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allthecanadianpolitics

Just a decade ago, syphilis infections among infants were nearly eradicated in Canada.

Yet there were warning signs the bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) — known for causing painless sores, organ damage, and stillborn infants — was making a comeback. First, rates started rising among adults in the early 2000s, followed by an alarming spike in congenital infections passed from mothers to their babies. 

The latest federal data shows there were nearly 14,000 cases of infectious syphilis across the country in 2022, as well as 117 instances of early congenital syphilis. That's a nearly 15-fold increase from just eight nation-wide cases of syphilis reported in infants five years earlier.

"When I started in clinical practice, just over 20 years ago, we'd see syphilis like every couple months," said Patrick O'Byrne, a nurse practitioner with Ottawa Public Health's sexual health clinic. "And I would say it's now daily."

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Tagging @politicsofcanada

dreg-heap

I was talking to the nurse at my STI testing because I saw some posters about this topic recently and they said theyve been seeing it a lot. It sounds like this is a problem that's gonna blow up really soon, cases have tripled in the past few years

thebisexualmandalorian
whydidisavethistomyphone

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katy-l-wood

If you aren't paying attention to the RESTRICT act because it is being Trojan Horsed as the "Tik Tok Ban" I urge you to go look it up right now. The bill itself has NOTHING to do with TikTok. It is a horrible bill that massively impacts freedom of speech, access to information, and the open internet. Even major Republicans are calling it out as too broad and ill conceived.

ktempestbradford

Please do read why this bill is a huge problem.

Please do contact your Congresscritters and let them know they should vote NO on this bill and kill it completely.

If calling is Not For You (I hear ya), use ResistBot to contact them. It's easy to get started.

You can send the letter I wrote instead of writing your own. Here it is in social media sharable form.

Please also encourage others to contact their electeds.

Congress needs to hear from us on this. We can't let another Patriot Act sail through.

nekobakaz
reasonsforhope

"This modern British home with its thick mud walls was built as part of an EU project to pioneer the construction of more energy efficient homes.

Architect Anthony Hudson used a centuries-old construction method to build the bungalow, yet it still complies with modern building regulations.

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Its walls, erected in Fakenham, Norfolk, are constructed from three simple ingredients: hemp straw, earth, and water. When mixed together, it is known as ‘cob’, so the project was named the CobBauge.

Walls built with cob ares thermally insulated to modern standards.

The 3-bedroom project by Hudson Architects was built by local builders Grocott and Murfit in January, and the team has characterized it as being quite inexpensive (although the total cost was not revealed).

Mud is one of the most sustainable construction materials with some old cob buildings in Britain lasting more than 500 years.

The new house features large, south-facing triple-glazed windows for solar warmth in the winter and an air source heat pump to provide additional heating.

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After the EU announced it was looking for architects to come up with new ways of using earth in houses, Mr. Hudson leapt at the opportunity.

“The challenge was to create a home using earth as the primary building material, but which could also be thermally insulated,” said the 68-year-old.

“Earth is a very sustainable way to build, especially because it’s so widely available here in the UK.

Although there is still a way to go before mud houses can be put on the mainstream market, Hudson believes that the homes will become the new normal.

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“Although the materials are cheap and easy to source, the building method is very time-consuming. At the moment it all has to be done by hand, so labor costs run high.”

Their next step is to figure out how to fabricate building techniques to cut that labor intensity down.

“Once we’ve worked that out, my guess is this will be a very attractive method.”

In March, the mud house will be open to the public for viewing, with its “green roof” to support biodiversity and replace the loss of green space on the site."

-via Good News Network, February 24, 2024

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Note: Thinking especially about this, and Acoma Pueblo, and that one tiktok (which I can't find for the life of me) of that woman who was aiming the camera up at her face and the thatched roof of her house and saying, "Yes, it's true I live in a mud house, why wouldn't I live in a mud house, this house keeps itself cool so well that it can cure insomnia."

atalana

this video op?

reasonsforhope

That is exactly the video, thank you so much @atalana!!

nekobakaz
allthecanadianpolitics

A Canadian class-action lawsuit accusing a popular fertility tracking app of sending users' intimate health information — including details about their periods, sex lives and pregnancies — to companies like Facebook without their knowledge has been allowed to go ahead.

The claim, certified in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday, said Flo Health collected their highly sensitive personal information, promised to keep that information private and then knowingly shared the data with third parties. 

"There's been a significant disclosure of the private information of Canadian women, and we're excited to be proceeding to the next step with the case," said Richard Parsons, who is co-counsel on the case.

