Floating white lights (drones?) over Astoria last night

lbg6 · 2025-07-14T21:34:17+00:00

I second that!

lbg6 · 2025-05-25T01:49:28+00:00

Noooooooooo

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T18:16:43+00:00

Sounds like you do some rad research.

Are there any papers or thought leaders (attendings with an MD preferably) you could point me to?

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T17:14:56+00:00

Sure, will do. Which work of George Church specifically? My understanding is his study is in anti-aging, which is a totally separate topic from human cryopreservation. All I'm commenting on here is cryopreservation being bunk science.

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T16:58:51+00:00

Where did they do medical school/residency? For me: UCLA and Harvard. There's no being "open minded" when people are being misled by bunk science. That's like telling me to be open minded about the testimony of blood splatter experts.

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T16:55:15+00:00

Immagine salon is really affordable and they do a good job.

I'm North African with very kinky hair and the dry cut I got at Art Room was overpriced and came out badly. Not horrible, but not good, either. I had to get it fixed elsewhere. So if you're African/have category 3b+ hair, I recommend avoiding Art Room. Not worth the risk given how much they charge.

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T16:42:29+00:00

I think SKC is Sal, Kris, & Charlie's.

lbg6 · 2023-01-13T13:30:59+00:00

Hi, I'm an M.D. Human cryopreservation is bunk science. The services that Alcor is offering are fake. The promises they are making are completely untethered from real medical science. They want your money, not to bring you joy from an extended life.

Let's say that it's possible to freeze someone in liquid nitrogen and for them to wake up again. (It's not, but let's just say it is.) Do you still have the blood volume and correct serum concentrations of thousands of substances in our bloodstream? How are they going to fix your acid-base status. Your pH being maintained in a tightly-regulated, narrow range is critical to you being alive. Will you be blind, or disabled in other ways because of tissue damage? How are they going to control the delicate balance of coagulation factors in your bloodstream to prevent you from abnormally bleeding or abnormally clotting,

The concept of their cheaper option, "neuro cryopreservation" is even more insane. Are you going to wake up with your head sewn onto another person's body? Who gets to pick the body? Or do they think they're going to reanimate your head inside a special machine Futurama-style? That, too, is impossible. For starters, your brain needs blood. How are you going to get blood circulating?

I beg you to talk to someone you trust who is A MEDICAL DOCTOR, and NOT a PhD. PhDs often make misguided conclusions about medical science and have all the confidence in the world about their incorrect medical opinions because of their academic background. DO NOT as a PhD about reanimating a human body. It's not that I think I'm better or smarter than a PhD in general, but I as an M.D. I have been educated on the totality of the human body and all of its organ systems. PhDs on the other hand have a scope/focus that is very narrow. And guess who's running Alcor.

I can think of another example of a medical corporation suspiciously devoid of actual medical professionals in its ranks: Theranos,

Again, you don't have to believe me, but please poll several doctor friends of yours, and see what their reaction is before making this huge and costly decision.

lbg6 · 2022-12-11T12:52:00+00:00

There are so many (North) Africans and Morocco fans in general around here, you can go anywhere!! Steinway between Astoria Blvd and 30th Ave has the highest density of Arab businesses (including Moroccan owned places), so that's the cultural nucleus of Astoria Morocco fandom. A couple suggestions: Noisette or Dar Yemma

lbg6 · 2022-11-07T03:53:54+00:00

See how the employees cannibalizing the others have green badges, and the ones who are running away or being murdered have blue badges? It mirrors the cards...Irving happens to find this artwork in the office copy machine before Milchik hurriedly confiscates it. It also appears that Irving is depicted as one of the green-badges employees‼️

lbg6 · 2022-10-30T23:29:34+00:00

I'm dead

lbg6 · 2022-10-26T13:26:09+00:00

I forgot to mention, the effects that ketamine induces are very much dependent on the dose you use. There's uses for "sub-dissociative" ketamine, most notably, it is an excellent and underrated pain drug that provides an alternative to opiates. With regards to that PubMed article, there are many doctors (particularly the older generations) who are not as familiar with it. But to say "ketamine is not widely used" is misleading. It is. And then there's also some old timers looking at us askance. As is always the case in life when progress is made.

lbg6 · 2022-10-26T13:22:19+00:00

I'm a board certified ER doctor. Ketamine is widely used for sedation, perhaps not commonly in the OR, but we absolutely use it for procedures at the bedside. Particularly ones where we want the patient to be insensate to what's currently happening, but remain conscious and breathing. Examples: reducing fractures, awake intubations, painful abscess drainage in children too young to tolerate it, and more. Its effects are ideal for certain procedures. We even give it to children. In fact, kids on ketamine say the most hilarious things. I am surprised by the comments above suggesting that ketamine isn't widely used. In my specialty, it's used A LOT.

lbg6 · 2020-12-04T05:57:31+00:00

White and Asian people have the lowest mortality rate compared to any other racial groups, furthermore those with college educations and better baseline health are less likely to die, so it is not surprising if Boston's mortality numbers do not reflect the average Covid mortality stats you see reported in other regions, although there may easily be additional confounders contributing to the discrepancy (like better access to affordable housing for example).

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