Joshi
@Joshi@aussie.zone
Clean hands, Cool head, Warm heart.
GP, Gardener, Radical progressive
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 day ago:
Like every new technology that is hailed as changing everything it is settling into a small handful of niches.
I use a service called Consensus which will unearth relevant academic papers to a specific clinical question, in the past this could be incredibly time consuming.
I also sometimes use a service called Heidi that uses voice recognition to document patient encounters, its quite good for a specific type of visit that suits a rigid template but 90% of my consults i have no idea why they are coming in and for those i find it not much better than writing notes myself.
Obviously for creative work it is near useless.
- Comment on 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet 4 weeks ago:
I dislike this idea that government run is bad.
I recently changed my name and had to call several government agencies and found them competent and helpful every time.
- Comment on What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results? 4 weeks ago:
I’m a GP, here’s my opinion
Can’t have eaten/drank anything for the last half hour
- in principle could alter your BP but I wouldn’t worry too much unless it’s quite a large meal
Feet flat on the floor
- yes, this is important
Lying down but sitting up
- for some purposes docs want lying/sitting/standing but for home measurements do them sitting
Back against the chair
- yes
Don’t cross your legs/ankles
- yes, feet flat on the floor
Only use your left arm
- myth, if there is a significant difference between your left and right arms there is something funky going on with your subclavian arteries
Hand facing upward/downward
- not super important
Keep your arm down/raised
- keep your arm relaxed, ideally resting on a table or desk at 90deg or hanging straight down
Most important is be relaxed, sit still, don’t move your arm, of you get a high reading calm yourself and take it once more then leave it.
- Comment on What is the best take your blood pressure to get the most accurate results? 4 weeks ago:
I have taken my own BP manually, it ain’t easy
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 4 weeks ago:
You’re probably talking about the Chinese social credit score, not a replacement for currency but is up and working.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 1 month ago:
This should be printed and mailed to every registered voter. Thankyou
- Measles was eliminated from Australia. Experts warn US and Asia outbreaks may bring back this ‘heat-seeking missile’www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
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- 'A solution in search of a problem': Doubts over Dutton's citizenship-stripping pushwww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 2 months ago:
Modern guns a extremely precisely engineered devices that are incredibly easy to use, for better or worse. I know modern sporting bows are also but it’s no contest in my opinion.
I’ve shot both, bows as a complete amateur and relatively competent with a rifle. There is no question that a modern gun is way easier to pick up as an amateur and hit what you want to hit and I cannot possibly believe there are anything other than extremely niche uses where a bow is superior.
- New report skewers Coalition’s contentious nuclear plan – and reignites Australia’s energy debatetheconversation.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 19 comments
- Comment on Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message? 2 months ago:
Spoiler: The fact that the ALP is Neoliberal is kind of the point of the article.
- Neoliberalism is dead. So why haven’t Australia’s leaders got the message?johnquigginblog.substack.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia 2 months ago:
Cross post from lemmy.ml/c/dataisbeautiful
Thanks !aptoast@lemmy.ml
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- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 3 months ago:
It’s really common to get weird dreams when quitting smoking. Especially if you’re using nicotine replacement and extra especially if you’re using a patch and not taking it off before bed.
Changes in the amount of nicotine in your blood disrupts REM, it’s more fragmented and this seems to have the effect of more intense dreams.
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 3 months ago:
It is fine, unless you want a brand that doesn’t have a deal with Bunnings, or unless you want garden furniture that is remotely durable, or unless you want some advice from someone who has experience in hardware.
Back when Bunnings was one of several large chains and small local hardwares were much more common it was easy, even Bunnings was made better by the competition. Monopolies are bad for consumers.
- Comment on aussie pride worlwide 3 months ago:
I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.
It’s a total monopoly that has run all of it’s competition out of business and over the past 20 years has become progressively shitter at customer service.
I miss other hardware stores 😔
- Comment on Australia (Act) Day (annual repost) 3 months ago:
I have always thought we should go back to our earliest national day of Wattle Day.
Australia day is hugely problematic, Jan 26 ought to be a National day of mourning and Jan 27 our national day of reconciliation.
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- Comment on We need faster speed limits in Australia - and I'm not saying that because I'm a hoon | Opinion - Car News 3 months ago:
States the statistics back this up, provides no statistics.
- Comment on Are affordable apartments easy and cheap suicide prevention? 4 months ago:
First off, I’m a huge housing first advocate and it is completely uncontroversial that for a wide range of outcomes housing first policies are vastly superior not to mention just that it is morally correct.
Whether unsuitable housing/homelessness is directly implicated in suicidality is an interesting question so I did a little bit of digging.
One study from Taiwan showed a relationship between housing affordability and suicidality but the effect is only present when using one measure of affordability and disappears when measuring affordability in other ways suggesting it may not be a real effect.
Another, older, study from the EU found that lack of affordable housing had no impact on suicidality but the driving factor in the increase in suicide during the great recession was job loss.
You could interpret this evidence as mixed but IMO unless more convincing evidence comes out I would have to say that at a societal level it isn’t a big factor.
The impact of housing-price-related indices on suicide rates in Taiwan
The findings revealed that higher housing rental index values were associated with increased suicide rates in young and middle-aged adults compared to the elderly population, regardless of sex. However, this association was not observed with the other two housing-price-related indexes (i.e. housing price index and housing price to income ratio).
BACKGROUND During the 2007-11 recessions in Europe, suicide increases were concentrated in men. Substantial differences across countries and over time remain unexplained. We investigated whether increases in unaffordable housing, household indebtedness or job loss can account for these population differences, as well as potential mitigating effects of alternative forms of social protection. And RESULTS Changes in levels of unaffordable housing had no effect on suicide rates (P = 0.32); in contrast, male suicide increases were significantly associated with each percentage point rise in male unemployment, by 0.94% (95% CI: 0.51-1.36%), and indebtedness, by 0.54% (95% CI: 0.02-1.06%).
Compared to baseline, there was an overall trend of decreased past-month suicidal ideation (estimate = –.57, SE = .05, P < 0.001), with no effect of treatment group (i.e., HF vs. TAU; estimate = –.04, SE = .06, P = 0.51). Furthermore, there was no effect of treatment status (estimate = –.10, SE = .16, P = 0.52) on prevalence of suicide attempts (HF = 11.9%, TAU = 10.5%) during the 2-year follow-up period.
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- Comment on News Corp’s fossil fuel advertising dressed as news should be illegal 5 months ago:
I’m sincerely sorry if I sound angry. I was trying to be concise. I am genuinely interested in hearing why you think outlawing this kind of deception would not be appropriate. I am quite certain we would disagree but I am always interested in hearing opposing opinions.
Really, please expand on this, I will try to respond with kindness and understanding despite any disagreement.
- Comment on News Corp’s fossil fuel advertising dressed as news should be illegal 5 months ago:
This is deliberately misleading. I’m not sure why you think it can’t, numerous laws exist regarding false and misleading advertising which is exactly what this is.
It is not reasonable to expect even a majority of people to pick up on this kind of deliberate deception.
Making this kind of deliberate deception would not be limiting freedom of speech, opinion pieces and clearly labelled advertising are one thing, a front page story with no indication that it is not news is another.
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- Comment on Commonwealth Bank to charge customers $3 'withdrawal fee' to access their own cash 5 months ago:
Corporate banks can go suck an egg. There are multiple good member owned banks whose directors are accountable to you and not shareholders.
