what if you have to pass it piece by piece from your bladder

unless ai gets stuck on 4chan or trump social and will just turn into robo hitler

tbf that might just be when the asteroid hits, nuclear war hits, or when ai deems humans as redundant and inefficient

I guess you got 17 more years

https://xkcd.com/1053/

insert xkcd 10,000 people obligatory everything is a repost

lol was your ex a doctor? you’re not wrong that a lot of what we do today is dependent on massive supply chains and the work of vast armies of allied healthcare workers, engineers, scientists, and pharma, but most doctors offer common sense remedies for common ailments and can be as simple as rest and fluids for a cold and heating packs for a sore back. even as someone who did trauma surgery for a while and now does robotic surgery, sure I won’t be able to reconstruct your abdominal wall and safely reroute your intestines without modern anesthesia, ICUs, and antibiotics but even in modern times there are days that consist of hours of scraping old infected wounds, lancing boils/popping pimples, and talking about diet strategies to avoid hemorrhoids.

emts are valuable to stabilize and transport but can’t care for things long term. engineers can build mris but can’t interpret the fuzzy squiggles that pop up on the screen. I can distill my own alcohol for sterilization, hand weave silk/cotton sutures, and sharpen crude scalpels without modern technology. the biggest value I bring is my years of seeing sick people and figuring out what’s actually bothering them without WebMD or ai, even if I don’t have high tech solutions, ruling out the most dangerous potential diagnoses and finding the rare zebras.

edit: I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re either very young or very lucky with good health. not that I’m hoping you get sick but eventually all of us end up needing doctors to help us and when you do you’ll see what I mean. even though I don’t currently need any doctors myself, I’m very glad there are people out there that can help me when I need it.

oh shit I am a little ashamed I didn’t know this existed but I am way more happy that I have this to treasure for the rest of my life

this is not a binary situation. you can be a master of one, two, or even more things and still have a broad base.

it’s also all relative and honestly just being happy with what you have, both in terms of material things as well as mental skills/knowledge is a good thing. doesn’t mean you stop learning or earning but you don’t have to be disappointed if you don’t get x amount of dollars or a y number of square feet in your house or z number of factoids in your trivia database

best doctor imho

I mean there’s a sign in NJ saying the nearest one is 500 miles away

there’s one in Jersey that’s 580 miles away

anemoia

you can always tell a Milford man

I may not agree with all his positions but he was at least a good dude and not a slimy crook

I miss Ron Paul and real conservatives

I played so much unreal tournament on my Pentium 4 while listening to them

isn’t that just pie with extra steps