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  • So … I think there might be a dispute between health insurance companies and these AI doctors .

    The insurance companies aren’t going to pay for this.

    They barely will pay for telemedicine as it is.

    They won’t pay for anything they aren’t legally required to pay for.

    They won’t pay for any service unless a court review would say it was medically necessary, and even then, they trying to not pay if they think the person is too poor to take them to court over it.

    As much as I hate the greedy bastards. They have also protected us from a lot of pseudoscience health care.


  • Well neither sex is “expired” at 30. Because people have much higher value than their breeding potential.

    But in terms of passing on the best of yourself to your offspring, . Yeah there is a loss of quality over time.

    That quality loss might be higher in males (,because of sperm properties) but ultimately yes, it would be better to save eggs and sperm from an age before 30.

    I wouldn’t choose a partner based on how old they are though. There are much more important factors like if they would be a good parent.


  • That’s not how interaction statistics work.

    I don’t claim to be an expert on genetics.

    But there are experts out there researching these things.

    How different genes interact and change risk. How different genes interact with specific environment or exposures and create risk.

    There are scientific methods that are used to determine these things.

    But it’s not so easy to put out a single number that represents risk because of these complex interactions.

    The statistics are harder to understand, but when they are simplified they are less accurate/true.




  • This is well established. And has been for like 2 decades. https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/link-parental-age-autism-explained/

    That’s why it’s crazy the GOP is like “Tylenol causes autism” and says that generally we don’t know what causes autism.

    Yes we do.

    We have for a long time.

    There is an insane amount of research on this. And still ongoing.

    Now that’s not to say it’s 100% fraternal. It’s not.

    Babies are born from a pairing of DNA.

    The relationship with mothers and autism is a lot more complex and the effect strength varies on a combination of many factors. It’s a bit simpler for fathers.

    Now before it sounds like I’m blaming sperm for all the human health problems I want to point out that nature designed sperm to be susceptible to fast DNA changes.

    Mutations are the way evolution occurs. Without one of the sex cells having the ability to change dna relatively “quickly”, the evolution changes of the organism may be too slow to adapt to new environments and may go extinct

    Everything is how it should be.

    But that doesn’t mean we can’t use modern medicine and science to help bring in healthier children.

    In the olden times when we were evolving into homo sapiens, life span was much shorter. Men weren’t typically fathering children in their 50s and 60s.

    The errors stack up.


  • I considered that prices had been changed and the price tags not updated yet. But all 3 items the first time. And then all the other different items the second time?

    So the price was wrong on literally everything I bought except the deli items.

    And it was consistently off. Everything was 50 cents or 1 dollar cheaper.

    Technically 49 cents and 99 cents.

    For instance I grabbed some cheap pot pies. 1.49. They rang up 1.00.

    I bought a pack of popcorn 4.99. It rang up 4.00.

    I think to fully test this I could buy the exact same items. Go through self checkout.

    Do it again and go through the cashier and pay in cash.








  • So something weird happened to me twice recently at a grocery store.

    Firstly. It’s a local mid level grocery store in a medium sized city (we have 3 Walmarts, for scale).

    I don’t go there often because it’s more expensive than other grocery stores. But it’s also the closest one to me. And huge. So they do have everything. But it’s not like a fancy gourmet grocery store that offers wine samples or anything.

    Anywho.

    I went there and bought like 4 things.

    It was easy to remember how much each item was since I only bought 4 things.

    When I went to do self checkout , 3 of those items ran up 50 cents to 1 dollar cheaper than the price tag.

    I don’t use a saver card or anything.
    The 4th item happened to be a deli item. It was the price it had on it. Cause those literally have a sticker on them.

    I thought. Weird how 3 items ran up the wrong price.

    I go back 2 weeks later. Same exact thing happens. Different items. Everything except the two deli items I bought were pricing at 50 cents or 1$ cheaper than listed. I paid extra attention this time because of the last experience.

    Sometimes I wonder if I’m paranoid. Seeing manipulation where there is none.

    But this can’t just be a coincidence.

    I don’t go there often.

    I use the self checkout.

    Is it using facial recognition to see I’m a “new” customer. And charging me less so I feel like my bill is lower than expected so I will return ,?

    Am I taking crazy pills ?

    Someone tell me I’m wrong and that theory is absurd.