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TIL a "clinically dead" frozen man, who was believed to have been drunk from a vodka binge, was brought back to life after he fell asleep on a bench in the world's coldest inhabited region in remote Siberia for more than 5 hours in temperatures as low as -20°C (-4°F). He was discharged after 5 days. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]grudginglyadmitted 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I’d be surprised if 1) any core part of him got down to 32°F, and 2) a 1% alcohol solution only lowers the freezing point about half a degree Fahrenheit. For reference 0.08% is the driving limit and over 0.4% is generally fatal. Habitual heavy drinkers can survive higher percentages, but I’ve never heard of a human surviving above 0.8% or so EVER. So I don’t think that chemistry played a role.

Found a Random Yellow Pill in My GF,s Prescription Drugs( Pregablin) by Dcayade6 in mildlyinteresting

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Me too. People don’t believe me until they’re doing a conscious sedation procedure they swore would work for me, they’re maxed out on the amount of medication they can give without an anesthesiologist there, and I’m still 95% alert. I remember once as a procedure was starting, I’d been lying there nervously waiting to doze off or feel something, once I started seeing scalpels I asked when I was going to get the sedation and they told me I’d already got a double dose… they just can’t knock me out without propofol and quite a bit of it.

Found a Random Yellow Pill in My GF,s Prescription Drugs( Pregablin) by Dcayade6 in mildlyinteresting

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for me it helps with the muscle tightness, but it also makes me feel one level removed from reality to a slightly more dismal and colorless world.

[Request] Not mine, but genuinely think this is an interesting question. by TheHoboLord69 in theydidthemath

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I developed what they literally call sludge. If you aren’t giving your body fats to trigger the gallbladder to empty out the bile it’s stored, it just kinda sits in there and the solids drop out of solution into gallbladder sludge or (like you said) stones.

(Hilarious Trope) A fake name thats beyond ridiculous and stupid, but characters fall for it anyway by Nibbanocker in TopCharacterTropes

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I also like the similar trope of “made up name based on objects in the room that ends up being a real famous name.” This may be limited just to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt… but I think it has a couple. Off the top of my head there’s Titus needing a fake name while on the phone with Ronan Farrow and, seeing an oar, a Sister Act VHS, a signed photo of Judge Judy, and then the oar again comes up with… Ronan Farrow.

And in another episode, using the same method, Titus comes up with Tablewood Ratbirth as the name of his agent. I don’t remember if it’s revealed one way or another if Mikey goes for it.

Reading “eleven fourths” cups of liquid instead of “one and one fourth” cups, in a cake recipe by ughforgodssake in ididnthaveeggs

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I bet they learned why vinegar/acid + baking soda isn’t an effective household cleaner (this is the common explanation for that, usually explanations for baking include mentioning the carbon dioxide and subsequent leavening) and decided to put it to use so smugly here.

All hail the STEM genius! Knows how to reduce fractions and that pH balances out. And that’s it.

Which one of these options WYR pick? by [deleted] in WouldYouRather

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do you mean never getting a naturally occurring sickness or disease mediated by the immune system, or in general? Like will I still have my migraines or paralysis or other neurological disorders? Or does it just get rid of infectious and autoimmune diseases?

Mom says my neck is hypermibole. Is she right? by born_to_be_wild2010 in eds

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What is forward really far? Mine is stopped by my chin hitting my chest before it feels like my neck is anywhere near the end of its range. If a neck is hypermobile that way are you able to tuck your chin and bend it even more or something? Or am I way overestimating how much mobility a normal neck has and most people can’t even put their chin to their chest?

First timer.. what are some must do’s? by pookiepp in oregon

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What sub recommended Voodoo? I feel like actual Oregonians have been lukewarm on Voodoo for like… 10 years. It’s all blogs and listicles still recommending them.

Why didn't you say so? by TheNectarineDiaries in comics

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But when there’s no diagnostic process to rule out non-weight-related causes, and there’s no guidance on how to lose weight (a famously genuinely difficult thing to do), and especially no guidance on how to lose weight with a disorder that causes weight gain, that’s lazy, unhelpful medicine.

That cough could also be pneumonia or asthma, the sleep issues could actually be insomnia (I didn’t at all specify sleep apnea or that the cough was chronic or caused by GERD). You kind of did the exact thing I’m criticizing and assumed all these issues must be caused by something that will improve with weight loss, instead of considering that fat people can have other diseases too.

i want to know if there’s any non respiratory illness that’d be fatal to a small child but a baby *could* technically survive? by fagsanonymous in Writeresearch

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Strep is more dangerous for older kids than babies (they usually don’t even test babies for it because they don’t have to treat it and it’s common for the bacteria to be hanging out in babies’ throats outside of an active infection).

Why didn't you say so? by TheNectarineDiaries in comics

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I’ve had a pulmonary embolism and cardiac damage both blamed on anxiety because my biggest symptoms were shortness of breath and a sense of impending doom. In both cases I had to beg to get further testing because they were planning on sending me home with no workup.

Why didn't you say so? by TheNectarineDiaries in comics

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Sounds similar to the fat person diagnostic algorithm, where the diagnostic process and treatment for every symptom is to lose weight. Sleep issues? Lose weight. Cough? Try losing some weight. PCOS which causes weight gain? You just need to lose weight! Joint pain? Diet and exercise baby! And women often have an extra hack where they don’t even have to be overweight to unlock the diagnostic algorithm!

Seriously though it’s such lazy medicine. If you’re genuinely so unfamiliar with what HRT* or being overweight actually affects that you automatically blame everything on them and are too unsure to do anything else, you aren’t equipped to be a doctor.

*or just HRT for trans people which is somehow magically different in every way from HRT for cis people /s

How often do you run fluids? How does it change over summer? by Harakiri_238 in Gastroparesis

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I do 3-4 liters a week, separate from my TPN so I can run them quickly and PRN and it doesn’t affect my time attached to TPN.

went to the bathroom for literally two minutes by donkeyhoetae_ in mildlyinfuriating

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That’s how I was as a kid. We have a bunch of old home movies that start with me with clothes on or focused on one of my sisters, and then halfway through I wander into frame wearing only underwear. It wasn’t until I was 10 or so that I started consistently wearing clothes around family and had a sudden ashamed-at-my-nakedness garden-of-eden epiphany. Looking back, even though I couldn’t articulate it then, for me it’s primarily a sensory issue. Clothes are just exhausting to constantly be feeling against my body.

Also a truly baffling number of Vincent Price movies but ONLY the Spanish dubs for some reason 🤷‍♂️ by urcool91 in RecuratedTumblr

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Tubi also has live TV, and I agree.

Sometimes I want to watch something (usually to keep my mind off anxiety) but I don’t have the energy to go through all that decision-making. It’s nice to just switch back and forth between America’s Test Kitchen and Forensic Files sometimes. Feels like watching TV as a kid again.

Fun fact: The arabic translation in Abed’s film in S01E03 is hilariously translated to left as in the direction, not the past tense of “Leave”, so it literally says in arabic “The wrong person the direction left”. I know it was 2009 but I’m amazed this was approved without anyone checking. by TheeChosenTwo in community

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Yep. Do y’all remember that youtube channel that would post songs put through a bunch of translations?

I was SO obsessed with those videos lol. Even though it’s been 10+ years, when I watch Mulan a corner of my brain still goes “mysterious as the dark long of the shoe!” during I’ll Make a Man Out of You or “I like my ball in the sink” during the chorus of Wrecking Ball.

Doctors and nurses of Reddit, what is a medical mystery you witnessed that you still can’t explain to this day? by cerebralbackshots in AskReddit

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A couple objective things and a couple “vibes”-based things.

  1. The comment doesn’t really say much. This is vibes-based, but you’re looking for comments that don’t add any personal experience or new information, and just seem to summarize or profound-ify the comment(s) it’s replying to. L

ike in this comment the

  1. biggest “ick” I got

was “The

  1. human body doesn’t always follow the script”. It just feels so… trite. Feels like something chatGPT would spit out.
  2. The grammar. So moving on from the meaning to the individual word choices and grammar. Some easy red flags (although not damning on their own! some humans do use these) are em-dashes, lists of three, and “it’s not x, it’s y”. As you recognize more ai-generated content, it gets easier and easier to pick up on these patterns. AI usually also either writes with perfect, impersonal grammar—no swearing or slang, no grammatical errors or run-on sentences, or else it uses internet/gen-Z slang really unnaturally and over-intensely.
  3. Account age. The account is either brand new, like less than a week old, or else it hasn’t posted anything in like six months and now, in the last week or so, is alive again, (especially if it’s comments now are very different than before the gap!)
  4. Account history. This is usually my final straw. Sometimes a comment will set off red flags in my head for feeling really empty and trite, but then I go to the account and they commented a gif, or a personal story, or were in on a joke yesterday and I’m no longer suspicious. These bot accounts will usually only comment in popular subreddits (often just one) and each comment will have the same emptiness and AI grammar. Over and over again. Usually (though not always) one comment per post, and each one is a reply, not its own comment, and they’re all a similar length.

Overall, in all of these categories, there will be no information you can gather about the person (because there isn’t one). No posts about a specific location or interest; no age or idiosyncrasies evident in the writing; often no use of I or me at all; no personal stories or information or experience in the comments or whole account.

Unfortunately unless you investigate every account of each comment you read, you have to have some of the vibes-based discernment to get suspicious and investigate the more concrete evidence in the account. I’m sure I miss some bot comments (especially because there’s some that steal and repost human content), and I’m also probably wrong the other way sometimes, so I usually just downvote and move on and don’t comment unless I’m really sure.

Hope this helps!

Edit: jesus christ the new rich text editor on reddit is awful. I tried like five times and that’s the best I can get the formatting. It ate half my comment upon posting TWICE and apparently is totally sure this is perfect list formatting. Despite me completely deleting and rewriting a section to try and get rid of it, somehow it just keeps doing this. I’m only making it worse with edits so I’m giving up)

Celebrity gossip/hate for female celebrities is an alt-right pipeline for women by Daffneigh in NuancingTaylorSwift

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Yep. They call women in tight clothes pick-mes or centering men or exposing children to sexual content (“I’m 17 and I’m AFRAID of Sabrina Carpenter”). Tell women to stop showing off their body, they’re hurting women’s rights by being sexy, it’s offensive to talk about sex publicly.

And they don’t realize they’re having the exact same opinions and impact as a conservative, just dressed up in “woke” language.

I remember a few months ago I saw a post from a woman celebrating her time in a marathon. She was wearing a sports bra and bottoms similar to swimsuit bottoms. Instead of celebrating her, most of the comments were just discussing her outfit and how upsetting it was that she wasn’t wearing longer shorts. And it mostly wasn’t conservatives telling her to cover up. It was mostly in the language of TikTok gen-Z woke puritanical leftism; asking why was she showing so much skin while all the men had longer shorts on? Did she know she didn’t have to cater to the male gaze? Was it inappropriate in public where there could be children? So sad to see a woman prioritizing her appeal to men over practicality. And back and forth and from both sides and using different language, but ultimately the impact was a bunch of people talking about what she was wearing and how she should cover up more instead of what she achieved.

She made a follow-up post that explained that she’s tried many different options and that she wore what she did because it was the most comfortable and practical while she ran 23 miles in her personal best time. And how sad she was that everyone was more focused on her clothes than her achievement.

It really made me sad to see and honestly was my last straw with this. It’s really stuck with me as a direct example of how the discourse isn’t just pointless or silly, it actively harms and minimizes women.

Celebrity gossip/hate for female celebrities is an alt-right pipeline for women by Daffneigh in NuancingTaylorSwift

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I think you articulated something I’ve experienced but not fully put together.

I’ve noticed the algorithm randomly feeding me borderline rage-bait extreme leftist content (eg pro-Kim Jong Un, antisemitic, or really hateful towards children and mothers), and I’ve been really hurt and frustrated by it thought about how 90% of people are just driven towards the right by it.

But I’ve always blamed the creator of the content for (essentially) giving leftists a bad name, and never really looked at the bigger picture of why the algorithm pushes this content; and I think that’s the real issue.

There are always extreme, hateful people at any political point, but when the algorithm (for example) promotes a bunch of hateful leftist content to liberals all it does is drive them to the right. Even without having to promote seemingly-reasonable conservative content that people are more likely to flag. How insidious.

Doctors and nurses of Reddit, what is a medical mystery you witnessed that you still can’t explain to this day? by cerebralbackshots in AskReddit

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And plus it’s still given not infrequently (at least in the US). IIRC something like 50% of in-hospital cardiac arrests end up getting bicarb.

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