For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.

Drawbacks of EPIC

Super expensive - only large outfits can even afford it.

Poor design - a multitude of modules that often use different design principles so knowing one module doesn’t help much with another.

Extreme vendor lock-in - EPIC is very similar in business model to Microsoft in the first decades, basically a mafia.

Lack of interoperability - EPIC interfaces poorly with lab and diagnostic equipment, EPIC actively fights development and adoption of interoperabilty standards.

Dictating Clinical Workflow - EPIC is designed primarily to assist billing, not record keeping for patient benefit. Thus workflows are highly constrained and significant time must be spent clicking about to get the system to let one do normal things.

I mean, EHR is inherently complex so any EHR, but EPIC makes it much worse than it needs to be.

I’m don’t love the chart and hate forced and false dichotomies.

Both ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ are over-loaded terms, meaning that they can be used to mean too many things, some definitions almost directly contradict each other.

So I stick with the term ‘assholes’, which has a more universally agreed meaning.

We seem to have a suppressive person in the chat.

(JK, yes, it is. I mis-read the question and gave an example of culty stuff that is a hobby.)

Auditing pre-clears.

There are enough training examples that we could get a reasonable facsimile.

Can you explain a bit more, please? I don’t quite follow the meaning here. A small group already has most of the power ( money is power and a few have almost all of it ). What is your preferred way to see progress?

These fellows seem fun

<chefs kiss>

Perfection!

Boot Liquor changed my musical tastes forever!

They have a decent stand-alone app too. Lots of good stations.

I solved this problem for life by going to my 10 year reunion (a mostly Mormon town). I only went because I happened to be on a motorcycle trip in the region with a girlfriend, a certified Freaky-Chick™️.

I had my own bike, but chose to ride on the back of hers to add extra confusion.

Just to be sure I was not included any more, I loudly proposed we wait at least 25 years for another when the choices presented were 5 or 10 years for the next one.

Same/same

I prefer the second option. That means he is alive and can still find love as a wiser but sadder monkey. There is more room in a broken heart.

Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed

Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.

These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.

Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society

Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.

It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.

The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.

I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.

My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with ‘discounted’ orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices than normal.

These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.

Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.

Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.

The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.

They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.

It was surely used as an opportunity for conservatives to push their agenda, but I am super sceptical it is a cause in any way.

First, HIV hasn’t been an automatic death sentence for over 25 years.

Second, Reagan was elected before AIDS/GRID was even a known thing.

The rise in conservatism is an engineered backlash that began at the dawn of time. Look up Smedley Butler and the Business plot from the 30’s. Look into Roger Stone and his determination to make sure no president would ever be held accountable as Nixon was for Watergate.

Conservatism is just a smoke screen for a small, way-too-wealthy cabal to get some popular support for their desire to own every damn thing everywhere. It always has been. This goes back long before the Magna Carta even.