I remember looking at a farm property in NC. After walking the entire farm I noticed that someone had built a home on the wrong side of a creek on the farmland, instead of the other side of the creek on the land they actually owned. I notified the sellers who after talking to the county found out I was correct. They ended up having to change the lot lines. We ended up not buying the property due to other reasons. It is truly amazing to me that things like this get past the banks and county inspectors. The lack of due diligence is astounding.
Love my truck but it is not my daily driver. Only drive it when I need to carry stuff in the bed. I have driven several electric cars. They are fun to drive but they don't seem ready for prime time yet. Once charging gets consolidated and more widely available I will look at them again.
We had a Instagram influencer build a huge house across from us at the beach. It has been interesting watching how they present their life online vs what their life is really like. Definitely not my cup of tea. They don't seem to be hurting for money as I looked up what they paid for the two lots they built on. I also know a ballpark what they paid to build the house given its size/finishes/etc. It seems to be a very shallow lifestyle.
The Facebook feed is over half ads. I rarely use Facebook anymore except for some groups I am active in. Even the groups are overrun by bots. I rarely use Instagram. Facebook is dying a slow death.
I went to state schools in Ohio for college and medical school. There was no grade inflation that I ever witnessed. When I did my internship/residency/fellowship at Duke I was shocked at the grades given to the worst medical students that were on rotations with me by the attending physicians. I asked one attending I knew well why they gave such inflated grades for such poor students. They said the medical students paid a lot to go to Duke Medical School and they expected all A's so that they could get into a good residency.
Our Koi pond attracts lots of wildlife. Birds, insects, frogs, toads, snakes, and turtles in addition to the Koi fish. The frogs are deafening at night. We love it and are going to put a larger one in at our retirement hobby farm that we are building.
Patients with cirrhosis have significant scarring of the liver that disrupts the normal liver architecture. When liver cell regenerate on this abnormal scaffolding it forms regenerative nodules surrounded by scar tissue that prevents then from doing their normal filtering.
I am bummed out. I first read The Witling by Vernor Vinge in the early 1980's while in high school. I have read every novel and most of his short stories/novellas since then. I have reread most of his books at least once if not more. I am currently rereading The Peace War, Time to break out my paperback of the The Witling that is falling apart and read it again in tribute to VV.
I have been doing colonoscopies for 30 years this July. We have tried the less restrictive diet the day before and it always ends up not working in the real world. Plus we always know who cheated and who didn't on the diet the day before.
I have been going to Steamboat since 1981. I had a friend who bought a townhome there in the late 1980's for 400K. He sold it in the early 90's for a small profit. Now that townhome is worth 4 million. I have two friend from college that still live in the area but can't afford to live in Steamboat. They live 30 minutes away but the cost of living is still very high.
I stopped all alcohol intake 86 days ago for several reasons including several friends from college dying from cirrhosis complications. Covid/lockdowns definitely accelerated the alcohol related deaths that I have seen in my job as a gastroenterologist.
I report ads on a daily basis to Facebook that are either scams or have malware. They never stop the ads and always say that the ads do not break any of their policies. Clearly Facebook is getting more revenue from these ads than they get selling your data. Facebook doesn't care about its users. They only care about the almighty dollar. Also when hackers take over friends and families accounts Facebook never helps the person recover their account.
I ruined a Sony TV in the late 1970's with a pacemaker magnet my father (a physician) brought home from work. My parents were not happy with me. It was able to be repaired.
I got a tour of their headquarters when I was a third year medical student taking a computers in Medicine class at Ohio State in 1989. I had been using Compuserve since high school. I recall a lot of security measures were in place that prevented visitors from accessing any sensitive machines. It was sad to see their demise later on when AOL and Prodigy came along.
One of the great successes of modern medicine. When I first started treating Hepatitis C patients in 1995 our Hepatitis C treatments had terrible side effects and rarely worked after 48 weeks of treatment. Now the treatments are 98% effective in 8-12 weeks and have minimal side effects. People need to stop saying that big pharma doesn't find cures.
I still eat sugar laden kids cereal every day since childhood. I am 58 now. I rarely exercise beyond walking 3-4 days a week. I have normal BMI, normal blood pressure, and I am not diabetic. I am not convinced they are as bad for you as some "experts" claim.