Complicated/Rambling

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Complicated/Rambling

Complicated/Rambling

@holmgrej

So anyway, long story short...

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Complicated/Rambling
Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@asymmetricinfo @illativefaith Electric kettles are way more efficient though, especially if the AC is on. I did the math a while back and it pays for itself in a year if used once per day (longer if you discount the winter when stovetop heat isn’t wasted).
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Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·
@illativefaith Electric kettles offer no advantage on 110 power. It’s faster to boil the water on the stove.
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Saad Asad
Saad Asad@realsaadasad·
Missoula, a city of 80,000, just legalized apartments everywhere, eliminated parking minimums, and removed density caps. If a small Montana city can overhaul its zoning code, San Diego has no credible excuse not to. sightline.org/2026/04/28/mis…
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@IonaItalia I haven't read much fiction in the past ~12 years due to family responsibilities and internet competition, but when I do it's mostly hard sci-fi (3 body problem, neil stephenson, andy weir) which grapples with ideas more than most modern fiction (characters are terrible though)
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Iona Italia, PhD
Iona Italia, PhD@IonaItalia·
I'd be interested to know when men stopped reading fiction and why. 8 of my top 12 books were written by men and almost all became popular at the time because they were read by men.
Econo ad absurdam@econoadabsurdam

@IonaItalia Male and female audiences for fiction are very different, I wouldn’t want to read any of these

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Scott Winship
Scott Winship@swinshi·
Lyman’s policing of the fertility beat, which he thinks he owns, remains as tedious as ever. There is one party here who lets advocacy cloud his judgement. (It’s not Patrick.)
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky

Patrick's point here is, very simply, that the government should probably give you instructions about how many kids to have. Dress it up how you like, that's the actual view here. Government needs to be a persuader on family size, in this view. (I disagree)

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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@sladesr Green chile (or rainbow) for every meal (it's good all the time but peak season is late summer-fall)
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(Stephanie) Slade@sladesr·
What, if anything, should I be sure not to miss on a visit to New Mexico?
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@cremieuxrecueil when billing any insurance including regular medicare you get paid more if you ask about increasing numbers of 'organ systems' (Do you have stomach pain? Any cough lately?) so management is always on your back to ask irrelevant questions (and document the answers!)
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@cremieuxrecueil I HATED this when I worked in clinics and is a big reason I started a cash only practice where I bill everyone the same (I'm a psychiatrist).
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Crémieux
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
The funniest form of Medicare fraud is when insurers diagnose patients with illnesses they don't have. The weirdest example is when insurers write down that a patient has HIV or AIDS even when they've never been tested or prescribed drugs for it. So they can bill for more!
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@GarettJones I do not get it. How can AI possibly make up for 100% Debt to GDP and still growing + inflation trending up + war + bad demographics. I've been moving more equities in my 401K to low risk short term bonds, but I've been doing that for years now and starting to feel silly.
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Garett Jones
Garett Jones@GarettJones·
ATH close, use total return indices
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Jeff Gasser
Jeff Gasser@G3AdvJeff·
@ajlamesa You can't shop for healthcare beyond imaging or a specialist. Let's say you are having orthopedic issues so you see an Ortho. Months later when you need surgery, you aren't shopping for a surgeon. You already have one. You are going where they perform surgeries.
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Anthony LaMesa
Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa·
The people who tell Americans to "shop for health care" are so disingenuous. It's borderline impossible to "shop" for a dental cleaning, let alone a more serious health intervention.
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
@DrPhiltill @Robotbeat this is an optimal true zipper merge, but the problem with zipper merge discourse is people use it to justify budging in line at a regular exit (with no closed lanes), thus backing up the traffic behind them that is trying to drive past the exit.
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Phil Metzger
Phil Metzger@DrPhiltill·
At KSC we had bridge repair closing down to just one lane, so commuters would get into a single line miles before the bridge leaving the other lane open, then some drivers would try to keep people from using the other lane by driving halfway between the two lanes. The KSC police eventually pulled people over for doing that and they sent an email to all the employees saying that we are supposed to use both lanes all the way to the end and then zipper together within the zipper zone. 🙂 I figure, if people feel stressed out about waiting until the zipper zone and they want to get over early, then that’s fine for them. But they shouldn’t get upset about people who go all the way to the zipper zone.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐
Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
Zipper merge is always correct, BTW. It’s the best overall for everyone. People seem to have this idea that picking a personally-“selfish” option means you’re doing something at the expense of the group, but in fact the global optimum in this case IS the “selfish” option.
👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈@TheEXECUTlONER_

