so what's wrong with floppy disks?

Here in Canada , fax is widely used in the medical field in the same way. One could not run a medical office or organization of any kind or size without a fax line. I have heard the legal sector is likewise reliant.

In a functional way I don't know it's wrong to say email is less secure. It's not that they don't want to buy computers. Everyone has freaking computers; gimme a break. Email (1980s tech) is almost as antiquated as fax machines (1970s) and has many vulnerabilities. There is no way in hell your dermatologist is getting to a PGP party anytime soon. They probably use the same password for every account and that password is probably their name or something and have been using the same one for 20 years. The password is known by perhaps dozens of current and former employees. The email is downloaded onto devices which may not use encryption for storage. They don't install windows patches but they do install random shit from the internet. And so on. OTOH, who is hacking fax machines?

The solution isn't to move to email, it's to hop past email to use a natively encrypted technology with security enforced by a service provider. If the public funders would step up to support a Free Software solution this could have been done already. But instead they fund this and that proprietary system that doesn't work out, then have to start from scratch in a few years. There hasn't been incentive to create interoperability. Just a bunch of privately-held companies frothing at the mouth to make all the $$$ they see in the health care industries competing with each other.

BTW I have heard that fax machines are still in wide use in the US medical field also, but it depends what system you are in. E.g "kaiser" system has it's own internal comms system they use and so on. But inter-system, fax will always be the lowest common denominator.

Should fund education with public money.

There is a lot of focus on whether this child should or even could have been vaccinated against measles. It is impossible to know based on the information. They were due for 0, 1 or 2 doses or MMR vaccine.

At any rate, I would suggest reading it in the other direction: no vaccinated child has died of the measles. Vaccination prevents this disaster. It is likely (but not certain) that many other children were in contact with the same situation which ultimately led to the death of this one. Many of them didn't die because their parents took responsible steps.

In another comment I posted the vaccine schedule for Ontatio. MMR is scheduled at 12 months of age, same as many other places. Your first dose (of the two children need) is only considered "valid" if given on or after the 1st birthday.

However the vaccine is approved as safe and has short-term efficacy when given as young as 6 months. The immunity just doesn't "last" as long when given earlier, which is why its scheduled for 12 months where risk is low. In those communities where anti-vax people congregate, diligent parents can consider giving their children an extra dose at 6 months to cut that risky time in half.

In Ontario, MMR is at 12 months and varicella (chickenpox) is separate at 15 months.

Other provinces, territories and states in Canada/US have variations and some include MMRV instead of MMR followed by Varicella.

MMRV is scheduled routinely at age 4-6.

An overview of the routine childhood schedule can be seen here.

The full ontario schedule can be found here, with the routine childhood schedule being on page 3.

By the way for anyone wondering why bother vaccinate against chickenpox, it's because chickenpox and shingles are the same thing. If you never get chickenpox you never get shingles. Shingles fucking sucks and causes blindness, untreatable pain and other miseries.

Yes.

Only German immigrants use them.

• Their menu increasingly contradicts the "traditional" vibe they promote, with newer items like Sweet Chili Chicken Loaded Wraps and Loaded Bowls, Tiramisu Cold Brew, and Blackberry Yuzu Sparkling Quenchers.

Sounds racist.

My thoughts also. Who is making that much?

Meanwhile a few posts down the Lemmy feed: Families and CEOs behind Loblaw, Empire, Metro have donated $150,000 to two main parties

even stronger controls

Sort of implies there are already strong controls. What are they?

For me personally, I do not see them having much of a backbone. It appears that their insecurities lead them to waver when conviction is called for.

Its somewhat to make money. But it also forgoes the cost of caring for and raising children. Canada likes it when people arrive with the cost of the first 18-30 years of life already paid by another community. Then we benefit from and exploit that. Often wasting advanced education as people enter the job market vastly overqualified for where they end up. (A situation which is often misrepresented to people considering a move here.)

As it stands, running universities and many other industries would be impossible without doing this massive brain drain on other communities. Because it would entail having a less shitty public education and social support system.

I am happy for immigrants to come here. I just find the parasitism of Canadian public policy really gross.

Don't talk on behalf of gay people you know nothing.

Hijabs are not "fundie garb". I am not treated badly by hijabi women and have never heard anyone complain of such.

What a vile attempt to insinuate amnosity between groups you have no involvement in.

