boboblaw [he/him, they/them]

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Covid made it clear what the answer is whenever there’s a choice between millions of lives and making sure line go up . The negative consequences are termed “the cost of doing business”.

We saw that one of the primary responses to COVID by the government was “stop testing”, which has been implemented with broad bipartisan support.

If the data doesn’t change the outcome of the decision, then it’s not a tool but a problem

Recently experienced something similar. Ended up having to tweak the working directory.

If intelligently designed sunsets were an option, I’d probably like those more. You raise a good point, we might just like all these “natural beauties” because we haven’t anything else.

I’ve often wondered why that is. There is a general effect in the medical industry that tends to make people numb/calloused, but I assume the magnitude varies. I think management is able to more effectively weaponize the empathy of admin staff against them, just like nurses and EMTs (who in the US are not paid a living wage). The most fucked up combo has to be being paid peanuts and being constantly made to feel responsible for life or death outcomes, while not actually having any decision-making power.

On top of that, advancement in medical administration seems to depend on being able to act like a sociopath. So you eventually either burn out horribly with nothing to show for it, or you become a monster and make the big bucks.

urban areas yielding better returns limiting access to the quantity and quality of medical care for rural patients

In the US at least, there’s also a disparity between doctors in the inner city (that’ll take your insurance) who treat a high volume of the urban poor, and doctors in the suburbs whose patients are whiter and wealthier.

One’s way less likely to listen anything you say, and more likely to be infantilising.

Too many instances of multiple doctors failing to catch something that’d you’d get from googling your basic medical history. Shocking levels of incompetence that lead to so many people suffering for no reason.

I hadn’t actually looked into the project, and just responded, with a knee-jerk reaction, to a no-name Signal fork.

Having glanced at it now, I can confidently say “lol. lmao”.

We took out the Perfect Forward Secrecy and replaced it with Blockchain™.

Founder and CTO is 12 and wants to talk to you about Buttcoin.

Damn, Hanlon’s Razor strikes again.

Do they not get enough from the CIA?

Yes, ebooks too. If you’re going to share those, learn how remove any identifying metadata. There are plugins for Calibre for this purpose.

The most famous astronomer today can’t STFU on Twitter…

Cinco de Mayo is probably “5 mayos”.

Synonym for lint is fuzz.

It’s a reference to Micah Xavier Johnson, who killed 5 cops.

Zoomer Riddler over here.

Do you condemn Hamas Russia?

Isn’t that a common problem in cases of a married couple doing an open relationship. Like, do we tell our friends and family? And if we don’t, what happens if they find out?

Or if you’re married, and considering proposing an open relationship to your spouse, there’s some chance that it’s taken very badly.

This probably depends on how old you are and where you live tho.