Doctors are erring on the side of caution to avoid potential lawsuits and even jail time

I get it’s risky and money is needed to survive, and prison is bad, and all, but it seems a bit hypocritical for doctors to violate their modern day version of the Hippocratic Oath.

Especially the part where it says:

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

That’s a place where life-saving decisions should always transcend law, and there should be a law (since we can’t go on gentleman’s agreements anymore) that says as much to cut out this partisan horse shit that vacillates and trends downward every year.

Can’t believe it’s 2024 and our big accomplishment is that America figured out how to politicize the human body, and the uterus in particular.

Point the ticket using the value of a cryptocurrency.

It’s Florida, dude was just bird hunting. /s

The shit of it is, the paramedics listened to the cops who demanded they inject him. They should have not been put in that situation. Cops shouldn’t have any power over paramedics. The cops should have been charged and sentenced.

Unfortunately, cops are the LARPers with guns, so until the false air of power goes away, it will always be an unbalanced situation.

This whole series of court cases was garbage and did nothing to add faith that the “system” may some day be fixed.

We’ve used piped gas into homes since the 1820s. Good riddance.

First they have to integrate Google Meet with it so they can have three Meet clients.

Sure, but black on black may help the next passenger have some privacy.

And save what money you can now, you can do a recast/refi and drop the principle with that saved money when you’re doing it.

My best guess is that I know one of them uses Facebook. Apple phones. Facebook, Uber, and a few others have had pretty deep access to APIs not accessible to other software companies. Sometimes they’re caught like when Uber was caught using a screen scraping API. Sometimes they aren’t. The other guess that glues it together is that Facebook has indeed scraped audio to text for a long time. It was almost 10 years ago that I had the EE conversation.

Google and Meta pay Apple money to gain access to their user metrics. It’s likely symbiotic relationships. Facebook once had hooks directly in iOS. Likewise, the little mic/video indicators the OS displays when they are “active” are completely software-controlled and can be overridden.

At a time, I worked at a company that had(has) deep access to other aspects of iOS. Apple always required the source code is available to them so they could inspect it. I doubt that has changed. It also means they would be complicit. External tools wouldn’t really be able to figure this out. For someone to black-box this they’d need a jailbroken iPhone and some specialized tooling or MITM decryption capabilities.

Not to sound hyperbolic, I’m connecting dots with no evidence, it’s pure speculation. The compute seems to be there and with no regulation in source code, anything goes, if you want money bad enough. Especially with the mad dash every tech company has been on for the last 20ish years to harvest everything they can, ever since smartphones became powerful and commonplace enough.

I made a spitwad from a napkin, lacking other things. Will travel with a roll of electrical tape from now on.