TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on tag yourself 18 hours ago:
Somewhere between Gmajor and Gminor
- Comment on Life 1 day ago:
This but louder and more antagonizing.
- Comment on Man Opts Out Of The Algorithm By Throwing His Fucking Phone Off A Bridge And Going To The Pub 1 day ago:
Random is an algorithm
- Comment on Can cartilage be replaced? And if not, Why can't they just inject something like silicone into a joint? 1 day ago:
So I can speak to this with a bit of direct but still indirect experience.
My partner got an osteochondral allograft. Twice. Same knee. They had a big chunk of cartilage missing from a youth sports accident. The procedure is basically that they take a cadaver knee, they slice off a big chunk of new brake pad for you, soak it in your platelets to prevent rejection. Then they come in and cut off the back of the knee, and slap in the new brakepad.
Having gone through (as a witness, nurse-maid, driver, adjunct pt) the procedure twice in 4 years: your mileage may vary.
The first time was a bit of a disaster. Major prep and PT before hand. Good doc to do the surgery. Trouble started in recovery. Pain was so extreme couldn’t keep food down. Ended up with massive weight and muscle loss on the affected leg. Thigh and quads went as thin as my bicep. Very long time to recover, maybe 9 months. Leg strength came back (but never fully) Developed a “clicking” in the knee. Dr insisted it would smooth down. Partner insisted on getting back to high intensity physical activity soon, was able to do a hundred mile backpacking trip together. I think they were really trying to believe it worked more than it actually had.
Fast forward only a few years and it was worse than it had been before the surgery. And had created arthritis in the join above the knee. And also now had back and hip pain.
So, round two. Another year of pre-PT. Knee got bad to the point they couldnt even bike any more. Same routine. We were very worried going into it. Surgery happened in a day. Recovery went 10x more smoothly. Some weight/ muscle loss on that leg. But not NEARLY as much as before. Back and hip issues persist, but as of a hike up in the Waianae range yesterday, no knee issue pain. But now the back and hip issues are bad enough, well. Heal your back now with Norman Popovsky.
hard to say if it was worth it. I think in five more years we might have injectable treatments
- Comment on Just checking in with the other half of the country. 1 day ago:
64 whole views eh.
Maybe the kids are alright.
- Comment on Troo 2 days ago:
vibe
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
So thinking this through, your best bet long term is going to be a multiple cloud back up system. Its probably more than you would want to pay, but they’re already digitized. Its not crazy to just take advantage of what these kinds of systems are good for, which is distributing backups across multiple servers.
But having local backups is also important. Thinking this through, one cost effective option would be to first back up the CDR to hard drive, for whatever machine you have. Then, burn multiple copies of the data to CDR. Make 10 copies. Send five to family members. Take the other five and shove them in the same place you archive your other stuff. One CD can absolutely rot/ fail. But its unlikely that all of them would fail. If you store them properly, in reasonable house hold temperatures, and you aren’t constantly reading or writing to the disk, they should just kinda sit there and be fine.
If you have a burner, if you want the least technical cheapest approach, thats what I’d recommend.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Actual photos last generations.
Old school photos did. New school? It depends I guess? And even oldschool ones degrade, ESPECIALLY in high light environments. Most these days are just getting printed in ink on shiny paper with a high res printer. I’ve had some of those blow out over a few months. I think in that sense digital is more permanent.
- Comment on Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth? 3 days ago:
Now kith…
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 4 days ago:
On pizza?
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 4 days ago:
Its up to him now.
- Comment on It's not even Wednesday, my dudes, move it along 5 days ago:
Fucking banger
- Comment on Crazy town 5 days ago:
I’m sorry
- Comment on Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are. 6 days ago:
TX out there doing real work
- Comment on Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are. 1 week ago:
R^2^ of like nothing
- Comment on perhaps 1 week ago:
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- Comment on When I see people starting to deanpost: 1 week ago:
Its a problem with this particular version of the gif. It was a poor clip, so its got a frame from the scene immediately after.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
His news outlet Breitbart and working partner Milo Yannopolis were the main instigators of it.
