PetDinosaurs @ PetDinosaurs @lemmy.world

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Do you really not like "fall back"?

You kinda need the back and forth or the work day start will drift whichever way.

That's one of my major thoughts in favor of DST.

Edit: let me clarify. I'll copy a better response:

It's about the change being important.

If we stay on a single "time" (say standard work day starts at 4 hours before solar noon), we'll drift the work time to start/end the work day at some appropriate time.

The issue is that what that time is that most socially useful changes greatly over the year unless you live close to the equator.

So weird.

Who on earth thinks I'm criticizing my wife for anything other than liking a candy that's widely disliked?

That's humorless.

I suppose it is horrific to make a joke about Halloween candy that has been complained about for decades and only seems to show up at Halloween.

Exactly!

At least someone here has a sense of humor.

I mean. Coconut and chocolate are great.

These bars are just gross on both parts.

It's just fuel for the insular Europeans being like "American chocolate has vomit in it".

That's gas station candy for children, and butyric acid is something that occurs naturally in chocolate.

Show me something good.

At least it's not as bad as spunow

Edit: this is the weirdest one too down vote. It's obviously funny and has been duplicated numerous times.

What does any of this have to do with anything I have ever said?

I literally stated this as an example of an acute and appropriate use of opiates.

Narcotic medications should be far more restricted than they are.

That's the point.

And this is something that people think is contradictory to what I've said?

Narcotics managing acute pain is fine. Narcotics are only for that.

So you would be a candidate. Exactly like I said. Pancreatitis is pretty acute and is listed in another post of mine.

What was/is causing your pain?

Unless you were stabbed or shot or had appendicitis or pancreatitis or kidney stones or something (all of which qualify as acute to me and are suitable for a short course of narcotics), pain that severe is typically caused by inflammation of the nerves as they leave the spine. Or cancer.

Nerve pain is best treated with steroids, not narcotics.

I've been there. It was, by a huge margin, the worst pain I've ever experienced. My arms and shoulders hurt so much that I couldn't do anything but think about the pain. The problem wasn't in my arms. It was in my neck.

I didn't know what a 10/10 was until then. All my other pain (even various surgeries) were just 5/10 compared to that.

Edit: I can't even imagine why this is controversial. Please answer the most important question. Where did the pain come from?

No. I think they understood it very well.

It's definitely derived from Iroquois games. Similar to lacrosse.

Not that plenty of other peoples didn't have various games where they hit things with sticks.

While I'm confident that this is correct, we need to stop normalizing the use of narcotic pain medications.

Those are for extremely acute use (e.g. surgery) or for terminal cases.

Edit: is this being taken over by the sackler family shills or what? Why is what I'm saying at all controversial?

Narcotics are for a matter of hours or days. Unless they're palliative.

Yeah... It's possibly not, but the overwhelming probability is drugs.

Addiction is a disease. I'm sad to see him go.

Music was much better when I was younger and more emotionally vulnerable.

I also like music from before my time, when they used to let ugly people make it.

It's complicated.

I disagree. This is fear mongering.

I've spilled a lot more than this on me and didn't even report it. I'm pretty sure they would have laughed at me if I did.

My dad just got diagnosed with cancer. He had a pet scan, got about 600 MBq of tracer injected, then proceeded to sleep next to my mother and piss that radiation all over the place.

That is much worse than this, and it's just not a problem.

Radiation units are difficult. Especially so because Sievert is used in SI for several different concepts (that really don't belong in the SI, imo).

I can't really explain this to you simply. There's probably some YouTube videos that are good, but you really need a sophisticated understanding of modern physics and lots of engineering principles.

I'll be brief, but I just can't explain this stuff in a text post and I'm not used to not explaining it to people who don't already have detailed knowledge.

Bq and Curie are units of activity. That's how many times you measure a decay per second.

Roentgens is a unit of exposure. That's about how much the radiation is charging up a unit of air. You recognize this from the Chernobyl series (which is extremely good and at least accurate in the physics).

Absorbed dose is the cumulative energy deposited. This is Gray in SI. That's the unit of measure you use when you prescribe someone radiation therapy.

Then there's equivalent and effective dose. Those depend on various ways about where the radiation goes and what kind of radiation it is. You can irradiate your hands a lot without problems. It's different for your colon or brainstem.

That is completely out of scope to this.

Ionizing radiation is dangerous in large amounts, but this is not a large amount. I'm not even sure how they got their 4 Bq/cm2 number. You're way more radioactive than that on your own.

The dosage makes the poison.

This is more like rubbing a banana on you.

Those incidences are people finding dangerous, improperly discarded sources and not knowing what they were.