I wonder why they don't just offer abortions on base; or in the case of bases that lack a hospital, refer troops to the VA for it. State legislation can suck a fat one on federal facilities.

Two reasons I say this:

1. I know the VA has the authority to selectively provide healthcare to groups outside of it's normal mission (veterans) - here in Oklahoma the VA extended (still extends?) services to Native American tribes due to some kind of extenuating circumstances... was a while ago, so I don't remember the details of the announcement, but they for sure can serve non-vets of they decide to.

2. As far as nursing goes, you DO NOT need specific state licensing to practice in a VA facility in that state. If you're licensed (from anywhere in the US) and hired by the VA, you can transfer to any VA facility, anywhere, and work as a nurse. So, state law don't mean jack in a federal building.

Pour those both into the same cup, and suddenly we have a pathway for troops - or anyone, really - to get an abortion if they need one, even they live in Y'all Qaeda territory.

"Do no evil." ...unless it's projected as profitable, in which case, evil that shit up!

Nursing student here. Quizlet has an AI function that lets you paste text into it and it outputs a studyset.

Most of my classes provide a study guide of some kind - just a list of topics we need to be familiar with. I'll take those and plug em into the AI thing: bam! Instantly generate like 200 flash cards to study for the next test.

It even auto-fills the actual subject matter. For example, the study guide will say sometime like "Summarize Louis Pasteur's contributions to the field of microbiology" and turn that into a flash card that reads:

(front)

Louis Pasteur

(back)

Verified the germ theory of disease

Developed a method to prevent the spoilage of liquids through heating (pasteurization)

Developed early anthrax and rabies vaccines

So I take my list of AI generated cards, then sift through the powerpoints and lecture videos etc from class: instead of building the study set from scratch, all I have to do is verify that the information it spit out is accurate (so far it's been like 98% on target, often explaining concepts better than the actual professor, lol), add images, and play with the formatting a bit so it reads a little easier on the eyes.

People always talk about AI in school in the context of cheating, but it is RIDICULOUSLY useful for students actually trying to learn.

Looking ahead, this tech has a ton of potential to be used as a kind of personal tutor for each student. There will be some growing pains for sure, but we definitely shouldn't ignore its constructive potential.

Logged in about an hour ago; promptly redirected to an image of two old men giving eachother a blowjob.

Didn't stick around long enough to grab a link lol - lemmy.world is definitely compromised at the moment.

This isn't my area of expertise, but as I understand the present climate crisis, it's actually misleading to say we're "nearing the point of no return" as so many of these kinds of articles do.

Every single day we pass a brand new point of no return because every day we keep pumping fuel into positive feedback loops that are already in motion. Not only will biking to work not do shit; but even if humans just went extinct right now and all industry/pollution/etc came to a 100% stop, the climate will still continue to (albeit more slowly) spiral into new extremes. What we're feeling today is the 'find out' stage of climate inaction decades ago; and the damage we're doing today won't be be tangible for decades to come.

Best case scenario is the coolest of an array of hellscapes - we're in damage control mode. Rather, we should be in damage control mode; what we're actually in is grind-away-at-our-9-to-5-while-we-watch-oligarchs-consume-our-planet mode.

• Change rules to EULA levels of obnoxious detail

• Perma-ban every infraction, no matter how minor.

Mods can still make their subs go dark... one user at a time, lol.

"Money can't buy happiness." "If you work hard, YOU TOO can be a billionaire." and other snips of class warfare/propaganda made to trick poor people into feeling complacent or even aggressively attached to their position of being shat on by oligarchs.

We (collective) eat that shit up and then beg for seconds when we should be erecting guillotines.

My sentiment as well. Preserving unnecessary jobs for the sole purpose of delivering a paycheck is just a cruel version of welfare. If we're going to pay people to contribute nothing or next to nothing because they need an income and that's their only option, can't we just write the check without obliterating the hours they could be using to improve themselves in some way?

Preserve and support people, not jobs.

