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by mapt 8mo ago
Do sports medicine docs operate within the context of medical insurance in the US? Or are they effectively doctors for the independently wealthy and corporate enterprises?
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by mapt 8mo ago
Slavery was replaced by wage labor because it was more productive in the long run - that's part of the economists founding narrative. But I think they tend not to emphasize that it was also simply because it was a lot more flexible fo
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by mapt 8mo ago
I think that 90% of what we get from doctors on musculoskeletal injuries that aren't visible on a simple X-ray is either oversight, or a bias towards doing nothing specifically because treatments have health, administrative, and financ
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by mapt 9mo ago
In writing life critical systems like the Space Shuttle's operating system, effectively 99.9% of all work is QA. MS had the dominant operating system in the world, and keeping its userbase and its ~monopoly dividend would have been mor
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by mapt 9mo ago
Vance will "have the charisma" of being the focus of the palace cult (around a quarter of the country) while Trump's corpse is still warm. These people aren't people anymore, they're cultist NPCs. They have suspend
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by mapt 9mo ago
It's not fascist until we're speaking Italian.
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by mapt 9mo ago
We feed the average cow >10lbs of grain and also some alfalfa for every pound of meat we get out right now. Part of the cull would likely be shifting towards more grass fed production. Another part would simply be prioritizing chicken o
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by mapt 9mo ago
In addition to the drawn cartoon precedent, the idea that purely written fictional literature can fall into the Constitutional obscenity exception as CSAM was tested in US courts in US v Fletcher and US v McCoy, and the authors lost their c
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by mapt 9mo ago
Your buffer here is meat. Cattle are tremendously inefficient consumers of grain. Eat your burgers in the bountiful years, then slaughter 75% of the herd in a hardship year, eat well for six months, then spend the next three, four, five y
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by mapt 9mo ago
Or geographical situations. The UK serves dramatically better in that capacity than the US does at present. Thing is, though... even the parts of Western history that aren't remembered as atrocities by modern standards were pretty t
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by mapt 9mo ago
Send a raven to Pyongyang.
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by mapt 9mo ago
This is a thousand times as concerning in the context of London than in the context of Baltimore. It addresses a concern that doesn't exist for the UK public, in a way that appears intended to oppress from the start, against a backdro
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by mapt 9mo ago
1) Mexican coke was cane sugar based (as was US coke at one point), but the huge excess of corn created by US ag policy has shifted much of their production to HFCS 2) As it turns out, a cane sugar (sucrose) base for a dilute acidic liquid
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by mapt 9mo ago
Google Maps. One of them is the walking distance, the other the driving distance, because the other estimates hung. But they both follow roads.
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by mapt 9mo ago
COVID and the supply chain crisis made apparent just how over-reliant we are on Shenzhen and Taiwan for the most basic components. There are several hundred ICs on dozens of circuitboards in every car now that are dumber, slower, and less
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by mapt 9mo ago
> A very different scale Anchorage to Belize: 5777 miles London to Kolkata: 5695 miles
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by mapt 9mo ago
My prior understanding was that before the industrial revolution dramatically reduced the labor costs, clothing was expensive . Most people only owned two or three outfits, and replacing one would cost a month's wages sort of expensi
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by mapt 9mo ago
The American political system didn't implode until its system of capitalism had the conditions necessary to escape its popular control. That wasn't necessarily an eventuality. We had a semi-functional campaign finance system in
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by mapt 9mo ago
You're right. I misinterpreted my little butane torch's apparent high pressure in relation to my big propane torch. Canned ethane or ethyne ("acetylene") then.
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by mapt 9mo ago
Not at all. I would just like the early American project of liberal democracy and Constitutional rights to outlive American capitalism and American militarism, even if it means it survives it in some other country. Because it's looking
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by mapt 9mo ago
Maybe butane?
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by mapt 9mo ago
I'm reminded of the worker in this bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U3g-h1rxQw Absolutely loves her job. Screams a little bit every time she swings the pickaxe below a certain depth though. As one does.
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by mapt 9mo ago
Just a reminder that DHS just posted on Twitter for the holidays about how much of a paradise the US will be after 100 million "deportations". And that we don't have close to 100 million immigrants. That the "kavanaugh s
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by mapt 9mo ago
Marketing got high off AI delusions again.
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by mapt 9mo ago
We're not just in Puerto Rico. Over the past few months we've got assets mobilized all over the southern Caribbean islands with appreciable ports. These mostly have pretty small populations and economies, so it is immediately no
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by mapt 9mo ago
It happens a lot in efficient houses that don't cover all bases with HVAC (the vast majority of recently built houses), where the room door is closed, maybe the vents are not ideal, and there is usually no makeup air or forced air vent
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by mapt 10mo ago
You're just not following every statement, and assuming logical continuity. Like a sane (if naive) person. Trump started out with nonsensical accusations that were clearly thinly veiled regime change plans. Declaring the cartel a ter
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by mapt 10mo ago
> The problem is that even the best new grid-scale storage systems on the market—mainly lithium-ion batteries—provide only about 4 to 8 hours of storage. This isn't the first time I've seen this sort of claim this week about ba
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by mapt 10mo ago
I still remember an experience as a kid decades ago, either at Epcot or with the Sony quasi-museum in NYC, where they had an apparently robotic greeter with a personality, who after five minutes you deciphered was actually an improv comic r
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by mapt 10mo ago
A lot of these have a disturbingly subjective critical voice. On a topsy turvy day, one finds oneself suspecting these are human-written instead of AI.

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