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How do I know if a medical issue should be addressed by a Clinic Visit, Urgent Care, or the Emergency Room?
  • 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.

  • Stop drinking bottled water: Experts warn of health and climate impacts
  • 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.

  • Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro 5G tablet – An attractive, affordable tablet with a large screen surface
  • Just some detail

    Processor

    Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 8 x 2 - 2.4 GHz, Cortex-A78 / A55 Graphics adapter Qualcomm Adreno 710

    Memory

    6 GB

    Display

    12.10 inch 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixel 249 PPI, capacitive touchscreen, IPS, Corning Gorilla 3, glossy: yes, 120 Hz

    Storage

    128 GB UFS 2.2 Flash, 128 GB , 100 GB free

    Weight

    571 g ( = 20.14 oz / 1.26 pounds) ( = 0 oz / 0 pounds)

  • Study highlights Swiss cantons’ failings over adoptions from India - SWI swissinfo.ch
  • This is the conclusion of a study on adoption practices from 1973 to 2002, published on Friday.

    Children from India were systematically adopted without the consent of their parents, Rita Kesselring, head of the research project, told Swiss public radio, SRF.

    Just some detail for what this is about

  • The Dislike to Ubuntu
  • Canonical historically makes bad decisions. Ubuntu any most points in time is simply great. Their LTS is fab. But they're hungry. And they screw with us over time. the latest Debian just erased most of the reason to go with Ubuntu adding nonfree, and they haven't screwed us over.

  • Glock pistols popular among US criminals because they're easily modified, report says.
  • 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.

  • Trump Insists People Leaving His Rally Aren't Really Leaving His Rally
  • They're just going out for smokes, they'll brb

  • Can you think of any others?
  • Gateway Interplanetary filesystem Netmask Daemon Shadow copy Avatar

  • West Virginia state senator asked to resign after second arrest in two months
  • It would seem the republicans send us congress people, they're not sending us their best

  • Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it
  • One of the few things ipfs is good for

  • 18 years for woman who hoped to destroy Baltimore power grid and spark a race war
  • Securing the substation itself is easy you just build a cinder block wall around it put a roof on it and then alarm it. You put up cameras in hire ADT to look after it

    The problem is once you do that they can then go after transmission lines.

    These people need to be infiltrated and run in as terrorists.

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
  • Wayland is ready, 'nobody' else is ready to use Wayland. And by nobody, I mean any software packages that are doing anything at all out of the ordinary. Text expanders are a hot mess, remote control apps or dodgy, OBS screen capture is dodgy. We're still playing catch up, support for Wayland in applications is honestly quite lacking.

  • Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
  • 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.

  • Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'
  • And if you were asked to leave in the US because of a facial disfigurement you could fully expect to have a business closing lawsuit won against you in no time at all. Wa are as litigious AF for better or worse, usually worse.

  • Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
  • The argument that because some people can't, or won't do a good job, no one should isn't a very good one. Under that same logic you could exclude wiper blades.

    You end up like New Jersey where you can't pump your own gas. There are already guidelines and fixes for this wrapped around repairing your home power. You're not allowed to architect major changes without the sign off of somebody who is a registered professional but you're absolutely allowed to fix things that are already there.

    For more people die from not fixing their brakes, because it's difficult and expensive than ones who fix their brakes incorrectly.

  • California's New Law Will Force Storefronts to Disclose That Buyers Don't Actually Own Their Digitally Purchased Media - IGN
  • Could you imagine those ledgers trying to process when everyone in existence tries to insert hundreds to thousands of unique licenses. Then having to continuously access records on every media use after that.

    How many unique copies of media are there out there. Hundreds of billions, trillions. I don't think we have anything adequately designed at this point that could handle that kind of load.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • We own a few TVs but nobody actually watches them. If we're all out in the living room there's four phones out with four people watching four different things.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College
  • Given there are only two major institutions that are capable of winning under the current rules, one of the two institutions figured out it's advantageous not to have highly educated constituents.

    Over the period of about two generations they've managed to rig it so that only the upper class can manage to get a fair education. So the poor malleable people will vote for whoever they're told to vote for, and the ultra-rich will vote for the side that is most advantageous to them.

    In a time where we should be trying to get as much education into every living being that we can, degenerates are using a lack of education as a wedge to stay in power.

  • Cats are a social media invasive species.

    Cats, and apparently capybaras are an invasive species on social media. I don't hate them or anything but they show up everywhere in places they have new business being.

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    Statue of Unity - Wikipedia

    The Statue of Unity is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 feet), located near Kevadia in the state of Gujarat, India. It depicts Indian statesman and independence activist Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950), who was the first deputy prime minister and home minister of independent India...

    The project was first announced in 2010, and construction started in October 2013 ... with a total construction cost of ₹27 billion (US$422 million). It was designed by Indian sculptor Ram V. Sutar and was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, on 31 October 2018, the 143rd anniversary of Patel's birth.

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    How camera captures rate changes due to amount of light

    The camera auto adjusts exposure and it gets all derpy with rolling shutter :)

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    Črni Vrh Slovenia ice formations circa 2016

    Slovenia

    High above the village of Črni Vrh, fantastical ice formations—including spikes over a yard long—encase the trees and lookout tower atop Mount Javornik. The windswept ice, or hard rime, is the result of fog freezing after a week of snow and gales. This image appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.

    Photograph by MARKO KOROŠEC

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/visions-of-earth-pictures-15?sf182424686=1&utm_campaign

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    [SPOILER] S[8||11]x01 non-spoilery Review
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    Damn they got down to business right away! Loved the humor. Love the story, Cheezy streaming refs went on a little long. Fry, Leela and the Professors Voicing had a few rough spots that wouldn't have happened in the last incarnation, it honestly kinda reminded me of some of the early voicing in season 1. John DiMaggio's performance was flawless. I love that they kinda mixed in a small anthology, had most of the people make cameos.

