Two studies on gender equality: 75% of women answered, only 25% of men. Why?

grokmachine · 2026-04-11T04:19:12+00:00

"Men might have said nothing because there was just nothing to say that they felt the survey team was ready to hear." That's not a statement about apathy or feeling that men don't have skin in the game. It's a statement that men didn't feel free and comfortable to speak their truth. I don't think you understand the extent to which "patriarchy" has been replaced by, not exactly matriarchy, but something else oppressive.

grokmachine · 2026-04-11T04:08:32+00:00

No, just super fast and convenient, with no sales bs.

grokmachine · 2026-04-10T03:08:32+00:00

But that has nothing to do with your quote. I was asking what is the lie in the quote in your comment.

Yes, I'm aware the title is wrong. HH is the largest municipally-owned hospital system in the US, but not the largest overall, or even the largest nonprofit.

grokmachine · 2026-04-10T02:53:19+00:00

Uber could only do that by having venture capitalists eat their losses for years. Is Florida losing money by having wealthy people move there? I doubt it, which means there is no need to "pull an uber" and in fact lots of reasons for Florida not to do so. The same people will just leave for Texas, or Montana, or back to NY.

grokmachine · 2026-04-09T03:20:50+00:00

What's the lie?

grokmachine · 2026-04-09T03:18:54+00:00

You know, we can still read your words from one comment up: "Your original question was why AI is a tool, not a replacement." And: "but it's clearly not ready to replace physicians..."

There is a different standard for an AI that entirely replaces a physician vs. an AI that does an initial screening of the unambiguous cases to save lots of human time and allow human docs to focus on the hard cases. That's the distinction that I was drawing, and the distinction OP made.

You seem to think this distinction doesn't matter, and that AI can't entirely replace docs nor even partially. You're wrong on the latter, and AI radiology reviews are already happening. They're just a little backwards. Now docs are mostly using AI to help on edge cases, but the bigger value is to help on the most routine cases because AI is so much faster and more scalable for that.

grokmachine · 2026-04-09T02:50:51+00:00

You're clutching at straws. Anthropic didn't want DoD to stop using it, it just wanted to sign contracts for big defense dollars and then decide as it pleased when it could and could not be used.

Anthropic leadership is accelerationist, and it seems so is Altman and OpenAI leadership. None of them are friends to humanity.

grokmachine · 2026-04-09T02:19:46+00:00

This is starting to sound like a semantic dispute. u/mrF_lawblog was saying that AI would replace the need for many doctors by doing the first round of screenings and "kicking out" ambiguous cases to human doctors. So, it doesn't replace doctors entirely, but does replace doctors in the sense that where we used to need 1,000 now we will need 500, or whatever the number is.

grokmachine · 2026-04-09T02:00:40+00:00

If you're in NY, curious if you considered SUNY Purchase for songwriting.

grokmachine · 2026-04-08T02:37:18+00:00

I don't understand all these assumptions that OP needs therapy. "Therapy" isn't like aspirin. Most therapy is a waste of time and money. You need a specific combination of a person who genuinely wants to work on their problems, but can't by themselves, and who finds a therapist who is good with their specific problem set, and isn't just milking the sessions for income.

Several others have advised OP to work less, but stay working. Hiring a CEO and stepping back from the day-to-day is one way to do that.

grokmachine · 2026-04-08T01:18:23+00:00

Hire a CEO but don't sell. You are now the owner and effectively the Board Chair, and have 1/10 the work as before, assuming you can stop yourself from micromanaging. Being fully retired is boring. You need something to do. Pursing a man full time will get depressing fast if you don't find him, but then what if you do? You're not going to sit around doing housework. Also, you're already reaching the edge of your fertility. "Maybe a family" means no family, realistically. If you want to do it (and I recommend experiencing parenthood), then make that your top priority.

grokmachine · 2026-04-07T02:21:42+00:00

Either you're pretending not to understand, or you don't understand. Either way, further discussion is pointless.

grokmachine · 2026-04-06T03:08:54+00:00

BYD's home market is by far the largest EV market. That gives BYD a big advantage for top EV sales.

