Fal

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Fal @yiffit.net 2y ago
Steam is not in the AUR. Arch's main repos have way more than Ubuntu and Debian. And then the aur is a better alternative to installing from source or doing other hacks

2y ago

Seen this countless times

The arch wiki is the gold standard for Linux, not just arch. But it definitely talks specifically about arch.

So, there are built in install scripts now. There's no GUI installer, but it's 1 command to get a full arch setup installed with a desktop environment. Arch is a 100% reasonable choice for a new user.

2y ago

Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage.

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Fal @yiffit.net 2y ago

I checked. You people are week. But anyway apparently it's a crypto thing now. What a time to be alive

2y ago

Fr(ule)iends

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Fal @yiffit.net 2y ago

Amy id a terrible character. Sally is the best character and my first crush. Amy can go die

2y ago

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Fal @yiffit.net 2y ago

Untrained people shouldn’t be self-diagnosing based on hearing a list of symptom

This is literally what everyone does. How else would it possibly even work? "Oh shit you mean my foot numbness is a symptom of diabetes?". Like, this is just how human interaction works.

And I don’t expect any one doctor to know of every treatment that exists for every illness, because that’s what collaborative knowledge bases are for. A carefully moderated medical Wikipedia that can be contributed to by doctors and researchers

What does this have to do with what we're talking about. Are you saying that the doctor should just input every symptom that every patient gives them to a medical Wikipedia? Because otherwise how would they know of new drugs? They may think they know exactly how to treat whatever symptom, but if they're not continually looking it up very single time, they'll miss new meds.

But all of this wouldn’t make the pharmesutical companies as much money as peddling to hypochondriacs so instead we have ads.

What you described is not even remotely a solution to the actual problem of 1. people not knowing their symptoms are potentially from a disease that has a treatment. and 2. doctors knowing that treatment exists

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Fal @yiffit.net 2y ago

This is a terrible take. Advertising medicine makes a ton of sense. People don't always know what symptoms are actually something that has a cure. They see an ad for a drug and think "oh shit, I have those symptoms, let me go the to doctor". Otherwise they just live with what they think is normal.

But further, DOCTORS don't even know what new drugs exist. Patients advocating for themselves is a HUGE benefit. So a patient might come in and ask for a drug that the doctor has never even heard of so never would have even considered prescribing it even if it was the right drug.