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Same, every time I've had a general aesthetic the anaesthesiologist has sat down near my arm, asked if I'm ready, and when I say "yup" he says some medical jargon to the anesthetist/resp nurse, then warns me that it's going to feel cold and taste funny, he connects a bolus syringe to my IV bung and as he's pushing tells me to count down from ten, and the anesthetist grabs my head gently as the anaesthesiologist moves around towards my head and presumably grabs some other instruments ready to intubate.

My record is 7. But next time I'm going to try counting faster - not sure why but I'd always try to time it to actual seconds.

For GA, I've never been given a gas mask while awake, maybe it's to do with "rapid induction", I'm not 100% sure what that is, only that every anaesthesiologist I've had has said he's going to "rapidly induce" because my connective tissue disorder indicates the need to. I never really questioned it.

The only time I've been given a mask while being told to count was when I was going under twilight sedation for a colonoscopy. as they were administering the IV, they also gave me a mask that was unexpectedly strawberry "flavoured" and I had a panic attack as I was going under because my grandma is allergic to strawberries, I'm not, but in my semi lucid state I forgot I wasn't and started mumbling about being allergic to air.

(I've only ever had male anaesthesiologists, so apppogies for only using male pronouns to describe the doctor)

Because if no one was paying rent, (eg: under a theoretical system of universal basic shelter) what would be the benefit of hoarding more than what you could use?

It's valuable and precious the same way air and oxygen are valuable and precious, and while we charge a little bit for water, we don't charge >50% of someone's income for them to have access to water, then remove their water if we arbitrarily decide they're not drinking it properly, and make them submit a 7 page document and provide 4 references to get a cup.

Although some of models of pace maker are removed prior to cremation, as they can sort of explode at high temperatures. Everything else is burned off, dusted off and returned.

For burial, if an autopsy is required, everything on the surface is removed to prepare the body for examination, this can include medical implants and things like bone halos and cages, though that's usually only if the cage is suspected to be part of the cause of death, or the family has asked it be removed for burial.

Some things are removed for safety reasons, but for the most part it's up to the family to decide what stays on the body. We burried my cousin in all her ring splints because she had them custom designed as jewelry, and we joked that "she'd want full use of her fingers in the afterlife". But some families might ask for things to be removed post mortem because their beliefs only allow for flesh and bone to be burried.

I have absolutely no idea how there are people that exist out there that can drink 6-10 of them a day without spontaneously combusting from tremor induced cellular friction.

A few years ago my doctor put me on beta blockers to try and manage my migraines. My blood pressure was always within healthy limits, usually around 110/70, on the beta blockers it dropped a little bit, but nothing drastic. My heart rate on the other hand?

Resting, it was 41-45 bmp, sitting and fidgeting it was 54-58bpm, and walking around it was 65-73. I'd have to really push hard at the gym to get it to 100 and it would drop back down so suddenly when I stopped I'd often get blue lips when doing cool down stretches.

My fingers and toes were always blue, I had chilblains in the middle of the summer.

When I asked my doctor if I should try Alpha Blockers because they don't effect your heart he said "just drink a can of redbull 3-4 times a day"

So that's what I did.

It wasn't until I changed doctors and she asked me about my tea and coffee habits that it fully dawned on me just how much caffeine I was having.

I completely forgot tea has caffeine, I'd have 5-8 cups a day, plus 3 no-doze pills, 2 red bulls and a ristretto on most work days. On weekends I'd have 3-4 teas, 2-3 red bulls, 2 coffees and a caffeine based pre-workout.

My resting heart rate during all this was about 58bpm....and I slept like a log.

Anyway, my new doctor was horrified and I'm on alpha blockers now. Still no migraines, I've had to cut out everything caffeinated except 3 cups of tea a day, my resting heart rate is 67bpm....but now I have orthostatic hypotension which kinda sucks. Not as bad as taking trucker crack just so my he would remember to beat. I also struggle with intermittent bouts of insomnia now, which is weird.

Thank you for asking this, the part about users not using LW for illegal activities is also unclear to me, is it an illegal activity in my country where I'm posting from, or an illegal activity where LW is registered. For example, being gay might be illegal where I live, it won't stop me accessing queer communities online.

That's an obvious situation for me, because it's such an unjust law, but a more vague example might be an 18 year old in the USA and and 18 year old in Australia discussing the consumption of alcohol and how to make homebrew. One of those people are breaking local laws. In the grand scheme of things this is a relatively harmless situation, but would this technology be a violation of the T&S?

