CarnivorousCouch

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To clarify, you're suggesting that you're okay or at least sympathetic to people who suggest jailing your former colleagues because you think your colleagues should employ more diagnostic caution? You're understanding of or even supportive of laws that outright ban gender affirming care because some professionals make professional errors? I'm not in the field, I'm not suggesting your experiences are invalid, but I would suggest you consider the downstream consequences of your sympathies. Gender affirming care may or may not be appropriate for any given case, but I absolutely believe that for some youth it can be life saving. Obstructions or bans can therefore cost lives.

I also find it interesting how vehemently Musk, Peterson, and others will come out against gender affirming care while remaining silent on issues like the overuse of prescription drugs as a means to treat youth struggles. We give kids mind altering drugs to treat their behavior, often without considering other treatment pathways, and usually without consent. This seems to be the same sort of issue, no? And yet Musk and Peterson are focused on the gender issue instead. Does that not suggest that those you are expressing sympathy for here are not also politically motivated rather than motivated by genuine concern for a child's well-being?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You're likely thinking about Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. I played it and a sequel (Call of Pripyat) recently on semi-modern hardware, but YMMV. I loved Stalker back in the day.

I haven't personally tried it, but I've also been watching Chernobylite on Steam with interest. It seems like it may be intended to be a spiritual successor to Stalker. It's been on sale recently, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is such lazy trolling. Try harder.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Strictly speaking, this isn't true throughout the entire US. Wait staff in Washington, for example, get paid the full state minimum wage, and the minimum wage act explicitly requires that tips be paid to employees rather than retained by the restaurant. Of course, actual practice or compliance can differ, but there are a few states with better laws than the norm.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

As I understand it, your copy of that community will no longer update. There is a cached copy of the community on the Beehaw server, so you'll see it and can seemingly post, but you're posting to a copy of the community rather than the live community, and your posts will only be seen by other Beehaw users. To circumvent this, you'd need two accounts (or an account on an instance federated with both Beehaw and Lemmy.world, maybe?)