zephorah

@zephorah@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep on pushing back or you’ll end up like us across the pond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s nothing Skyrim about it in terms of game style. No open world, but it’s a very cool rpg space game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prey is worth your time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a deeply personal question only you can answer.

  The other piece is impact on other children.

  I was privy to one situation in which the mother told the father she would divorce him if he did not agree to place their heavy needs child in a home. Why? Their two other children didn’t know their father and the entire household revolved around 1 person instead of the family unit except on private outings between the two non-special needs kids and the mom, who scrambled to give them normal kid experiences. Caring for this needs child became all the father did when at home. Sometimes caring was sitting in the room with the heavy needs child, a child content in a bed, unable to walk or communicate (congenital) to the exclusion of the other children.

  We have all probss as blah read those Reddit threads from kids who were screaming into a thread about hating their special needs sibling as well.

  Consideration needs to be made for every member of the family unit. And healthcare being what it is lately, outside the home care options may not be as available today.

  Nothing about this is easy and there is no one right answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets a big community patch keeping it alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was the original intent in the way it was made, with module creation.

  It was a very active forum until Bioware accidentally deleted it once and then dumped forums altogether. I’m not surprised the fan base keeps the game going. Dnd is cool like that. Remember, Beamdog came out of nowhere and re-upped all the originals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This occurred a while back. I was standing at a nurses station, when the technician watching the heart monitors announced that a patients heart rate had jumped from 80s to 140s

  For those who don’t know, parameters are 50-100. 40s if you’re an athlete. And the heart rate is generally allowed to go to 129, in a hospital, if you have no symptoms.

  This individual jumped from 80s to 140s. This being a significant change, staff ran to the room to check the patients well-being and found this patients girlfriend riding him in the hospital bed.

  The question you should ask is how much privacy do they want?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.

  We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what unbiased media sources do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the way the Behind the Bastards podcaster explains it. Each journalistic outlet can have strengths to certain things and part of learning to consume journalism is knowing what each sources strengths or weaknesses are. Or learning to follow specific journalists across platforms.

  And some just play to the echo chambering of political parties saying exactly what their reader base wants to hear. It’s good to learn what those are as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a middle aged person who is generally healthy, I’ve never washed chicken. On a side note, we eat chicken weekly. I’ve not experienced diarrhea, or been really sick, or died post chicken eating. I could safely say 1/2 of the days of the year, at least, involve basic butcher parted out chicken, and it is delicious.

  Washing a backyard/farm chicken post killing/plucking to remove blood and debris, sure. But what is the logic behind this strange internet trend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨84% of H-1B Visas Go to India and China: Is It a Scam in Disguise?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is enlightening. Locked to a company by virtue of your visa. Working without pay while waiting for your visa.

  I can see why these working class hating CEOs like these visas. You get talent while bypassing some of those pesky American labor laws.

  And we on turn have to outsource for this talent because the university positions are outsourced to other countries, in part, no doubt, because we can’t afford them.

  Another motive to not subsidize education. The cycle of taking advantage of masters degrees would end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Jeff Bezos will have to choose between eating and paying rent this month if he pays his workers more or…oh, right. The man can afford to privately send himself into space.

  Pay your damn workers.

  What this should be, October to December, is the sought after time to pick up work at Amazon because it’s an amazing place to work. But no. Instead, we are here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough people buying Premium, eh?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can’t afford yet another monthly bill.

  It’s like walking in Trador Joes for snacks. Oh, hey, this is only $3! And look, this is only $5! Get to checkout: $130 please.

  Seriously, that’s how this nickel and dime subscription crap works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctors have been saying “you need to lose weight” for a very long time, decades at least. Aside from a small sliver of patients this advice is typically ignored. People want a pill for this, not to have to give up that bucket of KFC or the supersized McDonald’s French fries.

  Recently, patients raise hell with healthcare workers’ bosses if weight loss is advised because it’s “mean” or is “impacting my mental health” regarding body image. So the suggestion is not made as much in general in the last 5 years.

