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  • To be fair, per chrystian mythos, god didn't create humans with original sin. Eve caused original sin by eating the forbidden fruit. Before that humans were completely sinless like other animals. Now why god created a temptation sin tree is a better question.

  • This depends on the antidepressant. Most modern antidepressants have a relatively short half-life in the body. For example the one I'm on now has a half-life of about 10 hours. However one of the first SSRIs and the still most frequently prescribed one, Fluoxetine, has a half life of 4 days for the medication itself and its metabolite has a half-life of up to 10 days. So that one does literally take weeks to fully build up in the blood and that's probably why doctors use that line.

    Regardless, even with the shorter half-life drugs it does take a couple of weeks for your brain to adjust to the altered neurotransmitter levels. So even if it's not technically "waiting for it to build up in the blood", the result is the same and it's an easily understandable explanation for doctors to use even if it's not technically correct.

  • I'm an environmental chamber technician. I fix and test the equipment that does all of the temperature and humidity testing for most electronics from consumer grade stuff to stuff that is literally going into space. Basically an environmental chamber is just a programable box that is refrigerated and/or heated that you put stuff into to see how it performs at different temperatures. The ones I work on also often have programable humidity levels for testing equipment under basically any normal atmospheric conditions. The ones I work with are anywhere between the size of a household microwave and slightly larger than Volkswagen Beetle. The ones that don't use liquid nitrogen can manage temperatures anywhere between 200C and -75C. The liquid nitrogen ones can of course manage temps as low as liquid nitrogen gets.

    As far as education and certifications go, there isn't much. In the US you do need an EPA 608 certification to work with refrigerants but that only cost like $100 (my employer covered it) and it's a lifetime certification. Everything else was just on the job training. I just got mentored by some coworkers, did some independant study, and practiced. The biggest thing is just haveing a technical mindset. Troubleshooting is troubleshooting so basically if you're someone who can usually figure out how to fix things on their own then odds are you could do my job with minimal refrigeration training.

    As far as getting into the same niche today, I definitely would if I could find the job (it's not all that common). I love working with refrigeration and troubleshooting these machines scratches tha puzzle solving itch in my brain. It's fun to see the unique options that certain customers get like water cooled systems or liquid nitrogen boost units. Also seeing as how these machines need to be benchmarked at a known ambient temp, it is one the very few refrigeration related jobs that you get to do from a strictly climate controlled building. It is always exactly 23C in my work area because that's exactly what our testing spec calls for. To top it all off the pay isn't bad. I could be making a bit more in normal HVAC but not much more and, unlike HVAC, my equipment comes to me in my climate controlled shop. I don't have to climb up on a roof when it's 40C outside to fix someone's AC.

  • When I first got officially diagnosed with depression the doc prescribed me an antidepressant and when I asked about sideffects he said "noone ever gets any sideffects from this med". It literally had a black box warning and a CVS recipt of known sideeffects. Also yes there were definitely sideffects. Luckily the pharmacist wasn't a moron like the doc and actually told me what to expect.

  • We do have state police. We just also have city police, county police, federal police. They are all seperate and depending on the crime committed different ones will get involved. City or county police will handle your typical day to day policing. State and federal police get involved if the crime crosses county/state lines, happened specifically on state/federal property, or if the county/city police don't have the resources to deal with it. In theory this means that the higher policing jurisdictions provide oversight over the lower ones and the lower ones can provide more focused efforts onto their specific areas that the higher jurisdictions wouldn't be able to do. In practice though a cop is a cop and they all cover for each others crimes/inadequacies.

  • They do generally give announcements when they defed from larger instances. But they are also constantly defederating from numerous spam instances and such that are constantly popping up so making a dedicated anouncment for each one is a bit much. They do however do a good job with keeping fediseer updated whith all of the instances they defederated and the reason. So if you want specific info on smaller instances then I would check there.

    Considering I spend most of my time on Lemmy just scrolling through all and I don't recognize the instance OP mentioned, I'm assuming it is a fairly small.one and the LW admins didn't see a reason for a full blown announcement.

  • With Three Mile Island everything that could go wrong did and it still wound up being an overblown non-issue. There have been exactly 0 environmental or health impacts due to Three Mile Island despite it being the worst nuclear disaster in US history.

    Fukushima was built in a stupid location. How about we don't build nuclear power plants on fault lines in tsunami prone areas. Literally 4 different fault lines converge on Japan, it is not a place anyone should be building nuclear power plants.