See, that’s asparagus tricking you into thinking that is how it grows, by crafty memeing. When we (and by we I mean all right thinking asparaguys humans) know it isn’t.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

That’s what shallow graves are for

Well, it isn’t that punitive measures serve no purpose. They do. But that purpose doesn’t decrease the chances of a given crime occurring by other people, nor does it prevent the same people repeating a crime. To the contrary, the way most prisons work, chances are that anyone going on comes out with less options, and more knowledge of crime, so even if they don’t repeat the same offenses, they’re put in position to do others out of necessity.

But it does seem to make people feel better when someone else gets punished for doing something wrong. Which, in theory, is going to reduce vigilantism and mob justice. In practice? I dunno, I haven’t seen enough data to form an opinion about that specific matter.

Generally, the reason it shouldn’t be the main goal of a justice system is lack of efficacy. It just doesn’t do what people want it to do. So, what’s the point of that?

If your goal is to reduce crime, and reduce recidivism, rehabilitation has shown to do a better job. Prisons should be the last resort for non violent crimes, not the first. Even then if prisons hope to do more than isolate repeat offenders, they would need to have more intensive measures to help people change.

Fwiw, there’s more than one kind of shock, and they’re handled differently.

Hypovolemic shock is the one that makes the least sense if you don’t have a background that includes medical terminology. Hypovolemic just means a low amount of blood. That’s when you get stabbed and bleed out, as ine example. But it can also occur via severe dehydration as the volume of blood also decreases then.

You’ve got obstructive, where something is in the way of your blood circulating properly, usually due to something like excess pressure around the heart, preventing it from doing its job correctly. Think chest injuries where blood pools around the heart preventing it from being able to contract and expand properly as an example.

In all of those cases, you end up with organs not receiving the supplies they need to function, which leads to cell death. As enough cells die, organ function decreases. As that happens, you start seeing a cascade where one failure accelerates the rest. At some point, it becomes too much and the heart and/or brain start dying. At that point, there’s pretty much no recovery, particularly with the brain since even the really improbable events that might allow a person to survive all the other organs failing if it was slow enough don’t apply to the brain. You can’t hook up a brain to a machine that will duplicate its function. So even if you manage to keep the rest of the body “alive”, the person is dead.

And that’s a good segue into the cardiogenic type of shock. Again, the word itself just means that the problem originates (genic) from the heart itself (cardio). The classic example is a heart attack. A clot or other blockage inside the heart makes the heart less able or unable to pump.

Then you get into distributive, where the vessels throughout the body are in a condition where the volume of blood can’t sustain function. That’s where allergies come in, as well as sepsis or neurological (usually brain, but can be due to other nerve issues). Basically, the vessels all open up wider, so the volume of blood you have isn’t high enough to sustain pressure and therefore proper blood flow and oxygenation.

Tbh, I’ve always had a pet peeve about the term shock. The etymology of that usage makes sense, but it’s confusing without knowing the etymology. It goes back to translation choices. A few hundred years ago, someone was translating from French to English, and chose shock as the closest in meaning.

Which it is a good word for what was being described: the sudden and intense loss of blood alongside other factors after a gunshot. That’s the “shock” it came from: a specific sudden, unexpected event.

But not all “shock” is sudden or unexpected in the medical sense, so people don’t think of it when the symptoms are otherwise right there and in need of quick action, which is particularly true of sepsis. The way sepsis often ends up lethal is delayed treatment. You catch it early, and there’s options. You wait until the person is in a condition that most people will call an ambulance, and probabilities of survival shift.

I mean, the delay in treatment is a factor in shock deaths across the board, but more people recognise how emergent a heart attack or anaphylaxis are, so they’ll likely react sooner than with “just” feeling sick.

Well, ya have to, I stole the old one ;)

Jokes aside, that’s a pretty damn nice one too.

Oh yeah, I’ve picked up some Brit slang and completely stole “no worries” from the Aussies

I’m super prone to using “bloody” when I want to curse but shouldn’t. It usually slips past other americans. Taking the piss is another fave.

