promoting indigenous linguistics is absolutely good, the nuance is that some of those languages are a closed practice so it would be disrespectful for outsiders to speak them. it all comes down to autonomy which i think you’re agreeing with in the end of your reply
if you think the articles are too long then make your own that are shorter and appeal to AI bros
Native and mestizo aren’t the same thing. Mestizos are the people that assimilated and therefore enjoy privilege over indigenous people. identifying as mestizo is kind of the opposite of being indigenous because you’re adopting a colonial identity.
We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin.
except Italians aren’t being genocided by any state for being Italian. Latin would be Spanish in this context, not Nahuatl. Latin was imposed through colonization around the world. And before anyone brings up the Aztec empire, it hasn’t existed in centuries.
Mexico forces Spanish upon indigenous groups to bring them closer to the conquistador ideal of a good Mexican citizen. them appropriating Nahuatl words to seem cool is more akin to racist Republicans stealing words from Black American English to market their products or politics.
Mexico is a bit different from America in their approach to assimilation in that they strive for mestizaje (making every Mexican mixed). You can see the ideology behind it in La raza cósmica.
I think it should be obvious why erasing indigenous cultures through state violence isn’t a benign thing.
oh, so it isn’t just America that erases indigenous cultures by appropriating random words from that language on their cars
COVID is a horrible example to give for hand washing being effective as it’s an airborne virus. like sure, handwashing is great for other viruses and will never hurt when doing COVID prevention but wearing a respirator is the actual best way to prevent contagion for anything airborne
that’s totally valid. I don’t really use peertube and so my question is, since the program doesn’t have that many users anyways, how many creators are relying on getting views from their own instance? I thought they just advertise their channel to outside platforms
totally, but nothing is stopping you from moving to another one while still having access to the protocol. or if you can afford it, starting your own
yeah this is a bit like musicians or authors complaining that nobody buys their CDs and hardcovers anymore.
YouTube can kick you to the curb just for saying fuck and demonetizing you
this lead me to discover that there’s a Reddit-like client for Bluesky. That’s genuinely a great feature that they are open enough for that
it’s more complicated than that as it involves fucking with someone’s cognitive state without their consent, it’s not as simplistic as “blowing someone’s high”. if you look in Juno’s playlist they have a video mentioning that sending someone into withdrawal can sometimes be more dangerous than an overdose.
also, why risk sending them into withdrawal when you can do your due diligence instead?
I wonder how an article in a medical journal “Treating overdose without blowing a patient’s sweet high” would go.
you’re right, it would probably go horribly because most medics are fucking ghouls when it comes to substance users. they treat them like subhumans. and that’s exactly the reason why they’re lagging behind compared to street medics and harm reduction professionals. that’s what leads to doctors administering naloxone to punish patients even when they’re not ODing, just because they enjoy seeing them suffer.
that’s why you sometimes see people bragging about how they administered 2 doses at once instead of waiting because they’re more concerned with making the victim sober than keeping them safe.
it boils down to whether you respect substance users’ autonomy or you’re just doing it to be seen as a savior. ask around the people that have been woken up with nasal sprays versus IM and they’ll tell you why they fucking hate it
I would argue just like Juno did that the naloxone dose being too high has nothing to do with ease of administration as that’s already ensured by the spray being so easy to use. it looks more like severe negligence and ableism from the pharma companies to me.
as far as I understand, accounting for the nasal route only having 50% bioavailability, shouldn’t a nasal spray have a maximum of 0.8 mg of naloxone? Juno said that there are people working on putting lower doses on the market for general distribution.
they also mention that it’s possible to stop the overdose without ruining someone’s high but that probably requires more educated training than most harm reduction resources offer. sounds to me like people are shifting blame from themselves forcing someone into withdrawal to the substance user being “violent” (this is extremely rare and mostly a rumor started by copaganda and ableist healthcare workers).
I recommend watching Juno’s entire playlist on naloxone harm reduction. they’re a harm reduction educator and substance user and they have more intimate knowledge than the sterile pamphlets that medical institutions put out.
people often get agitated because you’re forcing them into acute opioid withdrawal by administering too much naloxone. the nasal type that most civilians have access to contains 4 mg vs the 0.4 mg intramuscular that EMS workers administer. this comes out to a 5 times higher dose than strictly necessary. source:
Based on a relative bioavailability of 50%, an initial 2 mg Naloxone Hydrochloride Nasal Spray dose would be considered equivalent to 1 mg IM dose and a 4 mg Naloxone Hydrochloride Nasal Spray dose would be equivalent to 2 mg IM dose, which corresponds with the maximum recommended initial dose in adult clinical guidelines.
I can’t say there’s an easy alternative but anyone who’s able should contact harm reduction orgs to get trained in administering intramuscular naloxone. nasal works too, but be mindful that the person you’re “helping” is gonna have probably the worst day of their life.
people should also be aware there’s a lot of seemingly helpful information out there influenced by copaganda warning civilians that substance users are dangerous/violent and to stay away/call the cops. this is a fucked up way to do harm reduction and really dehumanizing to substance users.
edit: replaced precipitated withdrawal with acute opioid withdrawal.
I’ve yet to come across an AI shill that can demonstrate a modicum of reading comprehension. none of your points disprove what I said
“we’ve open sourced the nuclear button, Viva la resistance 🛠️” 🤦🏻♀️
wdym by process will become more important than product?
yeah what it leads to in practice is the original art style of the victim being scrutinized due to “looking like AI art”.
like, no, the AI actually looks like this art style because so many techbros stole it without crediting the artist and now everybody thinks that the style belongs to the AI overlords.
it’s happened to me a few times where I see gorgeous art and I second-guess myself for a split second when I see certain digital art styles.
that is a horrible experience to have as an art enjoyer and concerning how few so-called “tech enthusiasts” actually value the human beings that led to them enjoying art.
they’ve been so brainwashed by AI propaganda and bootstraps ideology that they can’t imagine a future that’s worse than today because corporate tech futurism so often labels cyberpunk futures as utopia
except actual humans do work on that and get royalties for shadow producing those pre-recorded sets. not comparable
except AI isn’t human, obviously. so corporations can deploy millions of instances to churn out slop while crediting no one, thus erasing all the cultures that went into said slop.
while all the remaining artists become even more impoverished from the devaluing of their art. there’s a name for this behavior if a human was doing it, it’s called being a scab
didn’t know JK Rowling is into Lemmy now
great, now enjoy that 10 times worse when genAI is used to make skeleton crews an even bigger issue and increase worker exploitation
vampires can’t enjoy gangbangs in Transylvania because the local cum soup gives them a tummy ache