#from exit strategy

[majorcharacterundeath]

rly funny to me that SecUnit gets most of what it wants by going up to bots and asking nicely

[definite-human]

Headcanon: there's nothing wrong with Murderbot's risk assessment module - it's just accurately accounting for how much more capable it's become at handling things now that it's actively pushing itself and doing it's best

[lueddegen]

Two very unfortunate (or hilarious) things about the german version of the murderbot diaries is that not only did they manage to translate the title All Systems Red as Systemausfall (eng. system failure) when one future installation turned out to be named System Collapse, they also managed to turn Rogue Protocol into Exit Szenario (no need to translate) right before Exit Strategy came out.

[lueddegen-art]

The murderbot diaries have me in an absolute chokehold, thus it is once again time to ignore all my responsibilities and obsessively draw fanart.

[wafflesrisa]

Oh wait is it a toxic family when the father refuses to take accountability and instead blames the kids for his mistakes? And as a result the kids are unwillingly shoehorned into roles where one is the golden perfectionistic never allowed to criticise the family child, and the other is the black sheep difficult selfish disobedient child?

And the golden child is about to explode because he’s never allowed to have his own opinions and so when he feels real frustration at his father, he can’t land the blame there and so he’s conditioned to blame his sibling instead?

And the black sheep child just takes the criticism and the blame and learns to become overly defensive, because he’s learned no one will watch his back but himself, not even his sibling?

Oh wait it’s not a toxic family.

It’s Scuderia Ferrari

[shirasorin]

Idea for a Murderbot fic

Warning!! Murderbot gets got with the protagonist stick Much harder than usual.

Idea

From the edge of tomorrow, The Company uses some alien remnants, AKA some of the alien mimic shit from the movie when making Murderbot. Murderbot can therefore reset the day when it dies.

I don't care what you do with this, but there is so much room for shenanigans.

Have at

Have fun

[kaylor]

the great thing about my parents refusing to downsize is when i break up with my boyfriend i can move back home and stay in my childhood bedroom rent free until i find a job 🪩✨💫😝

[nice-bright-colors]

That massive pit in my stomach

Stress? Anxiety? Feelings of inadequacy? Shame? Anger? Fear? Murderous rage? All of the above?

They are all too familiar for me. However, this time it’s different. This time it isn’t my fault, nor is it my problem to immediately solve.

Sadly, it is going to take more efforts, and more compassion to resolve this problem. Plus it won’t get easier, first it will get harder, then increasingly difficult.

I miss the days like this when that pit in my stomach could be doused with a bottle or two of bourbon. If I did that today, I would most likely die from alcohol poisoning. Yes, I had to second guess and question myself if it would’ve been worth it.

In an odd course of events, I picked up two more projects today. Unfortunately, they are not any of the new construction currently underway. No, I get the shittiest of the shit, that nobody wants to do. In places that nobody wants to go.

I guess I should be happy, more projects means more money. Which in turn would theoretically mean that I could get out of my serious debt just before the country burns to the ground. So yay!!

I have yet to eat any food today. So maybe only one bottle will do the trick.

[teachhealth]

Watching the shitshow that is America right now is horrifying. And add in the fact that I’m currently pregnant and have a kid in Special Education and it’s just completely mind-numbing.

At least Covid felt like I could do something to protect my own family.

[punkrockisafulltimejob]

I'm working on a project on my computer and vaping, this is the closest I've been to my normal pain level in days. I know it won't last, especially not when I'm trying to sleep later.

Trying to ignore the guilt of disappearing from work for three days, when the last time I did that it was my mental breakdown two years ago.

[libertatias]

finally writing my fic about rafe taking sam to new orleans after bailing him out of prison to see What Happened to nate and sam being equally devastated and infuriated and betrayed by the fact that nate is off living his ~normal life and then having a lot of complicated emotions about how he can't possibly fit into this domestic caricature and how can he possibly convince nate to get back in the game so of course he begrudgingly decides to partner with rafe (all the while intending to bail the second he has a compelling lead bc rafe was always a means to an end)

[anonymusbosch]

so. first of all I don't know anything. take everything with a massive grain of salt

second - this is talking about housing in a very capital-y framework which is not necessarily reflective of viewpoints I hold

I don't want to engage directly with the original post I'm responding to here, but re: private construction vs gvt-owned construction of housing - when it comes to affordable housing in California in particular (where around half of homeless people in the US live), there's an obvious(?) contributor - zoning laws that prevent housing from being built in sufficient quantity to keep prices low, market-style. some people respond to this with "if we relax zoning and incentivize private construction, the problem will fix itself". Then there's the "por que no los dos" approach to public vs private investment in housing, which seems kind of a no-brainer on its face (have state-sponsored construction alongside private construction) - but I think there's a major piece missing to that, which is that - even accepting the premise of that framing - scarcity, like, exists? And particularly in construction labor, particularly in California, supply is slow to respond to demand. For years there's been an diminishing number of construction workers (and in many cases plumbers, electricians, etc) as the pace of construction has been kept slow and things like computer labs have supplanted wood shop/metal shop in schools - AND as the cost of living has increased, it's been harder to get by on manual labor wages, pushing people already in the field out of it. Part of the reason housing is more expensive to build in CA, even when it's allowed, is that labor and materials are scarce. (This is ofc in addition to addl regulations, environmental review hurdles, etc.)

