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Star trek x SpongeBob quotes – Part 1

(Part 2 – Part 3)

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#Star Trek #SpongeBob SquarePants #text quote posts #art #fanart #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(…although ”licking doorknobs is illegal on other planets” kind of hits different now‚ huh) #(when I was a kid it was just this out-of-the-blue incongruous thing to be illegal) #(but now ”to lick doorknobs” is slang for doing something ridiculously/needlessly dangerous to show off how little you care about risk) #(a little like ”yoloing” was in its day‚ but #”yoloing” was sometimes appreciative while ”licking doorknobs” is always derogatory or at least sarcastic) #((also ”licking doorknobs” carries connotations of being specifically uncaring about *disease* risk‚ but #I would expect that by extension it *can* be used for other dangerous stunts)) #(((…*is* this an actual change in our language‚ a thing that once was not and now is‚ or #is it just a coincidence of what I’ve happened to encounter?))) #(((maybe doorknob-licking always meant this; maybe it never did and still doesn’t))) #tag rambles #illness tw?

Anonymous asked: Your anti-nausea food is a BLT?? I love it but that’s chaotic. When I think of anti-nausea food I think of, like, honey tea. Hot milk. White rice. Hearing someone say their anti-nausea food is a BLT is like hearing someone say that they unwind after a stressful day by breaking into their neighbour’s house and rearranging the cutlery.

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tototavros:

if it’s really important I’ll put bean sprouts or maybe an egg on it but i also think that prairie oysters are a good idea but a little much for the modern age whereas many people tend towards revulsion

if i’m nauseous i’m probably already drinking lots of water and gatorade so honey tea is just adding more liquids to already too much liquid, i’m confused and mildly turned off of milk[1] tho hot milk is the best way and i would *love* to be able to have serving size heavy cream for warming some of that up, and rice reminds me of descriptions of large znttbgf (rot13’d because I don’t like looking at the word)

blt is simple, if i don’t feel like grain, i just eat the rest like a salad (easy on the gut) or i might take off some tomato (too acidic); bacon and bread are easy on me, mayo only as long as i don’t make the sandwich myself (weird but w/e)

[1]: i had frozen milk for my school milk too many times in a row, then one day i was desperate for cereal, only to find that the milk at home had frozen. I rarely drank milk after that (occasionally if i overshoot on spice but that’s hard to do, i’m not averse to lattes but prefer warm to hot milk and as creamy as they can get).

I’m pretty much with anon here: I did not know how much variation there was in anti-nausea foods, and it’s fascinating.

Bacon is one of the *worst* things for me to eat if I’m already not feeling well: greasy foods give me stomachaches. I don’t use honey tea or hot milk, but I can kind of see those (in theory I can also see white rice, but yeah I do sometimes struggle with the appearance).

I like mint for acute anti-nausea. (Usually just peppermint oil on a cotton ball for the smell, but occasionally edible mint.) For longer-term “halfway through a 300-hour stomach bug and trying to get some calories into me”, [popcorn popped in moderate amounts of canola oil] and to a lesser extent graham crackers.

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embryu:

Germophobic angel.

#brin-bellway is this you (itsbenedict)

We shall cleanse this world with fire and the needle.

(the swords are a metaphor)

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(date of origin: June 7th, 2019)

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https://brin-bellway.dreamwidth.org/106766.html

@rustingbridges​ replied: “how expired are expired filters anyway. what causes them to go bad”

I’m not sure.

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Some googling *suggests* that shelf lives for particulate filters are mostly a legal fiction, with a side of “the longer it sits around, the more opportunities for it to get physically damaged without you noticing”. Gas filters have a finite capacity to absorb gas which is eventually used up even just with normal traces of stuff in the air (I’ve noticed that the added nuisance-vapour filtration in my P100s stops working after 3 – 4 months of use), which vastly broadens the scope of possible “physical damage you didn’t notice” (a pinhole in the formerly-airtight packaging might do it). (Also gas filters fail open, so using a gas filter you falsely believed to have capacity left in it could severely fuck you over depending on how toxic the gas is.)

I wouldn’t want to bet my health on it, especially since 20 USD for [a primary set + a spare set] every few years is pretty cheap. But I think I’d take a ten-year-old P100 over a cloth mask, if those were my options.

