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Ok I don't know about soccer But I know about DI Track and Wrestling. And they're essentially off like 2 weeks a year. This forbidden stuff is a fiction.

>Finally, the cardiologist you see in the office is almost certainly not doing stents for you as those are very distinct skillsets (in the US). Umm, what? No. It's exceedingly rare…

Nah, by 2021 Prasad's reputation had gone into the shitter I actually think he's just grifting and the notoriety he achieved went to his head. His pre-2020 takes were better reason…

One can make the argument that Prasad has his title of Professor due to the stature he gained with his ill-founded contrarianism and subsequent notoriety. He was promoted in 2022 a…

I read a lot, and have since I was a child edit: also, native English (well, American) speaker

Is this company public? Can I short them?

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> college (maybe on a scholarship but maybe not--again, pay to play), plays for the varsity team a few times a week during the season wtaf? Do you really think this is the reality?…

As an early-adopter of POCUS, I can't quite believe we actually still use stethoscopes

I still use one I got in 1994. Replaced the earpieces and diaphragm a few times, but the chestpiece and tubing are original That's like a little over $3/yr. Can't complain

No competitive distance runner since like Zola Budd ran barefoot or minimal shoes. The carbon plate revolution is the main driver for drop in times over the last 5+ years

Yeah, I just literally use table sugar, which is 1:1 glucose:fructose. Maurten et al using 1:0.8, close enough! And I don't believe the hydrogel thing is any magic, just marketing.…

If we're just doing fun apocrypha my favorite is the one about the USS Constitution and alcohol consumption

I didn't think so, but LLM's have taken so many tropes of a certain style of writing: the bullet points, the contradiction to make a point (not this...but that...) that when I see …

Is this AI writing? Maybe from an outline prompt? I can’t tell We’re screwed

hell no I don't think I'm cut out for the modern world

Calais, ME

I’ll give you a counter example. I had an MRI of my neck for unrelated reasons. It found a thyroid nodule with suspicious characteristics. Incidentally I had had an MRI of the same…

If one is of a certain age, of course they studied for step I without it and the classic method was the inspiration for Anki to begin with: making your own flashcards on index card…

answer: adblocking in the browser (and other data scavenging which can be done with native app more easily than PWA)

Operation "Catch of the Day" I'm not kidding

and SCOTUS has ruled presidents have immunity for any actions while in office

>The Trump regime is acting like it wants a civil war. it's not out of the question that incitement to invoke insurrection act and then cancel the midterms is the strategy

also Ben Franklin: "A republic...if you can keep it" (elipsis mine)

Even more of a relic: those militias weren't just bands of yeoman farmers. They were veterans of the recent French-and-Indian war. Often who had served with the commanders of the B…