  The problem on this one isn’t often the doctors.

  Now, if a patient needs surgery and is too obese for it to happen then there’s a path forward to advise weight loss without repercussions. If cholesterol is high there’s also a path forward for advising diet change, again, without repercussions. Diabetes, again, diet recommendations so you don’t fall into a coma and die, and so you can potentially keep both your feet.

  All of that said, you hit diabetes phase you do have it forever, but with type 2 you can manage it by diet if you behave well, reduce weight, and maintain healthy eating. This is great, but it doesn’t mean the type 2 diabetes is gone just that it’s well managed, or “diet managed”. Another way to think of it is that it’s in remission by virtue of your good behavior but not cured. Go on a month long food bender and things can change back again.

  To reverse, you need to lose weight and adjust your diet, per your doctors instructions, as soon as your doctor tells you you are pre-diabetic.

  Nutrition consults typically come with the diagnosis, but people are notorious for not following up with the next specialist. Diabetic educator is a position as well. Your doctor is booked like an airport by his/her bosses and probably can’t cram that into the 15-20min time slot allowed. Referrals are made for a reason.

  Two things that commonly happen to thinking on this topic. Oh, I’m prediabetic, whatever, it’s something we watch, nothing to do here, I’m safe because no insulin required. Or, I no longer need Metformin or insulin or whatever, so I must no longer be diabetic. Both are typically wrong.

  Another thing that happens is hardcore denial of even having type 2 diabetes because “I don’t take insulin.”

  This isn’t all people, this is simply a piece of the mess involved with diet and exercise advice in health care alongside type 2.

  In keeping with the probabilities game that is the human body, here’s a fun fact. There are morbidly obese people in the 500-700lb zone who are not diabetic and still guzzling sugar like none other. Someone has to exist on the tails of the bell curve.

  As always, bring your health questions to your doctors, don’t take some random dipshit on the internet seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an odd mentality that you just need to dose more insulin, no big deal, when eating poorly with diabetes. Understanding is sometimes the problem.

  Here’s a better way to think about it in terms of body damage over time.

  Think of sugar as fuel, because it is. When you have diabetes you lack the capacity to regulate the concentration and intensity of that fuel once you ingest it. You can add other things to the mix that can and will help (insulin and various oral agents) but the efficiency and immediacy of the inherent system simply isn’t there when you have diabetes.

  Think of excess sugar in the blood as a caustic fuel that slowly (speed varies by individual as well as food consumed) burns out the vasculature (blood vessels) over time.

  This burn out due to excess fuel is why nerves in the feet die. Neuropathy is the official name for the numbness and tingling in toes and feet that diabetics generally, eventually, experience. The burnout is also why toe tissue dies and toes need to be amputated, along with a foot or even an entire lower leg with knee, depending. Eye tissue is another location hit particularly hard by this burn out effect from sugars.

  So there’s impact over time based on how much caustic sugar fuel you pour into your own bloodstream.

  Also, sugar is addictive. Like meth or heroin, people struggle with letting it go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, it’s not time to rush the stores and buy out the toilet paper just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because dipshits gonna dipshit.

  Crunchy types who think ultra bacterial/viral milk is health beneficial and that bacteria free (pasteurized, as in, flashed with some heat) is terrible for their health, will go out of their way to continue consuming it. Remember, “I don’t wanna” is a predictor of human behavior.

  We also have the premier dipshit, RFK, heading health, and a CDC that doesn’t do pandemic work (see: Reveal podcast’s 3 part series on the COVID project), so it could be that California is treating this as one of many things states have to do themselves, by themselves, going forward. My read of the post election news is all 3 west coast states plan to do for themselves, as independently as possible, since Trump won. This action fits that narrative and theif GDPs, CA especially, do make that plausible. As such, OR and even WA may follow suit if more cases appear.

  Newsom is also gunning to run in 2028, assume we have democratic elections instead of Putin style elections going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Worried Should We Be About Bird Flu? California has declared a state of emergency over the virus. We asked experts how concerned they are.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bold statement. Were you a hardline “I don’t wanna” type during COVID who plans to do the same if this becomes something, or are you medically inclined and have some inside knowledge to back that statement up?