Yes the nudists finally won a victory. All that garden of eden shame stuff is finally gone. Judges, teachers and cops no longer wear any garment whose purpose is modesty.

Shame and modesty are of course punishment from God because of Eve having eaten the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

Try leaving a few out, come back a little while later and see if they are still sitting there. Especially when its garbage collection time. Before the trucks come a can doesn't last 30 mins sitting on the street before someone comes to get it.

To keep it classic and basic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederación_Nacional_del_Trabajo

The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (English: National Confederation of Labor; CNT) is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions

that's so fucked

is there any regulation in this industry?

ah yes, australia, the place that is a) an island, and b) doesn't have any US influence.

What Israelis Think of the War With Hamas: Polls (Nov 10, 2023):

Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6% said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8% said they believed the IDF was using too much fire power, while 4.2% said they weren’t sure whether it was using too much or too little firepower.

former members of nazi parties, their allies and collaborators got a 10% tax credit

Totally solvable problems.

How do you get a home with a mortgage?

investigating doesn't restore anything. You know what would restore integrity? consequences.

get a forensic accountant to dive into the finances of every one of these ghouls. As well as Including dependents, spouses, business relationships at the slightest hint of suspicion that they have been used as cover up. Innumerate each and every piece of evidence of infraction from bylaw infraction to breach of trust to being anything less that scrupulous paying taxes. Each instance its own charge and the details put into the public record. Punitive damages far larger than the value of their thefts. And they all have restrictions on engaging with politics of business for the next 20 years. Heavy fines for the smallest repeat infractions.

there are drug shortages all the time even with drugs that have been on market for decades. it is a bigger problem.

being marginalized

yes that time russia waged war on ukraine in defense of trans rights. we all literally remember that well.

if that happened it wouldn't demonstrate anything

Are you talking guilliotines?

I really like the green drawers in the kitchen.

Yes men all feel mocked when women are flashing their Fallopian tube valves.

People who want to take hormones typically used for contraception for their other effects still can do so. I know people who don't have sex at all or not with anyone who produces semen, who use contraceptives this way.

So if the LL had withheld the deposit he wouldnt have been on the hookbfor the rest of it?

Too many people isnt the problem. Its what the people are doing. And the ones who are doing the most harms are very, very few in number.

Hi thanks for reading some of my long post. Your response was sort of interesting but also tedious because it just made up a bunch of stuff I didn't say. I'll respond to some of it.

So that OP is both refusing to read the books and is effectively skimming looking for outrage-bait

I went looking for the materials which inspired the report that was in the original article. Because I think many people would not take the time. No evidence that you did. The reporter who wrote the story certainly didn't.

The complaint was about images so I am not "refusing to read", I am simply looking for images. Did you forget what this was about.

OP may have skimmed past, or even not have a cultural context to recognize that, the comics are also making fun of ‘gaulish’ and ‘roman’ features in similar fashion, or that the series did so towards all the other groups that the comics encountered. Nobody appeared on page without getting a few potshots sent their way.

Again, the complaint was not about that. This was not a comprehensive analysis of the work as a whole, it was providing information which was missing from the original article. You are deflecting, which I assume you are aware of. I point out only for onlookers.

And as a matter of fact, I did notice something about how the pink skinned people were portrayed which is there was a very strange

comic:

Reality:

Somehow there were sooo many red head and blonde people in this version of ancient rome. Weird. Almost as though it was an ahistorically racialised version of the past reinforcing contemporary relationships. hm.

Even more to the point than that,

I won’t dive into the ‘why’ around minstrel shows and shit,

good because that isn't what the topic was.

Even the very well-educated and and ‘expert’ people who are calling for some Asterix comics to be removed from circulation

who is that? all I am aware of is a single anonymous request. Do you have more info?

OP somehow wound up rooting for the bad guys while skimming

Who is the bad guys? I said I thought it should be removed from the children's section but available to adults. So you think the "free speech" people are "the bad guys"?

idk, what is the law?

quite a homework assignment to make a post on lemmy. read half a dozen books then write a book report on each one. I'm sure people would love to read that 8 million word post.

I did more work to investigate the books than the professional journalist who published the original story. I went all the way to look up the dumb racist cartoon and get a screen shot of it.

As punishment for this obnoxious comment you are compelled to read not only the excerpts below but also the entire wikipedia pages linked.

