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by istjohn 4y ago
Watching my grandfather slowly die in at-home hospice care, seemingly in great pain--though he was not lucid--was personally radicalizing. The family is told to administer pain meds as needed, but if they don't pick up on the wink, win
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by istjohn 4y ago
Interesting. This article corroborates what you're saying: > Because healthcare providers have not respected patient rights to autonomy and bodily integrity and courts have not vindicated violations of these rights, legislative chan
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by istjohn 4y ago
The lungs plead their innocence, “We give life!" But the blood they oxygenate feeds the mitochondria that fuel the muscles that power the claws that tear into the lamb's soft belly.
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Facebook's algorithms fueled the genocide in Myanmar. How many muslim lives is FB marketplace worth? Do you talk to family members in Algeria through FB or WhatsApp? WhatsApp would have been just fine if Zuckerberg didn't buy it b
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by istjohn 4y ago
They said that was the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is fueling a genocide in Myanmar[1], but as a parent of a girl, I couldn't care less about Meta's development of React when their own rese
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by istjohn 4y ago
Reading many different viewpoints is not a virtue if it is done with such credulity as to buy into such nonsense as this: > The Burzynski Clinic is a clinic offering an unproven cancer treatment, which has been characterized as harmful q
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by istjohn 4y ago
Were you prescribed those drugs, or did you take them recreationally? It's important to work with a doctor to find the dosage that works for you, and it may be much lower than what you would take recreationally. There are also non-amph
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by istjohn 4y ago
People who have ADHD are used to being told they just need to stop being lazy. They already have to overcome a huge stigma to seek diagnosis and accept treatment. So, yes you are being "antagonistic towards...people on the basis of the
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by istjohn 4y ago
Spoken like someone who doesn't know anyone who has ADHD, e.g., someone who has no idea what they're talking about. Also, your little rant is completely off topic.
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What baffles me is why they don't create guns that are incapable of firing live rounds. It should be mechanically impossible to fire a live round. The blanks should be keyed or shaped in such a way that guns capable of loading and&#x2F
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by istjohn 4y ago
Anecdotally, I used to love Chipotle, but I won't eat there anymore after having several bad experiences with bland food and undercooked rice at multiple locations.
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Why Corporate America Still Runs on Ancient Software That Breaks(omny.fm)
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) explains mainframes, bit rot, and software reliability engineering on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. By the way, Odd Lots is excellent. It's an economics podcast, but they feature interviews with a broad
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It's truly incredible the mountains that are moved in politics to ensure poor families attend inferior public schools since Brown v. Board.
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istjohn: What happens to Fernando at the bridge in For Whom the Bell Tolls? ChatGPT: In the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway, Fernando is a member of the Republican forces fighting against the Nationalis
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I see what you mean, but if that is what it's "trying" to say, it's doing a poor job of making itself clear.
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by istjohn 4y ago
To give a concrete example of ChatGPT's shortcomings, I asked it to adjust a pasta recipe to use 50% more pasta, and in addition to increasing the amount of salt, garlic, etc, it increased the amount of time expected for the pasta to r
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by istjohn 4y ago
Add "in the voice of Steven King" to the prompt.
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Zellij just looks like Tmux with tabs. Am I missing something?
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It's called climate change for a reason.
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Nearly 6 women enroll in American colleges and universities for every 4 men. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-...
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The utility of food has multiple dimensions for most people most of the time.
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> All it takes is one subgroup to keep reproducing above the replacement rate, and after enough generations they will come to dominate and overall growth will continue. Consequently, religion is going to thrive. Everyone else stops repro
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by istjohn 4y ago
To do so, click the timestamp next to the username. Then click "favorite."
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by istjohn 4y ago
Don't forget about construction.
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"Thing" isn't used for people or places though.
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I've found it also helps if the infant is snugly wrapped. I think it keeps her from realizing she is no longer being held.
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by istjohn 4y ago
Your post begins "All: please don't post flamebait, including ranting against monarchy or railing against 'the nobility' like it's 1770." To then state that this post "was not about monarchy at all" f
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by istjohn 4y ago
Yes, and it is detrimental to the espoused value of intellectual curiosity. Sincere disagreement is fertile soil for productive discourse. It gives each side an opportunity to test and refine their beliefs and learn from one another. If you
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by istjohn 4y ago
The monarchy is still politically relevant in the UK[1]. But it seems dang prefers to have pages of saccharine platitudes than allow any discussion of the desirability of monarchy in the modern world or any critical discussion of the Queen&

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