@freemo That’s a really interesting question! Putting my EMT hat on, if they’re competent they get to refuse an intervention but in practice those are hard calls.
More generally it kind of depends on other factors. For example, do you let someone ignore a mandatory evacuation knowing they may want to be rescued later at greater risk to all concerned?
It’s a thought provoking question. I’d lean towards answering “Yes” in the abstract and mostly in practice but I’m willing to believe there are circumstances where I’d be open to “No” and I can’t come up with a consistent limiting principle.
@freemo I wasn't sure of the scope of your question, so I didn't answer. Suppose a paramedic refuses to provide lifesaving care to a person injured in a car crash, because the injured person was clearly at fault. In a sense, the paramedic "let someone die" who was "unwilling but otherwise capable" of following the rules of the road, which in this case is "what was needed to stay alive". That's quite a different situation from the decision to, say, force-feed a hunger striker.
Interesting results.... not what I expected.
To this day I still dont understand how women wear bikinis, though I dont wish to do anything to discourage the practice.
But I mean, there is like a half inch margin on either side around the vagina. I dont get how someone could wear it at the beach and not feel completely naked. Then again I dont understand male speedos for much the same reason.
#QOTO is going to block @childlove.su as I have witnessed open approval of pedophilia that has not been acting on.
B-Trees in Factorio game
Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics
Had another meeting with #Freemasons today. They just need to have a fina vote and im in. By the sounds of it they expect me to be accepted. Very exciti ng.
@freemo Look at that gun control making the terrorists and criminals the only ones with guns. Everywhere, all the time.
Just a reminder, palestinian civilians are not allowed to own guns, this is restricted in the Oslo accords.. So **any** argument about the Palestinians allowing the hamas is invalid.
In that sense one can say that the existance of Hamas is entierly on the shoulders of israel (the ones who enforces the oslo accords)
Smell the shit you’re shoveling, asshole.
It doesn’t take a whole lot of empathy to understand exactly why a country constructed like a prison where the fucking Israelis bombed their airport with over a 50% unemployment rate would birth a massive movement of discontent and violent rebellion.
Someone needs to do a Nifty Fifties that is historically accurate, segregation and all, as a random thing at a store for a single day just to bring awareness to racism... I feel like someone just walking in there and seeing thast, and living it as if it were real might be quite impactful. Sadly I doubt it would ever happen as a lot of people would also be s=very upset.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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