In today’s memes based on 25-year-old media properties: this.
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#Star Trek #Middle Earth #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #when we were kids my brother and I used to have eye-bugging-out competitions #we called it ”going Gowron” #scopophobia?
#my workplace has started playing Christmas music again so it’s time to think about this post at least once per hour #Tumblr traditions #Christmas #art #fanart #comics #X Men #crossovers
Walgreens says they’ll add multiple vaccinations into a single shot! They show a big list of vaccinations! I didn’t know some of these existed yesterday! Gotta admit, I’m a slightly tempted to just get everything even if there’s no practical value to it. Is there any reason why I would not want to do that? I know older people with little impact craters on their arms where they got the smallpox shot back in the day, so a least some vaccines aren’t as simple and painless as the covid19 one is… would they leave it off this list if it was a potentially serious one, like if getting vaccine for yellow fever could harm somebody then maybe they wouldn’t let me just get it all willy nilly when I’m not actually at risk of tropical diseases. I don’t actually know!
COVID-19
Pneumonia (Pneumococcal)
Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
Tdap (Whooping Cough)
Chickenpox (Varicella)
Cholera (Vaxchora)
HPV (Human Papillomavirus)
Hepatitis A (Hep A)
Hepatitis A/Hepatitis B (combination)
Hepatitis B (Hep B)
Japanese Encephalitis
MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)
Meningitis (Meningococcal)
Polio
Rabies
Td (Tetanus, Diphtheria)
Typhoid
Yellow Fever
I know I got whatever was considered standard childhood vaccinations when I was a kid, and I know that included MMR, but I honestly don’t remember if that included anything else on the list. Whooping cough is one of those diseases that kids don’t get anymore, presumably I’ve got that one maybe? Better check on that.
Walgreens apparently will not let me get a booster with a different brand name, those bastards. They say “CDC recommends getting the same brand” and then link to the CDC page that does in fact say getting mix-n-match boosters is okay. Apparently CVS is cool with it? I think I’ll just sign up for the covid19 and flu combo for now.
Pro-vaccine advice: don’t get all of these vaccines
You really shouldn’t get the cholera vaccine, unless you’re seriously likely to need the cholera vaccine. It lasts about 3 months, and for the first 2 weeks you have to be super careful about washing your hands because you can transmit cholera to other people (because live attenuated).
TD isn’t needed if you’re getting TDaP (same TD there, plus pertussis).
Rabies only lasts about a year, I think, and it sucks to get unless you really need it. A better rabies vaccine would be great but we really don’t have it. I think there’s something similar with Typhoid; the immunity just doesn’t last.
There are 2 pneumonia vaccines, and you only really need one if you’re over 65 or have serious immune or respiratory issues (ask your doctor). Ditto for shingles; you don’t really need it if you are younger than that and/or had chickenpox after the age of 2 or 3.
The one non-standard one you could seriously consider getting is Yellow Fever, and they generally don’t recommend it unless you’re going to need it. It has a low complication rate, of something like 1/50 to 100M, but does have the possibility of giving you the virus. It’s still one of those we could consider expanding, but we really did wipe it out in the US.
I added mine to my Word doc where I have all the meds I’m currently taking, plus doses, and the contact info for my past doctors.
The nurses are always super grateful when I just hand them a piece of paper when they ask “what are you taking”, and I don’t have to write it down every time.
I don’t think my situation has gotten *quite* complicated enough yet to need a standard ref sheet, but I’ll bear that in mind as I get older.
I do write down the details every time I have a new concern, and hand them that when they ask about the purpose of the visit. They seem a little weirded out by it, but they’re willing to go along with it, and I think they’ve been adding the sheets to their file on me.
(In related news, it’s amazing how much more seriously people take you when you have things in writing: nothing says Responsible Adult like a clipboard, apparently. This mostly holds even if you’re using it as assistive tech for your shitty autistic speaking ability and/or your shitty immune system (leading to the use of a high-grade-but-pretty-muffling prosthetic immune system) [link]. It’s a good trick to have in my arsenal, given that I look about 13 and often have trouble getting people to take me seriously in meatspace.)
Yeah, definitely have a list of things you want addressed. Doubly so for you if you need to be taken seriously, but still singly so for others. They might look at you strangely, but it makes their job easier, and you won’t forget something. Also helps to have your own notes and a bunch of past history and contacts.
I would still highly recommend having a “this is my medication” sheet you can print out whenever you have to see someone new.
I’ll take that under advisement, and I will definitely check the medication section on my smartphone’s emergency screen and make sure I included dosages.
My GP is surprisingly good at code-switching into People Who Actually Gave Their Health Problems Some Serious Thought, so I don’t actually tend to think of “people not taking me seriously” as being a primarily *medical* thing. Still good to have a clipboard handy, though.
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I wonder if Ada Palmer has a fundamentally different reaction to really hot people than I do. Cuz like..I’ve seen really hot people, and like, there’s definitely a wow factor but it caps out pretty low I think. I think that “so hot it’s literally awe-inspiring” is not a reaction im capable of having, which makes all the scenes where the characters marvel at ganymede and sniper and danae feel really weird and cheesy. Maybe I just haven’t met hot enough people?
