“So sometimes my roommate, with whom I’ve been paying a mortgage for 10 years and looking after a herd of cats, does me against the wall with a strap on. Do you think I should risk telling her I have feelings for her? I’m pretty sure she’s straight.” reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpd…
Dental surgeon just tried to fit my new crown to the implant.
Turned out it has to go back to the lab because it's too big, but it took 3 attempts with a bit of on-site drilling before he gave up.
Screwing it down deforms the gum and crushes it between the crown and the bone, which hurts. He told me to tell him when it got too much and he would pause, which I did, but a long time after he seemed to be expecting me to.
He's like, "waiting for your feedback..." and I just gave him a thumbs up, and his face is kinda like, "This should be hurting. Why aren't you yelling?"
I think trans women get kinda messed up pain thresholds, you guys.
Anyway, it has to go back to the lab for a resize, because it's too big. Also the wrong colour, because they did not account for UK and Ireland levels of tea consumption.
Today was uncomfortable but it didn't last long. Having the implant put in is a bit of a slog, but it didn't hurt. Hope all goes well. It's a bit of a process.
Exactly 4 years ago today I had what can only be described as an utterly brutal extraction of half an upper molar by a dental surgeon (the other half had been removed by my regular dentist 2 weeks prior).
My plan was to replace the tooth, which had died from an internal crack, just a freak accident from biting something hard, with an implant.
And then the world went into lockdown.
On Wednesday, 4 years and 2 days since the original was removed, I get my new tooth installed.
Here’s why the NHS were happy to vaccinate me with MMR the other day. From UK govt advice from 2019:
• individuals born between 1970 and 1979 may have been vaccinated against measles and many will have been exposed to mumps and rubella during childhood. However, this age group should be offered MMR wherever feasible, particularly if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
• individuals born before 1970 are likely to have had all three natural infections and are less likely to be susceptible. MMR vaccine should be offered to such individuals on request or if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
Tl;dr: younger GenX and older Millennials in the UK were likely given inadequate protection against measles and none against mumps and rubella: vaccinate on sight.
Older GenX and boomers: just give them the vaccine if they ask for it.
Yes. I caught measles in around 1960 and had the BCG shot at school in 1967/8 but I’ve never had any protection against Mumps, which seems a bit of an oversight.
I recall that you had whooping cough many months ago, which I was reminded of because I also got it last autumn. Somebody on here told me recently that it was included in the tetanus booster. Research done some years ago shows that people don't need to the tetanus boosters, but I guess whopping cough wasn't part of the study? Anyway, I haven't had that shot in 20 years now and I'm guessing virtually no others adults have either.
Boomers: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation things my parents said to me…
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er … um … tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities …
GenX: Go on…
Boomers: I think it was “don’t put minorities in death camps”
GenX; You know you’re kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, let’s go into the city. There’s a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
…
Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event tha
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Boomers: My generation! My generation!
GenX: Hey dad, what you doing?
Boomers: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation things my parents said to me…
GenX: What sort of things?
Boomers: Awful, cold things.
GenX: Such as?
Boomers: Er … um … tax the rich to build a welfare state?
GenX: And?
Boomers: Something about minorities …
GenX: Go on…
Boomers: I think it was “don’t put minorities in death camps”
GenX; You know you’re kind of an asshole?
Millennials: Oh hey dad, big bro. Wassup?
Boomers: Your brother was just leaving.
GenX: Well I do need to go get some overtime. My mortgage is fucking killing me and apparently someone ran away with my pension fund.
GenX: Asshole
Millennials: Wow. What was that about?
Boomers: Oh, music tastes. Anyway, let’s go into the city. There’s a matching band and something I want to talk to you about.
…
Boomers: Cool band! Anyway, in the unlikely event that I die soon after plundering the healthcare system your grandparents built and laying waste to the environment, will you defeat the plans that they, and by they, I mean “I” have made? I know things are shit and it’s my fault, but I can’t be arsed to clean up after myself and the beach bar is open …
Millennials: My older brother was right. You are an asshole.
@Ghost of Hope The single dose measles vaccine they used in the 70s was not as effective as they’d hoped long term, but to be fair the thing was on the verge of being eradicated and they didn’t think it needed to be.
@Alexandra Lanes Dupuutren's appears to have gone into remission overnight. I guess my body is too busy doing measles things to worry about fucking my hands.
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are wa
So you have a service like Tailscale. Could actually be Tailscale.
You can install it on a barebones Linux SBC with Wifi. (Raspberry Pi zero W or equivalent). These things will run off a public USB port or a USB power pack for many hours.
Set it down somewhere with public wifi. Set it as an exit node. Go elsewhere.
Some hours later, do bit torrent, or whatever.
Some days later, if you are so minded, go back and collect it. Or not. These things can be cheap enough to be disposable.
