Cosmic Cleric

I don’t think I’d be willing to comply with the law and watch them as a doctor, and I hope most doctors would agree, because I’d personally far prefer to get treatment than follow the laws in an emergency.

Well I can totally agree with this, life is greater than law. I would assume Good Samaritan laws would protect anyone practicing medicine without a license in that case.

But if someone is constantly doing a procedure where death is not imminent, then that’s something different, and it should only be done by license personnel.

There’s two different scenarios described (risk of immediate death, vs not), and what I’ve seen done usually by people who support protesting by regularly doing the procedure, is that they mix those two scenarios together, in essence creating a legal loophole.

Save lives, definitely do it. Just protesting, you better be licensed.

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Fair enough, but if she’s not surprised, and knows it’s illegal, I’m not sure what else to say, except for, if you’re going to protest you might get arrested for the protest, especially if that protest is practicing medicine without a license for the procedure.

You want to protest a law do it another way. Transport the people to another state where they can have it done legally, if it’s feasible to do so healthwise. And yes I’m aware there’s probably a law against transporting them, but it’s a lot less risky protest than practicing medicine on someone without a license to do it.

Otherwise campaign to have elected officials that won’t pass laws like that.

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That’s reasonable, but it’s a red herring. Many states enable midwives to perform abortion care.

Apparently it’s not a red herring in Texas though. Just depends on how the laws are written there, how much a midwife can do or not.

Bottom line, if you’re not legally cleared to do the procedure, then you should be arrested if you do the procedure.

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this seems more like an issue caused by the laws in Texas than helped by them.

If midwives are “licensed” to do that procedure, then they shouldn’t be using that as an excuse for their arrest. Would just depend how the laws are written, really.

Bottom line though, if you’re not legally cleared to do the procedure, then you should be arrested if you do the procedure.

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From the article …

The FTC has based its investigation of “tech censorship” on a belief that tech companies are intentionally restricting access of individual users to their platforms, based on the content of the users’ posts or their affiliations.

practicing medicine without a license.

Hot take, but anyone should be arrested for this, regardless of what procedure they were doing.

(Assuming the states ‘Good Samaritan’ laws doesn’t protect them from practicing otherwise.)

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From the article …

This effectively means that, if you get banned by the Bluesky company, you’re out. Sure, you could still host your own Personal Data Server, wait for a non-existent independent Relay to fetch your data and interact with users of third-party Bluesky applications. But you won’t: you’re effectively at the mercy of the Bluesky company.

Point two, and more importantly: this approach provides an “exit strategy” in the event that Bluesky “goes evil”. Right now, that’s false: parts of the social network are still centralized and it’s impossible to avoid that. But even if we limit ourselves to PDSs and Relay, the current situation is that federation is only achievable in theory and no one has done it in practice yet.

piefed.dbzer0.com you cowards!

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Something tells me that if Jesus was ‘Jesussy’ enough, that they’d listen to him, regardless of skin color.

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I hate the ‘hate’ part (pardon the pun) of the question.

I’d rather go back in time and get Jesus and bring him back here so that he can go all ‘temple money changers’ on today’s MAGA Christians asses, give them a proper yelling to.

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You can play the vast majority of games easily on Linux right now.

I’ve been a gamer my whole life, and I currently have a Linux system and I play every game I want to play on there just fine, either through Steam and/or Bottles/Steam.