HipPriest

I joined Mastodon last month and so could finally sort of see how it would work - if you were using your Kbin account to log into Mastodon for example you could share a post from a Lemmy community directly to your Mastodon followers.

That is very cool.

The rest is a bit clunky like you say though. I could use my Kbin account to post to Mastodon from this community. Would that serve any purpose? Doesn't appear so. Might become clearer in the future

Kbin is literally built for this, if that's your thing

Personally I like having a separate account for each platform but I think idea is a very clever one

More small businesses fucked over. Whatever you say from an armchair about whether in hindsight it was wise for them to do this or not, I always find it hard to read stories where people have tried and failed to strike out in their own.

A lot of the time it's because people are lied to in capitalist countries that we should all aspire to striking out on our own, running our own businesses, being entrepreneurs blah blah blah.

Feel sad for them

It's an almost identical case to the Beverly Allit one, right down to how badly it's been managed. Has the NHS honestly learned nothing on how to handle suspicious activity on its wards?

My cousin's children were born in that very same hospital years ago and it just makes you worry so much. Can't imagine what those families have been through. At least they've caught her now...

‘the world would be better if I wasn’t here’

Well she wasn't wrong there.

Accidents happen if course. If it was a preventable accident it could potentially be classed under incompetence, which is kind of the medical version of manslaughter depending on the situation. But proving that would probably require another professional whistleblowing on a colleague.

I think that could be guessed without seeing the writing in the article as well, though obviously you're right.

Some killers are just psychopaths/sociopaths (like Ted Bundy) but the vast majority have some serious problems which have unfortunately been missed or more likely hidden and she's received no help for them leading to.... This. It's awful.

I work in a hospital. Management should have been all over this but it sounds very much like they didn't want any trouble so ignored it as much as possible.

Staff should have one to ones with their managers including checking up on their welfare which is done properly could have picked up on something in the killer's behaviour or mental health which wasn't right.

Wards should have high standards of monitoring and if there's an unexpected death the reason why should be fully investigated. If there was any room for doubt they should have at least escalated it to into an independent internal investigation - it's not like there were a lot of potential suspects.

Sorry, I didn't understand this - did she try to commit suicide?

Jesus wept... I'm going to take a punt and guess this was in America?

Nah that was me being a bit off handed and it's not my place to tell anyone where to post what to. My apologies, it was badly phrased and looks rude. You're good

This has been spammed in a few communities in my subscribed feed apart from this one and I avoid anything like philosophical debate communities.... Because I'm stupid. 😛

Comparing lobotomies to gender reassignment is comparing two very different things. (I should say up front I don't know much about transgender terms, I am pro-trans but if I use the wrong language or something I apologise in advance)

Lobotomies were usually done against a patient's wishes. My wife has bipolar, I have epilepsy and not that far back in history doctors may well have recommended lobotomies as a last resort if using the drugs available at the time didn't work to cure the condition. Largely, though not always, it would be done against the patient's will, either because they weren't in a position where they were able to give informed consent (having a manic episode will do that for instance) or because the family would approve it on the patients behalf - just see it as a problem that needs fixing.

I'm in the UK and the only real reading on the subject I've done is 'Time To Think', a book about the clinic that supported young people's gender reassignment. It had a lot of troubles (piss poor management) but the account is interspersed with a range of positive to negative experiences that young people felt when they went there. Anyway, the process was that people were asking for the surgery. They would be assessed, talk about whether they really wanted to be a different gender, whether at that age they weren't just exploring their sexualit etc. If they were adamant that they felt they needed to change their genderb- or still unsure - they would be prescribed puberty blockers until they were old enough to undergo medical procedure (hence the title of the book).

So there's your difference - people wanting sex change operations today are enthusiasticlly trying to get them, and often having to fight very hard to get it, consent isn't even in question, whereas labotomies were inflicting unwanted irreversible neurological damage on people, often without what we would now call reasonable consent, just to make them less of a problem.

Sorry to have rambled on a bit here.