Not all that excited to see that these legal tactics are coercing folks to comply; I rather hope that the knowledge you can be sued regardless of your practice will help some doctors choose to do the right thing regardless.

Thank you for your research

I went ahead and did the calculation; I think I’m getting about 4 weeks (extrapolating from the last year, 20k dead kids -> 2 weeks of silence. Doubled for the two years.).

Lower than I expected. I’m guessing I haven’t internalized that gaza is still a fairly small area, thus with a small population? Or was the first year substantially more deadly than the last (which really would surprise me)?

I think this model is really under utilized. Sortition for policing. Sortition for doing the dishes. Sortition for airport security checks, policy, and officers. Sortition for evaluating corporate compliance. Shareholder sortition for the c-suite.

Random ballot is also a better model for voting imo; the model where it’s actually worth your time to vote, checks and balances get maintained, and so many rigging strategies necessarily backfire with regularity.

In the beginning, there was just one TV channel with four seasons of a single show, and they’d just keep playing it every year. Everyone on earth had nothing else to watch. Very slow burn, the plot was Light.

Offhand: Do it in writing, or over short video seem excellent for many versions of this.

Have a lawyer write it.

If you are prone to dissociate, this might be a time to use that.

Keep it short, avoid pauses and vague subjective wording.

Schedule something you need to get to shortly after.

Communicate at a large distance or from across a closed door. (Less good, rarely correct, use a blindfold.)

Spend time practicing observing feelings and letting them pass without effecting you, try to notice when tears are coming early.

Edit: how could I forget!?! Lithium. Needs a prescription and a few days though.

I am concerned, but I don’t like hiding and shrinking community. If you know fewer allies and other queer folks, whose going to support you if the state or your neighbors decide to escalate? And the best indicator for allies is knowing queer people iirc.

So how do we do that work safely? I think staying and traveling with a group is a start; be in a crowd. Even our more dire shootings don’t injure or kill even a fraction of a parade, larger group means the average risk drops.

It’s also, as so often is the case these days, an important time for non-queer allies to show up and be visible.

Thank you; I think I understand how you are using patriotism better. (Also jealous that somewhere has destigmatized public office.)

Thought I would put a little work into your question; I checked a random musician from this list and looked for recent news. They’ve literally been doing charity shows to get support for gaza.

It seems like some groups of people in israel feel there is an emergency that cannot be ignored; and some who do not.

nitpick: they were banned not from a country, but from a music hall; no?

kinda one time at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution

(If I understand you correctly. I rather hope there are other examples, it would be a weird thing for America to lead the world in.)

I personally don’t understand the logic of this symbolic act of protest, but I often don’t understand how protest is supposed to function. It did pull more attention towards gaza, and attention is everything.

Would a better protest be to keep the invite, but plaster the space with material about the genocide? Let the person quit if this offends them (which would probably be a more sympathetic headline and just as newsworthy) and make a story out of the performance if they don’t (which should be very photogenic).

I agree that the first panel is off; I would replace it with “I’m going to work on my house because I want it to be the best house it can be”, or something similar.

And, at least for democracies (or similar), one of their bigger failure modes is that people:

1. don’t feel like they (do/can/should) contribute to the place they live;
2. do not value the work that others do for the place and community;
3. take for granted the natural resources, and don’t safeguard them for the future.

Consider how it is absurd for a normal person to run for public service, and how air quality has plummeted in so many places. I think it could be healthy to be proud of a group project you participated in. It’s a bit sad that countries/states/cities/neighborhoods so often fail to be such projects.

(Which I guess is all to say that we should gatekeep patriotic pride. That’s a weird stance I’ve landed in.)

Idk, I feel like one failure of governments is not sharing the successes and having big discussions about what they want to be/do. Patriotism vs nationalism smbc.

If your point is just that people on the Internet aren’t very literate, your point is not interesting. Too much misinfo from ‘hyperbole’, save it for the discord imo. We have AI to automate vibe numbers now.

Your numbers must be wrong. The average cost of an MRI scan is under 1000 dollars in the States, uninsured. Link

This is for a 4 hour procedure, so the values given for labor are also criminally low. I know machine techs who are well paid and work on less than 35000 machines a year.

I thought it was cost of electricity and maintenance of the machines? How much money is compliance for these things?

Just because basic research doesn’t resolve a question perfectly does not imply that it ‘missed’ the point. I think this is a serious mistake in a lot of people’s understanding of science, and it’s worth sitting on.

Most things we learn are incremental.

This is normal. An experiment is not bad just because it is incremental. We should be looking at every opportunity to chip away at seemingly impossible questions.

And I think the study here is unusually high in information gained and context relevance. This experiment could have given extremely strong evidence that we do see colors differently than each other, because if we have different neurological reactions it would be pretty weird for our qualia to agree (most physicalist descriptions would have consider it proved that we see different colors). If, when we both see blue, our brains light up in very different ways, that would be weird!

So this is a point in favor of shared qualia. It doesn’t resolve the question; that will require several new ideas, breakthroughs in consciousness, and a lot of back-and-forth with philosophy. But it damages any theory that qualia are different because of brains being different, and that’s cool.

It is possible that you’ve defined qualia as explicitly non-physical (and so must posit a bunch of extra stuff for this study to stay irrelevant). This is done in some circles, but is not standard afaict. It comes in as definition (4) here, after several that are consistent with the study and OP’s use.

pun is great, but the point of the article is that the first bit seems to be wrong. You can use brain firing patterns in one person to predict which color another person is seeing afaict. In other words, we’re using the same nerve circuitry in extremely similar ways.

So happy to see something in this direction! Commentary is also excellent, looking forward to reading a review of many instances of this study.