Sterile_Technique

And those comments sum it up nicely:

TL;DR: Share your wealth or get fucked, parasite

The message here being that it's not inherently the wealth that's the problem, but how that wealth is being used. If you land in that situation and immediately become some kind of Scrooge McDuck character: to the guillotine with you!

...but again, lottery winners are not the focus of the whole eat the rich mindset: if that's an issue you think needs to be tackled, I'd direct your focus instead to lottery systems, not just the lottery winners. Focusing on things like lottery winners is a distraction from the insanely long list of higher priorities like the Musk and Bezos figures of the world. So why even bring it up unless that distraction is your goal?

They go hand in hand: first you crack the piñata open, then its contents trickle down.

Thus far we've skipped the first part, and have been foolishly waiting for the trickle down.

Lol, go ahead and point me to a single example of a lottery winner being cited as one of the oppressive 'elite'. And if you are able to actually fine one, my answer will be "yes, in fact, that would should have their head in a basket". Having a mountain of cash dropped on you, vs exploiting a mountain of people to obtain mountains of cash are not the same thing. How this is hard to understand is beyond me.

I’m about done with lemmy and this type of thinking.

Yeah if you're gonna come here and play damage control for evil people, you're not gonna have a good time on Lemmy.

What they need isn't to be caricaturized, it's to be put on a guillotine.

Human or not doesn't mean shit: evil is evil.

Dermabond might be a little different... once it's applied, it interacts with the air to produce a thermal reaction and kind of cooks itself into place. The pain is mostly from the heat - if you've ever hit an open wound against a heating element of some kind, it's basically that. It's also not a good temporary option - if it was prepped correctly it should kind of infuse into the skin - if hospital staff needed to do something there, they'd basically need to grind your skin off.

I'm guessing the product everyone else is talking about is a bit more forgiving.

US deep south. There is no recycling... everything just goes into a landfill. It's fucking stupid.

Well then you're going to HELL, you dirty heathen!!

Surgical tech here - we use a similar in surgery sometimes called "Dermabond" (it's basically super glue for skin).

It can be good for closing a clean incision, like if you get sliced with a razor and the skin edges almost seal themselves on their own.

Jagged lacerations or open abrasions, or a flap like the previous poster described are NOT good candidates for that type of product, especially if you're awake when it's applied, cuz that stuff hurts like a motherfucker when it's drying.

Other than pain, if it dries when the skin isn't perfectly aligned, it can make scaring worse; and unless you irrigate the fuck out of it with some kind of antimicrobial solution, that's a lot of surface area to harbor a pathogen that leads to an infection. And you do not want to fuck around with things like necrotizing fasciitis (image search that if you want some nightmare fuel).

Gloves!! A pair or two of nitrile gloves takes almost no space. If you're patching up someone who isn't in your immediate circle, you have no idea what's swimming around in their blood, so always use gloves before handling it.

Similarly, another thing that I like to keep handy - but never actually see in things like commercial 1st aid kits, is a CPR sheet with a 1-way-valve: https://www.redcross.org/store/first-aid-supplies/cpr-keychains

Giving rescue breaths without it risks picking up things like oral herpes.

The general state of the world / our collective inability to learn from history.

Independence Day, then fucking nothing until bam, Thanksgiving and Christmas back to back.

Don't forget about the candy-based holiday. Gotta pre-game our feasts with some junk food.

...also Christmas isn't about food, it's about spending money you don't have on shit that people don't need, cuz if we don't, we've been trained to feel guilty. Also a lot of Qui-Gon Gin iconography around that time of year, but I don't really know what that's all about.

My point is that that's logically inconsistent. A genocide killing thousands of people and an earthquake or famine killing thousands of people both leave thousands of people dead.

The distinction is intent, which is an important factor if we're talking about will. If you stub your toe on your coffee table, there's no ill will coming from the table. If I approached you and whacked your toe with a mallet, there would be ill will coming from me. In those cases, the outcome is the same, but you'd be silly to be upset at the table; but very justified in being upset at me.

So, take something like thousands of deaths from an earthquake: in a godless universe, it's a shitty situation, but not an evil one. There's no intent: the universe has no will. Throw an omnipotent and omniscient controller into the mix and suddenly that earthquake isn't something that just happened as a result of planetary physics; it's something that was intentionally designed to happen.

...which kinda makes sense that you'd think of them as being the same, since through a theocratic lens they kind of are, it's just that ones a genocide at the hands of men, and the other's a genocide at the hands of god. Either way, both are very much evil.

When you get down to it, the only kind of world that would not run afoul of the Epicurean paradox would be a no-scarcity paradise with only 100% happy thoughts, and at that point we'd be looking at robots (or I suppose angels, if there's a material difference), not humans.

