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So I read this article a few days ago, and I have been haunted by it ever since.
This young woman, Nevaeh, had an “oops” pregnancy. As you may have already guessed, she was from a Christian background–her name, “Heaven,” spelled backwards, is popular in Evangelical circles. She, “believed abortion was morally wrong,” and “didn’t care whether the government banned it,” since she wouldn’t have chosen to have one anyway.
Instead, she decided to carry the pregnancy to term and raise the baby, with the support of her mother and her boyfriend, the baby’s father. Her boyfriend, the baby’s father, gave her a diamond promise ring, and she picked out a name–Lillian–and planned a baby shower.
On the day of the baby shower, she felt unwell, then developed a fever and began vomiting. Her mother took to her to the ER, where she was given a prescription for antibiotics and sent home. A few hours later, she felt even worse, and her mother took her to the other hospital in their town, which had an obstetric emergency room. They did some tests, including checking the fetal heart rate, and told her the baby was fine. The gave her IV fluids and antibiotics, recorded her increasing fever, fast pulse, and high fetal heart rate, and sent her home again. She had to be taken out to the car in a wheelchair, because her pain was so bad.
A few hours later, she started bleeding, and they went back to the hospital with the obstetric emergency department. There, a different doctor did an ultrasound and was unable to find a fetal heartbeat.
Under Texas law, a medical practitioner faces up to 99 years in prison for performing any intervention that ends a fetal heartbeat. So, at this point, the doctors were free to treat her like a seriously ill human being, and not an ambulatory vessel for a life more valuable than her own–however, they hadn’t recorded the first ultrasound. To ensure they could demonstrate compliance with the law, the doctor ordered a second one.
Somehow, that ended up taking about an hour and a half, during which time Neveah’s condition got worse. By the time the second ultrasound was done, and the doctor was able to order a D&C to remove the deceased fetus, she was too weak to sign the release forms–her mother had to sign for her.
Before they got her into the operating room, she was dead.
If they were going to make an exception for anybody, they would have made one for her: a pro-life, Christian girl, who responded to her unplanned pregnancy by getting excited about becoming a mom. Who was not just unwell, not just in danger, but actually dying when she was refused care.
The Texas fetal heartbeat law does have an exception when the mother’s life is at immediate risk. However, the Texas Attorney General has made clear–and several Trump-appointed judges have backed him up–to Texas doctors that they will be charged with homicide if he, who has no medical credentials whatsoever, disagrees with their professional judgment that a procedure which ended a fetal heartbeat was necessary to safe the life of the mother. That’s why the doctor needed that second ultrasound.
That’s probably why the other two doctors sent Nevaeh home: they couldn’t be accused of an intervention that ended the fetal heartbeat, if they didn’t intervene.
The leopards that eat people’s faces, like all predators, go for the most vulnerable members of the herd. The guy up front on the podium, getting rich off bloviating about how leopards just have to eat a person’s face from time to time, he’s safe–not because of any loyalty on the part of the leopards, but because others in the group are softer targets.
So I read this article a few days ago, and I have been haunted by it ever since.
This young woman, Nevaeh, had an “oops” pregnancy. As you may have already guessed, she was from a Christian background–her name, “Heaven,” spelled backwards, is popular in Evangelical circles. She, “believed abortion was morally wrong,” and “didn’t care whether the government banned it,” since she wouldn’t have chosen to have one anyway.
Instead, she decided to carry the pregnancy to term and raise the baby, with the support of her mother and her boyfriend, the baby’s father. Her boyfriend, the baby’s father, gave her a diamond promise ring, and she picked out a name–Lillian–and planned a baby shower.
On the day of the baby shower, she felt unwell, then developed a fever and began vomiting. Her mother took to her to the ER, where she was given a prescription for antibiotics and sent home. A few hours later, she felt even worse, and her mother took her to the other hospital in their town, which had an obstetric emergency room. They did some tests, including checking the fetal heart rate, and told her the baby was fine. The gave her IV fluids and antibiotics, recorded her increasing fever, fast pulse, and high fetal heart rate, and sent her home again. She had to be taken out to the car in a wheelchair, because her pain was so bad.
