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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.

  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual veterans face higher odds for prevalent ASCVD vs. straight peers

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  • The hypothesis I'd explore (feel free to give me the funding!) would be that the societal pressure and stresses of being lesbian, gay, or bi in the US (let alone in the armed forces) would be the culprit. We already know that stress increases your chances of heart disease, so that's where I'd look first. But that's a scientific wild-ass guess.

  • 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.

  • Springfield? You here?

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    Ohio is sending troopers and $2.5 million to city inundated with Haitian migrants

    apnews.com /article/springfield-ohio-haitian-influx-governor-dewine-f5a552d7ebc6e246882dca96a39a3aaa

  • Cost, wait times lead women to avoid care: Deloitte

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  • You aren't wrong; it's just WORSE for female-presenting folx.

  • Insufficient Hospital Nurse Staffing Linked With Higher Risk of Patient Death

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  • Exactly so; while it seems obvious to anyone who has worked in healthcare in direct patient care, health facilities are increasingly owned by private investors.

  • Loss of smell during COVID linked to structural, functional brain alterations

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  • It can be, but isn't necessarily so. As an AuDHD (autism + ADHD) person, I have "structural alterations" that result in things being different in ways that can be positive or negative. The brain is also EXTREMELY plastic and able to adjust to a lot. That said, the short-run effects are almost always going to be inconvenient at best for the person in question.

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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".

  • 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.

  • Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”

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  • I get this argument... but I keep seeing folks talk about Threads as if it's somehow an existential threat to Mastodon rather than "big crappy instance with asshats on it," and I don't quite understand how it's more than that... at least at a level that users and instance admins have any influence over. Can someone ELI5?

  • US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

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  • Unlike? I think you mean they're JEALOUS of TikTok's appeal to minors...