Apytele
@Apytele@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
This is what I mean when I tell people this is a joke about creationism.
- Comment on Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local? 2 days ago:
Cool, but people can do this right now on the toilet while shitting. They can start working on that other stuff when they actually have time. Baby steps here.
- Comment on Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local? 2 days ago:
I said local. I would encourage you to vote democratic at the state and national level but that’s not what this is about. Everyone pretty much already knows who they’re voting for in that part of the election. It’s the mayors and school board people we need to flip now too though if we ever want to get out of this.
- Submitted 2 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 3 days ago:
Yes and no. I’ve had to insert a LOT of meaning to get a story worth any substance, and I’ve had to do a lot of editing to get good images. It’s really good at giving me a figure that’s 90% done, but that last 10% touching up still often takes me a day or so of work.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 week ago:
yes, screw the quadriplegics so you can feel good about staying on your moral high ground. Your hill to live and die on takes much higher priority than people who can’t shift their own body weight developing holes in their ass I can fit my fist in but still not be able to see the bone because it’s covered in maggots.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 week ago:
For a technology that could someday help a quadriplegic interact with the world fully and independently again I’m willing to tolerate some hitches. There’s a reason they didn’t pick some walkie talkie for their first human trial, and there’s a reason that kid looked motherucking hyped to have brand new technology that he’s the first human to even try installed directly into his fucking brain. The problem is abled people thinking this is fundamentally for them. Bby no, they’re trying to help people walk again, even if the legs are robots. You’re looking at the wrong risk-benefit profile.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 week ago:
Oh god I was worried they killed him horribly this is actually probably fine and almost an expected setback.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 2 weeks ago:
I would start by observing the places around you that serve food. Stop by 30 minutes to an hour before close and see when and where they typically throw things out and what condition the food is still in.
- Comment on Since 2016 the general publics knowledge about narcissism and manipulation has increased significantly. 2 weeks ago:
Deep down I know you’re not wrong but I poke little crescents in my palms every time I see an abusive person describe their victim as a narcissist. Especially when they’re twice as old.
- Comment on Since 2016 the general publics knowledge about narcissism and manipulation has increased significantly. 2 weeks ago:
Oh those terms making it into the public consciousness is such a fucking plague. You know how they say magic is just science you can’t understand and that say wizards have secret knowledge? Maybe they’re not hoarding the knowledge, maybe they just hate watching people beat each other half to death with the spine of their favorite spellbook. And I say this as someone who didn’t change my oil for a few years until it lit on fire. I still don’t change my oil, but I do remember to bring it back to the car wizard occasionally.
- Comment on Science Diagrams and infographics that look like shitposts. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, TY!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub 3 weeks ago:
Right like this is a mixed bag. I feel like my YouTube shorts addiction is fucking my attention span and I need to get back to watching long form stuff but like also a) fedi isn’t going to have server space for much else and b) it’ll bring the user base fedi will need to grow and maybe have the server space someday.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It is an excellent show of how giving away a huge amount of it has no functional effect on their life and literally just lowers their high score.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 3 weeks ago:
Tbh I wouldn’t mind it if it wasn’t purely combat focused, one of very few paths out of poverty, and if most of that budget wasn’t going straight to Boeing Lockheed and Northrup.
Having an option for young adults to live in a structured environment, maybe learn some trade skills, and most importantly have to learn to deal with other humans would give a lot of people a much needed leg up on their psychosocial development during that early adulthood. I also think it would do it better than the current college experience (especially for little shit rich kids but I’ll get to that).
I say this because I firmly believe a lot of people need a terrible first job as a young adult to finish calibrating their sense of adversity and problem solving. Something that’s not going to injure them or abuse them, but that’s juuust vaguely unpleasant enough to teach some distress tolerance without major physical or psychological trauma.
My first real adult job was awful (unfortunately also extremely unsafe, so not good for these purposes) but it really taught me a LOT about… a lot of things really. Conflict management. Situational awareness. Teamwork. How to lead other people in unsafe/crisis situations. Probably more I’m not thinking of. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but I can’t deny that the job made me who I am in a lot of ways that I’m actually really proud of. I still just about piss myself when talking to HR but a little wariness there isn’t exactly unwarranted.
The other thing about it is that it’s not really the poor kids who need it! They’ve probably been working some shit job since they were old enough to legally (and maybe a little before that)! I didn’t really grow up “rich” (especially since the wealth my parents enjoy now is due to them being hella stingy) but I definitely grew up sheltered, and that job definitely fixed my stupid ass.
- Comment on Are you also able to stutter in sign languages? 3 weeks ago:
I suspect they do but don’t know for sure. The reasons I would think they do are because they conceptualize other things almost eerily similarly when you account for the sensory difference. I’ve also seen some fascinating clinical examples (some of them actually from discussing the patients’ speech qualities with the interpreter since that’s part of my assessment).
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a patient who signed ASL as a first language and couldn’t write well. So where a hearing person might sound a word out even just silently feeling your lips move, they were fingerspelling off to the side to “feel out” how the words were spelled! It might seem really dumb of me but it really blew my mind to think about at the time.
I forget where I read about this one, but deaf schizophrenics tend to visually hallucinate disembodied signing hands or moving lips, instead of hallucinating auditory voices.
In another case I saw the patient had a lot of weird, wide jerky arm movements that could be really alarming to an unexpecting passerby. We knew the patient was deaf and signed, but we also weren’t certain it was ASL (long story). The interpreter then told us that whether or not the patient was typically able to speak ASL, they were not doing so at that time. I don’t recall if or how they would have checked for any of the other sign languages). But it turned out when they cleared up that they did in fact speak ASL, which means that was sign-salad! Word-salad is a classic symptom of psychosis and is exactly what it sounds like- seemingly random words and syllables just all mashed in together. AND IT HAPPENS IN SIGN LANGUAGE TOO BECAUSE IT’S ALSO A LANGUAGE AND THAT’S FASCINATING!
