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medgremlin

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  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • I think the pay issue is *another big contributor. Women are more likely to accept lower paying jobs, particularly ones like caring professions or teaching, whereas men have a tendency towards higher paying jobs (in part due to the lack of support for pregnancy, parental leave, and childcare expenses).

    *edited for clarity

  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • The problem with that is you are then putting the burden on a member of that hated group to present themselves as a paragon and suffer all the vitriol and abuse that gets hurled at them until the hateful person hopefully snaps out of it.

    Having been the sole woman in many male-dominated spaces, I gotta tell ya, it is a special kind of hell to try to be that positive example.

  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • From the commenter above talking about negative experiences with talking to women and female therapists, I think the real solution is that men need to be proactive about supporting each other. Ranting and raving about how women are terrible and don't know how to help men with an undercurrent of expectations that women (especially a romantic partner) should fix everything is simply not a tenable mindset.

    As a woman who works in the medical field, I am keenly aware of my limitations when it comes to helping men with mental health issues. I think the real, effective solution is for men to start opening up to each other and supporting each other the way that women tend to do among themselves. I don't mean this as "oh, men are terrible and they need to fuck off somewhere else with their problems", I mean it as a sincere belief that the best people to help a man through emotional or psychological problems are probably other men given the shared socialization and perspective.

  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • I don't think the open internet is a great place to open up about your mental health either. Trusted family, friends, and medical/mental health professionals are the best resources. Entrusting something as precious as your mental health to AI or the internet is a profoundly bad idea.

  • How to cook a chicken

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  • Look, I just finished my medical board exams recently. My brain is running on the power of about 2/3rds of a yukon gold potato here.

  • How to cook a chicken

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  • You need the chicken to be 165F or 74C to be food safe. It takes a long time to cook at 100-200C because the heat is being transferred much slower. If we're using this instant slap-based cooking method, it only needs to get to the food safe temperature.

    Using the OP's calculations and a cooked temperature of 74C:

    It would take 8315 average slaps

    or

    A slap at around 813m/s or 1819mph.

    *Edit for a correction to the second calculation (it still might be wrong), also, I rounded the numbers to whole integers.

  • Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid

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  • That is an option, but I would want to make sure that people with limited English fluency or education wouldn't be excluded.

  • Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid

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  • It's absolutely abhorrent that this would be an incredibly useful service.

  • Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid

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  • That's kind of what I was thinking. Lots of options for people with different education levels.

  • Mike Johnson Mocks Millions of Americans About to Lose Medicaid

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  • I saw the bit about how the 20 hours a week can be work or volunteering, and my first thought was to figure out how to start a charity that needs people to volunteer from home doing something fairly easy but still useful. I'll have to ponder that some. It'll be a project to start working on. (Suggestions are welcome!)

  • You're asked to vote for the food and drink that best fits the region you live in... What would you vote for?

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  • Minnesota: Honeycrisp apple hard cider and fried Ellsworth cheese curds.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • I'm a medical student applying for residency this year, and the top program I'm interested in is at the top of my list partially because the residents have a union.

  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • But the front/hood is much shorter in length. Also, people driving that type of van are much more likely to be doing so in a professional capacity and are significantly less likely to be asshole drivers fucking around with their phone while driving. People are bad drivers at baseline quite frequently, but if someone is on the job in a van used for commercial purposes, they're more likely to at least be paying attention and not speeding everywhere.

    Edit: I marked up your image to illustrate the point made much more eloquently in the video. Because of the length of the hood, the truck has a much longer distance of road obstructed from view in front of it, and this is with a standard truck that doesn't have one of the very popular lift kits (and assuming that the driver is relatively tall.)

  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • Trump ‘reamed out’ Hegseth for flop birthday parade

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  • Most of the military members I know are well aware of what the end result is, and the ones that are sticking it out for a prolonged career are doing so in order to try to change things from the inside. Most of the ones that did the minimum amount of time and got out are aware as well.

    And for this part:

    But I cannot respect for a second someone that served in the military and also advocates for others to do so. Because all they are saying is “well, it’s ok to bomb innocent people and disrupt entire countries because otherwise I couldn’t have afforded college”.

    There are shades of gray here and you are stubbornly ignoring any nuance that might exist. For a lot of people, it's not just a matter of being able to go to college, it's a matter of being able to eat regularly and keep a roof over their head. There are plenty of veterans that fully acknowledge that being in the service comes with many problems and ethical quagmires, but they still recommend it for people in the position of having to choose between destitution or military service.

  • Trump ‘reamed out’ Hegseth for flop birthday parade

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  • Most of the people I know that signed up for the military did so because they didn't have any other options out of high school. Their grades weren't good enough for college, their families were too poor to keep supporting them, and the job market (especially when I graduated high school in 2009) was so shit that the military was the only viable option for a lot of people. We have slim to none in the way of social safety nets in this country, and for the people who want to try to get some semblance of stability and self-sufficiency after high school, the military is often the best and/or only option.

    Your stance here is woefully narrow-minded and completely ignores the reality faced by many young Americans who are just trying to make their way in the world. It's hideous and abhorrent that our systems are set up like this to the point that the military is a lifeline for many young adults, but I'm not going to blame them for believing the ubiquitous propaganda or making a calculated choice to try to survive in this capitalist hellscape.

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  • The issue is that the title of the story implies that it was entirely due to the organism that the Irish people suffered so many deaths. Context matters and they framed this in the worst way possible.

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  • The Irish people were growing tons of crops besides potatoes, but the British landlords took everything besides the potatoes as cash crops/taxes, leaving them only the potatoes to actually eat. There was more than enough food to prevent those deaths, but the Irish people weren't allowed to eat it.

  • FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

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  • Eh, unless the sky is green, you're probably fine.