This guy is using the left hand lane , which is open. There is a mile long backup and everyone is over in the right hand lane. He drives all the way up until he has to merge. Some people are saying what a jerk he is for not getting in line like everyone else, but a great many people are saying that the cars in the right lane merged into one lane too soon and that if they had used the left lane, instead of being a mile backup it would have been a half a mile backup. What’s your take? Do you think he was correct in using the left lane and merging up at the front or should he have merged right and got in line way in the back like everyone else?

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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
Something about the app made burgerking seem much more expensive than McD even though final price was about the same. I can't put my finger on it, but something about initial price +- add-ons were off-putting on the BK vs McD app
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
The Whopper had a giant slice of onion on it (like, bigger than the beef patty) which I like but it seemed sort of 'not fast food'.
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Complicated/Rambling@holmgrej·
I don't eat fast food much but I did today at McD and Burgerking in NW New Jersey. A few observations you may or may not find interesting: The new Whopper seems slightly better but not so much I would really notice it if I wasn't paying attention. @McFranchisee @jonathanmaze
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Peter Todd
Peter Todd@peterktodd·
A really interesting thing about dyneema compared to steel for applications like winch lines is that dyneema is has very little stretch for the same working load. Which means that you are storing much less energy in the line during the pull. That means that if something breaks and the line suddenly releases, the dyneema line is much less likely to injure you; a steel line suddenly giving under load could seriously injure you with the energy stored in the elasticity of the line. Of course, this is a disadvantage if a load is dropped on the line, as the dyneema can't absorb any energy from a fall. Which is why climbers have to be very careful in how they use dyneema slings and ropes.
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amy
amy@amypretzel·
fun material of the day... dyneema! it's a special kind of plastic string. it looks soft and white, like a shoelace. but it's super duper strong. way stronger than metal! if you took a piece of steel and a piece of dyneema that weigh the same, the dyneema can hold 15 times more weight. that's why people use it for things that need to be light AND strong. like vests that stop bullets. and ropes on big sailboats. and gloves that knives can't cut through. but dyneema has rules. it only comes in white or gray. that's just how it is. if it gets too hot, like hotter than a cup of tea, it starts to melt. so no putting it near fire. if you hang something heavy on it for a long long time, it slowly stretches. like pulling taffy, but super slow. so it's an amazing material. you just have to be nice to it.
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timothy faust 🇵🇸
timothy faust 🇵🇸@taste_of_tbone·
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is almost certainly the third-best NBA player of all time. But I think he's also in the top-3 most interesting Americans. Fought Bruce Lee, in our yet-best comedy, convert to Islam, anti-war before it was cool, legendary jazz collection, pretty good writer.
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Leor Sapir
Leor Sapir@LeorSapir·
2. Action bias. Medicine—and, some would argue, most of healing—often consists of not doing anything, counting on the body’s natural tendency to heal itself while watchfully waiting to see if/when intervention is needed. For adolescents in the throes of puberty, time and experience typically build resilience and mitigate distress. It’s tempting for inexperienced healers to want to “do something” and to equate inaction with not helping or even harming.
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Leor Sapir
Leor Sapir@LeorSapir·
I'm often asked: “What makes pediatric gender doctors do what they do?" Good question. Here are 9 overlooked factors, to add to the obvious one: ideological agreement with the “gender-affirming” outlook. These are unsystematic observations, so take with a grain of salt. 🧵
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