I read the abstract but I'm still a bit confused. Will this help people who have down syndrome? Or is it a way to help future pregnancies?
Future pregnancies.
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drknownuffin commented on Google Workspace for everyone blog.google/products/work... · Posted by u/danirod
> Microsoft was able to build Teams from scratch to compete with Slack and managed to it
Teams is complete shit though, they didn't compete on quality of their offering. They're competing because every org already pays Microsoft a lot of money and they may as well use Teams because it's "integrated"
I don't really understand where this notion comes from. I've used Slack; I've used Teams; I find Teams more than adequate for my organization's use-case. I'm sure that's not the case for everyone, but "Teams is complete shit" is such an odd over-generalization from my vantage point.
But it's only been a few months since administration, will the gap between expected and actual keep growing, or will they eventually level out?
Post-viral myocarditis / pericarditis usually occurs in the days to weeks (up to about a month, generally) following a viral infection.
My boil and bite has a hex key lower jaw adjustment same as OSA nightguards, many (but not all) of them do
I've never seen that, but I guess TIL. Can you please provide a link to one?
Started 2 years ago with an OTC boil and bute, sleep quality is night and day (no pun intended),l.
In fact it annoys me greatly if for whatever reason I don't sleep with it because I know I'll be yawning, nodding off, and generally low energy all day.
Highly recommend it at least as a low cost experiment (mine was $70), no issues so far with bite or jaw soreness.
Boil=and-bite only provides cushion between teeth. Sleep apnea mouth guards are designed to thrust the jaw forward, so as to mechanically assist in keeping the airway open. They're so very different in effect and structure that if you feel you're benefiting from a boil-and-bite, you've almost certainly mis-attributed something somewhere.
drknownuffin commented on Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020) tor.com/2020/07/06/5-pers... · Posted by u/diodorus
The difficulty with folklore is that it’s so intensely regional and period-specific, and that no real “canon” exists for most regions and times, especially when you’re reaching back into pre-christianity folklore.
This is the mistake that Campbell made. He thought you could unify folklore with some psychological frameworks. But you can’t, unless you’re employing gratuitous selection bias, which he did.
So it depends what you’re interested in! I’ve personally found it most fun to find some culture I’m incidentally connected to, with a long literary history, and try to find the earliest transcriptions and translations of stories that I can.
If you’re interested in some region and time in particular, somebody here can probably help get you started.
I second this statement.
Russian Folk Belief by Ivanits is a good one.
drknownuffin commented on Persian legends and their Western counterparts (2020) tor.com/2020/07/06/5-pers... · Posted by u/diodorus
While Joseph Campbell (who was not an actual “expert in the field” for most of what he wrote about) has a big reputation among the public because he wrote books directed towards a popular audience, and e.g. George Lucas's praise of his work for Star Wars guaranteed him renown, he is not taken very seriously by actual specialists on folklore and anthropology. IMO, citing him does more harm than good.
My understanding from my readings in the field of mythology is that the parent post is precisely correct: Campbell was an enthusiastic amateur who did a whole bunch of cherry-picking to suit his passionate holding-forth on the topics, but without systematic study.
If he was alive today, he (still) wouldn't be a PhD, but he'd have a YT channel, a vigorously active twitter page, and maybe have penned a couple of D&D modules.
> Thank god that idea passed
Why's that? Just curious, I always find it fascinating how physicians pick a speciality!
OB is ridiculously stressful, in an antagonistic kind of way.
1. A good subset of patients have wildly unrealistic ideas about pregnancy and delivery, and when their ideas meet reality it's not always reality that wins.
1.B. You will be the target of their ire whenever their desires are not fulfilled, because patients seem to think docs are actually in charge of something at the hospital. We usually are not.
2. It's wildly litigious. Their child was perfect (in their imagination) before being born; then you got involved, and now their child is not perfect. You must have fucked something up in the delivery and ruined the perfection of their child.
3. Way too much family involvement. When you're doing surgery, you're usually dealing with a patient's attempts to understand what's going on. When you're doing OB, you're dealing with the patient, the husband, the mother, mother-in-law, etc. Each person will come up with their own distorted vision of how things should be, and when it doesn't align with reality, the doctor is an idiot who doesn't know what they're doing. (Doctors are not perfect - just people - but it seems like every single person without medical training seems better equipped to identify the proper medical course of action than a physician is.)
4. Lots and lots of on-call time. Lots of unexpected interruptions and lots of drop-everything-and-drive-to-the-hospital.
5. There used to be good money in it. There isn't now, which makes all of the above grate on one's nerves.
The results of the above really add up to demolishing the spirit of OB/GYNs. Points 1-3 really make you feel like you're persistently at war with patients, which is the worst feeling ever. I've never been on anyone's side but the patient's, and having them treat me like an enemy ruins my job, and ruins my ability to do my job.
I ultimately chose to pursue a niche thing that shares a name with an existing medical specialty, but is a distinct niche. I can't really identify it without doxing myself, so forgive me for not.
drknownuffin commented on Amazon construction site paused again as another noose found bbc.com/news/business-572... · Posted by u/Black101
My immediate thought was that this was a repost from an event earlier this week. But no, apparently this is another noose.