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Steven Saus

@ StevenSaus @midwest.social

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There are people I love. There are people who love me. I fight for what I believe, protect those I could, and stand my ground against the encroaching darkness.

  • Anyone else experience waves of anxiety/shame after info dumping?

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  • Sure, because we've been taught that is cringe. Personally, I like learning new things (even if it's not something I'd "normally" be interested in), so I love it when my people both infodump, and then the look of pure joy when they realize that I'm into it.

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  • You could try using a relay somewhere in your process; while I was on a travel gig I had to do some finicky work with a travel router (though this may not work, since you need a VPN for your work, but maybe it'll give you an idea: https://ideatrash.net/2022/05/howto-secure-and-share-your-internet-on-free-wireless-wifi.html

    Also if you have your DNS resolvers manually put in, you may not encounter their portal. Had that problem when on hotel wifi as well.

    All that said, I ended up using phone data a lot.

  • In Most States, Undocumented Immigrants Pay Higher Tax Rates Than Top 1%.

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  • You are completely correct; what it's doing is not presenting new ideas so much as pushing back against the narrative of the freeloading immigrant, which is only supported by cherry-picking what taxes "count" as taxes and ignoring the regressive taxes that you, appropriately, note that most people don't think of when they say "taxes".

  • Ohio Supreme Court rules boneless chicken wings can have bones

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  • Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.

    Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.

    Milton: What else?

    Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

    Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?

    Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.

    Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)

    Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.

    Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.

    Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

    Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.

  • Mounting Folders VS Symlinks?

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  • Catholic group sues to block Michigan's conversion therapy ban

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  • Doesn't really matter if it's Catholic teaching or not if you're not Catholic.

  • Manchin considering rejoining Democratic Party to challenge Harris

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  • WV native here. He and his family (see his daughter's involvement in EpiPen pricing) have enriched themselves by swindling those who have less than themselves. He's a Republican dressed up as a Democrat so he could run in WV.

  • Telemental health visits decline when cost-sharing returns, new study finds

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  • The whole point of the scientific method is to test -- and re-test -- things that are "obvious". Sometimes they are (as they are here). Sometimes they are not. Having certainty and evidence means that it is harder for those who would cut such benefits to pretend as if it doesn't matter.

  • MRI scans show age-specific changes in the brains of kids with ADHD

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  • The pun was intended. :)

  • MRI scans show age-specific changes in the brains of kids with ADHD

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  • The pun was intended. :)

  • The GOP's proposed national platform is extremely transphobic

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  • You are making a false equivalency between "being Christian" and "being a bigot". While there is a high correlation, particularly with some denominations of Christianity, they are not synonymous. (Heck, I've seen some religious groups at my local Pride celebrations for years.)

    Presumably you're aware of this.

  • Families urge judge to block law forcing display of ‘Protestant version of the Ten Commandments’ before kids return to public school in Louisiana

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  • Well, sure, if they weren't misrepresenting their motives. The real motive is indoctrination and the incorporation of a specific flavor of Christianity into all aspects of USAian society, transforming it into a theocracy. They're not particularly subtle about this. :)

  • PSA May Be Insufficient to Detect Early Prostate Cancer in Transgender Women

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  • I believe their logic is such (I'm not involved with the study, but have a background in medicine and research):

    Elevated PSA (a blood test) signals prostate cancers.PSA tests are relatively routine bloodwork with an assumption of uniform coverage across all patients, trans or not. PSA tests are presumed to uncover early cancer presentation. Therefore, if we're only seeing advanced cancer presentation in trans women, the PSA test is a poor screening device for early prostate cancer in that population.

    Point 2 is a big assumption; I am ignorant if that would be a confounding variable in real life, or if that's even been studied.

  • Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags

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  • Right, but that's what the language of the bill is intended to silence.

  • Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

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  • Oh, neat! Thanks for pointing out the USA centrist viewpoint I had there! My bad indeed!

  • Missouri Bill Makes Teachers Sex Offenders If They Accept Trans Kids' Pronouns

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  • They're getting two birds with one stone.

  • Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

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  • For what it's worth, if you post a story (for example) to the open internet -- your blog, social media -- and there is NOT a paywall or explicitly restricted access, many (if not all) publishers will consider that material previously published. That doesn't mean it's public domain at all, but it does recognize that the work is not private. Likewise, I'd consider any social media post being akin to posting a sign in my front yard. If someone does the work of driving by and taking pictures of the signs in my front lawn, that's their right -- unless I'm in a closed, gated community.

    Then again, i see people thinking that they somehow "own" their Facebook feed, so ....

  • Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags

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  • Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags

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  • The effect would be felt by both LGBTQIA+ clubs and GSA's in the schools, at a bare minimum. They would be unable to utilize the pride flag, for example, in any kind of advertisement, logo, banner, etc.