🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo Just used DuckDuckGo.

Moderate visual impairment
Visual acuity: 20/70 to 20/160

Severe visual impairment
Visual acuity: 20/200 to 20/400 and/or
Visual field: 20 degrees or less

https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/lowvision/visual-impairment/

Das ist eindeutig ein Problem, was sich mit unserer kommenden Folge dann erledigt haben wird.

#Spoilers #Chevron10 #Stargate #Podcast #WeWantStargate #Martouf #NiemandMagAnise

Ouch!

https://reason.com/2023/08/25/government-continues-to-deny-its-role-in-adderall-shortage/

"During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) allowed physicians to prescribe controlled substances via telehealth appointments; at the same time, parents began noticing symptoms of inattentiveness in their kids who were stuck at home attending school over Zoom. As a result, ADHD diagnoses soared among children."

"State and local governments sued the three largest pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson over claims that the companies had contributed to opioid abuse and deaths. In February 2022, the companies settled for $26 billion and cracked down on potentially suspicious orders of controlled substances from independent pharmacies. As a result, many pharmacies were limited in the drugs they were able to order; some were banned altogether."

"the DEA declined to raise the limits in 2023 that would allow manufacturers to make more Adderall, even in the face of a declared shortage. Meanwhile, a lawsuit filed by state and local governments caused pharmaceutical distributors to cut off the supply of drugs like Adderall to pharmacies across the country."

@freemo Maybe you were born as a human Intel Xeon Phi.

apparently i passed a phishing awareness test last week by correctly ignoring a fake linkedin email

nobody tell my boss that i ignored it entirely on the assumption that it was a real linkedin email

@freemo he kinda got that kazynsky face going with that beard and hair tho.

#Observation is one of the foundations of #science. When observing a new fact, we always compare it with a control, a witness or a standard and every conclusion is relative to our references. Sometimes I think we need to remember that and understand that certain things are #incomparable.

@freemo many years ago, when I was doing repairs, we sometimes had to add wire jumpers onto boards (back in the day when a lot of glue logic was used and that was a way to fix bugs). For this we had to use teflon coated ~28AWG stranded wire and used this tool for stripping https://www.weller-tools.com/eu/gb/precision-tools/products/tweezers/29w30. You would put the wire in the jaws and spin the tweezers around until it pierced the insulation then pulled. I would not use this tool for anything else though ...

@freemo looking nice, but I prefer my Engineer PA-14 :)

A 2-party system is a mathematical consequence of plurality voting. While ranked voting as suggested by @ambihelical is impractical (for both voting equipment and voting comprehension), simply voting for more than 1 is already supported by all voting equipment, readily understood by voters, and already in use for many local races.

It also increases the likelihood that no candidate will gain 270 electoral votes in the case of the Presidential.

For that case, I recommend we follow the constitution and vote for electors, NOT presidential candidates. As it is, you have to work pretty hard to even know the name of the electors you are voting for. They are not put on the ballot. It is well worth meeting them.

@freemo I wanted to say that i'm happy i'm not a us citizen, then i read the thread... and now i want to say it EVEN LOUDER.

Good luck with that mess. Would help, but we have our own mess.

I'm bringing this up as I saw someone complaining about it.

Apparently, drugs were over-prescribed and now the U.S. is over-correcting for it by making it harder to get pain meds at all.

As is evident, that isn't working well either (as it creates the opposite problem).