I’m 56, and I’ve been confused about the modern accusations of communism because when communism was the big bad in my youth, I figured it was the authoritarianism and lack of freedom that was bad.
As it turns out, I was wrong. What was bad was apparently having the wrong group of people pillaging the country. If they had billionaires stealing everything instead of party elites, it would have been fine.
So communism was bad because western billionaires couldn’t profit from it.
I’m not sure how useful replying to your post is because everytime someone replies you don’t listen to what they are saying and just tell them you’ve done everything that can be done and they didn’t understand that there’s nothing that anyone can do because you’ve already seen doctors and they can’t find anything wrong.
However, I’m going to try anyway.
Without trying to diagnose you, I’m just going to share personal experiences.
First, an easy one:
I thought things I was feeling in my 30’s was just aging, then I had a doctor say something was wrong, tested my thyroid, and diagnosed Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Before you react and say “They tested my TSH and it’s normal!”, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about me. I thought my symptoms were because of aging, but discovered that was bullshit.
Next, a much more difficult one:
My wife started having symptoms in her 20’s. Not your symptoms, her symptoms. She started seeing doctors. Sometimes doctors would try things, sometimes they would tell her she should see a shrink.
She did see shrinks, multiple times. They told her she didn’t have any mental illness and she should go back to looking for a medical solution.
Her issues progressed. She couldn’t work anymore and had to sell her optometry practice and go on disability. She continued to search for a doctor who could help. She did her own research to learn about what could be happening. She started teaching her doctors about what was wrong.
We saw doctors up and down the east coast. We went to Johns Hopkins. We went to NIH facilities. We flew across the country to see a doctor in LA. Some doctors came up with things that helped a bit. Some tried for a long time, but then ran out of ideas and gave up. No one had a permanent solution.
Our youngest child, in her 20’s, went to see a doctor about joint pain. That doctor tested her for something and the test came back positive. That disorder is genetic, and it matched some of my wife’s symptoms. My wife got tested, and her test was positive. Now she gets a treatment for that and it is starting to help. She can walk more, do more. She’s started to imagine she might be able to do things like drive a car again.
My wife has been seeing doctors about her health problems for longer than you have been alive. Ultimately, it was a doctor treating our daughter who identified the test she needed. No other doctor in more than 30 years thought of that test.
My point is, when people tell you you have to see other doctors, YOU HAVE TO SEE OTHER DOCTORS. When people tell you to do more tests, YOU HAVE TO DO MORE TESTS. If you give up, no one is going to help you. Stop whining about how hopeless it is, get off your ass, and do the hard work of taking charge of your healthcare.
I scanned the responses, and didn’t see anyone who mentioned this.
The point at which the U.S. allowed you to “sign” your name by typing was when the E-Sign Act was passed. That was in 2000, long before LLMs were really a concern.
The reason was to make online commerce easier. Verbal contacts could and continue to be enforced, but enforcement requires more effort than with a written contact.
At the time I thought the law was passed by people who didn’t understand technology and how easy this made it for people to commit fraud or screw over consumers. However now I realize they just didn’t give a fuck.
In Philly you stop wherever you are and do whatever you’re going to do.
It’s not unexpected to find people just parked in a lane blocking traffic while they unload.
If you are moving ALL your stuff, hire movers.
In my experience, that’s what Dad is for.
It starts with Dad moving you to and from dorm rooms. Then apartments.
When my wife and I moved to our house I hired movers. It was a lot easier and not terribly expensive.
When my wife moved her business to a new building, my mom told me my dad insisted on helping us move, so I didn’t hire movers as I had planned. When we were moving the tons of furniture, cabinets, and massive boxes stuffed full of files, my dad mentioned that my mom told him I had asked him to help me move. I have never been able to determine why my mom manipulated us into nearly killing ourselves.
Now I’m the dad. I’ve moved kids to and from dorm rooms and apartments. I’ve rented trucks for huge moves. My daughter and I are moving a couch, a dresser, an end table and all her cooking utensils on Saturday.
Not only do I have a truck, I also have straps, furniture dollies, moving blankets, mattress bags, etc.
My most recent purchase was a shoulder dolly. If you haven’t seen one, picture two harnesses with a wide strap running between them. Two people squat on either end of the item being moved with the wide strap running under it. You take up the slack in the strap, and just stand up to lift it off the ground. It’s a game changer.
I’ve become my own moving company.
They can just keep playing mind games with Donald Trump until he goes fucking insane.
Goes?!?!?
Rich, dumb, white people fall upwards.
Poor, dumb, white people fall the same direction as everyone else.
Leo is waiting for me to throw his stick:
The girls, Daisy & Rose, are just hanging out:
I take it to mean Democrats who are not Democratic Socialists, but it’s an odd way of saying it.
Maybe they are including people who aren’t registered as Democrats but tend to vote for them?
They shouldn’t, but when has that ever stopped them? The (stupid) assumption they make is that the computer wouldn’t make a mistake, so they assume it found the exact person they were looking for.
Judges shouldn’t be issuing warrants solely because a face matching algorithm found someone who looked like the suspect, but they are probably as clueless about the technology as the police are.
I was listening to a podcast episode that was talking about AI-based face recognition and how it’s being used.
The way it works, you take your shitty, off-center still from a security camera showing the suspect at an odd angle, and you feed it into the AI. The AI searches all the images it has access to to find people who look like the suspect.
Police take the results, pick up the person from that list that they think is the closest match, then they put them in front of a line-up, and ask the witnesses to identify the person who committed the crime. Once they have a positive ID, they use that to charge and convict the suspect.
The problem, of course, is that the AI is just finding people who look like the suspect. If they use the tool correctly, they would do some investigation to determine if there is any chance that anyone identified by the AI could actually be the suspect. Instead, they treat it like the AI identified the specific person they were looking for.
One example they used was a woman who was arrested. They arrested her despite the woman in the video not being pregnant and the woman they arrested being about 8 months along.
Nothing says no crime was committed like using sexual misconduct allegations against the chief prosecutor to try and delay an arrest warrant.
Get out of here with your fascist-commie bullshit!
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A few years after I got hired my boss mentioned that they had hundreds of applicants, but my resume stood out because I included a custom cover letter.
This was my first job after I graduated college in 1992. That was in the days when you could pick up a newspaper and see job listings in the classified section.
I admitted to my boss that the cover letter was a mail merge document. I had created a spreadsheet listing the name, address, etc. for dozens of positions from the classifieds and added one sentence specific to the job for every one.
The job was in IT, so it probably turns out that faking a custom cover letter counted as proof of qualifications.
Every job I’ve had since then was due to networking that all ties back to that first job.
Here there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.
Well clearly, for those people the only fair way to handle it is to default to a vote weight of 1.0
Others have answered, but you reminded me of some disturbing audio that I had heard.
It’s audio from Reagan’s white house press conferences when a reporter asked for comments about the growing AIDS crisis. It’s disturbing because it shows how casually people joked about gay men dying.
It’s worth listening to. It both shows how far we’ve come and also shows how important it is to not lose any ground in the fight to protect marginalized groups.
I think he may be onto something.
Perhaps there’s some way to tie the weight of your vote to the ratio of taxes paid divided by wealth?
So, if you have billions in assets+wages, but pay less taxes than a guy earning minimum wage, your vote would essentially be completely ignored.
Imagine if Peter Dinklage got implants. You’d be in heaven.