Journal damn_registrars's Journal: More unsurprisingly conservative ads on slashdot 65
I had a little bit of downtime yesterday afternoon with my phone in my hand and decided to see how awful slashdot is with the default browser on Android. It is - as one might expect - rather bad. More so, the front page actually had conservative advertisements on the page (beyond the usual collection of conservative stories). The first ad was touting Paul Ryan being scheduled to appear at a conference about medicare and medicaid. Being as I was not logged in to slashdot through my phone at all, this appears to be part of the new default set of ads served up to newbies.
Well done, slashdot. Might as well cater to your own base. You wouldn't want people to think that other opinions are welcomed here or anything.
PS - I liked it better when we had ads for mail-order-brides on the front page. At least that was something that performs a useful service. The GOP can't claim that.
Well done, slashdot. Might as well cater to your own base. You wouldn't want people to think that other opinions are welcomed here or anything.
PS - I liked it better when we had ads for mail-order-brides on the front page. At least that was something that performs a useful service. The GOP can't claim that.
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On a different note, slashdot won't let me add you to my friends list yet. I see you put me on yours but the option does not exist for me to reciprocate. It doesn't seem to be a case of having too many friends, as I can get to that for other user
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It's too bad I lost my old passwords when I thought I'd never be able to use a computer again ... would have saved a lot of trouble. My apologies.
It's going to take some work to reconnect with old friends (old enemies, on the other hand ... apk is seeing me behind every anonymous post that's telling him to STFU, following my posting history, and generally crapping all over himself).
Life has been interesting the last few years. I've been politically active, had to dig down deep to argue causes before cit
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That said the AC/apk posts directed at you are certainly meaner than the typical AC/apk posts here.
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I don't find them to be much meaner than what he used to post. He started doing the whole cyclops thing when I started losing my vision, and he had already started his gender-based attacks back then. He's just stepped it up a notch because he doesn't understand that I have absolutely no sense of shame for what I am. Most people don't have to "claim their identity"; for transsexuals, even with lots of support, it's a daunting task because of the fear and ignorance people have. Most people don't realize j
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This is just freaking hilarious. I needed a pick-me-up, and APK comes to the rescue again :-)
You couldn't even accept yourself as a man by getting a sex change.
Why SHOULD I "accept myself as a man" when my brain says otherwise? We can't change the mind, but we can change the body. And even if we could change the mind, I wouldn't, because I would no longer be "me."
(sign of a sick mind in and of itself).
Really? I guess you haven't kept up with the times. Even psychiatrists no longer classify transsexuality as a "gender identity disorder." What next - you're going to go all Marcus Welby MD. on us and claim
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Too bad the study you cite had nothing to do with transsexuals. And that it only claimed a minor decline (which I can well afford, even if you can't). Oh, and the decline was due to the very small number who developed dementia, not to hormonal levels per se.
As for a sex change being insane, you might want to try it - they might be able to make a real man out of you yet.
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LOL! I don't think any amount of sex changing would turn some of these ...folks... into "real men" :D
You were Tom? [goes off, roots around] Well, you do sound different now... more relaxed. -- Long ago I had a TG friend whom I knew before, during, and after, and there was a personality transition.... to be expected, I think, under changing hormonal conditions. Ordinary biology. She had a sort of emotional crisis shortly after and I told her stop worrying, you're just going through puberty again. The light b
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Thanks. There was definitely a change in personality. All my friends (except one - he couldn't accept it no matter what) said that they like the new me better. "It's not that we didn't like the old you, but the old you seemed to have a bit of a chip on your shoulder about $SOMETHING," even before I started hormonal therapy. Even my dogs started treating me differently after I started the estrogen - more protective (probably because I smell different. Blood tests confirm that my estrogen level is norm
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You can get your old account back if you can remember what your email address was. Send a note to help@slashdot.org.
I'd lost my account and they were very helpful about it.
As to your surgery, LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR!!! Helping that one person could prevent you from helping others in the future. Oh, and I empathize; I had a vitrectomy in 2008. Not the least bit fun.
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Hi: Unfortunately, I don't even have those email accounts any more (4 more hd failures on the laptop, which now runs Fedora off a 32 gig usb), and you know something? It's okay. Everyone (well, everyone who counts) knows its me (ironically, thanks to APK :-)
So time to throw a bone to APK - When it looked like I might have to carry the fight against the developer to the point of civil disobedience, one of my doctors gave me a letter stating that I have been medically castrated and should be treated as a
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I hadn't had any of the accounts I'd used, either, and wasn't sure which one it was. Still got the account back, give 'em a try.
I had cataract surgery on that eye two years before the retina came loose. I did know a couple of guys who had vitrectomies followed by cataract surgery, but the needles don't go through the lens, they go in through the whites (photos at wikipedia). [wikipedia.org] I suspect that a vitrectomy involves steroids; steroid eyedrops for an eye infection caused my cataract.
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I might do that at some point, but right now I have a few other things on my plate. It's funny - I was dreading the surgery and wishing they'd just put me under, until about 10 before they wheeled me into the OR. I thought to myself "this is ridiculous. The doctor who saved my sight sad I should trust this surgeon, he's the best. And this isn't emergency surgery in a trauma setting, but a highly controlled environment, where everything's mapped out, there's 2 surgeons, the anesthesiologist, a bunch of n
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The whole "needles in the eyeball" are just a stepping stone to something truly amazing.
Indeed. I was severely nearsighted all my life, after the cataract surgery I no longer need corrective lenses at all, not even reading glasses and I'm 62. My vision in that eye went from 20/400 to 20/16. Truly a miracle.
