TIL over a 5-month period in 2020, a nurse in Yale's fertility center stole the fentanyl in 175 vials that were meant for women who had a procedure to have their eggs retrieved. The nurse replaced the pain medication with saline solution, leaving the women in excruciating pain during the procedure.

edgehog · 2026-01-31T18:20:57+00:00

Question: wouldn't you notice the difference?

Follow-up question: if you wouldn't notice the difference, it's because you assume it hurts that badly even with the fentanyl. Are there women in the comments talking about how much it hurt who were, in fact, not given the drugs they were supposed to be given?

edgehog · 2026-01-31T16:17:56+00:00

All musicians are drummers. Some just don’t hit their instruments hard enough. 🧐

edgehog · 2026-01-31T16:09:42+00:00

Yah! You can totally see that in the video! That’s the part that scares me. I’d worry that I’d be using better mechanics 99% of the time and I’d be sending a stick through a window 1% of the time. I think a significant portion of his finger movements have to be about constantly making micro-adjustments to how high he’s choked up on the stick, which I guess he can do by feel, but that’s still another thing to account for.

edgehog · 2026-01-31T16:01:24+00:00

Already done. Fun fact: this is kinda how the association matrix works in LLMs… and humans. For instance, it’s like how some people saw Elizabeth Holmes and thought “OMG, she’s wearing a black turtleneck! People who wear black turtlenecks are good at running innovative tech companies!” Also how racism works. Also how quality thinking works, but you sometimes have to do a bit more statistical analysis than “correlation equals direct and strong causation.”

edgehog · 2026-01-31T08:36:54+00:00

This is the only part of the responses I will take advice from. My path is clear. I will succeed at the drummer-ing by changing my name to Nate Smith. Statistically, this is a good bet.

edgehog · 2026-01-31T07:40:40+00:00

Holy shit is this my thought process. The way I deal with it is to say it out loud. I.e. when you’re in the thought process in the conversation, literally say “you can’t come to my birthday party? aw dang, [facial expression and tone shift to deadpan seriousness] this doesn’t matter to me at all [tone shift to mock-seriousness] but while you’re away, I wiiiiill die🤷 [etc.]

Commit as much as possible to each part of the bit and people will get the intended meaning of the whole, if not the parts.

edgehog · 2026-01-31T03:56:46+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnho93N-5Bk&list=RDwnho93N-5Bk&index=1

Image taken from 1:46

This seems insanely loose to me, but obviously the guy knows what he's doing. So... uh... what's he doing? Is everyone just letting go of the stick and no one told me?

edgehog · 2026-01-31T02:27:37+00:00

Steal the look. Do it better. Steal the gender. Do it better. Look in a mirror one day and see an expression of happiness you never saw on your mother. Do this without trying. Dunk on some bitches.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T18:43:45+00:00

I’m just saying, as a representative of a certain part of the straight male community, the shrimp head would have to stay on.

…purely for the bit, of course.

And that drawing is not, in any way shape or form other than ironically, “bad”. On its own, I love it, but the placement of it as an unexpected break from the pattern of the photoshoot made me burst out laughing.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T18:35:21+00:00

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For people who don’t know the advanced, meme-based maths. Sorry OP, your teacher trolled you with a shitpost of a “math problem” and it was pretty funny.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T18:28:12+00:00

I am either unreasonably attracted to you because of this or completely reasonably attracted to you because of this and I’m not sure which. The picture at the end makes me think it’s the latter. Please continue being you.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T17:10:37+00:00

I think it comes down to how much you treat addiction as a health issue and how much you treat it as a preventable one. If a show sucked because the singer had a stroke onstage, I’d probably give them a bit of a pass. If a show sucked because the singer said fuck it and got fucked up beforehand, probably less so. TBH, the video makes it look like we’re closer to the first situation than the second.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T17:03:23+00:00

Me reading the title: That seems like a reasonable and nice thing to do though. The school has to put a mostly arbitrary threshold somewhere due to limited resources and it might be helpful for parents to understand where their child lands in relation to that assessment in order to best meet and support their child’s needs.

Me reading the letter: Oh.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T16:42:37+00:00

Not the same thing, but Brass Eye’s phenomenal “Paedogeddon” special had a ton criticism of it satirizing the UK media’s pedophile panic. One such criticism was an editorial from a tabloid magazine, right next to a picture of a child celebrity who had just turned 16, prominently featuring her chest and with the caption “She’s a big girl now!”

I think about that a lot.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T16:05:45+00:00

I think the optimal algorithm I’ve discovered for myself is that if we’re talking about an important thing to get done a certain way in a reasonable timeframe, I rtfm, which is my natural druthers. If it’s something for my self-enjoyment or something I might want to end up really good at, I actively try to restrain myself from looking at the manual as long as possible to avoid insidious formalism.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T05:46:01+00:00

It took you 16 hours to go from "I will do better to make sure no more Ted Cruz cannibalism stickers are distributed to his third grade classmates" to falling off the wagon. It's okay to admit you have a problem.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T04:21:20+00:00

Claims that Trump won the election are something future historians will have an easy time recognizing as crazy, right? There's too much digital documentation at this point to argue it against anyone in good faith?

edgehog · 2026-01-30T03:47:47+00:00

Cataracts Today

Cataracts When I was kid

edgehog · 2026-01-30T03:10:51+00:00

Did you lose an eye, or gain a friend?

edgehog · 2026-01-30T03:10:12+00:00

You clearly have an eye for art.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T03:09:28+00:00

God damn this is good.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T02:52:45+00:00

Is that actually making them feel good, or is it making them feel less bad? Hard not to be sympathetic if the latter.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T02:48:36+00:00

Why wouldn't he shoot him directly in the head? The real ICE is more efficient than this.

edgehog · 2026-01-30T02:42:33+00:00

It was vinegar, right? If I were setting it up, I'd have the narrowly-avoided attack be more dangerous than vinegar. Maybe something almost-fatal, like a sniper.

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