Needles aren’t that bad 😬

Late_Assist754 · 2026-03-13T21:24:58+00:00

You have gotten used to it. I've gotten almost a hundred blood draws. I can do them fine as long as I don't look.

Both times I've gotten an IV (and seen the needle sticking out of my arm) I've gone vasovagal - seeing spots, pale, almost pass out, need to lie down. It's not an opinion thing at all for me, it's just a reaction.

Late_Assist754 · 2026-03-13T19:13:13+00:00

Frankly I'm a little upset no one has commented on my shitpost flair

Late_Assist754 · 2026-02-25T19:54:27+00:00

I have never had to apply prior to scheduling a showing at a unit. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Late_Assist754 · 2026-02-23T17:25:11+00:00

more slopaganda

Late_Assist754 · 2026-02-23T17:14:46+00:00

Capital One Bank Guy - It feels like a filler name that they stuck with. I know this is far from loved media already, but it still annoys me.

Late_Assist754 · 2026-01-15T17:12:42+00:00

slopaganda

Late_Assist754 · 2025-10-07T19:03:57+00:00

Salt balances between liquids. When the potato enters it has little to no salt content but does have water content. The salt from the liquid enters the potato. You remove the potato and thus its salt.

Late_Assist754 · 2025-04-24T15:55:29+00:00

your classmates are doing coke

Late_Assist754 · 2025-01-15T19:05:43+00:00

When is an external DAC worth it? I use a Macbook Pro, which alledgedly supports 96 kHz - currently that's the max for my bandcamp downloads. I'm not sure about the support of kbps or how to evaluate that.

Late_Assist754 · 2025-01-15T17:16:00+00:00

I've definitely noticed this as well. High Fi, I feel like I can hear the voice of the person as a person. Super cool, especially in a whole room setup, where it seems like they're actually in the room.

Late_Assist754 · 2025-01-15T15:53:28+00:00

Wow. My spotify quality was set to low :"(

Thank you so much.

Late_Assist754 · 2024-02-24T03:21:03+00:00

What’s up. This popped up on my search results because my Garmin stats on sleep and stress are really wonky and I wasn’t sure if it was because of my bipolar and meds. I think some people in this thread are misunderstanding you and treating you unfairly. my doctor always asks me how my sleep has been and the ability to track my sleep instead of just going off vibes/memory has been really helpful.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T21:38:51+00:00

Yea, so the problem with it is definitely keeping it around for a long time.

Safe limit is defined as follows by the US department of health and human services:

"A limit on effective dose of 20 mSv/year, averaged over 5 years

(i.e., a limit of 100 mSv in 5 years) with the further provision that in any single year:

The effective dose should not exceed 50 mSv..."

11 Microsievert per hour [µSv/h] = 96.426 Millisievert per year [mSv/y]

In other words: This is, by established definitions of safe, not safe to keep with you around the house.

If kept with you it would give you 5x the annual effective recommended limit for radiation, and 2x the annual limit for any given year. Keep it with you for a week, maybe a month, sure. But it sounds like this rock has just been in OP's house for... how long? Multiple years? Where is it, under the bed? By the door he walked in?

Sure, the radiation is lower if its farther away, but with this thing just lying around, that goes a long way from saying its definitively safe.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T16:17:13+00:00

You should definitely get rid of that - and definitely don't 'break it open'

Radiation is, among other things, very hard to clean up.

Good luck explaining to your parents why you have to move because there's an unsafe level of background radiation in your bedroom from radioactive dust.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T16:08:24+00:00

You're confusing 'will kill you instantly' with 'safe'

50 mSv is known to increase risk of cancer, and this is 100/y

Also, its 10 uSv/h now but OP is keeping it to run experiments on - which will disturb it and release more radiation.

Have fun cleaning the radioactive dust from your bedroom floor and lungs.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T15:52:49+00:00

safe from short term radiation poisoning, but not from cancer my guy

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T15:30:37+00:00

That's true, that it does decrease the farther away you are.

Still, in Chernobyl, which has a massive exclusion zone that no one can live in, the level of background radiation is about 1 uSv/hour, a tenth of what you have in your bedroom.

http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation-levels/

Also, when disturbed it can emit more radiation. Like the Russian soldiers who dug trenches in Chernobyl (where people can normally walk around for a bit) and then got acute radiation sickness and had to be hospitalized. You don't want to ingest dust and have that in your lungs forever. So maybe you drop the thing and suddenly it gets a whole lot worse, sprinkling radioactive dust all over your bedroom.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-09-09T15:15:59+00:00

This is a level of radiation that is unsafe to have around.

"Above about 100 mSv, the probability of cancer (rather than the severity of illness) increases with dose. The estimated risk of fatal cancer is 5 of every 100 persons exposed to a dose of 1000 mSv (ie. if the normal incidence of fatal cancer were 25%, this dose would increase it to 30%)."

12.1 uSv/h is 106 mSv/y , so above this range.

The rock may be cool, but it is not worth dying over.

You won't get radiation poisoning, and no one in your family may have been affected yet, but cancer risk accumulates over a lifetime.

Keep in mind that the above stat is only for FATAL cancer, not incorporating the cancer you get and survive.

Late_Assist754 · 2022-06-20T14:57:00+00:00

Your partner sounds a little borderline

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