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I am Hershel (or Hrshl), 21+, French. I use xey/xem in english and I do not accept anything other than neutral.
This is my main blog from which I like and answer stuff (I have an old version of the app).
I have MANY blogs out there, so yeah, sorry about that one but I'm not listing them all.
I have a Tangara and you can ask me stuff about it if you want a "not too tech" point of view on it.
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(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,
inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.
can we focus on the gnome for a second
wait sorry i was not wearing my glasses. that is a cat
these are the people i have to share a highway with
Ooooh so my fucking sms/internet provider has given an AI access to all of their client's phone number so the shit can call us??? To promote shit???? Seriously?????
so my earliest likes are just... MCU stuff...
all cops are bastards because all cops are just doing their jobs
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen. Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
He uh, skipped awful quickly to “stealing gold fillings” didn’t he?
Original Article the image & caption are taken from.
It’s real.
Remember that “just following orders” was a claim made by the nazis who survived World War Two who were charged with warcrimes.
They also stole the gold from people’s teeth.
After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented
agricultural workers in punjab who have to labor in 45°C (113°F) plus heat are losing their teeth as their bodies prioritise cooling through respiration and minimise saliva production.
(h/t @stylo-90)
"Like most outdoor laborers during peak season, Rashid drinks 15 to 20 liters of water daily to survive the relentless heat. By mid-morning, sweat soaks through his clothes as his body’s cooling mechanism works overtime. He chews on sugarcane during breaks, which provides quick calories — an ancient practice that sustained ancestors but now compounds health problems. Nothing about his general health seemed unusual at first. But when I asked about saliva — that often-overlooked component of oral health that most people never think about — there was a long pause.
“My mouth is always dry,” he said quietly in Urdu. “Even when I drink water until I feel sick. My mouth stays dry.”
(...)
Saliva is not just moisture. It’s a physiological fortress, a sophisticated system that most people take entirely for granted until it fails them. For anyone, but especially for people doing physically demanding work in extreme conditions, saliva performs three critical functions that are absolutely essential to tooth survival: It buffers acids from food and stomach reflux that would otherwise erode enamel; it holds calcium and phosphate minerals, which actively remineralize tooth enamel when microscopic damage occurs; and it contains enzymes and antibodies that fight bacteria, helping prevent infection and decay.
Without adequate saliva flow — and I mean genuinely adequate, not just the minimal amount needed to swallow — teeth begin to demineralize within weeks, a process that becomes increasingly difficult to reverse.
(...)
Increasingly erratic monsoons — along with land degradation and other issues — have also been impacting crop yields in Pakistan’s agricultural belt. (In 2025, the country’s output of major crops dropped by 13.5 percent.) Malnutrition among agricultural families has worsened significantly. According to data from Pakistan’s National Nutrition Survey, roughly 28.9 percent of children under five were underweight in 2018, and about 40.2 percent of children in the same age group were stunted. Agricultural wages for outdoor workers have stagnated while food prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Almost half of all rural agricultural families are now undernourished, struggling with food insecurity, and unable to provide adequate nutrition to their children.
One farmer described the economic reality with painful clarity: “Twenty years ago, we ate what we grew: wheat, vegetables, milk from our animals. Even in difficult years, we had this. Now I can’t afford that anymore. And I chew betel nut because it keeps me alert through the heat, keeps me working longer. My teeth pay the price for all of it. But what choice do I have?”
(...)
My research that when workers in their late twenties and early thirties lose functional teeth, they don’t just lose the ability to chew solid food, though that’s devastating enough. They are fundamentally unable to do their jobs effectively. Agricultural and other manual labor is physically demanding, and, since tooth loss makes it hard for them to eat properly during long work days, their energy levels drop. Physical endurance diminishes. Productivity decreases significantly. Wages drop accordingly.
Additionally, there’s a stigma associated with having bad or no teeth. One of my patients, a 26-year-old construction worker in Faisalabad, who has lost four front teeth and has six others that are showing severe decay, described it this way: “Contractors see you and assume you’re weak, unreliable, physically breaking down. I lost three job opportunities after they saw my teeth. They literally told me they couldn’t hire someone who looked that ill.” He’s now unemployed, living with his parents at an age when he should be establishing his independence. “My friends joke that I look like I’m 60,” he said, with the weariness of someone who’s heard that comment one too many times.
