I have anemia due to my cycle. Literally passing out in class in high school levels of bad. All the doctors told my parents I was faking it for attention or so I could get out of school. This started at 14.

I’ve been begging any doctor to take my serious for 20 fucking years. 4 primary care doctors and 6 different obgyn/gynos. You would swear I was asking for something unreasonable, not to add an iron test to the bloodwork I’m already getting annually.

I could’ve even get my doctor to take me seriously when I nearly fell into an open sewer manhole at work because I was bleeding so heavy that I was dizzy and almost passed out and I started falling forward and my coworker had to catch me.

I started taking iron on my own. 2 years ago I got another new primary care doctor. As usual, I asked for the iron test and expected a fight. She said yeah no problem. I almost died right there. Yeah, I was taking a bunch of iron and I was still low.

Fuck every one of those doctors who refused to listen to me on such a basic ass fucking thing that literally takes you little to no extra work. I hope every single one of you constantly has a rock in your shoe you can’t get out for the rest of your life.

Anyways, that solved almost all my period related issues. Now I’m in peri menopause and no one believes me 🙃🙃

I know 7 different women with auto immune diseases. I think the quickest diagnosis was 7 years. I know one man. Diagnosed in one visit by one doctor because his mom had it and he has the same symptoms.

I know two women still fighting to get any doctor to believe them that it’s not in their head. One of which who’s mother is diagnosed with grave’s disease and some separate thyroid disorder and the most recent doctor told her he won’t even test her because all of her hair falling out and random skin sores, constant cold sores, and being sick constantly is, “just part of being a mother.” This is doctor #4 for her. She can’t even get referred to a specialist.

I hate it here. Believe women.

They did state some more info in a comment that I saw after I made my post. Regardless, I would be wary but, it wouldn’t be a no if there were good checks and balances

I’m aware. That’s why I said this isn’t your exact scenario.

Getting really sick of this dude reposting things with AI and not double checking them first. This is not YOUR house bro. This was taken from reddit. No one would care if you said you took it from reddit. But claiming all these posts are yours makes people mad.

Bro this is why people hate you using the repost bot. This is a completely worthless post missing context and information. It’s not that we hate that you took it from reddit. It’s that this happens.

Yeah the last idiot that made a ridiculous reply to a post I made in a community I mod I didn’t delete. I just responded with something along the lines of, thanks for adding so much to the conversation. They were looking for a rage react. They ended up looking like a clown.

Personally I try really hard not to remove comments on a post I made. I run a few communities between this instance and another (and a few still on reddit). I’m not saying I won’t delete them and that I haven’t, I have. But I try not to.

For communities where I have co mods, I tag them in if I’m not sure. I don’t want to get in a bad habit of deleting things that hurt my feelings. Did I enjoy someone telling me the other day that my community was stupid and pointless? No. But, I let it sit there anyways.

Now had that same person started spewing hate at me directly or going off on a tangent completely unrelated, I would’ve considered deleting the comment. And if I did, I would’ve made a comment as to why. I believe in holding myself accountable for my modding actions. It’s a slippery slope to becoming “one of those mods” and I don’t want my communities to function like that.

Your scenario sounds like it at least has checks and balances which is the only way this could work without employees getting screwed.

In old school mining company towns the drawback was that they didn’t pay you in real money. They paid you in essentially monopoly money. The currency they gave you was only usable at places owned by the company. The issue becomes, you don’t like your job and want to leave? You have no money. You can’t leave.

Honestly their description of use and why that use it is not concerning. I’m more concerned with their choice being copilot lol.

This is what we call a company town. Soon you won’t get real money, just monopoly money you can only use at the company store. No thanks.

I know that’s not exactly what you’re scenario is saying but, feels too slippery of a slope for me personally.

And mbin. They have like 4 or 5 servers accepting new people. I think it’s good to have multiple different softwares going on the fediverse.

There’s always piefed or mbin. But until they start making our lives miserable with their code, I’m fine here.

Exactly. If you post a link AND your opinion of it or, what you took from it, that’s one thing. You’re not fostering conversation posting a paywalled link with no commentary.

Yeah exactly this. Not every news site is available in every country. And for the love of God, the fucking people who post paywalled articles…

I actually just edited my post probably as you were typing your reply lol. Thanks for letting us know.

My instance posted maybe 2 months ago? That it wasn’t being updated anymore but then I think someone commented their was a fork for it? @povoq@slrpnk.net might know. Assuming I’m not just completely misremembering.

Edit, I was incorrect. Here is the post if you’d like to read it.

This is my personal opinion and only that, my opinion. If your options are proton or Google, proton. If you have the ability, technical ability (in some cases), and mental bandwidth to diversify those services, that’s even better. And if you want to securely and properly self host your own options that match your specific threat level, that’s the best.

I personally use paid proton for my email. I occasionally use the free VPN, and I have several things in their drive as a backup to my backup of my backup. I personally would not put all my eggs in the proton basket because I did that in the past with Google and if we’re ignoring the privacy portion, they have discontinued so many things over the years that I learned not to put ALL my faith in ONE company.

Edit to add, I also didn’t even touch the CEO thing but I see several others have. If we account for that, I’d still say it’s significantly better than Google.

I love that it’s not even welfare, it’s Medicaid. The problem with this ad isn’t that the guy is white, it’s that we’re trying harder and harder to make medical care and simply existing harder for everyone, not just the people who need these services.