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Oliver cited an interview with Facenda and his mother and primary caregiver, Joann, on the difficulties faced by people with disabilities as the state shifted to for-profit “managed care organizations”, leaving Facenda spending hours in dirty diapers.

Oliver played audio from Morley’s testimony at a 2017 administrative hearing, that aired as such: “People have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves, and we don’t fuss over [them] too much. People are allowed to be dirty … You know, I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple of days.”

Oliver said of the snippet: “Look, I’ll be honest, when I first heard that, I thought that has to be taken out of context. There is no way a doctor, a licensed physician, would testify in a hearing that he thinks it’s okay if people have shit on them for days. So, we got the full hearing, and I’m not going to play it for you, I’m just going to tell you: he said it, he meant it, and it made me want to punch a hole in the wall.

“If I absolutely had to put it into words, I guess I’d say fuck that doctor with a rusty canoe, I hope he gets tetanus of the balls,” he continued. “And if he has a problem with my language there, I’d say I’m allowed to be dirty. People are allowed to be a little dirty sometimes, apparently that’s doctors fucking orders.”

Oliver also added that legally, he was required to say that AmeriHealth Caritas restored the patient’s services, but called it a “disgrace” that it was disrupted in the first place.

The lawsuit argues that context cut from the show changes the meaning of Morley’s words, which they quote as thus: “In certain cases, yes, with the patient with significant comorbidities, you would want to have someone wiping them and getting the feces off. But like I said, people have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves and we don’t fuss over too much. People are allowed to be dirty. It’s when the dirty and the feces and the urine interfere with, you know, medical safety, like in someone who has concomitant comorbidities that you worry, but not in this specific case. I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple days.”

I don't see how the full quote meaningfully changes the meaning of the words

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You can find our posts about this here

 

I'll pin this to the instance briefly, but please see the original post for the most up to date details. Enjoy!

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17384631

Hey everyone, thank you again for participating, and for your submissions!

I'm glad to announce that the voting form is completed, and you can now cast your votes and select your favourite songs. Everyone is welcome to vote, even if your instance or community did not participate! This is a great opportunity to discover new music, cultures, and bridge the lemmyverse together.

The voting form is available here: https://tally.so/r/wvzg8d

I created a playlist so that you can easily listen to the submitted songs, it's available at the following links:

Here's the full list of submitted songs:

  • Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
  • Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
  • Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
  • Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
  • Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - aussie.zone)
  • Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
  • Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
  • Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
  • Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
  • Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
  • Flong!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

The form will be available until around the 8th of April, I will then collect the results and publish them shortly after. I hope you'll have a lot of fun listening to the 11 songs submitted for this edition. Don't hesitate if you have any question!

Cheers!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Happy to have you here 😊

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Thundermail -- not to be confused with Mozilla's decades-old Thunderbird email client -- will be an email service similar to Gmail that can be used within Thunderbird and on the web. With Thundermail, you can use either a Thundermail email address or a custom domain. Also, this new 100% open-source email service will never use your email to train AI, flood your inbox with ads, or collect and sell your data. (So maybe it's not that similar to Gmail.) That's a big win for those who are concerned about privacy.

Huh interesting, Mozilla and Proton are having more and more overlap. More choice is a good thing?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

This is something that's hard to describe with words

This video has someone going that speed, they also talk through some of the considerations on how to do that safely

4K HDR POV: How to drive 300+ kmh on German Autobahn in a McLaren

There's also this video with a motorcycle doing something similar

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ix-cjgrzmZE

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately I don't have a good version on hand, and the online translation service didn't make much sense when I pasted it in

I'll share if I find anything!

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's probably more we can do to improve our internal shipping networks, and maybe the simplified interprovincial trade stuff will help with that

As a temporary workaround, maybe you can see if there are people nearby who also need the item you are purchasing? Buying something in bulk and sharing it with others, could help somewhat

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they meant "intentionally"

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

We are :)

https://fedecan.ca/en/donate

We have some donation options listed here, and we're going to look into adding more options down the road

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

In addition to moderating, I think the biggest help would be to participate in the smaller communities. Regular posts and discussions go a long way

Just saw the new MapleMusic community, subscribed :)

 
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry about that, I'm thinking next time we'll end the nominations much earlier and leave the voting up longer.

 

Full post, see the last line

Hey, #mstdnca folks, some news to share.

