Boozilla @ Boozilla @lemmy.world

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Same answer as everyone else: Flying Squid.

Public schools and religious college failed me. I do not have a favorite amino acid.

Someone wants to summon Durin's Bane.

The trope I'm familiar with is that a criminal always returns to the scene of the crime to enjoy watching the aftermath and/or observe who is investigating. There's also a trope about serial killers exhibiting a creepy triad of behaviors in childhood: bed wetting, arson, and animal torture. I'm not an expert but I think the science is dubious.

Movies and TV shows have used these tropes and countless variations. Are you maybe remembering one where the arsonist liked to have a wank? It would not surprise me if it was used in one or more procedural crime dramas. If it's a common trope, it's news to me!

Turbo Encabulator vibes from the LLM.

Oral B Pro 1000. On my 2nd one. First one lasted several years before the rechargeable battery pooped out. Dentist has been very happy with the results.

One tip: I dry mine thoroughly after each use. I take the brush head off, and dry the metal parts under there. Keeps it from gooping up over time. Sounds like a hassle, but it's not, takes about 5 seconds.

The plastic adds enough rigidity overall to help resist bending. The combination of the metal inside and the overall thickness of the added plastic is pretty good. It won't resist a Hulk smash or a tank rolling over it. But it should, hopefully, resist routine bending forces during packaging and shipping. Goof around with it the next time you receive one, and you'll see what I mean.

Beyond the obvious trolls and complete loons, I also block people who never contribute an original comment or post and only reply to other comments in order to "correct" other people or "call them out". Their comment history makes it immediately obvious when they are this type of user.

They strike me as particularly cowardly and obnoxious, because they only want to attack / start something against, and never risk a simple original assertion of their own. Offense being the best defense, etc. They probably think of themselves as verbal judo masters.

IOW, they are basically using Lemmy as fodder for their pedantry. I'm not interested at all in engaging with this type of jackass. Unfortunately there are a lot of them on the internet. My block list is long.

You're right to point out the problem. Using a rhetorical tone was a bit sarcastic / condescending, so I mirrored it.

I think it's a question of perspective. Your doctor faxing something to a pharmacy or specialist is archaic at this point, and I agree it's not great. If they are using FOIP and not POTS, one would hope it's encrypted with TLS or something (if it's not, it's possibly a HIPAA violation if there's PHI in the FAX). But the blast radius is pretty small.

I suppose if a hacker compromised a hospital system's FOIP they could harvest a lot of medical records that way. But at that point, they are already in and they'd likely be more interested in fatter & juicier targets on the network. Bigger datasets with less effort (versus pulling from a trickle of FAXes going in and out).

Bottom line: yes, FAX is dumb, and it's a problem but it's very small compared to other things.

Settle down, Dwight. Combatives are based on martial arts. You're being pedantic over semantics. I also already mentioned how important they are for some folks.

Military, police, security and intelligence operatives train in it for a reason. You're right that it's not very practical or necessary for the average person. And for those who do need it, it's an option of absolute last resort and desperation. Running away, if possible, is the wiser choice. But, it can make the difference in a life or death situation. Someone who knows how to fight and has practice doing it has a big advantage over someone who doesn't.

Exercise: And if you find martial arts fun and a really good workout, more power to you. I think for many people, however, there are less injury-prone ways to get a good workout.

General population: I do agree with you. They'd be looking at the next shiney new celebrity scandal or whatever. But there would also be some people who would act like a dog with a bone and not lose interest in the aliens. Scientists and UFOlogists and such.

IMO, assembling a sandwich from ready-to-eat ingredients without using a stove, oven, microwave, etc. is meal prep, not cooking. If you roast, saute, toast, smoke, or even zap any part of it, now you're cookin'. (Though zapping might just be reheating something that was cooked previously. Ugh, this is more complicated than it should be. English can be frustrating.)

Actually I do know that. Pharmacies, too. You do know they are not FAXing giant datasets with millions of patients in them, right?

I agree. "Q: Into the Storm" is the only thing that addresses part of it (that I'm aware of).

Having permission to access to the HIPAA-protected dataset is only the first hurdle. You also need a medically valid or claim processing reason to look at individual patient records within that dataset. People have gotten into trouble by not respecting this. Doctors and other providers are not going to just poke around in the data for fun. Too little to gain for too much risk.

HIPAA is far from perfect, but it does do a decent job of protecting data at rest and in transit. If a bad actor like a hacker manages to get a copy of it, the sensitive stuff will be encrypted.

We handle HIPAA data at my job, and we all take it very seriously. There's annual training required, and a reporting process for violations. Nobody is looking at anything unless they really need to.

Large corporate health insurance providers are another problem. They of course do have access to it, and I am sure they abuse the privilege for data mining and scheming on claims denial strategies and so on. But that's a political and enforcement issue not an issue with HIPAA itself. They are violating HIPAA and getting away with it because they are a powerful lobby.

On top of all this interesting and problematic stuff about Silver himself, I think polls are very unreliable here in the post-truth world. Playing spreadsheet games with multiple polls might be marginally better. But IMO the whole thing suffers from GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). People lie to pollsters for myriad reasons. And that's just the small population of people they can even get a response from.

I've always heard those are bad for the pipes.

The Ann Coulter of fishes.

Lina Khan is my hero.