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- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 day ago:
There are actually special wok induction plates.
For a stove top, or like a stand alone device?
Nevertheless I don’t think that is necessary.
I mean… It is, especially depending on what and how much food you are cooking.
My wok gets plenty hot where it matters and I make a killer fried rice.
Making a “killer fried rice” isn’t the end all be all of wok cooking. I have had plenty of white people make what they claim is great fried rice that is greasy dog shit because they can’t get their woks hot enough.
As someone who grew up in Chinese restaurant kitchens… I can assure you a flat bottomed wok on an induction stovetop is never going to be adequate for traditional Chinese cooking. If there is an induction plate shaped to fit a round bottom wok and you could rock the wok on without damaging it…that would be a different story.
Until then I’m going to stick to using my outdoor burner, especially considering that the only electric utilities I have access to are already created with natural gas.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 day ago:
Really the dangers of NO2 and other VOC isnt really an issue as long as you have some form of ventilation. The real problem are small apartments with no range hoods or ability to crack a window. Even then, it’s about the same as handing out within 50m of a major roadway for the same time period.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 day ago:
Eh, yes and no. You are getting the areas that are in contact with the cooking surface red hot, which with a flat bottom wok is a really small area. Since most woks are made out of thin metal, you aren’t getting much heat transfer to the majority of the pan like you would with gas.
Tbh the best option imo for stirfry is just to have an outdoor wok burner hooked up to a propane tank. Unless you have an industrial stove, you aren’t getting the pan hot enough on gass either.
- Comment on What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat 1 week ago:
Feel like this is just what the average autistic gym rat eats for leg day.
- Comment on Keep Em Guessing 1 week ago:
Would be hard to tell without a view from the front. Could be anything from hyper mobility, femoral retro version, tibial torsion, or mix of a few of them.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
Can you microwave the metal ones?
You really shouldn’t be microwaving food in plastic. A lot of them claim to be safe for the microwave, which is technically true. However pretty much all plastics degrades and become volatile under a certain amount of heat, and microwave ovens can become very hot in very unpredictable ways.
Most plastics will start to undergo polymer deformation around 200 degrees and start to release volatile organic compounds, which is a pretty normal temp for your average microwave over to regularly get to.
- Comment on Never clean 3 weeks ago:
Mine typically outlast the little snap tabs on their plastic lids.
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 3 weeks ago:
I have read blingsight, I haven’t yet picked up the sequel yet. I have a buddy that teaches cognitive science and philosophy of the mind at a university, so I get to hear him drunkenly rant about the topic pretty frequently.
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 3 weeks ago:
LLMs and AI are real
I would say that the “AI” we currently have aren’t really AI as most people imagine or how they are thought depicted in science fiction.
Intellect usually requires a capacity to think, understand, and at least mimic the way the mind learns. The current machine learning we currently call AI is more a kin to the classic Chinese Room thought experiment.
- Comment on Bernie my beloved 5 weeks ago:
The only thing that has compelled Pete to label himself as a liberal is his sexual orientation. The man literally worked for the cia.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s always fun to see people who learned how to debate from posting online bring that energy to real life. Just a fun reminder that sometimes learning something can actually make you more of an idiot.
Sometimes I’m really thankful that my brain was already mostly developed before the Internet became popularized. Lord only knows what my autistic ass would have done with all the terrible information available nowadays.
- Comment on never forget 5 weeks ago:
It was also smacked by debris from the falling tower that ended up damaging several support trusses and simultaneously igniting like a dozen floors on fire at the same time. Tbh it’s kinda amazing the building lasted as long as it did.
- Comment on How hard could it be? 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, there is absolutely zero fucking chance there’s no cure for cancer and a dozen other things.
This belief occurs because the general population has a misconception of what cancer really is. Cancer is not a single illness with a single cause. It’s a group of diseases associated with error in different aspects of our DNA that control how cells divide and replicate. These errors can happen by mistakes occurring when cells divide, by environmental factors, or be inherited from your parents.
A universal cure would be virtually impossible as there is no universal cause or development of cancer itself.
vaccinations, antibiotics, ect before the first half of the 19th century. They did this on a bunson burners and petry dishes.
They did not develop these types of treatments from first principles. We developed vaccinations over hundreds of years of observation and trial and error. The treatment was utilized before we really knew how or why they worked.
These pieces of shit take in BILLIONS in donations a year and have access do gene resequencers, supercomputers, and modeling programs BUT still can’t make a dent over the last 60 years
This is just absolutely false… In the last 60 years survival rates for breast cancer went from 24% to 77%, bone marrow cancer from 10-20% to 70%, leukemia from 14% to 65%… Nearly any cancer you can think of the survival has doubled to tripled
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 5 weeks ago:
Surgeons are all kinda like that. It’s a very ego driven field.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah… Unfortunately, as long as you still have the ability to bill Medicare under your NPI you really have to work to get dismissed from a hospital.
The head of my department is currently being sued by the advertising and media department for making his own commercial. The advertising department made a commercial that didn’t feature him as much as he thought it should so he just made and aired his own commercial featuring official branding of the university and hospital.
He had to take down the commercial, but he continues to print off shirts for everyone in our department about the commercial. The administration’s stance on the whole thing was just to let the two departments work it out.
