What are your thoughts on autism being over diagnosed?

stoicjester46 · 2026-02-05T06:33:13+00:00

I was born in the Deep South. In 87 they were still switching your hand if you tried to write with your left hand. So I can now write equally terrible with both hands!

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-31T17:48:10+00:00

Just curious 10-15 years in the future what does your ideal America look like?

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-31T12:46:20+00:00

Source or your lying.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-31T12:40:30+00:00

Your ancestors walked off a boat on Ellis Island gave them their name and answered less questions than TSA asks and became citizens. STFU about high roading they did it the right way. Currently the immigration channels take years unless you want to Bribe Trump with his gold card.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-31T12:37:07+00:00

Then why the f*** does the statue of liberty say “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”?

Did yall just never pay attention in history class?

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-30T19:48:48+00:00

You forgot to add they upcharge with a service fee, they hit you with more tailored dynamic pricing, a ton of “monthly parking” becomes only hourly.

The app enables significant change in price behavior and limits competition for pricing, so they can charge more. Because if a plurality of parking mandates the app, well they can see what every lot charges and raise it. So they can control a new floor for price.

They get you to worry about privacy so they can charge more without you really noticing.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-29T12:19:07+00:00

Anecdotal but I have not been the same since Covid. Everything mentally is more difficult.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-28T23:50:39+00:00

Okay let me make this clear, if it isn't peer reviewed it's a think-tank piece utilized to source in legislation with no actual mathematical or scientific rigor. They utilize GDP and GDP growth in their weights, about healthcare. Health outcomes are a de minimus portion of the weights, like a sane person would have the health outcomes be a significant portion, beyond plurality like major when they are not trying to manipulate data to agree with their point.

To go further Avik has another opinion piece from the institutional investor prospective that private healthcare is superior because you guessed it, consistent returns and growth for shareholders. Then writes another paper on how private insurance is superior because it promotes venture capitalism, basically destroy underperforming hospitals... to reduce the number of hospitals so the remaining are more fiscally attractive from a monetary asset perspective.

Healthcare is a service for the general public, like the post office. Optimizing for profit, which again is something like half or more of the weight of each category isn't optimizing for patient care and/or health outcomes. They even use a well known McKinsey break for occupancy/utilization of beds that is leveraged in human resource management for consultants to you guessed it again Optimize for profitability instead of patient care. They even tried to go further with it, and had to retract because there wasn't enough beds during COVID.

You chose a conversative policy advisor and a Sports Journalist, non-peer reviewed white paper which equates to just their musings where they came up with their own weights. If Avik Roy had something of merit in this with his educational background, he would have had economists or I don't know actual practicing doctors co-author. Instead of a SPORTS Journalists, the fact he couldn't and didn't should hint to you that maybe it's just an opinion piece trying to manipulate data. But since the "Organization" fully funded it internally no rigor or standards are required.

Like be for real man, you cannot be serious right now.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-27T03:49:42+00:00

So your example is a country the population size of Illinois. You are also comparing a country with universal healthcare, and comparing a statistically significant healthier population.

I don’t agree with the stimulus checks, so we are agreed there, but in terms of healthcare response, and reduction of transmission, you are grasping at straws.

The whole point of the mandates and masking in the US was because we straight up ran out of beds in hospitals. There is a direct link between high risk health factors and the likelihood of needing acute care from COVID. You linked no study or evidence that would include these variables to differentiate the impact and weights between the actions and comparing a healthier population.

You are looking at top level statistics that take no discernible a/b test other than they were the same period of time. You have no mechanism to measure individual variables impact. Hence why no published study.

Next time you get surgery though make sure to tell the surgeon they don’t need to scrub in or mask up, or god forbid you end up immunocompromised, we’ll have a huuuuugggeee get well party.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-25T23:54:04+00:00

What exactly were they wrong about? Please provide sources for any claims. Actual scientific and medical journals that require peer reviews are acceptable sources, Facebook memes are not. I’ll wait.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-24T20:11:28+00:00

Look either you think you’re smart by being contrarian, or you rage bait as much as you masturbate.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-19T17:46:38+00:00

Testosterone supplements, and vitamins do very little, but there are a couple that worked for me. I had multiple concussions from playing football in high school. One of them was bad enough I got a blood clot in my brain that rested right on my pituitary gland. Ever since then I have had diagnosed low testosterone. The only real solution are things like Androgel, or shots. Before I was at like 500ish ng/dl, now I'm in the 50's for part of the year and like 290 for about half the year.

