Modern_medicine_isnt

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When you are talking about a survey, the "how far" is specific to each person. So it is a bad question. But no matter how Donny interprets it, the answer to the "have they gone too far" tells you Donnys interpretation is too far for the majority.

I think you can't call youself ICE, but you could make up your own name. Since they are holding people against thier will, and are not law enforcement, I don't know of any laws you would be breaking.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So can we hire some bounty bounty hunters to hunt the bounty hunters and release the captives? Seems legit.

Speedo under the trunks should help I would think.

No kings was just one round. The ones before were smaller. It's gaining momentum. But it usually requires a trigger event. And trump seems to love to provide them. It maybe a week, or a month away. But as long as they keep getting bigger, we are moving in the right direction.

I know you are a person who is trying to help others in a variety of ways. And I do applaud you for that. But ignoring the realities of others is the same that many are doing to you. Open your mind to those realities and you may be able to use that information to come up with better solutions instead of just saying other people need to magically change who they are.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There have been more and more protests, and the suze of the turn out grows each time. The nyc mayoral primary has also show a massive shift in voting priorities that has the potential to drastically shift politics in the country permanently. People are doing things, we just have to keep on doing them until something works. Dictators have ruled the majority of the populations of Earth for a very long time for a reason. They have the advantage.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (17 children)

They showed up in record numbers for the no kings protests. So what are you talking about sitting down?

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well ok. Since your last two comments were so devoid of detail that they could have been added to litterally any thread on reddit... I guess you aren't interested in any ideas that don't match your current opinion.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I understand. It is very difficult for the majority of people to understand how other peoples brains work when it is different than theirs. For example, people without mental disabilities usually don't understand why people with them can't just use willpower to overcome the disability.

I am going to go out on a limb and guess your sister is religous. If not, than she falls into the 10 to 15% who voted for him because they gain something. I had a contractor who turned out to be the same. All he cared about was voting for whoever was better for his wallet. Lower taxes mean more money for him. He even had a slip of paper in his pocket with the values of a stock market index before and after trump. He proudly claimed that is why he would vote for trump.

But my best friends brother in law is a vet, and he is very pro trump. He simply has been duped. He honestly believes that all the negative news about trump is fake news. That it is the establishment trying to smear trump while he fights for the little guy. He is not brilliant, but he is an adult, and he even served his country. But he fell victim to the lies and the propaganda.

For each one like my one time contractor, I know 4 more like my best friends brother in law.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But we aren't talking about everyone. Trump got less than 50%, 10 to 15% voted for him because they were greedy, and he was good for them. 35 to 40% are just to gullible. It is them I find it hard to completely blame.

 

As a guy closing in on 50, losing my near vision really annoys me. And the current solutions are weak at best, which annoys me even more. These and the other companies working on similar sound great. But someone tell me why I would need a prescription for them? And is that true in the EU? The article makes it sound like getting them approved to be prescribed is a big hurdle. They seem like better reading glasses, which I don't need a prescription to buy.

 

This article got me thinking that maybe blue states "should" pause or relax some gun controls and say it is because they think the people may need to defend themselves from a fascist government. They could add in some subsidized gun saftey classes in the same bill.

The concept is symbolic mostly. It may give people like ICE agents a little less confidence when they do a raid because it seems more dangerous to them. And if things get really ugly, it could arguably be a deterrent. Ideally national guard troops ordered into a blue state might refuse such an order because they expect armed resistance that would force them to shoot civilians. Where as right now, they would expect no or very little civilian resistance. And that possibility might deter the feds from ordering troops in because they don't want to risk the order being refused.

At the end of the day. Most americans don't want Americans killing each other. So anything we can do to make that less appetizing to the people in charge that don't care about Americans, the better.

 

I downloaded a few things thinking I could watch offline. Turns out you can't. Does the app have a way to remove the downloaded content?

 

I am looking to visit a friend in a place where the major airport is like 3 hours away. But there are regional airports too. But the search engines I have tried either won't take just a town, or they seem to only choose the closest to the town, and the major airport. Skipping all the other regionals. Any good engine out there for considering all of the regional airports?

 

Very sad for sure. But I get lost trying to parse the article. Google says "Caravan park" is like an rv park. Generally for recreational vehicles on vacation. But the image looks like a fixed structure type place. Google also says a caravan park is for spending holidays, and the article talks about them being excited to spend the holidays together. So I thought I had an idea of what this was. Then the article has a bingo caller saying that everyone behind the bar knew them well. And my first thought was... she's 10... in the US, "behind the bar" means bartender. My second was that doesn't sound like a holiday place. Can someone fill me in on what a caravan park is, what behind the bar means, and what kind of place this pub is. Thanks.

 

Assuming the fit hits the shan and things get real ugly in the US, what happens with all the electronically managed money. Like say I make a break for Canada and get there. Can I still access my funds? Can the government freeze everyone's assets to prevent those who make it out from getting at their money?

I have retirement stuff in vanguard and fidelity mostly. I would assume they are international companies, and thus might not have to abide by a US freeze order. But then again, it might be in their interest to keep the money frozen so they technically still have it.

And what are other people doing to be prepared for the possibility that things get civil war like in the US. Are their places you can put your money that are safe from US hands? And what are the tax implementations of moving money to them?

Edit: I realize from the comments that it might look like this is my reaction to the falling market. It isn't about that. I don't react to market conditions in general... This is more about my family being in the administrations top 5 groups they hate. And if we feel the need to flee, is there anything I can do to ensure access to some money while having a minimal impact on my financials if it never comes to that.

 

I remember way back watching the show west wing. I always assumed the staff on the show was small just because it was TV. And that really the Pres had a large staff with experts on just about everything. But seeing the current administration use chatgpt to figure out reciprocal tarriffs and such, maybe they really don't have much more staff than the TV show portrayed.
If true I would find it kinda funny that they struggle to do their job due to limited staff while claiming that government agencies have too much staff.

 

It sounds like just a standardized set of api's for interfacing with data sources. I'm not even sure why it seems to need a server in the diagrams from Anthropic. Couldn't the data source just implement the API's directly?
I am all for a standard set of API's, I just don't understand the middle man.

 

So, AI can do a lot of things. But it needs input data. So I was thinking, do we currently have any technology that could generate metrics that an AI might be able to train on such that it could estimate calories gotten from a meal. Not what was in the food, but what the body actually absorbed.

Obviously it could be used to make a killer diet tracking app. Cause tracking what you eat is the worst part.

And collecting the metric doesn't have to be "practical" today. This is just more of a thought experiment. So if currently it would require multiple blood tests per day or something, that would still be interesting to me.

 

my daughter seems to like scifi. We watched enders game, lost in space series (the new version), arrival, I am mother, and she liked them all. Can I get some more suggestions?

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