the copy portion, because this is more like a repost - the OP didn’t copy this tweet to make a similar but different point, they’re just sharing a tweet on this Lemmy community. So by this definition, it’s not really a meme.

                If this were a meme, I’d be able to take it, change some key words while maintaining the general cadence, and a similar outcome with an alternate context. You can’t really do that with this screenshot of a tweet.

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                  The image isn’t the meme here. What is memetic is the idea of withholding previously innocuous-seeming information from healthcare professionals in the interest of self-preservation.

                  And if you ask what’s memetic about that, I will in turn ask you what coordinated and intentional effort exists to push this concept of information withholding for safety onto American women? And when you then come back after having not found any coordinated and intentional effort, I will simply ask you then how you think this idea has spread to the point of being so easily recognizable and identifiable? Memetic discourse.

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                  I mean, you could interpret remix in a few ways. Editing this specific image? Perhaps it hasn’t been done but that doesn’t mean it can’t be. If we’re considering the core message of the post to be the meme, then I would say it has been remixed. This isn’t the first post I’ve seen conveying this sentiment in similar (but distinct) wording. Theres a reasonable basis for this interpretation in my opinion.

                  Just because you and I lack the imagination and possess enough empathy to not edit this meme doesn’t mean there aren’t other people out there who can/have

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              Nope! A meme is an idea that passes from person to person and evolves as it does. Image macros are simply one form of meme.

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                The image in the OP, nor the text within it, will be passed from person to person nor will it become the basis for parody. There has to be some criteria for a meme community to follow and any original piece of text will qualify unless there’s some amount of circulation associated with it. Otherwise what separates this community from lemmy.world/c/politics ?

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              You are describing image macros, which are only one single type of meme, not the only thing that can be memetic. Even philosophical concepts can be spread memetically.

              I’m sorry, you simply have a misconception about what the definition of a meme is.

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          I would classify this as a combo INFOSEC and “OK boomer” meme, ie, “Lol, you trust _____ with that info? OK boomer”

          15 years or so ago I would’ve classified it as a conspiracy nutjob meme, but that’s the state of politics.

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    I like this N.J. way to talk to doctors: “don’t worry about it”, “it is what it is”, “who’s asking?”

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    This explains why people say healthcare in US is terrible

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      No it doesn’t. This is a problem with our laws, and it’s not true across the us, only in some of the less intelligent of our states.

      The reason people think our health care sucks is because it’s for profit which inevitably leads to crappy/no care for the poor. And for that reason it does suck.

      But of course, mindless bashing on the US? Upvotes, no matter how little it makes sense.

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        The reason people think our health care sucks is because it’s for profit which inevitably leads to crappy/no care for the poor. And for that reason it does suck.

        When people compare healthcare between countries, people compare healthcare by those countries. Not by corporations in those countries. This is why I say my shithole has worst dental care on the planet. And have bad avaliability, brcause regions are still part of country. Although the worst is better than none, I guess. Terrible both by European standards and by standards of 20 years ago. Again, USSA managed to be even worse than this.

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          It’s secondary to point that one states problems be applied to the whole country, although thats probably closer to using the worst of any country in the EU to paint the whole EU.

          The point is that this is relatively new, and this is not why people generally think the health care is bad in the us. We actually have great healthcare if you have money. not so much if you don’t. This is the general reason why us healthcare is looked down upon.

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            It’s secondary to point that one states problems be applied to the whole country, although thats probably closer to using the worst of any country in the EU to paint the whole EU.

            Even then EU healthcare probably better than of my country.

            not so much if you don’t.

            When people compare healthcare between countries, people compare healthcare by those countries. Not by corporations in those countries.

            Really. If you have money, there is no difference between countries.

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    I’m so glad I got sterilized once the RvW info got leaked. I wish I could thank whomever leaked it. In my eyes, they’re a hero.

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      I am Canadian and offered on my Facebook page to mail abortion pills to Americans, got IMMEDIATELY banned for 30 days, and was interviewed by Vice about that. Facebook is complicit.

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        I’m not one to defend Facebook, the execs can burn in hell for all I care, but they do have to comply with the laws of countries or else face being sued by some litigious Americans.

        Let me ask you this. Are you still on Facebook?

        Me myself was not happy with the influx of misinformation on there 10 years ago and I’ve not used the site since, or Instagram or WhatsApp.

        Full disclosure: we use ReactJS at work.

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          Yes because I have a lot of friends from a previous social media platform and that’s the only way we can stay connected.

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            Hey, each to their own, but I’m prepared to make sacrifices for the things I believe.

            I don’t shop on Amazon, and some things I just can’t find elsewhere so I just don’t buy them.

            As mentioned I don’t use WhatsApp so I miss out on group chats as my friends won’t use signal.

            The list is quite long at this point.

            I just find it odd that you’ll call out Facebook for being complicit but do nothing about it.

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              I really appreciate your dedication but most of us are just trying to get by. I mean the fact that we’re engaging with you on this platform instead of others is worth something.

              Personally I am old enough that I have never had social media. ICQ then AIM were the way people connected when I was young. Many of the people my age have Facebook accounts, but it’s not like they’re on there obsessing daily.

              My wife deleted her Facebook a couple years ago and I was so proud of her.

              Please be careful. Your heart is in the right place but if you keep cutting people out over a shitty choice of platform you might end up out of friends.

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                Thank you for your kind words, and I didn’t mean to come across as combative or anything, I was just voicing my thoughts.

                As for losing friends, if my friends don’t believe in the same things as me then I really should find friends I have more in common with.

                Full disclosure I’ve done some fucked up things in my life and my way of making amends is speaking of for the people less fortunate than I am and taking a stand for the things I believe, whether it makes a difference or not.

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    Okay, not entirely educated on female menstruation person here.

    Does the period cycle change or is it consistent over time? Like is it about tracking a woman’s pattern and if there’s a change… that’s the flag?

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      It’s about the cycle stopping and then starting again, suggesting that the person was pregnant until she wasn’t again.

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      To add what prune said, it can be some what inconsistent. Women aren’t robots.

      My ex had periods that were frequently +- a week or so, and my current GF is regular enough to freak out over a couple days.

      There’s also things that can cause skipped periods that have nothing to do with pregnancy- intensive physical training or stress.

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        Thanks for adding that. I was aware of those cases (also: the pill can make you stop having periods at all), hence why I wrote “suggested”.

        However, law enforcement can’t be trusted to give you the benefit of the doubt. Especially, if it’s illegal and persecution is especially politically motivated.

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          yup.

          I can only imagine what someone like my ex would have to worry about in those places. The idea that something- for her- is totally normal would see her facing charges for things that never happened anyhow. It’s patent stupidity.

          This kid is smart, and whoever coached her… good job.

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          Surely, surely law enforcement can’t investigate you for missing a period?

          It’s not uncommon to choose to skip periods to keep iron levels up, et cetera.

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            In the states where an abortion is illegal with jail time as a repercussuon?

            I’d never want to risk it.

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    Reminder to use Drip to track menstruation as every other comparable app I have found features telemetry and shouldn’t be trusted.