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wild_turkey last won the day on January 27 2020
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Doesn’t a normal dinner at Zuma cost around that?
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I voted no on most of the props, but it sucks that the props are listed with very little supporting info to help uninformed voters. If you walk in there without doing your homework, it’s hard to know what you are being asked to vote on. I guess that’s probably the point, but still irritating.
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Why did the shutdown cost Republicans elections if the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault? Oh, maybe some people are finally seeing through your bullshit lies.
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Go Dodgers! What a series. Late to the thread but watched every minute. Lifelong Dodgers fan. Congrats to the team and to Sbbruin (you deserve it!). Will post more tomorrow.
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I need a cardiologist
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Hijack was perhaps the worst thing Apple TV has ever put out. It’s not forgettable due to how bad it was.
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I think in the eyes of people like Altman, Musk, Thiel, etc, we are all in the morons category. Perhaps there currently exists a line between physician and scribe, lawyer and intern, engineer and technician, professor and tutor, skilled and unskilled workers. There is also the hope and potential for someone in the lower category to ascend to the higher category if they are motivated to do so. Eventually, as humans, we will all collectively fall into the unskilled morons category. We require a salary and benefits. We require personal time, time with our families, vacations, and sleep. We get sick. We might complain if we are treated poorly. We might leave for a better opportunity. It’s fucking madness that so many people are embracing the AI revolution as if it will be something that might have negative consequences for other people. We are all the other people.
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One of my many reasons for opposing AI is the concern that it will eliminate an extremely high percentage of human jobs, at a scale significantly higher than any other technology in history. This is a very simple and obvious example of that. Quick internet search shows there are roughly 100,000 medical scribes working in the U.S. They are mostly replaceable, and I would assume in 5 years, that number is significantly lower as EHR platforms roll out their AI packages. We use scribes in our practice and I love working with them. They do far more than enter data into the chart. They are an extension of me that can perform elements of the exam, retrieve instruments, administer meds, take patients to get tests, translate Spanish, etc. Most of all, I just like working with them. They are my friends at work and they are warm towards our patients, providing friendly faces, extending empathy and kindness. You can replace many of their tasks with AI, but you cannot replace their humanity. It’s that loss of humanity that bothers me the most, extended across the entire American and global economy. Even if my interaction with a barista is brief and uneventful, I still want to say hi and smile at another human from across the counter.
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I love the show but this was my least favorite season because the bad guys were a bit generic and MI5 was over the top incompetent. Whelan is a beating, and I get that he’s supposed to be a lackluster character, but his scenes felt like network television slop. The previews for next season look great. Have they already filmed the entire season?
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
wild_turkey replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Why do you fuckers eat Mexican and BBQ in Europe? You have all of this amazing food to choose from and you blow a meal on a shittier version of something we already excel at in Texas. I’m genuinely confused.- 1571 replies
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There’s that, and also, regardless of what you thought about Bush Sr or Clinton or W or Obama, we lived in the greatest and most prosperous country in the history of the world, and under the notion of returning it to greatness, we elected a madman who destroyed it.
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It’s too bad his current ideas can’t travel back in time and starve himself to death. That probably violates the grandfather paradox.
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I’m a lifelong Dodgers fan but it won’t bother me.
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This email went out from Jim Davis this afternoon: Sorry if formatting is weird, pasting from my phone. It doesn’t mention the compact, which could be a sign they are planning to ignore it and hope it fizzles out and a formal decision is never required. Unfortunately, that may be the best case scenario for UT at this point, given the players involved. I am concerned that he mentions “The University of Texas at Austin will serve as a model for restoring public trust in higher education.“ The public already trusted higher education until people deliberately tried to destroy that trust with lies. UT Austin should not even feel the need to acknowledge public distrust and give these ridiculous ideas any credibility. To do so is to suggest the university has gone astray and will now fix the role it played in causing this fictitious problem. Mostly, I remain worried that this is the way of breaking news softly, before later revealing that we agreed to a modified compact, which would still be 100% bullshit.
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