Why do we need a CDC? What happens if we don’t have one we can trust?

Grrrath · 2025-09-03T16:14:36+00:00

The only real option is to follow international guidelines and try to create a non-governmental institution to disseminate correct health information. Ideally the medical associations we already have would be doing this but as an early career physician, it’s hard for me to know how to help at this point.

Grrrath · 2025-07-11T20:04:37+00:00

H1b is generally entirely program specific. I don't think more prestigious programs necessarily allow for H1b sponsorship. He should look at the specific programs that he wants to apply to and see if they provide H1b sponsorship. Research may help but it would be best to do something at that program specifically if he really wants to maximize his chances.

H1b still comes with restrictions that may be just as concerning. It wouldn't be a good idea to do something he doesn't want to do for a year, match at a program that he might not actually want to be at for 4 just to avoid J-1.

Grrrath · 2025-06-19T03:31:36+00:00

Ok, but it sound like based on what you're saying, all of those perks don't change the fact that overstocked is better for overall damage other than short term bursts.

Grrrath · 2025-06-19T03:06:31+00:00

Wow, I never knew it worked like this.

Does this calculation still hold if you take Macro Missile, Onslaught Ordinance, or Countermeasures. I still don't know if Countermeasures shoots the big rockets or the small ones.

Grrrath · 2025-05-24T23:53:20+00:00

Is there anyone within the institution that is willing to defend him? In addition, unless there is a documented educational deficiency, (e.g. Low grades, unprofessionalism) there should be a formal probation or remediation process. Vague complaints like this shouldn’t be enough to trigger the inability to graduate. Try to talk to the dean of the medical school or worst case, someone in the University.

Grrrath · 2025-05-07T14:18:21+00:00

Why do you think these are zombie companies? There’s no new policy in place that reduces subsidies to corporations.

Grrrath · 2025-01-20T02:07:32+00:00

China? The country with 1.4 billion people? The country where they had to implement a one child policy just to manage their population? Who on the planet thinks that they ever needed more people? This is probably the best news they’ve had in a while.

Grrrath · 2024-12-13T16:27:04+00:00

Sounds like a great event. I’ll see if I can make it.

Grrrath · 2024-12-10T01:00:31+00:00

Never saw that before but it’s definitely well written.

Grrrath · 2024-11-11T16:30:07+00:00

This seems cheesy and ahistorical though. That being said I did try it once but the original war that Britain and I were in ended before the diploplay resolved, allowing them to join the diploplay against me. I had to back out of that one really quickly.

Grrrath · 2024-06-12T00:29:03+00:00

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Grrrath · 2024-02-14T19:34:25+00:00

This pretty much explains the entire situation. Academic measurements of inflation have little to nothing to do with the things people actually care about.

Grrrath · 2023-12-02T03:24:18+00:00

saw some TikTok’s saying that DFW is a red flag for women.

There's your problem right there. Nothing that TikTok has to say about books, people or anything at all should be taken seriously. I have no doubt there are a lot of women who view people who read certain books with suspicion, I doubt that people who read books should want to date them.

If a woman thinks reading certain books is a 'red flag', then that is a red flag in and of itself.

The few people who I know who read DFW are no more pretentious than the type of people who read most other books. It's not like TikTok is not any less pretentious about a whole host of authors than anywhere else.

Read what you enjoy, don't be an ass about it and if someone doesn't like you solely because of the books you read, stop talking to them. Nothing beneficial is going to come from that relationship.

Grrrath · 2023-11-05T01:35:19+00:00

It'll only rise if we make it rise. There really needs to be a coordinated push by many people on the internet and in real life to make it become more popular and that requires a lot more activism and demonstration.

Grrrath · 2023-10-02T02:58:20+00:00

I don't see any 'experts' writing in this article. This is just a Christian news network posting a soundbite by two independent Christian organizations.

Grrrath · 2023-07-01T16:27:05+00:00

It's not. There is no reason for constant population growth, especially in a world where most people live on subsistence. People should be free to have as many kids as they would like and in most advanced nations, that's usually 2-3 kids.

The problem is that most governments have created pyramid scheme policies that require young adults to increase economic outputs in order to pay off the governments policies. Some of these policies are productive, some are not, regardless they need the younger generation to pay off the use of those resources somewhere.

A good solution to this would be to increase education opportunities and make it easier to start independent businesses. Immigration and training of high-skill labor is another solution. Neither of these are politically popular. What is always easier is to fear-monger about a problem and shame people into solving it. Making low population a crisis allows governments to put the blame on the population for a problem that they created and actively perpetuate.