The other side of public v private construction that I don't think is acknowledged as much (among people already gung-ho about building more housing) is that when there's such a tight market, the first thing to be built with private capital is the thing which sells for the most money. Okay, that people talk about. But if the response is "but let them keep building and it will eventually get to an equilibrium/drive prices down" - I don't think that's very reassuring? The problem is present now. And say housing prices drop from $3000/month for a one bedroom apartment in SF to $2000/month - that's a significant enough drop to open the market to people who previously didn't move there because it's too expensive but not nearly enough to make the prevailing wage for, e.g., a city janitor ($17.29/hr) or a construction worker hauling material at a site ($22.50/hr) super tenable. More people move in, but the low end of the market doesn't budge until all the upper tiers have been satisfied - and meanwhile, the people building and taking care of those buildings still can't afford to live in them. This seems like it will keep the cost of construction fairly high for a fairly extended period of time, right?

one answer is to increase pay for construction workers - with the consequence of increasing the cost of construction and making the cheaper units even more unfavorable to build (for investors). this is already happening to some degree.

So it seems, especially with the time it takes to get additional people into the construction industry, like the #1 priority should be public funding for the type of housing least attractive to investors and most consequential for the people who need it most - low-cost affordable housing. other priorities should absolutely be re-incentivizing the trades, rezoning to allow much denser housing in the sprawl, etc. but in terms of the massive deficit of housing and homelessness crisis, it really seems like priority one should be building cheap now. b/c the longer it takes to get housing, the more expensive it'll get.

(sidebar: gvt-owned housing also may allow the government to avoid some funding/paperwork issues like what's happened with the Cecil Hotel, though given how much of a trainwreck they made of it, I don't know how much hope I can have)

(sidebar 2: don't have the links handy but I'm reminded of two studies - one that showed that median rents in an area increased when rent control was implemented, one that found that rents increased when rent control was removed.)

@triviallytrue I don't know if any of this is of interest - thoughts?

[riahchan]

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[zandeliongames]

Pihu: Is it spicy?

Salim: Not really.

Kinda sorta update for this blog coming soon (meaning later this week)

[doomdoomofdoom]

Hi there hello it's me back to be annoying because I quite like this topic and unfortunately I am a smartass.

First things first, yes! This procedure can (and has been) used to replace a uterus that was previously removed due to injury or disease. Uterine disease is even named specifically as a potential reason to justify a transplant. However, a recent cancer diagnosis may prohibit a transplant, like with other organs.

That being said, the uterus does not have much function outside of conception and pregnancy.

It's a relatively small and mobile organ, which relies much more on the surrounding structure to be held in place than vice versa. Most of your internal organs, including the reproductive system, are more or less held in place by something called the Peritoneum. The presence of the uterus makes no difference.

It also doesn't regulate hormonal balance. This is instead done by the ovaries, who also produce the egg cells. A hysterectomy usually does not include removal of ovaries, although it can be necessary, and ovaries cannot be transplanted between humans. (Mostly for ethical reasons. We can freeze ovarian tissue and implant it back into the same person later, like after an aggressive cancer treatment.)

If someone has their ovaries (or testicles, for that matter) removed, they need to substitute that hormone production through medication, since estrogens and androgens are vital to keeping our body in its cycles. They also affect bone health, which is why menopause can be a gateway to osteoporosis. Whether the uterus is still in its place has no effect on hormone production.

It's actually because the uterus doesn't serve any other purpose that we can transplant it! Uterus transplants are only performed with living donors, meaning they'll go the rest of their life without a uterus. And, since it's not a vital organ, the transplanted uterus is actually removed again from the recipient after 1-2 pregnancies! That way, they don't have to deal with the constant strain of a foreign organ in their body. (Anyone else who receives an organ transplant likely needs their donor to pass away and is required to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life to avoid their body attacking it.)

So to recap; uterus transplants don't improve any other bodily function, but they do bring a great improvement to women who want to get pregnant but don't have a functional uterus. That's actually phenomenal!

A fucking womb transplant, what an incredible thing. Fair play to all involved. A positive news story amidst all the dire shite.