I’ve been a nurse for over a decade and I disagree strongly. Way too many of the doctors I’ve had to do with both outside and inside my work have been overworked, arrogant or simply too jaded to do their work properly.

There have been exceptions, of course. I survived both surgeries, after all. Maybe I could have avoided having to learn how to walk again if someone had listened a bit earlier. Maybe not.

But yes, we get into this line of work to help people initially, at least generally, I’ll give you that.

I’ll concede that there’s a difference between physical and psychological diagnoses, but I’ll stand by the main point I was trying to convey, which in this case is that simply blindly following whatever a doctor says can go very wrong.

At the very least there’s always a good reason to get a second opinion if there’s even a little bit of doubt. Obviously there’s also the difference between a lifelong psychological issue and an acute medical emergency.

I simply felt that OP was giving really bad advice and I’m fairly sure he’s got no medical training whatsoever, while I’ve been a nurse for over a decade. Maybe I’m wrong and he’s a doctor, but I highly doubt it.

It’s probable that it’s way less than that, and that’s not factoring in whatever it’ll cost to unfuck everything he’s done. Not that that’s likely to happen anytime soon.

Also not counting in the brain-drain that is already happening.

I hope it’ll be better for all you normal human beings in the US at some point in the future, I really do, but fuck me if this shit isn’t scary all the way on the side of the Atlantic, and that’s coming from someone living right next door to Russia. I’m way more scared of what’ll happen when the US goes full 4th Reich.

I guess one could argue you’re already there to be fair, but I still hope it went too far too fast and a backlash is incoming.

Setting up an MRI and interpreting the images yourself is obviously impossible, but I did work in a related field so it wasn’t just guesswork either. Do you think any of the doctors I met gave a shit about my thoughts on the matter regardless?

I knew it wasn’t just random headaches but something else, potentially a lot worse. I was right in that instance, at the very least. You’re right that I couldn’t tell them exactly what it was, but since it was quite localised I had my suspicions.

Trying to tell a doctor that you suspect something isn’t exactly easy unless they actually happen to listen, which they didn’t, for far too long.

When they finally did the surgery it was a lot worse than it could’ve been. I was lucky enough that it was a pre-cancerous tumor though. A few months more and it would probably have been too late.

I’ll admit that I worked in a related field at the time though, so I wasn’t entirely relying on guesswork. Not that that meant anything to a single one of the doctors I met before the last one that actually gave me the MRI scan I had begged for for months. I was in surgery the next week.

So you tell me, was the right course of action to just listen to what the doctors said, or not?

From someone with two major surgeries behind me, one of them involving a tumour inside my head, this sounds outright idiotic.

I’d be dead unless I realized something was wrong other than what the doctors at the time described as “just a few headaches”. Took me upwards of 10+ different doctors before they finally listened and found it. Exactly where I described the pain and pressure coming from.

Listen to your body, and for fucks sake stop giving bad advice to people.

If he could he would probably be laughing real hard right now, at the very least.

Both of the global powers he fought during his lifetime are extremely busy at destroying themselves at an accelerated speed.

Meanwhile everyone else suffers.

No doubt, I was merely suggesting that throwing math problems might not have been the intended use for what is essentially a language interpreter, obviously depending on the in question.

It’s not like I don’t have a basic calculator to test the output, is it?

I might’ve also understated my python a little bit, as in I understand what the code does. Obviously you could break it, that wasn’t the point. I was more thinking that throwing math problems at what is essentially a language interpreter isn’t the right way to go about things. I don’t know shit though. I guess we’ll see.

I’ve read this so many times in the past few days that I’m just going to write this. As I see it using what we have available right now (which isn’t “AI” in any meaningful way) to do simple math is weird since we already have calculators for that.

Meanwhile, me, who’s at best absolute shit at python, just made a calculator with a rudimentary UI in about 45 minutes using nothing but an AI and ctrl+c/v and some sorting out the bits, as it were.

So far the math has checked out on that calculator, too.

Now there’s a name I haven’t seen in a while and that makes me a little bit sad.

Vihtavuori, lol.

Not American but from my point of view it looks like you need her more than anything. Her, and preferably many more just like her. Normal intelligent people from all walks of life. Decent human beings.

This is also why I’ve never had an issue with Elizabeth Warren, not that I want to be shilling for her here. I would’ve loved to see her get a real chance at the presidency though. While she might be relatively wealthy now she also came from a comparatively normal background, and she seems to remember living it, too (I obviously don’t have her voting records in front of my face, but I’ve read almost everything she’s ever written).

Got called a misogynist at Reddit back then for daring to suggest she might be a good candidate, because apparently that’s what you are if you think she might have a better temperament than trump…

I digress, though. AOC is awesome.

It should be common knowledge that Thiel wrote the actual manual for all of this shit as far back as 2009. The Education of a Libertarian, ironically enough. He really believes in his own bullshit, too.

Which, it should be noted, incidentally is exactly why they’re sending random people to said prison without due process in the first place.

Just a slight tingle, really.

That won’t happen as long as they make sure you can buy all the guns you’d ever want as long as you stay on the RIGHT side of anything political.

I mean, sure, I had a few bad teachers myself at certain ages, but there were good ones too.

Making it up to be some kind of power-trip seems wrong to me, although there certainly are a few of those.

I will say though, that teaching the same curriculum year in year out grinds down almost anyone.

I felt lucky that each student was truly different since their various issues needed such radically different approaches, but that was spec. ed., not normal school.

As I’ve worked most of my life in schools, and am married to a teacher I realize I have a bias, but some teachers do try their best to help every possible student.

I can’t count the evenings we’ve discussed certain cases and how to approach them.

We’ve been lucky in that we’ve mostly had the same students, as I worked with them as they were younger and when they switched up my wife got them.

We did work in special ed. though, focusing mostly on autism, so we’ve seen a lot of bad situations throughout the years, but I wouldn’t go blaming only teachers for that. There are also administrators, headmasters, outside influences and last but not least the parents that all play a role in every students education.

Then again this isn’t the US and I know how things look there in the educational sector, so your mileage may vary.

It’s a bit like Finland and Russia; we’re the one country they wouldn’t nuke because St. Petersburg is too close.

It’s almost poetic, really.