It's traceable via Tailscale, were someone to do forensics on it, but you could set it up to wipe its Tailscale installation after a certain time period if you were paranoid. It probably wouldn't ever get that far.
Hell, in a lot of places with public wifi, cable tie a random box in place and people will assume it's part of the scenery for a very long time. Your only issue is power, and there are ways to address that.
You could easily make one that looked like, and functioned as, a USB mains power adaptor.
Random VPN exit nodes, everywhere. Just need a way of getting wifi credentials onto it.
A lot of wifis want you to log in via a website, so the work around for that is that you can record a lynx session and play it back, which is essentially automating a headless interaction with a website. Then put that a cron job.
I've done this in real life to keep a raspi authenticated on a pub wifi. It worked for several days.
Have been alerted to the existence of an MMR drop in centre. Going to attend on Saturday to see if they’ll give me one to top up my 49 year old single measles vaccine.
Interested to know how it goes -- I'm in a similar position and have had pushback from GP when trying to get vaccines which are now routine in childhood.
I queried my GP about shingles and MMR and had twin punctures in my arm that afternoon. But, since I'm to old to have any of the MMR vaccines, it's a full course not a booster. I have the impression they are keen to get them done. Achey and cross the next day, but just a bit tender in the upper arm the day after.
@anubis2814 I don't know when it changed, but the eligibility is simpler now than it used to be; between 70 and 80 instead of the tighter cohort it used to be. I'm sorry to hear about your co-worker. It's miserable at any age, though not, I think, infectious in its own right. In
It was noted that Farage is seen as “vulgar” by the people who inhabit the Tory back rooms, and my response was, “ I mean, come on. Looking at him you just KNOW he’s walking around in 1970s nylon y-fronts that he only changes once every 4 days.
The guy is basically every Sid James character from Carry On, but unironically.”
Me: reading article “blah blah blah Lawrence Livermore blah
Me: This is nuclear bomb research. Nothing to see here. Also solar panels literally exist. Move along.
I swear, “fusion power stations” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for bomb research just as “hydrogen cars” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for digging oil out of the ground.
“Look at me pretending to develop fusion power for A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER KILOWATT HOUR! Muhahahaha! Nobody suspects me of getting round non-proliferation treaties, which I literally admit to doing on my website!”
Solar panels: “Am I a literal fucking joke to you?”
America and France: Hi! We have world-leading programmes to develop and study high temperature deuterium-tritium plasmas, and also space programmes which use solid rocket boosters which you could hypothetically launch into a sub orbital trajectory with a payload of a few tonnes at very short notice. These are unrelated and very highly civilian normal things we are doing. Also, STAR TREK!
@Adam @Alisdair Calder McGregor You're replying to Alisdair, but in my thread, so I'm gonna assume "you" means me.
The answer, in general, unfortunately is "no". Posts that I can reasonably expect are only going to DFRN or ActivityPub type places support abstract (which gets converted to content warnings for ActivityPub), but unless I specifically restrict distribution, posts go to other places which handle them very poorly.
I love the idea of getting vaccine boosters, but understand that in some places it’s basically not possible. Consider the UK, for example, which is literally throwing Covid booster doses away rather than give them to people not in their “at risk” groups who want them.
I wasn't eligible this winter. I went to the pharmacy to get a flu jab and I was asked "Do you want the COVID one as well?" I said I wasn't eligible and they said didn't matter, I could still have it. I threw myself onto the needle as fast as I could. TL;DR you may not be eligible, but pharmacists can be reasonable.
@Alexis Bushnell @Sarah Brown I'm relieved for myself that I'll be able to get a booster, but angry that people in far greater need than me won't be able to afford it.
I’m now at the stage of having lost count of the number of vaccinations I’ve had — a function of the fact that they stopped filling in those little cards. I know I’ve had them at roughly six month intervals though and that, on two occasions, it’s only because I was absolutely determined to get one and not lapse. I’m preparing for another assault on the system next month, prepared to work out how to work the system again.
@gz @Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified: in dual resident in the UK and Portugal and neither is going to give me a measles booster if I just rock up and ask for one. They’ll just tell me to fuck off.
@bicmay I thought you were dual resident but didn't realize that neither would give you the vax. That's bonkers considering the outbreaks that are occurring, at least in England.
“So you’ve found this website because your ADHD is flaring up to the point where deciding to boil an egg because it’s nearly midnight and you have known for the last six hours that you need to eat, might as well be designing the logistics for a manned mission to fucking Pluto. Here’s a simple 87 point plan for getting yourself out of this funk. Point 1: have you tried not having ADHD?”
If you use a laptop with a trackpad which you can scroll with two fingers, and you don’t have a pinkie related disability, does your little finger do this?
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