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- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 15 hours ago:
Oh, 100% this is unhealthy as fuck. I gained a ton of weight when I was piss broke cuz all I could afford was rice - exceptions were a treat. When your that tight on cash though, you start to prioritize it over pretty much everything else, including your own body.
Spending any more on food would have required cutting into something critical like rent - I never did have to deal with homelessness, but boy did I toe that line.
In any case, this is desperation diet - hopefully for a very short term leading up to having the means to live a healthier lifestyle.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 21 hours ago:
Happy to say I’m past the piss-broke stage of life, but I’ll never forget how much is sucks. One of the really shitty things about it is all the products marketed toward selling us a ‘cheap’ meal, and we buy it because you don’t question it: it’s poverty food, right? Must be among the cheapest options in the store, right?
Then you start pricing stuff out by things like cost-per-gram and realize you’re getting ripped off. To answer OPs question, I’d call that dish: predatory, bc it’s an up-charged box of ingredients that you can buy separately in probably that same aisle for much cheaper.
For anyone reading this who is stuck in that hell, first off: /hug. Second, the real poverty food MVP is rice. I don’t recall the price off the top of my head, and even if I did I’m sure it’s inflated since I was a frequent buyer, but look for “fortified short grain” which is usually the least expensive and is ‘fortified’ with some extra nutrients to get something other than carbs. Buy it in bulk - you can get it in 50lb bags at places like Costco (if you don’t have a membership, mooch a ride there off someone who does, they can get you through the door/checkout) or Asian/Middle Eastern grocery stores. Price it out to what you’re paying for the amount used in a single meal, and it’s like a literal nickel.
Rice makes for a boring meal by itself, but it’ll fill you up. Your second best friend is the clearance shelf. Pretty much any meat or veggie can go with rice. You’d be surprised how well other shit work with rice too… I recall having a single slice of shitty supreme pizza in the fridge; not enough for a satisfying meal, but, fuck it, whipped up a serving of rice, chopped up the slice of pizza crust and all, and threw it in when the rice was just about soft enough to eat and kinda stir fried it in. The oils from the cheese and sausage all got soaked up by the rice… end result wasn’t amazing by any stretch, but it was away more satisfying than a single slice of pizza or bowl of plain rice, tasted decent, costed pennies.
Pro tip: buy some snack-sized ziplock bags, measure out what you need for a serving, portion it into a ton of individual bags, and keep those in a sealed 5-gallon buckets. There’s a type of beetle that lays its eggs in rice, and it may not hatch until after you’ve bought it. Then they propagate, and there are tiny beetles all over the batch… and losing the better part of a 50lb bag to those fuckers is pretty heart breaking. If you portion it out first, and then it hatches, you lose a single-portion ziplock full. No biggie. Also keep the empty ziplocks and reuse them for the next big bag of rice.
Also get a cheap rice cooker as soon as you can afford it - a pot works fine, but a rice cooker will get you much more consistent results for much less effort.
- Comment on He escaped 4 days ago:
A country as developed as the US shouldn’t require an armed para military force to police its citizens and, arguably, the US doesn’t require one.
…we need an armed paramilitary force to police our politicians. I mean, on paper we have one, but in practice they seem to just follow a domestic enemy’s orders with no thought at all so long as that enemy is holding an office like POTUS.
- Comment on He escaped 4 days ago:
The Frankenstein trope did the creature dirty. Both Dr. and creation were basically geniuses. The creature in particular taught itself how to speak and iirc read/write all by discretely observing some peasants, and how to cook by just experimenting with raw ingredients + fire. If the Dr. that made it actually nurtured and trained the thing, the pair would have been unstoppable. But, that’s the whole spiel of the story - he got cold feet, treated his creation like shit, and that came back to bite him in the ass again and again.
If you can tolerate the oldish English, the Mary Shelley’s original story still holds its own - definitely recommended, if for no other reason than to appreciate how Frankenstein in media since then has missed the mark fucking hard.
