Exactly. The wave after my disgust was: ugh. I bet it will activate a different type of MLM person

This literally spells out the ethos of AI, and so much modern capitalism. Insiders should get paid for someone else's labor.

There are great providers comfortable & professional in any and all kinds of care! If yours isnt, they can refer you to someone who is.

"sensitive" exams should ultimately function like getting an ear/nose/throat exam.

Don't let your (or someone else's) minor unease cost your life and health

I stress YOU ask your provider, because there is a much, much lower rate of "sensitive" screening / preventative care in men and Trans people in the US (compared to cis women)

Partly because there's a vicious cycle of both patient AND provider thinking "if they're not asking, I dont want to do it"

AMEN 🙏

GUH. More info keeps only making this worse.
Media knew and kept it under wraps! Officials lied under oath to Congress! (While also acknowledging it is illegal to do this without their vote!)

Yet, I have spiteful confidence the "illegal" part of this will have no consequence

Thats good to know (?) but a strange aspect I never considered about cord-cutting.

Netflix didnt interrupt our viewing. Even when I put on YouTube, it was still suggesting the same science / comic book / lego / comedy stuff (though we do watch some news there)

It feels...terrifying and sobering to realize they really have been reconstructing things behind the scenes to make blitzkreig moves people would otherwise massively reject

I ACTIVELY read real and substantive news, and THOSE are the stories Microsoft was pushing for me today.

Disturbing.

Peripheral glances at headlines when opening my phone or tabs for other things showed me OTHER HEADLINES (from memory):
- Supreme Court half-says no to something
- DiCaprio wont attend a film fest (NEWS?!)
- Ex-Mayor Adams mad at something said about him on NYE broadcasts

Not to be reductive, but learning it almost a day after the fact makes it easier to understand how so many Americans who 'dont like politics' simply never heard about the countless, comparatively smaller scale issues, and awfulness they might be disturbed by (if they knew)

...where she starts to wonder why is Winnie the Pooh buying so much plastic tarp and rope and quicklime...?

Give them the Supreme Court appointment terms & conditions

💔

AGREED

?! You're the best :)
(but my Bday is Aug 9)