It is the true teacher who leaves the class knowing they have learned the most.
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Controversial and scary stuff. Not me, I've had a lot of decades to think about it. I get minimal oversight, some treatment of treatable non-invasive things (Infections, blood xfusions) at home. It's a slippery slope legally, but no kids, widowed and mostly understanding friends.
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Palliative now is leaning in meaning to quality of life, not quantity per se and hospice when death is imminent and more care is needed. And then, there's palliative death, or "terminal" death. AKA, a means of an individual being given meds in legal states they take alone to die.
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Yes, that's a good description, and it is expanding to include people who are not end stage per se but may be still receiving treatment for very serious illnesses. It's a very fascinating abstraction that leaves a profit of 3 trillion in the last months of life per year here.
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you're welcome for making life even worse than Verizon and tracfone. I now have more handsets, shitty notebooks and STILL NO FUCKING VERIFICATION yet you sure take my money just fine. SCAMFUCKS.
Each day that passes, each device, each "web" app, native app, that my hands can't reach and voice can't articulate without being seen as insane (ok, maybe that) or illiterate (i'm not that) and this is not the Web I loved. It's not the Web at all. Open, free, a force for good.
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I agree, especially those of us who did not come to write software but humanity in search of information and documents meaningful, useful, important to society, searchable and available to all comers no matter condition, language, literacy, machine or browser much less humans.
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I'm honored Nick. And I still can taste the chocolate cake baked for me that night. Wowsa! I'm honored by your words and have admired your work and successes always. You also, as I like to do, honor your colleagues always, as I shall now honor you.
awful, not humane, shame and blame tactics. Again, really great leadership there. We see how well it's working, this week is a great example. It's been a downhill ride for a while but Musk slammed it into the wall of who cares about these people not people who he harms.
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I really hate these stories. It's why I mostly kept independent as a contractor. When I didn't, it usually did not go well. I love working WITH people. I am highly probably not capable of working FOR people however. Flat hierarchies? What does that really mean FFS?
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I'm getting there myself, voice to text is not meeting my needs, too many form factors, too many mobile apps, browser apps and it's lucky if you find an actual web site with real languages rather than duct tape and gorilla glue.
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Back in the publishing days, the editorial teams at Wrox/Glasshaus showed up for work to find the building locked and a note on the door. Real leadership? That's pure cowardice.
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Christian blogs about his layoff this week with comfort and wisdom despite his own situation. His prolific work across the years proves he's one of the greats as does the dignity in his blog post: Things to do and not to do during a wave of tech layoffs: christianheilmann.com/2023/0…
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I have a slightly viewpoints I think they're sadists to begin with to sit and lie and describe drugs that are more harmful than the diseases they know nothing about and try to explain away as this that and brain chemistry bullshit has the name already it's called sadism.
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Is there an advocate or chronic illness care specialist anywhere they will help with those things if they're around and you can find one this is the problem that I was talking about chronic care or complex care specializations they're a growing need especially as baby boomers age
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Jeff is autocorrect from voice to text for death. I apologize but I don't feel too nice about Google at the moment
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I agree with you I was just change the words a bit as a person who grew up in the USA especially what we call Medical science here is neither medical nor science clinically. Who teaches doctors about pharmaceuticals? Or the idea that Jeff is a failure. Never understood that one
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And yet here we are after all these years and Italian and an American who have never met each other still friends still having conversations even on Twitter that have some depth of meaning. Interesting my friend hope you are well XO
It is only for the very seriously ill or knowing that's true the palliative care can stop or start as needed or merge into hospice service which is now considered the final months and weeks of living. The focus is on the patient's and quality of the life now not tomorrow or death
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