sad Department of Agriculture noises
One guy tried, but he's dead now.
The rest of us are either fruitlessly bitching into the void, or actively loving the evil shit coming out of the Trump regime.
All our eggs are in one basket, and that guy might not actually exist.
Get in the habit of composing your emails in a specific order. My preference is:
Write the title, upload attachments, write the body, choose the recipient(s).
Doing the recipients last in particular gives you that extra few seconds to consider all the other elements so you can realize and correct any mistakes before hitting send. I used to do shit like send w/o attachments or send to the wrong/not all of the intended recipients all the time, but following the same order has basically idiot-proofed it against myself.
10/10, do recommend.
Favorite: horror comedy.
Least favorite: the news.
I mean, you'll have to choose a hobby or w/e that puts you into a compatible crowd. If you're interested in women, don't choose something that's male-dominated.
...also idk what 'normie' means to you, but it's actually okay to date someone who isn't a carbon-copy of yourself as a different gender. My wife isn't into hardly any of the nerdy shit that I am, nor vice versa, but there's enough overlap that we don't generally struggle to find things to do together; but enough that's distinct that we can explore our own interests when the other isn't available. What's way more important is you enjoy eachother's perosnality. Specific interests, field of study etc absolutely do not need to be on the same page.
So again, pick something. It doesn't have to be your favorite thing to do; if you enjoy it even a little, there's your like-minded overlap.
I've never never bothered with online dating, but I've heard quite a bit of anecdote about it being an absolute dumpster fire for anyone over 30 who doesn't look like a pornstar. As others have mentioned, stop wasting time with the apps and do -something- that interests you that'll get you out and interacting with like-minded people, and see where that takes you.
Only if he volunteers at a cat shelter...
Sure!
Anesthesiologists are known primarily for preventing sensation and awareness, but they manage pretty much all of your body's functions including things like respiration and blood pressure. The conversation about the degree of intervention needed for an organ donor is riddled with an absolute fuckton of conjecture, so if you want to go down that rabbit hole, be mindful of whether or not you're reading a credible source.
Studies in the National Library of Medicine are my personal go-to: here's a good one on this topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10355135/ (Crtl+F "Preoperative Role of the Anesthesiologist for Organ Procurement After Brain Death" to jump to the bit that specifically addresses your question).
Reading that, it sounds like anesthesiologists are the primary authority on verifying the legal checkmarks for verification of brain or cardiac death, and ultimately giving the thumbs up or down for the surgery to proceed. I didn't know this - my assumption was that it was the primary care doc's responsibility... so my initial post here probably should have chewed out the anesthesiologist too.
The ones I was in... so I'm a surgical technologist - recently posted a breakdown of my job here. Both of them were brain death due to drug overdose. Organ harvests vary a lot depending on which organs are actually being harvested. The first one I was in was after the pancreas, liver, kidneys, lungs, and heart, so as the tech I had to set up for and do 5 different surgeries at the same time. Each organ system had its own surgeon come in from the donor organization (both of mine were under Life Share). All of them want to move fast to keep the organ tissue as healthy as possible so it stays viable for the recipient, so I felt like the octopus dude from Spiderman madly passing and receiving a slurry of scalpels, hemostats, scissors, and ties. We had 4 'slushers' running to produce sterile ice which we poured a lot into the abdominal and thoracic cavities; and more into basins for the organs to be placed in once they were removed.
As each doc finished, they broke scrub and left immediately with the organ, which was transported straight to the recipient site at some other hospital (iirc the heart was transported by helicopter), so it went from being absolute madness to a kind of eerie stillness. Seeing the donor on the OR bed with the cavities fully exposed and completely empty was pretty unnerving. We did a final sponge/sharps/instrument count (which is done in every surgery to ensure nothing gets left in the wound [every policy has a terrifying backstory]). Sutured the incisions closed, but with much larger 'bites' than normal and all with one running stitch (vs an 'interrupted' stitch where each one has its own length of suture). I think from the OR, the body goes to mortuary or something for postmortem care to make it look as presentable as possible for a funeral - so that stitch is probably removed, and the cavities packed with something to fill in the empty space, but I'm not involved in that part of it, so, speculating on that last bit.
