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Ornamental Dingbat posted:They can give you a card that says you are emitting safe levels of radiation. I still have mine and it's pretty rad. This stuff is super cool it is basically radioactive cocaine, by measuring the difference in uptake between the lobes of your brain they can tell if the shakes you’re having is Parkinson’s or something else. Edit: the metal taste is probably gadolinium an mri contrast agent. But is a known reaction to a couple of imaging agents so depends. A PET scan uses radioactive sugar that’s why you sit quietly for 30 minutes after injection . Cancer is more metabolicly active then the rest of you so it gobbles up more tagged sugar and glows brighter. On the scan. everydayfalls fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Lucid Nonsense posted:I had a white F150 with my company signs on the side and realized that I could park it anywhere if I had a shovel or some other tools laying in the bed. No parking at the beach? Restaurant parking lot full? Park on the grass between the sidewalk and the street. Even if there was no work to be seen in the area, I never got messed with.  I parked in Elfreth's Alley to inspect a home there. Technically, the entire street is a national park and is off-limits to casual traffic. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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in addition, you can probably access 95% of (edit: civilian) locations just by wearing a high-vis vest and a hardhat
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everydayfalls posted:This stuff is super cool it is basically radioactive cocaine, by measuring the difference in uptake between the lobes of your brain they can tell if the shakes you’re having is Parkinson’s or something else. October before last my right arm started moving like I was shaking a can of spray paint. Diagnosis process was as follows: Doctor 1: it's definitely not Parkinson's, you're having focal seizures. I will confirm with a sleep study. Doctors 2 and 3: Well, according to the sleep study you sure as hell aren't having seizures, maybe your crazy??? Doctor 4: Well the crazy test came back negative, let's irradiate your brain. Doctor 5: drat son, you've got a shitload of Parkinson's!
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While many people would see that as a flaw in modern medicine, I'd applaud the doctors for going down the list of probabilies and willing to admit to being wrong / being IN the wrong / not knowing everything instantly. I still chuckle at the thought of various radiology technicians placating a patient "It's totally safe, I swear!" as they then dive behind a blast shield. OSHA indeed. edit: jesus christ people I know about cumulative exposure can you not see a joke? Or is this Engineers.txt? Serephina fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Serephina posted:While many people would see that as a flaw in modern medicine, I'd applaud the doctors for going down the list of probabilies and willing to admit to being wrong / being IN the wrong / not knowing everything instantly. It is pretty much totally safe to get it done once and then not again for a good long while. It would be rather not safe to get it done multiple times a day for your entire working career, hence why the people running the machine need the shielding.
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Serephina posted:While many people would see that as a flaw in modern medicine, I'd applaud the doctors for going down the list of probabilies and willing to admit to being wrong / being IN the wrong / not knowing everything instantly. If by blast shield you mean an X-ray tech or something hiding then it makes perfect sense. Patient gets one x-ray while a tech may perform dozens a day. They'd hit their OSHA yearly exposure limit in like a week. Exposure adds up my poster.
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Serephina posted:While many people would see that as a flaw in modern medicine, I'd applaud the doctors for going down the list of probabilies and willing to admit to being wrong / being IN the wrong / not knowing everything instantly. But it’s basically there own dam fault for picking something that shortened to their common misconception.
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I’d crop the text off but I’m phone posting. Bon apetit:
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There’s a lot of doing more with less right now, and so much complacency. I’ve had to deal with 3 near misses and 2 first aids in the last 24 hours, which is more than the total for 1/1-1/29. People get careless about LO/TO on minor stuff, or spotting when they move their cranes, and all sorts of dumb poo poo like that. I’m looking forwards to this job being done and moving on to something smaller scale for a while. I’m even just working 8’s instead of 10’s because they’re trying to keep hours down but when I get home at the end of the day I am BEAT. Doing more with less is the last 35 years of industry in America.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:They can give you a card that says you are emitting safe levels of radiation. I still have mine and it's pretty rad. rem, rad, and Curie all need to be taken out behind the woodshed like 50 years ago.
