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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.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
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
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
In the past, when you have been gasted, how much flabbering have you typically done?
I am typically...
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@freemo It is not a big deal if one is not into exercise. A very general rule of thumb is that diet is for weight loss while exercise is for health. It takes a great amount of exercise to cause weight loss and dieting is sufficient if one’s only goal is to lose weight. My “2 lbs/week” was very much an average. Some weeks I’d lose more and other weeks less (those .8 lbs weeks are killers!) but that’s more or less what my average loss worked out to.
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@freemo 16 lbs in 2 months seems to me to be right where you want to be. = more or less 2lbs per week which I understand maximizes weight loss while avoiding loose skin. As far as I know you can always work to lose weight through diet but loose skin can only be lost through surgery. I’ve had years (decades) of weight loss (and always subsequent re-gain)experience and when dieting have lost on average 100-125 lbs over a year per each effort and never experienced loose skin.
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@freemo it is more they discovered autism treatments help some almost normal people too
Hit a new low weight on my diet crossing another double digit mark. Its only a few fractions of a pound below my last low, but still nice to see the double digits roll down.
I cant help but feel my progress is a bit too slow though. Ive lost about 16 lbs in 2 months and i feel the pacing could be much greater.
@lucifargundam By the way, not sure if you caught it. But I am officially a mason.
In the past whenever I heard my mom, or anyone, say "ohhhh that meal was so big, ill be full all day, maybe into tomorrow"... I always rolled my eyes and just thought "You enjoy sleeping in that bed of lies".... But now that im on #Ozempic / #Semiglutide I can relate. I woke up today and had a huge hoagie for breakfast. But Now, 12 hours later, I dont even feel hungry. Hell some of it is still in my stomach i think (i taste it on my burps)... soooo weird.
The nice thing is i can eat a cheat meal now and it fills me for so long it isnt even really a cheat meal at all. Like yea it was too many calories for one meal, but over a whole day it was still on the low side.
I need help naming a thing...
Imagine you have layers that stack vertically, with a one to one relationship, the output of one is fed up the stack and each component takes in, modifies, and passes along.
We call this a "Stack"
What would be a good word for the horizontal equivalent, that is one item sits on top of two or more layers and routes and/or merges between them. Preferably something with a conceptual connection to the idea of a stack.
I wonder what land mass (counting all contiguous land up to the ocean" has the highest ratio of peak height to surface area. I would venture a guess maybe one of the hawaiian islands.
My canned response anyytime someone corrects my spelling (which usually is out of a lack of care rather than not knowing):
" your rite, Eye fixered its four ya."
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@freemo first of, let me thank you for giving my stupid take your very valuable time, I really appreciate it!
I think I, as always, missed main point of your post
> My concern is that even with a diagnosis I’d still remain convinced 95% of people diagnosed do not have it (and this comes from a lot of discussion with experts).
it reminds me a book? or a story? when guy was reading a medical book and found like hundred different illness and disorders in himself
people (especially youth) are very impressionable, so I like your choice to call it "designer disorder", since is 1) everywhere on social media, 2) fancy and 3) gives you social (victim) points, so a lot of so called people on the spectrum are just lucking social skills (yeah, irony, I think I have more of this than actual problem)
to add something valuable to conversation, I remember recently I was listening to a podcast (Peter Atia? Uberman? or Shane from Knowledge Project? one of these guys) when host had a guest, forgot his main specialization, but he told a story how he had a stroke, and after he found out, that we basically live in illusion, we as humans have multiple systems for reality check, but his stroke disrupted seamless work of them all as one "mind", that was unexpected perspective.. dunno.. to how fragile we are and how our brain does a lot of work to interpret reality
now I regret that I picked math instead of neuroscience, brains are much more interesting
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@freemo for me it was just the answer to a question "wth is wrong with me". now I know (but not diagnosed, just very strong suspicion) and realized that some my habits are self-found way of coping, knowing the fact just stimulates me a bit to learn better way to be useful member or society, this is basically it. Over-glorifying mental issues lately is... disturbing, but also letting other people know that some problems are not very visible, be kind is good. If being asked, all I say to people "I might have autism, that's why I seem strange", shrug, and change topic
but people, who make whole identity out of some mental disorder or some very narrow interest - this is getting old
2020 the age of designer disorders...
On the one hand I can say I **do** like the fact that mental disorders have more acceptance and less stigma, but my god did the pendulum swing too far. Now its a point of pride to the point that people just make up (or even get frivolously diagnosed) just to be cool or accepted. Autism and ADHD seem to be the designer disorders of the day and I am completely convinced the overwhelming majority of people who claim to have autism, or were even diagnosed, at least the high-functioning ones, dont.
My weight can typically swing about 5lbs in either direction due to water weight fluctuation over a 2 day period. Its making it tricky to track my weight loss.
Woman: I am into style and fashion
Me: Yea me too!
Woman: Oh cool, whats your favorite style?
Me: I'm really into those small bikinis where the woman's boobies poke out from the under side of the bikini.... Man I just love fashion!
Woman: ::blank stare::
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Hello fediverse, lil cry for help: I’m looking to speak to someone with vitelliform macular dystrophy caused vision loss, so I can ask about their experience with the onset of symptoms. I was diagnosed ~3 years ago and until recently hadn’t experienced symptoms, I believe I now am but would love to chat to others about their experiences. Compulsory masto disclaimer: I’m not looking for advice other than the specific ask above, thank you. Boosts much appreciated 💖
Being on anaboilc steroids is not what I expected to be honest... still waiting on that roid rage to kick in and give me a bit more energy :)
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If you pay cash most places I’ve seen cut the price in half so there’s truth to that. What can happen is the insurance companies want big discounts to be in their network. So in order to accommodate that, providers raise the list price so the middle managers at the insurance companies can show their bosses how much they “saved” the company. It’s a game.
Another problem that drives up costs is underpayments. We have laws on the books that any hospital that takes any federal money has to see everyone through the ER regardless of whether the person can pay or not. And they can’t just release someone to the streets after treatment. So many hospitals have agreements with local motels to set people (usually homeless) for 1 night to release them “safely”. Those costs can add up. Our medical tort system which is very litigious runs up the insurance costs of providers, especially certain specialists like obstetricians. Ironically one of worst payers in insurance is the Federal Government with Medicaid being one of the worst.
While it‘s good that people can be seen, those losses have to be made up somehow. And they do this by having really high list prices.
Another problem that drives up costs is underpayments. We have laws on the books that any hospital that takes any federal money has to see everyone through the ER regardless of whether the person can pay or not. And they can’t just release someone to the streets after treatment. So many hospitals have agreements with local motels to set people (usually homeless) for 1 night to release them “safely”. Those costs can add up. Our medical tort system which is very litigious runs up the insurance costs of providers, especially certain specialists like obstetricians. Ironically one of worst payers in insurance is the Federal Government with Medicaid being one of the worst.
While it‘s good that people can be seen, those losses have to be made up somehow. And they do this by having really high list prices.
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@freemo I think that banning health insurance could get rid of this problem overnight.
- UFoI Member
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- Website
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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.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
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
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
