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  • Iran demands $1 per barrel of oil passing through Strait of Hormuz, paid in crypto

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  • Crypto , Oil, Religion. All practically the same thing at this point.

    "And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the bitcoin." -- Revelation 6:6

  • What other delivery mechanisms are there, and which ones are your favourites?

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  • Baked potatoes are a delivery mechanism for sour cream, butter, salt and pepper.

  • How do you respond to "hey, how are you" when you feel like garbage?

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  • "Hangin' in there" is what I generally use when I'm not fine but I know it's just a greeting. It conveys that things are less than fine, but not by how much, and that I'm still functioning.

    Some other, more flippant ones: "As well as can be expected", a shrug and a "meh", "Too early to tell" (if it's first thing in the morning / just arriving to work), "Sitting up and taking nourishment", etc.

    You can even skip answering at all, and move directly to the response greeting, "Hey, how are you?"

  • Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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  • My fear is that the models merge all kind of patient record info together as the statistical model so the 'summaries' will write the most likely word to come next in the phrase, so wrong information and incorrect diagnoses will be recorded into a person's record, or that important information will be omitted.

    I predict that people will be harmed or die because of missing or false information patient records. But it will be difficult for the public to find out about it because of privacy issues and the unwillingness of institutions to acknowledge it.

    Drugs have to go through multiple stages of testing and trials before they're allowed to be used on patients. But no one is doing any kind of testing on the effects of this at all, let alone controlled trial rollouts with review, before allowing general use.

  • Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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  • I hope you're right! The magical thinking and child-like trust in this tech by otherwise intelligent people is scary though.

  • Would you keep seeing a doctor that required to you agree to the use of AI in your treatment to continue being a patient?

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  • I feel very strongly about this and I would change doctors. But of course it won't be long before they all do this and we'll have no alternative. The two biggest problems I see are

    1. I saw a news story where a doctor who uses this said it saves her time because before seeing the patient she gets an AI summary of their chart, so she doesn't have to "go through several tabs" to read the actual information. Oh great, let the statistical probability text generator hallucinate up some shit about what's in a person's chart, to save 10 seconds of tab-clicking to read the ACTUAL patient records! If they want a summary there's no reason a traditional report or summary screen couldn't be programmed to pull data out of the most important fields and arranging them in the desired format.
    2. THEN the doctor uses her damn phone to record your visit, everything you say, and that gets run through the AI which generates a visit summary and puts that into your medical records. So, god only knows what 3rd party private corporate vulture has access to your doctor/patient conversations and what they'll do with them, and again, what hallucinated shit will get put into your medical records!

    So your doctor never reads your chart and never writes your chart! [Readacted] me now! Also what happens after a few iterations of an AI summarizing records that an AI wrote?

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • I apologize if I'm just being stupid about this, but I take this opportunity to ask: how do we add alt-text to an image on Lemmy? I always add it on Mastodon, but I've never figured out how to do it on Lemmy (I use the web interface, maybe it requires a special app?). I've seen that others have done it, and I see that it's a rule here for images of text, which is good. But HOW to do it?

    Thanks!

    Edit: Thanks everyone for the answers!

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Yes, IF it's during business hours and the desk is open. But that's another good thing for people to make sure and do if they decide to go ahead with a mail-in ballot.

    And I do understand that the move to regional processing centers as their excuse for why things might no longer get postmarked the same day. But that's what they're saying and does not negate the fact that they can easily delay postmarking or delivery if they want to, and I don't think they should be trusted not to want to (or be ordered to). My point is that we're now at a moment where no government agency can be trusted to not act in a partisan way or to not interfere in our elections.

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Not to mention Merrick Garland. 😩

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Yep. Legally they couldn't fire him, and they prided themselves on following the law. Trump regime has no such qualms and breaks the law with impunity daily, knowing that it will take years for challenges to work their way through the court system, and then finally wind up at the corrupt Supreme Court which will take their side.

  • The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government.

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  • Yet another tactic to prevent "the wrong people" from voting. But a lot has already been happening even before this. States have been passing laws over the last several years that mail-in ballots can only be counted if they physically arrive at he Election office before Election Day.

