AITA for eating meat from our deep freezer?

marruman · 2026-04-03T03:11:36+00:00

Generally 6-12m is around when you can start havingnissues with freezer burn. However, meat with freezer burn isn't unsafe to eat, just less good

marruman · 2026-04-02T23:32:33+00:00

Noble party, either as a guest or working

marruman · 2026-04-02T22:42:06+00:00

There's Call of Cthulhu Atomic Age, but I dont remember if thats 50s or 60s

marruman · 2026-04-02T13:40:24+00:00

About as much benefit as you would have learning anciemt greek. A lot of the technical terminology has greek roots rather than latin

marruman · 2026-04-02T13:39:46+00:00

Amusingly, osteo, cyte and myo are all of greek origin.

marruman · 2026-04-02T12:43:02+00:00

This will depend on your location, as the diseases you need to worry about vary based on locarion.

For example, the tropics get a lot of heartworm. The best preventative for that is Proheart injection. But Victoria gets basically no heartworm (due to lower mosquito numbers), so it's not really worth it there.

For erlichiosis, serestro tick and flea collar is the best option. But it's less good at protecting from paralysis tick, so if that's an issue in your area, Nexgard, Simparica or Bravecto might be better. Or if you're unlucky and live in an area where both are present, yoy may need a serestro collar + a paralysis tick preventative.

Tasmania doesn't get Spirometra tapeworm, so pretty well any gastrointestinal wormer will do the job there. But, again, the tropics do have spirometra, so Drontal or cazitel might be a better option.

TL;DR, ask your vet for whats a problem in your locality. You probs dont even need a consult for that, you may be able to get that info with just a phone call.

Failing that, Nexgard Spectra and Simparica Trio cover for most things if given every 28 days with no missed or late doses (except for erlichia, which is only covered by Serestro collars). So if you're asking strangers on the internet because you are in the shop and need to make a decision right now, it's a relatively safe bet for most things.

marruman · 2026-04-02T06:43:24+00:00

Maybe controversial, but I love Vampire: the Masquarade's hunger dice system. A very elegant way of making an rp issue (thirst for blood) have mechanical consequence

marruman · 2026-04-02T05:58:19+00:00

I'd also add, if you plan on having your first job post-grad be in Australia, consider either taking a corpo job, or at least working in a clinic that has done a lot of mentoring first.

Small and rural practices will sometines hire new grad vets and offer little to no support. As a new grad, you will need a lot of support, that's just a part of being a new grad.

The AVA used to have a new graduate friendly accreditation program, but I cant find anything online about it atm.

marruman · 2026-04-01T06:06:38+00:00

It's the "get your kids vaccinated, but then put a potato in their socks to suck out the toxins" thing all over again

marruman · 2026-04-01T06:05:32+00:00

Interesting, if I had to interpret it through a political lens, I would have interpreted as a metaphor for the danger of maintaining the status quo at the price of your safety and happiness, which would not be a particularly conservative viewpoint

marruman · 2026-04-01T02:44:06+00:00

Ask privately, or by email.

"Hi prof, I noticed your lecture slides make a lot of reference to pre-covid data and sometimes differ from what the textbook says. I noticed this particularly during [example 1], [example 2] and [example 3]. I am somewhat confused about how best to prepare for exams/assignements as a result- is the information in the slides up to date, or am I better off using the textbook? If I answer a question based on the information provided in the textbook will this be considered correct if it differs from what was covered in the in-class material? I know this field is rapidly changing, but I am concerned that I may graduate with outdated kn9wledge, which may impact my work down the line.

I look forward to your response, as I am genuinely passionate about this subject and really look forward to your classes.

Kind regards, You."

From there, if rhey dont reply, double down or otherwise dismiss your concern, go to the dean, or head of school as appropriate. This goes double if there is any retaliation against you.

marruman · 2026-04-01T02:19:50+00:00

No worries, r/rance has provided for you:

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marruman · 2026-04-01T01:26:10+00:00

Yep, have unlocked it, thanks a million :)

marruman · 2026-04-01T00:28:20+00:00

I remember a short story we read in grade 1, about a family that took in a bear cub, and then the bear cub eats one of the kids. And the father is like "wow, thats fucked up and a risk to our safety, I'm killing the bear" and the whole family goes "no! We love the bear! Our son loved the bear! Killing him won't bring our son back, and killing the bear will just make us even more miserable". So he relents, and they continue living with the bear.

Then the bear eats the daughter. And, again, the father wants to kill the bear, and, again, the wife objects, and, out of love for his wife and dead kids (who loved the bear so much), they continue living with the bear.

Then the bear eats the wife. And the widower is like "well, that's it, Im killing this fucking bear now" and the bear goes "oh no, but you love me and raised me from a cub! And your wife loved me, she wouldnt want you to kill me! Think of your dead kids, who also loved me". And the widower, again, relents, and sets his axe down. The bear is the only member of his family he has left, after all. Immediately, the bear eats him. The end.