Meanwhile I'm an introvert and I would rather a 10 minute phone call than an email chain back and forward.

If it's going to be more than 2 emails, call me.

Writing an email is just as socially draining for me - sometimes even more so if I don't know you well and I'm over thinking the tone or how much context to include. Having to send more than 2 emails is just elongating the interaction, especially if the other person is in and out of the office so they don't reply quickly and I keep having to come back to the same conversation and shift my headspace in and out of "socially mode"

Of course, being in and out of the office is a big reason why email is great, you get to it when you get to it and no one is entitled to your immediate attention.

I swear some landlords lay it on so thick they're basically reducing the total liveable square footage of their rental.

I've recently developed a mild intolerance to Carageenan, and it's making me acutely aware of just how amazing algea is.

It's in everything and can do anything, truly an amazing organism.

But I wish it wasn't so great at everything, because I want to brush my teeth without randomly throwing up 2 hours later because I'm allergic to toothpaste.

Growing up with stage 4 water restrictions, the shower bucket and kitchen jug was a standard in our state.

The kitchen jug was used as potable water, we'd keep it handy for boiling pasta. The strained pasta water would be cooled and used to flush the toilet.

The shower drain, and laundry drain was connected to a grey water tank which was used for watering plants and the toilet cistern (which had a brick in it, because even though we already had a duel flush system, every drop counted) I remember having to swap to special shampoo to avoid ruining the grey water.

Occasionally dad would reroute the shower hose because he was just having a "quick rinse" (eg, no soap or shampoo) and he'd fill a separate drum that he'd then use to wash the car. Washing your car was banned unless you used grey water.

We still occasionally got a fine for using too much water for a household of our size.

As a kid I didn't really understand that this was an environmental issue, we kept it up long after the water restrictions were lifted so I thought it was just dad being frugal.

So when I moved out I just continued with my water saving habits, but it turns out water is really cheap when there isn't an active drought, and living in a share house with 10 other people who didn't have the same water saving habits quickly killed the shower bucket and kitchen jug.

Now that it's just me and my partner, I should reintroduce the shower bucket. My plants would love it.

It sounds like there have been a few other code of conduct violations and the schools issue with his hair style was the final straw. Who knows if the previous "violations of the code" were also rooted in racism, but either way, a hair style should never be the ultimate reason someone is expelled unless they've purposefully shaved an offensive slurr into their hair.

As a disabled person who can't drive, I ride my ebike everywhere. I can easily fit a week's worth of groceries because it's a cargo bike, which makes it even easier to balance and steer because of the way it's weighted.

Im lucky to live in an area that is becoming increasingly bike friendly. 10 years ago I barely left the house because it wasn't safe to ride on the road, and I couldn't afford uber/taxi, and there were no accessible bus stops near me.

When something is more than 20km away I will take a bus or an uber - but there's no reason that uber couldn't be a microcar, or a light vehicle (like an electric version of the old milkman lorries) for those that need ramp access or electric wheelchair transport.

At the moment in many places, disabled people are already forced to use paratransit systems because adaptive cars and taxi services are prohibitively expensive.

There will always be a need for some people, and some communities to have and depend on cars. The goal is to reduce this to as few people as possible by making it easier for those that are able to choose other methods.

Not everyone who wants to be vaccinated against covid can be vaccinated.

And not everyone who is vaccinated can receive the full benefits of vaccination due to being immunocompromised.

As someone who gets a Hep B vaccine every single year, I do what I can to protect myself, but my body is incapable of producing antibodies long term, it's because of an autoimmune condition, not because the vaccine isn't widely effective. I'm always going to be more susceptible to it (and I work in healthcare so I have to keep getting the vaccine). I'm lucky I only have this issue with hep b, my other vaccines seem to have "taken", but I'm not alone, there are many people out there that have this issue with various vaccines.

My cousin had an anaphylactic reaction to the flu vaccine a few years ago, he can't take it again. He's in a vulnerable position because he has a trachy, so his airways don't have as much natural protection. He has to trust that his co-workers will stay away from him if they catch the flu, because he can't get vaccinated even though he wants and needs to.

It does technically reduce transmission potential, though indirectly.

If you do contract covid or the flu after having been vaccinated, you are less likely to have severe symptoms, including coughing and sneezing. If you're not coughing up a lung all over the place, you're not spreading as much as someone who is hocking loogeys over everyone else.

I still don't see how that misunderstanding leads to such a violent attack.

