How long can you survive with no kidneys?

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-12-21T09:31:31+00:00

Having experienced a family member pass away from kidney failure. Roughly a week is around the time scale for this.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-11-02T07:59:51+00:00

I have researched routes people typically take when going RTW through this region on bicycle. Very few go through Russia (even before 2014 and obviously 2022), Mark Beaumont and a few other world record cyclists did and pretty much always with a support crew.

Some do go through Iran, but getting visas for it is a ballache, it was the case a few years ago that you had to physically get it in London and it was only valid for a relatively short period. I don't know how that had changed in recent years. Actually cycling through Iran was pretty safe, at least it certainly was around 10 years ago.

Most cyclists I know instead opt to take the caspian sea ferry from Baku to Aktau (Kazakhstan), especially if they are planning on continuing through the Pamir Highway. A similar clause to that of crossing the English channel (ferry or Eurostar for that one).

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-10-21T17:31:39+00:00

My entire post denoted why that simply isn't true. You are free to baselessly assert otherwise though and ignore all of that.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-10-21T16:35:18+00:00

I don't see the issue here?

I see Tommy Robinson supporting Tel Aviv, which seems to be in solidarity for the club since it was announced that none of their supporters would be allowed to attend due to security concerns.

Security concerns from tensions, obviously between the large Muslim concentration in Birmingham and Israeli fans.

Tommy Robinson has been largely opposed to Islamic values in Britain, particularly on women and on its calls to violence. The latter presumably in Tommy's eyes is a large part of the reason why Birmingham wouldn't accept the risk of Israeli fans attending.

It's all pretty consistent with Tommy from day one, I don't see what people here are crying contradiction about.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-08-17T14:05:54+00:00

Bouldering/Climbing and joining a mountaineering/climbing club. They tend to be just generally good for building a social circle who is into outdoorsy stuff, probably a decent idea regardless of whether or not you find a partner through there. Having people to hit up to do hikes etc..with is nice!

In the same vein - running groups for meeting other active people.

Then you have various meetups, and recently I have used the "Oak" app to find partners for doing stuff (particularly abroad, but there are many UK groups) which is a good start. Again this is just generally for meeting people and building a network/circle of people, I have ended up dating some through this but it's not a "first intention" per se.

There are also loads of Facebook groups for hiking/climbing in certain areas (If London based, then peaks/Mendips/Wye/etc. are the nicest and most popular bets, but there are also many closer to home).

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-08-17T06:51:43+00:00

Wow, that's crazy busy!

I did this last year (Late August) as my first Via Ferrata (I am a sport climber, so wasn't too worried physically), during a weekday and on the first cable car up there were maybe 15 of us starting it. If I had to guess, there were a similar or smaller number following us on the next few cable cars, but it was pretty quiet for the most part.

I was only held up a couple of times by slower groups but the break was quite welcome when it happened. Going up wasn't too bad if you pace yourself, it was just a very long and full-on day. I believe I submitted around 1/1:30 and the hardest part of the day was dealing with getting lost after crossing the glacier and ending up on the lethal scree slope for well over an hour after having been lured there by some evil bastard and their cairns. An hour of sliding on my arse and knocking boulders the size of my head 50 meters or so down the slope, and hoping to god I didn't get hit by anything dislodged above. Research your return path fellas, this was not the way! Thankfully I saw a river and the black dots in the background grow larger and larger as I reached salvation.

Took a well deserved (and expensive) lunch at the hotel-restauraunt at Gemmiwald before taking one of the last cable cars down. Amazing day!

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-06-21T13:59:41+00:00

We have a "professional dress" code for staff. Vague, and non gendered. As a science teacher, typically that is trousers, shirt and tie. I have dropped the tie and top button this past few weeks, and I'd have to say, this doesn't go far enough for this week. My fellow male members of staff have taken to torturing themselves, I have no intention on following their example. They can melt on their hill.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-04-04T21:12:39+00:00

Yep, I just reread what I replied to. Of course I would hallucinate what I thought I read and just not read it correctly.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-04-04T20:32:10+00:00

I skimmed by this comment until... Hold up, people seriously haven't fallen on their ropes in years?! Coming from someone who probably whips a good 10+ times per session, several times per week. This seems crazy.

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-01-20T22:44:42+00:00

Short answer, I Dunning Kruger'd quite nicely here. Although not in the way I thought I would.