I appreciate you mentioning this. Something I’ve been looking for is a signal in the data which can show how this happened, lets say… from the other side of the mirror.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
Like I said, I’ve gone as far as pulling the entire archive of reddit from this time. My original intent was to try and look for correlations between things in the threads and the epstein files. Dug a bit in then life well. #projects
I’ve still got the data on my stacks. Perhaps another month.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
Putting Joe and Kamala up were also profoundly stupid decisions.
:100:
And even here at the left end of the internet, saying something so profoundly obvious outloud got you put on the naughty list.
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
Yeah. I agree. I time it to 2014 and can see Gamergate, now in retrospect, as a clear part of the origin story of the current moment. And one of the clearest signals is how befuddling and practically impossible it is to actually understand what gamergate is/ was. I was there for it, in the sense that I saw it happened, but it was noise at the periphery of my vision. And even what I did right there, the swapping of a subject word to an action word; how language around this “gamergate” thing evolved, and how it became completely befuddling to those not already interior to this thing to understand.
And I still dont understand it. And I don’t think others, even those deeply involved understand it either. But I want to be clear when I say “understand”, I’ve done a fair bit of research. I’ve pulled every reddit forum post on the matter. I’ve read book chapters and deep articles. But with the Epstein files and Bannons involvement, which we only now understand: it sure was “something”.
MY current working hypothesis; I think gamergate was the test run for Brexxit. And the test run for MAGA/J6. I think there is potentially also a Hungary and Orban, which preceded gamer gate.
- Comment on Two full raccoons y'all 1 week ago:
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 1 week ago:
I distinctly remember in November/ December of 2014, driving to work up a hill in the fog, and my partner and I listening to NPR on the way into the station, there being a segment about Hillary and their inevitability as the Democratic candidate. And I remember how in the conversation we had about it I brought up the point about how profoundly stupid and disastrous it would be to just coronation Hillary into being the nominee, because she was a profoundly weak candidate; maybe the weakest candidate possible for the moment.
First and foremost she’d telegraphed her run decades in advance, and had given the entire RW apparatus decades to prepare for her specific run. The opposition had been specifically preparing for this exact moment and if there was one person they were particularly prepared to run against, it was Hillary. Entire think tanks had been committed to that task for decades. It didn’t matter if anything they presented was true or not; they’d have clips to run for days.
Second, her performance as secretary of state had been poor. She’d pissed off both the RW and progressives with her performance, the only ones truly appeased by her being slop-eating liberals. She was a total hawk, and basically extended the international hegemony established under Cheney an additional 8 years. She had no friends with regards to her role in government.
The third was that the Obama administration had clearly failed in their ability to make their campaigned upon policies, at least the ones the base which thrust Obama into power had prioritized, into power. Obama won on the back of the Occupy movement and the spirit which led the broadening of Occupy was the same spirit that ushered Obama in. And Obama, in so many ways, had betrayed that spirit. They took the side of corporations and banks in the manner of their governance. So any candidate coming from that administration was going to struggle.
And finally, media appeared to be completely oblivious to all of this. There is a kind of “head permanently nestled in ones own ass”-ness that only NPR and those for whom that broadcast is tailored to, the true liberals, can demonstrate. And it was already on full display.
- Comment on SBA #226 Sins and Virtues 1 week ago:
- Comment on This is what peak dining looks like 1 week ago:
So the right size
- Comment on This is what peak dining looks like 1 week ago:
and if its a “big” burger, its wider, not taller. You don’t make a burger bigger by making it taller. This is only for chefs who look like they got dumped from chopped and couldnt make it as a hair dresser in Brooklyn.
A better burger is a wider burger.
- Comment on priority mail 1 week ago:
You better fuckin respond.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The ai slop from fb is leaking
- Comment on just sayin 1 week ago:
Pretty common way of expressing exponential growth
