"Cave Johnson here. I have bad news, and I have good news. The bad news is that the AI we developed for our melee sentry turret concept developed a targeting error due to misinterpreting the verbal input 'aim for center mass'. We think it misheard the last word. It only ever delivered nonfatal injuries to the test subjects rectal regions.
The good news is that one of our interns replaced the knife with a dildo and stationed one in his supervisor's office along with a scathing resignation letter. The supervisor reported faster and more intense prostatic stimulation than any sex toy currently on the market - apparently this guy's a connoisseur! HA!
The turrets have all been refitted with different sizes and shapes of dildos, and tight little studded leather vests. Testing will resume tomorrow morning: we're rebranding and exploring its potential for the sex toy industry.
Also find that intern, we need to get him back as a paid employee - that type of innovative thinking shouldn't go to waste!"
New research predicts a rise in life expectancy worldwide over the next three decades, particularly in Africa. Meanwhile, obesity and other factors are also set to play a larger role in poor health....
Numbers can be (and VERY often are) spoofed. You might be hit up from some bot in India or something; get annoyed and block the number; and succeed in blocking some grandma in Ohio who has no idea her number was even used for that call.
It's basically a heavily abused version of an office building with lots of specialty areas that each have their own actual phone number that can be called directly; but when they call out, your caller ID just shows the main line for that building, which prevents random people from calling back directly to that office.
Moral of the story: blocking spammers doesn't do shit.
When they call, just let it ring and go to voice mail then ignore the voice mail, and don't send any kind of response to their texts.
Your best option is to support the possibility that yours is an old number that's no longer in use and thus not worthy of even a bot's attention.
The Israeli military said Thursday that five soldiers were killed and seven injured in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza, amid renewed battles in the area against regrouped Hamas militants....
If they thought that it was possible [to beat out] blackness,
Don't give em any ideas. That's actually far more plausible than trying to beat someone out of being gay or trans: the part of the dermis that actually has the concentration of melanin to make skin appear dark is like less than paper-thin. I've worked on black burn patients, and when that portion of their skin gets burned away, the skin (still skin, not subcutaneous or muscle or anything) that's left is as white as mine, and I'm a pasty mofo.
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Warning - not gory necessarily, but if you're squeamish you might want to skip this one.
This video shows a dermatome taking a skin graft from a dark skinned patient. A dermatome is basically a razor blade that vibrates and takes a specific thickness of skin... it's basically the bastard child of a cheese slicer and those vibro-blades that some people obliterate their turkey with around November.
Anyway, this appears to be a partial-thickness graft, which means most of what they're taking is the epidermis, and leaving the dermis mostly intact. Notice the contrast when the epidermis comes up.
...so many stupid problems through the entirety of our history over the biological equivalent to tissue paper. -_-
Most of the ones I've done, we take it with the dermatome, then run it through a "mesher" which cuts little slits in an alternating pattern all over it, which allows the graft to expand and cover twice the area. Then you cut a piece large enough to cover the burn or wound or w/e needs the graft, stitch if into it, then stretch the remainder out and stitch it back to the site we cut it off from.
The ones I've done have all been split thickness grafts where we only take the epidermis; full thickness takes the dermis and epidermis, and I assume can work the same way with a mesher.
I don't think subcutaneous tissue is ever grafted in that context - that's more liposuction territory, which I've seen that grafted in facial plastics stuff like lip restoration.
The how's of skin healing are largely over my head - I'm a surgical tech, so my focus is mostly on surgery setup, knowing the surgery well enough to keep the surgeon equipped with the instrument they need throughout the surgery, tear down and clean up, rinse and repeat. Our education on physiology is pretty limited relative to everyone else in the OR, especially in my case since I was trained to be a surg tech when I joined the Air Force, and the military version is WAY abbreviated and requires no academic background (vs most civilian programs which require college level anatomy & physiology courses, and then actual surg tech school is like 5x as in depth compared to mil). I've only just recently caught up to my civ peers academically bc I took the prereqs for nursing school, for which there's significant overlap with normal surg tech program prereqs. (just finished 1st semester of nursing school, woot woot!!)
...and tbh, grain of salt on civ surg tech program info I just mentioned - that's all 2nd hand info from other techs that I just took at face value. I have no reason to doubt it, but still.
Aaaanywho, my understanding (which is like tip of the iceberg basic) is that the epidermis is mostly just the dead skin cells that flake up to the top to form the outer layer of your skin. The dermis underneath is vascularized, and healing pretty much starts with blood (delivering nutrients and platelets etc). So yeah, wounds heal from the edges inward and from the deeper parts outward. Wide area wounds can be painful af, have a high infection risk, and you lose a lot of fluid through them, so that's where grafts come in to replace that protective outer layer, which acts as a barrier to pathogens and keeps the underlying tissue moist. Even with the mesher, the graft is effectively covered in holes to cover a wider area, but that still acts as a scaffolding for new tissue to form.
