Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.
The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.
So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?
I guess that the best would be to use the daemon instead of cron. How do you store the contact avatars? And how do you store photos? Depending on this,you would need to synchronize some folders as well.
Yeah, sounds fine for this purpose. I guess that with the daemon it should be possible to have one docker for the db,one docker for the daemon and multiple ones for the frontend. But this is never tested.
@Michael Vogel But if I span up another frontend on another machine, coping the friendica data volume in the process, and pointed it at the database, it should just work?
I guess so. But of course updates are more demanding, since you had to keep all machines totally in sync. Possibly it would be the best, if daemon and the front end systems would share a single data drive.
@Michael Vogel Should note in case it's not clear, the container called "friendica-cron" is actually running the daemon, starting with this script:
#!/bin/sh
trap "break;exit" HUP INT TERM
while [ ! -f /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php ]; do
sleep 1
done
echo "Waiting for MySQL $MYSQL_HOST initialization..."
if php /var/www/html/bin/wait-for-connection "$MYSQL_HOST" "${MYSQL_PORT:-3306}" 300; then
sh /setup_msmtp.sh
exec gosu www-data:www-data tini -- php /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php -f start
else
echo "[ERROR] Waited 300 seconds, no response" >&2
fi
One of these devices is 24 years old and still mostly operational, so I guess not. It helps that two of them have a rotary dial used to set the clock. The third (which happens to be the oven) has that stupid short capacitive tap to adjust by a minute, medium hold to start racing through many 10-minute increments per second kind of scheme. On the other hand, the cooktop that’s part of the same physical device goes through its 17 regular power levels at only 2 per second.
How are these interfaces rarely any good? Extreme nonlinearity. Extreme debouncing so you can’t just tap through, and a solid tap is coming up on the acceleration threshold. I feel like strangling the people making these, or making them use their own creations if that isn’t too cruel.
Same here. It doesn’t take much moisture to make it unresponsive. At least a quick wipe tends to suffice. Why is everything dying to be a smartphone in the rain?
@Gen X-Wing @Zoë O'Connell It’s the same tune. The SID version is slightly richer IMO (C64 is my canonical version too. Spent so long playing 2 player with my friend from school).
Had to look it up to be sure (I mean I have C64s and I have a MiSTer, but YouTube had to suffice for now:)). That title music on the C64 is fantastic, and the main theme is so much better to me.
I often wonder what would have happened if the SID hadn’t been crippled and would have been the 16 voices that was intended. Would have been bonkers 😀
When UR reading Sci Fi written by a yank and they’re like, “I need to remind people this is in the future” so they’re all “meters” and “centigrade” and then they suddenly forget and go to “he was about 5 feet and likes his room at 99 degrees”.
The other thing that really marks this out as coming from a US perspective is the nature of the class system on display in this dystopia. There are basically 3 classes: CEO oligarch gods, middle management corporate drones in indentured servitude desperately trying to afford medical care from the company store, and the proles, who basically sell their bodies for medical research.
@Sarah Brown as somebody who grew up christian in a non-English speaking country, the name “Good Friday” also perplexes me.
We call it (a literal translation of) Holy Friday, and it's definitely set aside with specific rites and observances, but not celebrated as a joyous occasion, it's the exact opposite.
And I can get that the sound theological reasons may also apply to the name, but really, the good bit of the whole cleansing humanity from the original sin and stuff is the result, not the process, isn't it?
@valhalla It’s the bizarre obsession with the suffering that puzzles me, as if this suffering was uniquely awful and therefore redemptive *because* it went beyond what anyone else has experienced… but it didn’t. Crucifixions were common - they had two other guys to hang beside him. Rome once lined a road with people on crosses. This kind of horror plays out every day, now too, an example of what people do to other people at their worst.
I take the day to remind myself what the alternative to a kind and compassionate society is; that once we accept violence and fear and dehumanization as tools the end result is crucifixions, and immolations, and hangings, and beheadings, and gas chambers, and machetes, and bombs, and disemboweling, and
I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
I wasn't very online then, so GG missed me entirely. I had to learn about it after the fact. And it was actually really hard to learn about it for a while? One person likened it to cliques at a highschool lunch table which sounds insane, but for a while that was the only video around. Wasn't until I watched Innuendo Studios's videos on it that I actually got some concrete understanding of the events.
