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The default assumption must be that Putin and MBS are the US Heads Of State.

Instead of mindlessly watching Fox News, you could learn to read, it is a very useful skill.

"Zuckerberg didn’t donate to Biden’s 2020 campaign, federal campaign finance records show.

He and his wife donated at least $400 million to two nonprofit organizations which distributed grants to state and local governments to help them conduct the 2020 election during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The donations came at a time when election offices were trying to transition to mail voting.

The money helped pay for material and services such as equipment to process mail ballots, protective equipment to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and drive-thru voting locations, The Associated Press reported.

The Center for Tech and Civic Life, a Chicago-based nonprofit, received and distributed the bulk of the money.

The Center for Election Innovation and Research, which is based in Washington, also issued grants."

Not enough oncologists in my country or anywhere in the world.

Medical oncology is definitely not an attractive specialty.

High stress, poor pay, fraught conversations with often aggressive family members.

Would you want to be the person who is being abused by all the commenters here ?

Neither would they.

That is why ROAD ( Radiology, Opthalmology, Anaesthetics and Dermatology) is so popular.

Also why most doctors kids go into non-medical fields.

My colleagues kids are doing hedge funds, big law, M&A and unicorn billion dollar AI startups, not high stress, poor pay medicine.

OpenAI hacks Hugging Face.. no consequences. MAGA US CORPORATION MUST SUCCEED.

Some random from an Arab nation tried to hack OpenAI... ARREST HIM.

"Laws are like spiderwebs. They catch small flies but let wasps and hornets breakthrough."

Jonathan Swift in his 1807 work A Tritical (sic) Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind.

https://archive.org/details/swift-tritical-essay-upon-the-fa...

People in my life just do not drink when we get together.

In many non-Anglo-Euro countries, drinking is seen as moderately aberrant behaviour akin to frequenting sex workers or doing drugs.

I remember that everyone would whisper about an uncle of mine who "drank".

The poor man had around 5 or 6 drinks a week and has a moderately successful career as a lawyer at my country's Supreme Court.

But he was still the one who "drank".

Datacentres have become the new methadone clinic.

Necessary, but no community wants one.

Meta and Mark are the new Murdoch.

Evil always finds new acolytes.

"Agents gradually refined their methods to retrieve more data from each scan,

eventually discovering that a game by Google could be used to fetch data in bulk"

Basic argument:

I want it because LLMs make it easy to do without having to think.

The Sydney hospital where one in 10 patients waits more than 43 hours

One in 10 Blacktown emergency patients waited more than 43 hours to be admitted or transferred.

...while almost 9 per cent give up and leave without completing treatment.

NSW has not met any of its access targets for emergency wait times, which stipulate that at least 80 per cent of patients should be admitted or transferred to another hospital within six hours, according to Bureau of Health Information data published on Wednesday.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-the-sydney-h...

The ongoing efforts at digitising medical records and care have made waiting times and outcomes much worse.

But it is cheaper and and easier sell to the gullible public than providing more funding and facilities.

"Woman found under coat in Nottingham A&E died days later

An investigation has been launched after a woman died days after being found unconscious underneath her coat while waiting in A&E for seven hours.

The 39-year-old woman is understood to have first attended A&E at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham on the evening of 19 January complaining of a severe headache. She was triaged and then observed by nurses three times. Her case was escalated but she was not seen by a doctor before being discovered.

When the woman was called to see a doctor, she did not respond. It was assumed that she had left A&E because she had waited so long. She was discovered and transferred to intensive care but died three days later on 22 January.

A source familiar with the hospital told LBC, which first reported the incident, that the A&E department could have up to 80 patients waiting at a single time and that wait times could be as long as 14 hours"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/10/nottingham-i...

Discussed earlier and debunked as a university PR unit gone mad.

"a strict firewall is supposed to separate treating physicians (who are charged with decisions around the removal of life support and declaring when a patient is dead) and organ donation teams.

But a federal investigation found that firewall is often ignored.

And The New York Times reported that health care workers in several states said they had witnessed procurement staff members “persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.”

A former Obama White House official testified before Congress that she had heard directly from whistle-blowers at procurement organizations that they were trained to target inexperienced physicians, especially in rural areas, who may be less likely to push back."

Can't make it worse.

Might improve it a little bit.

Meanwhile as his company craters, Mr Knight gets a building named after hi.

"The University of Oregon ranks 301st to 400th nationally for engineering according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings"

Too late.

Us rusted on Toyota customers are moving to Chinese EVs

My family's last 6 cars were Toyota hybrids. But as a corporation, Toyota is notoriously anti-electric.

Tomorrow I am test driving a Xpeng G6, a Zeek X and a BYD Atto 3.

No more anti-electric Toyotas for me.

( And of course no cars from fascist countries like the USA, that goes without saying )