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For disposables, the main problem seems to be the nosepiece and edging, which break down and deform over time and make it harder to seal the respirator properly.

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(For the record, I’ve been replacing my filters every four months or so when I can smell the ethylene or whatever the fuck it is stinking up the walk-in refrigerator at work (I assume nobody else has noticed it because for them it’s being drowned out by the particulate scents), but keeping all of the old filters in their original boxes (which have opening dates Sharpied on them) on a shelf in my bedroom. *Germs* don’t clog filters, but *smoke* does: if–and I would not be remotely surprised if this happens, with the way the world’s been going [link]–I find myself dealing with smoky air on a scale of months with a rickety-at-best supply chain, I may be glad to have those filters on hand.))

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arbitrarygreay asked: How did you select your mask model and filter number? And how did you decide to select the “medium” size mask?

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Model: It’s the one recommended by The Prepared [link].

(I’ve found The Prepared to be very helpful in general. I’m glad Scott Alexander offhandedly mentioned it in his first coronavirus link roundup.)

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Filter number: I just grabbed compatible P100s that were in stock at the time. Getting nuisance-vapour filtration was an accident, but a happy one: I already associated level-of-reduction-in-sense-of-smell with level-of-protection-from-airborne-hazards from my pre-existing practice of wearing surgical masks to keep pollen out of my airways, and as such, respirator-specific anosmia is deeply reassuring to my subconscious.

(I even used it at home to keep me from gagging while I cleaned out rotten food [link], though the smell in question might well have also been blockable by a plain P100.)

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Size: the Amazon Q&A said that most people are a medium (The Prepared also mentions most people being a medium, though in the context of full-face respirators), and I did not have a particular reason to think that I needed an unusually small or large size. The medium has worked out fine, though I wouldn’t be surprised if a small would also work for me.

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brin-bellway asked: Thank you so much for the heads-up on how P100 respirators are obtainable now! I just got one and I expect my “”essential work”” fast-food shift tonight to be much less terrifying.

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nuclearspaceheater:

Glad to help.

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lifehacksthatwork:

So simple yet so effective!

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#the nosepieces on both of my masks are starting to wear out #a couple weeks ago I started taping them shut with bandaids on this post’s advice #it’s working great and I want everyone to know about this method #illness tw? #covid19 #allergies #the more you know #(I’ve already shared this tip with one receptive-looking customer and she called it ”brilliant”) #(I hope she makes good use of it)

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titaniumelemental:

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titaniumelemental:

Everyone gets excited over “I Voted” stickers, so why don’t we have “I Got a Flu Shot Today” stickers? Pharmacies should have rolls of these at the counter. People could proudly display their sticker or else complain on social media that their local CVS or whatever didn’t do stickers and then we can all shame CVS into buying more stickers. It would be a public health breakthrough to be quite honest.

More places need to do what Walgreens does because I plastered this pic EVERYWHERE when I got my flu shot

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Heck yes.

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#yes this #although I think for best results it does need to be a separate sticker and not a patterned bandage #who’s going to see a sticker on your upper arm during turtleneck season? #illness tw? #influenza #vaccines

You Do Not Owe Staying to a Failed City

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rustingbridges:

I mean, I’m primarily leaving because of the rents, with a secondary helping of excessive low level disorder and general shittiness. but the coronavirus response makes clear that neither the government nor the people is able to make anything better.

at this point the primary argument in favor of sticking it out a bit is that I think new york got rolled hard enough on the first wave that we won’t have a substantial second one. but I was planning on this being my last year and I don’t think I’ll change that.

I enjoyed living here, and I’m glad I moved to new york when I did. but it’s time to go.

 

rustingbridges:

tototavros

where are you planning on heading?

that’s the big q! I’m almost certainly staying in the US long term – all of my friends and family are here and it’s still the richest place on the earth, despite its various problems – so that narrows the options a lot. I’m getting to the point in life where I’m about ready to settle down, so ideally wherever I move is a strong contender for decades of residence.