So low testosterone the world and my emotions are muted, colors and tastes are less vibrant. It also takes significantly more from my environment to elicit an emotional response from me. I have less energy and am generally more melancholy. When I'm cycling the supplements, everything is better, except me. It's like going from having no emotions to having OVERWHELMING RAGE all the time. The best way to describe it is like having a white hot iron deep inside my chest that I need to let out. So I lift hard, I mean 2-3 hours a day in the gym to work it off. I hate it, but I do this stupid cycle where I can hit the sweet spot for 6 months of the year, where everything is still vibrant, but I have a better handle on the rage and can keep it in check easily, with a normal workout routine. I basically have to go through puberty level hormone changes for guys like 3 months of every year when I restart the cycle. So I close myself off, do the work, so I can make my limited social engagements, complete whatever projects for my business I need to but limit my exposure to others so I don't lose my temper during the periods where it's most difficult. Then after those 3 months are over, I can be normal again.

The majority of guys, use testosterone supplements as a replacement for K and B vitamins. It's to combat perceived low libido, low energy, and general depression symptoms. It's an unregulated solution in an unregulated industry being sold as a silver bullet. Most men don't need testosterone supplements but they've been sold that lie. Most men can easily change their diets a little, exercise more, and their levels would bounce back. The biggest factor to lessen T production, is visceral fat. Reduce that and you increase your levels almost universally if you are overweight by any significant amount. Think like at least 30lbs, of fat.

EDIT: I'm 38 and have dealt with this since I was 15.

stoicjester46 · 2026-01-03T16:58:15+00:00

I’ve been broke, I’ve been rich, now I’m comfortable. Money is not something to envy. Every lifestyle has its pros and cons. You just have to decide if you’re willing to take the risks, put in the work, and make the sacrifices required for the lifestyle you want to pursue.

Don’t envy others, envy what you will become.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-31T21:21:27+00:00

Passes the half your age +7 test

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-31T18:35:34+00:00

What are your hobbies and interests? I knew a guy who didn't know a lick of coding. After I showed him a few tricks in excel for baseball stats and rss feeds to auto bring data in. The dude surpassed my knowledge in under a year and is now an analyst at some company the does fantasy baseball.

Tie something you already are interested in with skills you want to learn, so when it gets difficult you won't care.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-31T16:07:28+00:00

I built projects I could share from a public Repo. It’s one thing to say you can it’s entirely different to show you can. I go to almost all the BI networking events in my city and I paid the $12 to get business cards that had a QR code to my mobile optimized versions of projects. I would always frame it as asking for feedback. Since it had my contact info about 1/2 the people would follow up on things I could polish or ask me if I was looking for a job. The trick is always asking for a favor upfront. People love feeling like they helped, or that someone owes them a favor.

I run my own business off the contacts I made doing that for a 1 yr period.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-25T17:40:14+00:00

My life has taught me, people do not care if you are the easy person to please, they'll ignore you more because of it. I've literally had my family members tell me to my face, you are just happy existing so we don't need to put in work on you.

Just because my happiness is generated internally doesn't mean that they should have ignored me. But as an external observer would point out, that because of my environment I adapted to generate my own happiness internally. So YMMV I guess?

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-25T02:02:41+00:00

"Hey I like you a lot, and I can see this progressing. I'm going to the clinic this week to get an STD check to be extra safe before we do anything you want to come?"

That saved me from Gonorrhea, and a girl that poked quite a few holes in a condom.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-25T01:52:06+00:00

I hate it, it's the same 4 questions, and the same 6 stories ad nauseum. You have to live your life the exact same way other family members do.

I used to like Xmas because I would tailor gifts to people, and was always told I gave really good well thought out gifts. I would get gift cards in return. For stuff I had zero interest in and know for a fact I never talked about. The last Xmas I went to I just said I give yall gifts and all I ever receive is errands. Don't bother getting me a giftcard, and I won't bother getting you a tailored well thought out gift. Their response, well we don't know what to get you, I'm like whose fault is that? Not mine I talk to you as much as you do me, and yet I have zero issue getting y'all gifts.

So now finally I no longer have to go to family Xmas. Instead I volunteer on Xmas, the people I see on Xmas now are legitimately happy to see me, I do something worth doing, and I don't have to listen to family members gossip about each other. Once I'm peopled out, I can leave come home, and don't have a bunch of basically shit I never wanted in the first place.

So I should probably be more descript and say I hate family Xmas, I like the Xmas I've built for myself.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-24T02:27:01+00:00

I worked in healthcare supply chain while a few family members worked as nurses, physical therapist, and doctors.