Hey! Pittsburgh! The only city I actually enjoyed visiting!

Weedeater, weed whacker, or trimmer. In that order of descending use.

I almost always use the first one, weedeater.

Amen to that :)

Damn, now I wish I had a bike business so I could hire you.

Well, thanks :)

There’s a part 2?

It’s about how you say it though.

If you can manage to not be weird about it, you can turn the concept into corpospeak ans do just fine.

Paraphrasing, because it’s partially going to depend on the interviewer. “Your company has the market position to offer a pay scale that matches my quality as an employee” can end up nailing an interview.

Saying “I don’t care where I work as long as I get paid”, less so.

Yup.

But in the field of work I did, I had multiple advantages.

First was the high turnover rate. Most nursing facilities and home health companies have trouble keeping staff. So, chances are high that if you apply, you’re getting hired unless you’re absolutely horrible.

Second, I had experience out the wazoo by the point where I realized the above. Which meant not only did I have a good work history, it was also a history of sticking at a given employer, so I knew I could almost guarantee being hired even if there were applications stacked deep.

Third, I was visibly strong. Men were much rarer in my area as nurse’s assistants back then, so we tended to get snapped up fast for what is a physically demanding job. Since I’m a big ol’ fella that looks like he can throw people around easily, I could have gotten hired most places even if I had a shitty work record and been an asshole to whoever was doing the hiring.

Luckily, I’m not that kind of asshole (and was less of one in the ways I am an asshole back then), and I am instead charming as fuck in person. Which was my other advantage. It doesn’t show online, but if someone isn’t biased against sasquatches, they tend to respond well to me.

So, after the main company I worked for folded due to the administrator embezzling it into the ground, the first interview I had when they asked that I was able to be honest and say “look, this is what I do. I take care of people. I want to get paid for doing it, and word is that you pay the best in the area. Hire me at whatever your pay cap is, and I’ll be your best NA. Might take a few weeks before you believe that, but you will.”

On screen, that looks cocky and snide. But in person, it got a smile and an immediate hire. At the pay cap, and a promise of full time hours as long as I wanted them. Worked there until my body finally gave out.

I really wish there had been a way to export all the teamspeak records, because we were cracking each other up left and right.

I did go through and copy/paste some of the Skype conversations, but that was just for some of the silly poetry and such that I wrote to her, and after I put it into a .doc file, I cleaned it up, and I can’t remember if any of it had dates listed if I hadn’t.

This is why people keep diaries lol.

I refuse to vote on this as a matter of absurdity

I’m simple.

Mac n cheese for savory.

Dark chocolate for sweet.

Ahhhh, I’m old, so don’t hold me to the exact year or anything, but fifteen years? Ish?

We knew each other before we were friends, so the exact year is kinda nebulous in my head

Tbh, I’m not interested in the show.

However, IDGAF.

Hire a good actor, period. Nobody can top Rickman at all, so anyone taking the role on needs to be able to reinterpret it entirely, change the way Snape’s menace and arrogance are shown.

While there are physical descriptions in the books for all the major characters, the original movies didn’t stick to them perfectly in all cases. And I don’t think they did with Snape fully.

So why the fuck does it matter if the actor isn’t lily white (heh)? Can he act is the important part if anyone is going to watch it at all. If you’re going to turn a book into a show after it’s already been turned into a wildly popular movie series, you could cast everyone looking exactly like the books, and there’s still going to be complaints from the movie fans.

So fuck it. Make Dumbledore a trans man, or a trans woman. Make Mcgonagle Cherokee. Make Harry Xhosa, or a Southerner from the U.S. Give Ron blue hair, a septum piercing and dress him in leather. There’s always going to be pissed off existing fans of something that’s as huge as Harry Potter. It isn’t like some niche comic book where a character looking different is going to piss everyone off. The fan base will be split, period.

Shit, if I was going to watch it at all, an unexpected casting choice would make me more eager, because at least then I’m not going to be watching the movies dragged out over months.