Nasreen, another patient from Lahore, who used to work in construction but shifted to domestic work as her tooth loss progressed, says her condition, which has affected her speech (the loss of front teeth disrupts the ability to pronounce labiodental sounds like “f” and “v”), is costing her domestic work opportunities as well. Households hiring for in-home roles have turned her away, telling her she appeared “unclean.” Nasreen told me she stopped going to the market — the central gathering place for her community. “People stare,” she said. “In my community, a woman without teeth is considered unmarriageable. It’s not stated explicitly, but everyone knows it. My younger sister’s marriage prospects are affected too, because people talk. They wonder if there’s something genetically wrong with our family.” Nasreen used to earn 800 Pakistani rupees (about $2.85) a day as a construction worker; now she makes 400 rupees (roughly $1.45) a day, a 50-percent reduction that her family can barely absorb.
(...)
When a 28-year-old loses the ability to eat, speak clearly, smile, and work because of a climate crisis created primarily by high-emission countries on the other side of the world, that’s not just a dental issue, it’s a manifestation of environmental racism and climate apartheid. And it demands urgent recognition and immediate response.
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What gives me genuine hope amid this, however, are the community responses emerging organically without government support.
In 2023, in the Punjab village of Chak Beli Khan, for instance, a local health worker named Shabana Khan started organizing work shifts that avoided peak heat hours — a simple intervention based on understanding that the worst heat occurs between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Shifting work hours from the traditional 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. schedule to 4 p.m. to midnight helped farmworkers reduce their peak heat exposure significantly. Crucially, it also improved their hydration capacity; workers can actually retain fluids better when working in cooler hours, when their bodies aren’t in constant crisis mode trying to cool down.
I’ve documented the results of this intervention over a period of two years: Two workers reported improved oral health six months in. More significantly, their saliva pH readings improved from an average of 5.1 — dangerously acidic — to 6.2, moving into healthier territory. Word spread through the region. By the following harvest season, eight surrounding villages had adopted similar work schedules. It’s not a perfect solution — the work remains physically demanding, and wages haven’t increased — but it’s a real improvement from their previous work situation, and it emerged from on-the-ground wisdom.
Similarly, in Faisalabad, a local microfinance and community health organization operating with limited resources began providing subsidized water stations and electrolyte solutions to agricultural laborers during harvest season to help their bodies retain fluids and maintain proper chemistry. It has made a measurable difference.
One patient told me, “My mouth felt different within weeks — less dry, less burning sensation, like my mouth was actually producing moisture again.” His saliva test showed improved chemistry across multiple markers. After I documented results in 15 workers there and helped the organization understand the clinical significance of what they were observing, the organization began lobbying provincial agricultural authorities to fund the work as an official worker-safety program. The group is now building the case for funding by compiling clinical evidence and lived testimony.
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But even these emerging solutions are, in truth, band-aids applied to a systemic wound that requires major intervention, both nationally and at the global level. What’s genuinely needed is policy change on multiple fronts: government-supported mobile dental clinics in agricultural zones with expertise specific to climate-related oral disease; binding workplace regulations for shade structures and mandatory hydration protocols during extreme heat; food-security programs that support truly nutritious food access in rural communities and don’t depend on cheap, processed foods; targeted health insurance, specifically for agricultural and other outdoor workers, covering both preventive and restorative dental care; and finally, climate-adaptation planning that centers human biology and human dignity, not just infrastructure and economic metrics.
Rashid came back to my clinic recently, his face showing the toll of another harvest season. We discussed implants as a long-term solution, knowing full well that he cannot afford them — the cost is prohibitive for an agricultural laborer earning 400 to 500 rupees a day. Before he left my clinic that day, I asked him what he’d want people to know about what’s happening to him and others like him.
“Tell them that climate change isn’t abstract,” he said. “It’s here, right now, in my mouth, in my family’s survival, in my ability to work and eat and live with dignity… It’s not just teeth; it’s my entire future. And I’m not alone. Every farmer I know is experiencing this. We’re all getting older before our time. We’re all becoming invisible.”
You literally can't even talk about how bad it is to be disabled in this country without people who mean well but have no idea wtf they're talking about showing up and trying to give out advice to do things you've already tried that don't work because the system is broken by design
I don't even know what to do because it's fucking impossible to ask for help in a situation like this, where seemingly everyone with a pulse is SO ignorant of the situation you're in that they can't even see the problem
I have been too sick to hold a job down for 9 years. My condition has deteriorated from the stress of the overall situation / being forced to live with other people and I can't even manage WFH freelance work any more right now.
I am not eligible for SNAP or medicaid because as I've just stated I have been too sick to meet the work requirements for nearly an entire decade.
As such, I will not become eligible for SNAP nor Medicaid until I already have a formal diagnosis (which you are not entitled to the specifics of because I do not know you) on the record, which is impossible to get without already being on medicaid in the first place because it requires seeing countless specialists who each want $400 per visit and just hoping that they're not weird conservatives who don't believe any of their patients (extremely prevalent where I live) so the process isn't dragged out even further
I have to pay for all of my food and medical expenses out of pocket for the forseeable future. My medications alone are over $500 a month.
