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Gm nostr

Happy Saturday β˜€οΈ

Went to wake up my son this morning and he throws up. Poor dude. 😟

But of course now have to reschedule the whole day!

Gm nostr β˜€οΈ

Coffee and some games of Memory with the 4-year-old this morning. ❀️

https://void.cat/d/5MLdaa6RAbqCDNTwL2dSJZ.webp

Gm nostr fam β˜€οΈ

Replying to Avatar Shawn

nostr:npub19pj6f0nc9q6xr26qe3g8m6xe3hwe0d6p6zcvf57cm3kayghjdj0slnlenu asked me about the origin story of the Gingerbread Man. I’d forgotten, so asked ChatGPT. I then asked it to render the story in comic book form.

Enjoy your nightmares. https://i.nostr.build/yyr2.webp

This is what I got from DALL-E πŸ‘€

Coffee this morning while the 7-year-old messes around with my mixing setup. β™₯️

#coffeechain

#plebchain

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I didn't stack enough sats. 😭

Gm nostr

Coffee and logic games with my 4 year old this morning. ❀️

Continuing the job hunt today.

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Replying to Dr. Bob

nostr:npub1l2h50te8u00qd6plx3hudn82p24lcafqmqhlayxy3h7dwsxxnj4q28n2lz nostr:npub185cl0jg373tl9hqaa000z0znzw7r5c909nkc2ndf9mvmgenqxpjqf4x93y

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev isn't reasoning well but the gestalt of his argument is valid. If vax administration causes system-wide inflammation, then what if the cure is worse than the disease? This hasn't been adequately studied. Lifelong allergies for 50% of population, and continuing propogation of weak genetics, and way too many old people dying of chronic diseases that need long term care, vs 20% of your sickly people dying and leaving the gene pool, and folks dying younger but more quickly and not taxing the system. What if that's what we're looking at? Nobody asks that question. Half (made up stat) of my younger colleagues want people to live forever and are afraid of death. My older colleagues are bleeding hearts and want to eliminate suffering.

Doctoring needs to focus on relieving the suffering of the individual, not groups. There is a fine line between using evidence to guide care for an individual (i.e. which med works for this?), and using it to dictate public health. The key is in admitting you don't know what you don't know. And you don't know what you didn't measure.

The corruption and hubris of the scientigic community and medical system in the US is sickening. I happen to have dipped toes in both pools, and internationally. The vast majority of us who are actually caring for people don't have the bandwidth to adress even a fraction of the problems. We usually can't even verify the quality of evidence handed to us, instead outsourcing that to a third party.

Lastly, it's okay to call out poor reasoning, sensationalism, etc., but I find it poor form to assign another human a "lane". Really, this lane of health is everyone's.

Re: the "lane" comment - I still stand by that. Influencers (not unlike drs in academia) are often found making statements about subjects that are not their area of study or expertise. Not my cup of tea regardless of whether or not I agree with the statement on its own merits. It's one of the nasty parts of social media and I like nostr for its typical lack of it.

Replying to Dr. Bob

nostr:npub1l2h50te8u00qd6plx3hudn82p24lcafqmqhlayxy3h7dwsxxnj4q28n2lz nostr:npub185cl0jg373tl9hqaa000z0znzw7r5c909nkc2ndf9mvmgenqxpjqf4x93y

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev isn't reasoning well but the gestalt of his argument is valid. If vax administration causes system-wide inflammation, then what if the cure is worse than the disease? This hasn't been adequately studied. Lifelong allergies for 50% of population, and continuing propogation of weak genetics, and way too many old people dying of chronic diseases that need long term care, vs 20% of your sickly people dying and leaving the gene pool, and folks dying younger but more quickly and not taxing the system. What if that's what we're looking at? Nobody asks that question. Half (made up stat) of my younger colleagues want people to live forever and are afraid of death. My older colleagues are bleeding hearts and want to eliminate suffering.

Doctoring needs to focus on relieving the suffering of the individual, not groups. There is a fine line between using evidence to guide care for an individual (i.e. which med works for this?), and using it to dictate public health. The key is in admitting you don't know what you don't know. And you don't know what you didn't measure.

The corruption and hubris of the scientigic community and medical system in the US is sickening. I happen to have dipped toes in both pools, and internationally. The vast majority of us who are actually caring for people don't have the bandwidth to adress even a fraction of the problems. We usually can't even verify the quality of evidence handed to us, instead outsourcing that to a third party.

Lastly, it's okay to call out poor reasoning, sensationalism, etc., but I find it poor form to assign another human a "lane". Really, this lane of health is everyone's.

Great post, thank you. This one isn't overconfident and rushing to conclusion. There's really no area of health that couldn't always use more study. But we can only go with what we have pending additional study -- perpetually.