Agreed, hence my disbelief.

Worse, when you get down to it in such a world people would either lose the ability to even conceive of evil, or be prevented from committing it by an external force. Imagine if at the mall you always had an angel making you return your shopping cart, now multiply that by ten thousand times. Essentially we’re looking at a world of lobotomized robots, which to me doesn’t sound all that appealing.

I'm kind of surprised to see that's something that isn't appealing - isn't a blissful existence completely devoid of evil basically what we understand heaven to be? (or the Islamic equivalent - I'm kind of a dumbass when it comes to religious-anything outside of Christianity, so if I mislabel something or otherwise say something stupid, please call me out)

evil is baked into the concept of free will.

Disagree here as well. We are incapable of many actions - I'm sure you could rattle off hundreds of examples just off the top of your head - we can't fly, breath under water, teleport, see in the dark, speak with squirrels, etc - you get the gist. But the absence of those abilities never calls into question whether or not we have free will, they're just accepted as things we can't do despite having free will. So why is the ability to commit evil so critical to the notion of free will?

Another way to look at it: I haven't had dinner yet tonight: there are literally thousands of options to choose from, between what I have the means to cook or by having a restaurant do it for me. There's a lot of freedom in that decision. I could also satiate my hunger by abducting my neighbor's 4 year old son and committing cannibalism. In this case, my freedom is narrowed not by a divine force, but by the law: if I make that kind of evil a part of my dinner decision making, then I spend the rest of my life in prison. Let's switch to a different universe where my meal options are the same, but instead of a legal force, this time it's divine: I'm literally incapable of even considering cannibalizing my neighbor's kid, let alone performing the act. The other thousands of dinner options are there, but evil is fully off the menu... do I have free will?

Without objective morality (which immediately follows from the lack of belief in a creator), how can there be good and evil? This application of the Epicurean paradox assumes that evil can exist independent of a higher authority able to determine good and evil, so it’s a case of circular reasoning more than anything else.

Good and evil can exist without divinity because the lack of an omniscient creator means the baseline for the universe is apathy. It doesn't care if you choose to be good or bad. Those are values that we created, and that we adhere to or not according to our choice... and as we see every time we turn the news on, there's no shortage of people who choose evil. ...and the ones who are proficient at it go on to become billionaires or world leaders or w/e. None of that would make sense in a universe that had a omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god.

The Epicurean paradox can only be used to reject complete benevolence (which, well yes), not complete goodness.

Edit - misread that part earlier, sorry if you've already read this part of my reply. Anyway: I don't understand the distinction between benevolence and goodness. How can the two be offset in the context of godly absolutes?

Muslim

Full disclosure, I have no idea if the Muslim concept of god applies to the Epicurean paradox. I'm much more familiar with the Christian version which presents god as perfect in an absolute sense.

a good creator wouldn't allow their creation to suffer, or—taking it a step further—wouldn't create a world where suffering is even possible.

Yeah there's a degree of obscurity - for the sake of this conversation I'd be okay with defining evil as deliberate suffering. Step on a Lego > hurts > not evil. Stick a knife in someone or like commit genocide > very clearly evil. Idk if the former is technically incompatible with the Epicurean paradox, but we have no shortage of actual extremes to choose from, so might as well focus on those.

create a world where suffering is even possible. However, that would require human (or, really, lite in general) not to exist; give humans free will and suffering will happen.

Under the current laws of our universe, yes, but those are what are being scrutinized. The question this prompts is: is god not capable of creating free will without evil?

my answer is: I'll drop (your conception of) the first pillar. God knows about suffering and is capable of stopping it but tolerates it for one purpose or another.

Needing to drop a pillar to make god work is the point of the whole exercise: a god that's aware of evil and has the power to stop it, but chooses not to, is himself some degree of evil.

When I was a little kid, I took what I was told at face value and didn't question it.

Magical thinking is normal for little kids. By about age 7 you're supposed to have grown out of that shit though - like it's normal to still enjoy the concept of magic, but there comes a point when you should have a pretty intuitive understanding that it's fiction.

For some reason we give religion a pass.

Some old dude in a dress raving about how ghosts built the pyramids is instantly recognized as crazy; but some old dude raving about how the chief master ghost shat out our entire universe in a week is... somehow worthy of respect?

So, my religion is no religion: I believe what can be tested and verified.

The most concise test to disprove the notion of God is one of simple logic: the Epicurean paradox, which recognizes the mythology of God being composed of three core pillars: that he is 100% good (complete absence of evil), 100% powerful (his will is our reality), and 100% omniscient (he knows everything about everything)... but despite those three pillars, it takes no time at all to recognize evil behavior all around us, and for evil to be able to exist in our reality, one of those pillars must always fall.

He either doesn't know evil is happening in his universe, is powerless to stop it, or is okay with it.

Every single time a religious person attempts to address the Epicurean paradox, the just shuffle the pillars to fill in the gap left open by the missing third (feel free to take that as a challenge if you think you've got the answer).

Anyway, it became clear that at the very least, my religion wasn't being honest about the nature of its own god, and that realization was the final nail in the coffin for me.

For the rice, look specifically for "fortified" - it has things like vitamins added in. From there, unless you want to actually track your micro and macro nutrients, your best bet is to just shoot for a good variety, and that's where things like food pantries will shine, cuz (for most of them at least) their inventory will be changing constantly, so it'll force you to try things you wouldn't normally have the desire or financial access to.

This is assuming your local area has food pantries - you'll have some homework to do to find those kinds of resources. Also look into langar kitchens if there are any Sikh churches near you. I've never been to one, but heard nothing but good things.

Aren't most superpowers an infinite glitch by themselves?

Like if they used their voodoo to crank a giant turbine instead of causing or fighting crime, the entirety of the power industry instantly becomes obsolete.

SNAP.

...but for real, fortified short-grain rice, and dried beans are probably single best bang-for-buck you're gonna find. Mix in whatever's on the clearance wrack or provided by things like food pantries, and you should have no issues keeping yourself fed. Won't always be good, but it'll be dirt cheap.

Probably no catheter if it was an orchi - they do those for longer surgeries (current hospital's policy is expected duration of 3+ hours - dunno if that's universal) and orchies typically don't go that long, nor would they need a urethral landmark.

...I think my bladder tissue irritation hypothesis was probably not correct.

The best way I can describe what the pain feels like right now is when you need to piss like really crazy bad. (I don't actually have to piss though.)

That sounds like residual sensation from a Foley catheter - basically a straw that runs up your urethra and into your bladder. Once in place, the end of it's inflated inside your bladder so it doesn't pull back out, but that balloon puts pressure on the base of your bladder, and that's how your brain normally knows it's full of pee.

So, if the Foley was in place for a long surgery, that part of your bladder might have been super irritated - very common when people wake from surgery for them to feel like they urgently have to pee but the Foley was removed just before wake-up or still in place and actively draining their bladder (so we know the bladder is nearly empty either way).

I've never been in that type of surgery, so idk if they would have even used a Foley, but if yes, that's likely the culprit. If by 'balls destroyed' you mean complete genital conversion to include the penis, then Foley placement would make a lot of sense since that would act as a marker for the urethra's location as incisions around that area obscure anatomic landmarks with blood. The irritation and urge sensation would also make sense, since the Foley would have been handled a lot, making your bladder tissue REALLY angry at that balloon.

If they left the penis alone and only operated on the balls, then /shrug.

Good luck with your recovery, and follow your post op instructions to the letter! That's a high infection chance area, so don't take any risks!

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Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

Time for the piñata economy!

Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?

What all would you pack into a mini portable first aid kit?

How does trash collection/recycling work where you live, and do you like the system?

None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

What all would you pack into a mini portable first aid kit?

What all would you pack into a mini portable first aid kit?

None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

Why do you personally believe in your religion?

Why do you personally believe in your religion?

Why do you personally believe in your religion?

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

What super powers when used together create an infinite glitch?

What would be the most optimal way to have good bodily nutrition with the lowest cost per meal?

Got my balls destroyed today

Got my balls destroyed today

What are some good songs about thriving in a chaotic environment?

What's a good song choice for a nurse pinning/graduation ceremony?

Looking for 'Machinima' like episodic series that role-play through games (not 'lets play' vids, but actually in-character)

Audiophiles, I need your advice. Looking for a mobile option for a bluetooth connected speaker that can play in the 20-100 hz range.

What are some of the weirdest songs on your playlist?

Seems like the perfect day to ask: Muricans, what's your dream country to expatriate to? Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?

'Gaming' keyboard that isn't mechanical?

LF 3.5mm 'silencer' plugs, and/or other ways to fuck with TVs in public areas that are blasting Fox all the time...

Best alternative to WhatsApp?

What kind of mic should I use to record lectures in a large classroom?

Tinkerers of Lemmy: I need a materials suggestion to modify a headset.

Anyone have luck with a hair growth inhibitor? Especially my fellow gentledudes who could be mistaken for sasquatch after skipping a day of shaving.

Early 2000's Machinimas... anything modern to scratch that nostalgic itch?

Bone conduction headphones?

A hospital recruiter sent me a sales pitch to get me to apply to a surgical tech position - this image was attached, and the more I look at it, the worse it gets. Breakdown in comments.

What MMOs are you all playing?