I think some of that contributes to this happening over and over again.
@Jesse Cohn I wrote about it a bit on LJ at the time. I think it's probably gone now. There's a 6 month gap in my memory from the nervous breakdown it caused, so documenting it wasn't high on my list of priorities.
I've since managed to get a modicum of revenge on some of the people involved. Not willing to go into further details.
Thanks -- I'll have to look further into them (a cursory googling isn't very helpful). I seem to have missed a really important chapter in the cultural-political history of our times.
Trying to imagine the culture shock immigrants to the UK get when, for the first time, they encounter someone like an accountant asking for their electricity bill.
Because, fellow Brits, I have to inform you that that's a bit weird.
@sparrowsion Nothing, but mainly companies aren't actually trying to ascertain your address, they're trying to ascertain your identity and using your address as a proxy for that.
@sparrowsion You have by law here to tell the council when you move in or out of an address, so presumably some categories of businesses can get your registered primary address from the relevant database.
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the lack of bureaucracy in the UK but the lack of common ID cards is questionable. They'd sure be convenient but, OTOH, the whole “papers please” attitude is not one we'd like many, including this, government to take too far.
Meanwhile, in the US you get a “secret” password assigned at birth which you can't change [¹] and which you have to use with lots of different enterprises. And, somehow, people there don't think that's bonkers.
@Ed Davies I mean, you don't NEED an ID card to solve this. In Portugal you can download a "here is this person and their details" certificate from the government's tax website.
The #USPS won't deliver anywhere near my house. To get a PO Box address a half-hour from here, I have to bring them the legal deed to my house and a certificate of insurance on it. Along with my fancy gov ID. (An electric bill might work, but I'm 100% solar...)
@sparrowsion I can't speak for Portugal but in Germany it's a legal requirement to notify the local council you have moved there and they will modify your ID card or issue a new one.
So many culture shocks, especially with financial stuff. I arrived in '96 and the first thing my bank did after opening an account was to issue me a cheque book. The last time I'd seen a cheque in Germany was at least 10 years prior... Later that year I wanted to transfer money to someone (I can't remember the reason) so went to my bank and they told me that was only possible if they had an account with the same bank... Bank transfers had been the standard in Germany since the 60s.
@Ozzy My UK bank keeps asking me, “what’s online banking like in Portugal compared to ours?”, presumably expecting effusive praise about their app, and their face falls when I say, “it’s at least a decade ahead of anything you have”.
So many Brits think they’re living in high tech utopia, when actually it’s backwards as hell in so many ways.
Geese cheat code: they’re bullshitting. Make it clear that you know this and they will fuck off. Run at them screaming “Dinner!” and flap your arms. They fuck off incredibly quickly.
If that doesn’t work, grab the squawky cunt by the neck and practice Olympic hammer throwing. It’s funny, and it won’t give you shit again.
They're kinda funny and cute when you just leave them be. Had to teach this to one of the kids who _always_ did _exactly_ what you described upon seeing any gathering of birds. Except for the "Dinner" part, unless "AAAAHH" is some language for that.
Even got hired by a dairy farmer to protect the grass. I shit you not.
I hate these customer service feedback things. The car dealership where I bought my Leaf was, a year or so ago, taken over by a national chain. They had a recall for a software upgrade last week. They were short staffed and busy. It took longer than it should. Whatever.
Today I got a call, from Lisboa. How would you rate your experience … blah blah.
Now this things are just used to punish employees, and I not enabling that, so even though it was a bit inconvenient … 5 stars across the board.
Then, “We also want to email you a survey”
And I just got the email. 5 stars.
Not good enouogh. Fill in this text box about your experience. “Everything went well” (in Portuguese). “Opinion not strong enough” - they using LLMs to grade these things now?
WHAT FRESH LATE STAGE CAPITALIST DYSTOPIAN HELL IS THIS?
“Everything went very well”.
Leave me alone and stop trying to make me complicit in screwing your employees over. FFS.
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I hate these customer service feedback things. The car dealership where I bought my Leaf was, a year or so ago, taken over by a national chain. They had a recall for a software upgrade last week. They were short staffed and busy. It took longer than it should. Whatever.
Today I got a call, from Lisboa. How would you rate your experience … blah blah.
Now this things are just used to punish employees, and I not enabling that, so even though it was a bit inconvenient … 5 stars across the board.
