phdepressed
@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 3 hours ago:
With Medicare and social security cuts how old you are doesn’t matter anymore(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
- Comment on [deleted] 8 hours 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] 8 hours ago:
Shift happened well before 2019/2020.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 1 day 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. 2 days 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. 4 days 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 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
youtube.com/shorts/SsDyNOB1hZs
P keyboard
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
About 25,000 coding sequences and a lot more non-coding.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, they gave him a special exception for the usual 65 cutoff.
- Comment on How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? 4 weeks ago:
This is part of the reason 9-5 used to be paid well enough to be salary instead of hourly. When you’re salary and have decent rapport with your boss taking off for these things is just a heads up I’ll be in late or I’m leaving early. No worry about using time off, PTO, etc. As wages have stagnated/been suppressed over the decades now positions that should be salary are instead hourly and as you and anyone working them can note it doesn’t work well.
Fixing that requires a societal/cultural upheaval which has been rumbling for at least a couple decades but things seem to be going backwards right now despite unions getting stronger in the past few years than they had in decades.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 4 weeks ago:
I think we already did reputation wise. Economically, give it a bit longer cause I think we’re playing great depression 2: techie boogaloo.
- Comment on Maybe I should live next to a blueberry farm or something. 5 weeks ago:
Driscoll sucks anyway.
- Comment on How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history 5 weeks ago:
Internet says gdp of 23.34B so 6ish% of GDP.
- Comment on As consumer delinquencies rise, U.S. economic growth increasingly powered by the wealthy 5 weeks ago:
The last time minimum wage was raised was in 2009 under Obama with a Democratic congress. The last time progress was made on healthcare was again under Obama with a democratic congress.
The reason these changes weren’t more is because of Republicans and “moderate” democrats. If you want more progressive representation we either need to vote and do work for those candidates in elections including primaries or we need to create a new party that doesn’t just split the liberal/left votes allowing Republican wins.
Essentially RCV or some other form of voting than what we currently have is the best chance of seeing real change and representation.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 1 month ago:
I toast my sandwiches. So yes, in a manner of speaking yes.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 1 month ago:
It’s not even cooked after?
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 1 month ago:
Hate and hamburger diet ages you.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing Testing Dropping AI Labels From AI Answers. 1 month ago:
They put too much money in it.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 month ago:
Buy a company mostly with other people’s money (he paid ~15B of the 44B offer) lose a lot, 70% or more but use it to win an election and gain 200B in profit.
Musk is a salesman and he’s good at getting investors to get behind his crap. He’s never produced actual value but that doesn’t matter to stock values apparently.
- Comment on How long before Trusk/Mump try to introduce Droit du seigneur? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, viagra exists.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 1 month ago:
We used to do the vitamin c but then were like its too easy to get elsewhere why bother.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 1 month ago:
They’re a cult, everyone within the cult implicitly agrees on the reality that matches what the leader(s) say regardless of what the leader does. There are many pipelines into the cult, gamers/incels, being an outcast for some reason, the general shitty state of things, etc they all lead to a desire for things to be better in some way. The leader promises this and everyone in the cult agrees that following the leader will fix these things somehow. If the leader does something contrary it is justified simply by saying that you as not the leader don’t understand. There’s 5d chess being played and while you’re awesome and good with 4d chess because you’re in the cult only the leader and some of the higher ups know the 5d strategy. Don’t worry and trust the leader. Drink the Flavor aid, your kids and friends already did.
- Comment on Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok 1 month ago:
I mean any timeline without this 2nd Trump term would be a heck of a lot nicer.