What outcome would you like from all this?

I'm in a giffing mood, but I don't have any specific ideas, so:

I'm open for gif requests!

Fandoms: Project Hail Mary, Leverage and Leverage Redemption, Dead Boy Detectives, if you've seen a fandom on my blog there's a decent chance I'll gif for it!

Types: plain, captioned, or decorated/aesthetic (I'm using GIMP/BIMP so combining two moving pictures is not something I can do easily, but I can add still decorations!)

Pros:

Doctors paying off their medical loans with prize money

Chronically ill people getting free testing (MRIs, CAT scans, X-Rays, bloodwork, etc) and possibly a diagnosis

You can ding points for 'anxiety' and 'you just need to lose some weight'

Doctors are incentivized to find an answer, not just find something billable

Cons:

HIPAA

Each doctor can order a limited number of tests. You win the most prize money if a test that you've ordered comes back positive for something that makes sense with the symptoms. (Additional checking is required for tests with a high rate of false positives.) Prize money is split if there are multiple winners.

If no one gets a positive test, there's a smaller prize for suggesting a treatment that the patient uses while measurably improving over the course of 3-6 months. And an even smaller fallback prize for subjective improvement.

I think a fun element would be "if a chronically ill person with no degree can identify what's wrong with the patient before you do, they get a cash prize (you are still in charge of actually doing the tests that confirm or disprove it)." So if you spend six weeks doing genetic tests and X-rays but some MCAS girlie listened to a five-minute description of symptoms and went 'yeah, you've got [thing]' before you officially considered it, their chunk of the cash comes out of your winnings

And for everyone saying "this is just the House MD tournament arc"...

HOWEVER

I can imagine a game changer episode where some contestants, probably youtuber guests like Dr. Mike or something, have to guess already-diagnosed chronic illnesses of audience volunteers.

I think the consequence for breaking the rules should be reducing the number of tests the doctor is allowed to run. And if they hit zero tests, they have to pack up and go home.

I think there should be a panel of hosts who are respected specialists in the relevant field for each common red herring. Like: a weight management specialist, a psychiatrist-psychologist who specializes in anxiety, an OBGYN, a sleep & insomnia specialist, etc. Each enforces the rules around advice relevant to their specialty.

Importantly, every contestant IS ALLOWED to consult with the experts and get detailed advice! The only way to break the rules is to either not seek advice, or not follow it.

The rules are as such:

[1] You may not attribute more blame to the common red herring than the specialist would.

You can't say, "The problem is anxiety," if the specialist only thinks anxiety is WORSENING another condition.

You can't say, "Your weight is worsening this problem," if the specialist only thinks that it MIGHT be worsening the problem.

[2] You may not propose difficult lifestyle interventions that have little-to-no science behind them.

You can't say, "Stop napping during the day," or, "Stop eating carbs."

[3] When proposing a common red herring to a patient, you must lead by suggesting an intervention that is safe, concrete, and reasonable for the specific patient.

If you say, "Lose weight," or, "Remove sources of stress from your life," as if that is actionable advice, you lose points.

If you tell a patient to stop drinking soda, but the patient doesn't drink soda in the first place, you lose points.

If you tell a patient to take up jogging or hit the gym, but the patient has exercise-induced asthma/arthritis (or has reported symptoms thereof), you lose points. (You have to think of a way of exercising that is actually safe! Which is totally doable in both examples!)

If you tell a patient to eat a fruit/vegetable that they have a known allergy to, you lose points.

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. 

So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.

Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark side. You can do this, but you have to stay calm.

Unlike maintenance cleaning, we’re not looking to completely unfuck one space at a time. Instead, we want to decrease the overall mess in stages, spread evenly across the whole area that we’re concerned about. If you think your home is at Level 10 filth, we want to bring the whole thing down to a Level 9, and then down from there. One really clean spot in an otherwise messy home is not going to be helpful here.

Get prepared. You’ll want to shut the computer down (or turn the modem off if you need your computer to play music). Trust me. Get your music going. Gather up trash bags, your vacuum and mop, some rags or paper towel, sponges, and other cleaning supplies. Use what you have on hand. Don’t get distracted running to the store and spending an hour browsing cleaning supplies. A multi-purpose cleaning concentrate or a jug of vinegar will be just fine.

Breaks are very important. Depending on your time constraints, work in 20/10s (20 minutes working, 10-minute break) or 45/15s. But take breaks because otherwise you’re marathoning, and marathon cleaning is no one’s friend. Keep hydrated, don’t forget to eat, and check in with yourself frequently to make sure you’re physically doing OK.

Make your bed. This will be your home base if you get overwhelmed or need somewhere clear to take a break.

Start with the garbage. Going from room to room, throw out anything that is obvious trash. Once you fill a bag, take it out. Repeat as many times as necessary.

Move on to dishes. Gather the dishes from all over your house and bring them to the kitchen. If you can, start them soaking in a sink of hot, soapy water or start loading the dishwasher. After the dishes are all in one place, spend one 20/10 getting started getting them under control.

Now it’s time for your flat surfaces. Countertops, tables, dresser tops, etc. Clear them off and wipe them down. Don’t get distracted in too much sorting and organizing. We’re in crisis mode here. There will be time to get in-depth once this is all done. The same applies to cabinets and closets. Unless you have reason to believe people will be opening closed doors, leave these alone for now.

Attack the floordrobe and shoe pile. Get your clothes either put away or in the hamper. Start a load of laundry if you need to, but keep in mind that laundry and dishes have three steps: wash, dry, and put it away, goddammit!