Then, “We also want to email you a survey”
And I just got the email. 5 stars.
Not good enouogh. Fill in this text box about your experience. “Everything went well” (in Portuguese). “Opinion not strong enough” - they using LLMs to grade these things now?
WHAT FRESH LATE STAGE CAPITALIST DYSTOPIAN HELL IS THIS?
“Everything went very well”.
Leave me alone and stop trying to make me complicit in screwing your employees over. FFS.
@Alaric Snell-Pym Yeah. I see the shadowy hand of “AI”. Like humans can’t invent ANYTHING without some cunt of a middle manager gleefully using it to torment people just trying to pay their bloody bills.
@Brad Rubenstein “:verified:” problem is that the ones they get back are disproportionally karen-tastic and the poor buggers at the coal face get penalised by a low average score.
My strategy has been to ignore such messages unless I can honestly say things were good — and then I give their highest rating. But I can see your point about responding to counter all the karen-tastic ones.
@Nemo @Brad Rubenstein “:verified:” That's not how these things work. "Performance feedbacks" when rated out of 5 mean, "anything less than a 5 is grounds for a disciplinary".
Despite popular belief, turbo cancer actually grows more slowly. Some manufacturers have made turbo cancers that do make it grow faster, though, which adds to the confusion.
Ha! A bit of sciencing reveals that my new dental implant crown, while colour matched perfectly under visible light, is a completely different colour to its neighbouring teeth under UV.
No reason why it wouldn't be, I guess. It's designed to look real to human vision, which it does, apart from the little blob of epoxy filling covering the screw head.
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is to remain in prison for contempt of court after refusing to engage with an offer from a High Court judge to release him for Easter.
I hate how the judiciary are falling over themselves to believe this cis white man can 'behave'. Would they be offering the same kind of anything to a more marginalised person?
@Elena ``of Valhalla'' based on what they announced. However, if you go and look on the source website (you don’t need a threads account to do so), there are no replies showing from outside Threads.
Just saying you guys, hat as long as we keep leaping to "let's make murderbots with the thinking sand!", maybe we should hold off on the whole "teaching sand to think" thing?
Having a dental implant crown finally fitted to replace a tooth that’s been missing for 4 years, especially when it was your biggest molar, is a profoundly weird feeling.
so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:
1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS
(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)
2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.
i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU
if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it
I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.
Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).
I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.
I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.
Things I learned on the internet: apparently the country where a deranged tantrum-prone egomaniac fascist with dementia is leading the polls has a problem with its public education system.
This analogue landline turnoff at the end of this year is going to be a disaster for older folk. Less than nine months to go and the only official advice is "you may need to buy extra new equipment" *mic drop*.
No advice as to the equipment, nor where they've planted the magic money tree.
Yes *I* know what to do, and yes, *I* can afford it.
Sorry for making this a reply to your unrelated toot. It was supposed to be top-level. Not saure what happened: I guess I just forgot what I was doing!
Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".
And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"
it’s when the nurse says “ well, it’s better to just have the pregnancy test, just to be sure” that you know they are not really listening to what you’re saying
@rachel I once said “well someone didn’t read my file”. She had a quick look and said “oh”! She then asked if she could read it for self education. I said yes.
@NatalyaD This. I'd been seeing my retina specialist* for over a year & he'd done 3 surgical procedures before a light dawns one day & he says "you're amblyopic! why didn't you mention this before?" (It was literally in my intake notes before the first [emergency] surgery.) _ *I love the guy, don't get me wrong, I can see out of that eye thanks to him.
@FeralRobots I had over 40 surgeries as a child. My mum's constant bugbear was not reading notes.
I think one sign of NHS issues is the notes-reading has deteriorated further. Even if I ask them too, sometimes just too busy and want to babble at me which as a deaf person is hard to process. Or you can see clinicians are info overloaded and can't retain info (which I don't blame clinicians for in a designed to fail system).
@NatalyaD I'm super super lucky with my GP. She seems to have an eidetic memory or something; she will say things like "I wouldn't normally recommend X but given your history of Y and that you're taking Z, I think it's appropriate".
(this is not calling you a liar; I've had waaaay too much healthcare in my life, and the majority are definitely the sort you describe. And I guess GPs are a different kind of thing in terms of having a long-term relationship with their patients.)
