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rarely capitalized. i repost a lot, often about dogs, psychiatry, psychedelics but critical of the hypefest, large event medical, good books, low-key knitting, privacy
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what medical board regulates these doctors? You should lose your license for this. If you do not control the diagnosis codes for your visit you are not practicing medicine.
"Per compliance policy, certain AI-generated fields cannot be updated by clinical staff" is a managerial decision that will lead to prolonged suffering and preventable death. Having to escalate these fuck-ups to be reviewed by higher levels within the bureaucracy is a waste of time and resources.
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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You ever think about how there was only 1 to 2 months between the actual wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot recording his song.

And how weird and slightly deranged it would be if someone had dropped a banger about a contemporary disaster on its heels.
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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1461 minutes of delays = 24.35 hours 😬

#aviation
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Pro-Trump media went wild for a bombshell exposé claiming the Jan. 6th pipe bomber was a Capitol Police officer with CIA ties.

But now the story looks shaky, tweets are getting deleted, and the story's backers are running for cover. My @thebulwark.com newsletter: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...
The Blaze’s Pipe-Bomb Bombshell Appears to Bomb
The right-wing outlet claimed to solve the Jan. 6th pipe-bomb mystery. Things quickly looked less certain.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.

A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
pubpeer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Fashion Outlets of Chicago is a 140 store mall with Bloomingdales and Saks outlets. Today, you can have your "Photo With Santa." Starting next week, your pet can sit for a Santa photo. The Holiday Wine Tasting
is on Saturday.

Or you can have a family member abducted by ICE for the holiday season.
feds disappeared 2 people from the rosemont outlets parking garage, according to hanover park rapid response. feds have targeted the mall before.

hprr also reports 1 abduction near thompson middle in st. charles. residents have seen feds staging at the st. charles pd multiple times in recent weeks.
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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The best part of watching live sports is all these people telling me to place bets every 30 seconds while also telling me to be sure not to get addicted to gambling
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Just to have it all in one place: trump has at this point promised to use the tariff money to give everyone $2000 checks, do a massive farmer bailout, pay down the national debt, and eliminate income tax
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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this is a terrifying development and should be opposed as much as possible
lmfao he knows he's unpopular so he's trying to hit the affordability button by sending out checks with his name on it again
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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"Legislation to reopen the government would allow [8 Republican senators] to sue for $500,000 each - www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Most gun owners never have a reason to use their guns, so why not end 2A?
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Posing with my veggies like men pose with fish
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
someone please goad trump into doing the at-sat on camera to prove that he’s smarter than atc
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it

NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.

www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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More folk horror from Facebook marketplace
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Go here, fill in 3 of the fields. If your signature has been verified and you're counted, the next screen should look nice and green like the second screenshot.

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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make the reconstruction caucus real
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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“This thing I inherited from my grandparents is so much better and sturdier than things I buy today.” Yes, because *you inherited it.*. You didn’t inherit all the other stuff because it broke or wore out or was just junk that got thrown out when somebody died.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
not having luck yet figuring out if there is a catastrophic qhp for alaska for 2026, &, if so, a vague idea of the range for premiums

i’ll just call division of insurance tomorrow, i guess
option 1: high deductible w hsa. the cost share has gone up from 25% iirc
option 2: the default silver plan which… that was not the deductible last year
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM