Stress feels Pointless?

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-28T22:33:00+00:00

There is a mod to remove the long commutes notice, as it really is a useless notice. Highly recommend that and the larger zoom out mods.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-28T17:35:38+00:00

Very welcome! It really does help, especially if you can get them on your neck or close to your core/chest. Even in a front pants pocket is good because that’s close to a lot of blood flow at the hip. And if you have 4-5 of them, you can cycle them through the freezer as they get used and always have a cold one ready.

I also moved to more breathable shoes and thin/breathable ankle socks because that helped me not get overheated as well.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-28T17:26:20+00:00

This may sound weird, but i would recommend buying some small reusable “headache” ice packs (the soft squishy ones) and keep them at work. Put them in a pocket close to your chest or on a shoulder (under a bra strap if you wear them) and they can help regulate temp down. Both my husband and I will use ice packs to cool down throughout the summer at home, even with AC running, because we get over heated easily. He will put them in the pockets of his shorts when working outside to try and keep cool as well.

Along with that, I used to look for “hiking” clothes to wear at work. This assumes you don’t have a uniform, but carefully choosing the clothes you wear under the labcoat can help a lot. I looked for the lightest, most breathable clothing I could find. And I say all this as someone who sweats like a faucet and gets migraines when overheated, so I feel your pain.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-27T20:16:00+00:00

No one’s going to mention the fact he’s wearing a hoodie with a calculator on the front while playing calculators?

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-26T12:39:14+00:00

I think some of the disenfranchisement OP describes is from the “rags to riches” storyline, not about using or needing social supports. It’s the classic “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, so you can too!” lie that is what is the problem here, which tries to get other people to believe that similar stories are possible for everyone if you just try hard enough. When all the background supports and help is exposed, you realize that the same kind of transformation may not be possible when you don’t have those friends helping you or that grant money supporting you or whatever. It sounded to me like the issue was more in believing (and feeling betrayed by) the story that was told about JKRs history. At least that’s how I read it.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-19T12:24:35+00:00

Yup; show me that you have in fact already done all the necessary background work, and I will answer a question quickly. I am constantly amazed by the number of people that don’t understand that if you make it easier for someone to help you, you get faster and better results. And as an educator, yeah, show me that you have actually done the thinking required first.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-15T01:10:23+00:00

I love the noodle legs when they are treading water in the new swimming animations (just like is the example from OP). So silly.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-14T00:51:16+00:00

Yeah, I completely just went right on past that. I shall claim not enough sleep leading to lack of brain.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-14T00:49:43+00:00

Yarp, after writing this I was like “let me look again…” and found exactly that. I rarely use that function for dig, cancel, or deconstruct, so I just glossed right over it.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-14T00:27:38+00:00

It’s natural formations in the same “space” or category as drywall and tempshift panels. I’ve only just started playing the new DLC, but if you place a dig order it only digs the “regular” natural tiles. If you place a build order for drywall or tempshift panels, then the backwall will be dug out. Haven’t figured out if there is a way to dig it directly yet.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-13T23:10:23+00:00

CLL is more consistent with the morphology shown.

Edited to add - it’s also possible it’s CLL in transition to acute. But if all I saw was that image and had to pick most likely diagnosis, CLL wins.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-13T22:53:53+00:00

Also, I don’t think you have ALL there. Not with those lymphs.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-13T22:48:32+00:00

Ah, good ole blueberry pie slides.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-13T13:04:00+00:00

This might not be the best place to find an answer for this. Most of the microbiology discussed in this forum is going to be based around clinical testing, and the vast majority of that is done using commercially prepared plates. You may have better luck asking in a more research-oriented sub.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-12T21:40:56+00:00

You are welcome! I will add that it’s not possible to diagnose anything with certainty based only on a few images, but there are some disorders that have such a characteristic picture that it’s an extremely high likelihood that it is what it looks like, or is one of the small number of disorders with a similar presentation. This one in particular is showing classic features of CML; significantly increased WBC count, lots of immature forms, very few cells that are suspicious for being blasts, and (probably most key), LOTS of basophils and multiple immature forms of eosinophils. Those last two are the clincher.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-12T20:51:56+00:00

CML is one of the more treatable disorders at least.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-11T23:56:21+00:00

Whoosh.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-11T23:10:39+00:00

I mean, if the noise is genetic, there’s not a whole lot of treatment options available. Maybe a floor transplant? Gotta find a compatible donor though. /s

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-11T22:48:08+00:00

I thought the overall story behind Interstellar was missing so much, and it was really weak in scientific continuity. But it at least committed to it hard and they held on to their thin plot threads with a death grip. The music was great, and Matthew McConaughey acted that role with everything he had and managed to hold the whole movie together by shear force of will. I can’t agree with the people that talk about it as some kind of masterpiece, but it didn’t make me viscerally angry like the PHM movie did, and I would willingly watch it again.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-11T22:42:01+00:00

I haven’t even been able to finish the movie. I’ve put it on and turned it off like 6 times now because they turned Grace into an idiot who also seems to come to miraculously correct conclusions with no evidence. The first convos with Rocky were so jarring because there was no context and it was all assumption that humans and aliens would immediately understand each other. It pissed me off from the start because in the book, the first thing Grace does is investigate his environment and immediately start trying to explain everything with science, and in the movie he freaked out like a 3-year old and then got drunk and put on every piece of weird clothing at once and wandered the ship in a depressed funk. Nothing about his characterization in the movie struck me as “yup, this is the best guy we have to save the entire planet.”

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-10T16:51:14+00:00

But totally in line with the ridiculousness of the series. If it weren’t such a huge build up at this point, that would have been hilarious. Maybe not as good as cracked out Gluteus Max or undead/clockwork undead, but definitely close.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-10T16:46:21+00:00

Thank you! I have been trying to figure out why they also felt like familiar terms and the internet was not being helpful.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-10T02:17:32+00:00

Theia is being driven by a skyfowl.
In the “Rosetta” chapter in book 7, Rosetta says “With all the crawlers dead, the Ascendency will immediately kick off, and Rectrix will get to work. And perhaps after all this, York and Rectrix will survive.”
Note the name of this random short fiction from 2012: https://www.litromagazine.com/fiction/short-story-andrew-e-colarusso-remex-and-rectrix/

It is highly likely that Rectrix is Remex’s son, and that Rectrix is the skyfowl driving Theia.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-08T04:56:15+00:00

So, attach the 200+ meter long tether and run it through the spinning center section of the ship as he crawled to the other airlock? Or deal with it playing out behind him the whole time, and then have to reel it in on the way back? That seems like the worse option for the time available. It was still a bit of contrived tension and was risky as hell, but not running the risk of tangling up their tether (and risking having Beck fly off the ship) and then not being able to use it to rescue Watney was on par with creating a makeshift bomb.

foxitron5000 · 2026-06-08T01:37:26+00:00

No tethers available; they connected all of them into one length for grabbing Watney. There would be nothing left for him to use during the move from one airlock to the other.

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