I am a Meat-Popsicle

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It comes down to what’s open, how dangerous the condition is, and who was outfitted to do what.

    If you’re having legitimate trouble breathing like you are filling your lungs and it’s not enough, or you can’t get enough air in your lungs for any reason, straight to the ER.

    Unknown irregular heartbeat or chest pain that doesn’t go away with antacid, go to the ER.

    Urgent cares near me generally have x-ray equipment. They’re capable of a few stitches, they can handle prescriptions for emergent illness. If you walk in there with a f’dup heart rhythm or breathing problems they’re going to call you an ambulance.

    Scheduling something with your primary care is for all your other long-term needs. Preventative maintenance, blood tests, they can probably do an EKG and they should be the ones managing your long-term medications.

    If you have something that feels urgent and the urgent care isn’t open the ER is always an option.


  • City water usually tastes of chlorine. Totally drinkable, but not super pleasant.

    Costco 24 packs are cheap AF.

    Filtered water pitchers are expensive AF.

    If you have a fridge with filtered water and try to buy carbon filters locally, they’re more expensive per gallon than the Costco water.

    I buy generic filters in bulk that are cheaper per gallon, but it’s not by that much.

    If we want to save the environment, we need to invent a super cheap refillable carbon filter and a way to use it easily.



  • I did. It’s a bit clickbaity.

    Yes Glock is a super popular gun.

    Yes it’s possible to make them full auto.

    Then the throw in some weaseling : turning up increasingly, police think it was used this one time, this anti-gun commission says. Spraying bullets.

    Glock has a reputation for quality, they’re cheap and reliable, not having a safety adds nuance of danger for those idolizing them.

    I’m sure there are some people using full auto Glocks, but they’re extremely rare. It’s not this new impending threat. They could have easily done the article detailing the full auto device or given real numbers of use. They’re in it for the clicks.





  • I don’t think there’s any solid argument that precludes people from doing maintenance on their own car. There’s always some form of inspection or monitoring that can be done. Brakes in particular are perfectly reasonable. I particularly miss ease of maintaining drum brakes. They were literally designed to be maintained by the end user, you pull the wheel, The drum slides right off and the parts are readily available. If you want to get fancy you could buy a tool to help you remove the spring.

    Things should be designed to be maintained by the end user and the end user could choose to go to a mechanic if they wanted to.

    Honestly what we’re running up against at this point with car maintenance is design to cost. Every part that is maintainable on a car could be designed to be easily maintainable for a cost. Rather than the manufacturer paying that cost, there making us pay the cost at the mechanic. You can literally buy repair parts that are easy and convenient to work with that are improvements over OEM.

    In the case we’re talking about for this article it’s literally a wire on a lithium ion battery pack in a wrist mounted device that failed that they’re refusing to replace.

    And it’s not like he’s going to fall out of the sky and land in somebody’s backyard.








  • Comskip has a pretty wide array of detection. They also look at percent scene change,volume , closed captioning, aspect ratios and duration patterns. The sweet part about the duration patterns is we know the contents supposed length. You could analyze the piece of media figure out how long it would be without it and look around for other options that are less obvious but make the right time code.

    I’ve been using comskip for years, I suspect if it ends up being the tool we need will have an arsenal of people working on it to tune it for whatever YouTube’s doing.

    They’re just looking to knock out the easy methods, they’re not going to try to wage a full-on ground war. Their primary goals are probably to stop ublock and brave, and keep YT-DLP from downloading without ads. secondary goals being to stop or slow down revanced, though I think Google’s going to try to do that for them in security.

    I think the next logical step if they can’t block us with reasonable means would be to do some custom encryption in the app. Again not insurmountable but hard to crack out right.

    I think using a server to download the whole steam with ads then remove the ads, compress and store the files is really the hardest thing for them to stop.



  • Historically you don’t hear a lot about Baltimore’s mayor unless they’ve done something really awful. In the early 2000s we had some riots that broke out from police brutality (Freddy Grey), The mayor at the time said some very non-choice words and ended up becoming very unpopular very quickly. She was followed up by a mayor that was taking bribes, she was found complicit in businesses having to order a large quantities of her book to receive preferential treatment, ended up with a 3-year prison term. She was followed up by somebody who was okay but short-lived, The current guy that’s in there is relatively young, he just turned 40. He’s good for the city and he doesn’t tend to make controversial decisions, as long as you’re a Democrat I suppose.




  • I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.

    It’s not a good look.