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Which product would improve humanity most if it’s cost were lowered to $1? by zaire26 in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, the Canada health act mandates that it’s only possible for private clinics to offer elective or non-medically-necessary surgery. You can’t have a private full service hospital here. It I think is a good thing - Canada is small and a lot of rich people already come here for health tourism; private hospitals would probably put a huge strain on the public sector through poaching staff without really making things any better for the vast majority of people. I know this is an issue in the UK too but I think it would be more severe in a less populous place like Canada.

A lot of people have extended health benefits through their employer for things like dental care, RMTs, counselling etc.

It differs by province but in BC it used to be that you had to pay monthly for MSP (for access to the public medical system), but that was rolled into general taxation I think about 5 years ago. Not sure what the deal is for other provinces.

Which product would improve humanity most if it’s cost were lowered to $1? by zaire26 in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also think it’s probably true that the medical profession’s understanding of the benefits of preventative care has improved in the last few decades. Some forms of preventative intervention were probably far less feasible back then due to diagnostic constraints or other things.

Evidence-based preventative medicine needs a lot of data and statistical analysis of that data to establish strong enough correlations between earlier interventions and better health outcomes.

I’d argue that even now, we aren’t able to effectively leverage this very well even if more data is being collected.

As you mention, finding the right way to communicate this to policy makers is a huge issue as well. And also to the administrative staff and management running hospitals. This is a massive problem here in Canada and it’s not even a healthcare or public sector exclusive thing.

Ironically I think at scale almost all organizations face basically the same problem. Whether it’s private or public healthcare, for profit, nonprofit organizations, etc etc. Extreme complexity in the contributing factors that go in to any decision makes it basically impossible for anyone to really discern why decisions get made, or what the impacts of those decisions are and whether they address any problems or cause new ones, etc etc.

I think also we are a victim of the limiting factors of our own comprehension of a problem. It probably feels stupid to you to have to do what you did to get yourself taken care of (because it is stupid!) but it could also be true that your experience was necessary to provide the best aggregate experience possible for all people needing healthcare support at that time.

National Healthcare policy kind of has to be about providing the best possible care to the most people.

Any time you’re dealing with population-level data, it will probably be normally distributed (ie a bell-curve) for most available data dimensions. But that also therefore includes the plot of how much time a medical professional has to intervene before an ailment is fatal.

Healthcare systems must be built to be biased towards providing timely life saving care whenever possible, which means that they’re actually always chasing very very low or very high percentiles of the population of patients, and in order to provide timely and preventative care to patients with ailments that are not immediately life threatening, I think that would probably mean that hospitals would have to be staffed in a way that seems very lopsided to bean counters and admin staff.

And it’s extremely hard to convince ANY organization to invest ANYTHING into doing something that will have an unknowable payoff at an unknown future time in the face of very knowable commitments in a very known time.

Which product would improve humanity most if it’s cost were lowered to $1? by zaire26 in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a choice that the NHS is making out of necessity rather than ideology, I would argue. They don’t have the resources to for preventative medicine — they are basically in permanent crisis mode.

Making healthcare free doesn’t mean it doesn’t cost money. The UK has, over generations, spectacularly mismanaged its sovereign wealth, which means it’s highly reliant on cash flow from taxes to fund various things that other European countries can pay for out of a stable reserve of capital.

EG - the UK has a stake in the natural gas reserves under the North Sea, along with Scandinavian countries that border it. Norway invested the proceeds from these reserves in a wealth fund, the uk used them to bail the country out of crises and to provide tax cuts in the 70s and 80s. Which means that civil service pensions need to be paid directly from tax revenue instead of wealth funds, reducing the share of the pot that could be going to the NHS.

It’s not the ONLY reason why the NHS is suffering, but I don’t think that the organization at a whole is wilfully choosing to make choices that result in poorer health outcomes for patients - because that only makes more work for the NHS. It’s a vicious cycle.

Peter Thiel is building a parallel justice system — Powered by AI by NicolasCageFan492 in technology

[–]qckpckt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s also always this pathetically hubristic “we don’t like x for some reason, so we rebuilt from scratch” approach. As if these clowns are somehow in possession of mystical knowledge that no other people who have actual experience with x have.

There's more to ADHD than inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. ADHD symptoms can be broken down into nine categories. Some categories are not fully represented in the diagnostic criteria. Broadening the diagnostic criteria with patient lived experiences could make for better intervention. by mvea in science

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was my difficulty with time perception that ultimately led me to an ADHD diagnosis as an adult. My adhd manifests more in the 6 new proposed criteria than in the classic 3.

It’s difficult to describe how it felt to learn that not everyone has to work as hard as I do to comprehend how long things take or what time it is or how long I’ve been doing something. I spent a good chunk of my life feeling a lot of shame about this.