A few hours later, she started bleeding, and they went back to the hospital with the obstetric emergency department. There, a different doctor did an ultrasound and was unable to find a fetal heartbeat.
Under Texas law, a medical practitioner faces up to 99 years in prison for performing any intervention that ends a fetal heartbeat. So, at this point, the doctors were free to treat her like a seriously ill human being, and not an ambulatory vessel for a life more valuable than her own–however, they hadn’t recorded the first ultrasound. To ensure they could demonstrate compliance with the law, the doctor ordered a second one.
Somehow, that ended up taking about an hour and a half, during which time Neveah’s condition got worse. By the time the second ultrasound was done, and the doctor was able to order a D&C to remove the deceased fetus, she was too weak to sign the release forms–her mother had to sign for her.
Before they got her into the operating room, she was dead.
If they were going to make an exception for anybody, they would have made one for her: a pro-life, Christian girl, who responded to her unplanned pregnancy by getting excited about becoming a mom. Who was not just unwell, not just in danger, but actually dying when she was refused care.
The Texas fetal heartbeat law does have an exception when the mother’s life is at immediate risk. However, the Texas Attorney General has made clear–and several Trump-appointed judges have backed him up–to Texas doctors that they will be charged with homicide if he, who has no medical credentials whatsoever, disagrees with their professional judgment that a procedure which ended a fetal heartbeat was necessary to safe the life of the mother. That’s why the doctor needed that second ultrasound.
That’s probably why the other two doctors sent Nevaeh home: they couldn’t be accused of an intervention that ended the fetal heartbeat, if they didn’t intervene.
The leopards that eat people’s faces, like all predators, go for the most vulnerable members of the herd. The guy up front on the podium, getting rich off bloviating about how leopards just have to eat a person’s face from time to time, he’s safe–not because of any loyalty on the part of the leopards, but because others in the group are softer targets.
I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There’s a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.
Me when I give the league of legends show a chance because my friend says it’s good and I go in expecting an overrated wet fart and I’m slowly forced to acknowledge that it has layered and interesting characters, incredible art direction and animation, deeply engaging political intrigue and gripping drama and I realize that despite any flaws it may have it’s ultimately one of the most mature and well rounded pieces of animated television I’ve ever seen come out of the western world and I end the most recent episode sitting leaned forward staring at the TV actively crying at 5 am
The “enrichment in the enclosure” meme has a lot of truth to it. We need to shake things up a bit to keep happy. It doesn’t have to be big, but if you ever feel stagnant or a little bluh try going on a walk on a route you haven’t been in or something. It really does help.
My favorite thing about online queer discourse is that it literally repeats every year but with a different identity and so many people just go along with it. It’s like watching a series of people literally never learn their lesson.
Let’s see if I can make a timeline so if I remember correctly it was bisexuals first right because y’all wanted them to pick a side (no irony there, clearly forcing people into a sexuality they don’t fit with has historically worked great and been a net positive)
Then pansexuals because people had the audacity to experience multi-attraction but not identify with your specific label
And then there was the ace discourse about how people who are ace/aro aren’t REALLY lgbt because?? Y’all said lack of attraction wasn’t a sexuality and clearly they were just?? Broken??? (Again, no irony in this. Telling people with sexualities you don’t understand that they’re broken has always been a net positive and worked out great for everybody in the end)
Oh and then y’all came for bi-lesbians because y’all forgot people can experience different romantic and sexual attraction
Then y’all started calling trans women pedophiles (AGAIN WITH NO IRONY, NOT LIKE THE COMMUNITY HAS A RAMPANT HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE BEING CALLED PEDOPHILES AS A FEAR MONGERING TACTIC)
And then y’all started insulting trans men for speaking out about possibly suffering from their own set of issues that comes with being trans men (god forbid people have their own set of issues they wanna address separately, everyone knows the queer experience is universal right?)
