[–] 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

And honestly bisexual is just such a stable fork overall. It functions well with mainstream architectures but also makes a great entry point into sexualities that aren't expressed in binary format. AND if you actually do the work of reading into the docs you find out that it's not even just limited to the traditional two-gender dichotomy. So if you really really need some super specific fork of a fork of a fork for some super specifically narrow use-case that's fine, but honestly in 90% of the cases bisexual actually covers most of the features you need and is widely recognized / compatible with the other stuff you're using with half the effort.

Edit: just wanna give a shoutout to my hubs. I grew up as a tumblr pan girl and honestly he's super based as a bi dude. First of all it's way harder to be bi as a dude and also he introduced me to the actual bi manifesto and how the bi's have always been super inclusive to begin with by not assuming there are two genders to begin with but also that trans girls & boys are just girls & boys so that aspect doesn't count as an extra gender to be attracted to anyway soooo. Mans has always been super based and I love him a lot.

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    So I'm not pathologizing you specifically but from my entry level knowledge in psychiatry I feel like that's gotta do something real weird to a human's neurotransmitters. Not even necessarily bad even I'd just be fascinated to know.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Actually in this case Loki was kinda the victim. Yes he was in the form of a mare trying to distract the workhorse, but the way the story reads it seems unlikely that he expected Svaldfari to actually break free and chase him down and manage to impregnate him. Maybe like. One or two of those things. But like, the actual goal was just to make Svaldfari unproductive. Idt Loki's intention was for things to go that far.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago*

    More importantly you can wear them in the shower and be less likely to catch tinea or worse. They also don't have a thong that can be taken out and wrapped around shit, and the bottom is soft enough that it doesn't do more than sting a little if you smack somebody with it, and doesn't add much extra to a kick.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    fur color in cats is x-linked. The specific color can be darker or lighter in individual follicles (causing stripes) or the color in the follicle can be "turned off," causing the follicle to produce white hair, but two completely separate colors such as black and orange have to be coded for by two separate x-genes. So, all "calico" cats (orange, black, and white) are either female, or have some rare intersex genetic mutation where they still have two x-genes (XXY, XXYY, etc).

    The Calico coat pattern has a number of variations / subtypes that this still applies to. One is something called a tortishell, which is a calico that just doesn't have a lot of those "turned off" white patches. There's probably some specific % in cat breeding circles but the core concept is just "two separate colors that aren't white but also no or very little white," (again, white doesn't count as one of the x-linked colors because it's just a "turned off" follicle). Another variation is a "dilute calico" where instead of black and orange they have a sort of faded / pastel version of the two different nonwhite colors (grey and cream). The pictured cat appears to be a combination of the two, or a "dilute tortishell" where she has the two separate colors, grey and cream, and not a whole lot of white.

    So basically I can say for certain that that cat has at least two x-genes. Whether or not it also has one or more Y-genes, or three or more x-genes isn't impossible, but it's pretty unlikely. I guess technically "mutation" isn't quite the right word ("variation" maybe?) but the exact right term escapes me for the moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    I was explicitly taught google search skills in nursing school. It focused on how to look for results from major medical journals, the CDC / FDA, articles written by well known MDs/DOs specialists, and how to find manufacturers' manuals / YouTube tutorials for obscure medical devices. I was explicitly taught that my future was probably going to include looking up the manufacturer's YouTube channel to find out how to access my cancer patient's obscure chest port by a 60y/o instructor who clearly voiced how insane that was compared to her work experience.

    For better or for worse AI's gonna end up in class somehow too, I'm just hoping it's late enough down the line that it's been standardized to super basic shit like fuzzy matching search results and advanced grammar / spellcheck. One of our sister hospitals is trialing a service that can generate a flowsheet column for review from listening to a narration of a head-to-toe and I don't immediately hate that. Actually you know what would be a really cool use? Fuzzy matching name alerts in the unit patient list. Had two obscurely spelled patient names that sounded very similar the other day with a matching last initial that didn't trigger name alert highlighting on the board. An llm might be able to catch the sound-alike with a little more flexibility than the current algorithm.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    Bruh I didn't realize until after I got halfway through the body that you meant "sell" and not "steal." I clicked on this hoping for some super wild Lemmy drama where some dumbass was publicly asking how to commit grand larceny.

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    Working healthcare, I tell all other healthcare / first responders "I hope you have a boring shift" (every once in a while a younger person objects, but they are almost immediately hushed / corrected by their senior coworker).

    But it occurs to me that many office / sedentary workers might not find this to be a blessing. What would I say to a desk worker that might be equivalent?

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