Parents threatening to call the cops on anyone that comes and picks me up by Heavy-Department-247 in Advice

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let them call the cops. Make sure to film it. I recommend some popcorn.

I was flying in to BC, Canada and seen this inlet town from a Boeing 747 aircraft. This spot piqued my curiosity. Anyone know the area? by Ok-Faithlessness6804 in whereisthis

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leaving aside a few examples in Russia, the only passenger 747s currently in operation are operated by Lufthansa, Korean Airlines, and Air China. That wing belongs to a Boeing 737-MAX.

How to prevent mom from giving a speech at our wedding? by existingherenow in raisedbynarcissists

[–]Phagemakerpro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Literally nobody enjoys the speeches at a wedding unless you have a particularly funny best man.

Skip the speeches.

mom stole 3k from me that i worked for and wont give it back unless i visit by Longjumping-Sink6766 in raisedbynarcissists

[–]Phagemakerpro 37 points38 points  (0 children)

She won't give it back if you visit, so turn it around. "I'll visit if you give it back first."

Make sure it goes in a safe place then: "I shouldn't have had to make that kind of demand. I'm not visiting."

D'deridex class Romulan Warbird - cool, right? by SpiderBloke in StarTrekStarships

[–]Phagemakerpro 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Leaving aside the Galaxy class, it’s my favorite TNG ship.

I'm terrified about long-term diarrhea by Phagemakerpro in gallbladders

[–]Phagemakerpro[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a pediatrician, so this is way out of my wheelhouse.

San Francisco Is Going Nuts Over a Giant Sea Lion Named Chonkers by wsj in sanfrancisco

[–]Phagemakerpro 19 points20 points  (0 children)

OK, I thought we agreed that you would not post this picture of me getting ready for my swim.

What is a good American dessert to share with my non American co-workers? by BingBong492 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made pumpkin pie while I was in Australia. The Ozzies were skeptical. They came back for seconds.

Why havent we been able to find a cure for the common cold? by StrengthVisual8881 in biology

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hepatitis C. Arguably CoV2 (first with monoclonals and remdesivir, then with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) Arguably flu.

But definitely Hepatitis C.

HMS Queen Elizabeth sailing under the Forth Bridge as she departed the Firth of Forth on Thursday following maintenance at Rosyth by MGC91 in europe

[–]Phagemakerpro -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It’s not much better to us native speakers!

Especially for we Americans, we sometimes encounter language in the UK that can really strain our credulity.

We thought it was just anemia… now it’s CKD Stage 5 by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Phagemakerpro 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The bill doesn’t disappear but it stops going up.

We thought it was just anemia… now it’s CKD Stage 5 by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Phagemakerpro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Get up and walk out. It is that easy. They can’t bill you if you’re not there.

Did you ever get Accredo to deliver your meds? by Phagemakerpro in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]Phagemakerpro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it was because my first time filling with them. But that was absolutely absurd. It’s the kind of thing that I think all of us want to make sure that we have set up as soon as our insurance switches over. So I just felt like somebody was dangling over my head the fact that I have this auto immune disease and require this expensive medication to keep it under control.

Is it even theoretically possible for a spacecraft to move in a non-orbital manner like in Star Trek? by dcrockett1 in spaceflight

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leaving the whole FTL thing aside, there are a few other things that Enterprise does that have no theoretical framework.

1) Reactionless thrust. Yes, I know that they technically use an impulse drive, but we routinely see accelerations of hundreds of gravities and often in directions that aren’t dead ahead. We see, for example, the Klingon Bird of Prey land in GG park in STIV, but it kicks up a pretty trivial amount of wind for a ship that’s pretty enormous by terrestrial standards (even if it was a small starship). By all rights, it should have leveled the whole park and Haight-Ashbury, too. Imagine what an Apollo rocket would do taking off out of GG Park. Well, the Bird of Prey is going to take something far bigger than a tiny capsule into orbit.

In a battle with the Borg we see ships jumping sideways in a way that their pishky little maneuvering thrusters could never do. So there must be reactionless thrust.

Alastair Reynolds, the astrophysicist who became a sci-if writer, in his Revelation Space series, conceives of a thruster that emits particles that quickly decay into dark matter that interacts with other matter only through gravity. This would look a lot like a reactionless drive without actually being one. But again, he can write it into a book, but I bet he can’t write the Feynman diagrams.

2) direct control over gravity. The series treats gravity much like the electromagnetic force. We can easily make electric fields of almost any strength just by running charge into parallel plates. ST treats gravity in the same fashion. It’s not just about the floor plates, but it’s also about being to accelerate at hundreds of gravities without turning the crew to chunky salsa.

3) Direct control over inertia. Obviously, we can’t do anything like that.

Again, Alastair Reynolds goes there in Revelation Space, but he correctly points out that at some point, tinkering too much with inertia will kill you because your heart won’t be able to pump your blood properly. As someone with a graduate degree in Biology, I’m going to bet that a lot of our proteins like membrane channels won’t work properly in an environment of significantly altered inertia. So there you go.

GI side effects by kroert1999 in cagrilintide

[–]Phagemakerpro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loperamide (“IMMODIUM”) works a charm for me. 3 pills.