phdepressed

@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Shipping probably already started.

  2. B2B deals will have fine print about when units will arrive and be “released”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gold, silver, etc was not valuable until we had a society that had currency. In societal collapse we’re back to bartering and Gold is worthless except as a fancy trinket. The value of gold is a status symbol of having so much you can give away actual value for frivolous bullshit. The average peasant farmer can’t make use of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  John Smith

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake.

  We’re only in April, of year 1, this gonna be a long mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes “hydrohomies” had to change after they got too popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit allows racism or sexism just fine without slurs or with slurs depending on the subreddit.

  You see it mostly on the more political and gamer/incel type communities there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen his doctor, worse crazy eyes than Kash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf the bond market getting rocked was in large part due to Canada, Europe, and Japan doing coordinated but relatively minor sales of the bonds they hold as part of the tariff response. Carney probably understands global finances more than any other world leader for getting that done the way he did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just need enough people to keep themselves unlynched and heinously wealthy. So many once at least moderately intelligent people use AI and are actively making themselves dumber as a result. You wonder why there aren’t riots its because there is enough information control. It is only once these purposefully misinformed people can see real effects to themselves e.g. tariffs effect on investments that they maybe break out of their echo chamber at least temporarily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to imagine when reality keeps showing otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of it is laziness but on the other hand my boss will often cc me on irrelevant emails, rather infamously sometimes forward an entire 20 responses email chain and tell you to read it, and send 8 paragraphs of questions with only one related to me. Frankly, it is overwhelming and a waste of time. I’ve started not responding and my productivity and mental health have improved.

  Emails and texts need to be succinct. The higher up the chain you go the more true this is. The higher up the chain the more emails you get think 200+. If someone writes a paragraph you’re skimming for relevance generally.

  Tldr; professional communication does not need length. Justify your questions separately from actual bulleted or numbered questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Think my tracker is behind only shows me down like 5% from peak right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even liberals have been saying that now in modern times. Isolationism is a prime Republican message for a reason.

  The line must go up so lobbying+no spines has ensured we haven’t do anything about it. There have been are a couple rare earth mines here in the US but it hasn’t been profitable and has been heavily subsidized. We needed some other source ready before doing something like this and we don’t have it. So it’s just stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gimli Giblets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t kink shame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're cooked, I'm hooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With Medicare and social security cuts how old you are doesn’t matter anymore(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As other have said Tinder was the biggest shift and the prime reason as stated is there’s a lot of fear that gets removed when you know you’re both there to date and you both at least superficially like each other.

  This was before it was enshittified. Superlikes weren’t a thing, you had unlimited swipes and the algorithm tried to get you a match. Post-enshittification the algorithm tries to keep you hooked and paying. So there’s been a slight shift back to in-person but life is busy and expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shift happened well before 2019/2020.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking - Trump Resigns!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cory Booker just filibustered for 25h against the social security and medicare/aid cuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re a lot better in terms of tracking. No white out, backdating, loss in natural disaster. Better privacy as who looks is logged and requires note of reason for a non-provider to look. Tracking helps bill you yes but it can also help fight if records don’t match.

  Even if records can’t be directly imported across systems it can be sent a lot faster and easier which is important to efficient, effective care. If you stay within a given hospital/provider system integration works pretty dang well.

  Paper records are worse in many ways getting rid of them was a big push of the ACA for a reason. Obama admin did choose implementation before integration at the time but that is a reform to what exists you don’t have to reinvent the wheel so to speak.

  The insurance dildo is a mostly separate issue from ehr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Doctor's Screen Time Is Hobbling Health Care.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Electronic health records when used appropriately are miles better than paper. More than half the article talks about the benefits before noting the two problems that paper does not solve. Which is crossing records from one system to another and the bloat that has been added as different specialties need to input different things. There will always be room for improvement but saying EHRs are a problem fully neglects that they are still a massive improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Teams is annoying because even when you don’t use it, it prioritizes itself and opens making it take longer to get to the programs I actually need and use. This is only a few seconds on new computers but can be minutes on older ones. First world problem sure but my computer should run how I want it.

  I’ve also never been able to get the web version to work there’s no error code it just doesn’t connect. IT doesn’t know and the Microsoft guy just said to use the app, which goes back to the above. If it’s going to be an app then leave it as an app if you have a web version then maybe it should fucking work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porn button might actually be runner-up to Esc.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  youtube.com/shorts/SsDyNOB1hZs

  P keyboard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 25,000 coding sequences and a lot more non-coding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That allows visualization of PCRed product, which is a far cry from whole genome sequencing. You can visualize a target at a time with no sequence info. Using it for sequences would be extremely tedious and require a lot of runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You still have to send it somewhere, at home kits are just about collecting the sample not sequencing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every morning when I read the latest news⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What movie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my point, this is real world data, its all garbage, and no amount of LLM rehashing fixes that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Creatinin in urine was used as a measure of kidney function for literal decades despite African Americans having lower levels despite worse kidneys by other factors. Creatinine level is/was a primary determinant of transplant eligibility. Only a few years ago some hospitals have started to use inulin which is a more race and gender neutral measurement of kidney function.

  No algorithm matters if the input isn’t comprehensive enough and cost effective biological testing is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, still ~same amount of beer. A us pint is only 16oz which is only 473ml.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they gave him a special exception for the usual 65 cutoff.