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  • Almost everyone. Most of his team doesn't actively hate him, except for Foreman and sometimes Chase. But yeah, broadly everyone hates him for being an asshole but he's also a profoundly capable asshole which means they also want to keep him around despite being an asshole. His entire department essentially exists because of Cuddy's guilt over giving him the limp.

    Three Stories was probably my favorite episode. House is forced to teach a class, he sets up three hypotheticals of patients reporting leg pain at the same time. One of the cases is his own story of how he ended up with the limp. He also managed to diagnose what's wrong with the normal teacher of the class while teaching it (lead poisoning).

  • I mean, that was literally the elevator pitch for the show - Sherlock Holmes as an American doctor. They even made a point in casting of not wanting a British actor which makes it even funnier that Hugh Laurie got the part.

    Holmes = House Watson = Wilson 7% solution of cocaine = Vicodin

    The biggest difference is that he's essentially his own Moriarty, and his Reichenbach Falls involved a burning house, heroin and hallucinations of dead former team members.

  • (If I’m understanding you correctly they’ve shown some light on mental issues, which is prob a good thing if actually done correctly & not just for bs character credibility/growth.)

    Specifically he starts season 6 in a psychiatric hospital and season 8 in prison. As always he tries to cheat his way out of the system, but ends up being humbled in season 6 and committing to treatment. He fakes his death at the end of season 8, because he's going to go back to prison (damage caused by a prank gone wrong), Wilson has cancer and House would be in prison well past Wilson's estimated remaining time.

  • Yeah, I remember that episode. He located a suspected breast tumor on the guy's leg by giving him a drug that caused galactorrhea and then looked for the swelling as the tumor swelled up with milk.

  • I mean its basically the firearms equivalent of building your own retro-console from spare parts. Janky and underpowered compared to what's on the market from big manufacturers, but much of the point is in the building.

  • AI’s primary use case so far is to further concentrate wealth with the wealthy,

    Under capitalism, everything further concentrates wealth with the wealthy because the wealthy are best able to capitalize on anything. Wealth gives you the means to better pursue further wealth.

    and to replace employees.

    So what you're saying is that we need to dismantle every piece of automation and go back to manufacturing everything by hand with the most basic hand tools possible? Because that will maximize the number of people needed to be employed to produce, well, anything. Anything else is using technology to replace employees.

    Or is it just that now we're talking about people working office jobs they thought were automation-proof getting partially automated that's made automation a bad thing?

  • which doesn’t necessarily lead to “people with African ancestry need fewer vaccines

    But it might (and I want to emphasize might, as in would require further study) mean that people of African ancestry could benefit from a different vaccine schedule than people of primarily European decent. Another thing in the "would be interesting and maybe even useful to know, but impossible to research and/or publish in the current environment" bucket.

  • You don't need personal genomics to broadly do better than simply lumping everyone in one bucket. Various ethnic/racial groups have been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history, which means certain things are significantly more common in some groups than others, which means you can get more effective use of resources by targeting things like screening and prevention at groups where the disease is more likely.

    Personal genomics would let you target even more closely, but using race or family history is just estimating genomics by proxy.

    For example, sickle cell and black folks, or cystic fibrosis and white folks, or maple syrup urine disease and the Amish or methemoglobinemia and one family from eastern Kentucky.

  • You left out Maple Syrup Urine Disease which is both not a thing I made up (despite how it sounds) and also mostly a thing among the Pennsylvania Dutch (aka Amish) that causes the body to be unable to break down several amino acids.

  • This is pretty disingenuous, the vast majority of sickle cell cases are non-hispanic blacks. Hispanics and whites also get sickle cell. If you’re grouping all those ethnicities in there, you might as well include whites too.

    It's genetic. It's more prevalent in some populations than others because sickle cell also makes one resistant to malaria, so the more common malaria has been somewhere historically, the more likely people descended from there are to have sickle cell.

    Like how people of European descent are more likely to be resistant to the Black Death. Turns out diseases that kill lots of people apply significant selection pressure and those changes don't vanish quickly unless they cause a problem that would prevent breeding in successive generations.

  • Can we just have the most qualified doctor regardless of race in place of the unqualified heroin addict? I'll take that. They can be a black trans lesbian (or not for any/all of those) for all it matters, so long as they actually know their shit.

    Like RFK has already blown his stopped clock moment, and it was about food additives - can we get someone who will still do that bit but is also otherwise competent?

  • let’s just make more trans people. Problem solved!

    This is literally what right wingers accuse trans people trying to engage with kids in public of doing. Like trans story time, or trans teachers. That they're going to trans their children, like it's some kind of vampire curse.