Weird

Move hay?

We really should call them northern countries at this point

Ok good to know

Yeah, but if you go to a good high school they send recruiters who may tell you to commission instead of only to enlist

And no they don’t take “ineligible” for an answer. I didn’t want to die for oil, but even if I did they wouldn’t let me, but they also wouldn’t leave me alone.

Absolutely not only in America. Ask your local Deaf community about discrimination they experience

Unfortunately I’m not even remotely surprised. Deaf and hard of hearing people are often targets of people who can’t handle someone not doing what they say. Once those people feel their words aren’t being shown proper deference some of them can’t/won’t stop their emotional response to regain dominance. Inability to comply (especially in someone who appears capable) becomes refusal in their eyes, and they’ll just stretch it back to something we should have done to prevent them from feeling insubordinated. Cops are notorious for it.

I’d never even thought that one might need to tell an airline that you’re Deaf. It’s a difficult experience as someone hard of hearing, but it’s difficult in the way dealing with the DMV is. Ideally you have a hearing person with you, and if not you bring a pen and paper to communicate when you need a shoulder tapped, and just run by context cues and writing for the rest.

Also I hope this lady consented to being recorded and posted. I’d be so humiliated seeing discrimination against me go viral

That’s the cops and criminals I’ve learned to expect

How do you be so stupid you think that people are reading the letter you sent from jail over the recipient’s shoulder but not before delivery

It’s wild that some people are so sheltered

There’s a time and a place for both styles.

It’s not just that, even us old and opinionated people can be swayed when we aren’t in the fight, given we have the wisdom to let ourselves listen to arguments. Especially if we keep seeing similar ideas from those we see as peers. It’s just that when we feel confronted most people (myself included) dig in rather than reevaluate.

Yeah I never assume I can convince someone I’m arguing with on the internet. My goal is to convince the readers. Or entertain myself while bored at work

I’m on board with that. Though I’d allow them to put out standardized official press releases and catalogs of products. I’d actually prefer the AMA and FDA release catalogs of approved medications if the FDA can be shielded from political interference. As well as having the FDA put out an official summary of a product when they approve it.

Ultimately I do want physicians to be made aware of new medications, and I know they’re already busy. There’s a middle ground between no uninitiated communication and allowing unrestricted freedom to advertise and lie to physicians and patients, claiming things like that oxycontin is nonaddictive.

Prohibition of vices doesn’t work, it just pushes it into organized crime. I want harm reduction more than purity

Unspecified foam usually means polyurethane, and the pics reforce that assumption. So no, it only degrades in response to uv, temperatures (any and all), humidity, and being looked at wrong. Also PU involves some nasty and underregulated chemicals

The problem with the last one is that while the sacklers fucked everyone, I don’t trust politicians when they interfere in medical treatments.

I think it’s fair for it to be legal, but only in specific locations and contexts. I think small scale gambling between friends and coworkers is fine. I think well regulated casinos are bad but serve as a deterrent to underground criminal gambling. I think having legal gambling through the internet and on your phone, advertised everywhere is a serious problem.

So a Linux phone that works?

On one hand I would love that. On the other hand it would have access to my steam games and that might be a problem

Is neon actually good?