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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not the best, but still worth a mention is “Stormworks: Build and rescue”. Basically a Lego like “build a ship/plane and do missions on the oceans” game - missions nowadays are also including far more than rescue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw: There are USB foot keyboards on the soulless online marketing platform of your choice. They can usually be programmed to different keys or combinations. While it is not something I would use for FPS gaming, it can come handy in situations like yours. I have one with three different switches that are programmable which is quite handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i insane?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This post is incredibly well written and I can second this, both as a patient and as a healthcare professional. @Mods: We should have a wiki/halloffame or something to point people to posts like this.

  !Lemmysilver

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF: There was GTA London

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon keeps it classy in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Friend of mine is a burly former spec ops medic who knows a flight medic. A guy who simply loves trauma cases.

  And he is recurringly having a vasovagal when getting his own blood drawn. Hehe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's so important about keeping military operations secret?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To add a more recent example: The Serbians shot down a F-117 Nighthawk with a obsolete air defence system from the fifties. How? They knew the aircraft were coming, when (both due to spies), where (as they used the same routes) and that they had no anti radar escort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could go for Paracetamol/Acetaminophen. The lethal dose is quite low and in theory low enough someone could poison someone else with it. And once symptoms set in people’s livers are often beyond rescue and they die a very gruesome death unless we find a transplant organ in time.(And even then survival is not guaranteed)

  And it’s relatively save to use in writing as it is coated/mixed with enough bittering agent these days that it actually wouldn’t work that well to secretly posing someone.

  If you need something with a shorter timeframe Methanol is an option.

  And of course there’s always Dihydrogen monoxide-everyone who has even had one drop of it will die eventually but the time range depends on the dose. With very high doses people die in minutes,with medium doses (this is actually sometimes used by inmates to kill themselves) they die within a day, with lower dose after decades, but some die mere days after they ingested the mere last drop of it. Nasty stuff and very available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do they decide where to put bus stops?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, actually some companies like IKEA which often are located “on the outskirts” even pay for lines from train stations to their shops - which are for public use and often it’s a mixed deal, like the company (or sometimes a few companies, sometimes even competitors) subsidies the line during business hours and the local government pays the remaining hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually they kind of still do. Secusmart is very popular in most industrial nations for that and they are a division of Blackberry nowadays.

  They are based on specialised Samsung devices afaik.

  The other big alternative is iOS at the moment, they also offer highly secured MDM solutions but they are less trusted by non-US countries as they do not allow code review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mother⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true. There are various witnesses of the Shoa who absolutely did testify this happened. I actually spoke to one of them in school - during highschool two survivors of the holocaust did come to my (German) highschool and talked about what they went through, extremely nice people with extremely horrible stories.

  One of them explained how they hid in an abandoned building and how the mother of the other family hiding with them choked their 8 week old baby when there was a official patrol nearby and they had to stay quiet. Didn’t help, they got caught shortly after and as far as we were told none of the other family made it.

  The worst thing? It’s one of the “less gruesome” stories the whole Holocaust has…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adhesive tape to the buttocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, not that different from an stoma bag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adhesive tape to the buttocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s not the same math genius who calculated the amount of tampons for the first female long term crew member…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adhesive tape to the buttocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god yes, so much.

  I do disaster response planning, mostly for healthcare. “No, your OR really needs electrical power!” “No, you can’t still run your outpatient clinic during an active shooter situation!” “For fucks sake,NO,you will not use a diesel generator indoors to power the ED!Not even with a open window. Your windows are 30cm x 1m”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. Old job was more IT and process related, nowadays I work more in disaster planning , public health policy and process planning in healthcare, spiced up with a bit of medical intelligence.

  Basically hospitals, large companies and government bodies are legally required to have plans for major incidents (from “hey,there has been a train collision, you get 30 severely injured in 20min” to “shit,we lost all power” or “IT outtake”) - we do the planning and training, including life exercises for you. You want to update your healthcare system/the placement of your prehospital resources(ambulances, etc.) as a state or government body? We do that that for you.

  You need to know which hospital in a random African country is the right one for a tourist with a sudden rare disease or your insurance wants to know how safe it is to send on of your staff members someone right into the current emerging disease hotspot? We do that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I got fired from a very stupid company (who would have guessed that healthcare companies needs more assistance instead of less during COVID? Not them.) when COVID hit.

  Started my own company from the severance,so basically I hired myself and created my own job…and a few more.

  Couldn’t be happier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can easily kill yourself with a water overdose (and it’s actually fairly common),so yes.

  Nutmeg was already mentioned - high doses can easily kill someone, sadly even without hallucinations simply by killing off ones liver and dying an agonizing death a few days later. The same goes for cinnamon, but with a much lower dose.

  There are a few more, but I don’t want to give people too many ideas.

  To make it short: Yes, possible,but it’s mostly a very slow death over multiple days that fucks you up really bad and is a horrible way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly the hallucination effect does not correlate with the toxicity,especially the hepatotoxicity with nutmeg… You can absolutely kill of your liver and die an agonizing death a few days later and have no hallucinations at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tig ol bitties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Boobworld, it’s a world for you, but it’s actually two!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminded me of the company a friend worked for. They had little parking space but the price one had to park was reasonable - and most people used public transport anyway.

