First gender affirming surgery was 1930 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ A little more than a few years ago…

Unpaywalled https://archive.md/2024.06.16-031352/https://www.thedailybeast.com/fauci-kills-puppies-memoir-details-forgotten-fake-beaglegate-scandal

Good to know. Wasn’t sure 3BP show would be good because I think the book was so slow. Probably lost in translation.

It’s about Swift and not one of the richest people in the world who lives in the kleptocracy that passed this legislation and historically has made a big fuss over this issue?

What do we have here? It seems OP was referring to Bill Maher’s podcast.

There are other ways to wildly speculate as well if we are doing so evidence-free.

Maybe Ben was being pressured by someone to submit false information and he wanted to ensure his work was scrutinized more and falsehoods uncovered without explicitly bringing attention to the fact that this was his intention.

https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-011857/https://www.thedailybeast.com/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jrs-running-mate-sets-new-low-for-anti-vax-misinformation

With Amarula as a treat

Memento

Citation needed

Less niche content from the subs that I couldn’t find an equivalent for here. Also less random bullshit from all the reposted recycled memes that were often somehow just perpetually in my face. It would be nice if there were more people here on Lemmy commenting to link over to relevant related communities (sublemmys??) to a post that they think others would like. Sometimes that’s a good way to find more subs. Don’t really see that happening round these parts. TL;DR Wasting less time on interwebs

ELI5?

You can’t make someone interested in learning. You can investigate what excites someone and foster that excitement. You can also show your excitement and hope it’s contagious. But, sometime it’s not.

Most divided by celebrating 28th / 1st, few celebrate at midnight between, few celebrate both (Vox 2016)

Here’s a transcript to peruse if anyone is interested. Then you can search for keywords to see if they were mentioned, quickly flick through Putin’s rambling and you avoid providing Tucker with a click. Here’s also an archive link if anyone prefers that.

Interestingly enough, I had thought the rumour that his wealth came from an emerald mine his dad owned, but it does seem to be the case that that his dad only claimed to have part stake in an emerald mine, it was apparently in Zambia and not South Africa, and there doesn’t seem to be any credible evidence that Elon received any substantial money via this route or even any evidence of the existence of this mine. I think Snope’s investigation, which corroborates the aforementioned debunking of rumours about Musk, was done pretty well: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/

PS: Whether or not Elon Musk is a nepo baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth does not impact whether his propensity to say and do unhinged things and perpetually confabulate about the prospects of his companies. e.g. Thunderf00t’s many videos

Too bad they failed to include a double/triple negative to really hammer down the confusion.

obamacarefacts.com

It’s my understanding that the individual mandate requires people to buy health insurance from private companies, this means those companies can thrive while offering terrible coverage for high costs without any chance of losing business because of their shady practices. This sounds to me like a plan that a conservative would concoct if they really wanted Laissez-faire / croney capitalism but wanted to placate the left by making it sound like this was entirely government funded.

If this is true, it’s a win-win for the right. Keep it in place and the private medical companies are secure to maintain high profit margins surreptitiously. If it fails, blame the left and you get an easy justification for going back to having no government involvement at all whereby less people pay monthly because there is no individual mandate but the private medical companies are free to charge even more to the people who do pay and when those that don’t pay need medical treatment (everyone eventually in their lifetime) they can charge an arm and a leg and laugh all the way to the bank while medical debt for citizens skyrockets. The best part? If this plan is put in place carefully enough and messaging is carefully crafted, you’ll get nominally left people advocating for it!

Am I wrong?

Pelosicare? More like Romneycare? (Centre for American Progress)

Here’s a decent framework in my opinion.