There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don’t mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.

Yes. There’s little or no novelty here. I’m not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we’ve all experienced similar things.

maybe it’s the same Greek

I don’t think this is an age thing:

fixation on trivialities about a client’s appearance or something funny he did instead of getting directly to the point

I see this a lot on political comments on Lemmy and Reddit. People call politicians they don’t like weird pet names and insult their appearance. It’s like they’ve been classified as “other” so the normal rules don’t apply.

There’s value in referring to everyone respectfully. It’s easy to throw clients into the out group because they’re relatively transient. Don’t. Have empathy. Focus on what you have in common and shared goals.

if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?

Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.

We progressives are great at purity tests. IMO it’s part of the reason big tent populists do better than us.

Eff you turds for downvoting objective fact you anti-intellectual turds. I’m as progressive and anti-corporate as it gets, you undereducated morons.

Lemmy can suck like that. If you post something that can be misconstrued outside of our tiny Overton window, you get downvotes. Lots and lots of downvotes.

I get eye aches pretty quickly without enough light. I find I need light behind and around my monitor otherwise I get soreness.

A single light in the ceiling, controlled by a wired switch next to the door.

When I want light, I want a lot of it; when I want dark, I want complete darkness.

It really depends on stupid.

Will he ever leave office?

He’s an old man. Either Americans will get rid of him, or he’ll die of old age.

America is rotten to the core.

Is that new? The US has/had many great attributes, but they’ve never been as good as their PR pretends. Jim Crow, the Trail of Tears, Iraq, Vietnam, the CIA, etc.

Richest country on the planet … Greedy fucks.

I can’t disagree.

Their special status no longer applies

Their special status is money, a productive economy, and a massive military. Trump may damage those attributes, but I suspect the US will generally retain them.

And other countries will line up to get access to that trough. Even if governments don’t want to buddy up, the moneyed classes in those countries will agitate to get access to that market.

I expect to see a stronger push away from reliance on the US for…

During COVID we said we were going to start producing our own vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and PPE. We said we would address the crisis in Canadian healthcare. In the three-ish years since the end of lockdowns, we’ve settled back into our pre-covid rut.

Post-Trump, it will be the same. As long as the US is a huge market, we’ll eventually settle back into the NAFTA rut.

bu mah uhptahm

It looks like an offline tool that reviews existing medical records to find indicators of addiction:

Overall, the AI screener was as effective as provider-only assessments in leading to addiction specialist consultations. However, those who received AI screening were 47% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days after initial discharge.

The team calculated that each readmission avoided saved about $6,800 in health care costs during the study period. The findings suggest that investment in AI could help to increase access to addiction treatment, improve efficiencies, and save costs.

There’s a lot of money to be made by selling stuff to the US. I’ll be surprised if Canadian companies and trading agreements didn’t revert to their pre-Trump arrangements within a few years of him leaving office.

It autorenews and it’s relatively expensive.

I wouldn’t do that DNA test, because it’s really sensitive data.

WikiTree is a free alternative to the genealogical database. The genealogy nerd in my life says that its data is a bit better. Ymmv.

Who asked the glass?

I’d love to take credit for the summary, JuxtaposedJaguar did the work.

not again

• The first phrase (at the top) talks about being part of a series, rather than the purpose of the doc. That should go at the end.
• the image in the middle looks like it’s describing use cases, but the cases and significance to the reader aren’t clear. What is DRM? What is profit share? What is a credit system? Why should the reader care?
• why are library apps in a rectangle, but the others in circles?
• “Environmental” has an icon, but it doesn’t seem to be used anywhere.
• would the bubbles with icons look better if they were left justified?
• the “need help choosing” block is the most understandable: it lists interests and an appropriate suggestion.