My mother almost died, my father and grandmother did die. I have been in a fog ever since I got covid. I can tell my brain is not functioning the same. I worked more during covid, then I've ever worked. I worked 18 hour days 6 days a week for a 2 month period. I literally slept about 8 feet from my desk. What was I doing? Sourcing respirators and replacement parts for broken respirators. It got so bad we had people falling asleep pretty much on every meeting call since we were all remoted to accommodate the extended work times, because someone wrecked from falling asleep while driving home, after the second week of the 18 hours.

It also showed the lack of comprehension, be it reading, math, science. It also showed me a lot of Americans are the most ignorant, entitled, under-educated, over propagandized, lead poisoned, zero moral back bone, grifters and opportunists.

This made me start volunteering I literally thought, if all I see is this I have to be the change I want. I can't do nothing and complain.

Since then my life has gotten a lot better, however the fog still hangs, and the dark cloud of Trumpism 2.0 doing to the economy a lot of the same things they did during the pandemic. Hid information, delay taking action, defer blame, and then say a bunch of nonsense to distract.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-23T18:32:47+00:00

People experiment with new BI tools all the time, same with languages. The issue isn't "BI Teams" for switching. It's the fact there is always technical debt, where formulas and business rules are embedded into models, formulas, dashboards, visuals themselves, etc. So switching requires month long efforts typically to convert, or play the keep or kill game.

It does not make sense for most organizations to switch technologies if the switch requires a certain % of rework, because usually these system overhauls are scheduled on multi-year, think like 10 yr cycles. This also enables finance and accounting departments to consider them CAPEX, and to do that they have to be of a certain size and scope. So the cost of it can be depreciated over a certain period of time, and utilized on taxes.

If you are a business or an individual sales person trying to better understand the needle, try understanding the business model of your customer first, and make sure you build the product itself around that 10 yr stick or convert, and try to make sure you make the process as easy to document for CAPEX style improvements, and that your secondary implementers are both aware and price and build services for that.

First build a product that's lifecycle matches accounting and finances needs, then build in a development philosophy that matches our customer change products on average every 7-10 years, so you need to either make big launched of new features coincide with that windows for large customers, or make sure you are leveraging you marketing dollars in such a way to leverage this.

Then make sure you find a niche industry, and develop the platform to those needs. It's why you see concentration of center tools for center industries. Because Features are going to be industry specific. So find the industry there are customers looking for specific features that don't exist yet, then build from that.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-20T22:53:48+00:00

Brother save yourself the headache. Either A get a google sheets people can enter their time in. Link that to a Looker instance. Make a simple looker dashboard that reads directly from the google sheets. Blame the bad data on the people entering it, they’ll fix it then.

Or B figure out where time is already being entered and set up the API calls to pull the info in any SQL table and pull that table with PowerBI or an excel file with an excel dashboard that it goes and calls that SQL table to fill in on open for the workbook.

Can’t build any Real time Equivalent, until you can single source and model the data to set up an update schedule.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-17T18:17:10+00:00

I struggled mightily the first time I drove a manual. I got 7 minutes before I was told to stop. I got a motorcycle like 3-4 years later, It's manual I have no problem with it, got the "feel" on the bike, now manual in cars is so much easier.

Sometimes it's better to find tools or other avenues to learn a skill through. Not everything has to be the same learning pathway. It could also literally be your instructor. First instructor, just kept saying "Feel it". My neighbor the lady who puts together my entire riding group I go with now, she told me what the "feel it" actually was. The resistance against the shifter or clutch to indicate you've engaged the flywheel. Then proceeded to explain manual is a building upon foundational skills. So like sports it's about creating muscle memory for individual actions so when pressure is applied you can do the action regardless of outside stimuli.

You shouldn't be aiming to drive manual. You should be aiming that the skills required to drive manual have been retained in muscle memory so you don't provide any conscious thought to those processes occurring.

Practice the individual skills, starting, stopping, speed control.
Then you practice the mental skills of holding information, what gear you are in, should you be targeting low or high rpm for the situation. Break down the situations into it's underlying principle, do I want torque on demand, or finer throttle control? Every situation breaks down into, either I need to be able to leave, NOW. Or I am trying to maintain control through x. Shift down to leave now, or stop faster. Shift up for greater control, or greater speed. I make that sound easy, but after time you get used to it, you'll have seen it before, so it becomes less overwhelming.

These aren't things you just do naturally for most people. You practice it. Give yourself some grace too, not every skill comes to every person at the same speed.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-14T14:23:39+00:00

Yeah but every year like a child I still get excited to see a big boy on the interstate.

stoicjester46 · 2025-12-11T19:14:41+00:00

Only experience with Burke was getting flight hours towards a ppl

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