deranger

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Trip to Costco every 1.5-2 months to stock up on meat and whatever else we can buy in bulk and freeze. This trip completely fills the freezer and requires reorganizing it and breaking down the bulk packages and vacuum sealing smaller portions for single meals for two people. We also do a similar trip to H-Mart for Korean things and a huge bag of rice.

Trip to the grocery store weekly to grab smaller things we might need. Sometimes it’s much larger than others. Big meal prep day on Sunday so we don’t have to do as much work during the week.

Lists are essential so I can free up that memory for something else. I also will think of things at the most random times and I’d never remember them without immediately putting them on the list. Also helps ensure that if either my wife or I go to the store we can pick up things the other has thought of.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Ketamine is not a psychedelic, it’s a dissociative. There’s a huge difference in terms of subjective experience and chemistry. Ketamine acts on NMDA receptors, psychedelics on serotonin receptors.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Dope, I’ll get a large SUV or truck to replace my small hatchback so I don’t have to slow down at all. Larger vehicles improve pedestrian safety right?

Speed bumps are a bandaid being used as a solution. They fuck with emergency vehicles, encourage rapid braking and acceleration, incentivize getting a larger vehicle, reduce gas mileage, and create noise from braking and acceleration. I’ll take literally any other traffic calming measure over a speed bump.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Giants trucks and SUVs are getting more and more prevalent and don’t have to slow down as much. This trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down. You can’t make the bumps big enough otherwise it’s going to wreck cars. People also haul ass immediately after getting off the bump, so you end up with lovely brake squeals and engine sounds for a few hundred feet of decreased speed. They prematurely wear suspension components and brakes and lead to increased fuel usage.

They’re shit and I’m so glad I’ve moved out of the southern US and back into snow country where speed bumps simply can’t exist. I don’t know why speeding through residential areas is so much less prevalent in the north, where there are far fewer speed bumps, but I love it.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works -2 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

Speed bumps are such a shitty solution to speeding. I’d prefer speeders to speed bumps.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Global Positioning System, I sleep
Universal Positioning System, real shit

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

For one shot I imagine

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You’d have to have the most insanely strong calves in history to push up using your feet only.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

How is an instance going to get my battery level?

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don’t feel college is about teaching you how to do so much as it is about teaching you how to critically think and teach yourself.

I’m currently working in healthcare IT as an EMR analyst, I’ve got a degree in biochemistry. My IT experience is from fucking with my own computer since ~1999. I don’t feel I missed out on much by not getting a degree relevant to my current career.

I never performed a Western blot a single time outside of a classroom lab but learning that process, how it worked, the precision and attention to detail needed to do the thing, how to troubleshoot a failed test, etc have been relevant regardless if I’m doing clinical lab stuff or implementing a new cardiology computer system.

Then again I also didn’t go to college for tech so maybe I’m not understanding the issue here. Are people in IT not expected to learn on the job about how things are done at that organization? That’s been my admittedly narrow experience in the field.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do you have a link for that? Everything I’m finding says they can’t breathe through their mouth. There’s one scientific paper where they found a mouth breathing dolphin and said this has never been described in a scientific paper before. As far as I can tell there’s just this one dolphin who’s been seen doing it.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12349

Here’s a paper describing a dolphin that died due to blowhole obstruction:

https://meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/57/4/959/469580/Fatal-Blowhole-Obstruction-by-Eel-in-Common

To me it seems more like a one off case that a dolphin was able to mouth breathe, not that all of them can.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It says “speaking in Italian” on my pirated copy.

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