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@aescling ~~if web developers knew how to read a spec we wouldn’t need the MDN~~

@aescling https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto

@aescling i mean “conservative” now doesn't mean “conserving the current state of affairs” but “returning to a previous state of affairs prior to some progress” and one could argue by the same token that the point of reference for “progressive” is not the present day

@aescling you don't have to all-or-nothing merge

@aescling cat just make an MR for the things you want

@aescling if we had a functioning government, all of these things would be on the table right now

@aescling we need, as amendments to the constitution:

1. equal rights amendment
2. overturning of citizens united
3a. something to deal with gerrymandering
3b. probably something else to revise or replace the electoral college
4. the ability of congress to pass laws regulating and providing for healthcare
5. explicit right to privacy and/or autonomy in matters such as those necessary for abortion rights, gay rights, etc…
(6…??. clarification on frankly a bunch of points, from gun control to copyright and IP law)

@aescling there is no passage in the constitution allowing congress to pass bills in the name of human rights, and without Roe there is likewise nothing preventing states from passing bills which violate them

@aescling congress probably doesn't have the power to regulate this sort of thing with a bill though

@aescling a new amendment to the US constitution hasn't been proposed by Congress since 1978

@rabbithearth @thegibson open sourcing HRT may be fairly difficult but making the HRT currently in circulation go much, much further may be within reach https://stickies.neocities.org/stickies.html

« Many people have trouble getting hormones, whether because of cost, lack of local services, uncooperative or downright hostile medical professionals, and it completely sucks. People have talked about finding ways to synthesize hormones at home, and that is originally what I was planning to work on. But the more I thought about it, the more I became worried that it wasn't something just anyone was going to be able to do. Even if I could synthesize estradiol at home I would still want to purify and measure it, and all that would take a bunch of specialized equipment. Pain in the ass.

At some point I had the thought that estradiol is easy and cheap to make industrially, and that there is a lot of it out in the world already as tablets, so maybe I could take advantage of that by finding a better way to use what is already there. I started thinking about making a controlled release formulation. I figured even if I didn’t do as well as patches and ended up with a daily dose of 0.5 mg, it would still be only 1/8th of my prescribed daily dose of 4 mg! That would mean I would have enough estrogen in my possession for 8 times as many doses, and much more stable blood estradiol levels. It was interesting enough to be worth trying. »

(link describes a process for estradiol; similar methodology may be applicable to other HRT formulations though)

[do not take medical advice off the internet]