I would imagine there is a contingency plan for if the surgeon becomes incapacitated, eg has an aneurysm/heart attack, so they’d probably do whatever that is
Probably something like palliative care until an on call surgeon can come in and finish out whatever was going on
15 years ago with the current state of search engines I would have said I would be willing to subscribe to a search engine that’s not disgustingly infested with advertising on the back end of things and actually just worked like google did in like 2000-2003. A search engine that indexed the web and tried to display the best result for a query, not the most promoted one. Where the biggest concern for quality was people gaming the system (before that was deeply rebranded as a positive thing, “seo”) and google actually taking steps to fight against it instead of embracing it and just charging money to openly promote like 50%+ of the first page. Back when you could actually get a list of all the results instead of this nonsense now where it’s an endlessly extending single page so if you go to a link deep in the results without opening a new tab you lose your place and start over.
But now I have 10 million services asking me to subscribe and from experience I know that the subscription payments won’t stop them from letting advertising intrude on compromising the quality of the product anyway so fuck that. The only thing I would possibly trust them to remove is visible ads and obviously promoted listings but otherwise it would just look like the search page with an adblocker. Still useless at its core because they’ve let the admen infect their search algorithm and remove any sense of objectivity for years now
A Facebook owned app collects as much data as humanly possible? I am shocked at this unforeseen development
Remember this when they try to integrate into the fedeverse. Don’t be one of the people that says “meta will make it popular!” Be one of the people that will recognize that meta will use it as a tool to extract as much information from users as possible, amongst other nefarious things
I used to use 91 to clean flux and it works fine, might have to do a few passes though
If you clean flux regularly I highly suggest getting a cheap ultrasonic bath and some branson EC solution. It comes concentrated so a bottle lasts forever and solution can be reused a few times. If you only do a few projects a year it’s way overkill but I do a lot of rework stuff and it’s soooo much easier to just drop stuff in the bath for 20m when I’m done. A used decent sized one was like $80 and the solution was like $40 for a quart which has lasted me 2 years so far because I only change the bath once a month and it’s like 2% per gallon. Also super handy for cleaning corroded pcbs, stuff like that if you do repair work
Generally listening is best but there’s no universal answer to a question like this. People are complex. Some people want to be consoled, some people want feedback, some people want to be challenged, etc
But a general first line of defense is hear them out, comfort when appropriate, and don’t make it about you (“oh that’s crazy it’s like this one time I…”)
If meta pushes this it will be to brand themselves with decentralized social media. The average person will associate the concept with meta and assume it was a meta invention. This may be a long play by meta to get in front of things like mastodon/lemmy/kbin/etc and become an established player in the space to the laymen before the actual established players can do so
It’s a gross misuse of their obscene power bordering on monopoly and hardly a good thing. Even if the above isn’t true they will 100% use it to harvest as much data as humanly possible without consent and tons more if you’re stupid enough to give them consent. They will tune algorithms to feed people rage bait and stupid bullshit to drive engagement at all costs. And they’ll load it with intrusive targeted advertising
Been to a few psychiatrists and work with a lot as a clinician. For a first meeting you should expect to give a lot of history including familial history, treatment history, substance use history, medication history, diagnosis history, trauma history, developmental history, etc. Skip any that aren’t relevant to you and if you can’t give tons of info that’s okay (eg if you don’t have tons of info on your early development just give what you can, you can skip substance use if you’ve never had issues with it, etc). description of presenting problems including what you’re coming in for but also cooccurring physical issues that may be relevant (eg chronic ailments like diabetes/gerd/migraines) as well as sleep quality.
You may not touch on all of this, it may include other stuff, depends on the doctor. Each practitioner has their own personal approach but those are the broad strokes. Assuming you’re in the USA remember your rights as a consumer: you have the right to know why you are being prescribed a medication, you have the right to know it’s side effects, and you have the right to know alternatives to it. But at the same time remember side effects aren’t always experienced and for some people being aware of them makes them more likely to occur (I am one of those people fwiw)