I grew up on the Ohio/WV border. This would have made my childhood significantly more interesting lol

This is the way. Downvotes are for pseudoscience and bigotry, not harmless differing opinions.

Yeah object permanence is not strong with mine either. She’ll go into another room, forget I exist, scream, I respond, she’s like, “Oh hey, you’re right where I left you!”

Tiny fuzzy airhead.

Me being a nurse makes me glad I’m bad with regular smells lol

One must imagine Sisyphus happy and all that.

Hey fam, as a person with ME/CFS who works in healthcare, just wanted to say that I appreciate you.

I was gonna say, actually thinking about pocketing the excess next time I pull some from the Omnicell to see if this works lol

Ok this is actually adorable though

Of course it’s a fantasy about what I want. Everything that ever happens in the world starts out as a fantasy of what some people want.

I think there are more cracks in that galvanizing than you think. Overturning Roe is not turning out to be the grand success they’d hoped. Yes, it’s because people who vote conservative require the truth to impact them personally and emotionally before they get the point. Yes, that’s fucked. But it’s the sad reality we’re dealing with here.

I don’t expect people to flip full socialist LGBT ally overnight. But if someone starts suggesting we take up arms against our fellow residents of the US, a depiction of reality might cause enough people to pause and think, “You know, maybe let’s not.”

Don’t act like fictional depictions have no impact on real opinions.

No, I think conservatives who think they want to cosplay as soldiers are exactly the people who need to see what their fantasies would really look like, if brought to fruition. I think the ad placement was deliberate and the movie is intended to be a shock lesson for all people, but especially these ones.

Thanks

And mine won’t let me upload even using the “upload image” button on desktop site. I’m getting some error “Unexpected token…DOCTYPE…is not valid JSON.” I’m trying to upload a JPG taken on a Pixel 5, so idk.

But @tehcooles@programming.dev pics are great! I couldn’t capture the diamond ring effect and the more subtle parts of the corona on my Pixel 5.

I got a great picture of totality and I can’t post it with the damn Boost app lol. I’ll have to try once I get back to my laptop

LITERALLY HAPPENING

Only a handful of people on Arrakis really knew Paul’s full capabilities at that point. Remember this is the first time even the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother who trained Jessica really knew what Paul could do.

By their genetic calculations, Fayd was a contender. This fight proved he wasn’t.

The point better explained in the book and kind of glossed over in the movie is that Fayd and Paul both about equally fit the characteristics of the Kwisatz Haderach that the Bene Gesserit were trying to breed. They were sort of shadow images of each other, and it was a real coin toss which one would win that fight and show himself to the the real KH.

Hahahaha, oh man that’s great. You’re one of today’s 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Everyone being photographed is supposed to say cheese because the shape of the word mimics a smile. Why did you think people said cheese? Lol

No, CPR is only meant to compress the heart in order to circulate blood. You can get a little in and out movement from the lungs (ventilation), but to do that correctly, you really need the bag mask thingy (which you do see One Night using on Lindsay in The Abyss.)

The length of time they spend doing CPR in The Abyss is actually pretty realistic. There are a number of things that you try in addition to compressions and you have to give those things a chance to work before you “call it” (stop compressions).

CPR is several rounds of compressions and shocks with various medications like epinephrine being given depending on what you’re seeing on the heart shock monitor. Length of CPR is usually inversely proportional to the age of the patient. (The younger the patient, the longer a medical team will fight to get them back. This is because losing a kid is obviously devastating for everyone, but also because kids have this amazing tendency to be able to survive things that would 100% take an adult out.)

My bitchy complaint about the CPR scene in The Abyss is that they spend so much of that time not doing compressions. They keep stopping to do other things or to sit around and cry dramatically. Every single second that they’re not doing compressions is a second that no blood is circulating. It’s crazy. In real CPR, compressions only stop when a shock is actually being administered. There is zero downtime on compressions other than that.

(And no, people don’t just gasp and wake up. Typically we just get a pulse and the person remains unconscious, often for days afterward. They usually need a ton of ICU level medical care, if they have any hope of recovering.)