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CRUSTY MINGE posted:The VA pulled my wisdoms and a few others a few months ago. Awake. Numbing agents only. In under 90 minutes. Ibuprofen and excedrin only after. Too late for me. I had to have 5 teeth removed, and a bunch more had to have some massive filling work done. It was bad enough I couldnt get all the teeth pulled at once and the filling work had to be spread out over multiple visits. The actual work being done was the worst part. Holding your mouth open as wide as you could for like half a hour or more is not fun, also the smell of your teeth being grinded, oof. The extractions stopped bleeding after a few hours for me, but I was super paranoid about getting dry socket.
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Jul 13, 2020 22:58
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I was born without wisdom teeth, I know because i have been xrayed multiple times with dentists trying to look for them. I am the next step in human evolution. too bad i had that vasectomy
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Jul 13, 2020 23:00
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they probably just migrated up into your brain
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Jul 13, 2020 23:00
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 leader of opposition has just resigned after 53 days on the job. For those not on the metric system, that's 4.8 Mooches.
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Jul 13, 2020 23:15
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They put me under when they pulled all 4 of my wisdoms because a couple came in rotated and hadnt come through the gum line. Gave me several weeks worth of hydros to take 3x a day. Don't remember the dosage but it was enough to make my experience of my car's speed argue with my speedometer a week after the procedure. Also my gf at the time grabbed my chin like 2 weeks after and i just locked up in pain so my wisdoms came in all hosed up
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Jul 13, 2020 23:16
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I was thankfully knocked out to get my wisdom teeth removed, but LASIK was a singularly unsettling experience. Especially on the eye where the flap didn't get fully cut, and so the doctor had to pluck at it for what felt like four or five hours (a few minutes of real time). Much like with tooth extraction you get a local anesthetic so you don't feel pain, but you can still feel the physical sensation of your epithelium being picked at until the last little bit tears loose. You know it's a great sign when the briefing they give you includes a part where they say "okay, we know 'Navy Medicine' and 'eye surgery' may sound like a scary combination, but we totally know what we're doing here".
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Jul 13, 2020 23:17
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While I'm doing metric news, you guys have recently been dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century
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Jul 13, 2020 23:24
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Fallom posted:they probably just migrated up into your brain You sound jealous
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Jul 13, 2020 23:28
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I still have mine, my dentist isn't happy about it but they haven't caused any problems in 40 years so he can't come up with an actual reason to yank them.
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Jul 13, 2020 23:30
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Jaguars! posted:While I'm doing metric news, you guys have recently been dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century That says it doesn't take effect until 2023, so we've actually been dragged into 1797 or so.
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Jul 13, 2020 23:36
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Wingnut Ninja posted:You know it's a great sign when the briefing they give you includes a part where they say "okay, we know 'Navy Medicine' and 'eye surgery' may sound like a scary combination, but we totally know what we're doing here". Jesus Christ there would be just a dust cloud and a Wile E Cyote cutout in the door if I heard that.
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Jul 13, 2020 23:36
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Jaguars! posted:While I'm doing metric news, you guys have recently been dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century Hi there. As a practicing civil engineer, let me tell you how much of a HUGE PAIN IN MY rear end this has been in the last four years.
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Jul 13, 2020 23:45
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Isn't a foot defined as 25.4mm x 12, so 304.8mm? Why use an irrational number instead of the real one
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Jul 14, 2020 00:04
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SquirrelyPSU posted:Hi there. As a practicing civil engineer, let me tell you how much of a HUGE PAIN IN MY rear end this has been in the last four years. I didn’t realize that this was a thing, and then I looked at the map in the article and noticed SC was already using the international foot. Who would’ve thought this state was progressive in literally anything?
