Where did you find the actual study? The link in the above article leads to https://purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 which has an abstract, but I can't see the study.
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The title of this article is deplorably sensationalistic, but the article itself isn't bad. I guess they couldn't fit this into the title:
It requires a written application and assessments from two independent medical practitioners, including at least one specialized in their condition if the applicant is not near their natural death.
The article also notes:
Even after the change in the legislation [to allow non-foreseeable death applications], about 98% of the assisted deaths in 2021 were people deemed near their natural death, according to Health Canada data.
Maybe journa.host public feed? https://journa.host/public/local
Or better, use the elk.zone interface: https://elk.zone/journa.host/public/local
It's a mastodon instance for verified journalists, and so.... you know. If it bleeds it leads...
(I'm not [entirely] serious... just as the cartoon the post link leads to isn't.... [entirely?]...)
From what I'm hearing doomscrolling is quite difficult to achieve on mastodon. People are mostly horribly nice and supportive and stuff. And there's no cool vampire algorithm exploiting heightened emotions. But where there's a will, there's a way! You can do it. Choose your doom-y hashtags carefully, my friend! We believe in you.
A Ukrainian general is predicting bad stuff in Russia. Fascinating. Is this news breaking, or what?
Probably the easiest way to avoid it is to simply rename it to something less scary sounding. Maybe something like Alive Enhanced Rich Content Internet Theory for Human People! See, not a problem now.
Also maybe we should reread Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. It has a storyline about a guy who finds out he is the only actual real person on earth. Everyone else are robots. And he wants to know why.
Anyone played Outer Wilds? (Highly, highly recommended, if not.) When I read this headline I thought, "My God, the Interloper's Ghost Matter came from us!" Of course (if you have any idea what I'm talking about) this is doesn't really fit. Or could it? Still, I thought it anyhow.
The Ice Cube neutrino detector is pretty impressive too, I guess.
Fedilab handles mastodon, pixelfed and peertube in one app. It's the most multifunctional app I know of. Pretty impressive, but it doesn't do lemmy/kbin, or even misskey.
A cherry picked selection from this weeks' playback history...
- Cleanup on isle 45
- Decoding the gurus
- Science quickly
- More or less. Behind the stats
- Infinite monkey cage
- Homebrewed Christianity
- Three bean salad
- History of philosophy without any gaps
- Science Friday
By crikey, I've been tracking this one all day following its ridiculous chewing sounds. Now I've barely grounded the blighter and it's snoring like all get out! I think we best likely leave this one alone, it's starting to drool.
Anyone know what research the minister is referencing? The academic later quoted said there wasn't much research. I also wonder what was the basis for dropping cursive... The article appears to be just a bunch of cheering with little substance or context.
Personally I just dislike cursive and always have. Other people's cursive writing is a pain in the he ass to read much of the time. The speed benefit is crushed by legibility issues. Doing a lot of genealogy research for example really underscores this, when most documents were hand written in cursive. .Yeah, great I can read cursive, but it is so often tedious and painful to decipher. There is a reason many forms came to say "print clearly". Just my opinion and experience.
Not a super big deal either way, but so far I'm glad my kids didn't have to bother with cursive. Artist, musician and computer programmer. Bilingual. Cursive-free!
I was on digg as well as reddit. I always liked reddit a lot better and was always baffled as to why digg was so much more popular. Reddit always felt more diverse (in topics) and organic (user driven) to me. I guess others had a different view.
Sadly, no one no one seems to remember kuro5hin. Barely even me. It had its moments though.