Chetzemoka

joined 1 year ago
[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Doxylamine is actually better than diphenhydramine. It has less anticholinergic side effects.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

Anticholinergics are really bad for your brain long term. I've started taking an herbal supplement called apigenin, which is derived from chamomile flowers that works surprisingly well. And I say that as a fellow night owl chronic insomniac.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ketamine doesn't carry the risk of respiratory depression and hypotension that other sedatives and pain killers do. No risk that you might have to immediately intubate someone.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Push and pull technique.

Push: bitter spray or cayenne pepper on plant leaves to discourage biting

https://www.chewy.com/dp/504510?utm_source=app-share&utm_campaign=504510

Pull: cat grass and lots of cat toys. Seriously, buy more toys. Give them something else to focus on.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Sodium response is a lot more complicated than that, and a more accurate metric is probably dietary sodium:potassium ratio.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4224208/

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

It's Texas. Best they can do is the 5th Circuit.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometime in the past ten years, my doctors started being younger than I am, and I'm still conflicted about it.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a nurse in my late 40s, and I still have to open conversations with my elderly patients "Mister Smith" "Mizz Smith" when I first meet them. I can't help myself; it's how I was raised haha

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My understanding was this was the actual intended use case for NFTs. To allow you to properly own a digital item. The fact that it got applied to a stupid fad right out the gate doesn't change the fact that it should actually be used to allow us to own things again.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 33 points 1 year ago

"Means Matter"

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/

Reducing access to more lethal means of suicide reduces deaths by suicide in a population. The data on this is unequivocal.

That's because the majority of suicidal crises are spontaneous and of absurdly short duration, on the order of around 20 minutes. If you interrupt the process between decision and action, people survive. And 90% of people who survive a suicide attempt never go on to die by suicide at any future point in their lives.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Especially MCU Tony in that prototype suit from Ironman 1. He'd have been pudding from that crash.

I like how Star Trek chose to at least Macguffin the physics with the "inertial dampening fields" in the ships. Because it's not the speed; it's the sudden stop that'll get ya.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Favorable terms with no means of legal leverage are just wisps of air. They can and will be rescinded at the earliest convenience of the corporation, which is literally why we're in the current situation we are today. The strongest middle class in the US existed when unions were at their peak. That is not a coincidence.

A formal, legal union gives employees power and leverage to enforce the favorable terms that they negotiate with an employer. You can argue that unions as organizations can be subject to similar corruption as any other organization, but contrary to popular propaganda, there is nothing inherent in the existence of a union that requires or lends itself to corruption any more than any other power structure.

Employees are legally permitted to organize a formal, legal union of their own outside the existing union organizations, but then they're starting from scratch. Existing unions have been through negotiations, have experienced lawyers, know the process and all of its pitfalls. The vast majority of workers are better off joining an existing union because of this.

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