Primary care preventer?
Change doctors. If they don't listen and work with you tell them that. If you have valid reasons for requesting care and they try to convince you otherwise that isn't a good doctor.
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Change doctors. If they don't listen and work with you tell them that. If you have valid reasons for requesting care and they try to convince you otherwise that isn't a good doctor.
Feed lots for cattle are very disgusting places and have been linked to a variety of illness in humans who live downwind(specifically airborne illness). Chicken farms have similar problems.
Making lame excuses for "the good guys" reinforces that these people are doing good. They arent.
Your excuse will be used against you as soon as it's convenient to them.
One thing that a LOT of pro basketball players do is visualize their movements before the game or whatnot. I'm sure athletes in all sports do this but I played bball for 30 years so that's my reference.
It works.
My guess is that it works on our ability to visualize/map where we are in space. It primes the hippocampus.
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It's wild how just having the facade of wealth will get you a following in the US, for free.
Americans blindly idolize the wealthy. It's crazy. Truly a "not get millionaire" mindset for a lot of this country.
It's what a decent person does. It's not what a "normal" person would do.
Then, since they are rich, anything they do is now acceptable. Anything they do is what a successful person would do. That becomes their viewpoint.
There is way too much bias and need to generate controversy on part of the author.
We can't audit what we don't know.
I don't think "must" is correct here.
People will use AI all they want without understanding it. Same as the way most people go through life never understanding how basic things work. Our capitalist fixation enables it because ignorant consumers will buy whatever is put in front of them for the most part. Ignorance is profit in capitalism.
Folks don't want to understand. That's work. Why bother?
however, being unable to understand the code is an issue. creating code with an AI and then calling yourself a coder is a straight lie.
It makes sense AI would explode on a platform now used by the bad parts of society.
The AI defense people don't seem to realize the funny things they say defending AI and how detached it is.
Lol calling reddit useless because mods are pumping the brakes on low quality AI slop posts. Hilarious.
Reddit mods aren't paid to deal with low effort auto submittions from LLMs. It ruins the subs.
The "walls" are the rules and the task is to figure out how to succeed within those rules. Succeed is up to perspective in many instances.
This encourages creativity. It's why I love baseball, cuz the rules are constantly evolving as people game them. It's so joyful seeing people exploit the rules they agreed to play by.
Limits force us to think INSIDE the box. It's a lot of fun.
Communal boredom is also very important. Being bored with friends is an amazing launching pad for new ideas and thinking.
I grew up in beef and dairy country in the western US. I remember dairy farmers talking about this as it was happening. It was a revenue stream from what was a waste product they often dumped in rivers.
Not saying all the others didn't play a huge part, but dairy farmers pushed for it big time.
People are always looking for shortcuts and gotchas. Just learn to eat a varied and balanced diet of mostly fruit/veg/nuts/plant based protein. It isnt that hard. We let ourselves be convinced it is, or given excuses for why in our special circumstance it is harder, but it really isnt that hard.
No, I'm not being dismissive. I just don't buy into the mantra that food is hard. It isnt. We have every single day of our lives to figure this out and people are more interested in being part of an alt-food lifestyle than just eating a varied diet.
Again, you cited removing friction as your reasoning.
Ya think maybe the problem perpetuates itself? You feel inconvenienced by an interruption so you avoid that interruption, thereby never learning to deal with it. Meanwhile, there are benefits you are willfully giving up, such as being able to be interrupted without getting upset or annoyed or the happiness of hearing someone's voice or the random stuff that comes up on phone calls.
Ya ever have a random tangent conversation with someone on the phone cuz someone heard something in the others voice? Or a phrase came up that sparked a different topic? Those moments are AWESOME and they only happen outside our comfort zones.
Easy isn't better.
They're saying that unless we stop our behavior in the next X years then it will be too late. We will have added so much to the system that it will "run away". This will eventually lead to the environment being inhospitable to our ways of life. Most dates ive read are 2075 or so. That's not 5 years.
