Berttheduck

Just another chipping in on the Eufy solar. I’ve been pretty impressed so far with a few minor niggles.

Generally it works well, connects nicely to the repeater and rings ok. Solar works great no issues with battery power on our south facing front.

The main selling point for me was no subscription or remote server connection.

It’s annoying if it loses connection to the WiFi. I’ve actually turned the security mode (which makes it scream if taken off the wall without turning that off first in the app).

Thanks, damn autocorrect.

Drowning in a small space like underwater caving. I’m a bit catastrophic (claustrophobic). Normally no issues with water but the thought of being trapped somewhere small and watching it full up with water terrifies me. Safe to say I am never going caving or swimming in caves.

Oh and the apparently inexorable march towards fascism in the UK and the west is pretty bad too.

Is the twist that they are actually in hell? Cuz I guessed that about halfway through the first episode when every single character was an insufferable ass. Which coincidentally is also why I stopped watching. Very American humour I think, it felt similar to Parks and Rec, another one which everyone seems to love that I bounced off hard.

Seconding this with caveats.

Masturbation is normal, natural and healthy (reduces the risk of prostate cancer in men). Unless it isn’t, it’s not healthy when it is an addiction and masturbation is getting in the way of life. If you’re not seeing friends or missing work or school because you’d rather watch porn and jerk off then that’s a problem. A therapist would be the best person to talk to about that if you do have an addiction.

If you’re just masturbating a few times a week then carry on, enjoy yourself and don’t feel guilty.

Welcome to the super cheap shaving club!

I recommend the Leasureguys guide to gourmet shaving, it’s a real deep dive into shaving with a safety razor.

I’d recommend getting yourself a blade trial pack, a few places on the net do them, and try out a selection of blades to see what your preference turns out to. Different combos of blade and razor, skin and hair types will have quite different results

For wet shaving I do 3 passes for a really close shave, with the grain, across and finally against. If I’m short on time I only do the first two and it’s presentable.

I just rinse my blade after but I only typically keep a blade for 4 or 5 shaves.

I’d recommend getting a good quality brush and an alum block for after, it will help you improve your technique too as the stingy bits are more irritated so you can focus on that for next time.

I’m basically only on windows these days because I have a windows mixed reality vr headset and I don’t know how well that would play with Linux.

Everyone dies. Only certainty of life.

As part of my job in the hospital I often interact with dying people and their families. Palliative care - caring for people in the last period of their lives, in the UK focuses on patient experience and patient priorities. We generally aim for as pain free and as comfortable an end as possible and have medication which can usually make this a possibility.

The dying process for most people is a lot like falling asleep. They get more and more sleepy and spend less time awake. Eventually they go to sleep and the breathing starts changing with bigger gaps between breaths and eventually the breathing stops.

If it’s done well it’s a peaceful process with minimal pain and agitation.

If this is something you are concerned about it might be worth talking to your doctor about it. We have the RESPECT process in the UK which is a guided conversation about things important to the patient around the end of their life with medical recommendations for what is appropriate (not every treatment is appropriate for every patient).

Googly eyes on everything!

I think I’m a pretty kind and outgoing person. I’m also decidedly socialist, pretty much at eat the rich levels. So I think the world would change for the better, get some huge taxation going on the mega rich and funding for stuff like UBI. Dramatic shifts to renewable energy. People would probably stop killing each other. I can’t imagine doing that to someone else not in self defence.

I commute to work by bicycle and think cars are useful but good public transport is better so that is probably handy.

Down sides I’m a habitual comfort eater and love food so the obesity problem might get worse.

I have picked up HEMA historical European martial arts. It’s sword fighting. It’s super fun. Everyone at my club is a massive nerd as you might expect. It’s good exercise and genuinely fun. The down side is the kit is pretty expensive. At my club we have a newby joining session with a discounted attendance period which builds to a safety test before you really need to get safety kit which gives people a chance to try it before they spend hundreds on jackets and masks (and swords!).

What did you think? I am hearing mixed things.

The first time was when I was about 7 my little sister started choking on a fruit pastel so I did some back slaps and she spit it out.

I eventually went into health care so quite a few since.

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Do I know how to use the technology?

I would hope that in 100k years, assuming humans are still basically human, the tech would be user friendly enough I’d be able to use it.

I’d want to try and improve the world with it. Give free power and clean water to poor countries. Help with medical research.

Hell it might come with a built in library so I can download that to researchers.

That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.

They have weird butt muscles and use the poop as trail markers if I remember rightly.

Yeah the race towards fascism is terrifying.

Very similar, we can diagnose and manage patients in most cases and recognise when we’re out of our depth. We are dependent practitioners so work with a consultant. Currently we can’t prescribe but this is planned to change at some point. We don’t rotate like resident doctors do so provide more continuity for the nursing team and patients.

I’m a physician associate in the UK. I love helping people and making a difference. It’s great when my actions make someone’s life better, be that patient or colleagues. The team I work with are really good people. I love medicine: it’s problem solving, the interpersonal aspects, the continuous learning, the kindness and dedication of the people I work with.

I hate basically everything else. The PA role has had loads of bad press recently and there’s a legal case ongoing about the national review that was done so there’s huge amounts of uncertainty as to what the role will look like in future if it keeps existing at all. So no idea if I’m going to get to keep doing what I love long term. The NHS is basically on its knees after a generation of underfunding and poor management at the highest levels, what with the previous conservative basically trying to sell it off for profit so we don’t have enough resources to do things properly.
The system is set up to basically abuse its staff, the culture in the NHS is one of going above and beyond and putting yourself out to help others. Which is how the whole thing is still running to be honest, but that means that it’s really easy/ expected to stay late or to pick up too much work. If someone retires or leaves it’s even odds that they get replaced these days so there’s more work for less people.

The orphan of Kos in Bloodborne. Could never quite get it right, got so close several times but even with help that crazy bastard is just soo fast and difficult to predict. I tried for like a week, 30 or more goes. It really annoys me because Bloodborne is my favourite souls game.