emmanuel_car @ emmanuel_car @kbin.social

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Yeah I was thinking maybe it was some new racist term for “ese”, trying to understand what the “de” was supposed to be. Glad this guy spelled it out.

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Top song - Fangoria, Un Poco Todo
Top artist - Kamilo Sanclement, narrowly edging out Estiva and Confidence Man

It’s worse than that, she’s dead, Jim, she’s dead, Jim, she’s dead, Jim

I had 4 pneumothoraxes when I was 14-15, 3 on my left, 1 on my right. After the one on my right (#4) the surgeon recommended a pleurodesis to permanently fix my left lung to my chest wall. Basically they rough up the skin between your chest and lung, then fuse them together with talc.

Recovery was excruciating, the first 3 days were the worst with a drainage tube stuck out the back of my chest, and once I got home it was weeks of taking it very easy, slowly expanding my lung capacity.

That was 15 years ago, since then I’ve had no pneumothorax requiring surgery (had a couple of minor ones on my right that rectified themselves), and it hasn’t stopped me from working out, both cardio and strength training. It has definitely reduced my lung capacity and I did have to go to a physio to relearn to breathe from my diaphragm, I’ll never be an athlete, but I wasn’t going to be one before my lungs collapsed in the first place. It also means scuba diving and anything with big pressure differentials on my body are out of the question, but that wasn’t something I was interested in to begin with. Overall, I’m still able to do the things I want to, I’m slightly aware of my reduced lung capacity when I think about it, and I have to work harder on my cardio to achieve a similar result to others, but do not regret it.

If your doctor is recommending it, and if these are regularly occurring, particularly with no obvious cause, I would take it. Two in a year is a lot lower than what I had, and the surgeon only offered the pleurodesis once the right side collapsed as that significantly increased my chances of both happening at the same time. Not sure what the medical advice is these days but in my case they were adamant about not doing it unless it posed a serious risk of both collapsing or if the air volumes were large - from memory my first was over 1L, subsequent were always smaller. Maybe ask what the risks of NOT having the surgery are, or what risk threshold(s) you’ve crossed that are driving the decision to have surgery now, rather than after another.

Sunken cost fallacy

Got paywalled on mobile so haven’t read the article yet, but could be about survival rates to adulthood? Largest adult population rather vs most babies born? Not particularly well framed either way.

Agreed, my new music mix is usually pretty good too.

The article made it sound like you have to have favourited the channel to get these notifications, rather than anyone being able to contact you like this at any time.

Do we have to use such charged language? I was circumcised for a genuine medical procedure, nothing to do with hygiene, religion, or trends, so I’m very glad my parents had that done. Not so glad it had to happen in the first place, but very happy with the end result.

Factorio, hours upon hours of Factorio. I go to bed planning my next expansion. I wake up from dreaming about it. It’s consumed my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Other way around, banning non-medical use vapes while making cigarettes prohibitively expensive via taxes. The UK on the other hand is banning cigarette sales to those born on or after 1/1/09.

It is theorised that there are health benefits, and we may have even evolved sweet mucous to encourage consumption!

A most excellent reference

Ah thanks for that, I’m on kbin and missed the Australian politics community.

🎶 we come in peace
Shoot to kill
Shoot to kill
Shoot to kill 🎶

Ok yeah that’s kinda cute, from a safe distance, like through my phone

What a Pratt.

Pokémon games are developed by Game Freak, so although they’re published by Nintendo & The Pokémon Company I wouldn’t put them in the same category as a Zelda or Mario game.

I mean, I didn’t want to be the one to say it, but, yes