forgot there were sharks thought it was just the fish with the spindly legs

sauce?

there is no ethical consumption

miss the days when I could watch the entire matrix movie on ascii before BitTorrent and streaming

across from where?

I’d read this webcomic

https://youtu.be/GK87AKIPyZY

this is why I’m ok staying small and never going mainstream, honestly I had hoped that for reddit pre 2010 but by mid 2010s it was already too far gone

most men store fat around their guts aka visceral fat which you can’t suck out instead of subcutaneous fat which is under the skin outside of your muscles and guts which you can suck out

this guy doesn’t even know about the 3 holes!

https://xkcd.com/1053/

insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost

it’s because it’s not intelligent it’s just an LLM that does a pretty good job imitating how humans speak. pretending it is intelligent is admittedly something humans do all the time to charming smooth talkers but like you said when we force it to do a job it was never meant to do and it will forever be unsuited for, we set it up for failure

there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

lol was your ex a doctor? you’re not wrong that a lot of what we do today is dependent on massive supply chains and the work of vast armies of allied healthcare workers, engineers, scientists, and pharma, but most doctors offer common sense remedies for common ailments and can be as simple as rest and fluids for a cold and heating packs for a sore back. even as someone who did trauma surgery for a while and now does robotic surgery, sure I won’t be able to reconstruct your abdominal wall and safely reroute your intestines without modern anesthesia, ICUs, and antibiotics but even in modern times there are days that consist of hours of scraping old infected wounds, lancing boils/popping pimples, and talking about diet strategies to avoid hemorrhoids.

emts are valuable to stabilize and transport but can’t care for things long term. engineers can build mris but can’t interpret the fuzzy squiggles that pop up on the screen. I can distill my own alcohol for sterilization, hand weave silk/cotton sutures, and sharpen crude scalpels without modern technology. the biggest value I bring is my years of seeing sick people and figuring out what’s actually bothering them without WebMD or ai, even if I don’t have high tech solutions, ruling out the most dangerous potential diagnoses and finding the rare zebras.

edit: I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re either very young or very lucky with good health. not that I’m hoping you get sick but eventually all of us end up needing doctors to help us and when you do you’ll see what I mean. even though I don’t currently need any doctors myself, I’m very glad there are people out there that can help me when I need it.

oh shit I am a little ashamed I didn’t know this existed but I am way more happy that I have this to treasure for the rest of my life

I’m actually mildly terrified at how many sympathetic comments there are in this thread. I guess that’s why there’s still so many stores open smfh

best doctor imho