Hey, this article is finding fault with my favorite frontier real-estate sex cult!

Good!

Yeah, you get it. I aim to trivialize the oligarchy. The idea that we can make the world better at nearly zero cost. The only cost is the therapy bills of the former billionaires, as they work through their butthurt at being reduced to mere opulence.

They seem to have dropped the ball on floods too.

I don’t want to be a doomer, but I feel pretty confident predicting some awful influenza, measles, covid and other easily transmitted (and prevented) diseases.

What will make it worse is that as the news trickles out about outbreaks, those reports will be countered by FUD, misinformation, bullshit and prevarication by the federal government. We won’t even be able to agree there is even a problem.

This will be compounded by local health infrastructure being at reduced capacity due to the precarious financial status of this infrastructure due to constant federal meddling with grants and funding. For many players in our disease prevention and treatment infrastructure, losing even a few percent of Federal money from their budgets can trigger a cascade of cutbacks and personnel losses.

Someone please tell I am being paranoid. I have worked in biomedical industries for years and I can’t see how we can avoid these consequences now.

They seem to have dropped the ball on floods too.

I don’t want to be a doomer, but I feel pretty confident predicting some awful influenza, measles, covid and other easily transmitted (and prevented) diseases.

What will make it worse is that as the news trickles out about outbreaks, those reports will be countered by FUD, misinformation, bullshit and prevarication by the federal government. We won’t even be able to agree there is even a problem.

This will be compounded by local health infrastructure being at reduced capacity due to the precarious financial status of this infrastructure due to constant federal meddling with grants and funding. For many players in our disease prevention and treatment infrastructure, losing even a few percent of Federal money from their budgets can trigger a cascade of cutbacks and personnel losses.

Someone please tell I am being paranoid. I have worked in biomedical industries for years and I can’t see how we can avoid these consequences now.

Maybe don’t fire, re-hire, then re-fire staff seemingly at random? That would definitely make strategic decisions very difficult.

Sometimes a person is both.

The only reason I still have any normal friends is that my raspberry jam is freaking amazing. But I use that as an excuse to expound on the class war. It’s how they pay me back for the jam.

I can attest from experience with a parent who eventually died of Parkinson’s disease. (The usual cause is finally choking on food.)

It steadily erases one’s ability to project their humanity. Even more cruelly, it gives occasional respite so you can’t forget there is a complete person suffering in that quivering shell.

In summary, fuck Parkinson’s and all other neurodegenerative diseases.

They are high-key copaganda. It’s overt and blatant.

What portion of these documentaries talk about false convictions, for instance?

For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

Drawbacks of EPIC

Super expensive - only large outfits can even afford it.

Poor design - a multitude of modules that often use different design principles so knowing one module doesn’t help much with another.

Extreme vendor lock-in - EPIC is very similar in business model to Microsoft in the first decades, basically a mafia.

Lack of interoperability - EPIC interfaces poorly with lab and diagnostic equipment, EPIC actively fights development and adoption of interoperabilty standards.

Dictating Clinical Workflow - EPIC is designed primarily to assist billing, not record keeping for patient benefit. Thus workflows are highly constrained and significant time must be spent clicking about to get the system to let one do normal things.

I mean, EHR is inherently complex so any EHR, but EPIC makes it much worse than it needs to be.

Yes. That is how it has always been.

We seem to have a suppressive person in the chat.

(JK, yes, it is. I mis-read the question and gave an example of culty stuff that is a hobby.)

Auditing pre-clears.

There are enough training examples that we could get a reasonable facsimile.

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That’s fine since you get the upside of the business as an owner. A salaried employee may not. Equity may be offered too, but i have seen enough situations where the capital investors get a payout that leaves those with lesser shares in the cold.

In short, fuck these people, pay me to care and I may choose to help build their business.

One cannot eat pie in the sky.

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Can you explain a bit more, please? I don’t quite follow the meaning here. A small group already has most of the power ( money is power and a few have almost all of it ). What is your preferred way to see progress?

We have a proper fair primary to find out, that’s how we do it.

Every age has unreasonable elements. Same as it ever was.

To me, the real challenge is to remain reasonable myself when the babble grows too loud.