If itβs anything like how university administration chooses IT contractors they simply ignore the relevant expertsβ input π
05.08.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@patrickdevaney.bsky.social
UBC CS PhD student - formal verification of hardware and software (also occasionally theory of computation) - hobbyist nature photographer - #CovidIsAirborne
If itβs anything like how university administration chooses IT contractors they simply ignore the relevant expertsβ input π
05.08.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wonder if they know what the βVβ in HIV is π€
01.08.2025 00:45 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hopefully MRNA technology can cure AI cancer soon π
31.07.2025 20:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That too! I always ask why we're not allowed to donate blood if it's a psychological problem.
31.07.2025 20:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I find that the process of becoming a doctor selects for people extremely good at following instructions, so they tend to be a bit lost when they encounter something they werenβt given a clear solution to in med school.
31.07.2025 19:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To some extent, but itβs also hindered by e.g. the Cochrane review recommending graded exercise therapy that they refuse to retract (they changed the definition of βimprovementβ so that even people who got worse from it were counted as benefiting).
31.07.2025 19:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I strongly suspect that it's because those issues are ~4x more likely to affect women. I've noticed a disturbing difference in how helpful doctors try to be now that I'm attending appointments as an adult man vs when I was a child and they were primarily interacting with my mother.
31.07.2025 18:55 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah, the little silver lining of COVID for those of us with ME/CFS is that this is the most attention doctors and scientists have ever given it π«
31.07.2025 18:50 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0bsky.app/profile/patr...
31.07.2025 18:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0See also: the internet censorship laws popping up everywhere π
31.07.2025 17:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Climate has changed before!"
-Does the Permian extinction event look fun to you?!
Iβm sure that will pair well with the known immune system damage that COVID infections cause π·
30.07.2025 22:45 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Heβs not even pretending to be anything but Canadian Keir Starmer at this point lol
30.07.2025 22:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The problem is that only mopped up dimwits would want to be political leaders π
30.07.2025 22:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They also do their best not to mention that having previously had COVID is a βpre-existing conditionβ π«
30.07.2025 15:49 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0existence of post malone implies existence of pre malone
30.07.2025 15:03 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I feel this way about Vancouver - there's a high CoL because people WANT to live here!
29.07.2025 20:06 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Joe Manchin in a single headline
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
My go-to response is to ask them if they're ALWAYS going to drink treated water. Cholera is endemic, we're all going to catch it eventually π·
29.07.2025 16:01 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Don't you just hate integer overflows?
28.07.2025 23:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What if I blame the premiers AND Carney? π
28.07.2025 23:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Theyβre mad that youβre ruining their self-delusion of partying like itβs 2019 π
25.07.2025 16:04 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Never tried it but this seems to be recommended.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_L...
These are the same people who think those door handles make any sense though π€·ββοΈ
24.07.2025 21:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0for every mosquito there is an equal and opposite countermosquito
24.07.2025 21:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Given that they haven't fully addressed "vehicle shouldn't catch fire" yet I'm not surprised they haven't made it that far down the to-do list π
24.07.2025 21:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This happened to me as a child with ME/CFS in the 2000's. The school system doesn't care about children beyond making them physically attend every day.
24.07.2025 21:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0existence of strawberries on a summer evening implies existence of blueberries on a winter morning
24.07.2025 16:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Haunting people who ignore pandemics π»
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