  There is the recent Lancet article but that is regarding an eventual, probable mutation should it take root in mammals and start spreading mammal to mammal. COVID mutated too, but it took 2-3yrs for a mutation to occur such that it stopped ravaging people.

  H5N1 isn’t like COVID, H5N1 has been on the world radar, watched, since ~2002.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d worry less about the sweet tea and more about how contaminating your laundry is given the amount of plastic microfibers washing away with the waste water. Polyester is plastic. You deliver microfiber bits of plastic into the wastewater with every load of wash. How much of that is really filtered out?

  If you end up in the ER or hospital, you will have an up close and personal experience with plastic. Blood: in a plastic bag. Plasma: in a plastic bag. Platelets: in a plastic bag. IV fluids: in a plastic bag. The tubing that delivers any of those things directly into your bloodstream: plastic. The syringes used: plastic. The IVs placed in your veins: plastic, including the catheter that sits inside your vein for the duration (heated to 98 degrees). The wrappers on each individual pill: plastic. The bottles the pills originally come in: plastic. Thermometer covers: plastic. The tubing used during dialysis: plastic. Tube feeding: plastic bottle of food fed through plastic tubing directly to stomach. A chemist or engineer could detail out what type of plastic is used and whether it’s a potential problem far better than I.

  I question the “biodegradable” items used with seedlings. Why is the mesh from the Burpee peat pucks still fully intact in my compost pile after 4 years? Pucks baked wetly on a heating mat. Buy seedlings? Probably baking in the sun at a garden center in a cheap plastic pot.

  A lot of shelf stable food is stored in plastic, and we don’t know how hot or cold its getting in the trucks or warehouses before it hits store shelves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Josh Johnson - The Failure, Fear, And Frenzy around Luigi Mangione⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trevor Noah’s podcast is a discussion with him, Josh, and Christiana about this topic. One of the more honest discussions I’ve heard.

  Haven’t seen this yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he was batshit before the worm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This man is absolutely batshit. Why does he want polio back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is…what a way to inspire mass exodus in the remaining employees.

  Here, be honest. Thank you. You’re fired. This feels very Trump-y.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy boxes of moldable foam earplugs which can do very well for noise blocking. Individually wrapped in pairs. They carry well in a back pocket. Those work if you’re ok with the sensation of something in your ears, don’t have ear tubes, or some other contraindicated condition.

  An aesthetically pleasing pair of full muffs can also work. Sometimes kids need their environment dimmed, and the muffs can work rather well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨graceful wombats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is awwww material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest issue is the decibel level. I can hear, for now, but the decibel level on those things makes one of my ears feel like it’s being blasted out of my skull and induces ringing.

  I use the paper because it doesn’t hurt my ear.

  Yes, I’ve seen a doctor, it simply is what it is and my only recourse for that ear is to wear ear protection. In any public restroom, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YEET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Citadel lobby, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YEET⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, you just decided on first contact, but, suddenly, ship goes boom after being struck in the propulsion system with a bullet like manhole cover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨alpha⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone needs to tell all the authors involved in the wave of trash urban fantasy books that flooded the market a while back, using this to write werewolves. (True Blood, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Never played anything like call of duty, so idk, my experience is limited.

  You would think, because we live in a society, it would just be cool like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent but Deadly: I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a dnd fan, so ofc I played the MMO. Within the DND MMO, I had no harassment as a woman on a mic. In fact, it appeared as if ~50% of those playing and on mic were women. Granted, that was years ago. And maybe DND was, and is, a different scene.

  Way back with vanilla and BC WOW, same though. No issues and lots of women playing. Self moderated social groupings, probably.

  Granted, there was a social effect of 1 woman on a mic drawing out all the other women, a social permission & safety element.

  No idea what it is now though, I’m too old for it now. If it’s rampant with harassment, that’s just sad, for everyone.