Yep. Case in point, the most underfunded disease per disease burden at the NIH, affects 75% women (ME/CFS).

ME/CFS costs the economy billions every year and disables hundreds of thousands of Americans so bad they lose their jobs, yet male pattern baldness gets more NIH funding…

Sorry I forgot it was paywalled. Here ya go: https://archive.is/Kab9U

I avoid it because I don’t like authoritarians and genocide denial. But you do you.

I personally refuse to participate in an instance that will ban me from FOSS communities because I mentioned Tiannmen square on their news community.

Have to agree with Blaze here.

Even though growthefediverse and fedigrow have similar names, they are about quite different things.

Ie. maintaining a lemmy community, vs getting the word out about lemmy.

How to get a free flight (100% foolproof trick)

Nah I’m not gonna dunk on her effort. I’m glad she made it. Don’t wanna be a downer to her.

But it just looks off to me.

Am I the only one who is bothered by this pic. It looks so fake and photoshopped.

Maybe it’s because my phone has weird contrast settings for accessibility.

Obviously I think whoever made this pic has great intentions and it’ll definitely be good enough for an article banner or something which is what it’s most likely to be used for.

Got very severe ME/CFS which is a subtype of long COVID.

This semi-personal page, written by the son of the leading stanford researcher on the illness, the son being severly ill with it himself, explains it well I think: https://www.whitneydafoe.com/mecfs/whatismecfs/

Yes it’s very much a beta test.

Cool that they are working on an app, though.

Although I personally find the UI to be confusingz

Yep, killed my mother, permanently disabled me into being bedridden and tubefed. And I was 4x Vaxxed.

yes that iOS bug is annoying.

Could we add the “disable downvotes” option that lemmy had in native settings. Ie. it’ll hide downvotes and behave according to upvotes only.

I know this is technically possible in voyager if you’re on an entire instance with downvotes disabled, but lemmy settings let you do this with a single account, which voyager does not.

ALSO I’m loving the new label/tagging system. :)

Me Before (Normie CS Dude):

OS Macos

Browser Brave

Search Engine Google

Services Insta, Reddit, Whatsapp, Microsoft Suite, Netflix, Icloud Drive

Me Now (I dont wanna get fucked by a facist government)

OS Debian

Browser Librewolf

Search Engine Duckduckgo/Startpage

Services Signal/Fluffychat, Lemmy, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Bluesky, Nextcloud

Fluffychat gang

Why?

Piraten sind Frei

Yep. I’m lost, 2% battery left, I aint answering a call from an unknown number. Imagining dying of thirst having wasted your last battery on a telemarketing call.

it checks out with french

It was an extremist interpretation of mendelian genetics. But it was a near dominant view among geneticists at the time.

Science is a tool.

20th century facists used eugenics (which was considered scientifically sound at the time) to argue for genociding disabled people.

This is kind of unrelated, but I lost trust in reuters when they did an “investigative piece” on a scientist claiming he was “harassed” by patients, which was basically a hit piece on an entire illness (everyone with it). The “harassment” in question was people asking for data to be released on a study that led to disability benefits being removed. Low and behold, once the data was released (after a multiyear court battle) it was found to be very manipulated and the study went down the trash. (Study was funded by the disability insurance obviously).

Reuters never reported on the fact a court found those allegations “harassment” were “without proof”, at best, “grossly exaggerated” and done “with malicious intentions”. Or the fact the reanlyses of the data used in that study came to the opposite conclusions.