Second one was mostly the same, except they only took the pancreas, kidneys, and liver - other organs were deemed nonviable for whatever reason.
In both of them, we were present for the honor walk, and they told us a bit about the patient. The OR side of things is a mad dash for tissue preservation sake, but the process as a whole was very sensitive to the human side of things. One of the cool things they did in both was asked the family what kind of music the patient liked, and they played it over the OR room speakers through the entire operation. We also got to meet the family, which is about the only time a surg tech ever gets to do that. Typically we're in the actual OR all day - before the case when the doc is talking to you, we're in the room setting up the instruments and such; and afterward we're still in the room tearing down and setting up for the next one. The organ harvests were much more personal.
Happy to answer any questions, but keep in mind as the tech I'm the literal rock-bottom of the OR food chain, so some of my answers might be "No idea!" followed by speculation.
This smells all kinds of weird.
"Almost immediately as soon as his honor walk started, his eyes were opened, and they were tracking, looking around at the people that were there," Rhorer said.
...and you didn't draw attention to that? That'd be a pretty solid cue to stop the honor walk and get the doc over. Also none of the techs/nurses/doctors noticed??
TJ's declaring physician believed he showed too many signs of life to continue with the surgery, but KODA wanted to proceed anyway.
...and you still declared it, and didn't raise a stink with patient advocacy or the head of the hospital? Or the individual surgeons on the harvest team?
They also don't mention how far they got in the surgery. Like was the anesthesiologist starting to intubate him and noticed his eyes moving and called for a stop before n incision was made? Or were they a kidney or two into the operation?
I've been scrubbed into two organ harvest surgeries; I've been scheduled for five - the other three canceled because the patient didn't meet the super strict criteria as they died. Hospitals are all about covering their ass to avoid situations like the one reported. They'll push you to cut corners on things like room turnover time (which is still fucked) but not things that put them in situations like this.
I'm not familiar with KODA or "Network for Hope", so maybe they're just extra shitty, but take this one with a mountain of salt.
Organ harvests are super important procedures - we don't just have a backstock of healthy livers in the OR core; there's a backlog of deathly ill patients clinging to the hope that their phone rings with news of a match. People are already hesitant to sign up as donors because surgery is genuinely scary as fuck; we don't need half-assed journalism pouring fuel on that fire. If shit is actually happening, by all means report on it, but give enough details to make it credible... or if it's a nothingburger that you're hyping up for clicks, maybe shut the fuck up, cuz that'll prolong peoples' misery / get them killed.
C'mon Scotland... give us the headline we've all been waiting for.
The US doesn't have the spine for it.
I'll leave the thread up incase anyone wants to continue the conversation tho.
AFAIK, there's no fine print that says "...except when that enemy is the president."
Stop harassing protesters and do your job, troops.
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LF 3.5mm 'silencer' plugs, and/or other ways to fuck with TVs in public areas that are blasting Fox all the time...
(lemmy.world)
Inspired by this thread.
I could have sworn when I was in highschool (y’know, like 25 thousand years ago) you could order a bag of like 50 3.5mm audio jack plugs but with no wire or connection after the plug. I'm searching for these now, but the closest I'm seeing are legit components designed to be an adaptor or connect to a wire.
It was just a 3.5mm audio plug with matte black plastic cap on the end, so you’d plug it into a TV’s headphone jack and some models of TVs would be permanently silenced until someone unplugged the cap, because it was sending its audio to the ‘speakers’ that were just plugged in. And once plugged in, it just looked like a screw cover cap - nothing protruding. But also didn’t damage anything, so you couldn’t get in any real trouble for doing it.
Shoddy photoshop to illustrate the gist:
…am I just imagining shit? If anyone knows what I’m talking about and figure out the magic search terms to actually pull it up, please drop a link to a product that can be ordered.
Anyway, the TV in my work's breakroom is one of the culprits, so I'd love to hit it with one of these and see how long it takes for them to figure out why it won't vomit out the misinformation they're addicted to.
Audio jack sabotage aside, any suggestions on how to otherwise fuck with it would also be golden.
Thanks all!
My death cult is better than yours.
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The Scots will just need some bigger bullets.