Also a very litigious society. Even if they mean well, going off the page and trying to figure out a “Haus” solution is just putting themselves at risk.

They have to check all the boxes for your insurance. They have to check all the boxes for their own malpractice insurance. Even if they followed procedure, they might get dragged through the legal system to defend themselves if a client feels wronged.

That turns you, the client, into a number in a dispassionated machine.

And I don’t have a solution to it.

Edit - that was a bit too bleak. There are a lot of doctors trying their best to retain humanity in a system aimed at destroying it. The whole med school journey is aimed at weeding the people out who are just in it for the money. It’s designed to gatekeep the industry to require a massive amount of passion to get your foot in the door. But the realities of the industry do their best to squash that.

I have an oddly relevant story.

My wife and I got to do a “swimming with a capybara” experience. My wife forgot about the instructions to not wear anything dangly because the capybara may play with it.

Well, she wore a bikini top that had a big bow in the front.

That capybara motorboated my wife like he was Vince Vaughn after a dry spell.

I just turned to the other (horrified) guests, shrugged, and said I didn’t blame him.

Gotta imagine that ladder was covered in ice for much of the year.

In Soviet Russia, OSHA violates you

I find it useful at a glance, specifically when I don’t recognize a niche source. There’s a lot of “alt” media under random names. This helps flag them.

For mainstream, you can easily make your own call. You should be exposed to enough of it.

And into a submersible held together with duct tape.

Yeah. That would be called “context”, of which we have zero of. And which you acknowledge matters.

How is context not important? We don’t even have a full second of clip before he throws the punch.

Is context only not important when it’s a man hitting a woman?

Would you say the same if it was a 2s clip of a woman punching a man?

R/conservative had the habit of locking most comment threads to members only. It may have been an exclude instead of include list.

Ok. But if they’re footing the bill, that’s their choice. The content creators don’t need to go to Netflix for their funding, there are many other options.

It’s different but the same. We used to get hit by the conservative bury brigades. Now, we get people actually trying to steer the narrative with somewhat thoughtful bad faith arguments.

It’s far more insidious now, and takes vigilance to shut down.

The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.

Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit

I see you im every thread even remotely related to Biden, doing nothing but raging against Biden. That level of obsession is unhealthy. Seek help.

Nope. He would have looked at the original, either in a moment of confusion, looking from the skimmer to the original, or to make sure the original had no damage.

His reaction was unmistakably that of someone who 100% knew what to expect, and the calling the police line was just a gut reaction to feign ignorance and take control of the situation.

That was child like level of deception.

My libertarian friend fully believes in this shit. It’s good to publicly denounce these frauds with evidence to help fight the disinformation campaigns being waged.

There’s a bunch of very active non-ml users that always turn any political discussion to “both sides are terrible, don’t vote for genocide”.

Once you start recognizing names (or blocking), it gets less depressing. But it does feel like there are a lot more fascist enablers in the political communities than there really are, just because of how fervent those few users are.

Tildes might work for you. Politics is a banned subject, but you’ll get polite discourse on most subjects.

I found it stifling, personally. But if you like overly verbose, overly polite discussions where all opinions are respected as long as it’s long winded and politely communicated, well, that’s your place.

I find the “clean history” argument so flawed.

Sure, if you’re they type to micro commit, you can squash your branch and clean it up before merging. We don’t need a dozen “fixed tests” commits for context.

But in practice, I have seen multiple teams with the policy of squash merging every branch with 0 exceptions. Even going so far as squash merging development branches to master, which then lumps 20 different changes into a single commit. Sure, you can always be a git archeologist, check out specific revisions, see the original commits, and dig down the history over and over, to get the original context of the specific change you’re looking into. But that’s way fucking more overhead than just looking at an unmanipulated history and seeing the parallel work going on, and get a clue on context at a glance at the network graph.

Yep, intentionally modifying your speech patterns to be understood better isn’t exactly adopting a new accent, it’s just using simpler/common words and enunciating.

My wife was just notified that her 6 figure student loan was forgiven. We’re still dazed and not sure it’s real, or that it won’t be overturned later.

She has been paying it for 20 years, fell for one of those refinancing scams that John Oliver did a segment on, where she was yelling “that’s what they told me!!” the whole time. It seems impossible, but after 20 years of minimum payments without fail, $1400/mo at times, she still had well over 100k in student debt (phd).

We figured the refinancing into the wrong loan would disqualify her. We thought if she did get some relief, it would be 10-20k, which isn’t nothing, but wouldn’t change much.

And now it’s wiped clean.

This is what relief feels like. We just signed a one year lease, but we’ll be in a much better position to buy at the end of the lease (market permitting).

This is what the Republicans want to take away from the working class, so they can give the mega rich more tax breaks.

Yep. I agree, the pressure needs to say on. And more importantly, we need to praise this measure. His administration needs the feedback that withholding support and starting sanctions is a popular policy.

What we don’t need is a tantrum that not enough is being done, dissent that can be weaponized by the Right to convince people to waste their vote on not-Biden.