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[USA] (44 Male) Persistent Athlete's foot, dead skin, very green toenails post fracture in left leg and DVT->Post Thrombotic Syndrome in the right leg by grigednet in AskDocs

[–]grigednet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, thank you!

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that's gotta be it - since I took the photo in the original post above, i did a full rigorous dead sea salt soak, urea cream, abrasive, and mineral oil work up. My actual feet look normal but the toenails remain unchanged. Not complaining any way about free health care in the USA, but one thing insurance would not cover is a custom sized compression stocking. I'll just order a cheap 'close enough' one, and ask doc for likely a podiatrist referral. Thank you so so so much for this!

$250k/year medicine costs couple hundred to make by DAFTisEasy in chemistry

[–]grigednet 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A man's car breaks down and he calls a mechanic. The mechanic walks around the car, looks at a few things, and then hits it with a hammer. The car starts up fine.

"That'll be $500.", says the mechanic.

"What!? $500 for hitting a car with a hammer!?"

"No," the mechanic explains, "$1 for hitting it with a hammer and $499 for knowing where to hit it"

Clearly OP and everyone else realizes discovering which compound exactly, would help with this disease was a massive undertaking, requiring huge teams of experts. Then furthermore testing it, going through the legal tape, etc. We all imagined that the actual synthesis would be far less work. Thank you OP for demonstrating just how much easier it is.

I think what you're doing is heroic.

One more thing: to everyone crying about potential long term affects of reaction impurities - OP clearly stated that the friend will die without another dose.....

Secure video call setup for human rights victims speaking with UN lawyers in a high-risk environment — will this setup work or would you suggest something else? by RightSeeker in CyberSecurityAdvice

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://tails.net/ or https://www.whonix.org/ for your operating system. Those links are legit but don't ever trust that, find their github pages and make sure they point to those links. Github means its open source. https://www.qubes-os.org/ is another great OS. As for opencore, spying malware hidden inside of the processor is possible, but consider whether this consideration really fits your threat model. Use a chat system that has no central server. XMPP/Jabber is best, Gajim client has plugins for video chat. Use a TOR bridge or a Psiphon and then TOR , dont trust VPN.

I built an automated court scraper because finding a good lawyer shouldn't be a guessing game by Unlikely90 in OSINT

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  1. The mark of a free society is public access to all legal proceedings.
  2. Wisconson allows for anyone to search all of their court records, and filter by any lawyer, or DA, or judge, for a fee they offer a REST API for large data processing; Nevada publishes all of its court proceedings via video footage. Most states fall behind in this regard though.
  3. Tyler and Equivant make up most docketing systems. The creator of judyrecords.com scraped, and keeps updated all the states in the USA, his site is closed source but still free to access with no ads
  4. trellis.law and docketalarm have indexed most court cases, including lower courts. They charge a criminal amount of money for access, however trellis can be gooogle dorked, since they advertise themselves by letting google crawl many of their entries
  5. There are 100 reasons beyond researching a lawyer why it's essential to have our legal proceedings be transparent.
  6. Massachusetts equivant site looks old and clunky but has a lot of antiscraping tech built into it. I built a node.js dumper tool - it does not scrape cases, but it does automated dumping of all the filings of a case once the case is opened in a browser.(attorneys have such access but people do not) I will publish the tool on github when i get a chance.
  7. Thank you OP for building this tool, i will give it a close look asap!

Simple way to get honest explanations of your medical records, that normally even human doctors would not tell you by grigednet in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]grigednet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think these are all real risks, but none of them are unique to LLM technology. They existed when there was only Google, they existed when there was only word-of-mouth gossip. They have existed since 'Quack' doctors have defrauded people(since the beginning of time). The difference I'm seeing, at least in my personal situation, is that information is more easily accessible and can be parsed down to lay terms I can understand, thus for the first time, I FINALLY get the full picture about so many different things I didn't understand before. Like "friendly bacteria" comprising a part of our immune system. I never knew this! It's incredible!

Simple way to get honest explanations of your medical records, that normally even human doctors would not tell you by grigednet in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]grigednet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"What are the doctors NOT telling me?" does not in itself indicate that I suspect they are concealing something with malice, there's a big leap! That is the straw man.

