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Comment 2008 (Score 1) 28

I'm reminded of this article from 2008 which talked about how computer aided mammography was actually worse than just looking at the pictures:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2007%2F04%2F04...

Women have also been advised to not get mammograms before they're 30. A lot of women were screaming years ago when that recommendation came out, but the false positive risk was pretty as mammograms are .. really not that great a detection tool.

Another big issue is the biopsy. The more I read about these, the more absolutely fucking insane they seem. Your body is constantly destroying cells that could turn into cancer. It's evolved to cover cells with certain behaviors, making cysts and lumps. Your body kills off these pre-cancer cells, likely several times a year. A biopsy isn't a careful extraction of some material for testing. They stab that thing at least 3 times, sometimes over 20! That's literally going to release dangerous cancerous cells into your blood. I'm convinced biopsy can cause malignantcy in cases where your body would otherwise take care of the growth on its own.

Color be skeptical about new BS AI stories.

Comment Win 10 (Score 1) 92

They took away Star bar placement entirely from Win 10 (I've usually kept it on the top or side) and now want to add some other shit back in? It will probably have AI garbage (poor Cortana .. although you won't be missed original psycho AI bitch), use react components and will freeze your entire desktop when you lose Internet connectivity ... because this is the world we're in now.

Comment Re:Why focus on the last mile? (Score 2) 28

I'd guess about half of wal-mart's freight uses spot markets; literally do to day pricing. Everyday, logistics people at major retailers and freight carriers are in a constant bidding war to secure trailers and freight. Some stores, like Dollar General, use up to 50% dedicated (I want 300 tractors and drivers from company x, every day). You want to keep dedicated under your max by a lot. There's nothing worse than having drivers sitting there, doing nothing, and still making rates. But everything after that is usually spot market and OTR drivers that pick up loads.

Comment Re:It is gone, bro (Score 3, Informative) 67

That's why the Fediverse (Pleroma, Mastodon, etc.) is so interesting. It's a backwater filled with lots of people in the way the old school Internet was. Domains don't matter there, as you'll see some of the craziest instance names ever. Unfortunately, there is a ton of cross-instance censorship, leading to a really broken communication system.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbattlepenguin.com%2Ftech...

Nostr is way less fragile, but has no where near as many people on it, and way more difficult to understand and use.

Comment Re:Econmic collapse of 2008? (Score 0) 40

> the white ones are attending Christian Nationalist rallies, at least the humans seem to see them.

You had me until this bullshit. There are plenty of good, hard working Americans who are Christians and believe in western/common law morality. We ARE moving into a state of untested moral relativism and it will not come without consequences. Maybe we can adapt, but I don't see most Americans willing to accept pedophiles just because Trump's collection of photos with Epstein or Biden showering nude with Ashley Biden according to her drug rehab diaries. I'm not a Christian, nor am I white ... but I know many evangelicals including those in my family. I don't believe in their god, but I don't think they're evil or bad people .. or even misguided most of the time. Most of them don't even like Orange Man, but they don't like the alternatives either. They just trust their god is in control. They're also not wrong in beveling man and women were created (or evolved) differently. You're seeing an enemy on the TV that isn't really there. It's propaganda.

> and the dollar has been losing value because la Presidenta cannot stop trying to euthanize the Fed. Reserve

I WISH! The federal reserve does need to die. Orange Man isn't euthanizing the Fed ... not by himself. All the bankers WANT this because they need the dollar and the euro to collapse entirely so they can introduce programmable, digital money tied permanently to your digital. The democrat backers want this too. There are no two sides here. The fed will finally go away, but it will be replaced with something much worse; an economy as tightly controlled as China's.

Comment Econmic collapse of 2008? (Score 5, Informative) 40

The economy started collapsing in 2007, but no one really noticed until 2008 (except those who shorted everything and made it big). There are people holding onto their big-silicon shorts right now hoping for a similar payoff. Last year, Intel cut over 80,000 people over the course of several layoffs. I think it's pretty clear the economy has already collapsed and we're not facing that reality just yet, at least not until the big silicon bubble pops.

All the quarterly earnings reports start coming out 28th-6th. We'll get to see how many of these mass layoffs are really due to "AI" productivity versus revenue being down across the board.

Comment Re:And if you haven't noticed yet everything is (Score 0) 18

I don't think America will "collapse." But I do think it won't be a superpower by the end of this decade. But I would hope we still have our rights. America did a lot better than Australia and the UK during the Scamdemic. We have one of the lower national rates for taking the experimental drug that gave people blood clots and strokes.

The UK hasn't collapsed, but it's not a superpower any more. Russia lost the Soviet part of its empire, but it's still there and large and an oil baron. It's not a super power, but it can still wage war like one.

The US will become like the UK and the dollar will no longer back gasoline. That's the hope for the rest of the world. The CIA has a tendency to murder people who go against that, and they're still insanely powerful (Venezuela, Iran are two examples of CIA/Mossad influence just this year!). But it won't last forever.

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