Yup. Sociopaths are invisible on the lie detector. Plus these days, it isn’t that hard to build a biofeedback practice device so people control the metrics monitored by the polygraph.

True, but the rate is indeed alarming.

We’ve had 3 plane crashes taking 5 or more lives in 1 month of trump, whereas that rate was 7 in the whole of 2024 which was a particularly deadly year. Or we had 15 plane crashes with 7 or more deaths in these 6 years and 20% of those happened in this very month.

But need not to worry, we’ll know when the pattern becomes obvious because that’s when FAA’s accident reporting system will go offline. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/query-builder

I think this energy density math really depends on whether only the core or the whole surface area is taken into consideration.

A headline without calling it an “Artificial Sun”?!

But he’s a liar with money!

Yup, that means that the part of the lie that benefits him WILL come true, and the part that never come true will have no impact on him or on his reputation.

the more specialized the workforce, the harder it is to overcome staffing limitations. for example, in Italy, there’s a huge physician shortage (at least when I lived in Europe there was). You won’t fix that with simply changing the management culture.

So many assumptions…

1. You assume that there aren’t life or death exceptions/emergencies (see my updated post above).
2. You assume that I only practiced medicine in the USA
3. You assume that US hospitals run like businesses (private insurance companies, most hospitals don’t)
4. You assume doctors, especially subspecialists grow on trees.

Headline reads: “i turned off ALL notifications forever”.

My take: there exist people who can’t do that.

Your take: US bad.

My take: not a US-specific issue.

Your take: please describe your call schedule in detail because your claim is unusual.

Thank you, but no thank you.

I use an IP phone for calls that you can switch off. The paging system is a whole 'nother story.

it’s neither a US- nor a profession-specific issue. it’s an issue of any high-stakes, relatively niche occupation.

That idea of yours would be perfectly fine if it was just you, but it isn’t: it’s you and all other people who think like you

Definitely not an “idea of mine”. That’s the US experience (I’m a doctor here). The US’s most common electronic medical record system developed a secure messenger app that replaced pagers so yeah for outpatient work most of the time-critical messaging goes through your cell. So no, I can’t be on DND 24/7. (I do have very aggressively tweaked work/personal/etc notification settings, but sometimes the urgent messages do need to come through after hours)

if they are doing outpatient work, they don’t. even worse, the paging systems migrated to cell phones.

sauce: am doctor

Headlines like this are annoying AF. You wouldn’t want your doctor keeping their phone on DND 24/7.

Edit: I didn’t expect people to need examples, but here you go, something that happened to me few months ago:

23:21 - my IP phone rings, I’m literally about to go to sleep but I set this specific type of call to come through. I recognize the number and I know it’s an emergency so I pick it up. A patient’s family calling about them being in their local ER and the ER physician is about to pull the plug on my patient. I spend the next hour yelling at the ER physician to do his fucking job, frantically arranging a transfer. Next day afternoon, I’m having a full conversation with my patient in our hospital. If I didn’t fight for this person, and let this go through the regular channels, they would have died.

My comment isn’t primarily about work culture or work/life balance. There are some calls that you take because it’s the right thing. Advice from people who claim they can turn off all notifications just tells me two things, 1) they don’t know how notification scheduling works 2) they aren’t the kind of people that others ever rely on in an emergencies.

yeah half the EV articles are about the CT on the blog. But I suspect it’s because the haters click more. What would be a valid analysis after a little longer because the CTs haven’t been on the roads long enough, is to compare them with the F150 Lightning. I suspect fire rates will be fairly similar between the two.

yup. it’s quite disturbing that even a rolling industrial garbage container like the CT needs fake analyses to be ridiculed.

Glowing demonstration of eggsceptional management skills.

wow. yeah waaay too expensive.

Yeah, facts aren’t very popular when it’s about shitting on the cybertruck.:D

this again? They didn’t even read their own reference for the fire stats…

With its decade-long production run, the NHTSA reported that the Ford Pinto and its famously flawed gas tank behind the rear bumper caused 27 fiery deaths with its knowingly negligent design. https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/import/ODIPinto.pdf

Cherrypicking galore:

1. They literally took 27 which is the fire deaths from rear-ending only (vs 41 fire fatalities from a 2.5 year period instead of the 9 years they mention
2. They conveniently did not use the 1,626 pinto fatalities from those 2.5 years.
3. They used the total number of pintos produced, not the number of pintos on the roads at the end of the analysis, which would be less than 2.2M.

At least they did get your clicks.

I suspect you have much higher standards than Americans. Just curious, how much time/money would it cost for you to take public transport to work? (for Americans, something 70-80 miles away is literally an impossible commute without a car, except for a few exceptions along the NYC, Philadelphia, DC axis.