medgremlin

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 74 points 4 weeks ago

"Alligator Auschwitz"

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it's any consolation, he has no education, no job prospects, and is getting pushed out of the conservative talk show circuit. He will be destitute soon (if he isn't already).

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 17 points 1 month ago

One of my Canadian friends called it "Alligator Auschwitz". I think we should all call it that exclusively and incessantly.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

I have to look stuff up for medical school (usually trying to find studies and whatnot) so the gemini results are just obnoxious garbage to me.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think this is a good idea. I'm not sure what time interval to use (ie weekly, bi-weekly, monthly)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Firefox has a plugin that blocks the AI results. It works pretty well most of the time, but it occasionally has hiccups when Google updates stuff or something.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think the pay issue is *another big contributor. Women are more likely to accept lower paying jobs, particularly ones like caring professions or teaching, whereas men have a tendency towards higher paying jobs (in part due to the lack of support for pregnancy, parental leave, and childcare expenses).

*edited for clarity

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

The problem with that is you are then putting the burden on a member of that hated group to present themselves as a paragon and suffer all the vitriol and abuse that gets hurled at them until the hateful person hopefully snaps out of it.

Having been the sole woman in many male-dominated spaces, I gotta tell ya, it is a special kind of hell to try to be that positive example.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From the commenter above talking about negative experiences with talking to women and female therapists, I think the real solution is that men need to be proactive about supporting each other. Ranting and raving about how women are terrible and don't know how to help men with an undercurrent of expectations that women (especially a romantic partner) should fix everything is simply not a tenable mindset.

As a woman who works in the medical field, I am keenly aware of my limitations when it comes to helping men with mental health issues. I think the real, effective solution is for men to start opening up to each other and supporting each other the way that women tend to do among themselves. I don't mean this as "oh, men are terrible and they need to fuck off somewhere else with their problems", I mean it as a sincere belief that the best people to help a man through emotional or psychological problems are probably other men given the shared socialization and perspective.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think the open internet is a great place to open up about your mental health either. Trusted family, friends, and medical/mental health professionals are the best resources. Entrusting something as precious as your mental health to AI or the internet is a profoundly bad idea.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Look, I just finished my medical board exams recently. My brain is running on the power of about 2/3rds of a yukon gold potato here.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You need the chicken to be 165F or 74C to be food safe. It takes a long time to cook at 100-200C because the heat is being transferred much slower. If we're using this instant slap-based cooking method, it only needs to get to the food safe temperature.

Using the OP's calculations and a cooked temperature of 74C:

It would take 8315 average slaps

or

A slap at around 813m/s or 1819mph.

*Edit for a correction to the second calculation (it still might be wrong), also, I rounded the numbers to whole integers.

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