Unless there’s a detail in here that I’m missing, I think what you want is to have your POST endpoint set the cookie on the flask side via response.set_cookie.

Then you can write a @login_required decorator to add to your login-gated routes that confirms the JWT is valid and unexpired.

I’m a live and let-live type (as well as a former TCH employee), and fully support anyone who wants to detransition for whatever reason.

Yet there is simply zero need for a dedicated program at the end of the day — this is raw fascist political theater. Any run-of-the-mill pediatric endo and mental health provider are typically sufficient. It’s not that medically complex to go in reverse; you’re just trying to kickstart the HPGA back into gear and let endogenous hormones resume.

Devil’s advocate: Maybe this new group could treat a few weird cases where a kid was intersex and did have some corrective surgery they want undone? But nope, Texas Children’s already has a dedicated team of world-class urogenital anomaly specialists who are exactly the people you’d want for that.

They abuse the fuck out of their monopoly, basically.

They made changes to limit the usefulness of adblockers (Manifest V3), they tried to force a remote attestation API (WEI API) a few years back that would let them do stuff like fully block users who aren’t running locked-down operating systems from using online banking software or accessing Youtube, they added many chrome-specific web APIs that are extremely helpful for fingerprinting and lock users into the chrome ecosystem, etc.

And if you’re running stock chromium, there’s a fuckton of telemetry calling home to Google servers constantly.

It’s this feature-length video the music group Jungle did for one of their albums but never publicized: https://player.vimeo.com/video/846974200?h=d7fad03b63

Feels like it was some weird Kubrick side-project; just insane.

This is just normal in modern academia, tragically. The system is rotten to the core due to “publish or perish” and the players involved all know it.

The fact it got retracted is the surprising part.

Can you link us to the bug thread?

A few points are definitely overwrought, but holy fuck did the author put in the homework and effort when writing this one.

Excellent post; thanks for the share.

Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Dunkin, etc.

Like, why? Life is too short.

See also: Anheuser-Busch products

Yeah, it’s just mature software.

There’s not much to depth to flask login; it’s a small convenience layer. You can roll your own user management with werkzeug’s password_hash and cookies if you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

My two personal GOATs are A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Both won Hugos, so they shouldn’t be tough to find.

To give the quick pitch without spoilers, they’re hard scifi space operas, but heavily character-driven and focused on a high degree of grounded physical realism. On top of being a competent writer, the author (recently deceased) was an active compsci and math professor, so the books have this wonderful feeling of rootedness — in that the technology reflects creations that humans might realistically invent in the next few centuries if we don’t nuke ourselves up first. Also captures the vibe of how we ordinary humans would react and adapt to the consequences of our future tech.

It’s the fun adventure-narrative of Star Wars Episode 4 blended with the political intrigue and attention to space physics that The Expanse series leans into.

Might already be on your radar, but I’ll also toss out Vonnegut as a great choice for soft scifi… ignoring Timequake.

Cool spot regardless! I’m a native Texan and had my interest piqued by your post yesterday.

Given the location, these guys aren’t that particular cockroach-eating species, but they’re probably a similar parasitoid of some flavor (chrysididae).

E: After digging through some regional entomology references, I’m thinking these are blue mud daubers due to the elongated body and abdomen shape.

Not quite fair to call it hogwash, but pretty much every professional historian and academic I’ve heard talk about this book considers it a bad introductory source with dubious credibility. It’s not a good rec.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind#Scholarly_reception

Say what you will but he has factors in his favor: weight class, doughiness, and (absorbent) padding around the groin to prevent cheap shots.

There are no higher order thinking processes running in that brain either, just pure animalistic id. A concussion-inducing blow doesn’t make any difference if those brain cells were already dead.

Turns out rampaging through the Netherlands, the Rhineland principalities, northern Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal in the span of 20 years earns you some longstanding animosity.

There’s actually an interesting medical-history backstory to it.

The Way Out is basically a cribbed version of Dr. John Sarno’s Healing Back Pain, written in the early 90s IIRC. John Sarno was a bonafide practicing MD, but at the time he was writing, the basic notion of a mind body connection was still highly controversial. I.e., the premise that psychological stress could manifest in physical ways (like tight shoulders) wasn’t taken as a given.

Anyway, Sarno was well ahead of the curve, and while he had some good epidemiological and histological arguments, he was labeled a quack by the mainstream establishment. He had a chip on his shoulder over this, and as a result, his book has a notable new-age/anti-establishment/counterculture bend to it. Didn’t help that he overstated his case in some egregious ways (like speculatively tying TMS-related ischemia to neoplasm), even if most of it was well-argued and backed by solid clinical assertions.

Despite criticism from the old-school, the book was a marketing success, and in the ~35 years since publishing, the medical establishment has pulled a major about-face, and a big majority of PTs/orthos/related specialists now endorse the core ideas of his work.

Because Sarno actually cared about publicizing his ideas to a mass audience, the best option he had was the traditional PR route on talk shows like Oprah/Dr. Phil. NEEDLESS TO SAY: Oprah and Dr. Phil are not reliable sources of medical information, and have platformed absolute cranks, but this is a case where the a broken clock happened to be right and give an audience to someone wrongly spurned for being ahead of their time.

Same trend has carried down to the present day, but in a nutshell, that’s the reason why that book has that particular endorsement, even though it probably shouldn’t.

Back alley behind the dispensary.

You’re sweeping a lot under the rug with that first sentence: Society will adapt. Yeah sure, barring global catastrophe, it will. Doesn’t mean people won’t die and suffer in the process.

I’m making no claims about good vs. bad jobs here; people can self-actualize however they like in my book. Nor was I making any specific point about epidemiology of deaths of despair in the recent past, but I think that trend serves to illustrate the overall point.

Not really.

It’s all about the rate of change: neoliberal globalization has brought down wages across industries, so fewer good jobs are left, and the not-so-good ones barely keep up the same standard of living.

From a neutral historical perspective, some serious pearl-clutching about jobs is not ill-founded.

As you say, people in the past facing these circumstances didn’t all commit suicide. Yet some did it explicitly, some did it indirectly with alcohol or other vices, others just lived less fulfilling lives than they otherwise would have. Nonetheless, we are very much encouraging deaths of despair en masse with our current societal outlook.