Nimuë, The Lady of The Lake, is an enchantress who lives in a realm beneath the lake surrounding Avalon. In the legend, she gives King Arthur the magical sword Excalibur, kidnaps and raises Sir Lancelot after his father’s death, and imprisons Merlin in a tree.
Depicted by Lancelot Speed for The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, 1912.
Anonymous asked:
PART 1/3 I saw one of your followers ask a question regarding how bill C-11 and the YouTube algorithm affects creators, so just wanted to explain. One might assume that if a creator lives in Canada, that their main views already comes from viewers living in Canada and this is simply not true. The YT algorithm works through many ways 1. being through engagement which is measured by views, comments, average view time, clicks, likes and subscription after watching a video.
PART 2/3 If a creator living here gets most of their views from let’s say Japan, and YT shows this content to Canadians ONLY because of C-11, then the video will not be recommended to other people if said video doesn’t get enough views, etc. from Canadian viewers. This means that the algorithm will stop suggesting the video to others and as such, the creator will see a drop in their income from YT which is paid through advertising. And you get paid through advertising every X amount of views.
Part 3/3 The difference btw before C-11 and now is that content is restricted to Canada so all eggs are in one basket in the sense that all Canadian creators would have to hope that Canadians actually will watch their content when in most cases their viewership comes from other countries. A lot of people who have small businesses, people with disabilities, people who share their culture, arts, etc rely on YouTube, but with this Bill their viewership and income may see a huge drop.
Anonymous asked:
To hopefully ease some concerns regarding MAID, I will say they are trying to implement laws to ensure patients aren't forced into it.
Like, you are able to withdraw consent at ANY point, you are not to be pressured or coerced into the procedure and must have volunteered yourself (though we know that is likely to over looked), and they are required to give you other options prior to allowing you to proceed.
That being said, I do know it is going to be tough on the individual to enforce these with their doctor so I really advise everyone put pressure on your local government and health authority.
The only reason some of the laws surrounding this have been change at all is because of advocates like Audrey Parker from Halifax, NS.
These safeguards don’t really mean shit when people feel that the only option for them is MAID.
Governments will reject them for housing, disability aids and support and make it so that you qualify for MAID but not these essential services required to live a bearable life. This is coercion and eugenics.
You can say its their choice all you want, but a lot of disabled people are being given a choice to a life of poverty or death, which is hardly a choice at all.
The government will be expanding MAID to people with mental health issues who are not likely to die soon in March. This is only going to get worse.
If you can apply and qualify for MAiD but can’t apply and qualify for ODSP, that right there is the fucking problem.
ODSP also being well below poverty levels and people routinely go without basic essentials is teh fucking problem.
Until we actually expand access to care and social services, expanding MAiD is coercive and will funnel people who otherwise wouldn’t need it into the program.
This isn’t disabled people wanting to be free of pain, this is disabled people in pain wanting to live being denied every fucking possible avenue to live a life with any form of dignity and basic human respect.
This is the government explicitly saying we will not keep you alive, but we will help you die.
Safeguards be fucking damned, they are not working and they will continue to fail as long as our society deems disabled lives not worth living.
I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.
Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.
Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.
This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.
Stop being so dramatic. If you don’t want MAID, don’t submit a request for it. It’s that simple. The government is not just killing people randomly.
That’s a lot of words for “I don’t understand how coercion works.”
Asshole. :)
For all the people going “sources?!” or who are trying to claim that this is fearmongering:
This article(1) here, among others listed below, will help us set the stage upon which this atrocity, re: MAiD is taking place:
between 2018 and Sept 2022, the provincial disability pension in Ontario, the most-populated province in Canada, was a) frozen, and b) $1169/mo. for a single adult
never fucking mind that inflation went fucking bananas during the pandemic, and that the offered pandemic income supports discriminated against disabled people(2), as the only ones eligible to receive pandemic funding were those who worked and made over a certain amount of money, so help was largely unavailable
The actual help the federal govt offered was a paltry and insulting one-time payment of up to $600, but only if you had valid paperwork in before Sept of 2020, and weren’t receiving other benefits(3)(4)
in Sept 2022, Ford’s Conservative govt raised that amount by a whole 5%, which is absolutely less than what the cost of living went up by, to $1228/mo
if you live with someone else, as a co-renter, you will be screened to determine if your relationship with that person is what they deem to be “spousal”; if it is found to be such, their finances will be investigated. If they make too much money, you will not receive benefits, bc you’re officially that person’s problem, not the govt’s
if you rent a room in a house, you will receive less than the $1228/mo., bc you are considered a “lodger”, not a “renter”, and they will dock your shelter allowance accordingly
Currently, any disabled person on ODSP who works is allowed to earn $200/mo before clawbacks begin, which happen at a rate of fifty cents per dollar for every dollar over that $200 cap
ex: if someone earned $250, then their income for the month would be cut by $25; meaning that, functionally, their additional income for the month is $225
Ford plans to “help” this terrible situation, by raising the earnings cap, while also increasing the clawback rate: now, you can make up to $1000/mo, but the clawback is now seventy-five cents on every dollar made over that.
there are currently about 378, 145 people on ODSP, the provincial disability support, in the province
of those, an estimated 25, 000 are working
those who are not working will not receive a further increase in benefits
this means, functionally, that 6.6% of those on ODSP in Ontario will see some sort of positive change to their situation
over 200 advocacy groups are shrieking at Ford to pretend to have some humanity and double the ODSP rates; Ford says “no”
Add to this that Ford cancelled the Basic Income Pilot Project when he was first elected, pre-pandemic, despite the fact that the data being collected indicated it was doing EXACTLY what it was supposed to (5). And that, when first elected in 2018, his plan was to tighten restrictions on ODSP, making it harder to qualify for, while simultaneously increasing the clawback rate on those who work while on welfare, and slashing the planned increase to welfare rates(6)–a govt assistance program that has some really horrifying requirements, by the way(7).
So now that the absolute horror of trying to survive as a disabled person despite our provincial leader believing that people on social assistance programs “have their hands in the public trough”(8) has been established as one of the stages upon which this MAiD controversy is playing out, here, have even MORE sources about the eugenics of all this specifically:
This article (12) discusses the issues in depth with why making MAiD available to people with mental illness–whose only qualifying illness is mental illness–is deeply problematic, which includes the fact that wait lists for mental health help–if it is available at all, and if it is covered for you through insurance/benefits of some kind–can take anywhere from four months to nearly a year and a half, and as soon as you’re referred to another service, you’re put on another wait list. It also acknowledges that Canada’s guidelines are the least stringent of countries that offer medical assistance in dying, and that laxity is most pronounced when it comes to applicants that are applying for mental health reasons. This article (13) points out that, while the current applications are reasonably low, they are rising quickly, and 81% of written applications for MAiD are being approved. Of those who were not approved, 2% withdrew their application, 13% died before being approved, and 4% were rejected. Four percent actual rejection rate. I don’t know about you, but that terrifies me.
Especially when this article (14) backs up all of the above, and offers further examples of people offered–or even given–MAiD–in inappropriate circumstances, such as against family member’s wishes when the family member was checked into a mental health ward (15), or when a veteran was advised to consider MAiD when he was seeking treatment. What’s worse is that there’s no way for a family to review the decision-making process, or a method by which to hold the doctors and institutions responsible for suspected wrongful euthanasia deaths. This happened despite the supposed safeguards in place, as well as a palliative care physician stating outright that poverty, not pain or suffering, is driving disabled people to seek help ending their lives, and getting that help, because Canada has the most permissive guidelines in the world and provincial governments that are happy to mandate that disabled people who can’t work live in legislated poverty. It also mentions that seniors have reported being given a choice between nursing homes and MAiD, which is ageist in addition to ableist, and a whole new level of horrifying in an already-appalling state of affairs.
And, in case anyone wants to argue that still isn’t eugenics, somehow, this Vancouver palliative physician, Dr. Margaret Cottle sums it up pretty nicely(16): “In British Columbia it takes less paperwork and less assessment to get MAiD than it does to receive government-supported home oxygen.” That article also states that the Canada Health Act enshrines assistance in dying as a right–but palliative care, the kind of medical care you get at the end of your life, is not equally enshrined. When your choices are “suffer because the govt and society has decided against supporting you in accessing the basics of what you need to live comfortably” or “quick, easy, assured death”, the latter is not a freely-made choice. The bodily autonomy to be able to die with dignity is important, yes, but this? This system, as it exists right now? Is so fucking broken that the only reason there isn’t rioting in the streets about it is because disabled people are the minority group it’s still socially acceptable to discriminate against. And because disabled folk, due to, y’know, being disabled, have a hard time mobilizing to riot on our own behalf.
Oh, and let’s not forget: the COVID-19 pandemic is a mass-disabling event(17). Post-viral illnesses and long COVID are real, and because of the issues in getting diagnosed, the rates could be anywhere from 10%-30% of people who’ve contracted COVID. Which seems relevant, here.