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The reason I originally wrote this post is because seemingly everyone in my life at the same time decided to ask me why I don't "just" go to a food bank that's over an hour away + never has food I can safely eat, then got mad when I explained that I can't afford the time nor energy to go there 5 times a week just in case there might be food I can safely eat there sometimes, because by that point it would cost about as much as just walking across the street and buying groceries at the store that's literally next to my house.
And the food bank can't pay my hospital bills...
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Looove how android tells you that you have control over your phone and then you deactivate stuff and they still activate in the background...
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They're doing some kind of work or whatever, but since I'm in my sis' room it means that I'm really high up compared to other houses and so I can hear so much more stuff and so much more bass.... So yeah I'm effectively dying. There's no rest for me wherever I go...
Cat got really quiet and I thought she went downstairs and decided to stsy there, as weird as it would be. But turns out this idiot, in her frenzy, managed to climb up the upright mattress in thr attic and didn't know how the fuck to come down from it...
She also had webs everywhere lmaooo
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Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.
My daughter is very ill. She laughs despite the pain, unaware that her small body desperately needs blood transfusions to compensate for the severe deficiency that has weakened her. She has become frail and weak, suffering from constant fatigue and unable to live a normal life like any other child. Despite everything she is going through, she still smiles innocently and clings to hope. I appeal to anyone who can help to stand by us in this ordeal, as every bit of support could give her a chance at treatment and a chance to regain her health and her life.
Our lives are a meaningless name, our lives have no flavor. Every day we go to fill water containers, to treat the sick, to set up tents, to be displaced, to be homeless, to be killed, to starve.
Please donate anything. Any donation will save lives. Any donation will be a solution to all our problems in this life. Five euros will make a difference.
so a few weeks ago i reported a very obvious terf. a new account otherwise entirely empty at the time, the most terfy terf to ever terf, having terf in the username, and being openly transphobic, transmisogynistic, and saying slurs: (there's more to the post but you get the gist)
and this was the response from tumblr support:
someone At Tumblr @support looked at this, presumably read it in full, and decided that it's fine but maybe they should put a content label ??? content warning for bigotry ???
There Is Someone (Or Multiple People) In Tumblr Support Right Now Who Openly Endorses Transphobia And Transmisogyny But Will Terminate Transfems' Blogs For Literally No Reason Given. At This Point It Might Even Be Unofficial Site Policy To Allow Twerfs But Nuke Transfems' Blogs
they said the same thing to me when I reported a terf community with terf in the name consisting of nothing but posts mocking and dehumanizing trans women and they said the same thing to me when I reported multiple people making explicit death threats towards my friend
any report against a transfem or harassment target gets clear priority, facing much harsher and swifter punishment for much less, if they've even done anything at all, while the people stalking and harassing take weeks to face little to no punishment and get to appeal it all away regardless
for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
I fucking hate it.
Please help me go into remission from Type II diabetes
Hello everyone, I am so sorry to remake this post, but I am very scared. I am experiencing embarassing and vulnerable symptoms- my type II diabetes is becoming progressive, and I am desperate to go into remission. It has affected my liver and my heart, and neuropathy has made me partially incontinent. On April I was hospitalized twice. I have no thyroid, and without medication, it will put me into a myxedema coma and will kill me within days. Hypothyroidism and type II diabetes is making it very difficult for me to find work, as I am from the global south (the Philippines), with government aid only covering 20,000 pesos (around 326 usd) a year. I am the only person in my family who can work; my mother is paralyzed from a brain injury, and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. I need help covering for my new medication, as I now take metformin twice a day, and phosphates to help with my liver and kidneys, and b complex to help bolster my immune system. Im sorry I keep remaking this post, I am alone and desperate. Community is all I have. Thank you so much for your endless grace and compassion.
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Hey everyone, I am sorry for incessantly reblogging this. For pride I am asking for mutual aid. I got laid off at work. As contract says, I will not be getting paid outside of a kiIl fee, which I have no word on when I will receive. I am really struggling with the rising cost of everything, as I am the only caretaker of a family of four and our four cats. My mother is also severely disabled with liver failure. Im at my wits end just trying to keep afloat. Thank you so much
Loosing my shit how, depending on the wind, I can still hear the fucking ventilation thingy that makes a fuckass noise... WITH MY WINDOWS CLOSED
Yeah it's definitely depending on the wind and when it hits my window that's when the sound is louder because the source is ported through...
So yeah lmaooo even in my sis' room I can hear it because of the wind... A bit less than in my room so the earplugs will work better, but still...
Thing is, on the other side of the attic everything's fine. However, it's the part that isn't done because of this deadbeat father...
