Kornblumenratte
@Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
- Comment on Exposure might cause suffocation 5 days ago:
Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 6 days ago:
Ah, I got that wrong. Yes, Windows XP was the rebranded Windows NT 5. Thank you for the correction.
- Comment on >:)> 1 week ago:
No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 1 week ago:
AFAIK, Windows was discontinued after Vista. Windows 7 is actually the 7^th iteration of the Microsoft version of OS/2, which was rebranded as Windows NT with the release of the third version, and as Windows sine NT with the seventh version. Windows 9 had to be skipped because a sloppy version check for Windows 95/98 would have failed.
- Comment on doctors 2 weeks ago:
People are more complicated than cars, and surgeons are no magicians. I think your idea of the reason of your mother’s surgeon for refusal might be a bit off:
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Without adequate pre- and post-op physiotherapy, a joint will likely be worse after surgery.
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If simple physiotherapy is already too painful, cutting into this overexcited tissue risks inducing a complex regional pain syndrome.
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If someone suffers from both depression and from too much pain to do physiotherapy, they need a multimodal pain therapy to prepare for surgery.
So, based on the bit of info you provided, refusing surgery was very likely the right thing to do to avoid worsening your mother’s situation. What I di hate is when doctors don’t explain themselves and just say “I can’t help you”, but do not point patients to someone who can.
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- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 2 weeks ago:
On work we accumulate a wealth of pesonal notes, forms, links, articles etc. We are strictly forbidden to use USB-Sticks, but the DVD-Burner are still working…
My last DVD was a Knoppix though, just for the fun of it.
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 1 month ago:
They would look super cool? They do look super cool!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
That’s actually not true. It’s made out of dozends independent non-profit organizations that are backed by hundreds of companies. And thousands of different independent hobby projects.
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 3 months ago:
Dementia kills very slowly – if at all.
- Comment on You'll never see it coming 4 months ago:
“We like to destroy the universe at least every couple of months.”
- Comment on Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ 5 months ago:
No, I don’t get the joke of conflating Yiddish and Russian. Would you be so kind to enlighten me?
- Comment on Huh? ϡψφϟβμχ 5 months ago:
I’m pretty sure that “Oy wey” is Yiddish, not Russian.
- Comment on Boil em, Mash em, Stick them in a Stew 5 months ago:
Maybe the glycoalkaloid content differs between potatoe sorts? I have used sprouted potatoes my whole life without any issues whatsoever. Might have been just lucky that our potatoes are low on glycoalkakoids?
Ok – this is the official statement of the German Federal Agency for Risk Assessment.
TL;DR
- there have been only a couple of reports of glycoalkaloid poisoning through potatoe consumption during the last 100 years.
- sprouts, green parts and the skin of potatoes contain glycoalcaloids
- cooking reduces glycoalcaloids.
- peeled and cooked potatoes are safe to eat.
Culinary preferences might make the difference: in Germany potatoes are eaten peeled = very low risk of poisoning, while my Canadian host family ate potatoes with their skin = slightly higher risk of poisoning, especially if you cut out sprouts but leave the skin.
- Comment on Subscribe now for more clicks! 5 months ago:
