boomer vibes

i hate it

That's interesting but never forget the difference between exams and real life is huge. Exam test cases are always sorta typical clinical presentations, every small element pointing towards the general picture.

In real life, there are almost always discrepancies, elements that don't make sense at all for the given case, and the whole point of getting some residency experience is to be able to know what to make out of those contradictory elements. When to question nonsensical lab values. What to do when a situation doesn't belong in any category of problems you learned to solve.

Many things i think generative AI, due to its generative nature of predicting what word is most likely to come next based on learned data, wouldn't be able to do

jpense que ya moy que les vélos électriques soient tellement attractifs qu'ils permettent aux vélos classiques de se faire moins souvent voler...

well that's just greenwashing. Along with techno-solutionnism it's the next step right after denial for these people. 1. pretend there isn't a problem, 2. when 1. doesn't work anymore, pretend younre going to solve it

TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps

https://www.forbes.com/

we are going through a very authoritarian drift right now. Flashballs used to be exclusively used against terrorists, hostage situations : 19 000 were fired during the yellow jjackets crisis and they're now basic police equipment. Drone usage is increasing, the government bought 90 armored personnel carriers with multiple grenade launchers exclusively for riot control.. and now the phone spying.

edited to add : they're also starting to qualify any protesters as "terrorists". Climate activists planning to disassemble an inanimate, illegally-built, ecocidal infrastructure ? they get the eco-terrorist tag.

Mandatory Dishonored 1 and 2 recommendation, but Prey is also very good

I'm not really conviced by fairphone. They claim they have an ethical and ecological supply chain / manufacturing but there is very little on their website to support that claim. The phone is made in China like any other smartphone. The "Fairtrade Gold" label doesn't mean Gold-rank fairtrade materials, it means that only the actual gold that's inside the phone has the fairtrade label. The amount of gold in a phone is ridiculously small and doesn't represent the major part of the phone's emissions footprint. They have another label which name I can't remember but I looked it up and the terms are very vague. After all the electronic components are still electronic components : copper wires made from copper, qualcomm CPU made in the same qualcomm factory, etc. I don't think a label changes that.

All in all I don't think that buying a brand new, 580 € smartphone with subpar performance is a good move if you care about the environment. Buying a used phone sounds like a much better option to me : cheaper, better performance, probably not as serviceable BUT it's already living a second life anyways.

I tried to be enthusiatic but FP looks way too much like a cash grab aimed at people that care about the environment

Actually, morphine is excellent at stopping coughing. Probably not wise, but efficient

Well, the average indian household probably doesn't own 2 or 3 cars, doesn't eat meat everyday and doesn't have a huge house