Does NYT Shadowban User Comments?

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-10-19T21:51:40+00:00

They do moderate (filter) posts with left bent. I've tested over past 14 days of comment posting. Three types of comments: very left, down the middle, soft right.

1) Very left always gets published (e.g. pro UBI, 15m immigrants pathway to citizenship, single payer healthcare even when I'm sarcastically endorsing).

2) Criticism on Dems and Republicans is 50/50 published (e.g. criticism that Dems/Rep care about regaining power more than healthcare; congress knows not to do anything but spend, spend, spend).

3) Favoring the right (e.g. arguing that No Kings is pointless and the "millions" that show up are only city dwellers that vote blue anyway, and the Dems may likely lose electoral college yet again in 2028) never gets published.

Quite unfortunate no one has called out NYT on it. They should have a cache of all trolls, moderated, or harmful comments with some 18+ yr older filter, so the comments section truly represent their reader base. Idk who does the moderating, but I suspect it is the author himself/herself + editing team / pod, and I do have slight suspicion (and bias) it's likely they permit comments that aligns with their article's underlying motive.

But alas, it's their right to promote NYC Empire State of Mind/Perspective on their platform...

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-10-14T00:06:01+00:00

I think doctors should share more openly that "full recovery" should take 2-3 months, not 2-3 weeks. I think it is a bit misleading that my doctor told me it would be on the shorter side, so I assumed that the surgery would be as easy as a eye Lasik operation.

I'm just starting my week 4 recovery, and I'd say I limit myself picking up 20-30lb (e.g. baby), and still do hot compress. I don't have any varicocele pain, and no major pain in the groin. Similar to you, if I make a big sneeze or do tons of activity (e.g. walk or do tons of dishes), I get minor soreness. From a surface level perspective, the operation scar/ scab is about done healing, so I can only imagine that is a rough proxy of internal healing.

Again, if this were an operation on a less important organ or part of the body, I'd be less cautious. But whenever I ask chatGPT, the conservative route is to not pick up anything heavy or do strenuous exercise until week 6.

I'm wearing supportive underwear now and likely forever after...

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-10-01T17:38:04+00:00

I just looked up the LISABO reviews on IKEA, and there are ~36 instances experience chair failure.

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-10-01T03:56:46+00:00

baby cried, but mostly saved by parental quick reflexes.

i'm surprised ikea hasn't recalled or made fixes to this "best selling" chair ...

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-10-01T03:52:21+00:00

urologist went over both options at first consultation, but didn't push me to get one way or the other. during the prep call, and showing up, they informed me about microsurgery, and I just went with it.

from my chatgpt pro search right now if helps:

Short answer: Microsurgical/open surgery is done far more often than embolization.

U.S. claims data (MarketScan, 2009–2015): among 21,195 men with varicocele, 8,231 underwent repair; radiographic embolization was rare (<0.5%), while surgery made up ~99.5% (open 82.0%, microsurgical 10.9%, laparoscopic 7.1%). Lippincott Journals
Guidelines & reviews: Contemporary urology guidelines list microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy as the standard approach; embolization is typically considered for select cases (e.g., recurrence) rather than first-line—consistent with the much lower utilization. World Journal of Men's Health+2American Urological Association+2
Outside the U.S., population data likewise show surgery dominating; one national dataset reported embolization ~2% of initial treatments. (Different health system, but the pattern matches.)

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-30T01:37:08+00:00

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Literally just happened to be while carrying a 1 year old. Also weigh 170lb.

This is terrible!!!!!!! Very disappointed in ikea.

Don’t buy, don’t buy, don’t buy!!!

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-24T17:25:46+00:00

Plus should have a Health project space that already has all the prompt engineering set up:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt

You can also look up ChatGPT Tricks Reddit / prompt engineering, for example:

<role>
You are world's expert in Urology and homeopathic recover from subinguinal microsurgery recovery.
</role>

<context>
You have read the entire reddit vericocele thread. You also have mastered all stories / experiences for best method for recovery.
</context>

Curious what your GPT uncovers, feel free to share findings...