Get random stuff up off the floors. If something is trash-worthy, throw it away now rather than just move it around a bunch of times. Otherwise, put stuff where it belongs.

Take another 20/10 or 45/15 to catch up on more dishes, if needed.

Head into the bathroom. Pour some cleaner in the toilet bowl, fill the sink with hot water and cleaner, and either spray the tub and shower with cleaner, or fill the tub up with some hot water and add cleaner and let it soak. Put everything away that’s out and shouldn’t be, clean the mirror, counters, and toilet seat. Sweep or dry mop the floor. Wipe down the sink and tub/shower, and give the toilet bowl a scrub. Mop the floor.

Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.

Vacuum everything you can, and sweep everything you can’t.

Walk outside of your house (don’t lock yourself out, please). Walk back in and see what catches your eye first. Go and deal with that.

If you’re being inspected or your landlord is coming in for repairs, spend time on whatever area they’ll be focusing on.

Give the whole place one more once-over and pay attention to anything you’ve missed so far.

It’s an old trick, but if your place is a little funky-smelling, put a pan of water on the stove on low heat and add some citrus or cinnamon or vanilla. Don’t leave it unattended or forget about it.

Take a shower, put on something clean, and eat something.

You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.

A few years after the end of World War II, Yakov Handshtok, who had survived the war in the Soviet Union, returned to Ryki, a small town between Warsaw and Lublin. Almost all of the town's Jews, who until 1939 constituted most of its population, had been murdered in the extermination camps of Sobibór and Treblinka. In June 1945, four young Jews who returned to Ryki after being liberated from concentration camps were murdered by armed attackers.¹ Entering town, Handshtok was struck by the total absence of Jewish life. Everything looked familiar, yet dead, to him. Looking through the windows of former Jewish homes, he was startled to see Christian icons standing on the windowsills. Horrified by this emptiness, he wondered to himself, "Perhaps this isn't Ryki?" Arriving at Ryki's synagogue—and realizing it had been transformed into a granary— he leaned against the wall and wept: "My heart felt chilled... my throat was suddenly constricted."² Not far from Ryki, Moshe Rapaport was making his way back to Biłgoraj, another town that used to be predominantly Jewish.³ Wandering by the old Jewish cemetery, the study house, the mikveh, and the place where the synagogue once stood, he was filled with despair: "Everything was a void." The streets were paved with headstones that had been uprooted from the cemetery, the chiseled Hebrew inscriptions legible and clear to the eye. Everything seemed to him like a "vast graveyard.”⁴

‘engineering disaster’

‘Engineering failure’

‘engineering failure explained’

‘engineering failure explained audio’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with puppet show’

‘engineering failure explained audio full explanation with *visual presentation*’

‘well there’s your problem podcast’

‘how to speed up video’

‘project hail mary schematics’

‘what is Hail Mary’

‘what is football’

‘Communism’

‘what is Christian’

‘what is Christianity’

‘can high g-force cause CTE?’

‘CTE signs’

‘history of trains’

‘Islam’

‘Is Mary Magdalene and Mary same person?’

‘Judaism’

‘biggest train’

‘coolest trains ever’

‘nuclear power’

‘which religions can alien join’

‘nuclear power how does it work’

‘nuclear reactor detailed diagram safe’

‘safest nuclear reactor designs minimum radiation’

‘nuclear meltdown’

‘criticality incident’

‘Nuclear bomb’

‘how many nuclear weapons on Earth’

‘how to stop being afraid of nuclear war’

‘mutually assured destruction’

‘Hiroshima bombing why?’

‘Hiroshima still city’

‘radiation sickness signs’

‘how to improve radiation sickness outcomes’

‘Radiotherapy improves outcomes’

‘Radiation treatment not in humans’

‘chemotherapy’

‘radiation shielding best’

‘solid xenon’

‘solid xenon papers’

‘solid argon’

‘why no solid xenon’

‘woman’

‘man and woman’

‘female male difference’

‘sexual dimorphism’

‘sex hormone’

‘transgender’

‘trans man’

‘trans woman’

‘lgbt’

‘lgbt why’

‘Homophobia why’

‘transphobia’

‘How to tell if friend is gay’

‘how to ask if friend is gay’

‘period’

‘period not punctuation’

‘menustration’

‘puberty’

‘pregnancy’

‘pregnancy hurt women why’

‘human head evolution’

‘whale song compilation’

‘human sleeping pattern’

‘dream’

‘Nightmare’

‘Why do dreams happen’

‘tastiest foods how to’

‘artificial protein synthesis’

‘protein folding’

‘NileRed cooking compilation all’

‘is human head limb’

‘How to win argument with friend’

‘famous philosopher says head is limb’

‘famous scientist proves head is actually fifth limb’

‘head fifth limb spiritual belief’

‘head is arm mouth is hand proof’

Pros:

Doctors paying off their medical loans with prize money

Chronically ill people getting free testing (MRIs, CAT scans, X-Rays, bloodwork, etc) and possibly a diagnosis

You can ding points for 'anxiety' and 'you just need to lose some weight'

Doctors are incentivized to find an answer, not just find something billable

Cons:

HIPAA

Each doctor can order a limited number of tests. You win the most prize money if a test that you've ordered comes back positive for something that makes sense with the symptoms. (Additional checking is required for tests with a high rate of false positives.) Prize money is split if there are multiple winners.

If no one gets a positive test, there's a smaller prize for suggesting a treatment that the patient uses while measurably improving over the course of 3-6 months. And an even smaller fallback prize for subjective improvement.