- Comment on Bang! 5 days ago:
Luigi! <3
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 6 days ago:
Well, rolling with the artificial flavors analogy, we can start by stopping the infuriating trend of adding artificial grape flavor to every fucking food item under the sun. No one asked for or wanted that shit, but now it’s become a chore to find so much as a bag of coffee beans that doesn’t have some blip on the packaging advertising “Now with grape!!” Not only does it taste bad, but it’s caused the cost of food to fucking double.
Second, we can start being honest about what it actually is. Again, it doesn’t taste like grape, so why the fuck are we calling it grape? With AI this is as much on us as it is with the companies marketing that garbage - for ages we’ve been calling so much as an NPC’s pathing algorithm in a videogame “AI” even though there’s objectively no intelligence at play. We’ve since tried to move the goal posts a bit by relabeling actual AI as “AGI” but I guarantee that’ll just become another term to muddy the waters with marketing bullshit. The shit we’re calling “AI” is just categorically not even on the same path as the the kind of AI we see in sci-fi. So if you want Data to see the light of day, we’ll need to stop wasting our time and money on what is effectively a spell checker that’s wrong occasionally.
Unless you think Data is just a chat bot with no consciousness, in which case, hooray, we’ve done it: AI. 🎉 …now can I please have a mug of coffee without Grape™ syrup in it? I know, such a Luddite, drinking coffee without grape! Guilty as charged. But adding that shit to my coffee is never going to get us a product that tastes and feels etc like a grape, so if that’s what you’re after, maybe keep it in R&D and off the fucking grocery shelves.
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 6 days ago:
Artificial intelligence in science fiction is intelligence that’s artificial.
Artificial intelligence in real life is more akin to what we’d call “artificial flavors” in some fruit drink that contains 0% fruit. Isn’t fruit, doesn’t taste like fruit, but it’s purple and sweet, so fuck it: “grape”. We’ve accomplished the “artificial” part, but not the bit that actually matters.
So, yeah, AI in sci-fi is unironically great. “AI” irl is shit. If the real version ever comes close to the sci-fi version, you’ll see a lot of the haters change our tune, but until then we’ll call a turd a turd.
- Comment on Sometimes the simple Minecraft cave base is the best base 1 week ago:
It’s been ages since I’ve played Minecraft, but my favorite and most frustrating base was one of those guardian temples in the ocean. The kicker was that it was a fresh server, and my buddy and I tackled that as our starter base. No armor, stone tools… Just a few stacks of sand and some doors to drain of, and lots - LOTS - of dying.
When we finally got that thing drained and hollowed out… so satisfying!
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
my mind reels thinking about it.
You might have seen people say “the cruelty is the point” when talking about republicans / right wingers. This is what they’re addressing. So many of the actions taken by that side of the aisle are so jaw-droppingly stupid or hypocritical or self-defeating, that trying to make sense of it just leaves anyone capable of critical thinking stuck in a “wtf” loop.
But, the cruelty is the point. You might wonder why they care so much about bathroom security: they don’t. They just want to hurt trans people. You might wonder why they care so much about abortion: they don’t. They just want to hurt women. You might wonder why they care so much about border security: they don’t, they just want to hurt brown people. …etc.
Any of those you can approach logically and try to explain the reality of how each action they take doesn’t accomplish their stated goal… requiring trans men to use their birth gender’s restroom will increase the number of men in womens’ restrooms; abortion isn’t actually against their religion (it’s mentioned twice in scripture - once as an accidental result of an assault on a pregnant women, for which the assailant owed her a fine; and once as a fucking how-to guide… the bible does not fuck about abortion); how the majority of immigrants aren’t here to break a bunch of laws, but just want to work and are indeed critically important to our economy. The team shoots itself in the foot constantly, which leaves you wondering why the fuck they would do that: it’s the cruelty. They don’t care about the foot they’re shooting, they care about the out-group on the other side of that foot. If they need to harm themselves in order to harm someone else even more, they will.
Start looking at their words and actions through this lens, and suddenly they’re a lot less baffling. They make sense, and are predictable… in the worst possible way.
- Comment on You have to stop doing this. 2 weeks ago:
That face says Nurse Joy is on call, and a patient just checked into the ER after she, uh, tripped.
