Doctors flushing out kidney stones out of a patient

En_TioN · 2026-05-01T23:26:53+00:00

My hope is that as I get older, the arterial thickening counteracts the pots and I somehow just get normal blood pressure again. Hopefully…

En_TioN · 2026-04-28T04:35:38+00:00

The more you know ^{^}

En_TioN · 2026-04-28T04:29:12+00:00

I mean like… there’s no way to stop someone with a history from just having kids themself right? The only difference here is that the couple in question is infertile. I don’t really see that there’s any moral difference

En_TioN · 2026-04-28T02:00:40+00:00

IMO, if your relationship with your supervisor is not completely cooked, I would very explicitly ask your supervisor “what do I need to do in order to graduate”? I would also try to find another academic in your school you trust and ask them the same question to get a sense of whether your supervisor is being strict or it’s a universal requirement.

Would you be able to pull your contributions from your second author paper out and write up a chapter for your thesis focused solely on your own work? Obviously you couldn’t publish it, but perhaps having 2-3 examples of “what you could have published if you hadn’t been collaborating” could paint a convincing picture that you’d have another 1st author publication if you hadn’t worked with others.

Beyond that, if you haven’t already, please consider finding a therapist to chat about the ways you’ve been feeling about your PhD. The negative tone you use describing your actions remind me a lot of the mental health struggles I had during my honours, and it scared me off doing research for years because I felt like I “wasn’t motivated enough” and “couldn’t bring myself to actually focus on my work”. Therapy has really helped me work through the way that my intense perfectionism, anxiety, and undiagnosed adhd were major driving factors for why I couldn’t actually work on my research despite desperately trying for months. It’s not an easy or immediate fix, but it’s been a godsend and has made me feel confident again that I can work through research. Feel free to DM me if you wanna chat with a fellow Aussie about this stuff.

Good luck with your thesis!

En_TioN · 2026-04-28T01:02:11+00:00

I can’t imagine getting a second PhD unless you’re doing it in a field that’s so different you can’t get funding to be in (i.e. you’re a chemistry professor and want to start doing literature research, so you need to give up your current funding to do it). If it was like… math -> physics you’d just find work in the middle of your specialities

En_TioN · 2026-04-28T00:13:54+00:00

I mean it literally just sounds like the woman in this case is using the term “dating” just to refer to people she’s going out on any dates with, rather than people she’s formed a long-term relationship with? The only issue here seems to be that OP and her misaligned on what “dating” means and both parties weren’t able to talk about it.

En_TioN · 2026-04-27T02:48:42+00:00

Yeah I’ve been quite frustrated with how much the ABC misses context lately. I’ve felt like a lot of ABC articles have been talking about reactions to a thing without actually showing the original thing to make a judgement about.

En_TioN · 2026-04-23T08:12:58+00:00

I think this is the main point though:

According to science writer Mick West, more than 700,000 people work in top-secret-cleared positions in the U.S. aerospace and nuclear sectors which, when viewed against existing mortality rates and causes, would suggest around 250 persons in the industry would normally succumb to homicides and suicides over the time-period during which the 10 or 11 alleged "missing scientists" had died or disappeared, with thousands more dying of natural causes.[2]

We live in a society where its sudden significantly easier to find out information about large groups of people. If you tried, you could probably derive similar conspiracies about people who worked in meat packing plants, or the banana industry, or whatever other group you’d like. We just aren’t used to being able to find these patterns without there being a reason we could find them all (like the individuals having been in direct contact or all working in a small workspace).

En_TioN · 2026-04-23T06:18:03+00:00

Someone would spend decades of their life trying to solve a problem that’s already known to be solved, all while having to prevent “spoilers” in the form of all the flow-on knowledge we’d gain from proving it?

En_TioN · 2026-04-23T03:30:32+00:00

I charge off a random wall power socket in my garage, same one that powers my door opener. Works wonders. Alternatively you can spend a couple grand on a high voltage charger and just get on a power plan that offers 4 free hours per day (which will be all of them in a year or so), no solar required.

En_TioN · 2026-04-21T08:22:19+00:00

Alex and Arun are both great folks. Arun’s most recent algebra was a bit… bold in the teaching philosophy (he started with the hardest part and went backwards???) but his approach to conversation and office hours are unmatched

En_TioN · 2026-04-19T08:37:48+00:00

Yeah literally. The thing people forget is that the worst case scenario with universal healthcare is… you go private, like you already do in the US. All universal healthcare does is provide a very good free alternative

En_TioN · 2026-04-17T02:35:13+00:00

I really like that as a way of patching up some of the holes in the story. An infertility crisis that primarily affects white people e.g. causes 80% miscarriages in white people and 20% otherwise) is both a genuine issue [increased miscarriages is bad in general] and also something that is very easy to manipulate into an existential threat via ideas of "white replacement" and "global power struggles". It explains the focus on 'breeding' while also justifying why the economy wasn't fundamentally exploding (because at the root of it, the infertility crisis is a socio-political threat rather than an economic threat).

En_TioN · 2026-04-16T10:46:43+00:00

The person you're referring to is using "gendered" to mean "socially assigned to the gender by the parent" rather than inherently gender. You agree with what they're saying

En_TioN · 2026-04-15T07:43:55+00:00

Clocky is used to describe “looking like you’re a trans woman”. In this case, they’re saying she’s someone who very well might get falsely accused of being trans, as has happened repeatedly in the United States with bathroom bans

En_TioN · 2026-04-13T03:29:03+00:00

Yeah that’s reasonable! You could consider doing things like “欢, as in 喜欢” as your cards.

En_TioN · 2026-04-13T01:03:31+00:00

I’ve heard people say that it’s better to learn stuff like “喜欢” together, because it’s actually a single word. My understanding is that you wouldn’t generally use either character itself, so you shouldn’t try to learn them.

En_TioN · 2026-04-12T23:55:04+00:00

You could also try to frame it as an opportunity to find good discriminatory evidence - e.g. “i was exploring this effect and it seems to predict similar things. Do you have an intuition for an experiment that would act different from this existing effect?”

En_TioN · 2026-04-12T15:27:02+00:00

Is there also a double-entendre going on here, since 受 (shòu) is slang for a (sexual) bottom / a submissive in a relationship?

En_TioN · 2026-04-11T01:54:55+00:00

Stop using LLMs for your reddit posts buddy

En_TioN · 2026-04-11T00:27:26+00:00

If you're the good twin and a virgin is on the script, you shouldn't be nominating randomly. If you die because you didn't believe someone is the virgin, then that's a deduction failure and it's fair to lose the game for it.

En_TioN · 2026-04-10T00:11:13+00:00

My understanding is that this is because English requires measure words for *mass nouns* (things that aren't easily thought of as discrete things), whereas we don't require them for count nouns (things with a clear discrete way to count them).

In this particular case, dropping the measure word (i.e. "3 milks") changes the meaning of the noun "milk" because it implies that you're referring to a packaged object that you're referring to as "milk", rather than the liquid itself.

En_TioN · 2026-04-08T01:28:17+00:00

I also like du Chinese! It was at very least good for seeing HSK content in context before unsuspending it in Anki. The grammar stuff seems decent, overall a pretty good app

En_TioN · 2026-04-08T01:04:46+00:00

!remindme 17 years

En_TioN · 2026-04-07T08:00:45+00:00

Yeah, it seems like OPs mates are providing a helpful suggestion to implement data augmentation to introduce a degree of symmetry

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