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Very interesting. So what I read from that is when you have an opt in system the doctor has to work with the patient's kin to come to a decision. The presentation of information in that situation is secondary to the moral decision of whether to do the donation and the distress of the death is going to get in the way of the conversation.

When the system is changed to opt out the default being donation means information is just that, information about what will happen. Changing what happens is still an option but information can get through better and the relationship between the doctor and kin is much more level and less involved in persuasive argument.

I think opt out is a better system for a bunch of reasons, not least of which is reducing the burden on families. If you need an organ to survive and more are available you are more likely to find a match and survive, preventing your kin from suffering that loss. The donor is dead either way, so one group of kin suffer, but preventing the second group of kin suffering a second death is very worthwhile.

This system is fundamentally broken. In Australia there is no path by which people on Centrelink would not have their payments processed for more than a few days. I remember a bank issue which caused a bunch of people to not get their payments on time and it was a major issue, people were absolutely livid. That was only a couple of days late and was resolved promptly with hardship temporary support available for those who really needed it.

For the system to be able to fail like this means those who designed the system want it to fail this way. They could change the funding mechanism to make sure SNAP is immune to government shutdowns if they wanted to. They have chosen not to so that they can use hurting poor people as a political weapon. Removing this weapon should be the goal of any reasonable party and it should be urgent. There are many similar funding holes that can be closed with reasonable legislation and would take away the impact of political dysfunction from the poorest and most vulnerable of society. Choosing to do otherwise is choosing that harm.

Based on what I read about it, the game comes with custom glove controllers. It would be a significant amount of work to substitute them with something more modern and very unlikely to actually work. I would consider it likely effectively lost.

As a fellow Aussie I share your conclusion, though the Made in Australia plan from the Albanese government seems like it could change the game. Producing solar panels here would make purchasing them cheaper even if just from the shipping costs. Add the federal investment and the creation of demand and it should get cheaper again.

Now I do worry about things going the way of the NBN, starting with a goal of future proof fibre to the home being chipped away by the LNP until it was a small upgrade on internet service funded by the government but not anything like the goal. I want good green tech, not just barely solar sometimes.

Coal is dying as an investment but existing coal plants will likely run for a long while. Overall demand for energy is rising, the new demand is being met mostly with renewables, but there is a small amount of that increase that is being met by a small increase in coal usage. As renewable manufacture gets faster and more efficient I expect the coal growth will reverse, but it is all about when. If it happens quickly we have less apocalyptic damage. If it happens slowly then we will be more fucked.

Solar is far and say the cheapest form of new energy to roll out. Wind is a not so close second. Coal is getting more expensive by the day. The only reason to roll out coal is insufficient production of solar and wind. It takes time to increase manufacturing capacity but we are getting there and we can do this.

I am reminded of hospital acquired infections being treated like car crashes or plane crashes.

Car crashes kill massive numbers of people each year, just under 5 per 100,000 people per year here in Australia. That is way down and we are quite low globally, with the EU overall around 9 and 14 for the USA. We have taken fairly agressive steps to curb road deaths and made real progress, but a certain number of deaths is accepted as necessary. A crash is investigated for fault attribution and insurance but not for preventing a repeat.

Plane crashes are totally different. If something caused a plane crash we figure it out, make a mitigation, and make it never happen again. Flying is one of the safest modes of transport and it keeps getting safer.

In hospitals most of them had the car crash mentality for hospital acquired infections. A hospital putting in a plane crash mentality investigator for their Infection Prevention chair will have very different outcomes, especially over time. Someone got an infection from bad clean technique? Make it a checklist item. Someone still got another infection? Change gloving technique so that you wear two layers and only touch the outer gloves with clean inner gloves. Another case? Have a second staff member assist with your donning of PPE and going through the checklist. Each step reduces the risk, each mitigation makes everyone safer. Eventually you have so few infections it is hard to test new processes.

For anyone wondering edgydoc.com is the site for the aforementioned doctor and he is a blast. But yeah, if you treat a consequence as a cost of doing business nothing changes. If you make failure an existential risk you can eliminate problems. Corporations are run by people. Those people should be accountable for the crimes of the company.

Done is success, you have to draw something bad to learn to draw something good, and based on how good that is you have drawn a lot of bad already, one more for your stack of lessons. Your proportionality is good, I would recommend looking at some art in a similar style you consider better and try to identify what makes it work, for example defining muscles using small lines that hint at a shape so the legs have more detail and are less blank, or making the limb portions different in length based on their relative perspective.

Traffic cone on top of the canister, bottle of water down through the top. Drowns the canister and deprives it of oxygen, ending the reaction.

That said, if you put it in a bucket of water you need to submerge it and the gas can be caustic, so wear gloves with good coverage and chemical resistance.

I've done 7 days on a fast, water only. My partner and I were testing if their seizures would stop without food and they did.

Yes, we have a good idea as to why. There are a few key factors involved starting with a shift away from full time employment and towards part time and gig work. This means that the number of people working full time jobs with the protections they provide has not gone up even though the population has gone up over that time. These workers are more precarious, experiencing less stable hours, unpredictable income, and easier firing processes. This makes people feel less secure and accept worse conditions. People with precarious employment may be less likely to report wage theft for example, which to be clear is more than all other types of theft combined.

Do you mean that ironically or literally?

Tbh, if I didn't actually attach things to myself I would lose them. If I had a kid I would have a strap to connect them. When I take my cat for walkies we have a harness and lead which never leaves my hand. I have my keys set up to lock the front door from the outside so I cannot lock myself out without my keys.

ADHD can suck, but with good tools and processes it is much more manageable.

I have ADHD so I get rid of most problems by literally tying things to myself. I have a second belt which goers over my pants and have a hip bag attached to it. In that I have the following;

Disposable nitrile gloves (3-4 pairs)

Hand sanitiser

Power bank (10000mAh)

USB C cable

Thumb drives (one with kids shows, one with software, one blank)

USB A to C adapter

Wallet

ID lanyard

Emergency cash (not in wallet because if I lose my wallet I still have my cash)

Tissues

Aspirin, paracetamol, and ibuprofen

Ritalin

Plastic bags for rubbish

Nasal inhaler (for blocked nose, long term issue)

Car and house keys (attached on a clip, not inside)

Then I have my pockets for phones (I have 2), wireless headphones, and anything else for the day.

By keeping my keys attached I cannot get in the car without my belt bag.

Technically, yes, if you have access to the system, but it does mean you have to switch the storage from append only to read write, then pull out the original files, recompute the hashes from the time you did the modifications, and do all the rewriting as you go. For a continuous thing like this your security is only as good as the weakest link, so you could have a problem there, but publishing or sharing the hashes as you go could further protect in this situation. If others have the hashes and then some of them change we know there was a change of data. Add or change something and every hash from then on is different. Seems plausible to make it much better than take my word.

This is actually one of the very few reasonable use cases for block chain technology.

You have a security camera on site. It takes recordings and sends them to a data centre which then appends the footage and uses various algorithms to make a much smaller block chain compatible summary, a small hash for each snippit of video. The hash is then mixed with the previous sum of all hashes and appended to the video. This means that after the fact modifying the video is effectively impossible. You would have to do it between the camera and the data centre, so yes, still possible, but doing it at a later date would be very hard. You could also make sure this data was stored in an append only form, say magnetic tape, which has physical measures to prevent access after the date of storage.

Lots of options, but the simplest is to lower the contrast and brightness values for your monitor. That will work on everything including images and video. You could also consider something like the redmode features of your OS and maybe even look at colour balance settings. If you take the curves and lower the highest bits you will selectively reduce brightness at the highest end without messing with less intense stuff too much. It looks a little weird but is easy enough to get used to.

Yep, very much improved. I recking it will turn out like Blender. It sucks right now compared to some other tools like Fusion360, but given time it will improve and at some point it will tip over into being the default. It all depends on buy in. If a few bigger players get behind it because they can avoid predatory fees and costs associated with using a proprietary piece of software they will switch, invest in their own mods, then drive the industry knowledge standard towards FreeCAD. That will break the hold the proprietary apps have as workers gain skills in the new context, leaving the old proprietary stuff to rot. I hope it is soon, but it will happen eventually.

Unless you are into that sensation, in which case, go have fun and get kinky.

Have you actually done an objective comparison?

It sounds like you have a few important goals. One seems to be appearance, another is strength. One of these is probably more important to you, and honestly no judgement, but not having a clear idea of what is important and why can muddle your thinking.

Do you have before photos? If you don't have pictures and measurements you cannot make a good comparison. A good idea would be to take measurements of what you care about, say a one rep max or belt measurement, and then take photos in various poses that show things you care about, say side on to see bulges at the front or front on to see traps. Make sure you know the lighting conditions and time of day so you can compare fairly later on.

That all said, measure what you care about so you can see progress later. You can't ssee progress without comparison and if that is what you want then you need to measure.

An alternative is to consider what kind of person you want to be. Do you want to be someone who regularly exercises? Do you want to be the kind of person who can lift kids without a problem? Do you care about your activity levels when you are 70? These are all different things that have meaning to different people. Working from a values perspective will make you more effective at setting goals and meeting them.

Add citric acid powder to make it sour. It is in the ingredients of energy drinks as an acidity regulator but also controls sourness. Be aware it is strong, so only add a little at a time, and make sure it is fully mixed before fizzing it.

The term is a little racist. It is like defining someone as an excon, or ex convict, rather than someone who has spent time in prison. Or as disabled rather than a person with a disability. You define people as a simple thing rather than as a whole person with a feature. It flattens people into less than they are and makes them less than human.

So opposing people who flaunt the rules is a separate question to opposing illegal immigrants. You don't dismiss their humanity, you don't discard them, you say "You breeched the rules and here are the consequences."

The second layer is whether you believe in the rules. Do you believe people from other countries are fundamentally different to you? Are they less because of where they come from? If so, yes, racist. If not, then probably not.