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@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 3 days ago:
Metal in a CT machine = bad image
Metal (particularly ferromagnetic metal) in an MRI machine = injured patient
Check out the stapler bouncing around near the beginning of this video: https://youtu.be/6BBx8BwLhqg
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 1 week ago:
Do most Americans give the French shit? I think most Americans don’t care one way or another TBH. Our country is famously self-centered and unaware of the rest of the world.
I do give my French friend a hard time sometimes, but it’s all in good fun. He does the same to me. I certainly do not look down upon him or his country.
The minority of Americans who do sincerely talk down about the French are ignorant and shitty, though.
- Comment on I'm a delight 2 weeks ago:
“I’d never done a crazy thing in my life before that night. Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it’s called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it’s called murder?”
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 month ago:
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 month ago:
I’m gonna start my own company. You want in?
- Comment on Questions during planning 1 month ago:
“Can’t we get Mongolian BBQ?”
“We have Mongolian BBQ at home.”
- Comment on Contain them 1 month ago:
“It puts the lotion on it’s skin…”
- Comment on Blasting creed 1 month ago:
Slonkin fat doinks?
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 2 months ago:
Playing through small injuries leads to larger injuries. If your coach were paying you thousands or millions of dollars per game, they would not want you to wreck yourself and end up missing games.
- Comment on Upstate NY creativity. 2 months ago:
Got a little rust on there. Should have gotten the Trucoat.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 2 months ago:
Nothing ever just works. You must make it work, and keep it working. If you aren’t making it work yourself, then someone else is doing that for you.
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- Comment on hl shirt 2 months ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
I used to hate Illinois Nazis. I still do, but I used to, too.
- Comment on Horse radish 2 months ago:
That’s a rad-ish horse.
- Comment on I miss Levis 2 months ago:
Levis makes a huge range of quality. The stuff at shopping mall department stores is crap. But the made-on-Mexico shrink-to-fit 501s you can find at hardware stores are phenomenal. And they are still only like US$50.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 2 months ago:
Tall data centers do exist in cities where land is expensive. It’s the same reason everyone builds up in cities. Where land is cheap and available it’s usually easier and less expensive to build things low and wide.
- Comment on Elon's Woody 3 months ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Elon's Woody 3 months ago:
That’s actually a big improvement. Still an ugly vehicle, but at least this version has better character.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 3 months ago:
Hell yeah. There’s an unassuming restaurant in my town that hosts local all-ages punk and metal shows after the kitchen closes. The underground scene is alive and well. I’m looking forward to having your experience myself as my kids grow up.
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 3 months ago:
I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.
- Comment on Several News Outlets Reject Pentagon’s Reporting Restrictions 4 months ago:
The press association that lobbies for Pentagon reporters issued a statement on Monday saying, “This Wednesday, most Pentagon Press Association members seem likely to hand over their badges rather than acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens retaliation against reporters who seek out information that has not been preapproved for release.”
Another curtain comes down Wednesday Whatever limited visibility Americans had to the inner workings of their military is now lost. “Democracy dies in darkness,” and we are headed deeper into the tunnel.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 4 months ago:
Borders have existed as long as humans have claimed territory. Borders are only meaningful to the extent they are enforced, so border control has existed in some form or another for all that time.
Borders have been a bit fuzzy at many times and places. The farther one travels from a seat of power, the harder it is for that power to patrol and control the area. Thus we get borderlands, places at the fringes of a government’s authority.
In addition to borders, documents analogous to passports have existed for millennia. If you wanted to travel from your kingdom to another kingdom, your monarch might send you off with an official letter requesting your safe passage through whatever kingdoms you need to cross.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 4 months ago:
Between the ticket prices and the, ah, challenging political climate in the US, I am really curious what game attendance will be.
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 4 months ago:
Maybe one of these?
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
!shittyasklemmy@lemmy.uhhoh.com - Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 5 months ago:
Headlining this Friday night! With special guest Gay Zombie Super Soldiers
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 5 months ago:
I remember an mp3 going around where a guy turned it into a song, complete with the chorus, “I don’t like the DMCA.”
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 5 months ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 5 months ago:
And it continues up to the present day. There was a Ukraine war fundraiser where you could pay to have a custom message written on munitions.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 5 months ago:
Originally, fire departments only dealt with fires. In the 1960’s and 1970’s it became clear that a rapid response health service would be beneficial. Rather than create a whole new system from scratch, that function was tacked onto the existing fire service by having EMTs and paramedics on staff. And the initial focus was primarily on providing rapid transit: delivering the victim to a hospital as quickly as possible. Response time was the dominant metric used to grade emergency medical providers. It took more decades to fully appreciate that treatments applied at the accident scene or in transit could be as important as, or more important than, response time.
There’s a good argument to be made that modern fire departments are largely obsolete. They spend most of their time dealing with medical and mental health issues, not fighting fires. We would probably benefit as a society by replacing a lot of firefighters with house call nurses to help manage people’s long-term health issues before they become emergencies.
