Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

this post is like 11 years old

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Goodmorning to the Anthropic Claude AI training scraper that suddenly decided to request 660 thousand pages (exactly the number I had remaining on the starter plan) and brought Pikiwedia down. 

Sudden switch from diverse user agents like chrome, safari, messenger preview to Just Claudebot. I'm not even mad though, this is maybe the funniest thing possible, because I've inadvertently poisoned their training data with thousands of fucked up articles with normal urls. 

people in the notes are making the fair point that this person seems to be confused about what happened during the AIDS crisis

but then you've got this highly liked comment on the same post, asserting that parents should be the default medical decision-makers for an incapacitated person

A married spouse legally outranks an adult person's parents when it comes to US law. If you are not legally married, then your default in the US is going to be your parents. Probably followed by your siblings (IANAL). If you want someone else to handle your affairs if you are incapacitated, you have to designate a power of attorney.

(This also works vice-versa. My father was unmarried when he died, so legally, the default next most legitimate decisionmakers were his children. If he didn't have children, or we had been unable to handle things, his siblings could have stepped in.)

But like, of COURSE you would need LEGAL DOCUMENTATION designating your medical power of attorney if it's not your current spouse?? The law doesn't care about "soon to be ex." The law doesn't care about what might someday happen in the future. The law can't know if you are *going* to divorce, or if you change your mind about divorcing. They care about the paperwork that is actually on file. As they should!!!

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Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

It's not a "Nissan Snail."

Nissan gave it a much better name.