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A realistic understanding of healthcare and medicine.

• A combination of factors — doctors with greatly varying knowledge and skill, a for-profit system run by insurance companies, a rapidly expanding body of scientific knowledge and discovery sources, and no access to physician data — results in a healthcare system with little consistency and no quality guarantees. That leaves it up to the patient to effectively seek, evaluate, select, and manage their care providers. Here you’ll find information to help you find the needles in the haystack: how to find providers with the experience and approach you need; how to manage your providers (patient best practices for vetting, visiting, and validating); and proven medical decision-making best practices.
• Since there is no actual system that enforces rules and access, different doctors, even practicing in the same hospital, may provide very different care. At the same time, advances in basic science and research technology are making discoveries that will take years to become mainstream. So the patient who needs a miracle has reason to hope, but must go beyond their provider’s recommendations and discover the true extent of their options using second and third opinions, reading medical publications, and leaning heavily on AI tools.

Take a step back and look across what we now know in medicine’s silos, and you’ll realize that, more than ever before, multisystem disease prevention is possible by optimizing health and impeding known aging processes.

• The days of one pill for one disease seem distant. No organ system exists independently, and many factors, from nutrition and exercise to mood and laughter, meaningfully affect disease progression and response to treatment. Here you’ll find examples of comprehensive treatments that incorporate these factors. Combination, multimodal treatment is the new black.

If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it. Advances in medicine include recognizing where we have treated without a need and caused harm in the process — seeing the institution of medicine as a mix of science and what can only be called quackery. How to evaluate recommended or available treatment for necessity. How to understand, incorporate, and practice what is possibly the most valuable development in medicine in the last 25 years: the evidence-based standard.

Show me the evidence or the door.

• Learn the reality of how much money there is to begin with, and who has how much.
• Learn all the factors that go into your net worth and make your life better, so you can make the most of them.
• Learn that there is no such thing as lost money. Learn to read your bank statements and the sources of information used by financial journalists.
• Learn the many ways people and businesses get robbed, how to protect yourself, and what to do if you are victimized.
• Learn to use AI to review your statements and bills, discover mistakes, and take action for you.

And if you want to move on up like Mr. Jefferson, here you will find articles on how to really use AI like the big boys to create a financial advisor that will help you avoid the number one reason people are poor: bad decisions.

You’ll be glad you stopped by to find out what democracy looks like where it actually works and remains strong. Help us develop the only uncorrupted, objective, sworn-to-honesty AI agent that helps you discover which candidates will do the most for you, based on everyone’s voting history and other factual data. Who will act in your interest more than the rest?

We are witnessing the birth of what is possibly the most disruptive OMG invention ever: AI. Think you’re totally down with AI ’cause you got ChatGPT doing your grandfather’s voice and personality? Wait till you find out what is now possible, and what you can do with a little learning.

There is more than usual to be said here about disabled people, their lives, their thoughts, and the ways in which we, with and without fancy tools, can improve their world.

You’ll find articles about the civil rights of individuals, organizations and resources, assistive technology, the right to die, the right to be heard, and how to make it less easy to forget a disabled person who cannot reach out by themselves.

What is it? What does it mean to be male, female, homosexual, transsexual? Since we’re in the US, we’ll have to discuss what a penis is and how it functions, since 50 years of being the world’s village idiots by allowing quack doctors to circumcise babies has left us pretty ignorant about what this pretty nifty body part is really like. Then we have to talk about all the men who don’t have a penis for the same reason, and how they have or haven’t coped.

“We are our creative act” — well, at least that’s what Nietzsche thought. So check out some of the stuff people do with stuff that some others insist is art.