Azarova

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[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have to echo what others have said here. This is not brave or heroic, but rather the dire result of a lack of accessible healthcare. In a sane and just world, this person would have been able to have had this done professionally, rather than DIY it out of desperation. And this is unfortunately a very old phenomenon. In the memoirs of doctor Ludwig Levy-Lenz, head gynecologist at the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, the first queer clinic in the entire world which was active during the Weimar period (1919-1933), he described how a sixteen year old trans boy did something similar.

"A sixteen year old [transgender boy] came to us to have [his] well-developed breasts amputated. [He] had the luck, [he] said, to find a job as apprentice to a carpenter, and it was only [his] breasts which prevented [him] from working like the other apprentices."

"We refused to operate because we considered that at the age of sixteen the [boy's] mental development was not complete. A few days later, the patient was brought to us having lost a great deal of blood; in order to necessitate amputation, [he] had inflicted upon [himself] deep and severe cuts with a razor. We were able to save the [boy's] life by a blood transfusion, but I had to remove the breasts." ^[Ludwig L. Lenz, Discretion and Indiscretion, (Cadillac Publishing Co., Inc., 1951), 463.]

Transgender healthcare being life saving is not just rhetoric or hyperbole, and it isn't just referencing the mental health risks in its absence. It is also life saving because, just like abortion, the DIY methods can be significantly more dangerous. The worse the crackdown on trans healthcare gets, the more incidents like this are going to happen. Anyone advocating for restrictions on trans healthcare is in reality advocating for the social murder of trans people, but in "polite" wording.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Back in the day you would get together with your friends in a goddess' cult and they would cut your balls off as the climax of a religious ceremony.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

time moves too fast

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I think what a lot of people miss about Hasan is that he is acutely aware that that is his role to play. He talked about it a little bit when he was on the Deprogram.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

True Anon without Liz is so sad kitty-birthday-sad

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

why do I need an ai for that when I already do it myself? thonk

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

surgery mentionI do not understand how the ancient eunuchs survived that shit. I finally got an orchi recently and it wasn't the worst thing in the world but gods damn I cannot imagine going through that without modern medicine. They were truly built different back then I suppose.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The creased flag obviously from amazon is so fucking funny. Absurdly unserious country.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

There really needs to be a "Most kudos in the past year/month/whatever" option because older fandoms tend to have works from years and years ago calcify at the top.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Although why would they try to restart the war

The eternal fascist hubris of "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down"

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is there some way to redirect links from one domain to another with a script in greasemonkey or something? If possible, I'd like every x.com link to automatically change to xcancel.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

i think he missed a spot amerikkka

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which one of you is this? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/videos@hexbear.net
 

sicko-biker beanis

 

This is a longshot but maybe someone would be able to help me with this. I have a laptop that only has a single NVMe drive. I booted it up today to find "Checking media presence......." after the splash screen and then it booted into BIOS. The BIOS doesn't see the NVMe device. I don't understand how this could've happened because I didn't update anything or change any setting or physically damage or jostle the laptop between the last successful boot and clean shutdown and now. When I boot into an EndevourOS liveusb, the installer can see my entire drive and its associated partitions. I can't access them though, I think because they're encrypted, but even so I feel like I should be able to see them in the filesystem, as I've rescued files like that before (from non-encypted drives). So I can't really make heads or tails of this. If the liveusb is seeing the drive and the correct partitions, it can't possibly be physical damage to the drive itself, right? Or any of the connections? Yet BIOS can't see it for some reason and won't boot into it. If it's worth anything, the OS on it is Arch with grub as the bootloader. Obviously I've tried to reseat the drive, move it to the other available slot, I've toggled on and off all sorts of settings in the bios, and nothing makes any progress. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Thanks!

Editting to add: I'm not entirely sure the BIOS doesn't see the device. The menu is fairly unclear. There's a series of lines starting with "NVMe Device", which the corresponding entry is just blank. Then there's two lines of "NVMe Controller", one of which has an entry that I can't select or see more of that says "SAMSUNG (5...", which makes me wonder because my NVMe drive is 512gb, and I wonder if it's listed there? But I can't see anything beyond the elipses so I can't tell. Then the other controller line just says "Empty". Not sure what to make of that.

Second edit: There's a section in BIOS for RAID disks, and in it there's a listing for "Non-RAID Physical Disks" in which my NVMe drive is listed correctly. So maybe it's a bootloader thing? I'm so confused.

Final edit: Thank you so much for the help everyone, even though I'm sure my post was a confused mess. I luckily managed to back up all my files, so it's just a matter of fixing grub or reinstalling at this point. I hate computer :)

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

how am i expected to slack off at work without bear website?

 

https://xcancel.com/ratlimit/status/1965945538903421439 soypoint-2

absolutely incredible snapshot of our current era what-the-hell

 

yet it still scrolls me to the comments. curious thonk

 

I don't like the new icon with a dolphin on it and I want the old clean folder look back. Is there a way to do this? I looked around but couldn't find anything.

 

~~i feel like there's a bingo on the vertical right side but i don't know what counts for those two open spots~~ bingo!

i did not make this, i pulled it from the news mega at the beginning of the year

 

Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered this week in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against the insurance giant he helmed revealed just how draconian its claims-denying process had become.

Last November, the estates of two former UHC patients filed suit in Minnesota alleging that the insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and override claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors.

The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate — and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.

As that lawsuit made its way through the courts, anger regarding the massive insurer's predilection towards denying claims has only grown, and speculation about the assassin's motives suggests that he may have been among those upset with UHC's coverage.

Though we don't yet know the identity of the person who shot Thompson nor his reasoning, reports claim that he wrote the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" on the shell casing of the bullets used to shoot the CEO — a message that makes it sound a lot like the killer was aggrieved against the insurance industry's aggressive denials of coverage to sick patients.

Beyond the shooter's own motives, it's clear from the shockingly celebratory reaction online to Thompson's murder that anger about the American insurance and healthcare system has reached the point of literal bloodlust.

As The American Prospect so aptly put it, "only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO."

And the alarming cruelty of the claims around the company's AI algorithm — we asked the company whether it's still using it, but received no immediate reply — perfectly illustrates why they're so angry.

 

This was the obvious and, in my opinion, desired (by them) result of the deluge of lawfare against trans people by these Christofascists. It's just unbelievably brutal to see the real numbers. gui-trans to every fucking monster even tangentially involved with this campaign.

 

Well, it's finally going to happen. Here we fucking go doomjak

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Azarova@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net
 

Aside from this being complete fantasy, do these freaks know that they're proving Putin is right for not trusting the west when they openly talk about carving up Russia like this? I assume not since they're unironically drawing 21st century versions of Generalplan Ost. eu-cool

Also, this map has some very bizzare internal borders

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