I HATE Y-pop

I wouldn't mind seeing text posts presenting a problem, and comments with a solution being botted over, especially if that would make federated content more relevant in search engines.

...but yea, I'm not really interested in seeing pics of some random redditer's spoon collection.

Thank! ^_

I work as a surgical tech, and that scene fuckin kills me lol.

No amount of bbq sauce is going to make that palatable. Can we just compost them instead?

We have a tendency to conflate a person's life with a person's traits and impact, which brings about an unnecessary moral grey area when a shitty person bites the dust.

Dude was a parasite on humanity. His greed was a boot on the neck for all but a select few. Him dying obviously means we lost a human life - no one's celebrating that; but it also represents the excision of a parasite and relief from the damage he caused, and THAT is absolutely a good thing!

Now if the other oligarchs would just follow in his steps...

I've been here for about a week now, and still feel like there are features I don't understand or completely overlooked. The concept of the fediverse is simultaneously really simple (e.g. email analogy) and confusing (still not really clear on what makes kbin different from lemmy; and I have to subscribe to like 8 iterations of what is effectively r/worldnews... and there's a fed youtube-like that I haven't looked into yet, but haven't run into here so far... I can see lemmy content on kbin, but I can't log into Jerboa with a kbin account...)

It's a lot to take in.

...and honestly, ^that makes it kinda fun. Reddit gave me the middle finger, so I gave it right back by building my own theme-park with blackjack and hookers. Thoroughly enjoying the blackjack and hookers; but the "building my own theme-park" bit is a challenge - one that I (probably most of us here) find engaging and gratifying, but very much a challenge, and that isn't what everyone's looking for.

When I can show my tech-handicapped boomer mother a 2-minute video explaining the the whats and hows of the fediverse, it'll give the reddits and facebooks a run for their money; until then the fed will remain fairly niche. Which isn't a bad thing - finding and engaging with a niche you enjoy will ALWAYS feel better than engaging with generic shit built for mass marketability.

Subjective bit, but imo our branding also kinda sucks. "Fediverse" sounds like some clunky .gov message board that the FBI uses to share crime statistics with the CIA and ATF. Anything "-iverse" comes off as hyperbolic. "Lemmy" sounds like "lemming". "Beehaw" sounds like an apiary manufacturer based in Alabama. "kbin" evokes imagery of a trash can for...'k'. I mean, it's all nit-picky shit, but the connotation of our chosen labels lean negative. It wasn't a barrier to entry for any of us here now; but you know there are potential users who take one glance at the word "fediverse", conclude that it sounds stupid, and move on without a second thought. All that said, I'm cool with folks like that staying on reddit!

I did install the official app juuuust long enough to give it a one-star rating and a scathing review. Unsure if that actually helps or hurts them, but it was cathartic just the same.

Albeit a bit of a stretch, the death of a website can elicit a sense of loss that draws parallels to actual literal death. At least in a "stepping on a lego and getting shot in the foot both really hurt" kind of way. Different intensity, similar flavor.

Same, with the obvious caveat that some vetting would be necessary so we don't just hand the keys of the country to some Nazi (not that we aren't electing those anyway, but still...)

At this point, I'd be in favor of just asking 9 first-graders what their favorite single digit number is, and granting the position of POTUS to whoever's social security number matches the one they generated.

But, given our current options I'd take a clueless old man over a lucid fascist in a fuckin' heart beat. How is this really being presented as a dilemma? Would you rather have your house a bit too chili, or burn the whole thing down? Sure I don't like either option, but deciding which one's better kinda plays out like those cheesy banking commercials.

Denial
Anger
Bargaining <-- they are here
Depression
Acceptance

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief

This is all a reminder that Reddit was never anything special - the people on it were. The trending of malicious compliance by moderators to an abusive CEO really highlights how exceptional people can be. This whole following corrupt rules thing in a way that just lets the corruption burn itself out is fucking beautiful.

...it's like a captain going down with the ship, while cracking Chuck Norris jokes all the way to the grave. This is what the internet was made for.