I think everyone in TI is in general much more aesthetically sensitive. people can be mind-warpingly beautiful, but also so clever they can make you have a mental breakdown or so impressive you become completely convinced they’re a god. everything is turned up to 11 and no one is inured to anything
i like this way of thinking about it. TI is like, an epic or like a poem or something, or like everyone in the TI universe is this hyper-sentimental poet. you could come up with a watsonian explanation that its basically a side effect of 300 years of utopia, that the extent of human emotion expands to fill the situation, so in a world with like, mass death and poverty and stuff things like “that guy is really hot” get shrunk down but in a genuine utopia everyone’s calibrated to a much smaller variation, so seeing a really hot guy has the same effect as like, winning the lottery
(Shoutout to @another-normal-anomaly for writing a character who, upon being dropped into an alien universe, pretty much immediately goes “oh shit, there could be alien pathogens, better conjure some PPE” [link]. I loved that bit.)
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#~8th-grade chemistry was primarily a class in how to clean things very carefully and track levels and types of contamination #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #recs #glowfic #reply via reblog #those of y’all who have watched sci-fi with me have heard me yelling about the spacesuit issue
Just broke my personal record for consecutive days lived..Going for the record again tomorrow
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#it’s my birthday today and I was thinking about this post again #just broke my personal record for consecutive years lived! #going for the record again next year #birthdays #death tw #aging cw #that one post with the thing
Walgreens says they’ll add multiple vaccinations into a single shot! They show a big list of vaccinations! I didn’t know some of these existed yesterday! Gotta admit, I’m a slightly tempted to just get everything even if there’s no practical value to it. Is there any reason why I would not want to do that? I know older people with little impact craters on their arms where they got the smallpox shot back in the day, so a least some vaccines aren’t as simple and painless as the covid19 one is… would they leave it off this list if it was a potentially serious one, like if getting vaccine for yellow fever could harm somebody then maybe they wouldn’t let me just get it all willy nilly when I’m not actually at risk of tropical diseases. I don’t actually know!
COVID-19
Pneumonia (Pneumococcal)
Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
Tdap (Whooping Cough)
Chickenpox (Varicella)
Cholera (Vaxchora)
HPV (Human Papillomavirus)
Hepatitis A (Hep A)
Hepatitis A/Hepatitis B (combination)
Hepatitis B (Hep B)
Japanese Encephalitis
MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)
Meningitis (Meningococcal)
Polio
Rabies
Td (Tetanus, Diphtheria)
Typhoid
Yellow Fever
I know I got whatever was considered standard childhood vaccinations when I was a kid, and I know that included MMR, but I honestly don’t remember if that included anything else on the list. Whooping cough is one of those diseases that kids don’t get anymore, presumably I’ve got that one maybe? Better check on that.
Walgreens apparently will not let me get a booster with a different brand name, those bastards. They say “CDC recommends getting the same brand” and then link to the CDC page that does in fact say getting mix-n-match boosters is okay. Apparently CVS is cool with it? I think I’ll just sign up for the covid19 and flu combo for now.
Pro-vaccine advice: don’t get all of these vaccines
You really shouldn’t get the cholera vaccine, unless you’re seriously likely to need the cholera vaccine. It lasts about 3 months, and for the first 2 weeks you have to be super careful about washing your hands because you can transmit cholera to other people (because live attenuated).
TD isn’t needed if you’re getting TDaP (same TD there, plus pertussis).
Rabies only lasts about a year, I think, and it sucks to get unless you really need it. A better rabies vaccine would be great but we really don’t have it. I think there’s something similar with Typhoid; the immunity just doesn’t last.
There are 2 pneumonia vaccines, and you only really need one if you’re over 65 or have serious immune or respiratory issues (ask your doctor). Ditto for shingles; you don’t really need it if you are younger than that and/or had chickenpox after the age of 2 or 3.
The one non-standard one you could seriously consider getting is Yellow Fever, and they generally don’t recommend it unless you’re going to need it. It has a low complication rate, of something like 1/50 to 100M, but does have the possibility of giving you the virus. It’s still one of those we could consider expanding, but we really did wipe it out in the US.
I added mine to my Word doc where I have all the meds I’m currently taking, plus doses, and the contact info for my past doctors.
The nurses are always super grateful when I just hand them a piece of paper when they ask “what are you taking”, and I don’t have to write it down every time.
I don’t think my situation has gotten *quite* complicated enough yet to need a standard ref sheet, but I’ll bear that in mind as I get older.
I do write down the details every time I have a new concern, and hand them that when they ask about the purpose of the visit. They seem a little weirded out by it, but they’re willing to go along with it, and I think they’ve been adding the sheets to their file on me.
(In related news, it’s amazing how much more seriously people take you when you have things in writing: nothing says Responsible Adult like a clipboard, apparently. This mostly holds even if you’re using it as assistive tech for your shitty autistic speaking ability and/or your shitty immune system (leading to the use of a high-grade-but-pretty-muffling prosthetic immune system) [link]. It’s a good trick to have in my arsenal, given that I look about 13 and often have trouble getting people to take me seriously in meatspace.)