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    It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

    It would appear there's currently a battle on /r/place between pro-spez users, anti-spez users and admins as the guillotine is being perpetually drawn and erased

    Video in action hosted here

    https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/154wiwk/admins_clearly_messing_with_things/

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    Well-Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Sword Found In Germany

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bronze-age-sword-germany-180982399/

    archaeologists excavating a gravesite in the southern Bavarian town of Nördlingen found a 3,000-year-old sword in excellent condition

    >Given the soft nature of bronze, historians have previously wondered whether such blades served a ceremonial purpose, rather than a practical purpose on the battlefield. A few years ago, scientists even staged sword fights in order to learn more about how the Bronze Age weapons could have been used effectively in battle, despite being much easier to damage and harder to repair than their iron successors.

    Hey, are you guys supposed to be playing with the artifacts?

    it's research!

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    "Blood falls" in Antarctica. This water contains ferrous iron, which, combining with atmospheric air, oxidizes and forms rust. It gives the waterfall that blood-red colour

    Source:

    /r/interestingasfuck /u/XyRow666

    I honestly found this one googling around, but XyRow666 presented a far nicer collage than anywhere else I could find.

    more info: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/blood-falls

    Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, and are essentially the definition of “primordial ooze.” The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

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    The Rainbow Mountains of China

    The Rainbow Mountains of China within the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park are a geological wonder of the world. These famous Chinese mountains are known for their otherworldly colors that mimic a rainbow painted over the tops of rolling mountains.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2016/03/02/rainbow-mountains-china-earths-paint-palette/?sh=223d61af3e5e

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    The Crooked Forest

    The Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland.

    This grove of 400 pines was planted in around 1930. Each pine tree bends sharply to the north, just above ground level, then curves back upright after a sideways excursion of one to three meters (3–9 feet). The curved pines are enclosed by a surrounding forest of straight pine trees.

    It is generally believed that some form of human tool or technique was used to make the trees grow or bend this way, but the method has never been determined, and remains a mystery to this day. It has been speculated that the trees may have been deformed to create naturally curved timber for use in furniture or boat building. Others surmise that a snowstorm could have bent the trunks, but there is little evidence of that.

    Many people have been trying to find an answer to this mystery, but since the town of Gryfino was largely abandoned between the early stages of World War II until the 1970s, the people who were there before the war and probably had the answer to the mystery of the Crooked Forest are now likely gone forever.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Forest

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    World's Longest Wingsuit Proximity Flight | Mont Blanc, France

    Usually, when you pop into a youtube video, you can see where the meat is by all the most watched parts. This one just shows 521k clenched anuses watching the whole thing :P

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    Earlier this year, this lenticular cloud appeared over Turkey.

    There are a lot of hoax or fake weather pictures on social media, but the viral pictures of a rose-colored cloud in Turkey are legitimate. On January 19th, 2023, a strange cloud appeared above the Bursa province.

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    Ghost apples

    Ghost apples are made from a pretty interesting phenomenon whereby frozen weather coats an apple in ice. When the apple inside rots and falls out, the icy shell is left behind and you get an ice apple.

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    Hyperrealistic Charcoal Drawing "FIERCE" - Time-lapse by ZokArt

    Skipped ahead to 91 seconds because he spends a REALLY long time getting the hair right and the pacing of that part is kinda slow.

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    Trento Italy dunks the person that screwed up the most for the year in the river every June

    I'm thinking this is an underrated method of governing.

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    How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now

    Veritasium is the king of almost clickbait, but he really gives out some crazy details.

    Starting around 2:11 They explain RSA and get into the meat.

    When quantum computers do all that crazy parallel math, apparently you only get one of the answers, and it's random :) But due to some sketchy repeating, any one of the answers is enough to make RSA vulnerable with just a little math.

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    Giant art piece memorializing a farmer's late wife.

    Breaking up the flat agricultural areas of Argentina's Pampas is a guitar formed entirely out of trees. Stretching for 2/3 of a mile (1km), the multi-colored instrument was created by one Argentine farmer to memorialize his wife. Crushed by the loss of his love, a few years later Pedro Martin Ureta (owner) began working on designing a guitar in his field that could be seen from above by airplane. He settled on the design because his late wife loved the instrument and he wanted to memorialize her on his land.

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    The Green Cathedral, Marinus Boezem 1987 · Almere, Niederlande

    Looks like a copy and paste job.

    The Green Cathedral or De Groene Kathedraal located near Almere in the Netherlands, is an artistic planting of Lombardy poplars (Populus nigra italica) that mimics the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France. The Green Cathedral is 150 m (490 ft) long and 75 m (246 ft) wide, and the mature poplar trees are about 30 m (98 ft) tall.

    The planting itself is kinda ok, but taking the time to till out the same size in the forest next door is crazy

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Green+Cathedral,+Marinus+Boezem+1987/@52.3220317,5.3174667,3a,75y/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPVubtXvuKRgqDt7QO9SeUGzdRU_zCmXYCv8wRV!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPVubtXvuKRgqDt7QO9SeUGzdRU_zCmXYCv8wRV%3Dw128-h86-k-no!7i2461!8i1641!4m7!3m6!1s0x47c63e74730d4117:0xbf652dff93a9e739!8m2!3d52.3222326!4d5.3172609!10e5!16s%2Fm%2F0bbzrsz?entry=ttu

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    due to the curvature of the Earth a really long building can't have walls that are both parallel and level.

    Aparently, I've conflated Level with Plumb, the walls cannot be parallel and plumb. Due to the curve, the center of gravity for the walls would require them to angle in slightly together or not be plumb.

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