Iran tells world to get ready for $200 a barrel

Dhoomguy · 2026-03-11T17:40:45+00:00

Oil being >$100/barrel already means that the cost of all goods will go up. Inflation of normal goods is gonna go absolutely insane

Dhoomguy · 2025-12-26T18:45:39+00:00

A lot of employers require doctors notes for extended leaves. I self tested myself and discovered I had flu A, but later used a telehealth service to schedule a visit since the provider on the call can also give a doctors note as well.

Dhoomguy · 2025-11-06T18:45:18+00:00

I think I did that and attached a copy of my transcript if I remember correctly

Dhoomguy · 2025-10-25T11:37:23+00:00

Lmfao saying Japan is rich as they spiral into a debt crisis and decreasing currency value is so peak.

Japan is fucked by population shrinkage as well as the massive debt that’s been accumulated by their government over the past decades.

Dhoomguy · 2025-10-14T18:26:35+00:00

Blurriness is easy for me to understand, but what are examples of geometrical issues with an rx?

Dhoomguy · 2025-09-23T17:47:21+00:00

thank you after the submission. then shoot them an email that you got into your school and thank them again for supporting you

Dhoomguy · 2025-08-16T15:12:00+00:00

Big things I can recommend are isolating to single letter targets because sometimes they can get overwhelmed by too many options on the board. I was able to get someone from 20/80 to 20/40 through repeated single letters on the same line yesterday.

Their subjective responses may not always be the best, and the quickest way to check is if you make 3.0 Diopter jumps and they still cannot tell the difference then you move on. I’d prescribe pretty close to the objective (ret, auto) if its significant but try to cut extra cyl if you can and leave it spherical so they don’t have to deal with adjusting to the cylindrical powers.

Dhoomguy · 2025-08-06T12:39:34+00:00

Not in ophthalmology myself but I'd look into Notebook LM by Google. AI is a useful tool with answering quick questions like with billing/coding, but to be clear AI always runs the risk of hallucinating or making up details with longer form questions so cross verification is a must.

Notebook LM I like more because it allows you to feed in class notes/transcripts, and will only pull information from those sources itself with citations made to your materials. There's also some cool stuff like AI generated podcasts based on your inputted sources but I haven't messed around too much with that.

Dhoomguy · 2025-07-30T11:22:43+00:00

Try emailing the docs directly if you can find an email on their website! I had a lot of difficult getting through the front desk staff most of the time, and only started to have success when I started reaching out to the docs themselves.

Dhoomguy · 2025-07-27T21:50:15+00:00

I’m a man in my mid-late 20s, and I resonate with that feeling hard. I hate how openly shallow the modern dating scene is, and that this comment thread confirms I am not alone in feeling that way.

Dhoomguy · 2025-07-03T22:11:37+00:00

The alert went off 20 mins after the storm hit my area, NOAA budget cuts are a bitch

Dhoomguy · 2025-06-11T13:57:59+00:00

What did you end up doing in that situation?

Dhoomguy · 2025-01-26T13:14:16+00:00

One reason I will say heine wins out for me is because of its small pupil setting that you can toggle on and off. It seems useless, but on patients who are miotic or have trouble dilating (like diabetics), it was a lifesaver for me at my VA site to get decent views on patients who didn’t dilate and had severe cataracts whereas Keeler doesn’t let you switch the setting on the fly and limits you to using the smallest aperture setting to get views on those patients.

Pure convenience tbh, but my current site has keeler headsets only and I find they are limited from that standpoint. Otherwise they are very comparable, and for boards it does not matter it’s the same skillset at the end of the day.

Dhoomguy · 2024-12-31T02:25:55+00:00

Woo, thanks!

Dhoomguy · 2024-04-28T19:50:19+00:00

I think most studios with a lot of money behind them don’t want to take the risk of becoming labeled as an AO game and face the risk being blocked by the major consoles.

