Recent nursing school graduate here! We had a lot of assignments to find and present data on some disease process or drug or intervention etc. Actually finding credible sources and picking out the data we need and putting it on paper is a super tedious process, and my classmates LOVED zipping through that stuff with some AI shit. And they’d get 100s on their assignments, and everything was just rainbows and unicorn farts… up until test day, where they’d fail or barely pass. Now several of them are struggling to pass the NCLEX.

Drives me insane. Like, you mother fuckers aren’t here to get a grade, you’re here to learn this shit so you know what to do when you see it in whatever hospital hires your dumb ass.

Definitely doesn’t paint a pretty picture about the future of medicine.

Why come you no have tattoo??

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Guessing you’re not seeing the gif after the quote - just noticed it’s not showing on the PC like it is on mobile. You should see this after the quoted text, cuz it’s absolute bullshit:

https://media1.tenor.com/m/d-XJYttJ4rEAAAAd/dr-evil-riiight-dr-evil.gif

they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and they exhibit credible metacognitive self-awareness

Chipmunks, 5 year olds, salt/pepper shakers, and paint thinner, also all make terrible doctors.

Follow me for more studies on ‘shit you already know because it’s self-evident immediately upon observation’.

Any favorite recipes?

…yea there’s no way I can accept that’s in good faith. I’ll leave you with: ‘gestures broadly at the last decade’

If you want to argue that he is somehow benefiting the US at the rest of the world’s expense, then go ahead and knock yourself out, but the frequency at which he damages our country speaks for itself.

Good distinction. They too are enemies of the US, by which I mean the common person and the combined potential of US citizens.

…we’re way fuckin overdue for guillotine day.

He’s been working to turn our allies against us since day one.

Trump isn’t blundering into this shit on accident, he’s an enemy of the US. His actions make a lot more sense when you realize he’s intentionally trying to weaken us.

I kind of dove a bit deeper into that kind of shenanigans for nursing school - copying entire chapters from my text books and using find and replace wildcards clip out all the bullshit like in-text citations.

Plug that fucker into some text-to-speech software, and my reading assignment just became a listening assignment!

I do wish I knew some actual code… I’ve tried to dive in and self-learn that stuff, but didn’t make it very far.

I should take an actual class.

Is there a tool that crunches the entirety of the documents and sorts the individual words by frequency? For example, doing it the stupid way (semi-manually) I copied OP’s article into Word and replaced every space with a page break to turn the entire article into a one-word-per-line list, then plugged that into Excel and sorted alphabetically, then manually counted and deleted the repeats. Then sorted those to put the most frequent on top.

This reduced the 525 word article down to a list of 284 individual words. If I added another article to this list, the number of entries would only be increased by the number of words in the 2nd article that didn’t appear in the first one, so basically as more and more articles are added, the number of unique additions from each would be fewer and fewer. Do this to a thousands-of-pages of documents like the Epstein files, and you could instantly condense like dozens of pages worth of just the word “the” down to a single entry, making the entirety of the documents much easier to skim for highlights… like, if the word ‘velociraptor’ was just randomly hidden in the article, most readers would probably skim right passed it; but in the list below it would stand out like a sore thumb, prompting a targeted search in the full document for context. Especially if we could flag words as not interesting, and like click to knock “the” “of” “and” etc off the list.

…maybe a project for someone who actually knows what they’re doing… my skills hit a brick wall after things like ‘find and replace’ in Word, but you get the gist.

YSK legal rights don’t mean shit to administrations that don’t respect the law. Compliance with ICE can be deadly - arm yourself and do whatever you need to do to stay safe.

We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.

Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.

Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.

Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.

I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!

Might be more of a developmental impairment. For children, magical thinking is normal and expected. They might sincerely think they can cause something to happen by thinking about it or engaging in some kind of paranormal way. Like, if a 4 year old points at you with a finger guns gesture and yells ‘bang’, they might just be trying to be silly; but they might also be genuinely trying to kill you. You’ll know if immediately after, they look down at their finger-gun with a wtf expression cuz they’re actually surprised it didn’t work.

Again, normal. Unnerving, but normal.

They should grow out of that shit by about age 7 iirc.

Lots of people never grow out of it, they just compartmentalize that kind of thinking as religion… they know they can’t kill you with finger guns, but Jesus? His finger guns are real!!.

Those people need a fuck ton of therapy.

The disconnect is one of class, not generation. Generation draws a lot of attention, both in solidarity and in backlash, but if you’re expecting the world to suddenly become better when boomers die off, or for X/millennials/Z/etc to swoop in and save the day, you’re in for disappointment.

The ruling class will continue to make our existence as dystopian as possible until we break out the guillotines.

Working in the OR. Anesthesiologist draws up some fentanyl, and I asked him if it was enriched. He looked at me like I’m a dumbass and asked “with what?”

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US deep south. The only sorting of trash I see in the hospital is sharps vs non-sharps. Outside the hospital, sorting is vitually nonexistent… there’s no recycling here, everything just goes in a landfill. It’s fucking stupid, but this is what we get for putting Nazis in charge of everything.

No idea how they dispose of it. I’ve asked my immediate management chain if I can take damaged/pitted instruments that need to be replaced to donate to the local colleges - Anatomy & Physiology classes all have a lab component to dissect something, and the school I went to had instruments that were absolute garbage.

The answer was no… We just put instruments that need to be replaced in a red bin with other sharps like needles, and the bins are shipped off somewhere, probably to be incinerated.

Bigger stuff like equipment, we send to the biomedical engineering department for outprocessing. From there, no idea. Probably land fill.

I wouldn’t dumpster dive at a hospital though. It’ll be a sea of ruptured catheter bags, linens saturated with poop, and just all manner of pathogens. And probably sharps - that stuff is supposed to go in sealed red bins, but all it takes is one lazy employee and you’ve got yourself an HIV+ needle stick.

I work in an operating room, and have been around long enough to see multiple pieces of perfectly good equipment get replaced just because it hit the manufacturer’s end-of-life date.

I’m talking things like a several-hundred-thousand dollar microscope for microsurgery.

Basically that date means if the microscope fucks up somehow, the vendor takes zero liability, and any legal expenses fall onto the hospital… so we trash it and buy another one. Rinse and repeat after another few years.

That end-of-life date is always crazy early, and is like that 100% because the manufacturer knows hospitals would rather just treat a quarter million dollar microscope as disposable than accept liability for an equipment fault.

The waste is unreal.