Most map projections dramatically underestimate the size of the Pacific Ocean:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/point-nemo
We’re just not used to seeing this half of the planet depicted, and the Pacific IS almost half of the entire planet.
Trained people become impervious to chemical fumes.
The irony that phenylephrine intravenous is actually effective at maintaining blood pressure in people who are trying real hard to die on ya. (Our ICU uses it sometimes.)
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine
Preach. I hate the shit, it makes me feel shaky, but god damn does it work.
Oh man, let me introduce you to my absolute favorite used book seller:
https://www.ebay.com/str/secondsalecom
Also, construction leftovers on eBay are a great way to get sink faucets, light fixtures, etc. for a house.
I only have WhatsApp because I have so many non-American friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I dragged my mom and sister over to using it, and everyone has been warned that the second I see Meta trying to monetize it, I’m going to whine until they all move to Signal (which has pretty much identical functionality.)
Malala Yousafzai is a famous activist for education of young girls who the Taliban attempted to murder for her activism. Hence her comment “Boo 👎” on this young girl’s post about skipping classes.
Young girl is just shocked she got called out by a famous person.
Yeah, it seems pretty apparent that the reason this lawsuit coincides with the GA indictment is because the GA charges are the clearest violation of the 14th Amendment and therefore the strongest argument to make in court. That lawsuit happened so fast that someone clearly had it prepared and was only waiting for the GA indictments. No conspiracy here.
Yes. Literally.
If the United States Constitution were really being respected, extrajudicial killings would be exceptionally rare events.
It doesn’t recognize kbin.social? Maybe I input the url incorrectly. Just curious
Seriously, the handful of times I’ve checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, “Wow I hate it here.”
I’m so much happier on the Fediverse.
Without this feature, I wouldn’t have known that Yeah Yeah Yeahs and PJ Harvey released new albums. So I’m torn. On the one hand, I’m happy artists I already love can still reach me; on the other hand, I hate that smaller artists I don’t know about yet still have to pay to play
DOJ case is also criminal, federal charges
Understaffing, penny-pinching, forcing medical professionals to take on more and more work with no help, to say nothing of increased pay. These working conditions hurt patients chronically.
That’s why doctors and nurses strike. Especially THESE doctors - the new ones who just graduated from medical school. They’re the single most exploited group of people working in healthcare when you account for how little they are paid in comparison to how much they’re expected to work and how much revenue they generate.
In the US we call them resident doctors. In the UK junior doctors. I absolutely support their strike
Oh no, absolutely the government should be compiling this shit for us, and we should only have to double check and sign it like “yep looks right to me”
I was just pointing out that the idea that any little mistake on your taxes will get you put in jail is a meme.
It’s really just a meme anyway. I’m American and do my own taxes. It’s labyrinthine, but not actually that hard honestly.
The place where individuals get themselves in trouble with the government is the more subtle business related stuff like writing off expenses, carrying forward business losses, depreciating assets, selling stock. That stuff is probably best left to an accountant.
But as a regular person filing with mortgage deduction, college tuition deduction, child tax credits, if you make a mistake the most likely response is just gonna be a letter telling you to try again.
Thank you for reminding me that I would love to own a copy of the TNG Tech Manual for display in my house
has been turned
You say as if it weren’t always like that. Because it definitely has always been like that from the dawn of civilization, sadly.
These corporate instruments are quite efficient. Unfortunately you and I just happen to disagree with the rich and powerful about what we should be efficient at doing
Yeah, I sort of feel like something like this would be a horrifying death process followed by an afterlife of “yeah, ok, that was a pretty funny way to go out.”
You can only hope that the end arrives quickly with something like this.
We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere