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  • Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)

  • For mine, it's the only safe place from the scary, scary thunder.

  • You really need to go rethink your entire life. It is not morally acceptable to debate the value of the lives of human children under any circumstances. Period. They are CHILDREN.

  • No, even though I watched both series and all the other movies, it was still hard to follow. It was just so poorly written and paced. The editing jumped around, moments with critical information were breezed past without enough time to absorb what just happened.

    Honestly, it should have been a great movie. It has all the pieces; they were just so badly executed. It's the first MCU thing I was genuinely excited to see in quite a while, and instead I sat there the whole time wondering how this ever made it through any kind of quality control.

  • Dark healthcare provider humor incoming: When considering these kinds of questions regarding CPR, we actually say, "Well, they ain't getting any deader."

    CPR actually reverses death. That's why it only works sometimes and only if provided in a very short window of time after you've died. Nothing that is done during CPR is going to make that worse. So yeah, the reality is that it's a little bit of a controlled free-for-all. It's called "heroic measures" for a reason.

  • Birds and wildlife in my neighborhood. I'm technically in suburbia, but enough old growth patches have been maintained that we have a surprising amount of wild animals that live in or travel through the neighborhood (Massachusetts, US)

    Merlin app is amazing for identifying birds at the feeder I put on my back deck. And the rest of the animals, I mentally collect like Pokemon.

  • Same. Airplanes. Seeing them, being on one, just so giddy and excited every time.

  • Tenet. I know it became fashionable to hate it, but it's my favorite Christopher Nolan movie because it's just fun to watch, which is not common with Nolan movies.

    I think John David Washington and Robert Pattinson have great chemistry. You need to be comfortable with being clueless about what's happening because the story is told from the limited perspective of the main character. If he doesn't know, the audience doesn't know. When he finds out, you find out. So what the movie seems to be "about" shifts a few times based on his perspective and his assumptions.

    Yes, it's clearly just an excuse for Christopher Nolan to indulge in impossible looking practical effects scenes and I love it.

  • Also working at a hospital, we're definitely seeing Covid, and a surprising amount of RSV in older folks. Not a ton of flu yet, but that may be because flu vaccine has good uptake in the elderly population here.

  • They decided they deserved to make up all the profit they lost during the pandemic, and they were legally able to increase our prices to do exactly that. It's as plain and simple as this.

  • The most effective medication is the one that actually gets used.

  • LITERAL blasphemy. Like actual, textbook blasphemy. And his sycophants lap it up.

  • You could actually have an allergy. I met one other person who had a mold allergy that was cross reactive with blue cheeses, and had a similar reaction to them

  • Oh fuck off. You know damn well that 90% of society would raise an eyebrow at a 3 year old boy trudging around in high heels and getting into mom's lipstick.

    NO ONE TOLD HER SHE WAS TRANS. SHE SAID THAT.

    What part of this was self-determined is hard for you to understand? Transition was 100% initiated and driven BY HER. It's what she wanted because it's what she understood herself to be inside her own mind.

  • Final Destination, Expanse style? That sounds... unpleasant lol

  • Huh, now that's super interesting.

    Ok you and I both have to go to sleep, but now you've got me wondering about the eternal debate amongst our medical residents about benzos vs. barbiturates for acute alcohol withdrawal. I'll have to read up on this some more