And literally every single time all I hear is:
Like maybe I’m crazy but perhaps the biggest threat to our community is not people making up labels or mixing labels or talking about their own personal forms of oppression they face - but maybe. Just maybe. It’s the hoards of just genuinely straight up homophobic bigoted people who are actively trying to cut trans health care and take away gay marriage. Idk maybe that’s just me.
At some point you gotta sit and realize that something like 15% of any population really do like making up rules.
My favorite thing about online queer discourse is that it literally repeats every year but with a different identity and so many people just go along with it. It’s like watching a series of people literally never learn their lesson.
Let’s see if I can make a timeline so if I remember correctly it was bisexuals first right because y’all wanted them to pick a side (no irony there, clearly forcing people into a sexuality they don’t fit with has historically worked great and been a net positive)
Then pansexuals because people had the audacity to experience multi-attraction but not identify with your specific label
And then there was the ace discourse about how people who are ace/aro aren’t REALLY lgbt because?? Y’all said lack of attraction wasn’t a sexuality and clearly they were just?? Broken??? (Again, no irony in this. Telling people with sexualities you don’t understand that they’re broken has always been a net positive and worked out great for everybody in the end)
Oh and then y’all came for bi-lesbians because y’all forgot people can experience different romantic and sexual attraction
Then y’all started calling trans women pedophiles (AGAIN WITH NO IRONY, NOT LIKE THE COMMUNITY HAS A RAMPANT HISTORY OF QUEER PEOPLE BEING CALLED PEDOPHILES AS A FEAR MONGERING TACTIC)
And then y’all started insulting trans men for speaking out about possibly suffering from their own set of issues that comes with being trans men (god forbid people have their own set of issues they wanna address separately, everyone knows the queer experience is universal right?)
And literally every single time all I hear is:
Like maybe I’m crazy but perhaps the biggest threat to our community is not people making up labels or mixing labels or talking about their own personal forms of oppression they face - but maybe. Just maybe. It’s the hoards of just genuinely straight up homophobic bigoted people who are actively trying to cut trans health care and take away gay marriage. Idk maybe that’s just me.
At some point you gotta sit and realize that something like 15% of any population really do like making up rules.
my great great great granddaughter sifting for clams in the Plasti-sea in 3070, unearthing an acrylic keychain of two background characters from a seasonal and soon forgotten anime about humanizing ww2 battles into 17 year old boys. On one side they are stood in mock military uniforms, the legs and arms of said uniform shortened to give a more boyish appearance. The other side has the same characters, this time crossdressing in womens lingerie.
This is joyous. If she finds the right collector in the exchange market she could receive up to three days rations, that is, if noone steals it from her before she gets there.
my great great great granddaughter sifting for clams in the Plasti-sea in 3070, unearthing an acrylic keychain of two background characters from a seasonal and soon forgotten anime about humanizing ww2 battles into 17 year old boys. On one side they are stood in mock military uniforms, the legs and arms of said uniform shortened to give a more boyish appearance. The other side has the same characters, this time crossdressing in womens lingerie.
This is joyous. If she finds the right collector in the exchange market she could receive up to three days rations, that is, if noone steals it from her before she gets there.
my great great great granddaughter sifting for clams in the Plasti-sea in 3070, unearthing an acrylic keychain of two background characters from a seasonal and soon forgotten anime about humanizing ww2 battles into 17 year old boys. On one side they are stood in mock military uniforms, the legs and arms of said uniform shortened to give a more boyish appearance. The other side has the same characters, this time crossdressing in womens lingerie.
