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Got a prescription for #Paxlovid, and the nurse practitioner warned me that if my insurance didn't cover it, it would cost $1,500.
We are legitimately trying to kill poor people in the US.
#MedicalDystopia #CovidIsNotOver
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Mike McCaffrey
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Thoughts about ADHD, mental health, disability (outside of the context of web development), productivity, and the general travails of life.
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@EmilyEnough Wow, I have thought a lot about how coding LLMs are antithetical to my own OCD tendencies that want everything to be built and formatted in a very specific way (i.e. the right way), but had not considered how terrible the interface would be for folks who prefer not to have to process information conversationally.
I would love to read an entire book or series of articles about how LLMs as an interface enforce neurotypical modes of communication on neurodiverse people.
I'm two weeks into having #Covid and still feel like crap. I was absolutely right to avoid this for six years, despite all the inconvenience.
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Even though #Covid is airborne, I figure better safe than sorry when I have to interact with people while contagious, so I asked the #Walgreens pharmacist at the drive through if he could sell me hand sanitizer, but he said they couldn't fetch it for me.
I decided to run in (masked) to get some. Turns out they keep it in the very back of the store, under lock and key, so I needed to stand around waiting (with Covid) while someone came FROM THE PHARMACY WHERE I HAD JUST ASKED THEM TO FETCH IT to unlock it and hand-carry the bottles to the register so I could buy it.
We live in a Kafkaesque nightmare.
#CovidIsNotOver #HealthcareDystopia
Day 5 of #Covid, and I am mostly feeling better, but my heart rate just shot up over 30bpm when I climbed a set of stairs.
I wonder if that #tachycardia is due to micro-clots in my blood, my immune system attacking my autonomic nervous system, or some combination of the two:
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My usual problem (perhaps from some previous asymptomatic cases of #Covid) is mild #Tachycardia where my resting heart rate is 10 bpm higher than usual. It is actually doing that right now, but I'm afraid to take my usual medication to deal with it, because if it goes back to being abnormally low, I don't want to make it even lower than that.
These #Cardiac complications are one of the main reasons I've been going out of my way to avoid an acute case of Covid. Wearing a mask is so much less of a bother than worrying about keeling over dead from your heart misfiring.
#CovidIsNotOver
Angry at how older workers are discarded by the professional world (especially when the excuse they give is an inability to learn new skills, which is really just the ability to see through whatever trendy bullshit is the latest fad).
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@ShaulaEvans It has been relatively light, but very much not swift.
Well, I guess "theta waves intrusions" are the reason I fell asleep in almost every class in school.
New 2026 ADHD research found adults with ADHD had higher sleep-like slow wave activity while awake
Oh god, #RageAgainstTheMachine is now grandpa music. 💀💀💀
I need to try this to get my picky wife to eat different foods.
Works every time 🤣
"What kind of masochist are you? What's the pain you secretly enjoy that most other people don't? [...] That's probably where most of the meaning and purpose in life will be found."
How to pull yourself out of a cheap dopamine spiral | Mark Manson
Apparently, I haven't spent enough time worrying about landslides.
I would please like to do this.
This video was a real roller coaster for everyone involved.
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party I think the operative phrase here is "slow communication & relationships building work". Great if someone has the time and energy to manually maintain all of the social connections they need, but most people aren't left with that while wrestling with our capitalist dystopia every day.
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party Wow, I am envious of your lack of social anxiety. It takes me hours to work up the nerve to call or email anyone about anything.