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The author of this article has a clear bias and lets this bias lead their perception of accountable care organizations (ACO), despite it being perhaps the only existing lever within our system by which preventative and population health measures can actually be adopted. This complete misread of ACO and VBC (value based care) makes it difficult to view anything else the author says with credit. Which is a shame, because a fair deal of this history I'm familiar with and I completely agree that UHG is a fucking capitalistic nightmare plague on US healthcare costs.

One of the most promising uses of CRISPR that's being investigated right now is it's use to combat climate change by modifying plants to sequester carbon.

If we ignore the costs, wouldn’t it be mostly a game of probabilities? If that’s the case it would be a matter of repeating the treatment often enough to reduce the probability of the virus returning to effectively 0.

Yes, but a game of probabilities can mean that the management of a chronic condition becomes easier. It takes a certain amount of time for HIV to activate into AIDS. Modern management of HIV is a daily medication where dosage has a lot to do with what state you catch HIV in. With something like this, even if we cannot completely remove HIV from the person's system, we may be able to reverse it to a state where it can be managed by the existing immune system and eliminated/cured, or at the very least can reduce how much of the medication one needs to be taking to keep things in check.

To patients treatments like this might mean that in the future they may simply need to take a single pill or injection or undergo a minor procedure (such as an implant) much less often than once per day. This could greatly reduce the anxiety that one might experience around the question of whether they took their medication that day, or even remove the burden of having to refill/take a medication daily because it is instead an injection or procedure or implant.

We are, of course, a LONG way from this being possible as human application of CRISPR is extremely limited and extremely expensive (we've cured sickle cell anemia in several humans now, with costs of the procedure in the millions) at this point in time, but it's also amazing that we've even done that given how new CRISPR is.

This is an oversimplification of processes that happen during sleep. This has to do with fat metabolism in brain cells mediated through the effect of specific gene variants.

ah shoot just realized this is a duplicate of another post! Removing

Hell yea this rules

Linguistics has the term backchanneling to describe verbal ways in which a listener can engage with a speaker to signal that they are listening. The most common affirmations that fall into this category are sounds like "mhm", "uhuh", or simple affirming words like "yes" or "I see". But there's a whole slew of ways you can signal this which are more complicated, such as rhetorical questions such as "really?" in response to content that is surprising or repeating some of the content back at the speaker like "he did not!"

If you're looking to step your response game up, there's a concept known as "active listening" which incorporates some of the ideas of backchanneling into more complex ideas as well as taking some of the more well studied psychology of intimacy and relationships. It's a framework or structure for listening to somebody and to show that you are listening by synthesizing and repeating some of the information back at the speaker. As an aside this helps to reduce any issues with comprehension or miscommunication as the act of synthesizing and repeating the data back at the speaker using different words can often trigger the speaker to clarify in ways they may have failed to do or highlight that you understood something differently than they expected the information they presented to be parsed.

Another day another ruling by the supreme court to erode any confidence in their ability to do anything correctly. Rather than addressing a problem head on, we shall instead hyperfocus on the way it worked itself through our court system to avoid any responsibility at this time.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to respond to "demeaning and dismissive" statements by being "demeaning and dismissive." We're big fans of the paradox of intolerance around here. It's not the job of the interviewer to "think about things differently". Lemon isn't Musk's therapist. Lemon isn't obligated to do the heavy lifting of emotional labor for Musk.

Had shoulder surgery last week, went out dancing, and played a gig at a burner play party up in the Oakland hills. Made a connection with another DJ there who throws queer centered parties, so excited for that! Started this week off still catching up on my sleep deprivation but feeling generally pretty good. I've managed to line up a few dates for this week with new people too- looking forward to those future connections. Going to two DnB shows this week, which I think is the most DnB shows I've seen in one week because there's usually not that many going on.

Fantastic article, thanks for posting it. I think anyone who works in healthcare is familiar with the amount of emotional labor necessary in patient interactions. Obviously it varies depending on where you work, as primary care can have a lot of routine interactions, but any situation which warrants medical intervention is a space in which someone is stressed out on some level. When a patient is stressed out, it can often mean that they cannot show up fully present, and thus demand some form of emotional labor to help stabilize, calm, or deescalate. It would be fantastic to at the very least recognize this very real stress to healthcare employees and to create stronger support networks to help relieve this stress and prevent burnout, and I think with all the burnout that happened around the pandemic the industry is beginning to take this a bit more seriously.

They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.

Yup, if anyone wants to "replace" these platforms, they need to make them very approachable to tech naive individuals. Most people have close to no technical skills, and nearly everyone on federated software seems to fail to recognize this.

Ultimately I am in agreement that we shouldn't be trying to drop a replacement to these platforms directly in. We should be offering an alternative, something fundamentally different, because those platforms have failed to fulfill our desires and needs from social media on the internet.

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I don't want to discount the findings too harshly, because I believe that democrats have a ton of issues with their voters in general and can only go on promising everything but delivering nothing for so long before people wisen up, but I do want to just gently remind everyone how accurate polling was in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles and its general decline among the population as a way to understand how people vote. Polling groups have not adapted to the times and frequently demand far too much out of a population which is overburdened and simply not interested in engaging with pollsters through archaic mediums and conventional means of identifying who is eligible to be polled are not applicable to a modern populace.

We've been in support of and worked with several apps for a front end client. Ultimately it's not something I've spent a ton of time thinking about, because it feels secondary to having the necessary tools to ensure our community can remain healthy by keeping the niceness and kind behavior. Front end development doesn't require explicit sign-off by the developers of the platform, either, so it's a space easily rectified if someone feels it is currently lacking.

oh hungry music, those three boys put out some great music

if you ever get a chance to see worakls live, I highly recommend it - he's a great showman

That's more like it, this is a discussion that people can actually interact with! I am not the author, and I agree with you that the title isn't great, but I am interested in discussing what they wrote and appreciate that you've now at least opened the door to a discussion on clickbait titles rather than just leaving a one sentence "gotcha".

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Well stated. Once again, thank you for all the hard work you do around here!

The headline is 6 words. The article is 3,606 words. Expressed as a percentage, the amount of content you have decided to address comes to a grand total of 0.16%.

If you have no interest in interacting with the content, it would be simple enough to state that. But to dismiss the entirety of the article based on 0.16% of the content seems rather short sighted to me. Do you have any thoughts to share about the article?