Honest answer the right doesn’t seem to have any good positions now. They are against fighting climate change, against tolerance, anti-science, and they speak of fiscal responsibility but instead of tax and spend they just spend. They are way too much into mindless defiance and dirty politics. And they are the most hypocritical “do as I say, not as I do” party IMO.
Not so much scared but really freaked out to a point were we just said “fuck it, let’s get out of here and never talk about it again”.
It was a really warm and nice summer day some years back. I was out with my brother strolling through the countryside with my brother. In just a t-shirt, shorts and barefoot. We took some LSD and really just enjoyed having a very scenic and relaxing walk.
So we were just strolling along, walking between some fields and the edge of a small forest, when it started to smell quite badly. That’s not that unsual near fields, so we walked on. There was a small clearing in the forest and there was a hunting stand. We continued to walk across the clearing and the smell got worse. Then one of us discovered something on the ground. It was a patch of bloody fur.
Now we’re both expirenced with LSD and hadn’t taken that much, but we still confirmed with each other that we’re both looking a bit of bloody fur and made sure we saw and smelled all the same things. We did. After some more walking we discovered more and more bloody bits of fur, flesh and even some bones. They were sprinkeld all over the place. It looked like some animal literally exploded. Though there was no main body, just the bits and pieces everywhere.
At this point we again confirmed with each other that what we saw and that we’re both in control and not tripping.
We then decided that this all was a bit too much and we should head home and not worrie about it right now. On the way home we confirmed with each other again that this actually just happened. But I’ve rarley thought or talked about it since then.
The more critical a situation is, the slower and more deliberately I move because mistakes waste time. We have a saying “slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” Validate and verify everything.
Validate monitoring: Is that heart rate or blood pressure really that high or low? Don’t just believe the computer monitor, grab a stethoscope and listen to the chest, grab a manual BP and double check. Does the appearance of the patient correlate with what the numbers say? (ie: does the human being look as sick as those numbers imply?)
Verify interventions: I think to myself “clamp that line, unclamp this line, attach that device, open this lid, engage the safety on this needle” with every action. Repeat out loud to colleagues in the room what you’re going to do, then after you’ve done it, say out loud again what you just did. Especially if you do something out of the ordinary or unexpected.
Like yesterday, we had a patient who suddenly had symptoms of a myocardial infarction (“heart attack”), had some concerning findings on EKG, so we were trying to draw blood labs urgently and having such a hard time that one of the doctors even had a needle trying to help us. I was leaving the room to get more supplies and I took a bunch of trash with me, so I took the 3 seconds to count what I was holding and said out loud, “There are no sharps in the bed, you guys, I have them all,” because we were just laying discarded needles (with safeties engaged) on top of the bed blanket.
Two minutes is an eternity when life is on the line. Slow down, don’t hurry, do things on purpose, double check what you’re doing. That’s a lesson applicable to a surprising number of life situations
Stackoverflow and the associated sites are more or less like that. It sometimes has problems with overzealous users marking tangentially related questions as duplicates but overall it seems to work.
Downvoting costs karma and it’s encouraged to give reasons for a downvote. If an answer is outdated a newer answer often quickly rises to the top and often enough the original answerer will promote the better answer. And you can also edit other people’s answers and you can see an edit history.
But it only works if there are enough knowledgeable people participating. It’s especially bad with new questions because either the question is low quality or the first answer which gets accepted by the questioner right away is bullshit.
Alcohol is generally well tolerated in reasonable quantities, the common ink cap mushroom is edible, but if eaten alongside alcohol it becomes poisonous
The gases of Hydrochloric Acid and Ammonia mixed together form Ammonium chloride. Which, among other things, is used as salmiak to make salty licorice.
I remember making this in high school, it’s the very first thing that pops in my head whenever I think of bad + bad = good. Granted, you must like salty licorice, or it’ll be bad + bad = disgusting :)
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