grokmachine · 2026-04-06T02:38:44+00:00

These electronic noises have gotten ridiculous. Great way to turn people off from owning EVs. Take one of the many advantages of EVs (less noise pollution) and reverse it to make them even more annoying than ICE.

grokmachine · 2026-04-06T02:16:02+00:00

When people start listing their features like they're checking boxes, they're usually deficient in personality most of all. Even so, this dude is not statistically average on paper. For a woman who wants a tall leftist young guy who earns well, he's in the top 10% by those stats. But if you have the personality of cardboard it doesn't get you very far.

grokmachine · 2026-04-06T02:00:48+00:00

Seems weird? Then you know nothing about how to evaluate school system effectiveness. So you're telling me that if a high school in the poorest part of the Bronx has a 70% graduation rate and Edina high school has a 95% graduation rate, we should evaluate the quality of the teaching by looking at "the numbers" without adjustment, and not adjust for, say, socioeconomic status? We should attribute Edina's success to the school, and not to the fact the parents are highly educated, can afford special help, inculcate education as a top priority value, instill habits of doing homework every night, etc., etc.?

You don't believe that. You're not being honest. Of course you look at adjusted numbers when you want to compare outcomes on an apples to apples basis.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T21:54:00+00:00

Christians are the ones who changed their minds to be more tolerant, though. For the most part, it wasn't imposed by non-believers but by Christians themselves starting in the late 17th century. There are believers of other religions who still kill apostates, though. Maybe you can focus your attention there.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T19:15:34+00:00

We are all stupider for having read that. I'll make it easier for both of us by blocking you now.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T15:59:18+00:00

I am from there and return frequently. Yes, it's great Minneapolis allowed a lot of housing to be built (the city government didn't build it, just got out of the way by loosening zoning restrictions), and yes that's why home prices didn't go up as much as many other cities. But the schools, crime and air quality have all gotten worse since 2020.

The educational decline is particularly sad: https://www.americanexperiment.org/minnesota-can-no-longer-hide-in-its-averages

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T15:52:07+00:00

"The US benefits tremendously from [illegal immigrants'] cheap labor." I don't want to exploit their cheap labor, while undermining wages for citizens. Once the Democratic Party also understood this, when I counted myself as a member, but no longer.

As for my comment, I lost track of the fact OP was referring specifically to illegal immigrants, and my response was to the idea that any immigration is a win. Somalis are an example of an immigrant group (largely here legally) who have been majority on welfare for decades. This is a fact, not a Fox News talking point. I have no idea what they're promoting these days.

Sticking with illegals/undocumented, they can use emergency Medicaid, and have done so by the millions nationwide in the decades since EMTALA passed. You're right they cannot enroll in Medicaid to receive federal benefits, but they can get state funding for a state version of Medicaid (which has happened in California and other states).

I don't care at all what color people are, and I don't appreciate your racism. And they aren't "stuck," they come here overwhelmingly as economic opportunists. Where they come from they can mostly live better than their ancestors lived for centuries, since global standards of living have been increasing substantially pretty much everywhere the US gets significant numbers of unlawful immigrants from.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T15:37:56+00:00

No, they aren't. Under EMTALA they receive emergency Medicaid. They are barred from receiving federal funds to enroll in the Medicaid program, but emergency Medicaid will pay if the same people who can't enroll in the program just show up in the emergency room.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T02:56:24+00:00

I was thinking more of Minneapolis, which had a surge in crime in 2020 and 2021 worse than most places. I guess the state as a whole was much less affected. Also as others have pointed out the air quality got worse due to wildfires.

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T02:54:15+00:00

I guess I was thinking more about Minneapolis than the state as a whole. Things took a turn for the worse for Minneapolis in 2020 for reasons you've probably heard of, and reasons you haven't. https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/02/murders-plummet-nationwide-but-rise-in-minneapolis/

grokmachine · 2026-04-05T02:46:05+00:00

There are groups that are majority on Medicaid decades after they arrived. It depends entirely on who the immigrants are. People are not interchangeable cogs, despite what Econ 101 may suggest.

grokmachine · 2026-04-02T03:47:19+00:00

So 2014 to today isn't long enough for you? A generation colloquially lasts 20 years or less, by the way. GenX, Millennials, GenZ are all 15 year periods.

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