  Then they moved their office to a commercial area with no public transport within a few kilometres. And multiplied their parking prices by 10.

  … surprisingly the staff retention and recruitment rates dropped.

  Surprised Pikachu face Leopards ate my face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As you correctly wrote newborns/very small babies heads need to be supported urgently - the head to body ratio of babies is very different from older kids and sadly the neck muscles are not that developed in utero. (Dark note: One of the reasons it was not uncommon - and still happens extremely rarely with underqualified healthcare providers- that newborns were sometimes decapitated when trying to facilitate a forceps birth 70+x years ago) Failing to do so can lead to various injuries, from muscular overextension (painful,can lead to chronic issues), ligament or nerve damage (can paralyse) or even vascular damage. I have seen a kid who suffered a fatal vascular damage from a sudden “falling back” of the head after insufficient support was provided and two more with rather complicated injuries - while these cases are super rare,they happen. (And kids are not all the same. My own kid came out and lifted its head 2h after birth and tried to roll onto its belly before we left hospital. Others take months just for the first thing)

  When they get older this becomes less of an issue, but they are still suspectable to another thing: External force and exhaustion. It’s a big difference between a kid sitting in a stroller or being on a flat surface and holding its own head and a kid being forced to stabilise its head against external movement by the carrier moving around, especially over longer periods of time. This can,in some rare cases even lead to the classic “shaken kid” syndrome (where repeated acceleration and deceleration rupture small vessels within babies brain,leading to a often fatal haemorrhage within the skull). I am fairly sure I read a case report once that reported about a case of a kid who suffered this while Mom was jogging with a unsuitable backpack like carrier, but sadly as PubMed is down at the moment (thank you,Orange and Elmo) I can’t find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the problem - none has. Sadly I also only read about it here in a previous post about discord a few months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame that spacebar and revolt did not really take off so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Layoffs every 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me off a friend who was made to lay off his entire team. Himself included.

  He basically got his team in a meeting room, told them that everyone in this room is being fired. People of course were shocked and some shouted at him how he could do such a thing to them. “Again: Everyone, I mean literally everyone in this room is being fired.Understood?”

  He rehired half his team soon after for the company he created with his severance package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pudendal Nerve Block⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Pudendusblock,as mentioned before, is used to block the nerves of the pelvic floor. It is actually not that uncommon but I have never seen it being done on someone with a penis - it’s sometimes used for episiotomy or to stitch up tears that already happened in woman that did not get a epidural. The old,non sonography based method is actually used quite often in countries with less accessible modern healthcare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doordash deserves it's fate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A local burger joint here has created their own App-Service, with much better pricing and conditions for both sides. Nowadays their main gig is selling the App to other restaurants and the burger joint is just the side gig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay,might be because English is not my first language,but I did not understand that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we rather make the kernel more stable before we change the design? These instabilities cause the whole process to hang itself up or terminate FAR to often!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we did learn exactly that in school and had a practical demonstration at a museum.

  But on a different continent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for actual Western billionaires but I had the chance to speak to a few Arab billionaires (member of the ruling families) and a few Western multi-millionaires (as in hundreds of millions).

  In terms of the western ones: They don’t have a fear for their money,they have enough hidden accounts and real estate around the world that they will never run dry… They fear for the same thing: Their lifes. Basically in two ways: Partly they fear that some random leftist or a terrorist group like the Italian Brigate Rose or the German RAF will simply shoot them in the head or kidnap them so they can make a point. (Which is quite strange as none of the people I spoke with was even out of elementary school when these groups operated - but they were really afraid of them,not of some common criminal)

  The other thing is that they all were really really afraid of ending like the Romanovs - that there would be some kind of political turn and all of a sudden the “masses” stand in front of their estate with pitchforks and torches and hang them. (That’s literally a quote from one of them) Funny enough: None of them were afraid of the right wing - even though their families sometimes literally once lost almost everything to the fascists, etc.

  Personally that explains a lot of the current state of the world. Money will always gravitate towards right wing politics as the right wing is always fixed on a strong leadership structure - which makes it easy to identify who you need to “befriend” or bribe if you want to keep your money. And people who have seen political turmoil in a role where they felt unable to control their own social standing anymore also have a tendency to gravitate towards these structures. Et voilà you have a armchairs psychologists explanation for Elmo. Well,if you add in a LOT of ketamine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No,no,you misunderstood!

  That is a complicated procedure that should only be performed by specialists,it’s not comparable to what you do at home.

  You get prior clearance from the buttfucking department of your insurance (they are always available and really good at this and also enjoy their job a lot) and then you get an appointment for a specialist within your network to buttfuck your doctor. If your insurance is good it can be ‘Vlad the impeller’, but most people only get ‘Norman needledick’ covered, but some choose a higher copay to afford ‘Redneck Randy’ at least.

  Unless of course you are one of us Eurofilthys, we all get the same ‘Pierre Puckerwrecker’ to buttfuck our doctor after waiting for three years, but at least it’s free