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So, Suze Orman is a fairly well-known investment advisor. Back when marriage equality was new, she totted up that there were over 1100 benefits to getting married. I don’t know what they all were, and I’m sure some of them are obscure, but still …

Vet. It’s possible for a cats intestines to get wrapped around themselves, which can kill them.

“The idea of the platform is that the existing data resources are often fragmented and difficult to obtain. The NIH itself will often pay multiple times for the same data resource. Even data resources that are within the federal government are difficult to obtain,”

Yeah, there’s a reason for that.

Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together, he said. The NIH is also now in talks with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to broaden agreements governing access to their data

So all those promises that our medical data is sacred were just lies, got it.

In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, which will be integrated into the data.

Preparatory steps to shipping people with autism off to camps.

Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records to produce Kennedy’s autism studies. Bhattacharya did not give details on how they would be chosen, but said their selection would be “run through normal NIH processes.”

Yeah, right, lmao.

the research they will back using the data will be “the highest quality proposals” that will range “from basic science to epidemiological approaches, to other more applied approaches” to treat and manage autism.

Yeah, it’s the ‘other, more applied approaches’ that’ll send people to camps.

He also acknowledged autism’s wide variation in how it affects people. “I recognize, of course, that autism, there’s a range of manifestations ranging from highly functioning children to children that are quite severely disabled. And of course the research will account very carefully for that,” he said.

The research might (I doubt it), but the people using it won’t. They’ll use DOGE- and ICE-like levels of discrimination to target everyone they can.

While the selected researchers will be able to access and study the private medical data, Bhattacharya said they will not be able to download it. He promised “state of the art protections” to protect confidentiality.

Fucking bullshit lies, that is.

By bringing the data into one place, he said it could give health agencies a window into “real-time health monitoring” on Americans for studying other health problems too.

Yeah, that’s not scary, either.

“What we’re proposing is a transformative real-world data initiative, which aims to provide a robust and secure computational data platform for chronic disease and autism research,” he said.

I bet you had AI generate that meaningless slop, didn’t you. Sounds good, but meaning fucking nothing. Fucking Nazis.

tl;dr: US conservatives have been generally racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic, and those traits have become increasingly stronger in the past decade or so.

More stuff in lower resolution, and focus on less-popular (or less-collectible) material.

The internet isn’t going to go out just for you, it’s going to go out for everyone (at least in your region). You’re going to be without it for the long-term, so you’ll want variety in what you can watch and listen to. But your friends and family will also be looking for entertainment, so you’ll be providing for a range of tastes over a long period.

You want to focus on less-popular / less-collectible material because trading networks will spring up, and the less-popular material will be the stuff that’s in demand. There’ll be plenty of people with a full collection of Star Trek or all the Best Picture winners, that kind of thing. But there’ll also be people who suddenly realize that they want to re-watch all of Law and Order or they’ve always meant to watch Miami Vice and now is the perfect time.

I’ll also point out that you’ve hypothesized that it’s just the internet that’s gone down. There would still be broadcast tv and radio, and I think people would re-adapt to broadcast viewing and listening.

I have a friend who has to keep going in there to re-correct bad data and bad relationships that people keep re-adding. They think they’re helping, but they’re not, they’re just contaminating the data and the site keeps letting them do so.

His situation: He’s currently in high school, with the same people he’s been with for years, with settled routines and everyday stresses. There’s little there that he hasn’t faced before: it’s safe to leave him there.

Your situation: once you take time off from school, it takes a lot of effort to go back; even with a full intention to go back, life gets in the way and people will often put it off “for just another year”. It’s also perfectly valid to not want to go to college, but in that case you should have some other general life plan: “I want to apprentice at this trade” or something.

Assuming that you want to go to college, you should go directly to college; your boyfriend still be safe where he is, and this will give him time in a known environment to explore himself a bit, while you’ll have time to settle into college and figure yourself out a bit. You can meet up over the various holidays, and then settle in together at college next year, assuming that’s what you both still want.

The stock market is a mood ring for rich people.

$242.65

Probably shouldn’t have put the tie on him then, they usually don’t like that kind of thing.

You’re a lovely person, taking care of her like this!

Please get her a rabies shot as soon as possible.

I use “fucking terts” when I’m angry at a specific person (“terts” is a derogatory term for earth humans (from Alien Nation), and “furless human” when I’m in a slightly amused mood (it’s what my cat used to curse me).

My cat, purring.

I saw a post saying to show up at your biggest local post office in the afternoon/evening of the 15th (when news channels are covering last-minute filers), with signs to Tax The Billionaires.

It also doesn’t help that one party has a history of twisting or actively redefining the meaning of words, to create loopholes out of the most plain language possible.

What is/are these tv series?

CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.

TIL that people were “smuggling” eggs across the border last year as well. I wonder what the earlier historical numbers have been - there had to be some historical number of border residents doing it in their periodic cross-border visits, and unknowing vacationers who bought a dozen or two to cook while they’re camping and just brought the remainder home.

Maybe 4? I was on kbin, then signed up on two mbin instances when Ernest had to leave. And I have one account on a random instance because I needed to PM someone over there and it was the only way to do so.

Just think of it as a mood ring for rich people. The rich people aren’t feeling any pain and they’re happy to pick up stuff that they want when others want to/are forced to sell.