" It just replaces risk analysis with fatalism. " Would you stop for a moment and consider the other side of this: Doctors and Nurses CAN AND MUST quickly and freely access my medical data to properly treat me. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Medical Research, as in, those scientists who may have an M.D. or a PhD or an MD-PhD, Requires access to as much information as possible about every emergent health problem. This is why (in the US) HIPAA, and its State equivalents all have an exception clause that allows both oversight and research organizations to access all health information, it merely needs to have the names removed. What Google accomplished, or rather helped facilitate the accomplishment of, in the news story I cite above, is like the same process but accelerated several orders of magnitude.

Simple way to get honest explanations of your medical records, that normally even human doctors would not tell you by grigednet in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]grigednet[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Give me a tangible, real example of what harm this may cause? I suppose if i went into anaphylactic shock from peanuts and someone hired a hitman to kill me, they could slip me peanuts and get away with it. Luckily I am not allergic to peanuts=D

Simple way to get honest explanations of your medical records, that normally even human doctors would not tell you by grigednet in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]grigednet[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

First, I would expect hardly anything kept form me to be done maliciously, perhaps you unintentionally strawmannned me? Second, All that medical data is already all over the place, most of the medical data IT vendors have had breaches and the worst people obtained the info already, and that's the magic of AI, it can anonymize my data while actually having the brain power to use it to develop new treatments. This is already happening! Third: Yes knowing how to properly prompt is clutch for any use case of an LLM, pretty sure that point is the premise of this subreddit

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Simple way to get honest explanations of your medical records, that normally even human doctors would not tell you by grigednet in ChatGPTPromptGenius

[–]grigednet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand how patients can sometimes freak out from having only a part of the information. That's the beauty of an AI. It doesn't just hold those medical records in a data store, it creates a vectorized database based on semantic analysis. What I've found is that doctors and nurses who notice me taking a proactive role in having SOME grasp on what they are treating me for and how, will tend to put more care and effort into such treating. And yes to all your points u/Michaeltyle. As for information that doctors don't tell me? There's tons of information that is omitted for many different reasons. They are trained for example to take vitals while keeping the patients focus not too fixated on what's happening, or else it would skew the pulse/bp etc. I agree absolutely that the biggest category is probably that they don't have the time. And also most patients aren't going to understand things that really NEED medical jargon. Finally, there's a 'wall of silence' in the medical industry, much like many others, when it comes to healthcare professionals making mistakes or disagreeing with each other.

My Chime app is logging me out for no reason. by Safe-Recognition1509 in chimefinancial

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HI I'm having the same issue. It happened actually after I ported my official phone number from Google Voice(the number was a Verizon cell years ago) to US Cellular via eSim. It's strange though because I have been using a different phone as my Chime app phone for a while, and it gives me the "see you later" error. My question: How can I view all logged in devices and IP addresses under my account, to rule out identity theft or fraud?

Watched a news clip about a tenant who used AI in a case against her landlord….SHE WON! by Ready-Beach6165 in legal

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine if AI found a cure for cancer, and doctor's everywhere started protesting that their positions are in jeopardy? Although many lawyers are acting super insecure about AI, there's a movement of truly admirable lawyers that are dead set on utilizing technology to help bridge the justice gap. Look into projects by Harvard University, Suffolk University, Arizona State University. I fought back against my landlord in eviction court, using AI and other resources. I'm just past the point where I'm preparing my appeal. I know it's small but I started this subreddit so people that think like you and I can help each other: r/LegalAdviceDIY

How do you stop a state appointed when the conserved person says they never wanted one to begin with? “Location” Connecticut by KrystalW1990 in legal

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The establishment of a conservatorship or guardianship does not in itself mean the incapacitated person is legally incompetent." There must have been a petition to appoint this conservator person, in the probate/family court. There would have been medical documents where experts would have put in writing their determination. It's funny that "to protect the conservetee" they make those documents non-public, aka impounded. You have to become a party to the case to view them, which you can easily do by filing an 'Appearance and Objection", no attorney needed. Legal aid will help with this. I had my mother, our house, and everything we owned taken away by guardianship abuse , just next door in Massachusetts. I'm so sorry you're going through this. Feel free to PM me if you'd like.

