Modern_medicine_isnt

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.

I have heard that linux doesn't play as nice with nvidia as others. So what type of graphics card is best for both linux and windows. And what other hardware considerations are there that I should consider when building my new PC? I machine is mainly for day to day stuff, web browsing, games, taxes...

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.

I saw another article today saying how companies are laying off tech workers because AI can do the same job. But no concrete examples... again. I figure they are laying people off so they can pay to chase the AI dream. Just mortgaging tomorrow to pay for today's stock price increase. Am I wrong?

Just seemed like a fun question. I have been getting Kroger brand, and they seem to have a lot more plain fat chunks than they used to. And usually fat is where the flavor is, but these seem flavorless. But what else makes a good bacon bit? And what is your favorite brand?