Sterile_Technique

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?