Great way to put it. Education is pretty shit in most places, and after people leave all forms of education, well, you can’t change the fact that some will stay (or worse, become,) stupid.
This is why it’s such a low blow by the AI companies to position as worker replacement tech, it’s so easy too.
There’s also the argument by pro AIers who say “well it passed the Turing test, so it’s intelligent!”
What they consistently forget is that the LLMs cheated by being built with the entirety of the internet’s data, with at least some of it being guides on how to complete said Turing test.
Once an AI passes the Turing test without the entirety of the internet’s data being fed to it, then maybe it’s intelligent, who knows.
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While looking up some of their statistics before, I did find out about the RFDS TV show and I’m pretty intrigued honestly. I’ll probably start watching it soon now that you’ve mentioned it. It might get me to stop focusing on the burnout I’m in currently haha
Apparently here in Victoria it is covered by Medicare, but depends on which specialist you get. I feel for you for forking over that kind of cash, but from what I’ve been told from the many ADHDers in my life, as much as the cost might hurt at first, it’ll end up being worth it. Although, it would be a heck of a lot better to be covered by Medicare.
Personally, I’m planning to get ADHD and Autism assessments in the future (not sure how soon, but probably a year or two away, since I’m still compiling data on myself), so I really should be doing research on eligibility for subsidisation for either.
How could I forget those absolute legends?
I did some research and turns out the RFDS has 23 bases and a fleet of 79 planes, with a much smaller fleet of helicopters for rugged terrain and short, urgent trips.
It mainly relies on a combination of donations and government funding, and is of course a non profit. It also tends towards mainly outback service, rather than equivalent organisations in other nations, which tend to focus on a mix of urban and rural service.
Anyway, I’ll probably spend the next few hours obsessively looking up everything about the RFDS, and solidify that my sleep schedule is actually so shattered, but damn it’s an interesting organisation.
Not trying to refute your point, but a benefit of the bins is definitely the fact you can’t park a car on them, although I suppose adding tall barriers between a car lane and bike lane would help prevent that, but I’m not sure what solution bus lanes would work with.
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Two years ago, my dad slipped at the boat ramp and broke his wrist. He went in the local ER, presented the family Medicare card, and they worked right away to put his arm in a cast and prescribe pain medication to him. Nothing was paid out of pocket, and the card was just to verify identity, since nothing is really deducted or anything.
A few months later, he got stung on the ankle by a stingray (luckily the barb didn’t break in his leg,) and was driven to the ER by a step-family member he was able to peddle his bike to quickly. His leg was quickly put in warm water and got given antibiotics, and was admitted for a week stay. After 3 days, it was healed enough for him to voluntarily return home, even though the full stay was still there for assurance. Yet again nothing was paid out of pocket.
For general checkups and appointments, it’s a bit hit or miss, where sometimes you need to pay around $70 AUD, but for others it is fully subsidised. For example, a blood test I had recently was fully free, whereas my most recent dental appointment required payment.
The cool thing is that I actually found out through my MyGov account that Medicare emailed a notice telling me that they owed me $100 and a couple cents, since it was some sort of post-appointment subsidy. Pretty neat honestly, didn’t know at the time they’d even consider doing that.
There’s also a new tier of healthcare facilities which were and are still being built by the Albanese Labor government both last and this term, which are called Urgent Care Clinics, basically being mini hospitals for mainly physical issues like broken arms, cuts or other injuries, which are easy enough to treat. These were created to ease the burden on emergency departments of full blown hospitals, so as to allow more elderly and sick patients to get treatment with less delay.
I originally found and read this article on my RSS feed, and it actually pissed me off by how badly written it is and how many times it pretty much says “noooo, you don’t need a diagnosis, you’re just acting weird!”
So what you’re saying is, we have a chance?
I mean, my childhood was pretty recent, but I was phone free until 16 and only had a sim in that phone when I was 17.
Childhood was strange, because I was seemingly one of the only ones without a phone , as well as how the ones with phones had worse attention spans, less will to organise themselves, and more distracted, despite the fact that I was one of the neurodivergent ones.
Being a teen was also strange, since my friends would send me something on instagram or Snapchat, then for the millionth time realise I don’t actually have a phone, until of course a friend gave me a semi old flagship phone for free.
I remember a time when a friend came up to me in middle school and asked to “fix an issue with Microsoft word” she was having, and I took a sec and just said “I have no idea how to fix that issue”.
Even at that time I didn’t know anything about the Microsoft office suite, I was basically just very into Linux at that time.
I personally haven’t gotten addicted in the first place, although if I feel like crap in the hours before bed, I’ll have a coffee to make me a bit sleepy. That’s probably an ADHD thing honestly. And the funny bit is how I’ve always gotten told to not consume caffeine before bed, but like, just a few hours ago I had 2 coffees and some dark chocolate, totalling around 280mg of caffeine, and I’m probably gonna drift off to sleep soon.
Bro I saw my mum stub her toe and I said “ow” at the same time she did, I flinched a little too XD
Yeah that tracks, my monologue becomes voluntary when I have some caffeine, but if I have enough caffeine, it flips around and whoops, now I’m ultra anxious, distracted, overstimulated and my thoughts and monologue are going as fast as a maglev.
I can’t lie, it’s the opposite for me. If I feel to energetic before bed, I have a coffee and it more often than not makes me sleepy.
Personally, making sure I’m comfortable physically and mentally is a lot more effective than looking for more hours. Sure, my sleep schedule is fucked, but it’s gotten better since I’ve realised that somehow extra screen time helps me sleep, mainly by making me focus on other topics, and lets me jot down what’s bothering me.
And people keep pestering me about my screen time as though it’s the reason I have insomnia… even though I barely used any screens until I was probably 10, and I’ve always had that damn insomnia.
To be fair, it’s really easy to switch to edge, you just use the browser you currently use, then after a bit you open edge and viola, all your data was transferred without your consent, including passwords, tabs, cache, everything.
(Source: happened to me 3 times)