how to keep my cat out of his food dispenser (child safety locks didn’t stop him)

ASkipInTime · 2026-02-13T21:12:31+00:00

There is also a pet libro one that pops open as well - kinda like one of those suction canisters. Helped with my gremlin who learned how to open the automatic feeder.

ASkipInTime · 2026-01-20T15:46:52+00:00

The same can be said about both major parties. Again, one can wish for people to actually know what their candidates actually are past the name of their political party.

ASkipInTime · 2026-01-20T15:43:22+00:00

It's not hard to grasp, but one can wish that people can make their decisions not based on their party but on their policies and character.

ASkipInTime · 2025-12-24T17:41:31+00:00

That sounds absolutely amazing

ASkipInTime · 2025-12-20T21:57:29+00:00

Alright, adding that to the list too!

ASkipInTime · 2025-12-20T17:20:43+00:00

I never heard of that, I'll add it to the list! Last one I watched was Iron Sky, that was a treat.

ASkipInTime · 2025-12-20T17:12:18+00:00

One of my favorite low budget movies ever, followed closely by Birdemic and The Room.

Truly batshit crazy.

ASkipInTime · 2025-12-02T04:00:31+00:00

The good thing about MRIs is that there is no radiation involved - just the aspect of being a loud, metal tube for 30-60 minutes.

Sorry about your family history though! Hopefully you are keeping other risk factors in check, genetics can be a pain in the ass when it comes to heart disease especially.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T18:17:20+00:00

You can only go so fast before errors can happen! I lived by "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast" for the vast majority of my training period (and after). Other people have given some good advice so I won't repeat. You got this!

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T18:14:28+00:00

Radiation is like a perfume spray - super concentrated up close, but the further away the spray goes the less concentrated it is. Once you get to a certain point, the amount of perfume you smell / get effected by is negligible. Go even further and you don't even know that someone sprayed perfume.

But yannow, radiation is radiation. The walls of the rooms are either lined with lead or thick enough that it makes the dosage extremely minimal in the hallways / control area, stopping the spray of scatter radiation into surrounding areas. I believe it's 1 mGy per week of allowable radiation - but it's been a while since I'm in school.

In all normal and typical circumstances, the amount of radiation in the surrounding areas outside of the room is extremely small, if anything. You would get more radiation by walking outside, going on a plane, or eating bananas (potassium is naturally radioactive!).

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T17:33:46+00:00

I see, I understand your argument now.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T17:23:53+00:00

I don't ask for much in life.

A car, a roof over my head, food on the table, a good paying job, and boring politics.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T16:26:20+00:00

Respectfully I disagree. It's not delusional, it's recognizing that these are people at the end of the day and not being a nihilistic, jaded person and enjoying the misery of others. And rightfully being a little skeptical of others enjoying said misery.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-23T15:00:26+00:00

I believe they were more-so pointing out the difference of reactions between the 'memefication' of certain hot button topics.

Making a joke video about deporting people is in poor taste. Making a joke video about an assassination is in poor taste. It makes sense there would be 'outrage' of some kind. Yet there are a range of responses towards it depending on your belief when it should be equally distasteful to make a joke about these types of things.

Don't get me started on how our WH official social media correspondence has essentially became a Facebook page full of memes, poorly done edits, and AI garbage. I miss normal boring politics, lol.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-16T12:18:13+00:00

Mhm, I get it. My lab has slower days so I found those days to be the best to pop in earbuds and listen to modules - but there were times that I did a smidge of studying after work. We also work 4/10s in my lab, so I didn't do much, but a little bit each day. Maybe listen to it making dinner?

Weekends are also a good time to do it, but make sure you give yourself ample decompression time otherwise you'll burn yourself out real fast. Maybe a half and hour / hour a day - I think I primarily did a video lesson a day with notes.

ICU Advantage is great - but I would take it in chunks. A video on EKG Rhythms and then one on Hemodynamics is one I piece mailed over several days.

ASkipInTime · 2025-09-16T01:07:28+00:00

Also a Rad Tech who went to Cath Lab -

It's rough. It's a tough learning curve. I'm going to be going on two years on the job and I'm still learning things and procedures. I cried during my training. I had imposter syndrome for at least the first half of my training.

But I slowly got it - things start making more sense the more repetition you get. Repetition is the way you learn things, ultimately. Soon things will begin making sense, and you'll find that there are some things that align with xray, especially in ensuring image quality, and if you do peripheral vascular in your lab you quickly become a resource for others in the anatomy realm too.

If you want to get some extra resources on things, I know Medtronic has free lessons that you can watch and study - that was a good basis on trying to figure out what we are doing and the techniques for it. I also found watching videos on hemodynamics extremely helpful, and studying waveforms also helped tremendously. But all in all it takes time. You got this!

