kivork [he/them]

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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • To add to this as good info to know in the US. There is a push to make patient data accessible everywhere so that businesses don’t hoard it as a valuable commodity (which it is). So there are interconnected networks of businesses that all share data and there must be a treatment use case to access this data.

    But of course that network is a giant chain of middlemen data transmitters all transmitting to other middlemen and so on. And they’re all for profit. And they all benefit by sharing as much data as possible at all times because they charge per transaction (per a doctor querying the network prior to a patient’s appointment for example)

    So while these middleman companies must attest to sharing data only in specific treatment related cases, the more compliant they are the less profit they make.

    The end companies who want the data also profit off of it because they want to use it for research without having to conduct a study, or use it to determine the cheapest outcomes based on drugs and treatments and conditions, or for insurance companies to do all kinds of horrible things with.

    Each US state has separate consent laws related to whether your info can be shared with networks as an opt-in or opt-out (opt-out meaning your data is automatically shared unless you explicitly opt out). But that data often still makes it to the middle men who are responsible for not passing it to the final destination.

    In a place like China I would be happy with patient info not being silod in some filing cabinet at the provider’s office I grew up at. But of course it’s the US so everything is turned evil and inefficient and insecure.

    I work in this industry. Just some awful info. No real point. Everything sucks.






  • People have the ability to contexualize. Revolutions have been won by people who believe a god controls everything. They still found the motivation to act with a group of humans for their material needs.

    Your problem is one of priority. I agree these things aren’t material, but it truly matters so little. Astrologists still protest, christians still read marx.

    I think you should analyze why these specific beliefs cause you so much anger that you call your comrades on this forum idiots.



  • It’s absolutely false. Go outside and look at couples walking around or in restaurants. Our perceptions of actual romance are so skewed. Most people are just kindof normal looking. In reality its like the top 90 percent of men get 90 percent of women

    For women on dating apps there is a huge amount of risk to their safety tied to any match. So if the vibes aren’t immaculate or the vibes are good but the person is just pretty cute then it might not be worth the risk.

    For men seeking women there is a question of whether the match will be a disspointment or a waste of money. But for women it’s am I going to die. So of course only a tiny percent of men on effectively anonymous dating apps pass the vibes and initial attraction tests to be worth that risk.




  • Think it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen whose message is essentially - violence in the hands of the poor can be used to justly end oppression by the wealthy. Nobody got slapped down by karma for using violence. Multiple communities helped him to do violence without us being made to feel mixed about those communities or about that violence. No, the violence from the very beginning is explicitly justified and your are only made to feel even more on his side as the movie goes on.

    And then just the cinematography and general quality of the movie was incredible. Absolutely loved it