This is joyous. If she finds the right collector in the exchange market she could receive up to three days rations, that is, if noone steals it from her before she gets there.
fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country
please, actually, get fucking mad over this, the entirety of australia basically just banned all social media for anyone who doesnt want to give up their privacy to the government, there was no vote on this, no nothing, they just went ahead and fucking passed this ridiculously privy law and barely anybody’s talking about it the actual fuck
okay so to actually explain what exactly is happening, it’s an age thing. theyve used ‘protect the children’ and ‘let kids be kids’ as a weapon again. anyone under 16 is banned from social media, but to enforce this they have openly admitted everyone will need to link their government id to their social media. this whole ‘protect the kids’ thing was a very obvious trojan horse for getting ppl to give up their privacy.
and yknow, that alone is a very shitty law even without the whole surrendering your private information to the government thing.
theyve made outside uninhabitable, there’s nowhere left to go. public areas have degenerated, theyve turned hanging out into a crime with loitering, streets feel unwalkable sometimes, parents are more wary of letting their kids walk around on their own than they used to be, and now theyre trying to ban one of the main ways kids manage to distract themselves inside the house.
when i was 15 i was depressed and lonely, unable to leave the house very far, no friends, nobody. the one place that helped me feel less alone was online communities. i wouldve killed myself if it werent for the support i recieved on there. and now theyre trying to ban that for future generations, in a world that hates them being both outside and inside.
and even still, this is still a fucking trojan horse to get you to give up your privacy.
By the way, if anyone wants to throw the Senate Committee hearing with Greens senator David Shoebridge questioning Jenny McAllister at me, then no, what he was implying is not right. The e-safety commissioner’s 2023 roadmap for age verification supports a double-blind approach using tokens. People would verify their ages with a third party who already has their age data (e.g. bank, phone company) who then issues a token that gets used as a digital confirmation of users being of age. This is to ensure that age-restricted websites do not know the identity of a user, and the age assurance service provider does not record which sites a user visits. That’s the theory and a tender was awarded to ACCS on November 15, 2024 to test the process and see if it will work.
If this proposal was passed into law as it stands now - you could break the law and no one would do anything apart from tut at you.
Because it’s unenforceable.
So yeah, don’t worry that this is a problem now because it’s not.
This entire proposal is a signal flag for the 2025 federal election by both Labor and the Coalition parties to tell the voting public that they take parental concerns seriously… without doing anything to actually alleviate those concerns.
Concentrate instead on contacting your federal MPs and telling them exactly how you’d like the original problem - kids being exposed to unsuitable material on social media and the mental health consequences.
tl:dr - Don’t get side tracked by this furphy, do your research and go tell your MP what YOU want.
sorry, im really not sure i buy all this.
but yeah, i did get a lot of things wrong here. some that i cleared up in other reblogs, but the version you reblogged was the one that got the most popular unfortunately. i wish people would reblog the other version more.
first off i want to say, this was never intended to be a massive informational post. this was originally random venting i did while half asleep, not even tagged if i remember right. my blog’s not exactly popular, i never expected it to be this big. ive managed to clear some things up in the comments and reblogs tho.
my use of the word ‘basically’ was pretty poor here, i never intended to imply it had already been passed, just that it was very likely to be passed and everybody besides the greens is on board with it. it is very likely to pass. but no, it has not passed. only more reason to get angry about it in my opinion, means there’s time.
secondly, yes, the method has not been fully decided on yet, that was included in the article i limked, and i hope it wouldnt be giving companies your id, but that’s a very real possibility, and the other methods ive seen i just dont feel would hold up well. id has been the main method that’s been talked about here, im not super comforted by ‘but they could use this other thing’. and i couldnt see corporations giving up the chance to collect more personal data unless they had good reason not to, and everything ive seen on it says the burden will be on the corporations. so unless that info’s wrong, that sounds like something to panic about. but yes, it does feel wrong to be making it out as if it could only been that, i shouldve mentioned that in the original post.
look, i like you doing all this, these are some good resources, my original post was a half asleep vent, it was bound to have inaccuracies or misinformation, and im sorry about that, i really am.
but where i really stop following you is when you say this proposal has no teeth.
especially because ive felt the exact same way for a while, and even in my original post, i knew it had ‘no teeth’ in a way, but i didnt say anything on it because i didnt see it as important enough. yes, i shouldve still mentioned it anyway, that there will be ways to get around it. but i didnt mention it bc it’s still dangerous.
