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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I work in hospice and see a variety of conditions. Some people in their 60’s with significant mobility issues that are chronically exhausted, but then there’s the patients in their 90’s who just recently started cutting back on social events and activities due to injury/illness.

    Seeing these differences was why I started roller skating (again) at 49 and increased other activities to keep my ass moving and challenge my coordination and balance. I want to get everything I can out of this life.


  • Serious question.

    Following the assumption that it’s not food safe plastic, what is the actual risk that we’re talking about here? I get that there’s many variables (length of time/temp of contact, porousness and moisture content of food, etc) but let’s say that the variety of foods were stored in a cooler for 4 hours prior to consumption. To do this 3x a year, what are the risks? Obviously this set up left in the car during the summer for 8hrs before eating would be a REALLY bad idea, but wondering where it starts crossing the line from insignificant risk to “you should really think twice.”

    I remember years ago Mythbusters tested the “5 second rule” and contamination really had much more to do with what was making contact vs how long.



  • While I prefer the flavor of the burgers from BK, I always end up waiting for my order far longer than McDonald’s, then the combo of ingredients isn’t even warm enough to melt the cheese on the burger (no, I didn’t customize it into an abomination, just asked for no mustard.) So while I’d almost prefer it, I don’t go to BK except for once or twice a year. Even then, it seems like they’re constantly changing the fries that they’re serving, trying to hit a sweet spot?

    Instead my go to is the Daily Double and small fry from McDonald’s.




  • 17 years ago on a Saturday night, just before bedtime, my 4yo son was being a dufus and managed to break his collarbone. Before we knew it was broken (but knew something was obviously wrong) I took him to the emergency room. We were stuck waiting about 6 hours to be seen. The nurse that triaged us was extremely apologetic and literally stated “I’m so sorry you’ve had to wait so long, we’re stuck having to see the drunken scraped knees first just because they came in an ambulance.”

    I’m assuming that if my son were bleeding out he would be seen faster, but I’ve assumed that in non-life threatening situations that ambulances receive priority.








  • Duranie@lemmy.filmtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWorry
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    I was raised around those good old traditional values like “do what you’re told” and “a woman’s value is caring for a family.” Once I started thinking for myself and asking questions, I still struggled with all the “but they’re killing living babies!” idea. Then one day it occurred to me - we don’t determine death by when the heart stops, why would we decide it starts just because we hear a beat? Brain death determines death, wouldn’t an appropriate level of brain activity determine life? I let go of a lot of baggage that day.


  • Think of it this way - it’s a little defect in the skin. Instead of your skin shedding and falling off/washing off your body, you have a little pocket that keeps collecting those skin cells (cells are shedding inside the pocket.) That’s why it smells gross and comes back even after you squeeze it. To get rid of it permanently, it would need to be surgically removed. Totally Dr Pimple Popper territory.



  • I worked with someone years ago that had it twice as a kid. Bio kids are off the table for him.

    I wish to offer eloquently worded condolences or congratulations in regards to the potential long term effects in accordance with your desires, but I’m fighting a losing battle with words here. I think you get the idea though.