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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Fair enough! Keep this in the back of your head though if you ever become critically injured or sick - daily caloric requirement goes up when you’re recovering from something, so yours specifically might be even higher than that already-higher-normal.

    There comes a point where eating anything just feels gross cuz you’re already stuffed, so you’d have to start being strategic about meal/snack timing, and prioritizing high calorie foods and drinks. Hopefully your team would have access to your history in that situation, and account for that shit from square one, but YOU are your best advocate, so don’t be afraid to prod them if needed.

    …and sorry lol, been doing a fuck ton of nursing school homework the past few weeks, so my brain is still in nurse mode when I hop on Lemmy. You’re basically an NCLEX question! :P


  • the more I shit

    I mean that’s still ‘calories out’ if you’re not actually absorbing them. Guessing you’ve already done this if it’s been a life long thing, but just in case, you might want to hit up a gastrointestinal doctor - there are conditions that cause usable nutrients to literally just go through you. You may have one of those - and if yes, knowing which will give you a path to fixing it or working around it.

    Then again, 5’2 at 100 lb is only just a hair into the underweight range. If you feel good where you’re at, maybe fuck it.


  • Took an offramp from a highway that fed into an intersection with a 4 way traffic light. I pull up to the red light, one car in front of me - total beater, rusted, dented, dirty… Looked like a demolition derby car or something.

    Cross traffic’s light turns yellow, and a few people try to press their luck and squeeze into that last millisecond. Too many: they get grid-locked into the intersection.

    Our light turns green. Can’t go cuz of grid lock: big ol pickup truck right in front of us.

    Dude in front of me must have been having a shitty day and this was the last straw: brake lights turn off, and he fucking floors it. Charges straight into the truck, t-boning into the truck’s rear passenger side door / rear passenger side wheel.

    Reverse lights come on, dude backs up a few feet, then does a u-turn back into on- side of the ramp we just got off.

    Truck is fucked. Rear wheel is tilted out at like a 45° angle, fender is dangling off, door looks like crumpled paper.

    Was gonna offer to stick around as a witness, but he had like the full nine of Trump stickers, Gadsden flag, thin blue line flag etc, so fuck him, I just continued on my way to work.

    But damn, there are some crazy fucking drivers out there!







  • We got ventilators. And ECMO. And parenteral nutrition.

    …I think we actually have everything we need to keep a person ‘alive’ with a completely, literally absent brain.

    At the very least, we could for sure pull it off with enough of a brain to manage things like smooth muscle contractility.

    So, to answer OP’s question, you can be all the way stupid. Like the literal fullest extent of a stretch of the word stupid.




  • Started a YouTube Music ‘radio’ list based on Avenge Sevenfold’s ‘The Wicked End’ in the operating room a few weeks ago, and after a couple hours of the algorithm digging its own rabbit hole, it phased itself out of that kind of alternative rock in favor of The Hu and viking sea shanties and just weird shit leading to weirder shit.

    Fuckin loved it. Doc wasn’t a fan; circulating nurse thought it was funny and refused to change it. 10/10.




  • It’s the doppler effect, but with light instead of sound, and for the same reason.

    Thing emits sound/light waves at a constant rate: sound/light waves hit you at a constant rate.

    Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move toward you: sound/light waves hit you at a faster rate, causing the sound/light to turn higher-pitched/bluer.

    Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move away from you: sound/light waves hit you at a slower rate, causing the sound/light to turn lower-pitched/redder.


  • Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.

    Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.

    And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.


  • I could have sworn there was a mod for one of the GTA games that replaces the model/skin of the grenades with can of biscuit dough. You’d throw it, it’d roll and do nothing for a sec, then there would be no actual explosion, but that muffled splat sound the cans make and some dough would squeeze out from the seams.

    …but the everything else responded normally as they would to a grenade; so a can of biscuit dough popping would still send people ragdolling away from it, cause cars to explode, etc.

    Maybe it was just a parody gif someone made and not an actual mod? I can’t find it. Q_Q