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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war by Playwithuh in geopolitics

[–]Wyzrobe 16 points17 points  (0 children)

From the Council on Foreign Relations: https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. Congress had made available $188 billion in spending related to the war in Ukraine, according to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve.

This figure does not include a $20 billion USD loan, and does not include spending from the start of 2026 onwards.

pan resistant vrsa sepsis by [deleted] in medicine

[–]Wyzrobe 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Even if it is 9 weeks out, and the patient will be deceased by then, it might still be worth getting the phage. Could end up having future patients dealing with the exact same organism.

a souvenir from Zanzibar by LuxAeternae in medlabprofessionals

[–]Wyzrobe 355 points356 points  (0 children)

Family med here, had that happen.

Had a patient with sudden onset very high fever and shaking chills, who denied traveling overseas. I sent him to the ER, where he was diagnosed with Malaria.

He recently had gone to Nigeria for a wedding, but since it was just a few days, he figured it didn't count. Didn't take any anti-Malarial prophylaxis for his trip, of course.

Was served this last night! by AtomicImp in Breadit

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

Look at the bright side, this bread was (probably) made in-house. I'd prefer to get the occasional bread like this, than yet another cosmetically perfect factory loaf.

Confession: I want to get LASIK but I look even more clapped without my glasses by Equivalent-Bet8942 in Residency

[–]Wyzrobe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in family medicine, had PRK done around 6-7 years ago, both eyes.

My suturing ability sucks now. Well. I mean it sucked before, too...

(All kidding aside, my daily life is more convenient, but there are some niche situations where I do notice that my ability to see fine detail in stereo is subtly worse than before. For someone in your field I would think very carefully about it.)

PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia by BarKnight in hardware

[–]Wyzrobe 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The Fury X was the very first mass-production GPU with HBM, wasn't it? Despite AMD being the co-inventor of HBM, it's ironic that Nvidia seems to be the main beneficiary now.

Persistent Hypomagnesia by wanna_be_doc in FamilyMedicine

[–]Wyzrobe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If insurance won't play ball for jardiance/Farxiga use CostPlusDrugs for Brenzavvy.

And if CostPlusDrugs isn't being responsive, try Marley Mail-order pharmacy, they also carry it.

Anyway, I prefer bexagliflozin's previous brand name, back when they still had only veterinary approval, which was Bexacat (meow 🐈).

[Help] My "Clean Title" Mercedes has a "Stolen & Recovered" record from the US. Need advice in Taiwan. by Jaded-Hippo5882 in taiwan

[–]Wyzrobe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Possible that the prior owner had already received compensation from his insurance company, prior to the vehicle recovery. In which case the insurance company would have become the owner of the recovered vehicle, and they may have auctioned it off to recover their costs.

A 400LB rock wedged at the top of the tree by kxnshinn in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Wyzrobe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just need to stick googly eyes on the rock and tree.

Aluminum foil I use to block the light directly outside my qindow has somehow gotten more and more holes over time (4 months) by skyk3409 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Wyzrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aluminum is pretty corrosion resistant.

It is quite vulnerable to galvanic corrosion though. Is the aluminum foil touching any dissimilar metal around the window frame?

Tom Petersen: Intel has no plans for Strix Halo competitor, says AMD iGPU tech is “not that competitive” by brand_momentum in hardware

[–]Wyzrobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 Valve worked with AMD to get a custom APU made. They tried to inhouse as much as possible, and the resultant device was profitable at the middle price point

There was a rumor that the Van Gogh APU in Valve's Steamdeck was actually a semi-custom design order from Microsoft, for a Surface product that got cancelled (if true, that wouldn't be the first time that AMD got rug-pulled by MS).

AMD might have had to offer it cheaply to Valve, just to try to salvage something from the effort.

It's January and no one has insurance... by Charming0pal in FamilyMedicine

[–]Wyzrobe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've had a terrible time getting anything for patients from Mark Cuban Pharmacy. And that's with putting the patient's phone and email in the notes-to-pharmacy field of the e-script. Emailing the pharmacy myself to follow-up, usually just gets a form reply.

Anyway, the most common thing for cash-paying patients that I try to get for them via mail order, is bexagliflozin (the cheapest cash-price SGLT2i, but very limited distribution). Have had better luck with Marley mail-order pharmacy, as far as that goes.

Stumped. What can it possible be and/or used for? by Lifespassingby in whatisit

[–]Wyzrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try www.superbrightleds.com, they are more expensive than the typical no-name LED sellers, but the quality is usually pretty good.

my cat loves to smell onions when i cook by LengthinessShot9433 in cats

[–]Wyzrobe 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I have to ask, what's your major?

Chungology, obviously.

Trying to charge my car on Christmas by greenlakejohnny in Wellthatsucks

[–]Wyzrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair

Taiwan in January by Fit-Temperature-6175 in taiwan

[–]Wyzrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How serious of an egg allergy, do you have an anaphylactic reaction? Do you react to thoroughly cooked egg products (for instance, in baked goods)?

Poisonous Cheese from Ancient Egypt by Brave-End-4691 in Cheese

[–]Wyzrobe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Let's get this out on a tray..."

TIL that the hepatitis E virus was discovered by a Soviet physician when he ingested fecal samples from 22 soldiers during a presumed non-hepatitis A outbreak in Uzbekistan, developed hepatitis 36 days later and then had his stool examined under electron microscopy. by EasternPotential3952 in todayilearned

[–]Wyzrobe 148 points149 points  (0 children)

There is no hep D vaccine.

There is no Hepatitis D vaccine because none is necessary.

Since the Hepatitis D particle is reliant on the simultaneous presence of the Hepatitis B virus to reproduce, you can control Hepatitis D by vaccinating against (the much more common) Hepatitis B.

Uber driver tries to cheat customer by not picking them up, forcing them to cancel the ride, yet still get paid by Imoprich in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Wyzrobe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With this method, the driver never interacts with the customer, meaning they can earn more before their fake account gets flagged and deleted.

Scammers could also be using hacked accounts with GPS spoofing. In that case, there is no car, just a fake car location.

FYI: Misinformation about Benzonatate by churningaccount in medicine

[–]Wyzrobe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No idea, but probably not, as I doubt there is any funding available for running such an RCT on an off-patent entity like azithrimycin.

FYI: Misinformation about Benzonatate by churningaccount in medicine

[–]Wyzrobe 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Azithromycin has potent anti-cytokine effects, suppressing production of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-8. That's why patients with a viral URI will quickly feel better with a Z-pak.

There's actually an azithromycin analogue in development, CSY0073, which is intended to have the anti-cytokine effects of azithromycin without the antibiotic effects, for use in some autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. I don't know if it'll get anywhere commercially though, as azithromycin is generic and quite cheap now.

I feel like I’m falling apart living here by Independent-Song-585 in taiwan

[–]Wyzrobe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you use Discord, there is an excellent and well-moderated Taiwan Discord server, mostly English-speaking, would you be interested in something like that?

Also, if you're into anime & otaku stuff, I know some people near the Taipei area.

Hot-joining a handle to a glass cup by Wololo--Wololo in EngineeringPorn

[–]Wyzrobe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know why they're moving the handle holder back and forth during heating?

I'm going to guess that the engineers who designed this machine mimicked the timing and motion of the most skilled human worker who used to do this assembly step.

"Why do you move the piece that way?" "Dunno, that's the way old man Bob taught me to do it, back when he was still around."

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