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Seems like there’s one or two multinational corporations at the bottom of the supply chain granting us the ability to manufacture semiconductors. Precision engineering that spits in the face of God. What’s the bus factor on the knowledge required to produce these? Companies forget how to make things they used to know how to make. It happens all the time. What happens when their institutional knowledge decays? We just can’t make the computers that run MRI machines anymore?

Fuck me I just wanna talk to someone

I work in a subindustry of healthcare whose end users are all healthcare workers. To be clear, I’m not a healthcare worker. But I’m in a monthly all hands call and they’re currently laying out the amount of AI features they have planned for our platform and it’s monumental. They want AI touching everything.

There’s lots of talk about doctors learning about new innovations via “microcontent”. In other words, there’s a vision of doctors scrolling an AI-filled infinite feed to learn about medical innovations instead of reading full articles. They want to addict doctors to a nerdy Twitter clone so they can show them ads.

I was scrolling Facebook and came across a picture of WWII soldiers captioned something like “Woke leftists on their way to persecute fascists for disagreeing with them”. I’d post the picture but Facebook resets every fucking time I navigate away from it and come back for some reason.

Anyway, this quote was posted at least 3 times in the comments by fascists attempting to “refute” the idea that fighting the Nazis was morally correct:

Gentlemen, I have come this morning to the inexcusable conclusion that we have fought on the wrong side. This entire war we should have fought with the fascists against the communists and not the other way around. I fear that perhaps in fifty years America will pay a dear price and become a land of corruption and removed morals.

General George Patton.

Here’s a Stack Exchange link about the veracity of the quote: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/36062/did-gen-patton-say-we-defeated-the-wrong-enemy

Apparently there’s no good source for the direct quote but he did agree with the sentiment and was relieved of command for it.

Parentimix goes hard

Mr. Krabs is bothered by the squeaking of the boots and buries them underneath the floorboards. The next day, no one suspects him, but he continues hearing the squeaking everywhere, which drives him mad and causes him to reveal the boots and his guilt.

It seems too much of a coincidence to be an accident. Surely the writers were familiar with the story.

My kid’s been doing art for a while now and is feeling their first plateau of improvement. Anyone have any formal resources online that are free and would be appropriate for them? They’re about 10.

For anyone who doesn’t know, it’s a Dungeons and Dragons narrative-play podcast starring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson.

I just finished the book 1 finale and none of my ttrpg friends have listened to it yet. I need someone to geek out about this with before I explodeee

Context:

1. I am almost 400 lbs
2. I’m also being tested for sleep apnea
3. I am diagnosed with binge eating disorder, which I’ve been taking Vyvanse for as well as for my ADHD
4. I’m on the lowest dose of Zepbound, which will titrate up over time
5. I’ve been on it a few days
6. I gained quite a bit of weight after starting a microdose of estrogen, so there’s aspects of that in play as well
7. I somehow managed to get my insurance to cover it with a copay of $15 for 4 weeks of meds (I went in expecting the price to be a prohibitive barrier and ready to be let down so this was a great surprise)

It’s kind of hard to describe how night-and-day it is. I had to google how quickly the effects happen because I thought I was gaslighting myself. Within hours of my first injection, I went from being unable to feel hunger until I was starving and being unable to feel full until my stomach hurt to being able to stop eating whenever I wanted. I can eat a normal amount of food and feel full. No nausea. No metal taste. None of the side effects that people complain about so far. I still enjoy the food. But for the first time in years I can stop thinking about food and having it invade my sense of free will.

All I can say is that if this is a normal relationship to food, everyone who’s ever implied I just wasn’t trying hard enough can go fuck themselves.

Further context in original post

I understand it’s being misused by people who don’t need it, particularly in the entertainment industry. But I’m almost 400 lbs and my eating is worse than it’s ever been and I’m just in desperate need to rid myself of this obsession with always eating more no matter what. Does anyone here have any experience with it? I’ve heard it just works by making you nauseous but I’ve read elsewhere that that’s just a common side effect. At this point I’m nauseous most of the time anyway.