https://www.europesays.com/1707197/ UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material | Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected #UnitedKingdom

My Mom had been sharing many stories about how my Dad was a human rights activist in his teens into his 20s - while attending university for veterinary career(he graduated with full honours). Dad used to gather up fellow youths & young adults in #Saigon to organize for protests. He was branded an enemy of the state & was arrested/detained/tortured multiple times before I was born. Mom said that I take after my Dad in our shared passion & determination to try & make progressive changes in the world.

#AsianMastodon #AsianActivists #FamilyHistory #ResistanceFamily #Vietnam

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Bethlehem
Wikipedia

Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank of the State of Palestine

Located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem

Isn't Palestine where they are committing genocide for the water front real estate?

They are religious, right?

#democracy #auspol #gaza #PeacefulProtest

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bethlehem
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Crazy ideas in #medicine:

- put doctors on salary;
- pay doctors benefits;
- don't burden them with admin and overhead;

Then stand back and let them care for patients.

Change the incentives, change the game.

#Healthcare #canpoli

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-mayor-gets-calls-from-across-canada-about-crazy-plan-to-recruit-doctors-1.7154879

Perth to extend record for most 40C days in one year

#climatechange
#climatecrisis

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/perth-to-extend-record-for-most-40c-days-in-one-year/1890219

A large ball of floof is hogging the couch #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

Cannot verify, but am not at all surprised.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

#Spotify #Music #Musician #Streaming #Ethics

Queensland city beats December rainfall record before Christmas

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/queensland-city-beats-december-rainfall-record-before-christmas/1890226

#climatechange
#climatecrisis

Shame they have those money walls on the interesting stuff

someone used their book banning laws to ban the Bible from a whole school district

LOL
Karma

I put the aircon on in the back rooms
sitting in the lounge room till it is unbearable

It will probably be on till Tuesday by the looks of the weather forecast
37 C tomorrow? Maybe?

I had planned to test the 3D printer today
instead, I will sit on a stool in the back room and play with the UNOs again

I can't get the GRBL on the UNO WiFi Rev2
so I am going to look at running a UNO R3 with a WIFI added
cant see serial running it
but I am going to google it just in case

I'm looking for more book recommendations. I'm looking for more books about true crime but white collar crime. Detailed accounts from both the people doing the crime in a historical narrator form and those in law enforcement. I want to be inside the world of finance when reading these. #Bookstodon, #Books

It me

#HistoryMemes

https://www.europesays.com/1707193/ George Simion îl acuză pe Klaus Iohannis că e uzurpator: „Dacă îl văd mâine la Cotroceni sun la 112!” #romania

Y’all, as we creep up on the holidays, on this #caturday, let us all remember it is the Season of Yule Cat.

https://www.europesays.com/1707191/ 7:57 AM; The Sun is Rising Over Kyiv on the 1033rd Day of the Full-Scale Invasion. How the USSR banned Ukrainian Christmas celebrations. #Ukraine

L'Inconnue de la Seine

https://www.europesays.com/1707184/ Ich💨iel #DeutscheMemes #IchIel #Memes #SelbstiesDerSeele

El úuuuuuuuuuultimo concierto del año. Solar en Sala Metrónomo.

#Solar #SalaMetronomo #Conciertos #RockChileno

Waiting to see if I can find Fritz Leiber in the cast. #Svengoolie

so the wisdom of YouTube says to deploy double-sided tape on surfaces you want to discourage cats from using (e.g. near stove-tops, counter-tops, etc.).

The idea is that cats hate, hate, HATE getting their delicate little toesies on Teh Sticky.

My goons? They’re FASCINATED by this new, sticky surface. Can’t get enough of it.

🤦‍♂️ #FML #catsOfMastodon

tfw both the floor heater AND space heater are on

#CatsOfMastodon

https://www.europesays.com/1707189/ Gerichtsurteil: Australier ist nicht der Bitcoin-Erfinder, sondern nur eine Nervensäge #DE #Deutschsprechenden

Happy Holidays. Here come my seasonal favorites.
Day 21
#HolidayMusic
#TomWaits

https://youtu.be/DcITz2AqCJc

I just emailed several members of Congress who are engaged on the topic of the attacks on the US being waged by Putin, Musk, and their proxies. I have offered to brief them further. Same offer stands for any member of Congress or the IC. Please send them my way.

OK, snow drifting in cabover trucks doesn't work, hard to tell what the front axle is doing when you're driving from that far in front of it.

#ETS2 #Gaming

Peruvian wizards be like, “Alpacazam!”

https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/memory-collapses-time?in=stefanbohacek/sets/piano

#instrumental #piano #soundtrack #music #NewMusic #soundcloud

Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs,
questioning their medical necessity

An estimated 2.3 million people are living with limb loss in the U.S.

That number is expected to as much as double in coming years as people age and a growing number lose limbs to diabetes, trauma and other medical problems.

Fewer than half of people with limb loss have been prescribed a prosthesis, according to a report by the AHRQ.

Plans may deny coverage for prosthetic limbs by claiming they aren't medically necessary or are experimental devices,
even though microprocessor-controlled knees like Adams' have been in use for decades.

Cain was instrumental in getting passed a 2000 Colorado law that requires insurers to cover prosthetic arms and legs at parity with Medicare,
which requires coverage with a 20% coinsurance payment.

Since that measure was enacted, about half of states have passed "insurance fairness" laws
that require prosthetic coverage on par with other covered medical services in a plan
or laws that require coverage of prostheses that enable people to do sports.

But these laws apply only to plans regulated by the state.

Over half of people with private coverage are in plans not governed by state law.

The Medicare program's 80% coverage of prosthetic limbs mirrors its coverage for other services.

Still, an October report by the Government Accountability Office found that only 30% of beneficiaries who lost a limb in 2016 received a prosthesis in the following three years.

Cost is a factor for many people.

"No matter your coverage, most people have to pay something on that device," White said.

As a result, "many people will be on a payment plan for their device," she said. Some may take out loans.

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would prohibit lenders from repossessing medical devices such as wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs if people can't repay their loans.

"It is a replacement limb," said White, whose organization has heard of several cases in which lenders have repossessed wheelchairs or prostheses.

Repossession is "literally a punishment to the individual."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-insurance-coverage-prosthetic-joint-replacement/

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Did you know you can just lick like your own posts and no one can stop you?

Almost forgot #Caturday but this sweet #Void didn’t

Chrissy is checking things out from a safe place. #cat #CatsOfMastodon

Rock or something.

She’s full of crimes.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

“I want to see politicians chaining themselves to other people. I want Democrats lying down on train tracks. I want them reviewing the civil rights–era playbook and remembering how people who had no institutional power brought about structural change by demanding better from institutionalists.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-should-abandon-institution-based-resistance/

#USPol

Oh, this was a neat little read. And I can totally see why anger is in the feet - just look at stomping their feet when they’re angry, or stomping away.

Ancient Texts Reveal How Mesopotamians Felt Emotions—From Happiness in the Liver to Anger in the Feet

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-texts-reveal-how-mesopotamians-felt-emotions-from-happiness-in-the-liver-to-anger-in-the-feet-180985675/