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Feeling nostalgic for being able to go to decent dive bars on work trips to the US. The Swiss just don't understand proper, oblivion-based drinking.
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Sagebrush posted:today in the shower i spent 10 minutes watching a very large spider attempt to recover a wrapped up dead mosquito that she had dropped onto the side of the bathtub. she kept launching herself off the shower caddy trailing a strand of silk like a navy seal rappelling out of a helicopter. she would get about halfway down and make some decision and climb back up and try again from a different angle. it was the most fascinating thing i've ever seen The spider lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Sagebrush?
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mystes posted:No bad Megadoodoo that's not how the numbering works. COVID-18 It counts down until you get to no.1 which is the real biggie
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May 28, 2021 07:56
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Yeah ADHD is one of the most treatable conditions there is, but many docs believe that taking amphetamines is a moral failing and like to randomly decide people don't deserve to have them. gently caress those guys. Also whether you personally get a booster or not has zero impact on whether someone in another country gets it, but does benefit you and the people around you, so get the shot if you can.
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Oct 6, 2021 21:04
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when I was back in London recently I discovered you can go to any pharmacy and they'll give you a bunch of rapid test kits for free. obviously they've (we've) hosed up most other parts of the covid situation but I thought that was pretty neat.
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Oct 12, 2021 01:56
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nursing is a weird career because the education is incredibly basic but there's lots of opportunity for career development. So you end up with a crazily broad range of abilities, from people who are really healthcare assistants uncritically handing out meds, to people in pretty technical areas (in my area of work the central venous access nurses are pretty tech).
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Oct 16, 2021 07:27
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my company has had the summer hours thing for a while, I've only been able to take it twice in 3.5 years due to meetings organised morning US time but afternoon / evening my time. I should probably refuse to work in the mornings but it's a bad substitute. the company is enforcing everyone going back to the office 2 days per week as of next month, it's clearly going to be a disaster bc the company has hired a load of people and shut other offices. I am going to be pissed if HR tries to make me sit in a loud open plan space to take Teams calls with people on another continent all day. gently caress HR.
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Oct 18, 2021 18:22
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spankmeister posted:this I can agree with, reading that thread is not at all good for your mental well being. I'm not an expert in covid but I am an expert in immune therapies and have a MPH so somewhat relevant background. I read the d&d covid thread for a while last year but it's full of people posting half-baked opinions on subjects they minimally understand, and just really winds me up. Best ignored imo.
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Oct 25, 2021 08:18
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Jonny 290 posted:i bet they love the tax thing too This is also the situation here in Switzerland. I have to file federal tax return and then cantonal tax returns in Vaud and Valais. similarly to the US there are a million exceptions, presumably caused by local political interests. Because I own a home, I have to pay income tax on the hypothetical rent if I rented it out, which I don't. I also have an individual tax agreement with the canton my employer is based in where an extra 1000Fr per month is tax deductible. All very complicated. because I'm a filthy immigrant, at least for now estimated tax is deducted by payroll, but that stops in a year, and then I have to guess? idk contrasts significantly with the UK which has a simple tax code, and it's deducted fairly accurately at source, no need to worry about it unless you're self employed or something.
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Nov 4, 2021 08:58
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I had to get an eye test to convert my driving license to a local one, sat down at the opticians and realized I didn't know what the words for some of the individual letters are in French. Jayyy-geee..? Zhee? Yot?
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Nov 7, 2021 09:09
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Jonny 290 posted:theres a little old man across the way that walks his tiny yet very fat chihuahua every day. i smile every time. when I was trying to get my cat used to being in the mountains I took her for some walks at night on a lead. one night we met met one of the neighbours with his 2 chihuahuas and they plus the cat-on-a-string had a fight, with me trying to fend off the chihuahuas by kicking at them. great way to integrate into a Swiss village, I'm sure they thought the Englishman was super normal. in WFH news I've changed my Teams profile pic to Dave from 2001 and it won't change back to something normal and corporate. help 
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Nov 10, 2021 18:10
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Sagebrush posted:humans ranging from toddler to gorilla size just evenly distributed, some with super elongated coneheads, some with ears down to their neck, some with a regular size torso and tiny stub legs, etc finally someone who has been to London e: I am getting my yospos threads mixed up
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:if they really wanted to gently caress with the discourse it should have been science injecting something into the dude I think the Pfizer Science Blob giving someone a reacharound is enough tbh
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:Island Madness claims another victim that sounds extra poo poo. I was in hospital for a few days a couple of years back when my leg was being screwed back together, the old gently caress I was in a room with was constantly either snoring or having loud video calls on his ipad, it drove me nuts. when the docs eventually took my complaints seriously they gave me some ultra powerful benzo and it was lights out until the next day when I could go home
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Stereotype posted:update: I tore my acl and have multiple fractures in my tibial plateau. I have to wait a week for the swelling to go down, but then they’ll likely have to do surgery to screw the pieces of my leg bone back together and then it’s like 3 months of not being able to put weight on it, and probably another 3 months of PT after that. gently caress. at least I’m back home on my couch, it’s a good thing I have friends who were able and willing to help That sucks, tibial plateau fracture is what I did. The surgery did suck but I'm fully recovered and back to running and skiing. takes a little while though. good luck
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ooh one extra point about tibial plateau reconstruction, if you have the choice you want a surgeon who specializes in trauma orthopedics rather than just a knee surgeon. As you can imagine the majority of knee surgery is for degenerative issues that happen over a long time, rather than a tibial plateau fracture which is clearly acute, with different pathophysiology etc. not sure which country you are in but I have a couple of uk surgeons recommended in case you are there.