We're in our 4th birthday month!

As many know, we've been working toward non-profit status. Despite hurdles, we've been fighting to get there.

This morning, I'm excited to announce that I've accepted Rogers Media's purchase offer to acquire the instance.

I'm excited to see where we go from here and hope all are excited too!

UPDATE: April Fools!! 🤪

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

Since lemmy.ca is federated, you can see content from everywhere. However you also have a lot of control over your feed, and you can either block communities you don't like or (my preference) primarily use the 'subscribed' feed and only subscribe to the content you want to see.

This guide page might help: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

If you look on !canada@lemmy.ca, we maintain a pinned post with a list of Canadian communities to subscribe to

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

This might be the wrong community for this?

 

Thank you to everyone that nominated songs, discussed the options, and voted in the survey! Sometime in the future, we will post a detailed breakdown on all the songs and how people voted.

If you want to listen to the winning songs, you can find them below:

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| | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | | | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

As a note for transparency, two songs tied for first place in the English category. However, when looking at the individual survey results, at least one of the submissions seemed to be a duplicate. If we took that into account when calculating the results, we got a clear winner for the English category and no change in the relative scores for the French category.

 

Voting thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/41364770

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| | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

 

Voting thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/41364770

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| | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | |

 

Voting thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/41364770

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| | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

 
 

Excerpt of the summary:

Childhood diseases have profound lifelong effects on health, livelihoods, and societies. Investment in early childhood results in highly cost-effective changes to lifelong health, productivity, and human capital returns. Yet, there remain substantial gaps in knowledge on the efficacy and safety of many paediatric interventions, which represents a failure to establish shared priorities and alignment across governments, researchers, communities, and funders. Children are frequently marginalised from clinical trials, which is an issue of equity. Challenges include mismatched priorities and funding, risk adversity, poor design, power imbalances, and inadequate infrastructure.

Some graphs:

Figure 2 Demographic characteristics of paediatric clinical trials 2020–23

Figure 3 Registered paediatric clinical trials by country (2020–23)

 

For those unfamiliar, please see this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/40262691

In total we received 20 nominations for the English category, 5 for the French category, and 1 for the Inuk category. We will be submitting 3 songs, one from each category.

Voting will be open from now until March 30th, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

You can rank up to 5 songs in each category:

  • The top song you select will receive 5 points
  • The second song will receive 4 points
  • The third song will receive 3 points
  • The fourth song will receive 2 points
  • The fifth song will receive 1 point

It is possible to select less than 5 songs, but the remaining points will not be applied to anything.


Nominated Songs

Below you can find a list of all the songs nominated, along with links to listen to them.

You can listen to most of the songs with this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzfFY_h7_GnZuMMcz4JlUDwmhiErYF47k

  • It has all the songs, except for The Arrogant Worms - Canadian Famous, which is only available on the website link below
  • Thank you to @hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca for putting it together 😊

See the end of this post for links to the voting form.

English:

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| | Palaye Royale | Dark Side of the Silver Spoon | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | fanclubwallet | Band Like That | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Seven Graylands | Robotic Cicada | song.link | YouTube | | | Liminal Shroud | Nocturnal Phosphorescence | song.link | YouTube | | | Dan Mangan | Call Me Up High | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Blue Stones | Come Apart | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Corb Lund | When the Game Gets Hot | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Chromeo | Words With You | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Arrogant Worms | Canadian Famous | website link | | | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (english list) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Eva Shaw, DijahSB | RVPTVRE | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Men I Trust | Husk | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Akintoye | Raw | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Emma Alves | Bare Minimum | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Mustafa | Imaan | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Deer Fang | Low Tide | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | DYLYN | Change Me | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | PUP | Hallways | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Spiritbox | Deep End | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

French:

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| | P'tit Belliveau | Ring ring | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | | | Dominique Fils-Aimé | Moi je t'aime | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Autre Part | Le monde à l’envers | song.link | YouTube | | | Mange la machine | Mange la machine | song.link | YouTube | |

Inuktitut

Since there was 1 nomination in the Inuk category, we will be submitting the song by Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ)!

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| | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |




Voting Form

The voting form website has instructions in both English and French. You only need to fill in the form once, and it will include songs from all categories. For convenience, you can find direct links below:

English: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-en

Français: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-fr

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