Glen Beck is a shitbag

Among his core values, he lists personal responsibility, private charity, the right to life, freedom of religion, limited government, and the family as the cornerstone of society.[109] Beck believes in low national debt, and has said, "A conservative believes that debt creates unhealthy relationships. Everyone, from the government on down, should live within their means and strive for financial independence."[110] He supports individual gun ownership rights, opposes gun control legislation, and supports the NRA and its state chapters.[111]

Beck rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.[112] He contests the evidence, and has said, "There is more proof for the resurrection of Jesus than man-made climate change."[112] He views the American Clean Energy and Security Act as a form of wealth redistribution, and he has promoted a petition rejecting the Kyoto Protocol.[113]

and it goes on further

Andy Ngo's wikipedia is less concise but he is also a shitbag, here is one of the many incidents chronicled:

On August 26, 2019, the Portland Mercury reported[57] on a video where Ngo was seen smiling[39] and laughing at certain points[10][58] while standing in the presence of members of Patriot Prayer on May 1, as they planned an attack on antifascists following the May Day protests.[12] He later followed the group on foot a few blocks to the Cider Riot bar, where Patriot Prayer members attacked the patrons. The video became part of court documents in a lawsuit against Patriot Prayer members for causing the riot. One of the victims of the attack was knocked unconscious with a baton and suffered a broken vertebra; Ngo later posted a video of her being attacked and identified her online.[59] The Portland Mercury's Alex Zilenski stated "there's no way [Ngo] couldn't know the group was planning on instigating violence."[58] The Portland Mercury also quoted an undercover antifascist embedded in Patriot Prayer saying that Ngo had an "understanding" with the far-right group that the group "protects him and he protects them".[57]

Also hilariously, there is a section on his page labeled Credibility, which of course means he doesn't have any.

If you want to waste your time pouring their diarrhea into your brain you can head down to the library and check out either of their books. I am very confident in my judgement regarding these people.

^omg I wrote a way too long comment^

The term "culture war" is excessively very dismissive. The subjects that people take issue to here are matters of material well being.

People in the article and comments are using the word "ban" alot. I don't think there is any request to "ban" anything. It is just the one library. When something is "banned" it is prohibited from all sources. After actually taking a look at the list of books I don't think any of them should be removed from the collection on the basis of the complaints. I do think some of them could be re-shelved. But getting all worked up about a few random complaints that literally anyone can make because they are in a bad mood, and obliquely referring to nazis/holocaust is going way overboard.

I was curious so I did some looking at the actual titles since the person who wrote this article didn't have time I guess. There are 3 themes in the target books.

theme 1: lgbt and sex positive books for young people

Looks like about 1/3 of the target works are pro-LGBT/sexpositive and seeking to explain this to some young audiences. I wasn't familiar with Cory Silverberg so I looked up the amazon page for You Know, Sex:

In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being.

I added emphasis because.... what a thing to complain about.

To me this book sounds perfectly nice. But whoever requests for it to be removed likely thinks it'll cause kids to come to harm. Who knows what kinds of delusional thinking motivated the specific complaint. But it isn't "culture war" because they are under the impression that this book will be dangerous physically and socially and spiritually.

theme 2: racist caricatures and other hate imagery in children's books

Another 1/3 of the complaints are about children's books depicting racist or hateful imagery. I think these complaints are legitimate. Books like this should be available for adults but not circulated to little kids! They are of historical interest, not entertainment.

I borrowed Asterix the Gladiator from the Internet Archive Library and flipped through it. Here is one of panels which is probably at issue. (I am not sure about the etiquette/politics of sharing this. I would consider feedback in the direction of not sharing racist material.) I have blurred out the actual caricature but described what is depicted in text. I put it in the spoiler. Summary: it's exactly what you think it'll be.

::: spoiler spoiler

This panel depicts a person with dark brown skin, a very small skull, eyes so close together that they touch and are crossed, a huge open mouth with giant red lips (larger than skull) and one tooth sticking out, wide nose, big ears, goofy body language.

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I don't care to actually read this so I don't know what the plot is about. But I can say that flipping through it, the people with brown skin only come into view a few times in dozens of pages. They are not characters in the story, just devices the author occasionally employs. They are present 1-3 panels at a time.

