Submitted mine to city hall the day after I got it, and checked today that they have it showing as voted.

I had a CKD cat, if you start struggling with his food, weruva intentionally keeps phosphorus low in their foods, which make them very friendly to ckd cats.

Mine was given 6 mths left after his diagnosis and tests were done, and that’s with rx food and stuff. It was expensive and he wouldn’t eat it, so I did a deep dive into literature about ckd and it turns out unlike dogs and humans for whom limited protein is good, cats need protein or they will die much sooner, so the rx diets being low protein are actually not great. You really just need limited phosphorus.

The levels on the core lines and slide and serve lines are good, you can probably find full breakdowns on their website, and certainly by contacting them, though, if those specific ones don’t do so well.

I had him eating those and I got another 6 years out of him instead of 6 months. My vet asked my secret, cuz we got him back up from his skinny boy weight to a slightly chubby 8 lbs! (Very small cat, 6lbs when I got him)

I can’t guarantee it’ll help, but it might be worth trying.

Documentation management for me, especially end-user-facing KB type stuff. Mmmmm boy do I like making information accessible.

Sadly never really a stable standalone job, mostly just something I take on for fun wherever I work.

Exactly why I started, wouldn’t go back for anything!

Only one eye is bad.

I could get away with a monocle, only my left eye has a prescription. But I tried wearing the one my grandmother used, and I genuinely don’t know how you’d get it to stay in place. So uncomfortable.

Have to assume it was used more like a magnifying glass on a cord, but I’ve only ever seen people with them on like the ad above.

Same here, set cruise and don’t touch speed again. I also don’t take highways anymore and wow has that helped! The reduced traffic and speeds on non-highway roads makes people substantially less assholy.

Takes a bit longer to get where I’m going, and some people pass in very scary ways, but it feels so much less stressful overall, so that’s worth it.

Reality would, but hasn’t. So, yeah “nothing”.

A handful of people being somewhat decent doesn’t change the medical reality for women across the globe no matter how much you want some small progress to do that. Sorry.

And nobody should be expected to ignore their own healthcare reality just because some people are vaguely trying to be better in a way that has zero impact on anyone but that niche research group.

Ok, do they study those things and apply those findings to actual healthcare?

No? They still barely pay lip service to half the population?

Cool. Handy.

No, just what voyager (the app) does by default.

It tracks voting across all accounts, and I don’t up/downvote that often, so… that a good score for me specifically :)

I think the most positive score I’ve got is +3 nearly everyone is neutral. Takes extreme opinions to register. (Extremely agree or extremely disagree - moderate opinions, whether agree or disagree, are neutral 😊)

I wish my cumulative opinion of you was less than +1, so I could feel ok making jokes about that.

But the fact that you aren’t neutral, but POSITIVE… oof thats a whole filter I’m not ready for. 💜

All of those things might be relevant if they actually bothered to study how those things happen and change throughout the cycle.

They do not. Laughably do not. I encourage you to verify for yourself that women’s issues are not even studied. Only wothin the last year we got a crash test dummy built to be female from the ground up, rather than a re-scaled male dummy.

None of those things are considerations. None of the realities for women are considered. Mostly because none of those things are remotely known because nobody studies women.

Super fun cycle!

I’m glad that my voice helps. This account is over 3 yrs, which is OLD around here. And I’m pleased that you could go back to the day it was made and find the same sentiment I have now.

But it doesnt feel like it makes a difference. I know feminism is always an uphill battle, but it feels so pointless around here with so many faceless downvoters and all…

For a year or so early on I was actively encouraging women to find another platform. I considered joining beehaw’s new platform, but when asked about it they were kinda cagey so I just dropped it and stayed here… just… angry all the time 😩

I’ve been here for a long time fighting against the absolute dick-wavey crap this platform is. Idk if you have with other accounts, but if not:

first wave - lots of women came with during the api nonsense.