They are not saying that life will end in 5 years.
This is a purposeful misinterpretation so that the reader doesn't have to listen. It allows the reader to scoff and go about their excess.
This interpretation was pushed, very purposefully, to accomplish apathy and complacency in the general public.
But back on tbe point, nobody really ever said "humanity is OVER in 5 years if we don't stop". What has consistently been said is "we are changing our environment and it will eventually change in ways that won't support our life" with various dates, usually 50+ years, given.
Consumer spending habits enact change.
Stop giving up.
How do I know this? I've just asked people. I have very honest conversations with people and always have.
Back in high school I had multiple "special ed" kids who would give us test answers because they were handed them. Why would they bother trying if they can act dumb and get help? The US education system encourages test results and it has created a system of doing anything to keep funding. Small schools give kids answers to boost their results. My school, and many around it, did exactly this. Probably still do.
Since being an adult I've run across this countless times. I'm nearly 40 now and been a teacher and educator in many fields, from STEM to Outdoor.
I've had hundreds of people admit to me that not trying is easier. Someone is always willing to help or do the work for them. They don't immediately say this, but after a few minutes of discussion its very obvious and they'll often finally say it.
US media also heavily encourages it by portraying so many people as lucky or gifted or chosen. Why bother trying when the system is stacked against you?
This culture of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt conditions people to always have an excuse and to not really take responsibility.
Plenty of folks still do, I'm not saying it's a majority. But it's wild to me how folks consistently choose to ignore the fact a lot of people have figured out that they can do the bare minimum and still get by just fine.
And to be clear, I don't mean a majority of people. But it is a crazy amount. It isnt just young folks either. I see retirees with this mentality who didn't used to have it. A friend of mine's dad has turned into a complete useless dude in the last few years cuz everything is immigrants and Democrats fault, so he doesn't even bother anymore. People will, understandably, find excuses to hold themselves less accountable.
Also I'm not insulting anyone here. These are observations. I'm not saying anyone is bad or terrible, we're all people. Nobody use their perceived persecution as a way to end discussion.
He literally encouraged a coup and then pardoned people who took part. That's not hyperbole. He instructed Pence to coup, who refused, then he instructed his followers to march down there. A literal coup.
The states had good reasons to remove him from their ballots.
Now he's harassing state workers to remove Americans from voting rolls. Classic coup/anti-democratic stuff. Textbook.
Aw there we go. You're one of those head in the sand people. Gotcha. Good luck fighting that brand of brain rot.
And you're labeling it as a benefit.
Super cheap. Has WebDAV, calendar, email filtering, etc. The docs are dead simple.
I load it with like $10 every couple years. Never worry about it.
Whenever I use other people's tech and get bombarded with ads it's a sensory overload. Not only the sound, colors, etc but just the dense amount of bullshit information. It's all lies. It's all a weird advertising version of what it is. It's all marketing wank.
Whenever I see a good number of advertisements I feel overstimulated and like someone just tried to sell me a car without telling me the truth.
I really don't understand how people stomach advertising. It's so over the top.
An ex of mine said one day she might want to get into mountain biking, off handedly.
So I setup a spreadsheet comparing some equipment. Immediately I got hit with mountain biking ads. Like, within hours YouTube started showing me channels about mountain biking. Ads on other sites were now centered on mountain biking.
Why this matters? I purposely obfuscate my tracking data. So Google really glomps onto changes and it gets very obvious when the algorithm gets new information. I've used it as an example when showing people how invasive Google's data harvesting is.
One time I took a bunch of photos and videos then shared them with a person at a talk via Google Photos. Within minutes the content of those photos was a recommended video on YouTube.
Google is absolutely harvesting data across entire Google accounts. There is plenty of evidence of it. Also, this is expected behavior from an advertising company. I have no idea why people defend Google.
So my app auto plays most podcasts at 60 seconds. Then whenever an ad starts I just hit forward X times until they're done.
It isnt automated but it gets rid if most ads.
Discord is speed running how to be a garbage company.