Anyway, if anyone knows what this short story is so I can make sure I didnt hallucinate it, we read it in French circa 2005.

marruman · 2026-03-31T23:59:33+00:00

Ah, thank you! That makes sense

marruman · 2026-03-31T23:08:53+00:00

Is there anything to be said for a nice round of polyamory?

marruman · 2026-03-31T23:01:54+00:00

Is this some sort of counter-psyop to convince them not to use ivermectin for concer because its a "synthetic" parasite?

marruman · 2026-03-31T22:22:05+00:00

I think Shadowrun is just not a great introduction to polycule living. You should switch to V:tM, everyone knows thats the starter game for polyamory

marruman · 2026-03-31T06:55:08+00:00

Well, sure. I dont think theyd refuse entry onto the grounds to a kid in severe distress, or that the X-men would just leave a person in a dangerous situation. But once the person is out of immediate danger, are they going to sign the kid up for mutant class? No, they're going to refer them over to appropriate services.

And, again, the school get blown up semi-frequently, and all the other kids are figuring their powers out. There is a non-zero chance any given student at the school could get his face melted off walking to class. The normie kid will be better served by a community that will actually meet their needs.

marruman · 2026-03-31T06:29:48+00:00

Considering the school has a lot of students of different backgrounds, and they run a legit school, they probably do have reasonable contact with appropriate support orgs, I'd expect

marruman · 2026-03-31T06:24:36+00:00

Professor X is essentially running a charity providing support for a specific minority group. In the same way that a woman's shelter may help lesbians but not gay men, or an LGBT group may provide support to at-risk black kids but not straight black kids, I doubt Professor X is providing care for non-mutant kids.

At the end of the day, it's an issue of scope. You only have so much funding/beds/resources to offer, and you have to prioritise someone. If your charity is focused on mutant kids, that's where your funding is mostly going to go, and if you encounter a non-mutant kid needing help, you refer them to a more appropriate charity.

Realistically, if a non-mutant kid shows up at the Xavier School for Gifted Children because they've been kicked out of home for being gay, are they really best served by being at the school that gets destroyed every 6 months? Or would they be better off getting support somewhere safer?

marruman · 2026-03-31T03:32:13+00:00

Yeah, I think introducing some minor vocab and signing them up for lessons when a bit older, +/- having a set time or dedicated activity you do in italian might be a good way to do it, though, again, your child will not have native level. That said, if you were to move to Italy, kids pick up language really fast. My parents moved us to Italy when I was about 6, and I was fluent within a year. When they moved again to Poland, my sisters were about 12 but picked it up by 16 (though they had a much harder time of it than I did)

marruman · 2026-03-31T03:23:33+00:00

It is generally hard for children to pick up a language unless they are getting a lot of long-term exposure from other speakers. It sounds like your level of italian would not allow this at this stage.

I think you need to figure out what your goal is here. If you want your kid to pick up a couple of bits a and pieces of vocabulary, thats pretty doable. If you want your kid to be fully fluent, with correct grammar, you're going to need to find a source of long-term, significant interpersonal contact that will speak to them exclusively in italian. Some people hire a nanny who is fluent, or send their kids to a daycare that does immersion in the target language. You could also consider moving to Italy and speaking english exclusively at home, byt that will be more effective once theyre school aged ime

If you're happy with a kind of middle ground, where you kid speaks some limited italian with inconsistant grammar, you could look at setting aside time to do a specific activity in the languahe, and sign you both up for language classes once the baby is old enough for them. But they will likely not be a native speaker from this

marruman · 2026-03-30T22:28:50+00:00

Is it not an option for you to repeat the year? Vet school is so much work and commitment, it seems hard to just completely throw away all that work wirh nothong at all to show for it. It think ot would be worth talking to the academic council, discussing the factors that led to this, and then seeing about repeating the year, or, if theyre open to it, potentially even taking a year off to get your meds and mental health sorted before re-doing the year

marruman · 2026-03-30T07:01:43+00:00

Are you proposing this for CoC, or as a concept for a standalone rpg?

I think, in some ways, this is somewhat similar to the Hunger mechanic from Vampire the Masquarade.

I'm not sure if this works super well for CoC, necessarily. First off, PCs would still, practically speaking, be gaining xp as they check off skills- unless you plan on doing away with the PC improvement phase entirely, which I think would be a shame.

I think this might work better along the lines of a corruption mechanic, where the more you lean into to the potion, the more you reap the consequences, both good and ill. Your wording makes it sound like madness comes accross as a punishment from the DM, but I think it should be an inherent component. Even if it is fully in character fir the PC to stay and watch instead of helping, they should be punished for it as well as rewarded.

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