MondayToFriday

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[–] MondayToFriday -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure you fully understand the issue. This isn't merely about catering to a patient's preference to be addressed in a certain way. For some, the sex / gender assigned at birth is actually wrong, and continuing to carry that information serves no purpose but to cause harm.

What is the process for assigning gender at birth anyway? People look at the baby's genitals and make a guess. For 99% of babies, that heuristic works. But it turns out that some people are trans or intersex, and that wrong guess causes nothing but trouble.

Don't think that the assigned gender at birth is medically useful information, either. There are dozens of intersex conditions, and crudely categorizing people into two or three bins is too simplistic.

In short, it's complicated. The same solution is to trust that people are whatever gender they say they are, and if they need medical services, talk to them about what they need, instead of forcing them into a life course based on a genital inspection that happened years ago.

[–] MondayToFriday 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] MondayToFriday 2 points 1 year ago

It's just the scented baby wipes that you're smelling. (At least it's cheaper than the Dior stuff.)

[–] MondayToFriday 108 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Three days later, on November 20, the Seko union, which represents postal workers, will stop delivering letters, spare parts, and pallets to all of Tesla’s addresses in Sweden. “Tesla is trying to gain competitive advantages by giving the workers worse wages and conditions than they would have with a collective agreement,” said Seko’s union president, Gabriella Lavecchia, in a statement. “It is of course completely unacceptable.”

Interesting that it is legal to withhold mail. In many countries that would be a crime.

[–] MondayToFriday 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's so prone to cracking along the fold, though. You should either get the extended warranty or treat the phone as disposable, because it will likely not last more than a couple of years.

[–] MondayToFriday 4 points 1 year ago

Sure, unless the username+suffix is already taken.

[–] MondayToFriday 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All the personal information you mentioned should be hashed or encrypted. For any given phone number, see how little information they have: just an account creation timestamp and a last access timestamp.

[–] MondayToFriday 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the current Staging implementation, you pick a username (which you can change), and the app picks a two-digit suffix to your username.

[–] MondayToFriday 2 points 1 year ago

Completely private messaging with accounts that have no ties to real-world identities would open the doors to spam and all kinds of abuse.

[–] MondayToFriday 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. You still need to use a phone number to create an account. The proposed feature lets you pick a username so that you can have people contact you via the username, and you won't have to tell people what your phone number is. You would be able to change your username at any time, and usernames all have a random two-digit number suffix.

[–] MondayToFriday 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What if a compile job takes a long time? Would that be a good reason to context switch?

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