The valve at the end of the world

[AlphaWeaver]

> What a stranger can offer a person in a moment of crisis is solicitude unalloyed by the past or the future of the relationship, unconditional in the true sense of the word.

This is such an interesting idea.

[johnnyworker]

> Warum reisen wir? Auch dies, damit wir Menschen begegnen, die nicht meinen, daß sie uns kennen ein für allemal; damit wir noch einmal erfahren, was uns in diesem Leben möglich sei.

-- Max Frisch

> Why do we travel? Among other things to meet people who don't presume to know us once and for all, so we might experience once again what is possible for us in this life.

[tommychillfiger]

This was perhaps my favorite line as well. Maybe a bit of a goofy example, but I think this is why I have enjoyed my weird discord community so much for years now. I don't really know these people, and for that reason I can be and express myself in a way that's not bound to the social identity I've already built up among my "real friends." I've told those people things I haven't told anyone else, and I've developed parts of my personality there that I sometimes bring with me back to my "real life." It's an interesting thing.

[jarsin]

The one thing I hope AI helps with is the mess of the medical industry. At a minimum AI should be reviewing MRI's and other diagnostic test before a human does. Your entire life is in droves of overworked / hungover / burned out medical personal.

Once you have a health issue you will learn real fast how bad it has gotten.

[Nthringas]

I wouldn't call that a minimum, MRIs are a higher dimensional signal representation

all people in the world should have access the state of the art medical chat AI already, but this would "crash" the medical "industry"

but medicine should not be an industry because that creates incentives to make people have poor health

[jeffreygoesto]

I am very pessimistic about that. How should it be trained?

[ericls]

I think the idea of “death is part of life” is more than just “it is what it is”. It means when you say you love life, you want to live, it’s is implied that you also love death, and want to die. Otherwise you don’t really love life and you don’t really want to live.

[sigilis]

If that is what that phrase means, then I do not love life. I love living. I know nothing of death, and cannot help but dread its inevitable embrace.

All that I am now, all the things I do and could do, will change. It may be a part of life, but it is the end of living.

[ajb]

Language doesn't work like that. Most people hearing the phrase "I love life" will correctly understand that death isn't included in the referent.

[scubbo]

That is - and I mean this quite literally and without any hyperbole - the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

[nyanpasu64]

> As likely a cause as any was interdental manipulation: teeth cleaning, flossing, heavy brushing. Turns out, bleeding gums are a direct conduit for bacteria to the bloodstream. When I told the family medicine doctor I had gotten “really into flossing during the pandemic,” he said that might have done it. But there was no way to know. Anyway, I wasn’t his problem anymore. That’s the nature of the American medical system: disasters are passed from one MD to another, with little care or concern for how the disaster happened in the first place.

Is it safer to floss or not?

[bsder]

If you are flossing and your gums are bleeding, get to a dentist.

Bleeding gums are generally a sign of some level of periodontal disease. There are lots of things that dentists can do that help this (cleaning, root planing, anti-biotic balls (Arestin), laser ablation, etc.)

[Filligree]

> Is it safer to floss or not?

You shouldn't be making your gums bleed. Flossing doesn't mean sawing at the gums, it means cleaning the enamel.

[Centigonal]

If you're under 60, have a healthy heart valve, a healthy immune system, and relatively healthy teeth (no gingivitis or periodontal disease), the risk of endocarditis from flossing is very small.

[phanimahesh]

I have heard many good things about water flossers and use one. Less risk of bleeding gums, practically zero if you floss regularly imo. Not backed by any comparative studies I know of.

[WirelessGigabit]

> to take antibiotics before visiting dentists, to have antibiotics on hand for any potential infections like strep throat, to avoid lifting heavy weights, to see a cardiologist every couple of years.

Interesting, my wife has a bicuspid valve and did not receive those instructions.