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I can't remember if this was posted, but i was watching videos about unsafe amusment parks, and I was reminded of the Killer Waterslide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verr%C3%BCckt_(water_slide) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIcekOTOqg Basically a guy wanted to make the worlds biggest waterslide. He wasn't a trained engineer or anything just trial and error to see if it worked. Because this is Kansas in the Good Ol USA and safety regulations are the tools of dirty commies, the ride was never inspected by anyone outside the park. This lead to the son of a State Rep being decapitated by the metal railings that held up the net to prevent you from flying off it. That's some Osha right there.
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Looking like a worker doesn't always work. Some dudes showed up and started digging up our fiber so they could attach some device to the jacketing to do location work, but this was unexpected. When getting your fiber cut could cost millions per hour, well security got em within two minutes of work and while I wasn't privy to the emails about that incident, I'm sure <insert major national telecom company here> and <insert local telecom infrastructure/locate company> learned real quick.
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twistedmentat posted:I can't remember if this was posted, but i was watching videos about unsafe amusment parks, and I was reminded of the Killer Waterslide There was a great GBS thread on it when it happened.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:There was a great GBS thread on it when it happened. Oh god is it goldmined? Totally can see there being goon eyewitnesses to it. The loving guy in the video, "I have to have the biggest, fastest of everything" ; you're ego got a kid killed.
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twistedmentat posted:I can't remember if this was posted, but i was watching videos about unsafe amusment parks, and I was reminded of the Killer Waterslide “Obviously things do fall faster than Newton said.”
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Uthor posted:I read somewhere that you can get cards saying that you are working for a prop department on a movie that will let you drive around with truckloads of "weapons" and "bomb" and other scary looking stuff*. Or you do what we did going into PNG. All the firearms (real) and camera equipment were smuggled into the Port of Lae via our clients equipment transport ships.Those ten days were a total trip. I've posted about bits and bobs I think over the years but really comes across as STDH if I string it all together. KodiakRS posted:Do not expect logic, reason, or consistency from the TSA. Doing so will only make you confused or angry, probably both. If you fail at this remember that the person you're talking to has a life that sucks so much they've resorted to being a TSA agent. They deserve your pity, not your anger. When I had an 8 hour layover in Honolulu the TSA people were fantastic. I was a chain smoker at the time but also caring for my grandmother. I was constantly walking back and forth from where she planted herself and through security to outside where I could smoke. I ended up on first name basis with 3 agents because they had to keep searching me. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Haha, if my 20 year old knowledge of boring facts about patrol routes around Malmstrom is useful, someone hit me up. My cat has cancer and I need some i was born and raised in billings and every time i have gone anywhere else in the state it is like i'm visiting another country that doesn't have electricity or plumbing
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corgski posted:Nah that's iodine contrast, I got that for a CT once and holy poo poo. It never made me feel that way, it just made me nauseous from the heat in the back of my throat as it went up my arm and back through the rest of my system. EDIT: I'm unfortunately intimately familiar with that sensation and the taste of barium sulfate because I had to get a full body CT scan every 3 months for about 3 years (then every six months for another two years before tapering off) when I had cancer in 2011.
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Thumposaurus posted:That wouldn't work in DC. While I was walking into work one day I saw a parking enforcement officer giving a ticket to a trash truck that was actively picking up trash in an alley that was marked no parking. DC loves to write parking tickets - well over a million every year. It's wild. There's nowhere for delivery trucks to legally park downtown, just a fact you deal with so fedex, ups, all the restaurant supply trucks, etc just rack up tickets all day and it's part of the cost of doing business in DC. The UPS truck who comes by our building never has less than 3 or 4 on the windshield. Around the end of summer MPD decided to crack down on our block and actual police came out and wrote tickets all day for 2 days straight. They told the fedex guy to move and he said just write the ticket because he couldn't move to anywhere legal so they put him in handcuffs and arrested him. Seemed pretty unnecessary to me, and of course after those 2 days it's back to normal exactly how it always is with delivery trucks double parked all over all day.