They look to be in positions of servitude. They do not perform their jobs properly and are therefor deserving subjects of violence by the characters with pink skin. Many pages earlier, a masseurs with brown skin gives too deep a massage to a solider with pink skin. So the soldier beats him. The masseur's boss complains: "You have no right to beat up my masseurs! They're horribly expensive this season!" The most superficial joke being that the only reason not to beat the person with brown skin is the economic impact on some other person with pink skin. The person with brown skin has no lines and is depicted in a racist, caricatured way similar to the spoiler above. Except instead of being goofy he is big and strong. So strong he casually (and presumably accidentally) hurts the person with pink skin. Once he is punched so hard he flies across the room, he disappears from the story.

I remember when I was a kid, seeing this kind of thing. This series looks vaguely framiliar but there is a whole cannon of this shit. My parents did their best to raise me explicitly anti racist and I recognized the messaging as vile. I understood that it was communicating a generalized degradation and inhumanity related to perceived race. In both the presence (as objects) and their absence (as full characters). I remember being confused why people I thought of as "good" would have stuff like this lying around. But I am sure that it got into my head anyway. Sometimes really horrid stereotype illustrations I saw as a kid pop into my mind's eye. I wish I didn't have those in my brain because they are despicable. If an adult intentionally wishes to study hate lit it is different.

This is the kind of thing that teaches from a young age "black lives don't matter". Black people only involved as props, punchlines, animalistic, deserving subjects of violence etc.

There are a bazillion kids books that aren't trash like this. I vote to move these to whatever the dewey decimal is for historical hate literature, in the adult section. Possibly in the Reference library to convey the seriousness. I didn't investigate the other children's books but it seems that they are all on a similar theme and not appropriate for kids.

theme 3: right wing nutjobs

The remaining 1/3 of the books are more recent publications which appear to be regressive shitty books full of lies. I know the Shrier book has been thoroughly widely debunked criticized rebuked. It is full of medical falsehoods and her own weird fantasies misrepresented as scientific. It primarily advocates for denial of health care to trans people. This is not "culture war". She literally wants to seize control and manipulate the balance of chemicals in the bodies of other people. It is as material as you can get.

The other books by the likes of Beck, Ngo are certainly full of bullshit. Judging by the title and my understanding of the authors, they will probably be encouraging violence. I had never heard of Forbes before. The book is highly rated on amazon and the top rated review begins:

Fantastic book. As a supporter of those bands I found that the information in it is invaluable.

Emphasis added. Reviewer is a fan of white supremacist music and ideas. All the positive reviews are from people who are straight up white power jackasses.

I found this review on goodreads that I think is probably accurate:

This thing is f***ng nightmare. Read it for research on a project. It ended up being really valuable as a primary source, but if you're not literally writing a book about white nationalist skinheads, I can't imagine wanting to read the biased blathering of a bunch of racist boneheads reminiscing about their glory days.

This person also describes who there is value in the book even though the topic really sucks.

It seems like this book gives really shitty people good feelings about themselves. That sucks. When this kind of people feel good about themselves, they like to go around kicking the shit out of people who are just minding their own business. They form militias and murder. The reason someone was bothered by this book is likely because they know it can help stir the pot and encourage street violence. I know people who've been targeted by these douche bags. It's serious.

This book costs about $200-300 to purchase. It should be in the reference library with all the other expensive books, not in circulation.

considering that the government knows exactly where every MD is working, and how much they are billing (at least via OHIP), the HCC service should be reasonable. However it seems to rely on MDs to request to be on it and who knows how quickly the information gets updated when they do.

Big problem is there aren't enough family practice providers in ontario. Like half the people in ontario do not have family practice provider.

If I was you I would stay with the place you are with if you can avoid paying $300. Just refuse. Can they fire you as a patient for refusing to pay? Fuck that fee shit! They get paid very nicely via OHIP. I don't pay any money for up-charges on family health care even if I can afford because these people should NOT be charging. Greedy shit. And you can know they do not care about you except for your $$$. They will give you too much or too little depending what they think will make them $$$.

Keep asking around and if you find a place that is actually taking patients, then sever ties with the greedy parasites and go with a real health care provider.

Here is what the CPSO suggests: Resources for Finding a New Doctor. I didn't listen but their front page has ‘In Dialogue’ Episode 17: Primary Care Crisis: How Did We Get Here? – eDialogue prominently displayed. For one side of the story.