The ruling is a pivotal step forward for the case. It will test lagging Canadian privacy laws in a time when millions of people regularly pour their personal information into their phones. If the claim succeeds, more than one million people who used Flo in Canada over a three-year period will be eligible to claim damages. [...]

In 2019, The Wall Street Journal published an article saying Flo gave users' sensitive personal information to Facebook and other companies without their knowledge. Testing commissioned by the newspaper showed Flo told Facebook when an app user was on their period or trying to get pregnant. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid

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darkmagiciangirl

This is definitely not a google drive full of the sleep stuff from the Headspace app, including sleepcasts, music, and wind down meditation, that normally costs 17.99 a month, no siree and you definitely shouldnt share this with people

thatbastardlass

and here’s a link that does not lead to a google drive full of tv shows movies + books and also does not contain a shortcut to the above

ohlooksheswriting

this is absolutely not a link to another google drive with shows + movies + audio books either nope no sir

ehlers-world-problems

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imratking

@timetravellingcactus cause for some reason I’m not able to send this to you

do-you-have-a-flag

the goog drive directory titled “the library” is transferring to a different platform soon so hustle on that one!

nero-neptune

this absolutely isnt a google drive of the imdb top 250 movies

and this couldn’t possibly lead you to even more books!

these arent musical bootlegs… what do you mean?

olivay-official

And they absolutely arent up to date as of 2020 :) nope no sir

alliedisastermaster

100% not ad0be after effects cc2019, photosh0p cc2018 AND cc2019, premiere pro cc2019, animate cc2020!

NOT a sp0tify premium apk AND NOT among us for pc!!!

ABSOLUTELY NOT A LIBRARY OF iTALIAN AND eNGLISH TTRPG MANUAL PDFs INCLUDING D&D, PATHFINDER AND OTHER SYSTEMS

and this ISN’T a folder with artbook pdfs, art softwares and brushes, etc. (lots of Italian stuff)

lethalhedgehogs

👀

dietspam16

DONT share this

misstextures

It would be such a shame if someone reblogged this. Whoops my fingers slipped

kieraoona

sorry to say that none of the links work anymore. All 4 came up with 404 errors

kedreeva
depsidase

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thatspectacularpigeon

This is actually something I was thinking about is that rent can not exceed 1/3 of monthly minimum wage income.

So let's say state is on federal Minimum wage which is about 1100 a month so in that state no matter what rent on any place could not exceed 370 dollars.

Even if minimum wage was 15 dollars (about 2400 a month) max rent could be 800

So if landlord want more money they would have to fight bosses and state legislature to get it.

Like average Pennsylvania rent is 1400 and in this world if landlord wanted to charge that the would have to get minimum wage raised to 26 dollars an hour.

patternsinnoise

To bosses and landlords:

felasintumbld
animatejournal

Duck Amuck | Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1953

darkwee009

NOT ME YOU SLOP ARTIST

This is a close up? A CLOSE UP YA JERK! A CLOSEUP!

Alright, let’s get this picture started! (The End) NO NOOOOO!

bunjywunjy

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drgaellon

One of the defining moments of animation history.

“Ain’t I a stinker?”

amandahuffleduck

In Babylon 5, didn’t one of the non-humans think Daffy was the god of frustration?

seasonallydefective

Holy shit, this is nearly 70 years old. This would have been right on the heels of color television being commercially available to the public.

bigshepherdrascalmug

@amayatepes look at this

amayatepes

LMAO

mister-christmas

Huh. That’s just a whole ass Daffy Duck cartoon.

lew-basnight

Everything about this cartoon is top-notch. The timing, the animation (watch Daffy’s different walks) the art; this is a treasure

paimon001
muppethole-deactivated20240312

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clockwork-hobbit

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

neon-classical

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

dr-dendritic-trees

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

thunderboltsortofapenny

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arcticmoe

The last post is everything.

kipplekipple

Also wanna say that John Boyega specifically does a lot of proper grassroots good work and actively puts himself in a position where he knows the racists will keep on coming for him, to actively and materially help marginalised communities.

The fact a black man is never able to say a single word without being criticised is not being missed btw.

paimon001

Of note: A billion isn't one order of magnitude more than a million. It's three. A trillion is *six*.

nekobakaz
vaspider

Measure 110, or the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

So if y'all aren't local to Oregon, you may not have heard that the Oregon state legislature just voted to -- essentially -- gut Measure 110, the ballot measure which decriminalized all drug possession and use in the state. It turned all drug use into a citation instead, and the citation and fine could be waived by completing a health screening. The entire point of Measure 110 was replacing jail with health care and services to help people instead, and while I could probably write a very long side post on the imperfections of that approach, it was at the very least a move in the right direction after decades of the pathetic failure and absolutely racist mess that is the "War on Drugs."