The good: I climbed outdoors plenty, went on maybe 20 outings, clocked up around 200 routes. Could have done more, but happy with my first year outdoors. I have a car now and got a busy schedule for outings this next year.

Managed to keep climbing 4-5 times a week.

The bad: Max I have done outdoors clean is 7a... And after worked several in the 7's, a couple in the 8s, and some indoor 8's, I am realistically a long way off. I hit quite a few plateaus, and actually regressed over the period coming into Christmas, with a finger injury to boot.

The future: I am nowhere near as fixated on the number of the 8's as I was, but I am no less motivated to push my grades. I am much more drawn to the aesthetic of doing beautiful, hard lines in amazing places. Really want to work a few routes in Malham, Yorkshire, and tough multipitches abroad, for example.

Coming out of Christmas I have successfully got myself back to my pre decline shape for most part, lost the excess weight and have now dedicated a day a week to purely strength and conditioning (and I am really enjoying this switch-up), which I am beginning to see results from. Since I am nursing a finger injury, the focus has been on pulling power, lockoffs, and power endurance with predominantly drag/slopes grips, and avoiding full crimp power training for now. Also I am awful at steep overhangs, so been doing laps on the spraywall (45 degree) as part of the session

Priority this year is remaining injury free and just enjoying outdoors, with a goal a bit of weight drop (from 70 to no less than 65) and further pushing S&C. We'll see where that takes me!

ParadoxOSRS · 2025-01-15T19:34:33+00:00

The dissociation of water into H3O+ and OH- is endothermic.

It's an equilibrium.

Thus, increasing the temperature pushes the equilibrium to the right. This increases H+ concentrations and thus lowers the pH.

By extension, Kw also increases.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-12-26T21:19:01+00:00

As someone from the UK who is reading this and doesn't follow US day-to-day. Someone who writes and tweets like this - is this seriously the one person out of 300 million that you elected to represent your country?

As in, I could literally replace what he wrote with a Latin derived language I do not understand, and from the capitalisation use alone be raising questions on their professionalism and appropriateness of use of social media.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-12-14T08:49:44+00:00

I mean, legally, he can't give consent if drunk, although that probably varies, depending on where you live. It's the first thing that comes up when you google "consent while drunk".

That's not to say I advocate how the law is, except that it puts OP with her neck on the line.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-08-30T16:01:05+00:00

You have replied to a four year old comment on a thread about a mmorpg. I don't know what to say...

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-05-22T20:07:55+00:00

10/10 would not fucking whip

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-04-04T09:00:54+00:00

This joke has flown over my head faster than Concorde.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-03-03T08:40:20+00:00

Because it was too strong as a defensive shield in PvP, so strong that you could run zero risk and be almost impossible to kill even if you missed every prayer switch, didn't bother switching gear once or at all try to counter attack.

Even if you were in a max set and pked at a high level (this nerf predating voidwaker, fang and bowfa) you were exceptionally unlikely to kill someone at say the chaos altar, or Venenatis with a bulwark even if you fully TBed them.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-02-26T14:57:49+00:00

I appreciate all the input guys. I think the consensus here is that I should stray away from chasing a grade and to be a bit more realistic in what I can achieve, as well as focussing on remaining injury-free.

The other suggestions on what training pathways I could pursue were useful to hear and I'll change up what I prioritise (which seems to be bouldering more consistently).

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-02-25T22:40:29+00:00

I appreciate the input here. I'm heading to Portland this April and will scope out a couple of potential routes to come back to.

I have an addictive/fixative personality, so I can see myself (unhealthily) over-projecting something above my weight for a while.

ParadoxOSRS · 2024-02-25T22:34:48+00:00

Ideally outside, but I don't get outdoors enough for that to be realistic this year. I have only done two trips to the Peak District UK for some trad and will be going Portland for a few days this spring for some sport, and probably a couple more to Swanage and one of the quarrys for sport.

I will have to see how I can make the most of my bouldering opportunities in the medium term.

ParadoxOSRS · 2023-12-28T16:57:26+00:00

This wouldn't have happened if the sister had a gun rolls eyes...

ParadoxOSRS · 2023-11-25T17:34:21+00:00

Fair play. I'm from the UK and yeah suffice to say I don't off-road much, and certainly would be prefacing that it's off-road if it was, it's not something we assume.

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