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A sweeping Russian draft law to ban legally or medically changing gender has been approved by the lower house of parliament in its final reading, part of a crackdown against LGBTQ+ rights under the president, Vladimir Putin. The bill would bar Russians from changing their gender on official identity documents, which had been legal since 1997. Health workers would be banned from “performing medical interventions designed to change the sex of a person”, including surgery and prescribing hormone therapy. State Duma deputies added provisions to the bill in its second reading, approved on Thursday, to ban transgender people from adopting or fostering children, and to annul their marriages if one of the couple subsequently changes gender. The green light from the Duma all but guarantees the bill’s ultimate passage into law. Doctors and transgender rights advocates have cautioned that the ban would create a black market for hormone substitutes and lead to an increase in attempted suicides among young people unable to access medical care. “For children and teenagers this situation looks like absolute hopelessness,” Elle Solomina, a Russian transgender woman living in Georgia, said before the Duma resumed consideration of the bill this week. “They will not be able to get any help.” The ban marks the latest phase in a rollback of rights for gay and transgender people in Russia. Putin has said repeatedly that LGBTQ+ lifestyles run counter to traditional Russian values, and the west’s acceptance of them is evidence of moral decay. Last December, Putin signed a law expanding restrictions on the promotion of “LGBT propaganda”, effectively banning any public expression of queer life, in public and online, or in films, books or advertising. The Duma speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, called gender-affirming surgery a “path to the degeneration of the nation”, writing on the Telegram messenger app on Friday that the law “protects our citizens (and) children”. Bills must pass three readings in the State Duma lower house of parliament before being sent to the upper house and then to Putin for signing. https://web.archive.org/web/20230714105025/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/14/russian-duma-passes-draft-law-banning-gender-change
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Really depends where you are, in temperate climates the grasses in the US tend to be European, but in hotter climates these can be from hotter places in the world including Asia.
Most of my experience is in temperate climates in Northern/Western Europe (for specific plant species info), but I'm happy to help answer management questions in general. I'm also happy to help put together resources for the community if there's any plans for that.
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More info about the legislation passed here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_3746
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Edit: A bit more detail, if you're interested: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_22_3746
I've noticed that at least one community from mander.xyz hasn't loaded since the update a few days ago. Here's an example: https://beehaw.org/c/nativeplantgardening@mander.xyz?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New https://mander.xyz/c/nativeplantgardening?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New I'm not sure if this is happening elsewhere. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I think that's Melilotus officinalis, which was introduced to the US as a forage crop. The common name is sweet clover because the leaves contain coumarin, which smells like vanilla.
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This will go to a vote in the Dail tomorrow. If you’re in Ireland, would you consider emailing or calling your TDs today?
As Ireland is such a small country, it only takes a few people to call or email for them to take note.
Find your TDs listed here (edited link): https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/
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That's a great idea, I'll do this too.
Having also worked somewhere that was under GDPR, weaponised bureaucracy like this can really be used to consume staff resources.
Edit: it looks like Reddit have changed their data request form. To make a full GDPR request, with the additional data in the template, you'll need to email your request to Reddit (redditdatarequests@reddit.com).
You can not only request your data, but also request information regarding how your data is processed and also about psudo-anonymised data. These are much harder to automate a response to.
See here for examples from the template:
- the purposes of the processing;
- the categories of personal data concerned;
- the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
- where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
- where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
- the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for me.
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This will go to a vote in the Dail tomorrow. If you're in Ireland, would you consider emailing or calling your TDs today? As Ireland is such a small country, it only takes a few people to call or email for them to take note.
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Not a stupid question. Small pots will freeze much harder than a tree in soil. You need to be more careful, especially with trees that are not as cold tolerant.
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You can still makes GDPR request for your data too see if they hold further data on you. See the template here for what I mean: https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
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You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request when you’d like your account removed. This will use even more resources.
If they do not respond to either the data request or deletion request (or do not fulfil these requests fully), you can make a complaint with your local data protection office or the one Reddit is based in (maybe Ireland?). Make sure you invoke GDPR using the correct language for your request.
Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
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You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request when you’d like your account removed.
If they do not respond to either the data request or deletion request (or do not fulfil these requests fully), you can make a complaint with your local data protection office or the one Reddit is based in (maybe Ireland?). Make sure you invoke GDPR using the correct language for your request.
Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
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Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request.
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Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request.
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Here’s a template letter of how to do so under GDPR. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments.
https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
You could consider making a data request first and after they respond, make a deletion request.
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Here’s a template letter of how to do so. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments!
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If Reddit failed to delete data after a GDPR deletion request, then yes, they would be in violation of GDPR.
Consider requesting and then deleting your data under GDPR if you are located in the EU.
"How to Delete your Reddit Account and All Data under GDPR/CCPA" https://thomashunter.name/posts/2023-06-19-how-to-delete-reddit-account-gdpr-ccpa
Even if you've deleted you posts or account, these might be soft deletions. So you should still apply under GDPR.
Here's a template letter of how to do so. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments!
https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
(I'm reposting this info in multiple places)
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Template letter to request your data or delete your data under GDPR here if you need it: https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/