6mths later, most women driven off by a preponderance of bad behavior. Because the vast majority of commenting lemmy are shit men with shit opinions (don’t tell me I’m wrong, idgaf what you say, prove me wrong.)

Every other wave has been a repeat but with fewer women showing up each time. Because every man on this platform seems to think he has authority to speak about women’s issues, and women rightly nope the fuck out.

I genuinely wish I had some other platform to go to, I haven’t liked being here for a long time… but at least it riles me up enough for my feminist flag to fly on fire. Maybe that helps someone.

While the comment immediately below this is basically “rofl thats not a problem!”

Lemmy is a trip… supposedly heavily leftist, which strongly implies feminist, but actually anything but…

almost all the intake questionnaires you get at the doctor’s office are templates that they have to complete per policy.

Are you aware that “policy data collection” has no bearing on what information you actually need to disclose in order to get care? And that it’s prohibitively invasive in a way that it doesn’t need to be for no reason other than to collect incredibly intimate data? (Lots of women aren’t gunna answer your invasive questions, fuck off!) And that that data never ever is meant to help you, the person who is seeking care, but will help the state or maaaaaybe your possibly progeny, who might not ever exist?

Cuz like. You could show up with no ID and lie your butthole out about your life situation, and your care would be functionally identical (insurance notwithstanding), because they need to due dilligence it either way.

So the data collection about female fertility isn’t required, its just another way to keep women down when abortion legality is questionable or overturned.

I understand there are SOME reasons to ask that info, like abdominal or back pain, but thats not the usual complaint that gets the question.

Doesn’t mean I won’t fight it, because they don’t actually need to know for most reasons. When they actually need to know, they have ways of asking that eliminate doubt, like “hey you are trying to get a uterine ablation, which causes scar tissue in your uterus that prevents proper implantation of fertile eggs. We need to be entirely sure you are sterile before you get this proceedure done, and that you recognize the implications”. (A proceedure I have tried to have done but it failed because my cervix is amazing!!! Powerful warrior cervix wouldn’t let boiling liquid or energetic mesh in!)

I fight against their data collection bullshit for fun and for others, because there’s no chance whatever that I’m pregnant and I know that. (tubal aside, I haven’t had sex in years and prefer my life that way. My tubal, at this point, is mostly BC in case of rape, I’m otherwise just not generally sexually active). I don’t need some asshole doctor accusing me of getting an abortion because my periods are basically never to begin with.

Do you have to regularily answer when your last bowel movement was because it could be related?

No, of course not, not unless it seems -actually- related.

Thats not what women deal with. We are asked even when it is so wildly unlikely to be related (as comic above) as to be functionally impossible as a cause.

Because there’s a chance.

But no, sometimes there isn’t, and I will abort if I just happen to be wrong (something I tell my docs who are concerned I might be pregnant, because I have ZERO desire to have kids), give me my fucking healthcare.

I kinda do that, if they really push against my “are you serious? Genuinely serious?” I give them a date when I was 16, which was like 25 years ago, because its the last time I can reliably say I had one that wasn’t just hormone withdrawal (which is the actual reason the pill gives “periods” in the week of placebo pills, it’s not a real period)

My docs and nurses would genuinely find that funny af tho (their patents are mostly old men, and they find my levity quite disarming and enjoyable because they see me frequently enough for my kind of humor to be a hit) so I am gunna do that the next time they insist.

I routinely decline urine and blood tests because I got my tubes tied in my 20s and have been on merana for years, both clearly documented in my files. My doctors still somehow magically find a way to treat me without it.

Just food for thought :) I’m sure not every doctor is willing to respect your privacy, but some are :)

If that were the case, they would accept “my tubes are tied and I’ve additionally been on long term birth control since I was a teen and thus haven’t had periods or pregnancy risk in decades” or “I have not been sexually active in several years”

But they don’t, they say “just give us an estimate on when the last one was”