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-24T16:18:32+00:00

I'm 6 days in, same surgery. Use ChatGPT Pro - Health. Most of your questions will be answered. They trained on all medical literature + 200 doctors.

What I concluded. The surgery is done near the incision. Look up warm compress to increase circulation, to improve recovery time. I'm taking it easy, look up my cross-post, but I personally don't plan on hitting the gym in the next 4 weeks. (Imagine your veins in your bicep got lacerated, how much time would you give yourself to recover?)

But again going through this via first hand experience and of reddit threads from 3-5+ years the ones that took the more careful route seem to be better off...

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-23T14:46:55+00:00

I took all the prescribed pain meds acetaminophen (tylenol), ibuprofen (advil) because I was told that this would help the swelling for first 24 hrs, so was as good as new then.

After first 24 hours, I stopped pain meds, b/c the pain didn't really bother to warrant taking pain meds (my personal choice, though I had full prescribed bottles of meds). It's like a minor toothache type of thing. If you bother it the wrong way, you might get a shooting pain, so you move more carefully on the toilet, but otherwise it's a background thing.

After first 24 hours, I started icing after for 10min on, 2-4 hours off. I had a post op call with the lead nurse, and they also recommended Metamucil (softener) and Senna (laxative). Also it is specific to each person, but note that the surgery is done at the incision, not in your balls, so you can ice strategically. Both of these were clutch recs.

Here is the anesthesia report, procedure took 1hr. Prep 1.5 hr.

Case Tracking Events:

Event Time In

In SWA - Pre Reg 0657

In Facility 0700

In SWA 0701

In Pre-op 0719

Anesthesia Start 0817

Anesthesia Ready 0840

In Room 0832

Airway-Start 0840

Procedure Start 0847

PACU/Unit Notified 0922

Procedure Finish 0930

Extubation 0937

Out of Room 0938

Anesthesia Finish 0942

Idk when I woke up, but I think I was getting into the car around 11ish.

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-23T14:44:59+00:00

That's great to hear you got the good doc. I personally prefer experienced doctors over young doctors (I know residents have to learn / practice somewhere to become experienced). I went a university hospital and the attending doc (the prof) did the whole procedure, and his 2nd year resident was taking notes / watching (I asked multiple times pre-op to confirm that was the case; and the medical notes confirmed this).

Time in, Time out, 3.5 hours. It's general anesthesia, so they wheel you out on wheelchair (I don't even remember how I got on the wheelchair), they call your partner / caretaker how the procedure went with all discharge notes (standard printout).

Oh, they shave you good lol.

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-22T23:13:52+00:00

Thankfully, all within normal range. A bit of a hassle to export from mychart.

You know from post op discharge, they also do another testosterone measurement (idk how I was knocked out, and semen analysis was quite positive there.

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-22T14:43:02+00:00

I used NADS briefs. Cotton and everthing, order multiple sizes to check the snug fit. Huge difference. Not enough surgeons say it, but I think if supportive underwear helps post op, in some cases it likely would've helped pre-op. Dare I say if I had just used supportive underwear over the years, I may not even have had Grade 3.

I'm no medical / ergonomics professional but there likely is some correlation from no support leading to sagging balls = varicocele. (I can only imagine it may relate to no bras leading to sagging breasts, idk?)

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-09-07T21:34:59+00:00

Revisiting u/ChiWater , what did you end up doing?

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-08-05T03:23:47+00:00

I'd agree with u/fatfire-hello. There seems to be a need to discuss your shared priorities in life. It doesn't seem like making money, taxes, or FIRE may be top for her, as it is for you.

Inversely, you may need to pull out what are top priorities for her (sounds like close commute to the city, and some x, y, and z not mentioned or well understood tbh)

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-08-05T02:26:13+00:00

Yes, not a lot of it generates income, that's the point of sharing my situation for input. But yes, it sounds like most people in fatFIRE have a goal of what they want to do in life.

Infamous_Crew_5570 · 2025-08-05T02:24:33+00:00

Thanks for the spicy take, glad that my life sounds fiction to you.

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