Tovarich EmmyNoether

Feminist, Scientist, bloody minded woman. "Follows" means I'm interested in what you have to say, not necessarily that I agree with it.

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2024-09-18 11:07:45

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Me too - that's good information to have.
I've just started jogging again. Will add in some weights.

2024-09-18 11:02:27

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It was totally predictable that Reeves (with Starmer backing her to the hilt) was going to deliver a Conservative-style budget. So terrified of scaring the markets (yadda yadda yadda insert other predictable excuses here).
The thing is they are *choosing* to shaft the poor rather than tax the rich.
And the supreme irony is that (if recent reports in the Times are to be believed - I kind of take them with a bit of a pinch of salt because of the Times' editorial stance) the rich appear to be leaving the country anyway.

2024-09-18 10:47:45

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Every word of this.
"Seemingly every pompous legal commentator in the land has taken to X or to the airwaves to insist that this is not an example of ‘two-tier justice’ and that the public’s anger at the sentencing is misguided and ill-informed."
And therein lies the complete misunderstanding of the Islington/ Salford Quays Twiterati. We know it's single tier justice, or rather single tier *injustice.* That's why we're pissed off - because they're letting ALL of the fuckers off.

2024-09-18 10:44:59

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They really are shafting the poor. Winter fuel allowance, axing single person council tax rebate (which is going to totally screw single mothers).

2024-09-18 10:44:02

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Much as the NHS is a shit-show at the moment, this is one of the rare instances where they've got it right. NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) did the literature review and recommended prescribing HRT at GP level (no need for a referral to a gynaecologist) based on symptoms alone (no need for blood tests which don't work in perimenopause anyway because the whole point of peri is your hormone levels fluctuate wildly, so a one-off blood test tells you exactly fuck all).
Of course there are individual GPs still stuck 20 years ago who won't prescribe, but for the most part in my experience they're pretty good (I've only ever had a problem with one locum).
I'm surprised premarin is still being used in Canada (that's one of the conjugate equine oestrogens, isn't it?) I don't think it's used anywhere in western Europe any more.

2024-09-16 22:04:21

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It's not Huw Edwards in particular, the British courts never give men a custodial sentence for downloading child sexual abuse images, even the category A images. The system is broken.

2024-09-15 21:04:57

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Well, it's progress.

2024-09-15 21:03:35

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She was my undergrad physics tutor's absolute hero: her experiment showing that parity is not conserved during beta decay is one of the most elegant pieces of experimental physics ever.
The theoretical proof is an absolute bitch - don't think I ever got that to work out when I tried to reproduce it in exams.

2024-09-15 20:58:44

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I remember having precisely this conversation in real life back in my twenties.
I think I said something along the lines of "So, when it comes down to it, you're telling me you're homophobic because you're frightened a man might rape you. And you think this is a really way-out-there scenario that only happens with gay men. You are describing my everyday life - only straight men who want to rape women vastly outnumber gay men who might want to rape other men, plus straight men are a lot stronger than women, whereas at least with another man, you've got a fighting chance."

2024-09-15 20:55:45

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Thank heavens the hospital were on the ball.
My local hospital is hit and miss. When I took my son in with possible meningitis (headache, sleepy, temperature, extremely difficult to rouse, pretty much incoherent when I tried to talk to him) our bums didn't even touch the seats in the waiting room before we were triaged.
On the other hand, I presented with something that should have led to emergency surgery - but I went in on a Friday night. By the time the consultants finally showed up on the Monday, my innards were so badly inflamed they couldn't operate safely, so I spent a week on IV antibiotics, then got sent home to join a waiting list for elective surgery. (I only found out from chatting to the anaethetist that my case was considered serious enough for me to have been bumped up the waiting list - nobody told me anything.)

2024-09-15 10:31:39

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The Menopause matters site is very good:
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/risks.php
In particular, the risks page I have linked to has up-to-date risks per 1000 of the female population with and without HRT (links to pdfs, tables 1 & 2) and a comparison with other lifestyle risks. The last one is the one I find most useful, because it puts it in context. So combined HRT is similar in additional risk to using contraceptive pills, smoking, drinking moderately. The risk is absolutely dwarved by the additional risk due to being overweight, and your risk overall can be dramatically cut by regular exercise. So my personal assessment is "Keep taking the HRT, work on losing a bit more weight, keep exercising."