I imagine you get used to it, but I feel squeamish just looking at the graft, not to mention the injury that required it!
Yeah you get used to it. Funny thing with the AF: many active duty surgical techs are placed via "open general" which is a recruiting tool to place warm bodies in open job slots as fast as possible. Basically people go to a recruiter, aren't picky about what they want to do once they enlist, so they just let the AF decide for them. Some of them get surg tech, and there's an "Oh shit" moment when they realize medical jobs were on the menu and they're the type that passes out at the sight of blood.... TOO LATE, THEY ALREADY SIGNED! So they finish Basic, go to surg tech school, then go to work at the OR at an on base hospital where they STRUGGLE (in part because they're a source of great fun for the other staff, lol) for about... 4 months. Much after that, them being elbow deep into a stranger's abdomen to hold a bunch of intestines back out of the surgeons way is just another Tuesday, doesn't phase em at all.
Squeamishness is just a matter of exposure; as that increases, so does tolerance.
...also on the off chance anyone reading this is considering enlisting into the AF, do not - DO NOT - go open general unless you're sincerely cool with spending the next 4+ years doing ANY of the jobs listed in general, which is a massive category that could land you as a medic, cop, line cook, roach exterminator, weather, etc. And if you want medical and your recruiter recommends you go "open medical", that doesn't exist - there's a number or email on the back of his business card to file complaints, write that motherfucker up for lying to you. Apparently that's a common trick to get people to sign open general.
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
Honestly kinda wish they'd have succeeded. We'd be down one monster at the hands of another; and the justice system would have handled the situation with MUCH less legal circus and kid gloves. The overall response to J6 has been a joke, and this would have forced us to take it seriously.
Not sure if Pence dying would have made a difference there actually. There was already an insurrection, so if martial law is what he was after, he could have just used that as an excuse regardless of how successful the insurrectionists were.
I like to think that 'we the people' wouldn't tolerate a Trump instigating an insurrection and then calling for martial law on the basis of that same insurrection; but it certainly wouldn't be the first time I'd have been disappointed at our collective lack of a spine.
Yeah if someone's benefitting from a placebo effect, the worst thing you can do is point out that it's a placebo. If you convince them it won't work, then you've just destroyed the therapeutic effect their brain was giving them. Just shut up and let the placebo do its thing.
Depends on the setting. In a nurse-patient situation, you don't ever bullshit them in the hopes of tricking them into some kind of benefit.
If your grandpa is raving on Facebook about how acupuncture is working better than opioids for post-knee-replacement pain management, then... "Hey that's great you found something that works for you!"
YetAnotherUser makes a good point about not enabling a culture of scams or pseudoscience as well.
Dry needling doesn't (always?) use electricity. I've had it done too, and the explanation I got was that it basically just pisses off the underlying tissue to promote an inflammatory response and thus blood flow to the target area.
With politics (especially the GOP), it's the opposite of Hanlon's razor -- Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
These fuckers are shooting for some combination of harming an outgroup, or profiting from corruption. They're not idiots, they're evil. They act like idiots because that's what their base finds relatable.
Social good. If work stopped being such a demand, boredom would start to be an issue, and outside of just leisure entertainment part of the solution would be ushering folks to a field of study that interests them, which would lead to an explosion of research and breakthroughs. That shouldn't come with a barrier to entry: folks who want to spend their time doing that should be enabled no questions asked.
Sounds like the problem there is more with shitty dictatorships. Leave it to a few evil assholes to ruin a good thing. But even in best case scenario of giving everyone the freedom to use the entirety of every day the way they want, it's going to be a very, VERY mixed bag. There will be folks who literally spend the rest of their life watching TV or some other form of idle entertainment, but if that's how they want to spend it, more power to em. I'd guess the majority of folks would engage in some form of arts just to have an outlet for creativity. Relatively few would turn to academics and pursue research for the sole sake of finding answers; but even that relative few would count for something... I think most important would be the kinds of things people study. Today we have a TON of talent wasted on finding clever new ways to blow each other up, or enshittifying the web, or perfecting the psychology of advertisements... if those people were all focused on, say, climate change... then we might not be in the whole planet-on-fire situation we're in now.
Speaking of, we'll probably be extinct before we figure out how to pull our political heads out of our asses anyway. Humanity actually living up to its potential is locked into the "wouldn't it be nice if..." category.
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
We need to stop giving Trump (and the other neonazis that have surfaced in his wake) the village-idiot or bat-shit-crazy pass and treat him as though his actions are lucid and calculated. We can assess the state of his brain during autopsy. Until then, he's a traitor and domestic threat to the United States, and we should treat that threat as seriously as its consequences merit.
It'll herd users to the new product. It's like when reddit enshittified its mobile web page to move folks to its app. Both reddit; but they shot themselves in one foot to shift weight over to the other foot.
Sorry, initial post was meant to be more cheeky than anything else: Basically saying AI folks like OpenAI have seriously damaged the quality of Google's search results, and in doing so established demand for a new search option... and now they're announcing a competitor to Google.