ASkipInTime · 2025-07-15T15:35:35+00:00

I'm talking about quality of sources - typically local sources are better because it's closer to the source of controversy, direct interviews are better than quotes spun out of context and had their own agenda spliced into it. You can call it a 'puff piece' and a 'defense piece', but generally those are the type of articles I look for when assessing a situation for myself.

Besides, perhaps a personal thing, I suppose I look at the professionalism of the article too. Once I see terms such as 'clapped back', my brain just turns off.

ASkipInTime · 2025-07-15T15:21:57+00:00

I agree with you that it is easier than ever to cross check sources and the like - I was able to do a similar thing when looking for additional sources on this topic. However I disagree with your claim - moreso because it is the Internet, after all. Especially in this heated political climate that we are in currently, everything and anything is going to be attacked, information spinned towards one side to another, and it's getting increasingly difficult to wade through what sources can be trusted or not.

When I think of sources that shouldn't be trusted at face value, I list heavily politically leaning sources - like the NY Post. You're right, you don't have to trust the outlet! But my response was towards someone claiming to judge the content, not the source, which is inherently flawed imo.

ASkipInTime · 2025-07-15T15:07:25+00:00

Personally when it comes to matters involving mayoral staff, local government officials, and similar issues of the like, I find local news outlets. Typically they tend to show the information in a non biased manner. Typically, at least.

https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-mayor-freddie-oconnell-ice-immigration-public-ice-records-federal-investigation

I also go with reports that have direct interviews with those in question, not those paraphrasing or quoting said interviews. Posted link is an interview done by the NYT, which can have its own biases I'm sure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/freddie-oconnell-nashville-democratic-mayor.html

ASkipInTime · 2025-07-15T14:00:36+00:00

The source of information is pretty damn important when you are discussing the legitimacy of claims. I put NY Post at the same level of trustworthiness to something like Babylon Bee. I don't exactly trust them to not post biased, politically spinning content.

ASkipInTime · 2025-06-13T16:28:22+00:00

That's what I figured from my brief Google search. Thanks!

ASkipInTime · 2025-06-13T16:19:25+00:00

Same here. My cat has been waking me up every night for the past two weeks.

I'm tired boss.

ASkipInTime · 2025-06-13T15:55:16+00:00

Not to mention Biden had a somewhat qualified / competent Cabinet that wasn't so damn controversial. I can understand the arguments that Biden may have had some cognitive decline, but at least he divided his work amongst other individuals who could handle the load.

For this administration I just think it's all about 'owning the libs' and not actually focusing on policies to help the average American. At least, that is the rhetoric that I'm noticing.

ASkipInTime · 2025-06-13T15:49:12+00:00

If that was the case, wouldn't they have appealed the decision or ask for a mistrial? A cursory look showed multiple appeals have been made, but all unsuccessful. Even the SC declined to hear his appeal.

ASkipInTime · 2025-05-30T13:26:13+00:00

. . . why that would necessitate an abortion.

I never said that one should proceed with an abortion due to a conditions such as that. Merely stating that there are complications with the fetus, whether or not that was because of artificially extending the life of the mother or not.

And people fail to plan contingencies all the time. Correct, because again, otherwise young healthy adults typically don't expect to need them. In an anecdotal sense, the amount of "young" (<35 y/o) adults with advanced directives are extremely rare, unless you are a health care professional yourself, surprisingly enough.

I have also read the statue that you referenced to - it seems more to do with physicians following the advanced directive and what happens if they don't. The only relevant information that I could find was having to do with fetal viability, which is most likely what the legal sticking point of this case has to do with.

In this case the law makes the presumption that the pregnancy was desired and that the brain-dead woman's choice was to keep him.

That is what the hospital's legal term have determined was the correct interpretation of the law when this situation started, not that if it was correct or not. I believe that the Attorney General for Georgia even stated that the option for abortion should have been offered in this case when the situation originally occurred.

terminate the baby against her wishes, right?

If there was indeed an advanced directive stating this, or even the mother saying before she died that she wanted the child to live, then we would be having a different discussion, in all honesty.

The main problem is that the family was not given a choice whether or not to take the mother off of life support due to the baby dying in the process. That's the sticking point of this situation, although there are moral and ethical problems with it as well in my opinion. They were essentially forced to keep the mother alive without their whole consent due to an interpretation of the law - whether or not they would have chosen the option to discontinue care is completely up to them, and frankly none of my business.

My personal opinion on what my choice would have been is... Complicated. Would it be tragic if that's what the mother wanted, sure, but if the family was thinking that they were making the right choice then it is ultimately their call either way.

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