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.
covered this in passing in psych 111 circa 1981. Dunning-Kruger may not hold up mathematically, but this is a great example of a case where it's an empirical reality.
well, here's hoping you have a really good night. I'm hoping for the same after a bottle of retsina (which is about half a bottle more than I meant to drink when I started).
Dear angry driver in the yank tank SUV/Pickup/Boeing 747 crossover: I get that you are ANGRY that an electric hatchback is in front of you, traveling at the speed limit on the link road to the autoestrada; so angry, in fact, that you're going to tailgate it without any regard to the road conditions. However, there are things that I, the driver of said electric hatchback think you should know about electric cars.
First, they are heavy out of proportion to their size, because of the battery, and they carry that weight low. This means that when you tailgate me into the 270º bend on the entrance ramp, which has a speed limit of 40kph, and I decide to have a little fun with you by continuing at my previous 80kph, I will stick to the road as I go round the bend.
The sight of you weaving all over the place as you scrubbed off your speed moments after the realisation that you had made something of an error of judgement was very amusing! Thank you.
Secondly, on exiting the cloverleaf and joining the autoestrada, you should know that electric cars tend to go like an F
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Dear angry driver in the yank tank SUV/Pickup/Boeing 747 crossover: I get that you are ANGRY that an electric hatchback is in front of you, traveling at the speed limit on the link road to the autoestrada; so angry, in fact, that you're going to tailgate it without any regard to the road conditions. However, there are things that I, the driver of said electric hatchback think you should know about electric cars.
First, they are heavy out of proportion to their size, because of the battery, and they carry that weight low. This means that when you tailgate me into the 270º bend on the entrance ramp, which has a speed limit of 40kph, and I decide to have a little fun with you by continuing at my previous 80kph, I will stick to the road as I go round the bend.
The sight of you weaving all over the place as you scrubbed off your speed moments after the realisation that you had made something of an error of judgement was very amusing! Thank you.
Secondly, on exiting the cloverleaf and joining the autoestrada, you should know that electric cars tend to go like an F16 with the afterburner activated, and the Leaf is no exception. While your ridiculous parody of a road vehicle made screaming noises as it struggled to change gear and locate its power band, I was pressing my accelerator about half way as you got smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.
Yes, you passed me at 160kph, eventually. Well done. I'd been at my cruising speed for some time by then.
The Nissan Leaf, model of 2018 I guess, of the local car sharing organization here can do 160kph - but I guess because general speed limit in .pt, one should not do that there, also it's not economic. I do like leaving other cars behind when starting from traffic lights though. Especially those that look like their owners need to compensate something. Sometimes I'm a bit sad I don't often have a need to use a car...
Yep, but they probably shouldn't have... Well, my point was, you *could* probably have done 160kph too, but you didn't, because of no need to compensate something.
Reminds me of somebody I knew in the 1980s with a 2CV being tailgated by a BMW. He went over a speed bump at the full speed limit which the 2CV didn't notice, of course, but the BMW did. No actual damage as far we know (unfortunately) but he did see the BMW driver holding his head.
Presidential elections have begun in #Russia. #Putin will be re-elected for a 5th term.
According to Ukr intelligence, the Russian DefMin has allowed military personnel fighting in #Ukraine to vote for Putin without even showing up at a polling station. This includes those who have already been killed or gone missing.
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the “polling stations.”
Watching discussions of cross border rail ticketing in Europe on my TL while living in Portugal and being like, “you guys have trains that go to other places?”
The other day I asked for transit directions between Lisbon and somewhere near Mont-Saint-Michel and holy shit no wonder people fly everywhere and rent cars locally. Even inside France it kinda sucks, since they built the TGV as a star centred in Paris, so you always need to go through Paris if you’re travelling between two different places. The only viable option to leave Portugal by train was Vigo which turns into buses as soon as it reaches Vigo. Lisbon-Madrid is badly needed…
@TimWardCam Spain and Portugal use the Iberian gauge (not sure what the historical reasons are). However, the AVE (Spanish high speed network) was built using the standard gauge so the trains can continue to France without interruptions. The Portuguese high speed network will be built using the same standard gauge but of course we have been debating it for several decades instead of building it, per fine Portuguese tradition.
