Berttheduck

Eugenics?

The problem with this point relating to dementia is that dementia specifically makes forming new memories harder. So they are unlikely to remember any specifics including their diagnosis. Also for the patient saying dementia or memory problems will be more than enough to tell everyone who's not a doctor.

The frontotemporal bit won't mean anything to the general public unless they remember more human anatomy than most, but everyone has heard of dementia that one is in common parlance anyway I think.

This is a big problem with medicine in general. Medicine is unfortunately very much an old white man's club, it's getting better slowly, but all the knowledge and the way it is taught comes from that old white guy standard.

Medical terminology is complex because medicine is complex. There is definitely an element of being part of an exclusive club but there is also communicating lots of information quickly and efficiently.

Frontotemporal dementia describes a specific set of symptoms and if you are medically trained tells you most everything you need to know about what is happening. As opposed to the patient is a bit confused or sees things sometimes which could be many different things.

The language and how diagnoses are communicated are really important, a good medic should tell the patient their diagnosis with the medical words but should explain what those mean in as much detail as the patient wants.

Most patients are able to understand dementia even if the frontotemporal bit doesn't make sense to them.

Shaving with a double edged razor rather than a cartridge one. The whole process is much more meditative and rewarding when you actually focus on the moment and take the time to do it properly. Gives a better shave too.

So it seems this post is mostly about your love of watching videos of games and why don't more people do that.

There are a few games I want to play but haven't. I don't generally enjoy watching other people play games, for me the fun is in the experience. The choices I make and the systems mastery I gain. Video games are active entertainment, a video is useful to see if I might like a game or to say watch the alternate endings but spending 40 hours watching

I watch a lets play with commentary from Pete Complete playing Rimworld because it's basically a story generator and it's a really good bit of passive entertainment. But it is not the same as playing the game, I'm invested in the characters which develop but not to the same extent as when I play Rimworld myself.

The final ending in Automata had me bawling. Genuine art, just beautiful and the music really brings it home. One of my best gaming experiences.

To the moon is like a kick right in the feels. Had me and my wife in bits at the ending.

You could look at fire safe boxes for document storage. Those are usually pretty solid. You would want to bag up the drive inside an anti static bag and probably put a couple of those little water absorbing silicone packets in there as well. If access isn't an issue then maybe some sealant around the seams to keep it more water tight.

Magnetic tape would be better for long term storage as well I think. Those have longer storage stability. I don't know how long an unplugged hard drive will reliably store information.

Animals could dig it up but probably wouldn't as it wouldn't smell like food. Depth wise I'd go for at least a couple feet deep, the traditional 6 is a surprisingly deep hole and temperature gets more consistent the deeper you go (at least with readily available tools, it eventually starts to get hot again).

Please note totally random opinion with very little experience with long term data storage. Thanks for the fun thought experiment, I hope things get better and you don't need your backup data.

Universities are a stepping stone to teach students how to be independent adults so getting them used to normal working hours gently is a good thing. Most courses aren't a solid 9-5 so there's plenty of opportunity for a lay in at least some days (depending on the course)

Universities are also research institutions and that all runs on normal working hours, the lecturers are often researchers first and teaching staff second so fitting classes around the research makes sense.

I suspect the main reason is the inertia of the 9-5 that most of the world revolves around. You'd struggle to recruit staff to teach, techs to maintain buildings and stock required if they had to work permanently on late shifts.

UK resident: pretty sure you can't dictate to your employees what they do on non work time unless you pay them on call wages. Ie be here and wear this. I guess you could write it into the contract and see if someone signs it but I don't think it would hold up.

Maybe, you'd want to talk to someone like an intensive care doctor really but yeah a lot of your organs can be replaced mechanically these days at least for a while.