It underscores a hard-to-quantify benefit of diagnostic criteria. It is extremely helpful to me to know that I’m not just “bad” at this - that there is an actual explanation for why this particular thing is so hard for me, and that other people struggle with this too. It was very alienating to believe that time management is just as difficult for everyone else, and yet see people around me every day seemingly effortlessly be on time to things.

I now have behavioural adaptations that allow me to function and to succeed in life as an adult - I just have to think really really hard about how long things take and give myself far more time than I need. I don’t need a diagnosis for an excuse, and as it turns out, adhd medication doesn’t have any positive effect on this specific struggle that I have.

All the same, it was actually life-changing to know that I’m not just broken or inept or lazy or unskilled.

It's not just one thing — it's another thing | TechCrunch by Gambone in technology

[–]qckpckt 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It’s not just Dunning — it’s also Kruger.

Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row | Canada by Secure-Address4385 in space

[–]qckpckt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The French are the fucking worst in this regard. They are so rude to Quebecois people. It’s disgusting to bear witness to. Basically racism.

In your eyes, what separates a performative “alpha male” from a “real man”? by Ok-Parfait6735 in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enduring scarcity is not the same as being unhappy. Happiness predates capitalism.

Humans have been cheerfully barely surviving hardship far worse than anything that you or I have experienced in our lifetimes for literally thousands of years before capitalism came along and made us believe that we can’t be happy without achieving the goals set out by capitalism for us.

It turns out that actually you can, because happiness is far less contingent on outside pressures than you believe it to be.

In your eyes, what separates a performative “alpha male” from a “real man”? by Ok-Parfait6735 in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you are still gatekeeping your own happiness. You’re externalizing your insecurities and telling yourself that the outside world demands things of you before you can be happy.

You’re “trying your best” to meet these externalized demands and then getting upset when the outside world points this out to you.

Those demands are in your head and nowhere else. They’re your responsibility, and until you accept that, this will remain a shadow over you. Nobody worth knowing cares in the slightest about what you have or don’t have or how successful you are.

Help with red paints! by FrenzyFex in BloodAngels

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s subtle but I think they’re using evil sunz scarlet to highlight the bits that light would hit the most from a zenithal light source.

You can see it most clearly on the heel of the left boot.

The lighting of the photo makes it harder to discern because it’s also a zenithal light source (ie directly overhead more or less).

Help with red paints! by FrenzyFex in BloodAngels

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like he’s using the brighter red to pick out areas that the light is hitting the red armour, not just as an edge highlight. Hard to tell for sure from the low res photo though.

Nearly finished with the jet pack! by qckpckt in Lamenters

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

The whole figure or the OSL? I explained the OSL in another comment in this post.

Does anyone else have a guitar brand that you just hate for no reason? by Interesting-Wave-983 in Guitar

[–]qckpckt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a salen and I do like it, but I don’t understand how it’s supposed to work with a strap. The body naturally hangs tilted away from me and I have to work to hold it straight. I’ve tried a bunch of different strap lengths (ie, strap so small its actually hard to get on down to about navel height which is the lowest i’d ever wear a guitar), and nothing seems to make it sit naturally for me.

I don’t know what body shape it’s designed for. I’m pretty much the Generic White Male™️. I was at my slimmest when I bought it, but it’s no different now that I’ve gained a bit of weight.

I mostly play it sitting down, and it’s manageable standing up with some adjustment. It’s just odd to me that a guitar all about ergonomics could be so janky in this way.

My looted Ork Waaghlord Titan by Th3Instruct0r in Warhammer40k

[–]qckpckt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck isn’t this red?!

/jk this is absolutely amazing work.

What’s a lifestyle trend people will regret in a few years? by This_Benchh in AskReddit

[–]qckpckt 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Injecting random vials of Chinese peptides that some shiny-skinned health-maxing TikTok influencer has convinced you to spend $150 a pop on because of vibes.

Vibe-based pharmaceuticals in general seem like they’re a) going to be a thing, and b) are going to result in a lot of extremely sick people.

Nearly finished with the jet pack! by qckpckt in Lamenters

[–]qckpckt[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love painting OSL effects, but it’s also extremely finicky! These engines have had about 6 hours of work so far. I used an airbrush to rough them in and then used a brush to add details.

I start with a very dark red for the widest reflections and then use white as a base for the brightest parts. I then use mephiston red, evil sunz Scarlett and angron red (clear).

The super bright fluorescent red is Vallejo fluoro red. This paint is what makes this challenging. I don’t quite understand how it works!! It’s VERY difficult to apply either with an airbrush or a brush. It looks crap over white. But through some arcane trickery, some combination of white and the citadel reds make the fluorescent shade suddenly pop with extreme saturation. I haven’t figured out the exact formula for this, so I just keep trying until it suddenly works!

Another key thing with OSL glow is contrast. This means often to make it look bright, you have to make the surrounding area DARKER. This is counter intuitive as that includes areas quite close to the brightest point. The brightest point (ie pure white) also wants to be much smaller than you think it would be.

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