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Somehow I'm really surprised that I'm not the only one who adds "site:reddit.com" or "site:reddit.com/r/specificSubreddit" to my Google searches

This game is simultaneously more stressful, less challenging, and less fun than wordle. I especially hate the timer

In what way is the WHO “dysfunctional and corrupt”? Everyone I know with ideas like that seems to have a very questionable world view.

The irony in the fact that his resignation tweet was an image of text, designed to get around the character limit, was not lost on me.

You want Twitter to be the most transparent company? Maybe start by making it accessible to the visually impaired by not posting images of text.

And I would think that bad actors scale exponentially. It seems like it would be morally easy to steal from someone you have never met and will likely never see again. Much harder to steal from someone in a small community where everyone knows everyone.

This is just my conjecture, no real world experience or data. Would be interested in seeing if anyone had any.

Sounds like the city you’re in needs to fix its bike lanes rather than continue blaming cyclists

I think the powers that be feel a lot more secure nowadays in their ability to stop a violent revolution since they can track everyone online.

Not sure if it’s any worse than the pre-internet days, with print media making everyone believe that there was only one single truth. Nowadays you hear a lot more diversity of opinion rather than just ISRAEL GOOD (ie, Israel maybe isn’t the good guy here and their troops maybe shouldn’t be shooting kids in the street and sexually harassing Palestinian women).

Not sure why this is a problem. They could ONLY sell Amazon-branded items on their website if they really wanted to. It's their store.

Bing has had an excellent one for years already

Wow! I had no idea, that's awesome!

Not seeing how being a chemist makes you a medical expert but ok

Could also be that more and more people are child free, which makes them less reliant on a job.

They literally made an anti-trust exemption just for the match system.

Happened to me. Another med student and I (both male) introduced ourselves to to the patient and asked if it would be ok if we observed her fibroid removal surgery. She consented.

Then, after the patient was anesthetize but before surgery, the fellow (subspecialist trainee) doctor told us to palpate her fibroids, and showed us how. Basically, we had to stick our whole hand into her vagina and press it against our other hand on the outside.

I felt really uncomfortable about it, but I did it anyways because I was afraid that if I didn’t the fellow doctor would give us bad marks for not participating/not showing interest.

“Political power flows from the barrel of the gun.”

That sounds right. Same end result either way.

Medical residency for newly graduated medical doctors is another academic training program where abuse runs rampant.

Basically, the residency program owns you for at least 3 years (often more) and the only protection you have is that you can’t work over 80 hours per week averaged over a 4 week period (gee, thanks).

The issue is that people are afraid to report their hours accurately because if they do the program director will meet with them and ask, “sooo it seems like you’re not as efficient as the other residents [who are all lying to evade the ire of higher-ups]. You really need to work on that, or else you might need to be held back or even dismissed.”

If you’re dismissed, you can’t work as a doctor. No one will hire a doctor without residency training. You’re completely screwed.

There was a resident anesthesiologist at the University of New Mexico who was allegedly raped by her boss. She reported it to the program and was dismissed. She later settled a lawsuit for only 800k, essentially two years worth of salary as an attending (fully-trained) anesthesiologist and she likely only saw less than 100 or 200k of that after lawyers fees, taxes, and paying off her medical school loans (mine are 350k, and that’s only because COVID has stopped the 7% compounded interest rate).

She now teaches anatomy at a community college because no one will accept her into their residency program.

And then people wonder why many doctors lack empathy. It’s hard to have empathy when you’ve been essentially tortured for years until your spirit has broken. Hurt people hurt people.

Am I the only one who really hates it when people name their projects after actual words?

Just makes it incredibly hard to search for later.

> I bet that if instead of having people go through security at sporting events, you had them all do 20 push ups, you'd save more people from dying of heart disease than would die of terrorism.

Or you would encourage the already-sedentary people to go out even less.

good for everyone

Why is the North Atlantic even aligned in the first place?

Not sure how that’s a mundane crime when it’s literally stealing

I think it's so interesting how this guy asked pretty rudimentary questions and got such an amazing response. I wish the tech community could be just as nice to newcomers.

Good old US. Land of the free. Canadian border agents are equally bad, in my experience. Guess it's just part and parcel with living in the Anglosphere.

This just seems so dystopian to me

Paywall

Just like everything points to Qanon being the ultimate source of truth?

Not surprised in the least. The Economist has always been an Anglophilic rag that despises any country that doesn't kowtow to Western rule.

It’s not Twitter. It’s the US gov pulling the strings