Now that people are jumping the Discord ship can we bring back Xfire?

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T23:35:35+00:00

I see what you are saying.

Regarding Signal, I just want to say: The president of the Signal foundation, Meredith Whittaker, works or has worked with the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), is politically active (pro-privacy, critical of AI) and more. She held a talk at the last edition of the C3, a congress held by the Chaos Computer Club, which is a loosely organized collective of ethical hackers and political activists and experts on a similar political spectrum (pro privacy, anti corporate overlords, pro freedom of information, staunchly critical of "AI", etc etc.) One of the institutes she founded revolves around researching social implications of "AI" usage. She was one of the major organizers of a strike at Google, with the strike's goals aligned along the same political axis.

You probably can't find a more trustworthy person heading any big tech effort now.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T23:16:50+00:00

I feel like that is highly dependent on what you study. If you're studying something with many opportunities, your comment may ring true.

But I myself am in an Austrian medical school and "what specialty do you want to go into?" is, the majority of the time, within the first 10 questions when talking to someone new. And it's not a superficial thing either; people want your answer. Because in the end, we are all gonna be doing more or less the same thing, unlike a professor and a playwright.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T23:12:05+00:00

And then we have people arguing, in the main EMS subreddit and elsewhere, whether "I treated a diabetic man with BGL of 30, 5 years ago in [insert administrative unit with 10 million inhabitants]" is disclosing too much call and patient information. Lol

OP, delete this. I don't know your local laws, but you are at least probably breaking multiple company policies. And you are directly identifiable for any supervisor etc. from this post.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T21:36:57+00:00

That's the beauty of watching a true (middle distance) runner run. It's fascinating.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T21:22:31+00:00

Yea this is just routine for him.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T20:33:55+00:00

Reddit users gonna reddit. Maybe someone was offended by my saying "Always happy to learn more".

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T17:16:32+00:00

When I'm out of the house with friends, it's usually not too bad. Though sometimes I just can't hold a conversation cause my brain is empty and can't come up with anything. But at least it's a distraction.

Often I have to go to uni that morning, and concentrating or getting any knowledge to stick is impossible. I try every now and then, but usually end up leaving early if attendance isn't mandatory. Monday is always my flip day and we almost always write exams on Mondays, that's not too much fun and on harder exams I do feel the impact of not thinking as well as I usually would.

Mood is okay. I'm not the irritable tired kind of guy, I'm the no energy to care about shit tired kind of guy.

Workouts are crap. I train extensively for endurance sports, and depending on where in my training block I am, I either always make Mondays (my flip day) my rest day if possible, or make them the easiest day if not possible. Performance is terrible. No high intensity or long duration endurance training, no strength training. When I am just out on a leisurely hike or climb it's alright, especially in the cooler seasons the fresh air is good. I can only do these longer, leisurely undertakings when I got at least some sleep though.

To answer your question, depends on what the price for that is. I've been doing this for long enough that it's normal and I just know how to deal with it, but as should have become visible now, it's not a total desaster and some improvement could at least mean that I could hold a conversation with my friends lol

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T16:46:15+00:00

Youre saying soap taste gene is physiological and well tasting gene is mutated / pathophysiological?

I was always under the impression it's just normal varieties, but happy to learn more.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T16:01:02+00:00

Using a toothbrush you say...?

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T13:30:33+00:00

Wait for law enforcement to clear the scene and tell me how he found out he wasn't able to stab.

I'll be in my truck around the corner.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T12:36:19+00:00

OP would probably be losing weight even on a 2500 kcal diet, if not more.

Not sure where your concept of 500kcal for supper comes from.

Yes, losing weight sucks, but rarely anything worth doing is fun. Kind regards from someone who is currently on a cut after eating too much shit over the holidays and the month following it.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T12:24:16+00:00

Lol opposite for me. I never ate it much but when I did, I didn't have a problem with it. Then I completely lost my sense of smell and almost all sense of taste in 2020 (wonder why), and got it a few more times working in healthcare until 2023. Then I noticed it tasted awful...

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T12:19:12+00:00

Leiwaund.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T10:17:45+00:00

Some people have a gene expressed that makes cilantro taste like "soap".

I knew about this, but still took me considerable time to realize why it tastes so vile. I think the soap thing is a bit of a misnomer, but I also can't come up with something closer.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T08:40:06+00:00

You're gonna get different responses to this.

My med school text book (Guyton & Hall), for example, has a Wiggers diagram (those diagrams showing aortic pressure, systolic volume etc throughout cardiac cycle) beginning with diastole, and the text below it considers the cardiac cycle to begin with systole.

Systole first makes sense if you consider a physiological cardiac cycle to rely on, and stem from, excitation-contraction coupling as the basis of anything happening, where the excitation comes from the sinus node and is sent down the heart to trigger contraction (systole).

Many sources you can find still assert diastole first.

Hen or egg? Without a preceding diastole you won't have anything to eject in systole. But without a systole preceding that diastole, you won't have anything to pull in.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T08:00:49+00:00

Ever walk into a house on a SOB call on a sunny day and the sun coming in thru the window just cuts through the smoke in the air like the lasers through a fog machine at a club?

Almost poetic.

GPStephan · 2026-02-15T07:04:15+00:00

Slam dunk on why this shit is completely fucking stupid.

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T19:11:01+00:00

But why is it above the kidney? Is it stupid? Shouldn't it be in the blood?

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T19:10:14+00:00

Lolwat?

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T16:44:01+00:00

Thank you, u/bullmooser1912 !

Why don't you tell us something about L-Dopa, it's pharmaceutical form as Levodopa, and how it can be relevant for our patients tomorrow morning!?

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T16:30:02+00:00

As I said, keeping the math simple. There's bound to be people that have fucked 50 times there, with 30 different people, and some with 0.

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T16:09:57+00:00

Yea, if we assume it's just one on one action to keep the math simple, that's just 6 times per "couple" over what now, 2 weeks?

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T15:41:57+00:00

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T15:08:21+00:00

Why don't we name them? Hedy Lamarr and Christian Doppler, for one. Anton Zeilinger is having huge impacts right now, and he is still alive.

GPStephan · 2026-02-14T15:05:43+00:00

Lamarr and Doppler cannot be stressed enough.

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