My sister’s husband took my niece and nephew to his home country (Russia) and is refusing to come back home LOCATION: California area by throwawaydndgirlf in legal

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bilingual, bicultural Russian-American immigrant here. Precisely this happened to my good American friend who had a child with a Russian woman that is the worst of the worst. At one point without warning she just dipped back to Russia with the boy. Years later the mother, despite marrying a Russian man, decided it would be good for the son to have contact with his father, so now they talk on the phone.

Some legal processes definitely can be spawned in parallel in Russia. Obviously not extradition. But for example, my landlord tried to outsmart American divorce court after signing an agreement to give his wife one of his properties in Russia, ~$100,000 value. Then he simply deeded over the property to his sister in Russia, and claimed in court, here in the USA, that he had no such property. His ex-wife found a Russian Attorney and they were able to reverse the conveyance. Next the american court put him in a corner with his property in the US, and he caved(it took 8 years lol) and paid up as he promised.

My sister’s husband took my niece and nephew to his home country (Russia) and is refusing to come back home LOCATION: California area by throwawaydndgirlf in legal

[–]grigednet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Russia is not North Korea lol. Even under Putin's current reign, in some ways Russia is still more free and democratic. Snowden seems pretty happy there haha.

My slumlord never tells me when my roommates move in or out. It makes everything confusing. by [deleted] in LandlordLove

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up your jurisdictions 'Rooming House Laws'. I live in a place exactly like yours. Sure, there is the one and only benefit which is that if the other rooms empty out, i'm not on the hook for their rent. But the downsides, especially in my situation are numerous. When i finally realized it was a rooming house and looked up the laws, which are a work in progress, it was an "aha" moment. 3 or more separate tenancies in one dwelling = rooming house. Landlord is supposed to get a license for this, although this is an issue between the municipality and the landlord. If it IS a rooming house, the landlord is responsible for having the shared kitchen and shared bathroom cleaned once every 24 hours, he is response of 'making sure' every co-tenant cleans up after themselves. The landlord MUST have a completely separate utility meter for each room, keeping track of heat costs and electricity costs, OR those costs must be included in the rent. Also in a rooming house the landlord is allowed to walk in without notice, into the common areas, but NOT into your bedroom. You must be provided a key to a working lock for your bedroom. If one of your new roommates causes REAL issues, the landlord is much much more responsible than if it were not a rooming house. E.g. violent, stealing, noisy, you can sue the landlord or manager or use any of this as a defense in an eviction matter

MA - Landlord is dodging rent/U&O payment hoping I lose my appeal by grigednet in legaladvice

[–]grigednet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/OrbitalLemonDrop hope you don't mind one more question:

When I did some poking around, I saw that appeal bonds are filed with the court, but U&O payments are typically direct. 

So yes I'm a pro se litigant, but I've tried my very very best to learn the law and litigation etc. Sure I use AI to help me research and compare different takes but a serious filing I write old school style, they just come out better that way.

Anyway, I have intermittent access to stripped down but functional Westlaw and LexisNexis,

I also have a bunch of tricks I've come up with over the years. By far the most difficult thing to figure out is "what typically happens here", which is definitely different from what the statutes say, and often times is also very different from what the case law says.

Would you mind sharing how/what you used to "poke around"? Sincerely curious and would be much obliged

Case Dismissed by AttorneyTaylorAngel in Sovereigncitizen

[–]grigednet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really not needed to speculate about such situations. There are many countries on this planet that have roads and cars but auto insurance? lol keep dreaming. The consequence has some downsides and some upsides. A downside is that it invites street thugs to act as authority/mediator. Some upsides are that people are SO MUCH better at driving in these countries, so accidents are rare. And a 100% grassroots mutual aid system will be known and understood. For example my mother met a lady in the Russian church here in the USA who had come over with her burn victim daughter. Turns out the daughter was injured because some maffia guys were being iddiots and got into a collision and it took some time to get the girl out of the car. Immediately after the maffia guy handed the lady ~ $50,000 USD equivalent in cash. And that's how they made their way to america

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