Throwaway05
1hr ago
Do we know anything about them or what happened? I saw something about it being a drone attack but otherwise it's been beaten down hard.
Throwaway05
3hr ago
Is that really the case?
What else do we have that's high profile and obviously physically impossible? Even things like exaggerations of self driving cars are "not quite there yet and not clear when we'd get there" not "impossible."*
*With the caveat that Theranos is obviously impossible without other more eye catching and valuable technologies, not impossible with science fiction technology.
Throwaway05
3hr ago
Lamb is a damn good character and I think that covers for a lot of sins lol.
Throwaway05
4hr ago
Perhaps for the British, but they are nearly a minority in their own country at this point, no?
Throwaway05
9hr ago
I think you are correct that it's because of easy targets and all the other usual CW stuff and at the same time the UK has had recent severe organized terrorism performed by Whites, unlike the US (which mostly has psychotic actions and a few small isolated political ones).
Throwaway05
22hr ago
I mean isn't the premise of the show using idiots to solve spy problems?
Throwaway05
23hr ago
Probably, but I also don't think it is unreasonable for him to be portrayed as an idiot who is skilled, which makes him more dangerous and dysfunctional than most of the idiots who are corrupt or just idiots. Lack of growth goes along with that.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Well, doctors in residency programs and the marines provide benefits.
I'd argue Residency isn't really hazing most of the team - the mistreatment can easily continue before and afterwards (it's base for any job in academia, which all Residencies basically are), the hours are bad but they aren't team building it's free labor.
Throwaway05
1d ago
I mean pledging is great, hazing walks a fine line. When I was in Greek Life a student at another Fraternity died and several more ended up in the hospital. I wasn't at one of Those schools.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Right, I think more perceptive watchers will pick this up quickly but at first you are supposed to think he isn't at fault. Later on it becomes clear he nearly has everything he needs but is justttttt off, not sure what will happen in future seasons/books, he may eventually put it together.
And at the same time - you also start to realize that with like only 3-4 exceptions, everyone else is the same as him or worse (even at the mothership). Cough cough dogs cough.
I'm not sure Lamb is a bastard, and I think perhaps his off-puttingness is part of his coping mechanism for not being one.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Based off what he did with airplanes my guess is that he told her she would be able to rewrite her story and tell it "how it really was" and he'll manipulate her into getting an interesting product that she may or may not realize is dangerous to her and crazy (because of her presumed/likely personality disorder).
Throwaway05
1d ago
Super Eyepatch Wolf did a long one, I feel like someone else did too but I can't remember who it was.
Throwaway05
2d ago
I am not a personal consumer of his content but I've heard in commentary on him that it deliberately makes it unclear what is a joke, what's him being awkward, what is him pretending to be awkward etc.
This means even if you know what he does it is easy to get thrown off since what is and isn't a character is blurred.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Every once in a while I check in with myself and try and make sure I'm not becoming overly sensitive on culture war matters. I think you doing that here.
For one thing, the show is just great.
For another, it's designed to make you think it's about certain themes when it isn't (for instance the question of if River is meant to be in Slough House). The villains are often part of that (and the over arching theme is usually more system-failure and banal corruption than any specific political bugbear).*
Lastly, while the UK obviously has some stupid and exaggerated fear of right wing extremism, it's not as stupid as it seems because they actually have had white people committing acts of terror is recent memory (the troubles).
*Many of the villains are women, and ethnic women, and one of those women is also a hero. It does not deal with morality in a childlike and unipolar way.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Two things:
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Nathan Fielder is involved with this. This immediately makes it questionable how much of this is a documentary vs. a movie and what genre it is, also how much Holmes is involved in the "joke." If you don't know who Nathan is I really recommend looking into it, a few YouTubers have multi hour long videos that make you question reality. The guy is doing some really interesting performance art and/or is a wild person.
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Holmes was always part of the take adjacent delusion complex. The technology was very obviously physically impossible to anyone with a science background, so like many scams you immediately filtered off anybody with any sense, so everyone involved was an idiot or profoundly desperate to find a blond female tech savant.
Throwaway05
5d ago
This is a good comment - but we are down some staff at work and I know by the time I swim out of this it will be hard to motivate myself to circle back, I didn't want to leave you totally hanging though.
Although one specific thing, a common problem is people having a viral illness and demanding antibiotics (which at best would do nothing). Anti-virals generally being useless is a separate kettle of fish.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Doctors do that all the time, especially if there are adverse financial incentives at play. The US is going through a multi-decade crisis because of opioid overprescription and people shop around for ADHD stimulants.
I hope you can see the difference between a structural problem that consists of some bad apples and institutional incentives, and a process that delivers glazing 100% of the time unless you take significant active steps to avoid it.
Throwaway05
6d ago
Thanks!
Throwaway05
6d ago
Do you have a source for that?
Throwaway05
6d ago
You have to keep in mind that a relatively small fraction of the population (often with relevant diagnosis such as personality disorders, anxiety, illness anxiety disorder) are super utilizers of services, inappropriate users of services (such as misuse of mychart physician messaging) and are disproportionately the people complaining online (as well as misusing AI tools).
You see another version of this in the anti-psychiatry movement where people who can't recognize they have an illness because of the illness (ex: schizophrenia) are complaining about being forced into the hospital and take medication when that is the correct thing to do.
As for rationing the simplest example of this is as a good example of over utilization that many people fall into - suffering sometimes is part of life. If you have a viral illness you need to wait it out and take care of yourself most of the time, the doctor will not be able to do anything and rarely is it worth confirming which URI it is. Antibiotics will not do anything useful.
This does not stop people from emphatically making demands.
Throwaway05
6d ago
Yeah that's fair, we definitely have many posters here who would use a tool like that and be sensible about.
We also have even more people who would do similar stuff and be intensely foolish, and have no awareness of that fact.
Unfortunately the productivity gains from the former are probably outweighed by the damages from the latter.
Throwaway05
6d ago
If AI was able to write prescriptions for me, I would choose Astra over 95% of doctors.
If you really believe this you should consider your biases. A response to a post noting that AI is telling patients to eat TP should not be "more of this please!"
Especially since the LLMs are well known to flatter the biases of their users, which is something doctors are changed not to do due to the negative outcomes associated with that.
Throwaway05
6d ago
The problem is that patients do this now and it's a disaster and they don't realize it. Everyone who does outpatient medicine is flooded with instances of patients being sure about something and it being wildly off base, useless, and time consuming because the patient has been convinced of some nonsense that we have to walk back. I'm sure some fraction of people are saving themselves time or getting useful information but it's not well represented in what we actually see.
Part of this is because people don't realize that a lot of medical work involves things like dealing with an anxious patient who repeatedly asks the AI until they get the answer they want, assholes, and things like rationing care (which the AI has no facility with).
Believe it or not a lot of visits (especially to the ED) are pointless and we'd love it if people were successfully using AI for triage.
They aren't.
Throwaway05
6d ago
I think in a just world you might be right but the reality of the situation is that things have become wrapped up in comorbid political problems and a focus on say, jailing Fauci just firmly distracts from getting any useful done.
While sus it's not incompatible with consent and active engagement from the lady, some people in college (especially when high or drunk) just go for that kind of stuff, both as the deliverer and receiver.
Think about girls gone wild and old school campus porn videos. Some people are into this even if it sounds alien.
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