medgremlin

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[–] medgremlin 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That 54% helps to pay for the camp facilities and subsidize participation in summer camp and troops for low-income kids that otherwise wouldn't be able to participate.

[–] medgremlin 1 points 1 year ago

I think an important consideration is who gets to decide what knowledge and culture get preserved. For example, I would say that medicine, agriculture, and human language would be much more important to preserve than computer science or economics, but I'm sure someone would disagree.

In general, I think art is very valuable and should be protected when possible (and not just European art), but if the choice is between a painting or a human life... the painting goes every time.

[–] medgremlin 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always get Girl Scout cookies every year. I was in Girl Scouts as a kid, and back when I was still going to camp in the early 2000's, the camp had cabins set aside for the gay boys who had been kicked out of the boy scouts. Even back when I originally joined in the 90's they accepted anyone who wanted to join a troop. Scouting is for everyone!

[–] medgremlin 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recently saw someone on Lemmy point out that the UK has an emergency plan to move precious artwork to bunkers in the event of a nuclear attack, but no such plans exist for the people. Paintings can be replaced or remade. People cannot. The planet cannot. There are many things in this world far more valuable than art, in part because life is the source of art.

[–] medgremlin 46 points 1 year ago

It was a legitimately nonprofit hospital and he probably was overpaid, but at least he was a practicing physician at one point and did seem to give a damn about his staff.

[–] medgremlin 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's part of why they have such insane metrics that employees are supposed to meet: so they can fire anyone "for cause" whenever they want because almost no one actually meets the metrics.

[–] medgremlin 117 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I once worked at a hospital in the ER where the department director was a union-busting bastard, but the CEO was pretty reasonable. After I left, one of the other ER techs went to the CEO about our pay being messed up and got everyone $5-6/hour raises to actual market rate. Also, there were a few weeks when we were really understaffed that the hospital encouraged admin folks to volunteer as "candystripers" in the ER to do stuff like help clean/turn over rooms, and answer patient call lights for water, blankets, etc. And the CEO was down in the ER for a couple hours every evening helping out most of that time period. It was encouraging to see the CEO of the hospital putting on some gloves and helping us with basic stuff like cleaning and stocking.

[–] medgremlin 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The current recommendation for colon cancer screening in those with a family history is to start routine colonoscopies at the age 10 years younger than the family member who was diagnosed. So if your Dad was 55 when he was diagnosed, you should start getting regular colonoscopies and screening at 45 (which is around the recommended age these days anyways).

[–] medgremlin 2 points 1 year ago

The problem with AI and poorly educated professionals is not the ability to diagnose and treat based on evidence-based medicine. The problem is that you have to know enough about medicine, and enough about real human people to know what kinds of questions to ask in the first place. If nothing else, there is a massive amount of information gained from a patient's body language, mannerisms, behavior, and the physical exam itself that would be extremely hard to quantify in a meaningful way for someone without the background education and experience to come to any useful conclusions.

[–] medgremlin 2 points 1 year ago

Were I in any other field, I might agree with you, but given that I am in the medical field, stupidity and incompetence cost real human lives and I cannot tolerate that if it can be at all avoided.

[–] medgremlin 2 points 1 year ago

It's not quite a catchphrase yet, but when discussing cases or whatever, I frequently use the sentence: "I'm not sure, lemme go look that up."

 

Context: I'm a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP's from the for-profit "schools".

So, anyone else in a similar spot where you think you're kinda dumb, but you know you're still smarter than robots and people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger graph in your field?

 

Zionists, I have to ask: how many Palestinian civilian lives is too many?

Even if you subscribe to the ideology of “eye for an eye” as a standard instead of a maximum, you have to admit that at over 17,000 civilian casualties, that we’re well into the “life for an eye” territory, and heading into the “life of your entire family for an eye” realm of things. So, how many is too many? How many Palestinian civilians have to die before you agree that Israel has gone too far?

Even if they stopped this second, it will take billions of dollars and a generation or more to rebuild Gaza from the rubble, to say nothing of the humanitarian cost. Even if they eliminated the entirety of Hamas tomorrow, you cannot deny that they’ve created untold generations of militant radicals with their excessive cruelty in this slaughter.

And this isn’t even considering Israel’s crimes against humanity in the West Bank. The Palestinians can’t leave, no one will let them emigrate. They don’t have the resources or capacity to rebuild their homes after this. There were potentially legitimate arguments about the term “refugee” prior to this when people in Gaza were living in permanent buildings, but that argument no longer holds water now that those buildings have been reduced to rubble.

I really want to know your thoughts on this. How many civilians does Israel have to kill, how many homes do they have to destroy, how many lives do they have to irrevocably destroy for you to condemn their actions?

 

Zionists, I have to ask: how many Palestinian civilian lives is too many?

Even if you subscribe to the ideology of "eye for an eye" as a standard instead of a maximum, you have to admit that at over 17,000 civilian casualties, that we're well into the "life for an eye" territory, and heading into the "life of your entire family for an eye" realm of things.

So, how many is too many? How many Palestinian civilians have to die before you agree that Israel has gone too far?

Even if they stopped this second, it will take billions of dollars and a generation or more to rebuild Gaza from the rubble, to say nothing of the humanitarian cost. Even if they eliminated the entirety of Hamas tomorrow, you cannot deny that they've created untold generations of militant radicals with their excessive cruelty in this slaughter.

And this isn't even considering Israel's crimes against humanity in the West Bank. The Palestinians can't leave, no one will let them emigrate. They don't have the resources or capacity to rebuild their homes after this. There were potentially legitimate arguments about the term "refugee" prior to this when people in Gaza were living in permanent buildings, but that argument no longer holds water now that those buildings have been reduced to rubble.

I really want to know your thoughts on this. How many civilians does Israel have to kill, how many homes do they have to destroy, how many lives do they have to irrevocably destroy for you to condemn their actions?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by medgremlin to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
 

It's been a week or two now since the top-right menu buttons stopped working for me. I can use the one to select between "Local", "Subscribed", and "All", but the buttons for the sort/time and the three-dots button don't do anything anymore. Has anyone else been having this problem? (And if so, have you found a way to fix it?)

Edit: Jerboa Version 0.0.49, Android Version 12, Surface Duo 2

Also, after a force stop of the app and rebooting the phone, it now works on the left screen, but not the right screen. I tested to make sure it wasn't a dead spot on the touch screen, and that corner is responsive in the OS and other apps. So apparently it's just this app in the top right corner of the right screen which seems very odd.

Another edit: the top right corner button for saving posts or comments and other interactions work fine in the top right of the right screen, it's just the menu buttons that don't work on the right screen

 
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