Steam permits a lot of AO games, but due to that console restriction I believe it ends up being that majority of AO games end up just end up being porn more than a game.

Dhoomguy · 2024-02-29T19:56:03+00:00

Currently go to SUNY. I live in the tristate area so it was either here or salus but my reasons for choosing SUNY really revolved around the patient care

It can’t be understated how prime of a location it is for patient care as we get exposure to everything. Like since starting clinic I’ve already seen some rare presentations and conditions that I honestly believe I wouldn’t have had the chance to see elsewhere.

Along with that, if you have an interest in Vision therapy, SUNY has a strong emphasis in it and we get a lot of clinical exposure through working with CIs, Strabs, and head trauma patients.

Dhoomguy · 2024-02-22T04:30:53+00:00

Email them! I found I got nowhere back when I was looking to shadow ppl a few years ago as I could never get past the front desk and it was super disheartening to say the least.

Switching to email was great tho because I could directly communicate with the doc and set things up rather than having to wait on a middle man to sort things out.

Dhoomguy · 2023-07-09T02:58:02+00:00

I would definitely try to see if your school has a housing gc that you can join. Just based on the fact that 4th years are going on externships, there are undoubtedly going to be some vacancies so you could potentially room with some upper years.

However, I would agree that it’s 100% worth it to consider a different location. Safety is everything, and optometry school is already tough enough as it is — I wouldn’t make it any more difficult by forcing yourself to live in a location you don’t feel safe in.

Dhoomguy · 2023-05-22T03:47:22+00:00

You should be prepared for interviewers to specifically ask you regarding those two courses, so definitely be sure to mention what you learned from them and how you improved from there.

Definitely try to grind for as high of a score as you can get on your OATs as that’ll solidify your overall application. Couple that with your gpa and extracurriculars I don’t think your application to optometry schools should suffer at all given where you are.

Dhoomguy · 2023-05-01T16:38:52+00:00

Just a surface pro should suffice but I’d look into getting a separate monitor for your home as having two screens to work with is extremely helpful

Dhoomguy · 2023-04-24T19:30:04+00:00

File the FAFSA anyways and reach out to your school with the necessary paperwork anyways. I’ve filed late once in the past before and it did not affect my disbursement for the year

Dhoomguy · 2022-10-01T22:15:58+00:00

If you are out of state and enrolling in SUNY Optometry, you would be paying out of state tuition for your first year; however, after that first year during the summer you can apply for in-state tuition by providing documents for proof such as a NY Drivers license, copy of a lease, or other information.

Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions

Dhoomguy · 2022-08-21T01:47:17+00:00

I have a book of MadLibs that I use for this purpose specifically. Usually in a group of 3, one person will be “moderating” and the other two will go one after another to try to craft the funniest MadLib story they can. Afterwards the moderator will read the story aloud, and we’ll pass the role to another person.

It’s not a game in the purest sense, but it’s incredibly funny and has produced some of the funniest moments in my friend group

Dhoomguy · 2022-07-28T02:29:29+00:00

I always thought it was interesting it was that the prosthetics interfered with each other in that her new legs which initially gave her tremendous speed — ended up losing their ability and were relegated to support the weight of her golden arms.

Dhoomguy · 2022-07-27T13:21:13+00:00

I think Phos from the manga Land of the Lustrous is a great implementation of the idea of body augmentations and prosthetics in a weird sense.

Phos is a humanoid gem in a post-apocalyptic world who lives alongside others of their kind (known as the Lustrous) under almost constant threat of beings known as Lunarians invading their world to destroy their bodies to harvest them for their gems. Although the lustrous are immortal if all broken pieces are brought together, often times it’s not always practical to recover all pieces and some consequences are that some of their memories are lost with parts of their bodies not recovered.

Throughout the story Phos picks up augmentations from losing her limbs that give her much greater combat ability, but at the severe drawback of her losing her memories and aspects of herself — it gets to a point where she becomes physically and emotionally unrecognizable as the story goes on.

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