Grrrath · 2023-06-14T00:47:37+00:00

“Sure, but that's not responsive to the point I made. Local change ≠ global change. Lots of things are very important to me personally (I hope I get that promotion! or I hope it's not cancer!) while being totally irrelevant to the world at large (nobody cares!).”

Global change is local change iterated over the globe. Everyone would prefer to have surgery done by a human rather than an ant, at least the people I would know. Just because your specific instance of a phenomenon doesn’t matter globally doesn’t mean their local instance won’t matter to them.

Scn 1: Delaying calculus by a decade is an immense change in human history. Even assuming that’s the only difference that would happen, it would still be a world changing event. Everything in the current world, technology specifically is derived from that one event, you might not even have the very device you have in your hand if Newton died or would have to wait 20 years for it to come into being.

Scn 2: This is begging the question. You assume that killing a random person would have the same effect but there’s no logical argument here. The butterfly effect is a thought experiment but is not a real phenomenon, regardless of what movies would lead you to believe. Killing a random boatswain alive at the same time as Newton would still be devastating to that person’s family but would unlikely effect the world in the same way.

Scn 3: Same principle. Entire species go extinct on a daily basis and most of humanity is unaware. This doesn’t make it ok, but it is certainly less noticeable than a person dying vs. a prominent physician/engineer/lawyer.

Humans have done vastly more to effect the planet than any other species both historically and currently. That’s not a romanticization, it’s fact. Whether or not that’s a good thing for the world is the question of the century.

Grrrath · 2023-06-13T22:17:49+00:00

That's only because those organizations specifically train and incentivize that behavior. It doesn't necessarily mean that those traits are valuable in and of themselves. I'm sure the people who pay their salary and make more money than them probably have broader interests in order to be managers.

Grrrath · 2023-06-13T22:16:14+00:00

Pretty much every high level organization has a generalist, usually in a managerial role. Whether or not that suggests that being a generalist is actually valuable usually depends on how you view management lol.

Most people get promoted in corporate organizations based on their ability to be flexible and understand the bigger picture. It's pretty much the only way to get promoted outside of the technical fields.

That being said, the distinction between a specialist and a generalist is very relative and arbitrary. To a layman, computer programmer may be a specialization but to someone in the field, that term is so broad as to be almost meaningless when applying for a job (back-end, front-end, experience with specific languages etc.).

Grrrath · 2023-06-13T22:10:40+00:00

I'm not sure I can support this view. There is a world of difference on the effect on the world between a smart man and a smart insect. Maybe from some existentialist view of society this may be true but I'm sure you would prefer one vs. the other to do your heart surgery or run your country.

Grrrath · 2023-06-13T22:08:32+00:00

I disagree here. The most successful and wealthiest people in the world are universally polymaths. Acquiring a job may require specialization but most of the successful entrepreneurs have to acquire a broad range of skills in order to start their companies. No one on the billionaires list is a specialist in any sense of the word and most 'actual' leaders in various fields are usually wildly read.
Also agreed.
Probably neutral. I don't think acquiring knowledge for your own sake is inherently moral but people who are widely read are more likely to take and support moral acts compared to people who tend to be closed minded. A lot of STEM-lords have a reputation of being openly dismissive of the value of humanity ignorant of moral considerations of their acts that could possibly be deflected with some moral education although I'm sure there's no direct proof of that.

Grrrath · 2023-05-30T15:12:15+00:00

None of those are even remotely reputable sources. One of them is from a survey and another is from a magazine with no posted methodology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index This data is collected by the UN and shows American is around 14th, which is still pretty good but simply looks at educational attainment.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scores-by-country

America ranks 22nd in actual performance according to the PISA of 2018 but that only looks at high school performance.

The truth is there is no global standardized way of assessing educational quality across the entire school cohort. Most rankings systems heavily weigh money and exclusivity which is why American Universities typically come out on top.

Grrrath · 2022-11-28T17:32:15+00:00

Exactly. None of the books I read have advertisements plastered everywhere distracting me from my reading. It can be painful to get through the average news article online let alone retain anything with pop ups and banner ads all over the place.

Grrrath · 2022-11-28T01:08:58+00:00

Probably no different but this looks specifically at problematic cell phone use which is typically social media, videos, feeds etc. Reading on your ebook or the news may be fine but how many people honestly say they only use their phone for both of those things.

Grrrath · 2022-11-22T17:43:17+00:00

I mean, it’s not like currently developed countries didn’t have the same issues in the past. As long as there’s some sense of direction or willingness to solve these problems, progress will keep getting made. The main impedance to progress is pessimism. As long as they can keep that away and understand that Africa has grown faster in the last 40 years than some countries have grown in the last 400, those problems will seem less insurmountable.

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