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Jul 14, 2020 00:10
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ElMaligno posted:I was born without wisdom teeth, I know because i have been xrayed multiple times with dentists trying to look for them. I am the next step in human evolution. Sup fellow mutant
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Jul 14, 2020 00:15
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pkells posted:I didn’t realize that this was a thing, and then I looked at the map in the article and noticed SC was already using the international foot. Who would’ve thought this state was progressive in literally anything? In the northeast, the US Survey Foot is the design standard, I can't speak to whatever gets used in the field. Some states have switched from International Feet to US Survey Feet in the very recent past for their survey standard. We have design jobs that bridge this gap and so occasionally the survey standard and the state standard disagree. Additionally, two state coordinate systems are usually established to avoid negative numbers at the far western and southern extents of the area. If you use International instead of US Survey, you are usually off by 6 feet or so. Finally, in CAD systems, you can usually tag the data with the design Coordinate System, but a lot of people haven't bothered in the last 20 years. It is a gigantic pain in the rear end.
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Jul 14, 2020 00:29
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Stravag posted:They put me under when they pulled all 4 of my wisdoms because a couple came in rotated and hadnt come through the gum line. Gave me several weeks worth of hydros to take 3x a day. haha, wtf. i had all four wisdoms and also both bicuspids removed when i was a kid. yes they put me under. no they didn't give me opiates for afterwards. yes i did cry once or twice.
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Jul 14, 2020 00:36
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Isn't a foot defined as 25.4mm x 12, so 304.8mm? This is the nub of it. The real reason the metric system was adopted wasn't because the measurements were better, it was because the Imperial system had loving hundreds of competing definitions and every attempt to define them better was based on terrible methodology that meant that the redefinition ends up competing with the original. The US survey foot will be based on a metric conversion of some older definition that doesn't line up perfectly on a metric scale, hence the irrationality. SquirrelyPSU posted:In the northeast, the US Survey Foot is the design standard, I can't speak to whatever gets used in the field. Some states have switched from International Feet to US Survey Feet in the very recent past for their survey standard. We have design jobs that bridge this gap and so occasionally the survey standard and the state standard disagree. My sympathies. I can imagine just how much of a pain it would be to find a plan that some lazy bastard annotated "all measurements in feet" Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 14, 2020 00:39
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Jaguars! posted:My sympathies. I can imagine just how much of a pain it would be to find a plan that some lazy bastard annotated "all measurements in feet" There is a lot of data I don't even get that for. It's a game of matching things against known coordinate systems and Google Earth. This is without bringing up a lack of reliable translation between GIS and state coordinate systems. e: This is usually not the P.L.S.' (e2: Professional Land Surveyor) fault. This is usually the fault of a sub-consultant or third party that didn't know any better. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Jul 14, 2020 00:46
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I know what you mean. Even with the metric system, Land Information NZ still changed heights from local datums to a nationwide one a few years ago and no one else has figured it out yet and they also keep on making little microadjustments of it's coordinate datum Also laughing out loud at the people who just changed the wrong way and now gonna change back, that's really going to gently caress over people 50 years from now. I'll pour one out for you tonight
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Jul 14, 2020 00:57
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Jaguars! posted:I know what you mean. Even with the metric system, Land Information NZ still changed heights from local datums to a nationwide one a few years ago and no one else has figured it out yet and they also keep on making little microadjustments of it's coordinate datum This (a national geodetic datum) is happening in 2022 in the US and probably the precursor to the article that you posted. Linky
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Jul 14, 2020 01:02
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Cheers, I'll check it out tonight while pouring one out for you 
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Jul 14, 2020 01:11
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Jaguars! posted:Cheers, I'll check it out tonight while pouring one out for you
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Jul 14, 2020 01:27
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Jaguars! posted:My sympathies. I can imagine just how much of a pain it would be to find a plan that some lazy bastard annotated "all measurements in feet" I love pulling up old hand-drawn road plans from the 1930's to reference for our new designs. The precision isn't quite as good as we can hit now, but seeing things like buildings labeled "Old Negro School" on official DOT plans makes it kind worth the effort.
