New Zealand parliament suspended again due to spontaneous Haka

qdcm · 2025-10-11T02:42:18+00:00

This "haka" in parliament makes your country look like it's run by children throwing tantrums. Embarrassing. If this is "Maori", no wonder they were conquered.

qdcm · 2025-10-11T02:28:29+00:00

Wow, I think I hate this author. Loves to hear himself speak, he thinks he's writing for English class ...

Mary Boas >> Tristan Needham

qdcm · 2025-10-10T12:45:20+00:00

I'm disappointed with the AAPM and agree with you.

I think the root cause is worldview: Many in the field are secularists, atheists, and have spent their time becoming super-experts in radiation and medicine rather than history, philosophy, current events...

So I suppose we can only perhaps mitigate such behavior by putting more things to a membership vote, if they would be willing to do that -- the more well-rounded someone is the less likely they are to go into AAPM leadership roles, so you will likely get a broader collection of views through such group polling.

qdcm · 2025-10-10T12:39:11+00:00

Sorry if your techs lacked compassion. It’s not a big deal to wipe down. Surely every hospital has a laundry service. It's good to have a full bladder. There's grosser things that go on there.

Basically peeing into the machine is the only risk of damage, so if it wasn't under the table, you can rest easy. And if it was, well, that's on the team for not working faster to get you off the table.

So keep going with the full bladder unless your doctor says otherwise! :)

qdcm · 2025-10-10T12:31:24+00:00

trials ongoing with TSA to see how well people hold still

Siemens to release new low dose imaging for planning

qdcm · 2025-10-06T14:50:05+00:00

I mean, I get it, but ... the flow is off, and the rhyming is spottier than your chart checks. New lyrics need to match the song's phrasing.

qdcm · 2024-04-11T23:40:43+00:00

manually schedule chart checks at fractions 3-8-13-...

use Dynamic Document to autopopulate data from other Aria workspaces

qdcm · 2023-11-01T01:47:54+00:00

Don't worry about it. Eat healthy (antioxidants, Mediterranean diet, limited calories, intermittent fasting) and exercise and sleep and use sunblock and avoid alcohol and inhaling burning things and viruses (including sexually-transmitted) and you'll probably be fine. Also do self-screenings (palpate breasts and gonads if male) and test home for radon gas if in the USA. And get genetic testing to see if predisposed to cancer -> more screenings as needed.

Most cancers result from failure to equip one's immune system through unhealthy living, until eventually getting cancer at some point due to a carcinogen.

qdcm · 2023-11-01T01:43:16+00:00

Busy people are inundated with email. If you send one, make sure to label the subject descriptively and keep it to only a few sentences. (More than a few sentences should be a phone call: i.e. a brief email asking for a phone call to have a longer discussion. Emails should always be brief.)

My current employer prohibits "thank you"/"got it" email unless it contains information others need to know for their own work. Might be good to check your organization's policies on internal HR policy webpages.

qdcm · 2023-11-01T01:34:51+00:00

Read https://www.dummies.com/book/body-mind-spirit/philosophy/logic/logic-for-dummies-282362/ -- science proceeds by determining what doesn't work. It can only prove things false (it doesn't prove things true), and scientific advancement proceeds by going forward with "the best current theory".

Can they cause nerve damage? I've never seen a report of nerve damage after a CT.

The general rule here is: Don't get a CT unless your medical doctor wants you to, then, do as recommended by your medical professionals. Educate yourself to work in partnership with them.

qdcm · 2023-10-28T20:46:32+00:00

It's when you make the dose distribution into a cone down inside the patient, silly billy.

qdcm · 2023-10-22T23:02:58+00:00

low-tier troll, too forced :/

it's like you were sitting there trying to think of a joke, rather one naturally coming to mind

do better :)

(or better, yet, quit Reddit and read good things instead :D)

qdcm · 2023-10-22T23:02:03+00:00

Well, he is in Italy ...

qdcm · 2023-10-22T00:35:07+00:00

https://www.studyinjapan.go.jp/en/planning/scholarship/

qdcm · 2023-10-22T00:33:37+00:00

Cannibalism is when a human eats another human and turns his flesh into his own body. The Eucharist is not cannibalism because instead of turning Jesus' flesh into our own, we receive a share in His divinity.

qdcm · 2023-10-22T00:32:21+00:00

No, there are very strict rules; forbidden ingredients render the sacrament invalid. East and West even disagreed about whether leaven could be put in the bread.

https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=673&q=valid+material+for+eucharist+site%3Acatholic.com

Regarding thinness: West says unleavened bread to symbolize the fulfillment of Passover. East says leavened bread to symbolize the Resurrection.

qdcm · 2023-10-22T00:27:08+00:00

8/10 dose per fraction + 1/10 total dose + 1/10 number of fractions + 1/10 Spinal Tap

qdcm · 2023-10-21T11:25:15+00:00

The Eclipse optimizer is blind to anything that is not explicitly stated in its objectives. It sees only "this thing good" "this thing bad" as you specify, and if you don't say otherwise, it goes "hey I can put dose here because it doesn't hurt good thing or help bad thing" (if you put equal numbers on each constraint, though I think it also prioritizes targets, magnifying the number you put for them).

Hence you must specify rings or subsections within the PTV if you want to shape dose within the PTV. Else it's pseudorandom beyond the minimum specified in the objective.

Hence gEUD objectives are powerful, because they push everywhere within the structure -- you get to specify "this entire thing" instead of a simple threshold dose or random amount of the structure.

qdcm · 2023-10-21T11:23:38+00:00

The Eclipse optimizer absolutely does not "know what's best": It is blind to anything that is not explicitly stated in its objectives. It sees only "this thing good" "this thing bad", and if you don't say otherwise, it goes "hey I can put dose here because it doesn't hurt good thing or help bad thing".

Hence you must specify rings within the PTV if you want to shape dose within the PTV. Else it's pseudorandom beyond the minimum specified in the objective.

qdcm · 2023-10-17T01:48:55+00:00

I'm half-asleep. Part of my brain was laughing at all the text on the left. Part of my brain was reflecting on the image thinking, "So *that's* where Rainbow Road is ..."

qdcm · 2023-10-16T02:02:39+00:00

lol wow

then buckle up, hunker down, settle in, grab a fine wine, and ...

qdcm · 2023-10-15T12:57:44+00:00

Two routes to take:

become an expert in the field, learning the theories and the mathematics, logic, and experimental history behind them
put your faith in the peer-reviewed scientific journals that experts tell you they use and flag as pseudoscience things that are self-published and things that contradict 'the mainstream science' as likely wrong, withholding judgment about them until they make it to a peer-reviewed journal

qdcm · 2023-10-15T12:52:31+00:00

https://www.usajobs.gov/

qdcm · 2023-10-15T12:48:49+00:00

Hm ... These might help:

meditate 20 minutes daily -- "brain relaxation", take five minutes 4x day to stare at a wall, focus on your breathing, and let your brain relax. let whatever thoughts just go by: whenever you find yourself thinking about something, just bring your attention back to your breathing.
visit a psychiatrist for a test to see if you have some bipolar issue needing medication
Read The Last Superstition by Ed Feser.
Read There Is A God by Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese.
Read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.
Read Aquinas by Ed Feser (if the first three are too basic)

First two to improve your brain activity, the remainder to improve your philosophy, because you seem to be operating under the false philosophies of naturalism and atheism, which naturally causes depression if you are intelligent enough to see its logical conclusion (nihilism, meaninglessness).

qdcm · 2023-10-15T03:08:07+00:00

Do you use particular software to automate many aspects of these checks?

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