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PainterofCrap posted:
Two summers in college when I went home I worked for a small managed service provider that covered the Virginia peninsula. I took a wrong turn trying to get to a client once, and accidentally managed to drive all the way around the pedestrian-only section of colonial williamsburg. In the middle of the day with plenty of tourists.
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Serephina posted:While many people would see that as a flaw in modern medicine, I'd applaud the doctors for going down the list of probabilies and willing to admit to being wrong / being IN the wrong / not knowing everything instantly. Conversely a lot of health organizations are starting to move away from covering patients' genitals with lead aprons since the practice isn't really effective and can often result in subjecting the patient to more radiation as the automatic exposure on the machine struggles to deal with the lead obstruction. The practice was started in the 1950s after experiments on fruit flies showed that there was a chance of DNA damage. tl,dr version: Radiation is, in fact, not stored in the balls Ornamental Dingbat fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Doing more with less is the last 35 years of industry in America. Yeah, but right now it’s like Super Saiyan Doing More With Less. Probably catching a lay-off this week or next week, or at least not being scheduled outside of the upcoming outage, so at least I don’t have to deal with it much longer.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Conversely a lot of health organizations are starting to move away from covering patients' genitals with lead aprons since the practice isn't really effective and can often result in subjecting the patient to more radiation as the automatic exposure on the machine struggles to deal with the lead obstruction. The practice was started in the 1950s after experiments on fruit flies showed that there was a chance of DNA damage. quote:The movement also has yet to gain much traction among dentists, whose offices perform more than half of all X-rays. None of that applies to dentistry, though?  Maybe it’s not helping as much as it could be because of scattering within the body, but there is no way that a lead apron can fail to cover the genitals or enter the image field in the vicinity of the mouth.
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And if your mouth is by your genitals you have something else going on.
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For medical imaging, placing the shield where it is ineffective or intrudes on the area of interest is human error that will always happen at some level unless everyone gives up and stops trying to use the shield. The autoexposure problem, in contrast*, is fixable. It’s a much easier task than autoexposure in a camera. The machine could see that one area of the image is off‐the‐scale dense while the rest is exposing well and exclude the black hole from exposure calculations. Still, I won’t get my hopes up. Medical software is rancid dogshit written by ghouls. Cautionary tales like the Therac‐25 can only go so far. *Pun acknowledged
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https://twitter.com/StreetSmartsQLD/status/1225177280432893952
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https://i.imgur.com/gl9M6Cy.gifv This man may be invincible.
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RandomPauI posted:And if your mouth is by your genitals you have something else going on. Are teeth stored in the balls???
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Potrzebie posted:Are teeth stored in the balls??? No, queefs are stored in the balls. They are transferred to the vagina during sex.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Doing more with less is the last 35 years of industry in America. In my past 15 years of corporate experience, the expression works out to, "Doing more with less ethics." Though they'll hide all that behind a dogpile of impenetrable acronyms and management methodology/style namedrops.
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Bad Munki posted:I’d crop the text off but I’m phone posting. Bon apetit: At least he took his shirt off to conserve weight.
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Bad Munki posted:https://i.imgur.com/gl9M6Cy.gifv
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Gulping Again posted:i was born and raised in billings and every time i have gone anywhere else in the state it is like i'm visiting another country that doesn't have electricity or plumbing Every time I've gone to Billings, it's felt like driving through rural Ukrainian countryside. I fully expect meth bandits to murder me the moment I pass the refineries in Laurel.
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poo poo, I just realized his shoes came off. In fact, they were off the whole time. What a way to go. He was dead the whole time, this gif brought to you by M Night Shamalamadingdong Bad Munki fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Bad Munki posted:
When no one is looking though...  https://i.imgur.com/ZW7sZVD.mp4
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Has anyone made a "jacking it" joke yet?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Has anyone made a "jacking it" joke yet? Sounds tired to me.
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