After all these years, why is there not a distributed, peer-to-peer, mobile-accessible, in-browser forum system? Make it like Twitter, if you 'like' a post then it gets saved to your device and remains accessible to other users. Posts that nobody likes, cease to exist.

The tech is all available. Why does this not exist? Or if it does, why is it not posted to every forum at risk of being censored off the Internet?

The NRA has -- at times -- stood up for minority gun ownership. They were originally started by two Union soldiers following the Civil War, and were the first nonprofit to recognize and charter minority clubs.

Where's the download link?
Where's the exit nodes?
Where's the network?

I don't see a website for Riffle, only a .pdf.

There are even other projects at MIT with the same name. (Riffle water monitoring system)
https://civic.mit.edu/blog/hhcraig/open-water-project-exploring-open-source-water-quality-monitoring

This 'Riffle' is just a paper not an actual network, afaict.

It's the mark of the beast!

Batman learned to code!

Ummm...no. Free market means I kick your sorry ass out of the house and call a real doctor. Someone pulling that game in a small town will find himself run right out of town on a rail.

You also clearly have very little experience in medicine. People don't go into primary care for the money (obviously, because it doesn't pay enough to cover your loans). Small-town doctors are going to be using the free-market economy to help their patients find the cheapest tests and cheapest treatments possible.

That's how it works. Free market does not necessarily mean "predatory." Most people aren't like that, particularly in smaller or more rural communities. Your vague apprehensions about the risk of vulnerable families are given foundation only by systematic distortions of the free market. These distortions limit the supply of both doctors and medicines, forcing families to accept substandard and/or overpriced care. A free market gives these families choices, choices that the current system does not give them.

What if an independent split both parties?

I imagine if there was ever any serious altercation in the US, the roadside bombs would be vastly better constructed, placed, and triggered. The small arms are just to give those Texans enough time to fortify.

It's worth keeping in mind that science (and medicine!) still have "we didn't know!" moments today.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you were looking at the database structure itself and did not take the time to learn MUMPS well enough to really work with it.

I've never worked with MUMPS, but your aggravation is quite familiar. It's what happens when you try to take apart a schema that is designed as an object store, without using the object accessing framework.

I'm not defending MUMPS in any way, but you should be aware of this if you ever attempt data conversion in the future. Often (not always!) it is best to become properly familiar with the original system of accessing the schema, and use that model to inspect and interact with the data store. It's frustrating as shit to have to learn a whole new (often proprietary) system in order to get at the data cleanly, but it will likely save you quite a bit of time and frustration. Plus you can put it on your resume, so there's that.

Are you one of those people who would have ridiculed anyone claiming the Government can "listen to all of our phone calls any time they want" as a conspiracy theorist?

If you were actually knowledgeable about the topic, you would know that vaccination rates in the US are extremely high -- among the highest in the world -- and are not dropping. There is zero danger of polio making a comeback.

Most "anti-vaxxers" (all?) I know have their kids vaccinated against polio. If you decline the flu shot (which, by the way, does not undergo the safety assurances that most vaccines must. It can't: there's not enough time to get it on the market before it's needed) then you are an "anti-vaxxer" even if all the rest are administered on schedule. I call bullshit. Strawman fallacy.

Probably no-one will get chickenpox or pertussis and nobody is going to change their minds of vaccinations. Those facilities had perfectly normal vaccination rates last year, and probably will this year as well once the records are fully updated.

You have hit the nail upon the head. For people who believe this, California is probably second only to New York in places to stay away from. It certainly is to me, for this reason.

I don't know, but if want I'd be happy to talk with you about the experience. :)

I started off doing part-time classes at a local community college, finished it off with 2 years at a 4-year school, and went directly into med school.

It's a lot of work and way way more stress than I ever imagined it would be, but it wasn't hard to get in. Lots of medical schools, especially osteopathic schools, welcome nontraditional students, and frankly if you do the prep work the MCAT isn't that bad.

If you have an eye on med school, start accumulating experience in the medical field early on. EMT training isn't hard to get and a couple of years doing EMT work (heck, you can do EMT training and work in the evenings and not interfere with a full-time job) will prepare you tremendously. I didn't do that, and it would have helped during admissions and would help a lot with the educational experience.