meyotch @ meyotch @slrpnk.net

A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short

---

Read more

Posts

17

Comments

1,207

Joined

2 yr. ago

The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.

If you ain’t woke, you ain’t getting laid.

It’s basic science.

Yeah, you get it. I aim to trivialize the oligarchy. The idea that we can make the world better at nearly zero cost. The only cost is the therapy bills of the former billionaires, as they work through their butthurt at being reduced to mere opulence.

I cannot un-hear this.

I need to listen to it but i think adding ‘again’ at the end matches the original cadence better.

I’m going to learn to sing this. It will come in handy for comic value certainly.

They seem to have dropped the ball on floods too.

I don’t want to be a doomer, but I feel pretty confident predicting some awful influenza, measles, covid and other easily transmitted (and prevented) diseases.

What will make it worse is that as the news trickles out about outbreaks, those reports will be countered by FUD, misinformation, bullshit and prevarication by the federal government. We won’t even be able to agree there is even a problem.

This will be compounded by local health infrastructure being at reduced capacity due to the precarious financial status of this infrastructure due to constant federal meddling with grants and funding. For many players in our disease prevention and treatment infrastructure, losing even a few percent of Federal money from their budgets can trigger a cascade of cutbacks and personnel losses.

Someone please tell I am being paranoid. I have worked in biomedical industries for years and I can’t see how we can avoid these consequences now.

Maybe don’t fire, re-hire, then re-fire staff seemingly at random? That would definitely make strategic decisions very difficult.

Yeah, it’s a very creepy experience to walk through a corn field at night in July.

Definitely no place for children. If you see any, run like hell. ;)

The satisfying plop of a placenta hitting the floor really makes the night shift more enjoyable.

Sometimes a person is both.

The only reason I still have any normal friends is that my raspberry jam is freaking amazing. But I use that as an excuse to expound on the class war. It’s how they pay me back for the jam.

I can attest from experience with a parent who eventually died of Parkinson’s disease. (The usual cause is finally choking on food.)

It steadily erases one’s ability to project their humanity. Even more cruelly, it gives occasional respite so you can’t forget there is a complete person suffering in that quivering shell.

In summary, fuck Parkinson’s and all other neurodegenerative diseases.

A combination of both strong edibles and bong hits should probably do it. It helps if you have an unprocessed and unrealized fantasy to be a possum whisperer.

A plant can use water efficiently, in terms of getting a lot of CO2 in exchange for the water they transpire, and still use a lot of water.

Corn grows super fast at peak season.

They are high-key copaganda. It’s overt and blatant.

What portion of these documentaries talk about false convictions, for instance?

What fresh hell is this?

I use this whenever my supervisor tells me she has news for me.

The lesson is that kids of all species are dickholes to each other.

For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

Drawbacks of EPIC

Super expensive - only large outfits can even afford it.

Poor design - a multitude of modules that often use different design principles so knowing one module doesn’t help much with another.

Extreme vendor lock-in - EPIC is very similar in business model to Microsoft in the first decades, basically a mafia.

Lack of interoperability - EPIC interfaces poorly with lab and diagnostic equipment, EPIC actively fights development and adoption of interoperabilty standards.

Dictating Clinical Workflow - EPIC is designed primarily to assist billing, not record keeping for patient benefit. Thus workflows are highly constrained and significant time must be spent clicking about to get the system to let one do normal things.

I mean, EHR is inherently complex so any EHR, but EPIC makes it much worse than it needs to be.

I’m don’t love the chart and hate forced and false dichotomies.

Both ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ are over-loaded terms, meaning that they can be used to mean too many things, some definitions almost directly contradict each other.

So I stick with the term ‘assholes’, which has a more universally agreed meaning.

Yes. That is how it has always been.