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echinopsis posted:complain I've worked in and used a variety of different health systems and my opinion is you have no idea what you're talking about.
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echinopsis posted:I work directly on the front lines in the health system. but in a different country with a significantly more state run health system, but ok working "on the front line" (get over yourself) in the UK NHS for 9 years I never saw or heard of your example of people randomly booking appointments they don't need. that system is a good example of free healthcare and I can't think of any case in my career there of patients trying to get "too much" healthcare that wasn't easily controlled by the system. it's an imperfect system but the problems mostly relate to deliberate lack of funding rather than the free at the point of use approach.
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Nov 14, 2021 01:12
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echinopsis posted:there is also no better health care in the world than america if you have money. this is flat wrong, I've seen loads of really questionable care at the most expensive and prestigious US hospitals that wouldn't fly in European hospitals.
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Nov 14, 2021 01:15
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 people wasting some test strips or syringes is trivial in the overall cost of healthcare. people need to get prescribed enough with a bit of overage for fuckups, poo poo happens, big deal. it's a funding issue if so much focus is on trivial waste, you don't need more controls you need more money. target your anger in the right direction. I remember one of my patients got confused between his tablets and took a month's worth of Revlimid in a day, idk what the cost then was but I guess maybe $16k. yeah it's a waste but gently caress it get him some more. (he was OK)
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Nov 15, 2021 23:06
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I have to go back to the office Wednesdays and Thursdays starting today. all my afternoon is going to be spent on Teams meetings and would be way better done at home. very mad
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Nov 17, 2021 07:21
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Penisface posted:i do not believe there is really another solution to this than making the tech and patents free for everyone to use. i wonder how many millions have to die for this option to even be on the table I agree in principle from ethics but it is not that simple. Lots of drugs are so complex that even if you have the formula (for want of a better term) you still can't make the drug because the manufacturing process is as important as knowing what the drug is. I work on particularly complex stuff so it's probably harder than the 5G nanobot vaccines, but tech transfer within a company to open a new manufacturing site is a huge challenge. Stuff like the AAV vaccines is too difficult to open source, idk about the mRNA nanoparticles, maybe they're easier to make.
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Nov 29, 2021 00:24
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Return to the office lasted 2 weeks, we are now back to 100% WFH. Thanks, Obamicron lol
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when I click on that tweet, why are all the related tweets extremely chuddy?
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Dec 4, 2021 00:57
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The head of the south African medical association is helpfully doing the rounds on UK TV telling everyone Omicron is no biggie. Great job. Pro-Covid twittter is lapping it up.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:oh no not pro-covid twitter. but we'll show those fuckers yet, just keep us posted who is we? also, no.
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I was declined my booster shot because I'm 4 days short of 6 months. Honestly gently caress this country sometimes, so loving uptight and stupid.
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Blinkz0rz posted:why didn't you just schedule it for 4 days from now originally? because the booking form said they would do it starting 6 months after the first vaccination rather than second, and this place is only doing the shots on specific infrequent days. if I get it through the local canton the earliest is mid Jan so I will be unboosted across Christmas
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I would love to get one at a Walgreens but I'm the wrong side of the Atlantic. the system here has pretty precise records and I think they just read the date of my last shot off the computer. there are some walk in vaccination centers around, I'll give them a call and see what they'll do. with guests coming from the UK I'm very keen to get boosted.
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I went to a different centre and they gave me my 3rd shot of nanobots with no issues about the exact timing after the last one. The physician group at work thought it was very funny the nurses at the last centre denied me the bots "pour votre propre sécurité"
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Dec 17, 2021 21:29
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spankmeister posted:Rice is good but have you considered big ol bags of beans? beans are good I made cassoulet last week, it was super good. bit of a faff though 
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Dec 18, 2021 14:15
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when I was in London a few weeks ago you can just go to a pharmacy and get a 7-pack of LFTs for free. seems like a good idea. also rice is easy to cook on the stove, you don't need a special machine.
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Sniep posted:human beings famously love to stand over a stove for a while instead of pushing a button and coming back when it is done rice doesn't need supervision, 2:1 water:rice, boil it then turn down to a low simmer for 15 minutes, done with all the water absorbed. no I don't have a microwave either, not that useful.
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Dec 19, 2021 08:59
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I'm sure they are super useful <3 I just don't really need one. cookin curry with left over roast chicken 
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induction is really good. also you can't build houses here with gas supplies so the choice is induction or
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not what was asked but this is a really awesome curry recipe. I add peppers as well and sometimes coconut milk. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/home-style-chicken-curry
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Incredibly that fuckhead Wakefield is now banging Elle McPherson who is apparently another antivax moron.
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Jonny 290 posted:a lot of old rear end hardcore was mixed and mastered on home stereos and poo poo yeah. not sure of any specific cases but not quite Akai bookshelf stereo but Endtroducing was done on a sequencer and DAT recorder in an apartment. Great album! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ
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The HR edict has come in at my megacorp that employees in my country are all back to the office Wed-Thu from the beginning of March. My boss immediately told me not to worry about that, and I've let my team know I don't either. Feels like most office based staff are going to decline to go in. Most of my team are in the US anyway so I have no way of telling where they are even if I did care.
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