and don’t even START on the DIJON mustard

loyalty is resigning in disgrace and taking all the blame not only for your own fuck ups but also the kings so they can start fresh

the list is just so fucking long

can we just try and name the most qualified, agree that they’re unqualified, label the rest as more than unqualified and call it a day?

the vaccine is very effective, and also that’s HPV

a full STI screen is for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhoea

blood test - for syphilis, HIV throat swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea anal swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea urine - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea

afaik they sometimes tack on general biochemistry (sodium, potassium, etc) to the blood test, as well as some other things like mycoplasma genitalium but these are not standard 3-monthly tests

afaik it’s very rare to test for HSV at all, for various reasons

i’m sorry that you’ve had that experience and i don’t mean to diminish what you’re don’t through, but it’s also very important to note that this is far from the normal for the very large majority of people

fear doesn’t help sexual health… all sex comes with risks, and unprotected sex comes with significantly increased risk but the reality is by and large this is not what HSV looks like without other factors effecting it

downplaying risks is bad, but equally bad is people thinking a condition is worse than it is. this leads to more risky behaviour, because if they get the “scary” thing and it’s not as bad as they expect, they can take risky behaviour because they discount all their other education

it also only reinforces stigmas. this is particularly common with HIV-positive people: these days, if you have an undetectable viral load (if you take your daily medications) you can not pass on HIV… however the stigma remains, and people still often choose to not have sex with someone with an undetectable HIV infection (again, undetectable IS UNTRANSMITTABLE)

muddying the waters is very bad at scale

calm, unbiased information is what is required for public health. individual anecdotes about worst case scenarios do not serve to make people’s lives better

have you tried buying them not from a pharmacy? it’s easy af and not even expensive… the wealthiest man in the world, or even mr “gave up 7 figures in silicon valley” can get whatever they like

absolutely bad people… it’s the 36hr that makes amphetamines kinda obvious

at the very least, even if reparations aren’t likely, if aid is needed after some kind of emergency then you can possibly get more by pointing and saying that the aid is just interest on what was taken

i think the .id.au domain licensing rules are a pretty reasonable middle-ground:

https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/the-different-au-domain-names/id-au-domain-names/

The id.au domain name you choose must match or be an acronym or abbreviation of your first name or family name, or your nickname

you have to provide ID to register any .au, so you’re verified as a person, and though they don’t pre-check your nickname, AFAIK if there’s a complaint you do have to prove that you’re “known by” that name

then surely you would not have asked your OS to shutdown? linux does what you ask

to lead you down the right path, yes… llms will lead you down an arbitrary bath, and when that path is biased by your own negative feelings it can be incredibly damaging

don’t do that either… llms say things that sound reasonable but can be incredibly damaging when used for therapy. they are not therapists

but… this is basically the first time

we can applaud their movement to rationality and still look back at all the horrible things they did to pave the way here

why do the oligarchs continue to get all the good things? :(

domain names do that for people with well known domain names, and verification processes do that for people without

awesome lists in general are a great thing to search for in a lot of situations

another example: https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy

that works if you have power… if you don’t have power, they’ll make an example out of you

ahhh right! i see! yup that’d ruin everything 😭 you’d have to make some correlations to find the registration then