I have tried a few times, but search is dead, there is a long established artists "colony" on the north mountain in NS, writers, theater, and the rest, but the luni, luny, loony ?,just tried again, SEARCH IS DEAD right, and it is too revolting to bother digging through the grasping,simpering, greed validation machine.
Paywalled article.
Seeing that OP almost exclusively submits links to their own paywalled blog, I'm not sure if this doesn't fall under HN's "blogspam" rule.
Oh. There is nothing more contra productive than asking an experienced physician “could this not be X”. They will typically go in “if you think google knows better, ask it and fuck off”. Ask me how I know. I think that attitude even has a name (BTW, I’m guilty! If I say “there is a dangling pointer” and the guy starts with another theory, I will dismiss him quickly)
Arguing with a doctor can lead to accusations of "drug-seeking behavior" (which can cause treatments to be refused, and there is some legal pressure behidn this) or "mental illness" (which can cause involuntary psychiatric hold, effectively kidnapping).
This paper lists signs of drug-seeking behavior that doctors should watch out for, like:
– Aggressively complaining about a need for a drug
– Requesting to have the dose increased
– Asking for specific drugs by name
– Taking a few extra, unauthorised doses on occasion
– Frequently calling the clinic
– Unwilling to consider other drugs or non-drug treatments
– Frequent unauthorised dose escalations after being told that it is inappropriate
– Consistently disruptive behaviour when arriving at the clinic
You might notice that all of these are things people might do if they actually need the drug. Consider this classic case study of pseudoaddiction from Weissman & Haddox, summarized by Greene & Chambers:
> The 1989 introduction of pseudoaddiction happened in the form a single case report of a 17-year-old man with acute leukemia, who was hospitalized with pneumonia and chest wall pain. The patient was initially given 5 mg of intravenous morphine every 4 to 6 h on an as-needed dosing schedule but received additional doses and analgesics over time. After a few days, the patient started engaging in behaviors that are frequently associated with opioid addiction, such as requesting medication prior to scheduled dosing, requesting specific opioids, and engaging in pain behaviors (e.g., moaning, crying, grimacing, and complaining about various aches and pains) to elicit drug delivery. The authors argued that this was not idiopathic opioid addiction but pseudoaddiction, which resulted from medical under-treatment [...]
Greene & Chambers present this as some kind of exotic novel hypothesis, but think about this for a second like a normal human being. You have a kid with a very painful form of cancer. His doctor guesses at what the right dose of painkillers should be. After getting this dose of painkillers, the kid continues to “engage in pain behaviors ie moaning, crying, grimacing, and complaining about various aches and pains”, and begs for a higher dose of painkillers.
I maintain that the normal human thought process is “Since this kid is screaming in pain, looks like I guessed wrong about the right amount of painkillers for him, I should give him more.”
The official medical-system approved thought process, which Greene & Chambers are defending in this paper, is “Since he is displaying signs of drug-seeking behavior, he must be an addict trying to con you into giving him his next fix.”
A good way to ward off the possibility of being accused of drug seeking behavior is to maintain your own stash of drugs. It always helps to have a good BATNA.
Interesting cases, thanks for sharing. I didn't know what real-life inspiration the movie "Rain Man" came from. However, the two people seem to be worlds apart socially. While Peek seems to be extremely "stunted" in his social development, Flansburg appears to be coping well with his position as a speaker, which I always thought to be rather unusual for people with autism spectrum disorder.
I was thinking the same thing, but I was watching his human calculator video [0] and there are moments where his mouth moves quicker than his brain and he has to catch himself a few times. My guess is he's given this talk and rehearsed the mannerisms so many times that he's on auto-pilot.
Detection and response - basically any remote access software usage is very likely to trigger an alert to the IT security team, either from the antivirus or EDR (endpoint detection and response, the most famous is Crowdstrike)
I once had a mystical encounter with a drunk guy on a train who advised me to learn Spanish guitar before turning 30.
However, my path preordained by the universe was interrupted when I watched a professional flamenco tutorial and was put off by the teacher's long fingernails, which are apparently required to play, but which I found absolutely repulsive.
Why do these articles about social “trends” so often seem like poor attempts at social engineering to promote social atomization or hostility between the sexes?
I think it is very hard to get unbiased research on procreation related topics because people not only try to justify their own life or (conflicting?) desires for their life but what they want their children to do, etc, which is also not just about one topic like grandchildren, it is also about social standing through anticipated judgement of others.
Musk for example seems to be on the edge of having sabotaged everything he worked for over indirect ways to gerrymander society and try to control just one of his children's lifestyles and/or distance himself from approval of it. Warren Buffet's relationship with money/work philosophy and grandchildren is perhaps even more interesting though a less dramatic demonstration of the power of procreation related topics over people.
ya it does seem that way. But, there is a pretty big cohort of people that are like this and they click on stuff to. So i'd guess it's more marketing to sad grind-set loners than deliberate propaganda.
Google search (for those who are still using it) comes up with a funny little Easter egg when you search for "Chicxulub asteroid" or "Chicxulub crater".
As searching for "luny cycle" doesn't bring up anything relevant.
However, there this, which looks like an interesting take on the unicycle concept:
https://inventist.com/inventions/lunicycle