2024-09-15 10:23:15

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I'm on HRT, have been since perimenopause (and I had PCOS pre menopause - not too badly, as was able to conceive).
It's bloody brilliant stuff. I'm on oestrogen gel plus progesterone tablets (both daily - old enough now to take both continuously so no periods). Both bio-identical (though when I first took HRT it was in the form of the old conjugate equine oestrogen tablets - I personally got on fine with those, though I gather they have a slightly higher cancer risk associated with them).
Risks of HRT delivered via gel / patches are minimal (also tried patches, but eventually developed contact eczema with them).
I also have vaginal oestrogen suppositories which I can recommend. They do wonders for the pelvic floor, in particular, they seem to counteract the whole atrophying of muscle/ connective tissue, and I don't have to pee in the night nearly as frequently when I use them. NB these can be used even when more systemic forms of HRT are contra-indicated, e.g. after cancer treatment.

2024-09-13 20:45:18

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Animals have a greater conception of death than we give them credit for.
Years ago, family friends had a dog and 4 cats. The oldest of the cats was dying, and every evening they'd get home to find the cat hadn't managed to eat its food, but the other animals hadn't touched it (even though the old cat was way beyond the point where he could have defended his food).
Then they came home one evening to find a very subdued, sad looking collection of animals - the old cat had finally died. But they were subdued and pragmatic. They'd finally eaten the bowl of food - it was as if they knew he didn't need it any more.

2024-09-13 20:41:07

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I want one!

2024-09-13 20:28:26

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3ZQmSqCc4

2024-09-13 06:41:31

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Yes, I was thinking of combination of fence with your final comment of "I'm going to have to move them, aren't I?"

2024-09-13 06:38:19

Lies, damned lies and statistics.
So, I've disappeared down a pension stats rabbit hole. The ONS (and many right-wing groups quoting the ONS) put the average "public sector" pension at 65K.
TL:DR - beware very broad definitions of "public sector" which encompass a few very wealthy sectors, and beware calculations which speak about "average" rather than "median."
The Details:
That 65K figure
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/mandarin_millionaires_civil_service_pension_pots_2023
Now this, of course, makes no sense, because the public sector includes nurses, hospital porters, low-level civil servants, none of whom even have salaries approaching this level.
Dig a bit deeper and it's all in the definition of "public sector".
https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2024/08/20/public-sector-or-private-sector-how-the-ons-decides-and-why-it-matters/
"Many people would consider organisations such as the NHS or the police and fire services to be part of the public sector. While that is clearly right, there are other less obvious examples. For example, Channel Four Television Corporation Ltd is included in the public sector, even though it’s funded by advertising revenue. Defining which organisations are part of the public sector is an important task. The ONS makes its decisions using an internationally agreed framework so our decisions are robust and internationally comparable."
If you refine the search and ask about median (not average, which could be arithmetical mean, which will distort the figure upwards because of a few highly paid outliers - wonder what Gary Linneker's salary at the BBC will look like!), you end up with this:
https://www.civilservant.org.uk/information-pensions.html
"Hutton noted that the median male public sector pensioner receives just over £8,000 per annum, while the median female pensioner receives just under £4,000 per annum."
(Full disclosure - there's a sense in which I'm also playing fast and lose - the ONS choose to include wealthy TV presenters, producers and executives, I've quoted the averages for the civil service which is narrowly defined and excludes local government, healthcare, police, fire service etc.)

2024-09-13 06:20:02

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She may also be suffering from one of the documented side effects of testosterone in female bodies. Initially it enlarges the clitoris and increases the woman's sex drive massively. But then it seems to overload the system (to the extent of seemingly causing nerve damage in the clitoris) and the woman becomes anorgasmic.
Just another medical issue to add to the list.

2024-09-13 06:10:22

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My inner geek is aglow at this - the scientists concerned produced an animation of the trapped wave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5et66s74OGs

2024-09-13 06:02:31

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They never want to "live as a woman" by doing the shitty grunt work that society imposes on women, though, do they?
Their idea of "living as a woman" is always some sort of cross between the Barbie movie and a weird set of fetishes round bodily processes (menstruation, breast feeding, etc.).