Anyway I really should go to sleep I work tonight!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I seem to remember cohagen being the antagonist of total recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger gets his memory wiped at a couple different points and goes to mars and meets a prostitute with three tiddies but IM too lazy to look any of that up.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 4 weeks ago:
Guess who’s also tanking the Healthcare system and who’s letting them.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 4 weeks ago:
You can also buy tylenol for cheap in america, that’s why it’s a ridiculous example of how health costs have to be inflated to account for the way insurance reimburses which leaves uninsured people SOL but also occasionally leaves insured people SOL if they find some silly little reason not to cover something like they used the brand name instead of the generic or they used injectable vs pill or whatever the fuck else.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 4 weeks ago:
Nursing school is less intense in that sense, but it is absolutely mean girl boot camp I shit you not literal cliques form and I stg they’re literally adults and they do it anyway it is WILD to watch.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 59 comments
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
Stop explaining shit. Show them a fucking picture. They’re artists more than engineers, they’re visual/spatial people. Find a picture online of what you want. Once you’ve gotten a really good, absolutely chefs’ kiss prefect cut, take a picture each of all four sides and the top, then start showing barbers those instead.
- Comment on They filled the relaxation room with spare patient mattresses so we slept on them. 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. You can store the mattresses in there, but you can’t stop us from making the best of it!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world | 9 comments
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- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 1 month ago:
Oh yeah the decision of whether to practically strip naked in the Walmart bathroom is a hard one, especially considering the higher likelihood that someone is attempting to covertly film me. You can also attempt to shift one side of the crotch to the side enough, but then you’re risking getting piss all over your clothes if you don’t do it well enough.
- Comment on Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies? 1 month ago:
It could be something as harmless as being photosensitive or motion sickness. It could be completely benign and you might live for years with this one weird quirk.
You could also be having seizure auras, small strokes, having a psychotic break, or something else out of 500 other possibilities of things that will hurt, kill, or just generally terrorize you for years to come if not treated.
Go to a doctor. I would start with a neurologist, but depending on your locality and if you do or don’t have health insurance you may need to see some kind of generalist first like a family medicine doctor/general practitioner. There’s also a lot of overlap between them and urgent care clinics these days. You would just ask if they can write you a referral.
I know, for instance, American health insurances sometimes won’t pay for a specialist visit until a family medicine doctor/General practitioner says it’s fine because somehow having to see two doctors is more efficient and saves more money. I’ve given up on sense in such things. My faith in the system finally took its last breath when I drove my fiance two hours to try to get insurance to cover a test and several hours of bureaucratic nonsense later they still wouldn’t pay. At the time he had medicaid, which in our state is overseen by a branch of one of the state’s existing Healthcare insurers. Does that sound corrupt as fuck? It really, really is.
My fiance needed a specific test, and the insurer said we needed to get it done through his primary care physician and said the preassigned one was on the back of the insurance card that my fiance had gotten a year or so before when he successfully qualified for medicaid. We could also call and have the primary doctor changed… after finding a primary care physician who could afford to take new medicaid patients! (ha)
Anyway so the preassigned doctor was two hours away from my fiance’s home address, which was still the same from when he had applied and qualified. I figured they just didn’t have any doctors who would take medicaid that were closer. I thought maybe that was just me being pessimistic, but no. American insurance companies have a gift for malignant apathy. My assumption that they just didn’t care was disturbingly generous. No, they were actively fucking me with the apathy. It sounds impossible, but American insurance companies are out there braving new frontiers of malicious apathy every day!
(Don’t even get me started on how they exploit the mentally ill’s executive dysfunctions by putting as many phone calls and forms between them and their mental Healthcare as possible. If they give up and don’t receive care, aetna and united and whoever else still get money from the government for “overseeing” medicaid benefits, but never actually have to pay for any care. It’s an infinite money glitch and the only cost is people you can deny neglecting until they killed themselves.)
When we arrived, the receptionists informed us that this doctor had not taken medicaid in years as in multiple as in before the Medicaid distributor had ever printed the card. They apparently had a list somewhere of doctors that at some point in the last decade had taken medicaid, and they were just scrolling down the list assigning them at random. And they were never calling anyone to see if they still took their insurance or, I don’t know, checking it against their own fucking books.
And again, you WANT to think it’s apathy and it probably is at the low levels like claims and customer service representatives. They probably beat the empathy out of those workers. But they’re taking a government check for each medicaid recipient and flossing their asscracks with the money. Then the recipients eventually give up on navigating through 15 pages of a cyberpunk DMV of a website with a sitemap that’s inscrutable to anyone but the highest of bureaucrats and a phone tree where when you get a human to talk to they fill out the same form again and give you a case number that the next person you talk to will have no idea what to do with.
…and then they just get to keep the money that they were supposed to be using to get people healthcare. They provide less care, and they get to keep more money. They literally net MORE money the worse of a job they do. And Medicaid patients who can’t afford to drive far, or a lawyer, or even to just miss a day at work, make GREAT targets. Add a mental illness into that mix, the kind that are way more likely under the stresses of poverty and also way more likely to lead to it.
Infinite money glitch.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 2 months ago:
Yes but suggestion: go on a night they’re doing an event like a board game night so you’re not just wandering around and have a reason to sit and interact for a while.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 2 months ago:
…you realize that means you in particular actually NEEDED to get searched, right? I was about to say “oh you got caught up in the rules that keep other people from killing themselves” but no, you personally actually are why those rules exist then.