there would be no penalties for users who managed to access social media without going through the check, i know, i was never expecting that, only someone who has little idea on how the internet works would expect that. even if the burden werent on the platforms, nobody’s going to take notice of a single under 16 year old slipping into social media. if they managed to do that id be wondering why im not locked up for pirating all the shit i have.
no, anybody tech savvy enough could find ways around this law, if not a vpn then something else.
i was never afraid of the law because i truly thought id have to hand over my id to social media or stop using it. that’s not the fucking problem. the fear i have for myself is the inconvenience of having to setup a vpn just to browse tumblr, but not everyone is tech savvy enough to find ways around these laws, most people arent, most social media users would probably just end up giving up their id or stop using it. and that could be a fucking problem. maybe a cybersecurity nightmare, but also just blatantly allowing and normalising more absurd data collection, more privacy invasion. even without all that, the bandaid solution of locking children out of social media instead of tackling the actual problem infuriates me.
and the biggest thing im worried about is the precedent. this law is fucking absurd, even if it can be easily broken without punishment. weilding kids’ safety as a weapon, banning an entire group of people from one of the largest ways of communicating today, allowing companies to force id collection if they so wish, even if they all go a different way those other ways dont sound very good either. a law like being considered and especially passing isnt a good sign for the future.
the best i can hope for besides the law not passing at all is that the companies will fail to enforce it so badly that it causes something awful, like, idk, the system being unsustainable somehow, some massive data breach. which no, wouldnt be a good thing, but itd hopefully set the precedent not to try anymore laws like this, instead of being a precedent to keep going.
look, pull me up on my mistakes all you like. other people have done what youve done here and i appreciate it, actually. i never expected this to get as big as it did, i made mistakes here.
but dont bloody well tell me this law isnt worth anybody’s attention and we should all just ignore it and ‘not get side tracked’. i think i have every right to be worried about this, and your reasoning for why i shouldnt be worried was just telling me things i already knew.
course this law is still a fuckin problem, a portion of the population knowing how to bypass it and not get punished doesnt change anything.
and look, im genuinely sorry about this but im not gonna be replying to whatever response you’ve already been planning out as you read this, im probably not even gonna see it considering the amount of notifications i get every minute. correct me if i got any objective information wrong, but im bloody tired of all this, ive been hearing so much depressing shit these past couple weeks about the goings on of this miserable fucking planet and it’s making me miserable. and being told information i already know about some stupid law i vented about one night doesnt really make me feel much better about it, this law still looks depressing to me, it all does. i dont want a debate even if this is worded like the beginning of one, i only replied because i cant help myself sometimes and i probably shouldnt have been looking at my notifications seeing how bad i already feel.
i’m a writer irl (can’t say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel…
…. which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it’s Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.
and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.
(yes they published the book)
This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP
halfway through giving my coworker the Fall of the Roman Republic spiel she asked, “so was Julius Caesar, like… a good guy…? or a bad guy?”
Funnily in history you normally have to go “well, it’s complicated”, but in Caesar’s case I feel like you can pretty safely go “oh, he was a bad guy” and keep going.
dunno—kinda has something going for him
This is what the 2024 election has done to Tumblr, the Caesar stans coming out of the woodwork -_-
Caesar was literally the best of guys
Counterpoint: he was the worst of guys
He conquered Gaul is what he did! He was an honorable defender of the plebian class, and in this house Gaius Julius Caesar is a hero, END OF STORY
Since computers, we’ve had another revolutionary semiconductor device, which is LED lighting. Now with solar panels we’re beginning another semiconductor revolution, this time in power generation.
feels kind of crazy that all of our fancy nanotech is based on one idea
I don’t think you’re ready to have an adult conversation about politics until you’re able to admit that there are things you love and enjoy that would not and should not exist in a just world. $8 billion dollar budget movies every other month don’t exist in a just world. New 900 GB AAA video games every year don’t exist in a just world. Next day delivery doesn’t exist in a just world. 80 different soda brands don’t exist in a just world.
