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by jleyank 5 days ago
Some folks find Howdy Arabia to be a pleasant, rewarding place to live. To me, I think roughly half of the US working population would dispute this, as they would dispute a discussion of any other place. It's just that the disputants change based on where you're talking about.

It's warm. It's dry, and there's some evidence the power system isn't up to the task. Their call.
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testing22321 5 days ago
> It's just that the disputants change based on where you're talking about.

It would be good if everyone agreed that taking away basic human rights from women is a bad thing, but I guess were way past that.

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b0rtb0rt 4 days ago
what “basic human rights” do women not have in texas?
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Timon3 4 days ago
The most obvious recent example is the right to receive lifesaving medical treatment. It's no coincidence that between 2019 and 2023, there was "a 33% increase in maternal mortality rates in Texas, compared with a decrease of 7.5% nationally during the same time," and the "rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester."[0]

If you have a non-viable pregnancy, but there's still a heartbeat, Texas will try to force you to carry to term anyways. In the best case this causes you immense emotional suffering, in the worst case it means that doctors will often hold back lifesaving medical care until your life is in imminent danger - but waiting this long causes your chance of injury/death to rise sharply. Unfortunately Texas also doesn't want you to receive this lifesaving medical care out of state, so anyone helping you is liable to be sued for $10,000[1].

No matter what your position is regarding the intent of the law, we can hopefully all agree that the changes in maternal mortality are horrible, and that nobody should be forced to risk death just so they can see their non-viable pregnancy die before their eyes[2].

[0]: https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-...

[1]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/texas-abortion-law-10-000-...

[2]: https://www.ms.now/health-mindset/was-torture-texas-mom-reco...

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gigatexal 5 days ago
"Howdy Arabia" is gold. I legit laughed out loud.

I'd much rather companies that incorporated in Delaware than the Wild West that is Texas: I want to have peace of mind knowing the company is not trying to get away with shady stuff like Elon is with his companies.

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