We need an IRL batman. Or some Boondock Saints.

Lots more than just that.. Dude should probably see a cardiologist.

Krusty doesn’t deserve this.

Aaaand a song I haven’t heard or thought about in almost 20 years is now stuck in my head. Fuck. xD

Sponsorblock

How have I never heard of this?! I just installed it, trialled it on a YouTube video, and it’s instantly one of my favorites.

Thank you!!

For anyone in a similar boat:

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Not just the Palpatine/Skywalker story, but the Jedi and Sith / light side vs dark side as a whole are all a dusty crater that used to be the site of a beaten, dead horse.

Space wizards and laser swords have been WAAAAY overdone.

I fucking loved Rogue One and Andor, in part because they did such a good job of showcasing other elements of the Star Wars universe in a way that isn’t the same tired good guy vs bad guy schtick. In both productions, we see both the dirty side of the Republic and the albeit hyperauthoritarian but not evil side of the Empire.

The Acolyte is back to space wizards… the little I’ve read about it sounds like kind of a space CSI type show, and honestly I can see the potential in that so long as it’s not too heavy on the same tropes they keep trying to redo.

I’d really like to see more stuff that showcases members of the empire as being totally sold on their cause. Dedra Meero and Syril Karn are fucking fantastic examples - they weren’t strong-armed into submission by the Empire, they were completely indoctrinated and served with pride and patriotism: from their perspective, they’re believably the ‘good guys’ doing their best to fight the ‘dirty Rebel terrorists’.

We see a touch of this in EA’s SW Battlefront II with Iden Versio and her squad: basically special ops Storm Troopers doing their job professionally and with camaraderie amongst each other. The scene with the death star exploding, unexpectedly for the squad on the planet below, was great: they just watched all their friends get obliterated before their eyes, and they go through a quick transition from speechless to “our friends are all dead” to “oh fuck we gotta MOVE or we’re dead too!”. Again, their perspective is believably not evil - they’re serving what they genuinely feel are the ‘good guys’. Then the switch to the light side arch kicks in and we’re back to old SW tropes, but the first hour or so is pretty solid!

Something like that adapted as a TV series or movie has a lot of potential imo. Showcase Storm Troopers as a legit military force and not just a bunch of bumbling idiots who can’t shoot straight. Pull inspiration from things like Jarhead, Band of Brothers or even fucking MASH lol.

There’s so much more to SW than space wizards and light v dark!

Saw a post a long time ago about someone using gummy worms and bears etc as their minis, and players get to eat the ones they kill.

Food for thought. Literally.

Thought that was sheep’s blood agar for a sec, but that one’s darker iirc… which was the light red one? Or are there several?

Currently a surgical tech, and looking back semester 1 in pretty much every test there were at least a few questions that I knew the answer to because of my job; but that I’m positive we didn’t even scratch in lecture or any of the assigned reading; and a lot of questions that we only kind of covered, but required a lot of reading between the lines which was also made way easier by my ST experience.

Idk how people who don’t already have a medical background are doing it.

Just finished the 1st semester of nursing school!

*bends over* Do your worst.

I deleted my reddit when they backstabbed their 3rd party app devs. Came to Lemmy around the same time - have had no reason to look back. You’ll love it here!

Totally sold on the Darth Jar Jar theory. So much supporting evidence, and it makes the shit that character does make so much more sense.

Re-watching Ep 1 through that lense made it a much better film imo.

The range on Blink is OP AF.

Wait a minute, I’ve seen this logic before…

So far my strategy with the Krebs Cycle is to shove the most basic parts of it into my short term memory on test day, and tactically skip the rest of it to focus on other material.

It’s shown its face in two classes so far, and that strategy got me through them. Couple more and I’m done with nursing school, so I have high hopes I’ll never have to mess with it again.

Neck is the last of that guy’s worries… his shoulder is dislocated as fuck!

Edit - Looking closer, I think his radius and ulna might be flipped too. Yeah this guy’s not having a good day.

Hold up, so the dude whining about the whole “preoccupied with could, never thought about should” was just talking out of his ass?? We’re literally biblically obligated to clone those raptors! YES we should!

Depends on the topic. Like when cloning comes up, people tend not to Bible thump; instead they explain that we shouldn’t do it because they saw a movie about a fully automated theme park featuring dinosaurs.

You know… evidence!

I’d take that memory with a grain of salt. Part of the anesthesic effect is that you don’t remember shit. A common concern patients voice when they roll into the OR is “shouldn’t I be asleep for this? I’ve had X# surgeries before and I’ve never been awake for this part…” But they probably said the same thing on their second+ surgery: you’re always awake when you roll into the OR, you just don’t remember the few minutes leading up to going to sleep cuz of the drugs.

That said, some people do have a resistance to some part of the effect: you might have been one of them, and are remembering traces of the experience like the pain of the propofol; but where that pain occurred could have gotten blocked out, so your brain just picked a spot.

Unless they placed your IV near your crotch, which would be super, super abnormal.

But yea I wouldn’t put much trust in the accuracy of memories immediately surrounding general anesthesia. It fucks with your brain, hard.

The placebo effect is honestly pretty wild. There’s a common false understanding that placebo = scam, but if you can achieve a therapeutic effect via thinking that you’re going to achieve a therapeutic effect, then… cool!!

The opposite is also true, called the “nocebo” effect. I’ve noticed this in the OR a lot depending on our anesthesiologist, specifically when they’re administering the propofol (the IV drug that knocks you out). Unfortunately it’s an irritant, so I’ve seen a few different approaches to try to get ahead of the sensation of pain, including warnings like “This can hurt initially - that’s normal!” but I think tends to backfire, cuz you’ve just set the expectation of pain, and those patients seem to have a much heightened experience of pain. This is opposed to saying things like “You might feel a warm sensation in your IV” which seem to reduce the nocebo effect.

It’d be cool to do a study on this action specifically.