All of those things come from exploitation on some level, and if you wouldn’t trade those for a world where everyone can eat and have a home no matter who they are or what they do, I don’t know what to tell you.
Man, this post makes me feel conflicted, because on the one hand, of the things listed, next-day delivery is the only one that DOES actually exist in the world today. The others are exaggerations, and while I understand the point being made, they do detract from it.
I understand—and agree with—that sentiment of, “I want slower deliveries by drivers who are paid better,” as one recent tumblr post put it. I absolutely agree with the idea that we need to produce and consume less as a culture, and that an actual substantive conversation about politics should involve willingness to relinquish the many modern luxuries that are built on exploitation.
I don’t think these are good examples of those luxuries, though.
Large budget movies are possible because consumers (and investors) are willing to pay for them. A large budget is actually a necessary component in making sure workers are being adequately compensated; the fact that they currently are often exploited by studios is a result of deliberate misallocation of resources, not anything intrinsic to the size of the production. Same thing goes with high-quality video games. As for releasing a new film/game every month/year, that’s only unsustainable because there’s only a handful of monopolistic studios doing it. In a well-regulated industry that encourages growth and competition, we could see tens, if not hundreds of studios producing big-budget films and games. And, with a well-compensated and socially-supported citizenry, consumers would have enough disposable income to support it.
Similarly, the problem with soda isn’t that we have 80 brands; it’s that we have two. And those two brands each own 800 different labels. In a healthy economy, these monopolies would be dissolved, and we could support well over 80 moderately-sized independent beverage companies producing their own sodas.
Same-day delivery, again, could be easily supported with proper allocation of resources. Currently, we have huge centralized distributors like Amazon exploiting gig-workers with slave-wages to ferry cheap mass-produced crap to people, and that’s what makes it bad, not the speed at which they do it. If instead, we had something like a super-robust USPS, with well-compensated deliverypeople working reasonable hours within a decentralized network of independent-but-cooperative suppliers, there would be absolutely no reason why you couldn’t get something delivered to you from the distro ten miles down the road within a day.
When we critique capitalism, and they respond, “Yeah, well capitalism made the cell phone you’re using!” our response shouldn’t be, “Oh shit u right,” it should be, “No, capitalism made the cell phone I’m using break after a year so I’ll buy a new one, and they use slave labor to do it while they pocket the rest.”
There are luxuries, and there are artificially-valued, mass-produced, built-to-break trash that are marketed as luxuries. But we don’t solve the problems of fast-fashion by saying, “Welp I guess I shouldn’t wear clothes.”
lot of people hear “critical thinking” and think it means you have to be a jerk about it and you can’t like the media. The association of criticism and tearing something to shreds honestly sucks, because it’s wrong. Critical thinking doesn’t mean you have to hate everything with flaws. It means you need to think about it at more than the surface level, and discuss why the author made the choices they made, why certain things played out the way they did, and what real-life influences might’ve inspired the story.
49. What’s your favorite number system? Integers? Reals? Rationals? Hyper-reals? Surreals? Complex? Natural numbers?
Complex numbers easily. Complex analysis has some wonderful results!
62. Are there any non-interesting numbers?
I mean, if we declared a number to be non-interesting because it didn’t have any/many common nice/interesting properties surely it would then be interesting because why doesn’t it exhibit interesting properties? Surely the absence of anything interesting would in and of itself be something interesting?
Thanks for the ask!
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from: the penguin dictionary of curious and interesting numbers by david wells
This is a good example of how sometimes maths definitions can be a bit weird. By that I mean, the everyday antonym of a word is always the opposite mathematical property. Like how in general open does not imply not closed!
*voice of a girl who is thinking about how kitten burst started out as a game about exploring a dead internet after all the life has left it but that changed as a small community arose around the game and the dev realized the spirit of the old web is still very much alive and that changed the direction of the game to be about reconnecting with others and making a community again*: fuuuuck dude
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