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How much could one coffee be? 32oz?

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All problems are this

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@AlexNoonan6 His lower teeth are Pringles. Pringletoothed

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@anistotle_ Yes! A unique opportunity. You get it

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Off my chest: Not everything humiliating is a ritual

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@Bob_NW123 I am not kidding. He looked like a male runway model

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My weird dating stories are ppl’s favorite Leah content

I get into weird situations because I am frequently turned away from normal situations

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@aphysicist In college I went on a date w/ a Cato intern. When we finished a margarita, he bid me goodnight and scooted over to a different table to eat dinner w/ his parents and little sister. To me, that is Cato

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@JackHudler @aphysicist You know, I think they were just weird

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New Medicaid policy means I will lose health insurance in January, but the consequences of not having insurance are ambiguous enough I’m not motivated to say… take a min. wage job, volunteer, or do approved “job training” for 20hrs a week. Bogus SBA loans are about to go crazy

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I gained zero additional strength in my unstable joints after 4 months of PT, but I did learn not to lift weights with dislocated ribs and shoulders. I was living like I had no bones. I have bones, and I know that now. I’m bone-aware

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@bananawalnutz I already like what you’ve done

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@TheUnjournaling Every day I debate LinkedIn vs. X until my heart says “neither”

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@goblinodds Welcome to the elite club 🫡

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@Miles_Brundage As they say: if this world ends, we will buy a new one

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@caffeinum @AISafetyMemes The Purple Judas

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@emergentvibe 1. Broadcast watermarking now in use
2. Suggest methods like cryptography to sound legit
3. People rewrite your product’s crap output to evade watermark detection
4. Retain usage records like you were doing anyway

“EU regulators duped”

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In the past few weeks, my father living w/ cancer has been shuffled between new imaging appointments (he insists on VA care, I love him, he’s happy w/ it).

Yesterday, his Dr. submitted an emergency biopsy order and said he’d receive a call (no call).

Dr. doesn’t know he carries private insurance, followed protocol, got him worked up about being shipped downstate to a charity hospital w/ more resources.

Once informed, I asked ChatGPT to compare the exact language in his new ultrasound and CT reports to any available large case series and offer a pretest probability of malignancy.

5% or less!

We’re blessed he has options, but goodness… it took 2 minutes of transcribing text over the phone. 2 minutes to reassure my dad his treatment is still, most likely, suppressing the cancer. That’s everything!

While the sample size was decently small (<1,000 cases), putting in perspective the malignancy risk vs. intervention risk vs. diagnostic delay risk helped me prioritize finding an experienced specialty surgeon (vs. letting the VA oncologist work it out w/ community partners).

I share this not because I think all things quantified and queriable would be the best possible world.

This is, I think, what people want most: a person found a humane, effective use of a **statistical tool** and applied judgment obtained outside the tool (what matters, who it serves, what it means) to offer a suffering, known person (family!) warranted care and relief.

We still know what that looks like.

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I taught myself CBT, but it’s mostly a puzzle to keep my brain busy while I grab water, food, or whatever else I forgot to take

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You can just not react. I don’t

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@AlexNoonan6 TV show episodes released 1 week at a time