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medgremlin

@ medgremlin @midwest.social

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  • I was looking for someone to mention Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop.

    What are your thoughts on Fullmetal Alchemist? I personally adore FMA: Brotherhood and I think it meets these criteria.

  • Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

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  • *Raise taxes on poor people. The billionaires can easily just fly to Europe for a shopping spree attached to their regular weekend jaunt and bring everything home in their luggage (if they cared about the prices of anything to begin with, that is).

  • I mean...

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  • As a nerdy gal on the Internet, I envy Joanna.

  • FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

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  • You're right. My brain is absolute pudding because I'm studying for my board exams. Doing a few hundred multiple choice questions about complex medical topics in a row doesn't leave a whole lot of processing power left for anything else.

  • FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

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  • Unfortunately, it appears that you are correct. They released a list of qualifying conditions and while COPD and brochiectasis are on the list, asthma is not.

    Edit: I'm kinda braindead right now. Asthma is the first thing on the list. whoops.

  • FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

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  • That will usually qualify, especially since Covid is primarily a respiratory illness.

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    What do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?

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  • From the emergency medicine perspective on that last bit....we don't care if you have a DNR somewhere on file. If you show up in cardiac arrest and someone isn't shoving an official POLST into our hands, we're running the code. We'd rather someone try (and fail) to sue for malpractice for saving them than accidentally let someone die that didn't want to.

  • Those of you that have negative sentiments towards AI: What would you want to happen right now?

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  • These companies investing in nuclear is the only good thing about it. Nuclear power is our best, cleanest option to supplement renewables like solar and wind, and it has the ability to pick up the slack when the variable power generation doesn't meet the variable demand. If we can trick those mega-companies into lobbying the government to allow nuclear fuel recycling, we'll be all set to ditch fossil fuels fairly quickly. (provided they also lobby to streamline the permitting process and reverse the DOGE gutting of the government agency that provides all of the startup loans used for nuclear power plants.)

  • Trump Rages At Walmart For Raising Prices Over Tariffs

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  • I'm saying that they aren't going to boycott Walmart because they don't have the option to do so.

  • Trump Rages At Walmart For Raising Prices Over Tariffs

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  • I have the suspicion that you aren't really familiar with what rural poverty looks like. These are people that cannot qualify for credit cards, get taken advantage of by payday loans, and struggle to meet the basic necessities that don't actually even add up to a reasonable standard of living. These are people that can't afford to put enough gas in the tank of their car to drive to those other stores, and literally their only source of groceries is likely to be a Walmart if they're lucky enough to have one in their town.

    There is a good amount of Schadenfreude to be had when it comes to Trump voters, but when you're in the position of trying to help them control their diabetes and high blood pressure on a diet of cheap, processed, high-sugar, high-sodium crap, you'll lose that spiteful glee real quick. These are people that are inextricably trapped by poverty, food deserts, healthcare deserts, and failing education systems that never really had a chance and it's hard for me to find any real satisfaction in seeing them suffer.

  • Trump Rages At Walmart For Raising Prices Over Tariffs

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  • No there are not. In many smaller/rural communities, the nearest non-Walmart store can be up to hours away and be more expensive. If you're barely scraping by and you have to work long hours or multiple jobs to do so, you don't have the time or spare income to tack on an extra 2 hours to your grocery shopping and pay 10-20% more. Walmart has done an exceedingly good job at wiping out the competition in small communities that have no alternatives. That's why you don't see as many Walmart stores in larger, more populated areas....their entire business model relies on killing the competition.

    And that's not even getting into how their new employee orientation has to include information on how to sign up for food stamps.

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  • I will pretty frequently just eat straight peanut butter with a spoon, but peanut butter cookies are also great. Peanut Butter an Co. has a cinnamon sugar peanut butter that is obscenely good. I found out about it because Babish did a peanut butter tier list video and the cinnamon sugar peanut butter was the highest rank.

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  • Peanut butter, nice bread, and hoarding shiny little trinkets.

  • Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations

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  • Did anyone else see this headline and immediately jump to Ghost in the Shell?

  • Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization

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  • For Youtubers, I wish H. Bomberguy would post more often because I've seen him cited as some people's animus for de-radicalization. Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube was another good "male role model" prior to her transition and a lot of viewers commented about how she gave them a better model of masculinity to emulate (particularly ironic as she turned out to be trans). I think FD Signifier is a good example for young black men in particular, and Devin of Legal Eagle is a fine example of a successful professional for those that are more business-minded.

  • What's an important (in your opinion) skill too many people seem to lack?

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  • For something very relevant to health: cooking, knowing how to measure food, and how to read a nutrition label. Obesity would be much less common if people were able to cook their own food more often, and knew how to actually measure out accurate portion sizes.

    I totally get that time, upfront costs like cookware, and access to decent ingredients are MAJOR factors in whether or not someone can learn how to cook, but anyone can and should know how to read a nutrition label and know how to measure accurate portion sizes for the things they eat. If you are trying to lose weight or work on healthy habits, a food scale is infinitely more valuable than a body weight scale. Most people do not know what 28g of chips looks like.

  • What is the dumbest tattoo you have ever seen?

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  • And I'm pretty sure she's from the UK....

  • People who's entire life has been a lie, what is your story?

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  • If you have a doctor that you can see, you could ask about trying Prazosin for the nightmares. It's a blood pressure medication that has been shown to reduce PTSD nightmares, and getting better quality sleep can make a huge difference in your ability to handle everything else. It's a dirt-cheap medication with minimal side effects, and it's not a controlled substance that shows up on anything.

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  • That's what I've been seeing. I don't use Netflix anyways and I mostly just have a VPN for when I'm on a university or hospital campus and I'd like to keep my internet usage private. (Or when sailing the high seas for books.)