@TimWardCam Likely bollocks. Although I haven’t read it fully, the determination of the gauge was made in this 1844 doc, based on technical criteria (allows narrower curves which was handy given the local orography, faster trains and less wearing out). They recommend 6ft, which seems higher than the current Iberian gauge, but that can probably be explained by the feet as unit of measurement being shorter in Spain in 1844 than it is today in the imperial system. agrupament.cat/documents/Infor…
@TimWardCam According to what I’m seeing, a feet at that time in Spain would be approx 278.6mm, which results in 1671.6mm, very close to the original Spanish gauge (which was then slightly reduced to be compatible with the Portuguese one).
I see another cis investigator has decided that there should be no consequences of any kind for any kind of transphobia, even if the trans person dies, again.
I think I’ve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that “Royal Match” gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button you’d normally click for the default “carry on with expected behaviour” is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default “I want to quit and try again” button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
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I think I’ve seen the perfect example of why enshittification is a thing. I downloaded that “Royal Match” gave that keeps getting advertised. No ads, free to play. Whatever. I like a bit of colourful match-3.
But they have to make their money somewhere, so they try to get you to buy stuff for in game tokens.
Now when you fail a level, you are given the option of spending in game tokens to continue with a few extra moves or dropping out.
Most of the time you want to drop out. In game tokens are limited and you want to save them for when it matters.
But the button you’d normally click for the default “carry on with expected behaviour” is actually the one to click to spend the in game tokens (scarce resource), and the default “I want to quit and try again” button is a small red X off to the side.
This is objectively terrible user interface design. They do it on purpose because they WANT you to waste your tokens by accident.
Because then you might spend real money to buy more.
They made their interface bad and confusing on purpose.
Do cis people in the UK actually think there has ever been a point at which transgender medicine was widely and routinely available on the NHS?
Guys, it never has. When they exist at all, the services are chronically underfunded with waiting lists that literally stretch for decades.
To a first approximation, if you want to medically transition in the UK, you are on your own, unless you want to fight a war of attrition for years.
TERFs like to pretend that you can easily access NHS gender identity services as if it were just a thing people do.
It appears some people have believed their fairy tales. However badly you think trans people are treated by the medical establishment in the UK, I promise you that the reality is worse, and always has been.
“Children on puberty blockers”. Fucking state of it. There are no children on puberty blockers. Not because they’re trans, anyway.
Totally endorse your summary of the lies, but there is a difference between underfunded and an exercise in bloody-mindedness on the one hand and wholly unavailable on the other. Many of us have no choice but to grit our teeth and grind through the system. Which is as bad as you say.
@Isabel Ruffell I transitioned with a lot of people who tried and were unable to access it.
Even at the peak of trans acceptance in the UK, being able to access ANYTHING depended on your postcode at least, and probably a few other things. Some PCTs as we’re basically refused to refer anyone for anything at all.
At which point, you either had the money to go round them, or you found ways to get it 😞
yes, my first attempt at transitioning was without any guarantee that the local health authority would pay for anything but hormones (and having to persuade the local shrinks to refer me to a GIC at all). I am now in my ninth year of a second attempt. Now that I am relatively close to finishing, I am in a position to make other arrangements, but that wasn't the case earlier. And it is awful that I feel fortunate to have made it so far, but then I conside whatr other folk face.
I basically had to self fund treatment to a certain extent but was incredibly lucky, combined with have a great GP, and being in Wales where they didn’t have a GIC at the time, that surgery was referred directly so I was one of those rare people who went to Heywards Heath. My partner did not so I used what I had saved, expecting I would have to pay, to pay for her. I know plenty who did the exceptionally slow NHS grind. I was just lucky with my circumstances.
I would love to ask a TERF to summarise their achievements in removing healthcare from trans people, and then summarise how easy it is for trans people to get it now. They know, of course they do. It's all doublethink.
If you think the NHS was ever actually giving trans children puberty blockers, then I’m afraid you have fallen for a TERF fairy tale. The NHS has never actually done decent treatment for trans children. news.sky.com/story/children-to…
The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.
One of my best friends has a trans daughter, who is just on the point of being prescribed blockers after a battle of about five years. We don't at this point know whether she's sufficiently far along that this will 'only' make it harder to find a sympathetic GP, or a final last-minute defeat after so long waiting.
So yes, even within an awful system, this will make things materially worse for some trans people.
@David Matthewman they’ve always given these drugs to adults. They gave them to me in my 30s.
