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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • On the flip side, keeping your personal online footprint small is definitely more secure.

    Maybe we need a soft kill switch to disassociate content with an account after x amount of time. Like for me personally, I’ve put zero effort into mopping up old content, and as often as I post, I’m sure someone with the desire could put the pieces together and dox me.

    I’ve left it up anyway cuz I don’t want to do to Lemmy what you’re concerned about, but if I could nuke all my content older than a few months into an anonymous version, I’d be all for that. Leave the info up for anyone who might benefit from it, but scrub my username.

    That said, for community building sake, I’d hate to see posts go anonymous right out the gate like some 4chan shit; and posts should be associated with an account at least long enough for mods to have a reasonable amount of time to take action against an account that breaks the rules. But again, posts that are months old? The conversation there is over - my personal involvement is moot at that point, it’s just data now.







  • Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.

    That belief is still pervasive, at least to some extent, which is something that’s always kinda bewildered me. Like, baby comes out and first thing we do is rub it with an abrasive towel, and slap its feet and ass to make it cry so it starts deep breathing, then literally turn around and cut the tip of its dick off without any anesthetic because it can’t feel pain?! What the fuck made it cry when we slapped its ass if it can’t feel pain?!

    For a field stuffed with people who have made it through medical school, we can be dumb as shit sometimes.