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Luckily my family has never supported that garbage. 

The trouble I'm having now is convincing them it's wise to go ahead and get their passport situation updated and ready in case we need to leave the country suddenly. The bridge from going after immigrants to going after citizens isn't a long one. Especially for these trump assholes.

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40 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Does doctoring not involve reading, understanding, and interpreting medical opinions and studies, and being able to discern a good study from a poor one from propaganda?

I’ve met several doctors that are incomprehensibly incompetent at technology.

I’m certain my previous endocrinologist retired because of the introduction of software in the evaluation, recording and treatment process.

My wife got her executive MBA, and one of her classmates, a surgeon, didn’t know how to check email. He was not an old.

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6 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

The rise in autism really isn't a "rise." It's just a more accurate representation of how many people are classified as such given increased detection and a broader definition of the spectrum. 

It would be like blaming the 300% increase in breast cancer cases to some environmental factor when it's not due to that at all. It's due to better early screening methods and routine mammograms that just weren't a thing a generation ago.  

This is exactly my current mindset on the "rise", which is almost certainly the case. I am just endeavoring not to be completely dismissive. Trust me, I am extremely skeptical of our current national mindset of pseudoscience and lack of critical thinking. 

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56 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

From my experience, doctors really know how to doctor and not much else. 

 

 

1 hour ago, royiv said:

I’ve worked with physicians for my entire career. I’ve been privileged to work with a lot brilliant minds who work to advance the field of medicine and achieve miraculous outcomes on a regular basis. I’ve also had the extreme frustration of working with and having to fire some of the absolute dumbest and most gullible human beings that think they’re geniuses that you can imagine. Your dad may fall into the latter and not the former group.

Father in law used to be a partner at a Big 6 accounting and wealth management firm.  He said by far and away the dumbest rich people were the doctors.  They'd make a lot in one narrow speciality and then lose it all in real estate or oil and gas.

Then we have Ben Carson.  Is he still around?

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1 hour ago, UrbanAchiever said:

The rise in autism really isn't a "rise." It's just a more accurate representation of how many people are classified as such given increased detection and a broader definition of the spectrum. 

It would be like blaming the 300% increase in breast cancer cases to some environmental factor when it's not due to that at all. It's due to better early screening methods and routine mammograms that just weren't a thing a generation ago.  

So the inverse would be to stop testing for cancer, autism or covid and then the statistics can show that you fixed the problem.

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3 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? 

My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support.

There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable.

Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that.

How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.

I hope this is genuine, but I'll give you a warning.  If they're still consuming right wing media it is temporary.  They'll be pulled back in sooner than later.  I watched it happen with my dad.

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4 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? 

My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support.

There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable.

Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that.

How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.

while you're at it, any update on your wife and sister's evolving relationship?

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3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Does doctoring not involve reading, understanding, and interpreting medical opinions and studies, and being able to discern a good study from a poor one from propaganda?

Abso, hic, lutely 

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4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Congratulations. I hope it's sincere reflection. 

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

I’d suspect there are a lot of folks doing the same right now, on the assumption that he won’t try to run again and they won’t be in the position to flip back (because reasons).

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3 hours ago, Foosters said:

r/LeopardsAteMyFace - He voted for Trump, but now his wife may be deported.

 

 

Don’t worry Camden.  Her childhood friend, Dexter “Big Dick” will make sure your wife is fully comforted in her shit hole country.

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18 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

 

 

Well, yeah, the dems forced him to. It's all the dems fault. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, SquishMitten said:

I wouldn’t have high hopes of that. Had relatives that “disowned” Trump after J6 and talked shit about him for quite some time. I don’t think they thought he’d be running again, so there was no harm in their talk. That lasted right up until it became clear he was going to be the R nominee. Then they were right back on the Trump train.

I’d suspect there are a lot of folks doing the same right now, on the assumption that he won’t try to run again and they won’t be in the position to flip back (because reasons).

 

That is exactly what my dad did.  Absolutely hated him after J6 and now thinks he's a good man that we should support.

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I had a neighbor that talked so much shit everytime I saw him about drump before he was the nominee the first time. He was insane about it and telling me all sorts of tinfoil level shit about him. Then he drank the fox news coolaid and went from hard anti drump to a flag waiving, yard full of flair, red hat. We have to understand we are surrounded by complete idiots that actively vote against their wants and needs over the currently promoted boogeyman. They are scared children. I am sorry if your kin are doing it, I hate to hear that this shit is tearing apart families. So avoidable.

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5 hours ago, Walser said:

This is exactly my current mindset on the "rise", which is almost certainly the case. I am just endeavoring not to be completely dismissive. Trust me, I am extremely skeptical of our current national mindset of pseudoscience and lack of critical thinking. 

There is also a challenge with the identification of ASD by gender.  Girls for example tend to be identified several years later on average than boys, in part due to masking, but also due to how it manifests differently.   

