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  • FishLaketoSlop.@hexbear.net“Hey man”
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    6 days ago

    There really needs to be an updated version of We Didn’t Start the Fire. And not the cringe as hell one by Fall Out Boy who couldn’t even bother to put their lyrics in chronological order.

    Edit: I just looked up the lyrics because I don’t care about my mental health. God they are so ass.


  • It’s important to keep telling new/expecting parents that they can request the Hep B vaccine at birth. Hopefully insurance companies will continue to cover this vaccine like they have been with COVID and the other vaccines that have been affected by ACIP changes. As long as these vaccines are still approved by the FDA…

    We all should not have to do this type of advocacy for public health. These decisions are designed to affect marginalized people the most. It is our moral duty to tell people what they can do (ie, vaccinate their children against preventable diseases). This is a fear tactic, a mealymouthed way of getting people to believe vaccines are illegal or will hurt their children.

    Please, if you know expecting parents tell them this. Tell them they can get Covid vaccines for their kids too, since so many people believe they are outlawed for kids now (they aren’t in the vast majority of circumstances). Tell them they can request things from their doctors and request other doctors if theirs is a nurgle physician.

    Please also mask up for our disabled, young, and immunocompromised comrades.


  • Clean bill of health now. Well sorta. Their condition, a type of cardiomyopathy, sometimes comes back during puberty. At that point they’ll be able to recognize prodromal symptoms like rapid heart rate or murmurs, and they’d receive surgical treatment. But a 4-month-old doesn’t know anything is wrong until they go into shock.

    One of the horrors upon horrors I experienced was the hours of waiting on phone calls talking to claims adjusters while feeding my child through an NG tube. My partner and I are lucky enough be able to withstand the brunt of the financial blow. But we essentially had to pay twice for our child’s hospital stay. We are also lucky enough to have the time and knowledge to sift through claims, checking for duplicates or misdated procedures. The vast majority of people do not have that luxury. You try to pay what they tell you because what else are you gonna do? Fight it? Take hours and hours of the limited time you have after work away from your loved one to argue with people on the phone and write emails to your health care company? You either pay up, fight charges, or (allegedly) do a bada bing.


  • Yes, CW for child hospitalization

    A few years ago my child had a cardiac event that hospitalized them for three months. Unfortunately my kid nearly died multiple times between the months of November and December, but was doing well by January when they were discharged. You see, in our system, you should really choose to have your life-threatening health episodes in the summer, far away from when you deductible resets.




  • I had to turn this one off about 2/3 of the way through. I don’t need my anti-imperialist resolve hardened anymore by listening to specific cruelties that have been inflicted on infants. But I sincerely hope someone out there listens to Hakim’s video and is equally horrified. It’s important to understand the mechanisms (racism, imperialism, etc) that allow the brutality of man to flourish unabated.









  • Child use of social media and the internet is a massive and intractable problem. Rather than dealing with this complexity with high quality education for children and adults and holding social media companies to account for their lack of moderation and safety, let’s instead force children further into social isolation and into corners of the internet they are unequipped to understand and navigate safely. Nothing bad will happen from this. Also let’s shove technologies like LLMs into children’s faces without adult supervision because kids are good at the computers and will figure it out on their own.