Helsinki. Seems like a fairly decent place.

His Dark Materials

Singularity Sky (and its sequel, Iron Sunrise)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (a fanfiction novel that is far better than the original series)

What If (and What If 2, by Randall Munroe)

The Planiverse

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Society After an Apocalypse

Sophie’s World

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy

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Story ideas

There are several ways journalists can use this study as a jumping-off point to their own stories about scanxiety, such as:

Talk to providers in California and Kentucky to see how having the extra time impacts their test result review and consults with patients.
Talk to hospitals in your area to see how often patients are accessing test results, and what patient populations are most likely to do so.
See how hospitals are preparing patients for the receipt of potentially upsetting news. Have they developed any educational models? Put information online? Do they include any special instructions when patients complete their testing?
From a tech angle, speak with electronic health record vendors. Are they incorporating any features that could incorporate patient preferences to when/how they view test results?
Investigate the health equity angle: In this study, people who accessed test results were mostly white and English-speaking. Are results available in other languages if necessary? Are there any health literacy/technology issues being addressed in particular health systems?

Resources

Repeated Access to Patient Portal While Awaiting Test Results and Patient-Initiated Messaging — study from JAMA Network Open.
As more patients get automated test results, researchers seek ways to calm their nerves — story from STAT.
Patients can now access all health information in electronic record sets — AHCJ blog post from October 2022.
Waiting on Test Results: How to Manage Scanxiety — blog post from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 
States move to give patients more control over test results — American Medical Association.

This was written by an LLM

Nah, CH should be tsh, we need a new letter for SH, and maybe C could be the kh sound like in loch

Red dead redemption

I just pronounce colonise kernelise for consistency

Why is is always about the trans women?

There are certain topics I have to self censor about on Lemmy for fear of moderator action.

This is just used to shut people down who have legitimate complaints. Like, replace ‘sealions’ with ‘black people’ in the comic, and I would be surprised to find many people who still think it’s ok.

Internet Archive

Intelligence Artiticialle

I know a Sigourney in real life. But I think she might have been named after the actress.

Sometimes the word alternate should be replaced with the word bullshit

Pardon me, but I did not understand this sentence at all. Can you please elaborate (or eli5) it?

Sorry about that! I was basically trying to say that if a trans person tells you their gender, and you then treat them like you would treat a cis person of that gender* (ie, any gendered behaviours that are still in society, you would apply to them - as much as we both want to abolish gender norms), then you’re doing great!

*things that are still gendered in our society include pronoun usage, calling someone gendered terms like brother, niece, etc, bathroom usage, single gender activities, and so in

I hope that’s any more clear, if it’s not I apologise!

To preface all this, this is my nonbinary bisexual person’s opinion, not speaking for all LGBT+ people by any means

My first question is, why do we have so many terms? I know the answer is somewhat obvious, that everyone has there own preferences, and it may not align with someone else, so to identify themselves, they would get a different label. (kinda like names, if everyone had same names, it would cause confusion) But I also want to ask, Is using a label not somewhat alienating?

Some people like labels, some like to just be themselves. As a cultural difference I’ve noticed Americans like to divide people by different characteristic more, as a general rule, than people from other places.

I am an old school guy, I use they/them/their for people older than me (as a form of honorification), with small children (it is somewhat amusing, and also children like it when they get respeect) and whenever I do not know what gender a person is, or how does that gender prefered to be addressed).

Then great, you’re already doing well!

But this gave me the thought, that why do we not use the same pronouns for everyone (for example they/them), or maybe 2 pairs, one for formal, one informal, or 1 more pair, for singular and plural. Why do pronouns have to depend on gender?

I’m absolutely with you, my person, if it was up to me grammatical gender would be totally abolished.

The second part is sexual prefernces. I do not know much about sex or sexual preferences. I am a young adult, and have not had to know about this for any person that I have met yet. I have never had the interest to know about this for someone, neither have I retained this information. I understand that if you are looking out for partner/s, then you would have to share this, so we would have to use some words for it. But why do we have to keep this as a part of gender. As in, why would I want to share this information with my governments (who do census), or for my visa applications. Should this not just be something personal?

Yes, it shouldn’t be something the government cares about, neither should gender. Ideally they shouldn’t ask at all, but usually there is a ‘prefer not to say’ option.

If a person tells me their gender, how should I react/respond to it? Is my current line of actions appropriate (just address them with their preferd pronouns, and if I do not know that, use they/them; completely ignore the sexual part of it)

If respecting a non-trans person’s gender would be doing the same things, to you, then sure

Another thing that I want to ask is, why do some groups use different acronyms? I remeber hearing about this the first time, and the word used was LGBT. Then I heard LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA+, and today I heard LGBTQ2. I presume that since more people are getting aware, and they are trying to express themselves, they need some newer words, and hence the acronym would keep on evolving, if so, is it not a endless exercise? Am I being insensitive If I use one over other (for quite some time, I have been sticking with lgbtqia+, in hope that + means extensions, as in, others, so hopefully it is less excluding than others, but if that is not the case, please correct me.)

Even LGBT+ feels a bit unwieldy to me, and yes, the + already includes all the others so the extra letters are for sure unnecessary. I’ve heard GSM (gender and sexual minorities) as a shorter acronym that doesn’t single out any specific identities, that might be better. For sure, I don’t like using acronyms with ‘queer’ in them as some people get offended by that word and an inclusive acronym shouldn’t offend people or make them feel ‘othered’ or ‘unusual’ for their natural human variation.

Privacy is a part of security. There’s more to security than just privacy.

To give an example, telling a friend where you’ll be if you go on a date is sacrificing some privacy for security.

Please share the research, I’m genuinely interested.

What offspring? If they’re made sterile

No one knows about it and no one will continue to know about it, otherwise, I would share it.