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  • notacuban notacuban 12 months ago 40%

    Is that worth losing your temper over? The midwife sent us home because my wife was only a few cm dilated, and active labour doesn't start until about 5 or 6cm dilation, after which it generally takes another 5+ hours before the cervix is dilated enough (i.e. 10cm) to give birth. It's annoying, but it's standard procedure.

    It'd be wonderful if the healthcare systems around the world had infinite resources to care for pregnant women, but unfortunately they don't.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes Indistinguishable!
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  • notacuban notacuban 12 months ago 90%

    I wrote a whole 3 paragraph reply to this, but it crashed and now I'm too lazy to write it again.

    But yes, this. "Everyone getting UBI and universal healthcare" is not far left. Far left is firebombing pharmaceutical companies or forceable seizure of private property to distribute amongst others, or enforced working arrangements to bring about equality.

    What most Americans on Lemmy call "far left", I'd call "basic respect for your fellow man and the compassion to put others before yourself".

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  • usa United States | News & Politics ‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site
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  • notacuban notacuban 12 months ago 100%

    How did you come to that conclusion?

    "not being a fan means you actively oppose her"

    "I'm not a fan, but I don't actively oppose her" (by way of hospital food analogy)

    "okay... So you agree with me?"

    Do you think "not a fan of" means "dislike"?

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  • usa United States | News & Politics ‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site
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  • notacuban notacuban 12 months ago 100%

    I don't agree with that line of thought. The taste of hospital food is also very neutral but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of it. I also wouldn't say I'm actively opposing it, and if served it in a situation where I can't get anything else I wouldn't snub my nose at it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

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  • games Games PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 90%

    I think they're a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.

    I'd consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they've kept running for years while warning people that it'd eventually be cut off).

    Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations

    -CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez)

    -Conservative politics of any kind

    -Capitalism

    -Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.

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  • news News US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

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  • technology Technology Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 80%

    Yeah, I have no love for Meta, but this is a case of damned if you do or damned if you don't. If they didn't censor it, how much do you bet there'd be an article posted here that said "Threads allows Covid and vaccine misinformation to spread as cases rise"

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  • technology Technology The proletarianization of tech workers
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 98%

    Ah yes, just what the working class desperately needs, a gatekeeper.

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  • technology Technology Software CEO worth almost $12 billion says he goes into the office ‘about once a quarter,’ bucking the return to office trend in Big Tech
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn't surprise me that he's more "understanding" of the employees.

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  • memes Memes My friend who runs the instance i am on nuked all the images cause some degen thought spreading cp was a good idea. So have some more motivational word art
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 93%

    Degeneracy is always a Nazi ideology

    Degeneracy is the core ideology behind every genocide.

    Damn, I didn't think I'd learn something new today, but as it turns out, the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks and the historical Chinese genocide of the Dzungar and the more recent genocide of the Uyghur people were because they were thought to be degenerates by the ruling National Socialist parties.

    And here I was thinking 'Nazi' specifically referred to the Nazi Party members and modern white supremacists who support it, and not every nationalistic faction that has ever committed crimes against humanity.

    You may not realise it, but you water down the word Nazi when you brandish it so casually. When you go around saying everything is Nazi ideology, people won't listen when something actually is.

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  • usa United States | News & Politics Wealthy residents raise $60,000 to stop homeless shelter being built in San Francisco
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    "tokenboomer", poorly executed references to the "everything is communism" trope, insulting "the liberals"... Come on guy, trolling is a subtle art. You can do better, I believe in you.

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  • privacy Privacy Privacy win: Starting today Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy.
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    One of them is definitely a Swede. Esbjörn doesn't get his cut of the $6 million.

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  • memes Memes This community lately
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 70%

    In this thread lots of uninformed people misunderstanding how the open source Chromium project works (or the difference between Chrome and Chromium). Vivaldi is a Chromium-based browser who frequently disable the parts of Chromium they don't agree with.

    This argument not to use anything Chromium is the same as if someone was fanatically opposed to using Linux Mint or Elementary OS because they're based on Ubuntu, and Canonical bad.

    I love Firefox as much as the next person, and probably do a 75% Vivaldi 25% Firefox split, but let's not act like Google isn't bankrolling Mozilla, because they account for 85+% of Mozilla's revenue, and if Google does implement this Web DRM and if it is widely adopted, Mozilla either submits and enables it to make sure daddy Google stays happy, or they die.

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  • technology Technology Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 96%

    That's a completely unrelated issue with Logitech. Firefox is "blocked" because it doesn't support WebUSB (nor does Safari). I understand this web DRM is bad tech and we want to be morally outraged, but spreading misinformation makes the Lemmy crowd look less like activists/enthusiasts and more like chicken little.

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  • technology Technology Google is already pushing Web Environment Integrity into Chromium
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    Hey, fellow Vivaldi user👋 . Yep, one of the Vivaldi devs already said if it was added upstream, they'd strip it out of the Chromium code, but they acknowledge that this would cause problems if WEI became standard. Websites would start to expect it, and not having that functionality would be a death-sentence for any browser (Chromium or otherwise).

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  • news News Aussie Bus Driver Fed Up with 'Misbehavior' Dumps 18 Kids on Side of the Road
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    We had a bus driver who'd drive away if he had already closed the doors, regardless of if he could see you running for the bus or if other students would tell him someone was coming.

    Smug little prick used to whistle like a fucking 1950s Disney character while he did it, too.

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  • 196 196 One Generation Rule
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  • notacuban notacuban 1 year ago 100%

    PBU"B" 👨🏻‍💼📺

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    Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival

    Every year in July, Hakata, in Fukuoka, hosts the Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival, where participants race on a 5km course pushing 1 ton floats. This is a snap I managed to get during one of the practice runs.

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    Snow in Kanazawa https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/80236f45-6ecd-460c-be02-e86d76658a18.jpeg

    I was lucky enough to get to Kanazawa the day before the first snow last year

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    Harajuku Station before its demolition https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/27a0d0a6-12ba-4b80-8646-fb19f7bda275.jpeg

    Sadly, but necessarily, this was knocked down in 2020 as it was too small to accommodate the number of passengers leaving from this exit.

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