    It used to be with most states that a ballot would be counted if it arrived by X number of days after Election Day as long as it was postmarked by that day. And it used to be that your mail was postmarked the same day you mailed it, proving for example that you sent in your tax return on time. But not any more. The USPS is now saying that your item might not be postmarked for some time after you actually mail it, depending on when they get around to processing it.

    Depending on where you live, relying on a postmark to prove you mailed your tax return, mail-in ballot, bill payment or any other time-sensitive document by a specific date may no longer work as you expect. As the U.S. Postal Service continues implementing operational changes in an effort to shore up its finances and modernize its infrastructure, the agency expects an increase in delays between when you mail something and when it is postmarked, according to a public notice in the Federal Register that took effect Dec. 24. A postmark shows the date your mail was processed, and historically has been applied the same day you mail an item. However, due to limiting pickups at many postal locations and mail now often traveling farther to regional processing centers where the postmark is applied, “the postmark date does not inherently or necessarily align with the date on which the Postal Service first accepted possession of the mailpiece,” the notice reads.

    Mail-in ballots are clearly recognizable in their special envelopes (so they would get priority treatment). So it's very easy for the Post Office to sort out those ballots from the other mail. And depending on the state, besides your signature it will have your name and return address they could scan and compare to a list, or at the very least they know where it was mailed from. So they could easily screen out ballots from people areas more likely to vote Democratic and simply delay postmarking them until past the deadline, or just hold up delivery to make sure they're late.

    I would say we should avoid voting by mail, or if you do, mail it well before the deadline AND consider driving to a post office in an affluent, white, or in general Republican-leaning area and mailing it from there. But really, at least for the next couple of federal election cycles or for as long as magats are in power, I recommend voting early and in person at the Election office if at all possible.

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • Looking at your comment history I see you work tirelessly to destroy morale of activists and discourage Americans from taking any action. The maga regime thanks you for your support.

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • Right! For example I found out people are organizing like in Minneapolis for if/when ICE ramps up anything here. There were people handing out cards with a number to call to report ICE activity and others organizing to help affected families. Respect to Minneapolis for being a model for the country.

  • 'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams

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  • Unfortunately with a population of almost 350 million people, it will take more like 12 million to hit the 3.5% (not 3%), so there's still a ways to go. Each one has been bigger than the previous one so maybe it's possible, especially if the consequences of this idiotic war get really bad for the average USian--and I don't see how that won't get way way worse.

    The other thing about that paper with the 3.5% thing, it was talking about sustained protests, not just one every few weeks or months.

    On the bright side I don't see how trump will be able to pretend to be compos mentis for even another year, let alone the rest of his term. But on the dim side, his regime will remain in place even if he's goes tomorrow.

  • At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'

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  • I thought the point of Christianity was that everyone deserves mercy?

    There are many sects of "Christianity". A flavor for every world view. These are Christian Nationalists. Their version of it has little to do with such woke things as "mercy". It's mostly an authoritarian view with a strict hierarchy.

  • At Pentagon Christian service, Hegseth prays for violence 'against those who deserve no mercy'

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  • Did he consider that if his prayer was granted, he'd get a lightning bolt right up his own ass?

  • What is a gender neutral honorific for non-binary folk?

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  • S'mr'amr

  • Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday if funding deal isn’t reached

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  • Yep! And that's not going to go over well with the more well-to-do business and political frequent flyers that have been either supporting trump or looking the other way for him. There's no way ICEholes will be able to act civilized or in any other way than the outlaw thug lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.

    I just read that Homan has confirmed they're going to start tomorrow (Monday). I wonder if they'll be wearing camo and masks, or will just be cosplaying in TSA uniforms. Either way, they won't be able to hide who they are and they'll be treating people like shit. They won't know what to do if they can't wave a gun in their faces to make them obey.

  • Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday if funding deal isn’t reached

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  • Great, do it! That should go over really really well. 🤣 And keep them from going out and doing their gestapo duties while they're at it.