cRazi_man @ cRazi_man @lemm.ee

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The medical community has long since moved on from the cardiovascular definition of death.

UpToDate.com is about the only source I can be bothered mustering up for an internet disagreement at this time of night:

Death is an irreversible, biologic event that consists of permanent cessation of the critical functions of the organism as a whole [1]. This concept allows for survival of tissues in isolation, but it requires the loss of integrated function of various organ systems. Death of the brain therefore qualifies as death, as the brain is essential for integrating critical functions of the body. The equivalence of brain death with death is largely, although not universally, accepted [2,3]. Brain death implies the permanent absence of cerebral and brainstem functions.

Also this video seems to explain what I'm trying to say, although I'm not going to watch the whole thing at this hour and I only skimmed through it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhxRSaJ74E

Not having a heartbeat and not breathing doesn't mean you're dead. Intensive care departments are literally full of people with medically paralysed breathing muscles (i.e. not breathing) on ventilation machines. People go onto heart/lung bypass machines everyday to have heart surgery and their heart is stopped. You just need to keep oxygenated blood going around, keeping those tissues alive till you get the heart and breathing back online (this is what CPR is trying to do).

When the brain stem is dead tissue, then you're truly dead (but even then you can be kept "alive" artificially if you're already on a ventilation machine in a suitable intensive care).

I really appreciate you sharing that video with me and really enjoyed watching it.

I used to think "snuck" was correct, but TIL.

I've started using email filter rules. Put emails from the key people I work with into an urgent folder. Auto-delete automated reports and updates. Everything else can wait....or get deleted. If an email hasn't been replied to for 2 weeks and the world is carrying on then it couldn't have been that important. If it was important then people tend to phone about it.

The problem is that everything gets mixed into a single mass.....petty squabbles, automated newsletters, "CC you for info", etc are mixed in with emails that say "immediate response required for new serious litigation disaster".

Revenge procrastination

I dreaded opening my work email and was struggling for ages to get on top of my backlog of hundreds emails.

Now I've realised that as long as I'm doing my core tasks, I can ignore and delete most emails with no consequence. Life is better now.

Golar bears and Pizzley bears

Sheep is correct actually

Awesome. And cool that your mom is into old Atari games. Did she play them back in the day?

That's not just for internet publications of social media anymore......the headline news on the BBC is literally "Prince Harry says he wants reconciliation but the king refuses to speak to him".

Agree completely. None of it is well portrayed and the movies that do it well are exceptions. Any movie in which I see a man and woman having alcohol, I know there's a sex scene coming up. Romance and sex are both so horrendously badly portrayed most of the time that I'm surprised more people don't complain.

James Bond - typically misogynistic and women are used as Bond pleases.

1st Iron Man movie - serious investigative reporter is reduced to a hot piece of ass for a one night stand as Tony Stark clearly just picks up and sleeps with whoever he wishes.

Star Trek Into Darkness - Kirk is so alpha that the easiest way to portray this is he is in bed with 2 alien women and doesn't even care as they beg him not to answer the phone and get back to action with them.

There's was a video essay on YouTube about there being less and less sex on TV and in movies and how bad that is. They argued that media should portray all aspects of life realistically; and if sex is left only to porn then it's going to give people a more and more skewed view with no counterbalance.

Is that why I can't seem to find it on my laptop? Skill issue?

No, thank YOU

I advocate separate duvets. My wife won't agree.

The romantics never said anything about the farts on thighs and I did not consent to being in anyone else's Dutch oven.

Ideas like this haven't come up for the first time. I expect this idea occurred to Valve and they thought it was not worth the investment of money/manpower/infrastructure.

Valve would either have to publish on Google Play. That would put it in the role of a developer and Valve is not really pushing on its developer role significantly. A huge cut off sales then goes to google.

Or Valve will have to try to make an alternative store.... And that is no small feat. Most people will not sideload apps or install other store fronts. I imagine the proportion of android game sales that Valve can get into will be tiny enthusiast communities, and that won't be anywhere near enough to pay the bills. On this alternative store, Valve will have to get developers to make games.....or again they will have to consider developing games in house to get the ball rolling. Their best bet would likely be to use their existing IP to make mobile spin-offs (DotA card game? Or a wild-rift type MOBA? CS:GO turn based tacticle game? Or try to compete with CoD for the FPS market?).

I can't see any combination of the above that seem like probable success for Valve. It's admirable that they're sticking to their niche and what they know. Pushing further into the handheld gaming and console market has been a much better option for them and they're trying hard. Even in that aspect, the Steam Deck is universally praised......and is selling roughly 2.5% as many consoles as the Nintendo Switch. And no one I know IRL knows about the Steam Deck (other than my brothers, who bought one after I told them I had pre-ordered mine).

If you're genuinely interested, then there are people studying and talking about this (beyond the expertise of Lemmy). There's a fantastic podcast I listen to that talks in detail and there author has written a book about how minds change. Here's a specific episode (out of many) that is relevant, but I would really recommend listening to all:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2022/05/01/yanss-231-why-we-often-cant-choose-what-we-believe-thanks-to-the-fact-that-certainty-is-a-feeling-and-not-a-conclusion/

A dot afterwards? Now that's fancy!

Any luck? Or have you been using a 10year old phone because the stupid phone manufacturers think following Apple is a good idea