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#medical cw #vaccines #transhumanism #reply via reblog #illness tw
I don’t know! Capitalism is different now! It used to be that, if you were a struggling online lingerie retailer, you could try to sell more lingerie, or you could try to cut your costs of selling lingerie, or you could expand into some related apparel business lines, or you could shut down, I don’t know, I’m sure there were more options, but if you went to an investment conference and said “I’m tired of lingerie let’s do electric cars” investors would be skeptical. But now sometimes you can be a struggling online lingerie retailer and get hit by Reddit lightning. And if that happens, you gotta seize the moment. “People are paying attention to us, we can raise money, only one choice here: electric cars.” (Honestly two choices: electric cars or crypto.) And off you go. Now you run an electric-car company. Congratulations.
evidence continues to accumulate that Matt Levine is in hell and we are all just watching
And as we made those announcements, which was making a lot of you happy, these – lot of their commentary came in about Shiba Inu. So again I did a Twitter poll. And again, a lot of you read the Tweet, a lot of you voted. And lot of you voted yes. And we are now figuring out how we can take Shiba Inu as a currency, that’s the next one on our cryptocurrency hit parade.
I might add that we believe we have figured out ways where we do not have to hold cryptocurrency on our balance sheet. So we’re not taking increased balance sheet risk with all this potential acceptance of cryptocurrency and as I said in – earlier in the remarks, as we learn more and more about the opportunities available to AMC with cryptocurrency, it does really raise the question in a serious way and we are engaged in serious thought and discussions with third parties on this subject. Do we just accept cryptocurrency or do we issue an AMC cryptocurrency of our own?
Shiba Inu, the cryptocurrency, is “based on Shiba Inus” in the sense that its name is “Shiba Inu” and some of its branding involves Shiba Inus, but that’s it. Shiba Inu the cryptocurrency is not redeemable for Shiba Inus the dogs. There is not a fixed exchange ratio between the cryptocurrency and the dog; arbitrageurs do not keep the prices of the cryptocurrency and the dog in line. Nor does the cryptocurrency represent some sort of claim on the cash flows of the dogs, or on the cash flows of intellectual property related to the dogs, etc. Nor do the dogs generate the cryptocurrency. Nor is the cryptocurrency issued or governed by a collective of dogs. The cryptocurrency is sort of inspired by the dog but that’s it. Nothing flows from the cryptocurrency to the dogs, or from the dogs to the cryptocurrency.
And yet:
With virtual life increasingly indistinguishable from everyday reality, it makes sense: Just as the price of dog-inspired cryptocurrencies Dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin have exploded, so has demand for—what else?—living, breathing shiba inus.
There is — I’m sorry, I’m so sorry — there is an arbitrage between the Shiba Inu coin and actual Shiba Inus. When the stock of the dog goes up (because Elon Musk gets one) people race to buy the coins. When the coins go up, people race to buy the dogs.
It continues not to be my fault! I am sorry! I realize that people think I am having a mental breakdown in this column but I am actually doing fine; financial markets are having a bit of a mental breakdown.
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#in 2017 I experimented with Bitcoin as a way to launder Amazon gift cards #(the gift cards were legitimately obtained‚ but they were flowing in faster than we could use them ourselves) #(and taking the money in PayPal form instead was either expensive or impossible‚ depending on the exact form of menial Internet labour) #the transaction fees were insane‚ so it ended up not really being useful #a while later CryptoKitties was the big thing‚ and I exchanged my few dozen dollars of Bitcoin into Ethereum so I could poke around #turns out that petsites with real-world-trading have *vastly* more competitive economies than those without #I figured it’d be much more competitive‚ but had not realised just how much #you basically can’t do *any* merchanting on CryptoKitties unless you’re a bot #not even for the starvation wages I was hoping for #later I dumped my remaining scraps of ETH (now valued at about 50 USD) onto GiveWell to deal with #at no point did I ever turn cash into crypto or vice versa‚ and it was only ever a few dozen dollars #I feel I got off very lightly #I will stick to [things that reduce one’s expenses] and [all-in-one highly diversified ETF in a retirement fund] #for my investments‚ thank you very much #life is risky enough as it is #(especially during a *pandemic*‚ of all times!) #((yes I am familiar with the boredom markets hypothesis‚ it’s just that #”this is boring and I need to add more risk to my life to compensate” is‚ like‚ the exact opposite of my experience of 2020)) #(((as for if I run out of reasonable expense reductions and retirement-fund contribution room‚ I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it))) #(((I do have a couple preliminary ideas for how to invest in the stock market through an ordinary non-retirement account without #incurring the wrath of the IRS‚ but the rules may well change by the time it comes up #so there’s no sense in firming up those plans *too* much))) #(((just as long as I have a general idea))) #tag rambles #adventures in human capitalism #adventures in feline capitalism? #adventures in canine capitalism??
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