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Can't be bothered to upvote, and I know why


I don't know that the influx of AI spam would necessarily result in people disengaging and choosing to seek out real content, though. Social media feeds have been serving up less and less content from our actual real life contacts for a while now (partly because people seem to be posting less). As long as it's engaging I think a significant chunk of people aren't going to care whether it's AI

(anecdotally, my mother loves AI generated videos, perhaps it's just novelty at the moment and it will wear off)


Like a CAPTCHA?


Good one, honestly didn't think about it. But visual or other kind of human-accessible captchas can be solved by bots. My suggested PoW would be computational.


I've been through six egg retrievals. I've probably been lucky in the the physical effects weren't bad for me (but I've had/have endometriosis so I'm pretty used to just dealing with pain and discomfort). The emotional effects were harder. Not just the stress of not knowing whether it was even going to work (most times it didn't), but also the hormonal shifts resulting in rapid mood swings and irritability - which my partner found hard to deal with.


I appreciate you mentioning the mood effects because I've heard those are pretty common too. Also weight gain , bloating and skin issues.


Obviously this is very distressing and a failure of the system. What I'm curious about is that she didn't call her son to ask for help. I wonder how much of that is embarrassment over her situation. Stories of bodies being found weeks after death by neighbours or relatives are all too common, though I've usually assumed it happens mostly to the elderly who have no surviving friends or family.

Also possibly a cynical take but I wonder if her son being there and calling the ambulance on her behalf would have resulted in the situation being taken more seriously.


That's not the title of the actual article


It's the pattern that the actual title follows.


The actual title of the article is "Seattle woman’s 911 calls reveal gaps in ambulance service"


When I visit the page I get a modal paywall, the browser tab (small, could easily escape notice) takes on the title you report, and in huge letters across the page behind the paywall I see:

> She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead

As far as I'm concerned the second one is the title because (regardless of any technicalities such as metadata) that's how it's being presented to me when I visit.


Oh I see. I didn't realise different titles were being presented. The huge letters for me read what I pasted above. Might be different on mobile.


Gave birth at 18 solo while her partner was in prison. Probably deserved a chill life?


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