The issue is that they have pretty much never, as far as I know, given them to trans children for the purposes of arresting puberty.
I think the media narrative of referring to GnRH agonists as “puberty blockers” here is probably not helping any attempt at comprehension. It makes people think that’s all they do. They’re gonadotropin inhibitors, and they are useful after puberty for transition to allow HRT to work unopposed by endogenous hormones.
Now trying to stop them being prescribed for that is their next target, and without invading the privacy of the person you mention, you say it’s been a five year battle.
There’s no point prescribing these drugs before the initial onset of puberty because … well, they don’t do anything.
So five years … puberty is mostly done by then, and you’re
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@David Matthewman they’ve always given these drugs to adults. They gave them to me in my 30s.
The issue is that they have pretty much never, as far as I know, given them to trans children for the purposes of arresting puberty.
I think the media narrative of referring to GnRH agonists as “puberty blockers” here is probably not helping any attempt at comprehension. It makes people think that’s all they do. They’re gonadotropin inhibitors, and they are useful after puberty for transition to allow HRT to work unopposed by endogenous hormones.
Now trying to stop them being prescribed for that is their next target, and without invading the privacy of the person you mention, you say it’s been a five year battle.
There’s no point prescribing these drugs before the initial onset of puberty because … well, they don’t do anything.
So five years … puberty is mostly done by then, and you’re looking at a young adult transition type situation.
For reference, the daughter in question turns 13 soon. And it's not that anyone was trying to give puberty blockers to an eight-year-old, but the battle was to get her the possibility of having them when they would help.
@David Matthewman Ok. Credit to her parents for fighting that battle, and maybe the Tavistock might have considered possibly doing it on a trial basis at some point (“maybe” is doing a lot of work there), but they basically don’t do that, and never have. Their standard mode of operation is to just keep talking until people age out of their service and can join an adult GIC waiting list.
The headline is literally just a reaffirmation of the way the NHS has always behaved. It’s giving the impression that it’s ending a practice of medical intervention for trans kids.
But to end something, it has to have started in the first place.
Portugal is in the news after the "success" of Chega, the Portuguese far-right party. A lot of friends are talking about this.
Now I'm not deeply embedded in Portuguese politics the way I was in the UK, but I do have some observations as someone "observing" (I can vote in local elections, but not national ones yet).
Chega is the personal vanity project of Andre Ventura, a former TV pundit who ragequit the centre right Social Democrat Party (ignore the name, there are historical reasons it's called that). His entire thing is that he is an adult man throwing a temper tantrum against "the system".
This may sound very familiar, but Ventura is not, to my mind, any kind of Trump. He's not Farage either. He is riding a wave of discontent about the state of the Portuguese economy, and a population that has real grievances about housing and wages, which he is blaming on the usual suspects (immigrants, but not the rich sort, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, etc).
He is portrayed as "far right", but frankly he's probably slightly to the left of the Tories in the UK rig
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Portugal is in the news after the "success" of Chega, the Portuguese far-right party. A lot of friends are talking about this.
Now I'm not deeply embedded in Portuguese politics the way I was in the UK, but I do have some observations as someone "observing" (I can vote in local elections, but not national ones yet).
Chega is the personal vanity project of Andre Ventura, a former TV pundit who ragequit the centre right Social Democrat Party (ignore the name, there are historical reasons it's called that). His entire thing is that he is an adult man throwing a temper tantrum against "the system".
This may sound very familiar, but Ventura is not, to my mind, any kind of Trump. He's not Farage either. He is riding a wave of discontent about the state of the Portuguese economy, and a population that has real grievances about housing and wages, which he is blaming on the usual suspects (immigrants, but not the rich sort, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, etc).
He is portrayed as "far right", but frankly he's probably slightly to the left of the Tories in the UK right now, or would be if he were a serious politician, which he is not.
Chega just came third on 18%. This is disturbing, but it's in-line with what you would expect for a "protest party" after the fall of the previous government due to a corruption scandal (and the details of said corruption are such that, again, were the Tories doing it, it wouldn't even register as something they were supposed to cover up, but the previous prime minister resigned over it anyway), and I suspect most of the people voting for Chega don't actually want or expect them to be in government. They're angry and they want people to know that they're angry.