If you (mistakenly) think someone is trying to haggle with you, the correct response is "ma'am we don't haggle here, the price is the price, pay or get out"

At what point does "she tried to haggle with me!" become an excuse for "so I bashed her face in"

I'm this person. I have a few rules - I never have a phone conversation on public transport (bus, train, etc) and if it's a long conversation or overly personal I'll tell them I'll call them back when I'm in a private room.

But I'll answer quick calls like "can you grab bread on your way home?" or "I'm on my way, but I'm running late" on speaker in public.

I have reverse slope hearing loss, and I'm a very forgetful person who always leaves their seventeen pairs of headphones somewhere that isn't on my person.

I can't hear phone conversations properly without putting the phone directly in front of me so both ears are listening.

It's gotten better with VoIP because the method of compression is different to the old copper lines - I can't hear shit over analogue, as a teenager I used to use relay services because I couldn't hear male voices over phone. But some people's phone service is still really badly compressed, I'm on a tight budget so unfortunately I can't afford a quality service, or a flagship smartphone that let's me pitch adjust incoming calls.

I can't afford hearing aids for RSHL (they're not standard) so in the meantime I answer the phone on speaker and hold it in front of my face. (unless I have my headphones and can plug both in)

I try not to shout at my phone, but half the time it's my deaf mother calling me and we just end up shouting at each other over the phone, or it's one of the students calling me, I teach conversational English for migrants and IT for seniors, so there's a huge language or hearing barrier and my stupid little monkey brain thinks speaking louder will help even though I know it won't.

It really depends where you live, if all tea is imported bags are usually cheaper. 250g of budget loose leaf in Australia is $4 which is affordable and cheap, but you could also get a 100 pack of tea bags (approx 200g) for $2.50. So it's technically cheaper to buy bags. But only slightly, and the quality difference does mean it's often worth spending more for loose leaf.

Good point, it is wasteful. Maybe instead of letting it rot in the food supply chain and on supermarket shelves we should let baby calves drink it, or stop forcefully impregnating dairy cows in the first place.

Our DM was growing tired and it felt like perfect timing because I had this idea for a short campaign I wanted to try and run, so as a group we decided that we'd do a few weeks of one shots, with a new DM each time so we could all get some experience in a short and casual way.

Our existing DM offered to do the first because he wanted to try and set up a quick adventure covering some of the things he'd built for a previous campaign that we as a party had just completely skipped past. "it will take us 5 hours" he said.

That was a year ago. The 5 hour one off is now up to its 40th session, and our "tired" DM keeps finding ways to keep the story going with twists and turns and I no longer believe that he's bored of DMing.

But it means I've had a full year too flesh out my ideas, so when he really is bored of running sessions, I'm feeling more than ready to give it a go.

I teach IT for seniors (basically a class room full of your Nan asking how her phone works) and I 100% agree with both of your points.

For experienced users, a lack of distinct buttons, and the use of icons only has the potential to slow you down.

For new users, learners, and people with cognitive or visual impairment these features make websites and apps boarderline In-usable.

It's very hard to teach people how to use a computer when I must first teach them an endless codex of icons and symbols, and train them to mouse over anything and everything in case it's a button.

Like wise, companies like Google need to stop being cute with confirmation buttons that say "got it" or "I'm in". Stick to basics like "okay" and "agree", because a lot of IT students in community education are non-English speaking, so indirect buttons like this are even more confusing. And for those of us who are fluent in English, we're often scanning a page for specific text, and we're even less likely to recognise a button is a button if the text on it is something that has never traditionally been put on a button.

You know, this argument would have better legs if our current approach to food production wasn't one of the biggest contributing factors to environmental destruction and climate change.

Yes, humans are omnivores, yes, animals eat other animals.

But we're not just eating other animals, we're selectively breeding animals en masse to be bigger and beefier than their own legs and heart muscles can handle. We take over vast swathes of arable land to grow introduced soy and corn crop, creating a destructive mono culture, then we don't even eat the nutritious crop, we pump it through feed pipes to barns and stock yards filled to the brim with thousands of animals.

Humans eating meat is natural.

But the way humans currently produce meat is far from natural.

While being vegan myself, I don't agree that every human on earth should also be vegan, I just think we collectively need to accept that meat is a luxury, and treat it as such.

Our hunter gatherer ancestors did not eat meat every day.

Our dawn of agriculture ancestors did not eat meat every day.

Our forebearers of the industrial revolution did not eat meat every day.

Our own grandparents, prior to the 1950s, did not eat meat every day.

We should eat meat as nature intended....not the way our current battery farming practices allow