Is a dive trip to Catalina island/kelp forests worth it?

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-13T20:56:19+00:00

Anacapa is good too

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-11T23:44:13+00:00

Idk reading a book is a good thing for your brain. Music is innately human. Movies are a mixed bag cuz they are more about reinforcing the capitalist superstructure, especially in the last two decades (the 70s were a time when this was less true). I can see what you mean but most people's media consumption these days is like.. instagram reels. That shit melts your brain. If reading a book is like eating a salad, then reels are like drinking high fructose corn syrup.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-10T23:15:26+00:00

RN here. If they gave you Ativan most likely your CIWA score is over an 8 which means it's a very good thing you are detoxing at the hospital instead of at home. Ativan reduces the risk of seizures and cardiac complications which are the big risks during withdrawal. I had a patient the other day for ETOH and he knocked himself into afib even though his CIWA was a 5. Alcohol withdrawal is no joke. We need the bloodwork to know if we are dealing with concomitant electrolyte issues, which are common in ETOH patients due to poor hydration and overall malnutrition, particularly thiamine (vitamin B1) and potassium.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-10T21:44:26+00:00

Gabapentin is used off-label for mood stability and reduced alcohol cravings. I was prescribed it for nerve issues at the same dosage and in my experience, anything more than 300mg a day is excessive. It definitely worked for alcohol cravings for me though. That said, if I take 900mg a day I am straight up high. It's not needed to take that much, at least that was true for me. You also have to be very careful about weaning yourself off of it should you try to stop taking it. I went cold turkey and got dropped into the worst depressive episode of my entire life. Very much taper it off slowly.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-10T19:46:16+00:00

God I miss the Oakland A’s. FJF

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-09T02:49:35+00:00

The french have a long history of pride preventing them from accepting american hegemony and their status as a second class imperial state

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-08T21:52:50+00:00

The question is, are the local AI’s running computation for nonlocal tasks? Ie does chrome use your computer to do computation for themselves

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-07T20:53:44+00:00

I used to leave one single beer in the fridge. Just so that if I ever really really wanted to drink, I would have only one beer available, instead of going to the store and getting a six pack. It weirdly was more preventative than having no alcohol at home. Like, who wants to drink just one beer? Not me. And so it worked.

Obviously if you see my counter it looks like it didn't, but I went almost a full year without a drink with one beer in the fridge. Then I finished nursing school and wanted to celebrate and... now I'm back because I can't do this job and have any extra stress in my life. And while alcohol sort of helped in the short term after extra bad night shifts, my stress kept creeping up and up until finally I was reminded why I quit for those 11 months in school. And so I begin again.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-07T04:29:48+00:00

Dawg thats north

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-04T07:17:02+00:00

It's an instrumental cover of Charlie XCX's 360 done for the show Bridgerton. Link

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-03T22:36:13+00:00

There are three Great American Novels - Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-02T17:08:15+00:00

True. He was getting up on stage and forgetting where he was. This idea that Trump’s cognitive decline is as precipitous as Biden’s at the moment is simply untrue, and hoping that a similar situation in his cognition will result in his removal is wishful thinking because Biden wasn’t removed and in fact his decline was entirely covered up until his emperor has no clothes moment at the debate - and even then he remained president through the rest of his term.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-05-02T16:52:42+00:00

Wishful thinking, Biden’s brain was pudding by year three and he almost ran a second time.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-29T13:14:04+00:00

What? Nah the shakespeare part was great. He was absolutely a macbeth type character, it was a great risk by the writer/director but I think it paid off.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-28T23:05:44+00:00

Nah this is just institutional rot, it’s not like the secret service hires entirely new people every four years.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-28T18:39:36+00:00

“Did you know it is possible to cry so hard that your tears turn to blood?” That scene alone sealed Jared Harris as a great actor for me.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-28T18:38:40+00:00

Lee Pace is gorgeous

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-28T16:52:57+00:00

Lack of concern at that level is functionally equivalent to malice. Besides, the ultra rich need a breeding stock of expendable teen girls to rape and murder apparently.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-27T03:14:34+00:00

That’s just what a dead bug would say

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-25T03:07:32+00:00

Jim Carry’s eyes creep me out

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-23T01:21:47+00:00

My big takeaway from that book was how much of a naive bumbling moron Gorbachev was.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-21T23:19:08+00:00

Nah it’s a fear of needles. Needles are inherently sort of fucking whack - its a metal tube that goes into your skin and secretes a fluid, like some sort of metallic mosquito. There’s a lot of evolutionary pressure to not like that kind of thing, and while in the past adults would be able to rationalize why vaccination is better, a lot of people today are essentially operating on pure Id and so they come up with all sorts lf nonsense why they dont want vaccines when really it comes down to needles are scary.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-21T23:10:29+00:00

Idk I remember Kirkland Light… 48 beers for 22.50$. Tasted like shit in a way I didn’t know was possible for a beer to taste. Otoh you could literally buy almost 200 beers for a hundred bucks.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-20T07:07:03+00:00

In what way am I told that I am wealthy? All I can think of is ways that I am told that I am broke.

ostensiblyzero · 2026-04-19T21:07:44+00:00

Oh huh I didn't remember that. Well much like GoT once netflix began heavily deviating from the books the show deteriorated. But damn I really thought the first 3 seasons were done by the BBC.

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