u/Adventurous_Half7643

I'm very curious to see what everyone's opinion of how our new CDC Director will handle this (absurd) executive order regarding decreasing childhood vaccines. I think that Dr. Schwartz is exceptionally qualified for the director position, which is very surprising given this administration's previous candidates and endorsements. Will she be dismissed like Dr. Susan Monarez was after she declined the administration's vaccine policies?

I wonder if companies who buy advertisement time on YouTube know that almost no one watches their ads. Like, as soon as that "skip" button is clickable, I'm clicking on it. I dont care what the advertisement is or what its for, I'm skipping it as soon as I'm able to. And no, I'm not subscribing to YouTube Red or whatever the ad-free service is called. I just don't know why companies bother spending money on advertisement spaces when they likely know that almost no one is going to click on what they're selling.

I never thought that I'd become this person, but I'm starting to find myself more and more dismissive of people who are "vet techs" but never took the schooling or passed the VTNE to become one. I don't mean to sound classist, if thats how I sound, but its very insulting to have people come along with only 1-2 years of experience, aren't licensed, and then claim to have the same title as me who has the degree and passed the VTNE. I don't know, I think I'm just having a bad week.

I'm ready to throw in the towel. I'm creating this agent to pull spreadsheets from Sharepoint based on the current date, and then edit the spreadsheet based on a list of parameters before delivering it to me as a downloadable. I'm using Claude Opus 4.7 since the spreadsheet can be a little overwhelming due to the amount of content, but I've provided bullet-point instructions providing a step-by-step of what the agent should do. The agent is able to pull the correct file from Sharepoint each time, but the results that it gives back.....varies.

The agent consistently either skips steps or deliberately ignores the instructions that I've provided and sends me back a downloadable with entire sections missing. I've asked copilot to adjust the prompt to make it more understandable to the agent, which I've implemented; but then I get back wildly inconsistent results. Am I doing something wrong or is this just Copilot being its charming self?

I'm trying to remember a certain type of enrichment that we used to use at one of my previous facilities years ago, hopefully someone on here will know what I'm talking about. It was a type of paper that the NHPs could shred, play with, and non-toxic in case they eat it. Also would be super easy to clean during room cleans. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Does anyone else find it weird that Laxasia is significantly more difficult than Simon? It took me 2-3 days to beat Laxasia (with specter - I dont care), and I beat Simon on my own within like 2 hours. I haven't started the final boss yet, but was Simon supposed to be a small break for the player to wind down after an absolutely grueling fight with Laxasia?

I'm frustrated and irritated because I inadvertently locked myself out of Eugenie's record by talking to her first instead of Venigni after killing the fake Alidoro. The game tells you to go talk to Eugenie after confronting and killing the fake Alidoro, which is what I did; but I completely forgot that I had also picked up the cryptic vessel.

I would have decoded Alidoro's message first, but my brain was completely fried after the Black Rabbit Brotherhood fight. I mean, its definitely my fault, but it just seems so sneaky for the game to do something like this. I'm well versed with Souls games (played and beat Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and Sekiro), but this seemed kind've cheap.

I bought an ab roller during the pandemic for some at-home ab exercises, but got away from it once the gyms re-opened. I'm looking to start targeting my serratus muscles to make them more pronounces - should my ab roller help with that? I do 4 sets of leg raises after my gym days (currently workout 4 days per week, push/pull/leg/cardio) and do jiu jitsu 2-3 days per week.

I want to get everyone's opinion on which equipment/workout type they prefer while rolling. I do a push/pull/leg/core split with cardio mixed in, but my friend who's a brown belt has been doing kettlebells only for years. Each one has their own set of pros and cons, but I was curious to see what most BJJ people do for their strength training.

I had 2 different internship sites lined up through my job (I work in biopharma) that both fell through at almost the same time. I need to have an internship site approved by May 1st or else I'll need to wait 6 more months to graduate as the internship courses are only offered in Spring and Summer semesters.

My emphasis is in veterinary public health, so I've reached out to the state veterinarians of NJ and NY (I live in NJ but work in NY) to see if they might be able to help me. This internship is literally the last thing that I need to do before I graduate, and I refuse to wait another 6 months to get my degree. Is there anyone else that I should contact? I'm getting desperate.

I've got some free time at work before I have to dive into spreadsheets and was wondering what everyone's most hardcore pathogen of choice is. In your professional opinion, which pathogen will be the one that can cause the end of our species? Given everything that we know regarding disease transmission and spread (global travel, increases in zoonotic diseases via urbanization, proliferation of misinformation, etc.), which pathogen and routes will be the one that will cause too much damage that we will not be able to recover?

This may be eradicated diseases such as smallpox or previously circulating diseases such as the Flu of 1918. I'll also take conceptual pathogens that you think may exist in the future or one that is completely made-up.