 

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1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

Don’t worry Camden.  Her childhood friend, Dexter “Big Dick” will make sure your wife is fully comforted in her shit hole country.

I thought Dexter St. Jock was Jamaican? 

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6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Does doctoring not involve reading, understanding, and interpreting medical opinions and studies, and being able to discern a good study from a poor one from propaganda?

It should.  But we have a whole generation of boomer docs trained by the pharma industry.  The younger generations seem a little better at least.  

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6 hours ago, royiv said:

I’ve worked with physicians for my entire career. I’ve been privileged to work with a lot brilliant minds who work to advance the field of medicine and achieve miraculous outcomes on a regular basis. I’ve also had the extreme frustration of working with and having to fire some of the absolute dumbest and most gullible human beings that think they’re geniuses that you can imagine. Your dad may fall into the latter and not the former group.

I only did it for a dozen years, and I still do, but not nearly as much.  I was responsible (and successful) for getting financing for our centers...construction, operating loans, equipment leases, etc. 

One of the members of our flagship surgery center asked me for help getting her financing for an in-office MRI machine.  Sure doc, no problem.  I can come to your office next Wednesday.  Please have your bank statements and other financials ready for me. 

She literally bounced dozens of checks every month.  I don't want to dox her, but, for a certain specialty of women's health, she's the premiere surgeon in Orange County, and arguably in all of So Cal. 

Just a total dumbshit anywhere outside of the O.R.

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1 minute ago, Gil Bang said:

I only did it for a dozen years, and I still do, but not nearly as much.  I was responsible (and successful) for getting financing for our centers...construction, operating loans, equipment leases, etc. 

One of the members of our flagship surgery center asked me for help getting her financing for an in-office MRI machine.  Sure doc, no problem.  I can come to your office next Wednesday.  Please have your bank statements and other financials ready for me. 

She literally bounced dozens of checks every month.  I don't want to dox her, but, for a certain specialty of women's health, she's the premiere surgeon in Orange County, and arguably in all of So Cal. 

Just a total dumbshit anywhere outside of the O.R.

Why you think I have 1500ish doctors?  That’s my target audience.  Work for a doc over a giant corporation that will fuck you over.  Independent contractor and help you set up your practice etc.  But fuck, it can be really frustrating.  Insane how clueless many/most docs are at anything outside their specialty.  

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2 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

Don’t worry Camden.  Her childhood friend, Dexter “Big Dick” will make sure your wife is fully comforted in her shit hole country.

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It’s easy to convince my parents that republicans aren’t great for them. The hard part is undoing what right wing media has brainwashed into them about democrats. They believe the most outlandish things.

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On 4/15/2025 at 5:11 PM, TexasEd said:

Apparently it is in Florida.  Insurance rates are skyrocketing and the flood plains are being expanded because of the continued effects of global warming.  Older houses are uninsurable and whole neighborhoods are in new floodplain zones.  If you pull a permit or rebuild you have to raise the foundation several feet to get insurance and even then it's through the roof.

90% of insurance lawsuits are filed in Florida and insurance companies are going bankrupt.  Add on top of that people not making premium payments.

https://news.fiu.edu/2022/the-big-reason-florida-insurance-companies-are-failing-isnt-just-hurricane-risk-its-fraud-and-lawsuits

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-home-insurers-worst-claim-payment-rates-2057407

Combine that with rising property taxes and people are literally and figuratively underwater in their homes.

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I assumed the plan was for Florida to become primarily corporate owned. 

Without insurance or insurability, the single family process will plummet. Businesses will buy those properties, redevelop them (because exclusions) and insure them at a corporate level while generating profits from the properties.

It'll be super rich only.

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On 4/20/2025 at 11:52 PM, Wally Fairway said:

I see reports Sec Def Pete having confidential/classified discussion on signal in a group that included his family. 

I think I need to get on signal, and maybe I can get the early word & some inside skinny.

Is she skinny?

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9 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

I often wonder is the hard swing to emphasis on STEM helped create all these stupid smart people. 

Not all STEM is the same.  Some of it, including medicine, includes massive amounts of memorization, in addition to analytical application of that information.  Most engineering, on the other hand, doesn't ask you to memorize shit, it's all analytical application.

One thing in common, though, most STEM reading is dense, hyper-factual stuff, nothing that asks you to accept or reject or criticize it.  It's pretty much 100% "this is it."  You rarely if ever compare and contrast histories, authors, philosophies, politics or policy.  Except in your 12 hours of electives, which most STEM people do well on.

So, you're still thinking, and actually in a way that's quite analogous to critical thinking.  But you aren't "practicing" it, so to speak, on subjective subject matter.

And, I think whoever posted about taking mental shortcuts on non-essential (ie non-work-related) information, e.g. news, is spot on. Probably a habit that develops during school.

 

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