Peter Bryson

Oncologist, fan of rugby, football and live music. Views are my own.

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@EmmaCDeSouza Windy but sunny at the minute!

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@qikipedia How come it is known as an “Irish goodbye” when Irish people basically never do this?

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@A1an_M Also for setting a new password, typing the first character in the “retype password” box: “YOUR PASSWORDS DON’T MATCH!!”

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@rorysutherland I dislike the “how was x on a scale of 1-5?” surveys because I suspect they are to provide cover and validation for enshittification. That I’ll be represented on a bar chart at a management meeting to say, “look we cut expenditure in this area and the bozos didn’t even notice!”

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@MrMichaelSpicer That was you??

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@abookofsymbols Supersize Me may have been a load of pseudoscientific nonsense, but it’s the reason I know the facts of that case.

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@DrTylerThomas @qikipedia Oddly that’s probably exactly what he was trying to avoid. Look up what happened to Michael Johnson at the 1992 Olympics.

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@Sonam7250 @BumbacComeback But the order is the same regardless in this case? Is the issue that total medals is in bold?

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@C_Fitz_ @irish_news @SCUKNI Had a bit of a moment there thinking, “I don’t remember writing this”

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@Saraita101 @victorcarbunkle I get this as an oncologist. But it’s very unsettling because AI throws up totally different questions than a human would have thought of. Which means very frequently I have literally never had to consider the answer to that question before.

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@anonymuzzzzzz @LePib2 @papiwontmiss I think JKR put a bit into Goblet of Fire where Hermione tells Krum how to pronounce her name specifically because people kept pronouncing it wrong IRL.

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@steven_boult @ChezBruce But lots of vegetarians used to eat meat at one time. I would guess the majority based on vegetarians I know personally. So they know what it tastes like and they know they like it. They just don’t like where it comes from.

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@praeteritia @SnazzyLabs But it’s not a straw man if someone says “your argument would only be correct if these [entirely normal and common] conditions were met,” and then those conditions are indeed met.

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@GreenClermont @anon_opin History is written by the victors.

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@elisabet_bakari @gdholtby @bonchieredstate Apparently for some people it is hard to remember. Put it this way, I guarantee not even the most deranged European has ever been surprised by ice not melting at -2C.

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@JucheJochen @SandyofCthulhu I got a legit royal flush in Texas hold ‘em once, but annoyingly we were playing for Lucky Charms.

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@AnyaM8_ It’s also a rare example of “begging the question” that is actually the logical fallacy, and not the other thing of, feeling that a question has been left unanswered.

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@MichelleODoche @Saraita101 Ah they weren’t averse to the use of hammers where the situation called for it

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@anon_opin Even on the quiz machines they long ago did away with the games where the computer couldn’t 100% control the outcome (“pub quiz” and “trivia for dummies”) and now all of them have some aspect of dice roll or other “random” chance device that the computer controls.