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Jul 14, 2020 02:21
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Funnily enough Indiana law has recent precedent on this https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/removing-a-gps-tracking-device-from-your-car-isnt-theft-court-rules/
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Jul 14, 2020 03:17
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The law is real, and my friend (I am very wealthy)
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Jul 14, 2020 03:18
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's overall just not a pleasant experience to be awake throughout. When the day comes to swap my Southern smile for falsies, I want to be out cold for remaining pulls and drilling for anchors. Yeah, I elected to go with general anesthesia for my wisdom teeth. They can extol the virtues of twilight sleep all they like, your subconscious is going to remember they were digging into your jawbone later on, even with the amnesia.
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Jul 14, 2020 03:19
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I had to have gum tissue removed prior to having my braces removed in high school. I ate breakfast that morning, which was a mistake as they couldn't put me under. I sat through like 12 numbing shots and, that burning smell? "Oh, that's me burning".  (On top of that, my neck was at such an angle that it got sore, but I couldn't adequately communicate that with the entire roof of my mouth numb.)9 months later, I had my wisdom teeth out. There were only two (lowers) and they were "floating", which I guess meant non-impacted and just sort of there, so I was told "I mean, there's not much to it and this will take like 20 minutes". I responded something along the lines of "No, put my rear end out.".
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Jul 14, 2020 04:35
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I had them taken out in batches of two. Awake both times, in a Navy dental clinic both times. The first time was in Boot Camp, and those two popped right out in about 10 minutes. I barely felt anything, and I had a bowl of cereal two days later. Never took the pain pills. The second go round, there was lots of cutting and grinding and bleeding. My stomach still turns a little every time I remember the sound-feel of my teeth breaking apart inside my skull and I am a raving anti-dentite to this day
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Jul 14, 2020 05:18
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Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, died today. 
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Jul 14, 2020 06:00
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ManMythLegend posted:Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, died today. Oh no. Brain aneurism out of left loving field.
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Jul 14, 2020 06:05
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Midjack posted:Oh no. 
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Jul 14, 2020 06:29
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When in my early 20s I asked my dentist about having my wisdom teeth out and he took some xrays. He looked at them and worked out that one of them was really close to a nerve, and he flat out refused to touch it. He said I had two options: 1. He would spend three or more hours while I was under a local removing the three teeth that he could. I'd then go and see a specialist and have the fourth taken out under a general. 2. Have all four taken out under general anesthetic for not much more than the cost of removing one. I'd heard the horror stories about having teeth out under a local and opted for option 2. Got there, did all the pre op stuff, don't remember a thing past counting down. Woke up in the hospital bed that afternoon and went home about an hour later. Next day my jaw hurt a bit, and that was it for a couple of days. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
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Jul 14, 2020 08:34
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I had mine out under "IV sedation" instead of general because it was way cheaper and it turned out to be basically getting pumped full of SCP Foundation style amnestics so one moment you're in the chair asking "So how long until this kicks in" and the next moment you're at home in bed bleeding onto a cheap pillowcase.
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Jul 14, 2020 09:23
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ManMythLegend posted:Grant Imahara, of Mythbusters fame, died today. Hey 2020 you can take your goddamn bingo card and shove it
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Jul 14, 2020 09:44
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hey ya'll, be careful out there https://twitter.com/TheBeastcub/status/1282910630609997824
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Jul 14, 2020 11:07
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Eej posted:hey ya'll, be careful out there Unavailable
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Jul 14, 2020 11:28
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Ooooo..... Dental Chat! My family has this odd thing where we all metabolise pain killers wrong. Morphine and codeine make us hyper, local anesthetics wear off quickly on us as well. EVERY TIME I go to a doctor/dentists and they attempt a local anesthetic, I will be tortured. It always wears off in half the time they think it will last. Ask me what it feels like to have dental work done with no local in place. The docs always give me drugs, I let them know that I have a documented issue with them, they ignore me and leave to "let it take effect". The clock started ticking right after you left for 30 min to "let it work". This is why I avoid any doctor unless necessary.
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Jul 14, 2020 12:17
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Midjack posted:Oh no. How awful
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Jul 14, 2020 12:26
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