- Comment on Congrats on your big win!!! 5 weeks ago:
I’m a medical provider at a university hospital. They have a drug testing policy, but they have only ever utilized it for staff, not faculty members. I’ve worked in my clinic for more than ten years and have never been drug tested.
Pretty sure the hospital administrators really don’t want to know if any of their physicians have any bad habits. It’s kinda a lose lose situation for the hospital, and it’s pretty well known that our field has substance abuse issues.
- Comment on [Video] People Against Genocide break into the British headquarters of FANUC, a supplier of industrial robots for Israeli weaponry assembly lines. 1 month ago:
Yeah… Not sure why you would attack the display models at a headquarters if you are willing to do the crime and the time? Prob would have done more functional damage to productivity if they just destroyed the desktops, filing cabinets, and supply closet.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I’m not sure if that’s something I’d be happy catching trumped up terrorism charges over.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
You’d probably notice it more if you were doing sports with a lot of lateral movements, pivoting, and changing direction. Not so much with something like cycling. You might notice over time it if you were doing something like marathons as it does help absorb some ground force reaction on heel strike.
- Comment on Americans complaining that someone is "stealing" their jobs while Procter & Gamble is over here turning them into soap 1 month ago:
Lawyer submitting a picture of himself as evidence. “Defending this deceptive marketing is my job your honor. Am I not an American?”
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s the only weight bearing compound triplanar joint in the body. So it’s a lot more complex than something like the ball and socket joint of your hip. That’s why ankle and foot surgeries face a lot more complications and need for revisions compared to most other orthopedic operations.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
You’d probably eventually notice just after a long time if you are fairly active, even a loss of rom of a couple degrees adds up over time. You would probably notice a lot faster if you were an athlete, just because the issues would compound faster and you’re more connected to your body.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
That’s not really how consent works, at least not in the US. You typically give consent for the operation, not for every individual procedure that’s done in the operation. A lot of the times you don’t really know what’s going to be needed to be done until you have the patient opened up, so the provider has a lot of leeway to operate as they see fit.
How quickly can it absorb?
Depends on the individual and what bone we are talking about. Though that’s quite a lot of bone to dissipate, so my guess would be that it’s a fairly old injury.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
The radius moves a lot more than the fibula, which makes sense considering the need for moderate rigidity for weight bearing. The fibula only moves around a degree in internal and external rotation and less than a degree in the sagital tilting.
If you think about the rom in the ankle compared to the wrist it makes a bit more sense.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
It’s a possibility, but I doubt it considering the profile pic seems to be of a relatively young patient. Plus, I’m not seeing anywhere on the tibia where a graft would be necessary, of course it could have been utilized elsewhere.
It would also be an odd place to harvest from, usually you would shoot for an area a little more distal to the attachment point of the extensor hallucis longus.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Aim your toes forward in the normal anatomical position; now rotate your entire foot to the left or right. That’s your fibula working. Without it, very limited rotation; but otherwise you can still walk and function mostly normally, just a bit impaired
Eh… I do specialize in orthopedics and rehabilitation. You can still do all these things without a fully functional fibula, just to a reduced degree. The fibula only contributes to a few degrees of range of motion in the lower limb, we are talking about millimeters. It can be noticeable given enough time or a high enough level of vigorous activity. Most people would live a fairly active lifestyle without noticing this kind of damage to the fibula.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Supply issues aren’t really an issue, orthopedic operations like this aren’t exactly emergent care. If you have time to procure a tibial nail there isn’t a reason you wouldn’t be able to get a fibular nail at the same time.
As far as cost, the same logic applies. When an orthopedist is coming up with a treatment plan you submit the treatment plan that would best lead to the overall best outcome for the patient, you don’t really formulate based on the most economic outcome.
The insurance company isn’t going to deny a fibular nail, but approve a tibial one. If they are going to go out of pocket, the cost of the fibular nail would be negligible when compared to the overall cost of the operation. The most expensive aspect of an orthopedic moderation is the operating room and the anesthesia, not the additional hardware or operating time.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Doesn’t really look like it’s been taken out for a graft, at least not anytime recently. My bet would be he acquired a atrophic nonunion fracture the same time he broke his tibia. The rounded edges of the bone look more like they’ve been subject to resorption instead of being excised.
Honestly not that rare for fibular fractures, though the segment missing is fairly large. So it’s probably a fairly old injury.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Probably just an atrophic nonunion fracture. If it was that damaged and you were already doing a tibial nail, there wouldn’t really be a reason not to do a fibular nail at the same time.
The fibula has fairly poor blood flow compared to the tibia, it’s not really that rare for the fracture to never callus and bridge back together. If that happens a lot of the times the bone will be subject to resorption.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
Relatively little for most people. It helps with ankle stabilization, but lots of people break their fibula and don’t even notice. If you’re an athlete who does a lot of lateral motion, it’s fairly important.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
More than likely just an atrophic nonunion fracture of the fibia. The tibia and fibia were probably broken at the same time, if the fibular fracture looked like it didn’t need to be set they probably didn’t even bother putting hardware in.
You don’t really need to have any serious health issues for this. Sometimes with bones that aren’t weight bearing it’s just bad luck, sometimes it’s because you’re smoking a little too much.