I want to live near at least a mid size city, because I enjoy the products of modern civilization. on the east coast, the only city with a climate that is even borderline habitable is Boston.

the west coast is about to fall into the ocean but with some forethought it seems reasonable to bet on it staying attached for 30 years. and they have great weather patterns, so that’s the vague direction of attention. I have gut feelings about west coast cities but honestly should do some more research.

tbh I really wish america had a city that had tall buildings, decent weather, and wasn’t totally falling apart, but it really doesn’t. actually not sure if there are any cities in the world that meet all three criteria tbh

 

ponteh2dhh1ksdiwesph2tres:

there are no cities in america that meet all three criteria, but there are plenty of cities in europe that do. if you relax your definition of “tall”. western europe isn’t a good long-term bet, but bremen has tallish buildings and decentish weather – it still gets too hot sometimes, but it’s not as bad as boston, which despite being so far north by american standards (it’s actually on about the same latitude as istanbul and madrid) gets hellish in the summer – and isn’t falling apart yet.

i don’t know what a good place would be for long-term settlement. in the absence of a better idea i’m inclined to stay in the still-habitable parts of the mid-atlantic – somewhere between martinsburg and westminster, probably. but given indefinite time and funds to investigate places to move, and safe air travel, i’d probably want to check out, like, boise.

if it doesn’t sound bad, it probably is bad – the point is that generic urbanites should stay out. many fleeing californians, new yorkers, etc. won’t learn from their mistakes, and will push for the same damn things in texas and virginia. some people who really ought to know better fled to austin, and i’ll try to be polite about it when they flee again.

 

rustingbridges:

if you relax your definition of “tall”. western europe isn’t a good long-term bet

yeah, I’m prepared to do this, since America only has two cities with tall buildings and they’re both falling apart and have subpar climates. north/western europe has good weather – it is the environment for which this particular ape is adapted. the problem with europe is money – afaict if I lived there I should expect a much lower salary and a generally lower standard of living. having lots of money lets you buy your way out of a lot of social problems, so I’d rather just do that and also live within a couple time zones of my friends and family.

boston, which despite being so far north by american standards (it’s actually on about the same latitude as istanbul and madrid)

Fake, Madrid is closer to parallel with New York. for Boston a better parallel would be Sofia or Bishkek

boise

if you think Boston is hellish in the summer I’ve got bad news for you about the entire continental interior. Boise’s not too humid in summer so I guess you can go outside at night, but you might want to look further north

anyway long term settlement isn’t real. ruining a place is a long term process, if it’s fine when you get there it’ll probably last long enough to make it work for you

The traditional place for people sick of the United States’ bullshit to fuck off to is southern Canada, and there are many good reasons for that. You can usually get the same timezone you were in before, you can visit the Old Country via land transport, the culture shock is pretty mild, you get used to the winter cold after a few years (it took me about six years to reach a point where -10C wasn’t a big deal anymore, and you can usually arrange to not go outside when it occasionally hits -20) and the summers rarely go above 85F or so, often spending long stretches in the 70s.

(I switched measurement systems in the middle there because I find that moving to a cooler climate and switching measurement systems at the same time helps you cultivate a useful double standard. 10C *feels warmer* than 50F, and just because -10C doesn’t seem so bad anymore doesn’t mean 14F will be fine (likewise, 90F being okay doesn’t mean 32C will be).)

My dad fucked off to Canada after seeing how badly the U.S. was handling the aftermath of 9/11, taking his family with him, and every so often I’m like “have I thanked you lately for getting me here?”.

(He’s said his second choice was New Zealand, but living upside-down would take a lot more getting used to, and while people on isolated islands are doing great right *now* it’s not *always* a plus.)

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OP draws a weird dichotomy of people who don’t want to move being “people who base their entire personal identity on emotional attachment to a place”.

I wouldn’t say I strongly identify with this specific place, but I *do* strongly want *somewhere* decent to put down roots. My reluctance to move is primarily a reluctance to move *in full generality*, rather than a reluctance to move *away from here*.

(I feel kind of bad sometimes about not having done more exploration before settling down to exploit, but exploration of living-place options is expensive in more ways than one. I doubt I would find anything *enough* better to justify all the unpleasantness of instability, especially since I accidentally hit an area with a reputation for plentiful jobs in my field on the first try.)

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