- Comment on You have to stop doing this. 2 weeks ago:
One in each prison pocket.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
I think they know Trump is full of shit, they just don’t care so long as he’s ‘hurting the right people’.
They’d let Trump shit in their mouth if it meant a ‘librul’ would have to smell it.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 3 weeks ago:
Oh god that’s horrible. I will 100% troll my coworkers with this. We routinely play music at our workstations via youtube since most streaming services are blocked. The second they turn their back, this shit is getting added to their playlist.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 3 weeks ago:
Dude had an idea he thought would help; wasn’t a prideful dick when it was clear that it wasn’t helping, and shelved the idea.
Honestly, respect.
- Comment on I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
/shrug. It’s all fiction. Don’t lose any sleep over a specific character’s lore.
- Comment on I can't help myself, they're eggcellent. 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah, it’s right there in the name!
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
Huh. I’ve only ever seen that word in the context of anatomy, but I guess it also belongs to the cores of trees. TIL.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 3 weeks ago:
This is something straight out of a parody movie, and even then, it would sound absurd.
You could slap that same comment on nearly any article about Trump since his entry into politics. We live in a fucking circus.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen in the US, it varies a lot from one facility to another. For surgery, most of what I’ve seen the consents address the expected operation “and all other indicated procedures” that give the surgeon the discretion to add something on intraoperatively if it’s justified. That said, the facility I’m at now decidedly does NOT do that. They can add an operation on if it’s an emergency, but something like a fibular nail would require specific consent. …which they should have ahead of time, cuz imaging would make the need for one pretty obvious, but dumb shit happens and things get missed… So fast forward to the operation, patient is under, skin is cut, and circulator points out “uh, hey we only have consent for tibia…” If they have a family member available who can make decisions on the patient’s behalf, that person could give consent, but if not they’d probably just skip it and schedule it as a later surgery.
…shit can get goofy.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
I got in on a total ankle replacement once!
I recall the rep referring to the sizers as “lollipop butts” …and not much else, lol.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
Just spitballing. Consent issue maybe? Like it only covered tibia, and the staff didn’t notice until the patient was under / couldn’t get a hold of family to have it added?
No explanation stands out as especially obvious under normal circumstances (although I’ll reiterate that ortho isn’t my specialty, so my understanding of normal here is as broken as that leg).
What do you suspect?
- Comment on Ignorance is bliss 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t linkedin just bots talking about their corporations? There aren’t actual humans there, right?
- Comment on Ignorance is bliss 3 weeks ago:
Innocent angel
Still a criminal mastermind, just cute.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I wasn’t thinking ankle at all. And even here and now, I’m trying to rotate my own leg while keeping the ankle rigid, and… yea it doesn’t go very far. Never really appreciated just how large a role the ankle plays there.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
we are talking about millimeters
No shit? I would have guessed at least like 15 degrees of rotation. I think I took the radius comparison a bit too literal.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
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.
Yeah… supply issue maybe? Or patient opted out due to cost?
/shrug
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
To be clear, othopedics is not my area of expertise, so grain of salt, but to my understanding, it’s basically the radius bone, but of the leg. 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.
I have no idea how ‘chunk missing in the middle’ plays into that. Guessing you’d still have some rotation, but without a secure anchor point, it wouldn’t be great.
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
Um… so looking at the tibia, that is 100% an intramedullary tibial nail:
…which means their tibia was broken as fuck, and there’s a pretty hefty chance the fibula was also broken as fuck in that same injury.
My guess is the missing segment was fragmented to the point of not being saveable, and removed during the same operation the IM nail was placed.
That doesn’t necessarily mean the OP is bullshit - maybe they had some new resident docs, or nurses, or techs or w/e who hadn’t seen that before and it was a genuine wtf moment for them. I love it when new staff get that look!
- Comment on “Tf???” 3 weeks ago:
Doctors would do no such thing!
…they’d actually just waltz around the hospital with whatever fell onto the OR floor still stuck to their shoe, tracking chunks of it all over the fucking place until some some crusty 70 y/o nurse chews him out while swatting him with today’s word search from the news paper.
Pretty routine stuff, really.
