TranscendentalEmpire

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Dental eugenol, it's a fairly powerful local analgesic made from clove oil. Some people have adverse reactions to it and so it isn't used as frequently as it used to. So I would recommend applying it in a small test area before applying it more liberally.

You can buy it online fairly cheaply.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't defend the osprey, it's not good for your health. It knows when you're lying and will retaliate in the only way a rotary aircraft with even more moving parts knows how.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if that would really help the whole availability issue. We already force a large population of physicians to be on call 24/7 because there aren't enough to go around.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I, too, have not been endorsed by Taylor Swift. I'm not so weird about it that I feel the need to fake it.

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[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Dude complaining about a dude complaining about apple being proprietary in 2024, when apple has built their entire business from day one by being the most draconian closed loop proprietary hardware/software model since personal computers were invented........

You just made the same argument, but in an aggressively dumb way.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

No.. just the federal marketplace. Like it should be.

The federal marketplace is not an adequate replacement for all income levels, it's barely adequate for people who qualify for subsidies.

The federal government negotiates prices like all other civilized countries do

A large part of our current problem is that our fed government isn't negotiating prices like other countries.

As I said, we can only get rid of employer based benefits if there is an adequate replacement.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it would disentangle health insurance from employment.

Not unless there's a viable alternative..... If put into effect today it would just be the equivalent to a giant cut for 15 million people.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Only problem is most of it's bermuda, which is a fucking PAIN to get rid of by hand

Get yourself an Action Hoe, you basically run it back and forth and it digs/cuts the roots out. It's very upsetting how easy it makes weeding the first time you use it, turns an hour long job to something you can do in 15 min.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, helicopters are the apex predators of soldiers and rich people. Even if you pull off the perfect autorotation, the glide ratio is still only a maximum of like 3:1.

I think I remember reading a report somewhere that more people have been killed by practicing autorotation than have actually pulled it off in the wild.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Autorotation is mostly copium as well.

Explanation

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Mainly just copium for the pilots. Helicopters aren't like airplanes where you have glide time and altitude to decide what to do after something bad happens. If you watch fixed winged ejections there's usually about 30 seconds to a min after something goes wrong before the pilot decides to bail. Helicopters go from everything being fine, to a debris field in seconds.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

They already do that, but the gf's name is always Jody. Who do you think writes all those Dear John letters?

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