You may hear this pointed to in coming years as a reason why we have to just throw people into jail for using drugs, because Measure 110 failed. And like... it did fail, kinda. Sorta. It failed in that it did not manage to fix everything immediately, and it created some new issues while also exposing older issues more sharply.

It also saved the state $40 million in court costs prosecuting low-level drug offenses, kept thousands of people whose literal only crime was putting a substance into the body of a consenting adult (themselves) out of jail, put at least one addiction services center in every county in the state, invested $300 million in addiction services, and an awful lot more. See the end of this post for more reading.

But where it failed, it failed because it wasn't supported. Police and advocacy groups both asked for specific tickets for this new class of offenses which had the phone number to call to go through the health screening and the information about how going through that health screening would make the ticket go away printed on it prominently - lawmakers declined to fund this. Governor Kotek budgeted $50K to train officers on how to handle these new citations and how to direct people to the treatment and housing supports, but lawmakers thought that training officers on this new law at all was a waste of money. Money moved extremely slowly out to the supports that were supposed to come into play to help people obtain treatment or get access to harm-reduction strategies. People freaked the fuck out about clean-needle outreach, fentanyl testing strip distribution, Narcan training, and other harm-reduction strategies.

And at the end of the day, Measure 110 gets called a failure because it wasn't a silver bullet. Never mind that thousands of people are not sitting in jail right now for basically no fucking reason. Never mind that people have gotten treatment, harm has been reduced, overdoses have been prevented...

So, yeah. You'll probably start hearing this trotted out as proof that, well, we triiiied decriminalizing drugs, but look what happened in Portland! Well, what happened in Oregon is that we got set up to fail, and still didn't fail, just didn't totally succeed.

Measure 110 highlights, quoted directly from Prison Policy Initiative:

  • The Oregon Health Authority reported a 298% increase in people seeking screening for substance use disorders.
  • More than 370,000 naloxone doses have been distributed since 2022, and community organizations report more than 7,500 opioid overdose reversals since 2020.
  • Although overdose rates have increased around the country as more fentanyl has entered the drug supply, Oregon’s increase in overdoses has been similar to other states’ and actually less than neighboring Washington’s. A peer-reviewed study comparing overdose rates in Oregon with the rest of the country after the law went into effect found no link between Measure 110 and increased overdose rates.
  • There is no evidence that drug use rates in Oregon have increased. A cross-sectional survey of people who use drugs across eight counties in Oregon found that most had been using drugs for years; only 1.5% reported having started after Measure 110 went into effect.
  • There has been no increase in 911 calls in Oregon cities after Measure 110.
  • Measure 110 saves Oregonians millions. Oregon is expected to save $37 million between 2023-2025 if Measure 110 continues. This is because it costs up to $35,217 to arrest, adjudicate, incarcerate, and supervise a person taken into custody for a drug misdemeanor — and upwards of $60,000 for a felony. In contrast, treatment costs an average of $9,000 per person. The money saved by Measure 110 goes directly to state funding for addiction and recovery services.
  • There is no evidence that Measure 110 was associated with a rise in crime. In fact, crime in Oregon was 14% lower in 2023 than it was in 2020.

Further reading/sources:

pulpchamber

Adding ProPublica's coverage on here because their write up gets into some detail about how state leaders outright failed to follow up on this

I also seriously recommend following the link in the article to the Portland State criminology department's qualitative survey of Oregon law enforcement, which essentially shows that cops were saying they (1) weren't actually giving out many citations [something backed by a substantial reduction in M110 citations compared to the previous year's drug arrests] (2) didn't believe in the premise of the law and (3) were quite upset because they lost an easy probable cause to search people and make collateral arrests, & lost confidential informants without drug prosecutions to hold over people's heads.

I was saying this years ago: one of the biggest problems with 110 was that most of the street outreach got handed directly to cops. There was just NOT enough public outreach, be it advertising for the hotline or new non-police street workers, to expect this to work. I've been engaged with my local houseless community for a good few years now, and at least from folks I knew, the news either didn't reach them or didn't inspire confidence.

vaspider

That is same article as the first of the articles I linked to, simply published on ProPublica as opposed to OPB. :) It was a joint project.

a screenshot showing the byline, the picture, and the notice that this is published on both sitesALT
yep, same thing, just on the PP site.ALT