One foot (google) was shot to shift traffic over to the other (whatever this new shit is). Wasn't meant to imply Google is in on it... the reddit analogy might just be muddying the waters, but the analogy was reddit as a company to search engines as a category.
Naw it's more like "we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you're screaming we're worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don't want the cops called on us, so we'll back off until a more opportune time."
I live alone and I'm just wasting away my time here. It's actually making me very depressed to be honest. I do live in the city which makes think there ought to be at least something to do out here. Though I can't really afford to spent money on it every day....
Try to identify your local ethnic/cultural organizations, and follow their events schedules.
There are pretty large Indian and Vietnamese populations where I live, and they each have an association to share their cultural highlights with the larger pop. The Holi and Festival of Lights celebrations (Indian) and Lunar New Year (Vietnamese) were all an absolute blast and had amazing food.
Good way to get intel on your local organizations is to hit up the respective restaurants/grocery stores from whichever cultures are well represented in your area - look for pamphlets and ask the staff.
As a pasty white dude who's only recently started tuning in to events like that, everything feels very new and unique - highly recommend!
No no no - humans are closest to chimps, and if their current state is any indicator of the evolutionary path we broke off from, we descended from a bunch of clever but violent assholes, which says a lot about our current state
Orangutans are chill as fuck - get that evolutionary juice flowing and step aside to make way for Earth's real master race!
Does AWOL mean something other than "Absent without leave"? Cuz that's a weird way to describe a computer algorithm.
...aight so I'm definitely not a theologist, but... according to christianity, or catholocism specifically... is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism? I'd assume it just says "water", but there's water in gatorade. Sure there's also other shit in gatorade, but there's other shit in tap water too. Even distilled water isn't going to be 100% pure.
And if gatorade's cool, where do they draw the line? Could you baptize a baby with honey? Or drop a steak onto the kid's face (there's water in those too!). Does it even have to be liquid water? Like what if you just threw some icecubes at the kid, or blasted some steam in its face??
the idea of “washing”, or “being washed”, so solid water or water in solids would not count.
You could make a solid (HA!) argument for exfoliative or percussive removal of debris from the kid's head via scraping or knocking the nasty-bits free via the holy projectiles.
I got their first gen Naga and it was outstanding. Idk if I just got lucky, but it straight up felt like something engineered and built by NASA. Their products since haven't come close to hitting that bar.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for brutal crackdowns against political opposition, dies at 63 ( www.nbcnews.com )
has black mesa made a statement? ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Global life expectancy set to grow by nearly 5 years by 2050 ( www.dw.com )
New research predicts a rise in life expectancy worldwide over the next three decades, particularly in Africa. Meanwhile, obesity and other factors are also set to play a larger role in poor health....
That Blue MAGA outreach... ( lemmy.world )
Horrible voter outreach.
5 Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in northern Gaza ( www.nbcnews.com )
The Israeli military said Thursday that five soldiers were killed and seven injured in a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza, amid renewed battles in the area against regrouped Hamas militants....
First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people. ( www.motherjones.com )
Anti-Abortion Activist Who Stole 5 Fetuses Sentenced to 5 Years for Invading Clinic ( www.jezebel.com )
Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview ( www.mediaite.com )
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options ( arstechnica.com )
Google's Gemini AI wants to help you plan, brainstorm, and shop inside Search....
Needle therapy ( sh.itjust.works )
Eric Trump Tweets From Dad’s Trial Despite Electronics Ban ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency ( www.theguardian.com )
The Republican frontrunner has vowed to put an end to ‘horrible’ wind turbines, pledging to undo yet another key US green policy...
Alabama follows DeSantis' lead in banning lab-grown meat ( www.cbsnews.com )
Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns ( www.theguardian.com )
Common infections will kill millions if drug resistance through misuse of antibiotics is not curbed, says England’s ex-chief medical officer...
Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation ( medium.com )
Biden calls Trump ‘unhinged’ and says ‘something snapped’ in former president after he lost 2020 election ( www.cnn.com )
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say ( www.reuters.com )
Christian posts about how Islam has claimed thousands of lives while forgetting that their religion has done the same thing. ( midwest.social )
Doctor says I need a backeotomy ( lemmy.world )
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 ( lemmy.world )
Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two ( www.hindustantimes.com )
What are some free interests/things/hobbies you can do in the city?
I live alone and I'm just wasting away my time here. It's actually making me very depressed to be honest. I do live in the city which makes think there ought to be at least something to do out here. Though I can't really afford to spent money on it every day....
Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first ( www.cnn.com )
"Number of different devices" fail to keep Trump awake in court ( www.salon.com )
Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding ( www.pcgamer.com )
Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid ( kyivindependent.com )
Any allegations that Greene is transparently working as a Russian agent are entirely unsubstantiated.
Fox News is now claiming that young people are identifying as seasons. They made it up. ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks ( arstechnica.com )