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Is that worth losing your temper over? The midwife sent us home because my wife was only a few cm dilated, and active labour doesn't start until about 5 or 6cm dilation, after which it generally takes another 5+ hours before the cervix is dilated enough (i.e. 10cm) to give birth. It's annoying, but it's standard procedure.

It'd be wonderful if the healthcare systems around the world had infinite resources to care for pregnant women, but unfortunately they don't.

I wrote a whole 3 paragraph reply to this, but it crashed and now I'm too lazy to write it again.

But yes, this. "Everyone getting UBI and universal healthcare" is not far left. Far left is firebombing pharmaceutical companies or forceable seizure of private property to distribute amongst others, or enforced working arrangements to bring about equality.

What most Americans on Lemmy call "far left", I'd call "basic respect for your fellow man and the compassion to put others before yourself".

How did you come to that conclusion?

"not being a fan means you actively oppose her"

"I'm not a fan, but I don't actively oppose her" (by way of hospital food analogy)

"okay... So you agree with me?"

Do you think "not a fan of" means "dislike"?

I don't agree with that line of thought. The taste of hospital food is also very neutral but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of it. I also wouldn't say I'm actively opposing it, and if served it in a situation where I can't get anything else I wouldn't snub my nose at it, but it wouldn't be my first choice.

I think they're a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.

I'd consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they've kept running for years while warning people that it'd eventually be cut off).

Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations

-CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez)

-Conservative politics of any kind

-Capitalism

-Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.

Harder than you might think. A male testing positive on a pregnancy test is a marker for some forms of testicular cancer.

Yeah, I have no love for Meta, but this is a case of damned if you do or damned if you don't. If they didn't censor it, how much do you bet there'd be an article posted here that said "Threads allows Covid and vaccine misinformation to spread as cases rise"

Ah yes, just what the working class desperately needs, a gatekeeper.

Eh, it's more likely that the statistics that come out of North Korea are so few and so unreliable that there's no reason to specify that they're talking about South Korea, it's just assumed by most that they aren't talking about the Hermit Kingdom.

And fwiw the South Koreans refer to their own country as 대한민국 daehanmiguk - the Great Korean People's Country and the North call themselves 조선 Joseon (or more specifically the Democratic People's Republic of Joseon), the name of the last Korean dynasty. Neither refer to each other as "North" or "South" and they discourage the use of divided names because it implies the goal of both isn't unification.

Yep, believe it or not, we have cities and an overinflated property market in Australia too. But Scott Farquhar is very down to earth for a billionaire. Comes from a less-affluent area of Sydney, went to public school (admittedly one of the most difficult to be admitted to), doesn't surprise me that he's more "understanding" of the employees.

Degeneracy is always a Nazi ideology

Degeneracy is the core ideology behind every genocide.

Damn, I didn't think I'd learn something new today, but as it turns out, the Ottoman genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks and the historical Chinese genocide of the Dzungar and the more recent genocide of the Uyghur people were because they were thought to be degenerates by the ruling National Socialist parties.

And here I was thinking 'Nazi' specifically referred to the Nazi Party members and modern white supremacists who support it, and not every nationalistic faction that has ever committed crimes against humanity.

You may not realise it, but you water down the word Nazi when you brandish it so casually. When you go around saying everything is Nazi ideology, people won't listen when something actually is.

"tokenboomer", poorly executed references to the "everything is communism" trope, insulting "the liberals"... Come on guy, trolling is a subtle art. You can do better, I believe in you.