WhiteOakBayou
@WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 3 weeks ago:
It just improves the ability to focus. It doesn’t really make one focus on the right thing. Also, the alteration in abilities isn’t free. The good effects of any drug are weighed against the side effects. There is always an opportunity cost to any drug. The poster above you was right on with his steroid comparison.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 3 weeks ago:
Firefox for Android. Wouldn’t load the list of beaches for me until I turned off shelter. Just kept reloading whatever frame is beneath the text input.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used that website in the past with no problem but a heads up I had to turn on js and off antifingerprinting to get it to load this time. For all those more security conscious than I
- Comment on Support local bands 3 weeks ago:
I used to love big arena shows until I saw a famous band do a three night stand at a small bar/club style venue. After that, I started going to shows of bands/performers I hadn’t heard of. Changing how I thought of shows, where before I thought of it as an event like going to see a theatre play, to thinking about them similarly to how I’d think of going to the movie theater made the whole live scene seem more accessible and more fun. I hope when my kids are older we can start going to more shows again.
I read an article that said being in a band is less appealing to kids these days and that being an influencer is more popular than wanting to be a Rockstar. I hope it’s just “old man yells at clouds” because I feel like there is always room for more local acts. Support your neighbors, go dance!
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Takes forever to find the flight feathers on the little guys and it’s very intricate work.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
I understand the frustration but Goodwill sells all that stuff to support it’s job training and skills program. Here’s the mission statement . Most people see it’s value as a place to donate old stuff or to buy used clothes cheaply but the organization sees it’s purpose differently.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 5 weeks ago:
Not they could. They do. You can buy squab in restaurants. Maybe stores but none I’ve seen.
- Comment on Mine's a Juicer 5 weeks ago:
Mine is pineapple corer and unnecessarily large can opener
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need to purify to drink it just extract it. It’s hard to smoke enough opium to OD (which I guess counts as concentration through evaporation but isn’t purified to seperate alkoloids) to death without other drugs but it is pretty easy to over do it with just tea. Like a previous poster said tea extractions will have wildly varying potencies so they can kill even those with tolerance.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really need to be processed much. Heated plant parts for tea and the sap is ready to smoke after drying. Both of these processes do count as processing but I would not say it counts as "process[ing] the shit out of it. "
- Comment on If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the see can this be done? Or is it even legal? 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure you can just rent a boat and set it off yourself. Starting a fire than will burn up a boat is probably the easiest part. But hey man, keep your head up. Things will get better.
- Comment on The Sacrifice, 4k restoration (1986, dir Andrei Tarkovsky) 1 month ago:
Cool, like Melancholia maybe? Either way I’ll give it a watch.
- Comment on If Republicans have Project 2025. Why don't Democrats have their own guide book? 1 month ago:
As well as the other good answers you’ve received here is also the fact that they are in power currently. If dems were out of power outside groups would be publishing policy books and papers to influence the direction going forward in the coming retool. They probably are now. But as has been said the dems have an actual platform to attack so only policy wonks and fever swamp dwellers read and attack the papers coming out of democratic leaning institutions right now.
- Comment on Anon enjoys a quiet night at home 1 month ago:
They say this is how it starts…
- Comment on Anon enjoys a quiet night at home 1 month ago:
Fisher cat was the Animal of the day or whatever on pbs kids today. I’ve seen the same 30 second blurb about them several times. Now I’ve seen this comment and a lemmy post about the Animal. Real red car syndrome thing happening for me
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
South America has the equivalent level of technology to wherever you come from so no. You wouldn’t be different enough to change any civilizational paradigms. For a less strawmanny example, if you moved to another country tomorrow and revealed the secrets to clean, unlimited power and used techniques and methods to do so that were far outside of our current understanding of physics then maybe you would be.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
Yes, if those people are technologically so advanced as to be indistinguishable from wizards. In Graham Hancocks mythology, these people brought the secrets of agriculture and advanced maths to indigenous peoples around the world. A lot of his evidence for this comes from ancient religious texts and artifacts. So, if these people are so advanced that they are worshiped by the natives I think it’s fair to say he is describing a super race.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
The survivors of the cataclysm that brought their advanced knowledge to the ancient peoples is the super race.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Sad face. Reggie was a real one
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Are you sure it was because of your age or was it in respect to your Rank? Unless you were still a Lt. Lezbian at the time. Here’s hoping Major is soon!
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Dicaprio hasn’t been a role model for me since I saw him in basketball diaries and spent the next few years trying to be just like Jim Carroll. Never again Leo. Never again.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Yea, those busted 27 year olds. Wtf
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I wouldn’t. They either take them when I’m in there or they don’t. You can’t chart they took it if you didn’t see it. If they are aaox4 why can’t you just explain to them they need to take the meds with you present?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yeah, this reads like an AITA post and the answer to op is yes lol. I feel like this is 100% not an autonomy issue like op said either. This is hopefully the pt’s home meds or something but what if it was something that needs levels? The 5 rights are for pt safety and right time is one of the easiest to remember. I think your reply explains it best.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
This pt isn’t refusing meds though. I’ve been a nurse a long time, only ER but still, putting in note to the ehr instead of doing one’s job is bad practice. They either take it or refuse. In acute care there’s no “probably took it later” option. People can refuse whatever. I tell my patients (who can leave) this isn’t hospital jail but this guy seems to be talking about dumping a cup of pills and leaving.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
You can’t chart he took it off you don’t see him take it. You have to wait or chart a reason the med was delayed.
- Comment on Just average non-alcoholic behavior 10 months ago:
something like this maybe. I haven’t shopped for this stuff in almost 15 years and the available options are much better/cheaper than they used to be
- Comment on Just average non-alcoholic behavior 10 months ago:
I used a jig with a small cutting wheel to score the bottle then heat the score line with boiling ( or near boiling for thinner glass) and then dip it in water to break along the line. Polish with emery cloth or high grit sandpaper. The less delta T between the hot water and the dip water the smoother the cut. Finding your preferred Temps for the thickness of the glass is the art.
- Comment on Just average non-alcoholic behavior 10 months ago:
I made a bunch of drinking glasses. I used a jig to score and hot water to pop it off so it broke smooth and relatively even. Light polishing and there you go. After doing it a while I got the feel well enough to do with beer bottles which I would then drink liquor out of and shatter against the side of my house during bonfires. Unlimited possibilities
- Comment on Just average non-alcoholic behavior 10 months ago:
Those square ones are harder for me to cut cleanly so good on this candle maker.