JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 16, 2025

…is…is this funny?

One more thing to worry about. I looked it up. Argyria can make your skin, nails, and even internal organs turn gray or blue or silver … and the change is permanent! WebMD says:“You might get argyria if you take dietary supplements that contain silver, use medication such as eyedrops or nose sprays that contain silver, or work where silver particles are in the air.”

When I was very young the tip of my ring finger was crushed in a door. A couple days afterwards that side of my hand turned blue. The doctor my Mom took me to said half my hand had to be amputated! Mom marched me out of there and took me to an old-timey doctor, who calmly washed the blue pigment from the bandages off my hand..

The legal profession, on the other hand, could be entirely replaced by AI without much issue. Shakespeare may have had the right idea about lawyers!

How does candy make your skin turn blue?

Marcy is now…………House?

And she still has them? How big is that box?

But she was diagnosed correctly. They just didn’t know the origin.

actually happened to my wife, only it was orange, from eating too many carrots.

Candy containing silver? I don’t think that’s a thing.

it’s a good thing she got rid of the bots, keeping them would end with some guy shooting her in an alley with thematically labeled bullets.

When people say they want to know what you think about something they did, what they usually mean is “tell me how good my idea is”.

Is there really candy that has silver in it? I’ve never seen that.

Is this true? Did this happen?

Steve Barwick on Quora:

I’m not sure about gold-coated candies. But in a number of countries, silver-coated candies are consumed orally, literally by the tons every single year.

For example, in India, several times a year during certain festivals, as well as at weddings and at the traditional outdoor food bazaars, the people eat traditional Indian sweets.

And these sweets are wrapped in a pure silver foil called Varak (or Varakh) that’s been beaten thin so it can be used to wrap the food – this, apparently, to help stop food poisoning pathogens from growing on the sweets which are often sold in outdoor food bazaars.

These sweets are generally ingested silver foil and all by the Indian people. This has been going on for thousands of years in India. Just about everybody there does it. (See documentation here.)

And there’s apparently never been any cases whatsoever of “silver poisoning” or harm from “heavy metal toxicity” from this traditional cultural activity.

Indeed, the government of India has approved silver foil as a food-grade ingredient, as long as it’s 99.9% purity or better.

In other words, the Indian government doesn’t limit the use of edible silver, but they do regulate the purity of the silver that can be used in food applications and eaten, allowing their citizens to eat only the purest silver possible!

(See “Justifying the Need to Prescribe Limits for Toxic Metal Contaminants in Food-Grade Silver Foils, journal of Food Additives and Contaminants, 2005 Dec;22(12):1219-23.)

As stated in the journal Materials Research Innovations, Vol. 11, No. 1, (2007) pages 3-18:

“A recent paper by Das et al. provides the remarkable datum that some 275,000 kg [i.e., 605,000 pounds — ED] of edible metallic silver foil are consumed every year (in food) in India.

No known adverse health effects have ever been recorded…

I remember that girl in Goldfinger who had Augyria.

I’m with Orange Mailman — it was the bots that put Marcy on the right trail. Don’t fire them, just remember that they’re only tools.

Good for you Marcy, get that stupid AI-crap out of the healthcare industry ♥♥♥

The bots’ diagnosis was correct, but they couldn’t figure out the cause – this shows why humans need to be involved in any process involving AI.

The Bot is correct but just didn’t know how the patient contracted the condition. No reason for firing.

Even if wrong, correct and continue to teach.

Looks like the diagnosis was right, though.