Zorcron
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- Comment on I use Ubuntu btw. 17 hours ago:
Biology? Idk some of the memes posted here are a bit of a stretch to fit the theme.
- Comment on creativity 5 days ago:
Oh interesting, I didn’t look into it past seeing the trailer on Dropout.
- Comment on creativity 5 days ago:
FYI if anyone hasn’t seen, they are making new episodes of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared on dropout.tv . I haven’t watched it, so I couldn’t say if it’s as good, but might be worth checking out!
- Comment on Alien 1 week ago:
“Worst days” may be a bit extreme, but if you find yourself needed to take pain meds very frequently, talk to your doctor about which one(s) would be best to use regularly, given any other meds or medical problems you may have. They can also often prescribe longer-acting anti-inflammatories that only need to be taken once a day instead of 2-4 times a day.
- Comment on SBA #144 Nosferatu! 1 week ago:
That pic of Noferatu was shown at the end of an episode about the “Hash-Slinging Slasher”, shown to be the one flickering the lights.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
I know it feels wrong, but the data supports outpatient management of asymptomatic high blood pressure.
And the European Society of Cardiology agrees with the AHA, so it’s not just an American thing. Check out section 10, or ctrl+F “hypertensive urgency”.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
I guess we could argue at what point it is no longer physically possible to be asymptomatic with an extremely high blood pressure, but to date there is no evidence to support the treatment of the blood pressure number alone in the acute setting.
Low blood pressure is a separate issue, but also only really treated if causing issues for a patient; however similarly, one questions the plausibility that a patient could be properly perfusing their organs and therefore have no other signs/symptoms of organ damage with a mean arterial pressure of ~30 mm Hg.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
Yeah >180 is definitely serious, I may have overstated myself there trying to make my point. If you read that high, it’s recommended to contact your doctor asap, but not to seek emergency treatment unless you’re having symptoms.
Current (but limited) evidence actually suggests some harm caused by unnecessarily treating asymptomatic markedly elevated blood pressure, and low risk of acute (hours to days) adverse events caused directly by the hypertension.
I’m a PharmD who works in the ED at a large teaching hospital. I have this conversation often.
Recommendations from the AHA directly to patients/lay persons
A great “Things We Do For No Reason” article about the topic. (There’s even one article in this paper that specifically talks about patients with systolic >220, only 0.2% of which had a negative vascular outcome at 7 days without inpatient treatment.) I highly recommend this paper. The folks at SHM/JHM do great work with this series.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
No seriously, there is no number that you treat emergently without accompanying signs of end-organ damage. The AHA recommends considering “permissive hypertension” even for SBPs over 180. So you could be 220/180 and if no other symptoms or signs of organ damage, you get treated the same as someone who is 145/95, and even then that’s only if the hypertension is chronic. The only difference is it will probably take a lot more meds to chronically control someone whose bp is that extreme.
- Comment on It's not that bad quit whining 1 week ago:
High blood pressure alone is not an emergency. Definitely something to be concerned about preventing/treating in the long term, but no blood pressure number alone warrants an ambulance without also having symptoms of something like a heart attack or stroke that indicates organ damage.
That said, that kind of blasé approach to markedly elevated blood pressure with no real plan to reassess or find a root cause is still unacceptable, especially lazily blaming it on menstruation like is so common. So not trying to undermine your experience, I just had to chime in bc the “hypertensive crisis” thing is a pet peeve of mine.
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 2 weeks ago:
No? I think it still looks fine. I think Pixar did pretty well in choosing what types of things they could get away with animating at the time with their early movies.
- Comment on The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend. 2 weeks ago:
It dates back to at least 2016, so definitely not AI. Probably just a type of imaging that you’re not familiar with.
- Comment on Is there a community for cursed pictures? 2 weeks ago:
I think cursed AI images are cheating. Someone has to subject themselves to seeing the picture the whole time they’re making it.
- Comment on Flipper!! 2 weeks ago:
Here is a not weirdly censored and un-censored version:
- Comment on Watch out for strangers in vans 5 weeks ago:
Had to be long to fit all the text
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 1 month ago:
Might be a long shot, but depending on the med, might want to ask your doctor’s office if they have sample supplies of the med to hold you over until they get the prior auth approved.
- Comment on Evolution 1 month ago:
Fish
- Comment on 3.9% APR 1 month ago:
Lmao, touché
- Comment on 3.9% APR 1 month ago:
3.9% APR
Average APR on new 48-month auto loans (couldn’t find historical data for 60-month) ranged from ~11.8% to 7.5%. The average hasn’t ever been that low, but the lowest on record I found was in about 2015 at around 4.1%
- Comment on stuttering search engine 2 months ago:
I suppose it’s possible, but I’m always suspicious of screenshots like this just because they’d be so easy to fake, either by giving a different prompt than in the screenshot or by using inspect element to completely edit the response text.
- Comment on Whodunit 2 months ago:
Yeah there are a couple that are real like that one and the one I posted, and apparently they’re popular enough to prompt the AI copies. It’s kind of funny that AI videos have their own genres. Like this and the porch Ring videos.
- Comment on Whodunit 2 months ago:
It’s definitely AI. Check out the YouTube link I posted. There’s a million of them all the same, and they all reek of AI generated video.
- Comment on Whodunit 2 months ago:
I didn’t ask you.
- Comment on Whodunit 2 months ago:
- Comment on Systems theory 2 months ago:
I’m sure if you took a lone bee away from its hive, it wouldn’t last very long either. Doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of nature, even if we do try and forget.
- Comment on 7 words you can’t say, then and now 2 months ago:
This meme send to be referencing the words people self-censor online rather than the trump admin’s no-no words.
- Comment on bro 2 months ago:
I’ve started using my password manager to generate random strings for my security answers now. No guessing or phishing will work on my security answers anymore, and you doing have to worry about picking relevant questions.
- Comment on Yay, milkshakes! 3 months ago:
They get various fruit juices after a blood donation, much like a human would, but that’s not what’s pictured here. You can tell because blueberry juice is actually reddish-purple, not light blue.
- Comment on Better do it anyway, though 🤔 3 months ago:
I don’t think the AI does the speech-to-text, I think that’s the same tech as we’ve had for a while. This is just regular Siri not understanding someone who’s hassle asleep and mumbling.
- Comment on Anon shoots his shot 3 months ago:
Nah I don’t see how you could deliver this well to someone who doesn’t also have a pretty dark sense of humor who you know well. I don’t think it would be unrecoverable as long as you came off apologetic if the other person didn’t appreciate the joke, but in think the chances of them taking it well to begin with are quite slim regardless of delivery.