Now Brits know first hand how dangerous this can be, after our own little electoral temper tantrum in 2016 resulted in us imposing economic sanctions on ourselves, but as I sad above, I don't think Ventura is any kind of Trump, or Farage, or Johnson. I don't think he has some sort of long term plan. He's a man child throwing a tantrum who likes to see his face on big billboards proclaiming himself some sort of knight fighting "the man".
If he actually got into government (and PSD are saying they won't work with him, but I don't see how they could form a government otherwise and we may be seeing a new election sooner rather than later), I don't think he would know what to do with it. Unlike Trump, I don't think his personal "angry man throwing a tantrum" brand would survive the transition to power. He'd end up like the Liberal Democrats did who, after getting 22% of the vote in 2010 (4% more than Chega just got), entered coalition and promptly destroyed themselves because they could no longer be that idealised opposition party that people protesting against the system felt able to vote for.
Chega and Ventura (and let's be honest, Chega is Ventura) are repulsive stains on civil society, but they are not indicative of a collapse in Portuguese democracy and a slide into fascism, nor is Portugal about to go the Hungary route.
This is not to say that we should be complacent, but I don't think that the sky is falling.
Anyway, that's what I think. I could be wrong, and frequently am when it comes to my read on politics, so this analysis is probably worth what you paid for it 😉
thanks for this pithy description of Brexit: "imposing economic sanctions on ourselves". I have a feeling this will be my go-to description for recent UK political history
When Costa was speaking last night he was basically saying that Chega was a protest vote and it’s worth looking into the reasons for that, but ultimately it’s just a protest.
There was something on the election coverage about the President’s discretionary powers but I didn’t quite follow it.
@Alexandra Lanes I mean he’s right. The Lib Dems were in 2010 too, but unlike Chega the Lib Dems actually had real policies and real politicians. Still got shafted.
World press: Far right surges on Portugal elections!
I mean, yes, as someone who lives in Portugal, it's scary as hell, but in the ongoing love affair that the western press has with fascists, let's not lose sight of the fact that this "surge" is actually them coming third, and not a particularly close third either.
What's worrying is that there's no stable coalition without either them, or the centre right and centre left joining forces.
Every election so far people have been saying it’s their high water mark and then they triple or quadruple their voting. I’m not optimistic. 1.1M people voting for these fuckers… I’m still in disbelief. And some of the regions I love the most and the worst. The world is really turning to shit.
@Miguel Arroz They’re a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about “gypsies” and nebulous “corruption” (presumably he’s angry that any potential backhanders aren’t coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), it’s … difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party
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@Miguel Arroz They’re a receptacle for angry people to project anything they want onto. They can do well as a perpetual party of opposition, but they are, ultimately, bullshit merchants with nothing to offer beyond that piece of shit, Ventura, ranting about “gypsies” and nebulous “corruption” (presumably he’s angry that any potential backhanders aren’t coming to him).
Thing is, while parties of protest can do well when people are disillusioned with mainstream politics, if they do well enough to get any kind of power (say as a junior coalition partner), it’s … difficult to maintain that vote when people can no longer believe that you can be whatever they want you to be.
I was a member of the Liberal Democrats in the UK. In 2010, we picked up 22% of the vote as a party of protest, although unlike Chega we were coming at it from the centre left.
And it got us into coalition.
And ever since, the party has been stuck on about 7%.
If PSD and PS form a grand coalition, then Chega can keep their status as “the plutonic opposition party” and will probably go higher.
It will be uncomfortable as fuck if they end up in some sort of power sharing arrangement with PSD though. As you so rightly note, they are fuckers.
But I think it will basically end them. Trump and Johnson managed to pull off the “plucky outsider” con while still being in power, but I don’t think Ventura has that in him. I don’t think he can survive his fans seeing him become everything he claimed to hate.
Or at least I hope so. The alternative is scary as fuck, and I already had to flee one country where these arseholes got unchallenged levels of power (although even in their case, it’s about to destroy them. Still, the damage is done)
I’m not sure if PS and PSD will form any sort of coalition. The history on that isn’t great. I’m not sure how long the next government will last but my guess is, not much. I’m still hoping the emigration ridings will repeat the result of last election, causing a tie in MPs and (hopefully) more votes for PS, forcing the president to invite the left-wing “majority” to power.
honestly, I’d rather have news media freaking out and overreacting about fascists than their usual normalization and hagiography of extreme right politicians
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