robotistry

robotistry, 2 months ago

@kgoldsholl @Infoseepage @erictopol He (or his team) selected CDC leaders who chose or were pressured to prioritize short term economic capacity over public health.

I hoped his first CDC Director was suffering from inherited staff blocking good intentions. Then she went on TV to talk about it being good news that only the vulnerable were really susceptible - both a lie and dehumanizing the people most in need of her support.

This is on Biden.

robotistry, 2 months ago

@mastobit @kraweel65 @TransitBiker @dbdugger Two things having a similarity is not evidence of a specific causal relationship.

A red book being the same color as a red toy isn't evidence that they both fell in the same can of red paint.

Evidence would be that they are both covered in the same paint and that someone pulled them out of the same can and left them to dry. Or, for this hypothesis, HIV sequences found in Covid.

robotistry, 2 months ago

@mastobit @kraweel65 @TransitBiker's hypothesis was that Covid became human transmissible by passing through someone with HIV.

If this were the case, two things would need to be true.

First, the elements that made Covid human transmissible would need to be discoverable as matching with HIV elements.

Second, the first person to get Covid from an animal would have to have had HIV. Neither appear to be true.

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robotistry, 2 months ago

@mastobit @kraweel65 @TransitBiker
And finally, "sealioning" is a relentless sequence of questions in a context of polite feigned ignorance.

I fail to see how using an analogy to explain why a line of argument doesn't hold up, without posing a single question, expressing ignorance, or requesting to be enlightened could be construed as sealioning.

I stand by my original point - similarity is not proof of causation.

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robotistry, 2 months ago

@mastobit @kraweel65 @TransitBiker "depletes the immune system"? Yes.

"leading to AIDS"? Disagree. AIDS is a very specific form of immune deficiency triggered by HIV. I suspect the medical community will eventually get around to naming what Covid does, but I doubt they'll call it AIDS. "C-AIDS" maybe.

Do you intend for your posts to come across as condescending? I'm not "Rob", I follow the research, and I'm familiar with "the evidence".

robotistry, 3 months ago

@anniegreens @NilaJones @kitoconnell @tomkindlon @mecfs It seems entirely plausible to me that the sickest female people with LC (PwLC) are indistinguishable from people with ME/CFS, since I would expect the sickest PwLC to have the worst PEM (since PEM makes everything else worse).

But there are a lot of subclinical PwLC with PEM who don't meet the diagnostic threshold for classical ME/CFS, and a lot who don't get PEM.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@CelloMomOnCars This is a Waymo design failure - this road should have been treated as blocked, just like a road blocked by a construction or a fallen tree.

But it's very hard to use local sensor information to tell the difference between "crowd of people who are on the street as their destination" (e.g. celebration, protest) and "river of people temporarily blocking traffic" (e.g. when an event lets out) - and in the latter case the car is there to help reduce the crowd.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@chthonicionic @CelloMomOnCars In the people leaving an event scenario, it helps because it's a taxi.

You want it there (or at least in the vicinity rather than avoiding the area entirely) because its job is to collect people (ideally from the fringes of the crowd) and take them home, thereby reducing the overall size of the crowd.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@futurebird @stveje They didn't ship the original iPad with a Calculator app, so now the iPad is the only Apple device where you have a choice between free data hungry privacy nightmare Calculator apps, Calculator apps with in-app purchases so you can have an ad-free tier, and paid Calculator apps with pseudoscientific options that lack basic functions like nth root and sine.

We need a way for people to make a living selling things that work so people buy them once.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@futurebird @stveje
NOT looking for suggestions.

Bemoaning the fact that on the iPad

1. You can't search for "no in-app purchases, pay up front, no ads, do not collect personal data" apps

2. There is no way to find the good apps without wading through a morass of terrible apps

3. Developer payment options are primarily: gather user's data and sell it; charge rent; ads / protection racket

Almost no apps operate on a "pay me to own the thing as is" basis.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@halcionandon @dysautonomia @disability @hypothyroidism @mecfs @multipledisabilities @multiplesclerosis
From my childhood

How to stay cool in an un-air-conditioned apartment:
0. keep all shades down

1. dunk head under tap
2. let wet hair soak cotton top while
3. sitting next to fan
4. drinking iced drink
5. out of metal cup

robotistry, 3 months ago

@Brad The part I find most frustrating is the insistence on headlines that imply "Aha! This is IT" instead of recognition that all the evidence we have so far is that every single one of these is "Yes, And".

Brain injury?
Yes, and
Mitochondrial dysfunction?
Yes, and
Clotting?
Yes, and
Autoimmune?
Yes, and
Viral/antigen persistence?
Yes, and
Organ damage?
Yes, and
...

Grr.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@RickiTarr It depends. What are the parameters?

Do you

• keep getting older and sicker but don't die or stay at your current age/state of health or something else?
• retain all the memories of your entire life or develop new ways of remembering or something else?
• have a stipend so you don't fall into poverty/homelessness over time?

What happens if there's a war/holocaust? Do you survive a direct nuclear blast? What kind of damage do you take?

Can you choose to end it later?

robotistry, 3 months ago

@kaffando @erictopol
Long Covid can happen after multiple infections, like your friends and family.

It can show up as new or ongoing post-Covid neuropsychiatric symptoms (rather than shortness of breath, allergies, heart trouble, persistent GI distress, or any of the other myriad presentations).

Hair-trigger temper, word finding and language challenges, losing the thread of a conversation, and inability to make decisions - this is what #LongCovid looks like.

robotistry, 3 months ago

@Frieke72 @longcovid It's that "still a struggle" part that's the problem.

I have a very supportive and effective physical therapist, and I am very attuned to what my body is trying to tell me, and last night I still went ahead and blew through my limits, and last night I woke up with an earache and now I have a pounding headache and the weird blinky lights thing that happens when I close my eyes.

We need full time in-home staff saying "No! Don't do that!!".

robotistry, 3 months ago

@ahimsa_pdx @mecfs @longcovid (I didn't have enough characters to add the @mecfs group!)

robotistry, 4 months ago

@RareBird_15 @disability @chronicillness I danced for 60 seconds months ago and it took days to recover. I should have stopped at 30 (and I knew it at the time!), but it was so much fun. I hate the way the fun stuff becomes effectively out of bounds because it's so hard to stop.

robotistry, 4 months ago

@Dynamicallydisabled @ahimsa_pdx I worry about the fact that it seems to be a gaslighter par excellence. The thought of that combined with bad national actors, politicians, and the current media ecosystem has me deeply concerned. A third of the US electorate is already living in an alternate reality - how much worse will that get when no one can rely on their sources not being contaminated by AI output?

robotistry, 4 months ago

@futurebird You're also an American if you are a child born elsewhere with an American parent. You're not eligible to be President, but you are a citizen from birth. And it's another part of birthright citizenship that they talk about eliminating.

robotistry, 4 months ago

@Frieke72 @longcovid @CathyThomsonPT Tagging PLRC @patientled