BTW, my retina surgeon said that my retinal detachment was a result of being so nearsighted; a nearsighted eyeball isn't perfectly round like a normally sighted person's eyes.
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My left eye was always more nearsighted than my right, so that's where the tear occurred. So while everything is severely distorted due to macular pucker [wikipedia.org], and I have a blind spot in the center, I am not going to complain. It's been 6 months and I don't see any real change in transparency, so maybe I'll get lucky for a change - though I doubt it. The surgeon did say it's 100% within 2 years.
The eyes had "a few more loops" - more blood vessels growing - at my last exam in May, but not enough to laser them
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If you get a cataract, spend the extra money on a CrystaLens. Unlike 45 year old natural lenses and implants available before 2003, they will actually focus. Of course they're under patent so they're about a thousand dollars each more expensive than other implants. I'm sure I'll have a cataract in the other eye not too long from now, the last eye doctor I saw said "a couple of years" and it's been longer than that.
I think I'll wait until 2023 when the patent runs out and everybody makes them, the ones like
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My eyes were extremely bad, perhaps if I wasn't so nearsighted it would have been cheaper but I'd still rather have a single payer system.
From what I've read, about the only things they won't correct is retinal and vitreous defects. I know that they will correct astigmatism.
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The problem being, of course, that people already have lots of news about this pipeline project - much of it bad.
Never underestimate the power of propaganda. It is used to appeal to primal instincts. The news, no matter how bad, will only be sweetened up to fortify the project. You will need to find and exploit the same kind of instinctive appeal to motivate people in a different direction. The cortex remains subservient. And this is along the same lines that people cry to me about finding them an alternati
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And this is along the same lines that people cry to me about finding them an alternative to whatever they are complaining about.
... and when you do, then they find a zillion excuses why the alternative isn't quite right for them, and how it's suddenly become your responsibility to file off all the rough edges, because they can't be bloody arsed to do a thing to help themselves. Learned helplessness is so prevalent nowadays that I despair. In Kiev, old grannies fought with their bare hands, pulling out paving stones, against snipers wearing body armour, and we are so spoiled rotten to the core with the idea that "somebody should do
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(./ adds more fuel to the fire)
One of them thinks it's great. Though she was a bit peeved when not only one of her doctors, but then a nurse and a physiotherapist each asked her if I was her daughter ... oops! That may have been what convinced her that I was right when I said her hair style was aging her.
The other 4 are opposed, for their own reasons, which I find rather amusing. One of them is mad because she's going through menopause and can't get estrogen, but I've been taking it for years. "That'
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Off-topic but very nice to have you back Barbara. :)
sardaukar86 posting anon (apk sockpuppets)
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or not.. :-/
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Welcome back, Barbara!
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Yes, Mr. Smith and I are having fun with that one right now. And I understand his point. It brings about great risk to various "traditions", and social position. You know the routine, there are those who think it's still best to build an airplane out of aluminum. Though I am interested myself to see how many 70 year old carbon fiber airplanes will be airworthy when the time comes around. Uh, where was I? Oh yeah... Welcome welco
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Totally off-topic, but weren't you the one having eye problems?
How did that turn out?
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It's "SHe" and "Hir", dumbass.
But then, you don't read much, do you?
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Thanks for asking. It took 3 years to get everything more or less under control. When I first went to emergency, the hospital sent me to their ophthalmology clinic to see some surgeons. The surgeons, because of the extent of the damage, referred me to the regional retinal super-center, which I didn't even know existed.
At the first interview, after all the tests and retinal scans and stuff, I was told that they would do their best to retard the damage, but that I will eventually go blind in both eyes.
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Wish the outcome had been better, glad it wasn't worse.
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Considering how bad things have been in the past, the future looks exciting. I'm looking forward to sharing what I've learned. As just one example, I didn't realize just how much "head space" and real damage the side effects of ptsd were taking until a psychiatrist, psychologist, and therapist helped me, not only with the symptoms (which, except for the depression, I was pretty good at hiding), but also with understanding the underlying events. Or, more importantly, understanding that there are some thin
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I can also tell you that from some of the research I have been proximal to over the past decade or so, we could probably reach a point of an eye implant (something equivalent to what the Cochlear implant does for the
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The idea
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The idea of grabbing a bunch of us researchers to help is a good one
I don't know if you saw the article here a week or so ago, but there was a front page story linking to an NPR story on scientists giving up on their careers because the funding situation is so miserable in this country [npr.org]. There are literally labs closing down in every top-tier research school (Ivy Leagues not excluded) as we speak due to funding. There hasn't been a raise in funding to even match inflation in many years, and meanwhile schools are hitting PIs for more money to keep the lights on. If you co
Look at it this way... (Score:2)
PS - I liked it better when we had ads for mail-order-brides on the front page. At least that was something that performs a useful service. The GOP can't claim that.
...with the GOP, you have an even better chance of getting screwed.
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PS - I liked it better when we had ads for mail-order-brides on the front page. At least that was something that performs a useful service. The GOP can't claim that.
...with the GOP, you have an even better chance of getting screwed.
As I've said before, the democrats promise to improve things and - either through incompetence or evil - end up screwing me instead. The GOP campaigns on promising to screw me.
For now, I'll take the fantasy. I like to think that I could keep a job here in this country.
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For now, I'll take the fantasy.
Yep, you certainly are, right up the old poop chute. Unfortunately your "fantasy" is our tragedy. You illustrate the fatal flaw of majority rule. You all dance around the bonfire, scared to death to grab the bull by the horns.