They can get your actual region off your billing details for subscription pricing. The content availability might vary by IP, but the pricing is going to go off your billing address. That’s why I pay taxes on some of my subscription services is because my state has a tax on that while other states don’t. When signing up for a new service, it doesn’t show me the total with tax until I enter my address.

The pre-exposure prophylaxis shot is also pretty amazing. The initial clinical trials in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrated a 0% HIV infection rate for people receiving the shot every 6 months as directed.

This one’s more likely to result in homicidal rage than suicidal despair. Probably still a bad time.

(For something with a completely opposite effect, I highly recommend K-Pop Demon Hunters. It’s so fun and the animation is amazing.)

If you need to get your heart rate and blood pressure up without doing actual exercise, check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on RFK Jr.

It was just announced in Nature a week ago. It’s extremely recent news. (Of note, the article talks about how it is successful in instigating a strong immune response, but that doesn’t always translate to immunity.)

Methylene blue is an actual antidote for methemoglobinemia which is a blood disorder in which red blood cells become really bad at releasing oxygen. It’s usually caused by a reaction to certain drugs like lidocaine or compounds containing nitrites. It looks like methemoglobinemia can be caused by “poppers” (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).

Here’s an article from the Cleveland Clinic that goes into more detail.

The “poppers” thing is probably why RFK Jr takes methylene blue because he likely thinks its a way to prevent HIV. (For which there is now a pre-exposure prophylaxis shot with a nearly 100% success rate and progress on a vaccine…but it’s an mRNA vaccine so RFK is trying to kill it.)

I’m pretty sure that’s a state-by-state code. I know in California PC5150 is the code for removing someone’s rights for being a danger to themselves or others for the purpose of a compulsory mental health examination.

If you cannot bring yourself to listen to small talk and engage with people regularly, I don’t think healthcare is the right field for you. I’m fairly introverted myself, but I turn that around to listening more than speaking and responding thoughtfully to the things I hear. I believe that I can speak with some authority on this as I have worked in healthcare (mostly ERs) for years, and I am going to be graduating medical school soon.

I will say this bluntly: as a physician, I would be hesitant to trust a nurse that cannot engage with others. Not only is healthcare a team sport, patient care is 90% social interaction. If I can’t trust you to engage with my patients in a way that is reassuring and comforting to them, I don’t want you involved any more than strictly necessary. The fact that you can’t get along with your coworkers is the canary in the coal mine for how you are likely interacting with patients.

I put month and year for start and end dates and keep my CV updated regularly.

I work in the medical field, and everything you are saying is complete nonsense. If you’re applying for medical school or nursing school or something, talking about that experience can be part of a personal statement or entrance essay, but it has no place on a CV or resume. To a certain extent, taking care of loved ones should be a basic requirement for being human, not a special experience or qualification for any kind of job.

This is highly industry-dependent. When I was working in IT and systems admin, I had a lot of contract/temp jobs that were still valuable experiences. My resume after finishing university would have been blank if I left those 3-6 month contracts off because that’s how you get your foot in the door in a lot of fields.

I do this now and didn’t have to as a kid…however, I have a weird kidney problem where my kidneys will just dump water, whether or not I have the water to spare. This means that I have a minimum water requirement of 4 liters a day. It’s not as bad as when I was on a really horrible medication that started the whole issue. When I was on that medication I had to drink about 4 gallons of water a day.

End result: I have a stupid party trick where I can down a liter of fluid in about 10 seconds, and a gallon of fluid in about 5 to 10 minutes depending on how recently I’ve eaten. (I did give myself water poisoning once, but that took 8 gallons over about 14 hours)

Edit: Also, having multiple water bottles means I have somewhere to put all my awesome stickers!

That is astonishingly stupid.

Ft Leavenworth is the military’s prison. They don’t send civilians there.

It is absolutely nonsense. People are subjected to stronger, more direct magnetic fields all the time in MRI’s, and MRI’s are substantially safer than most other imaging modalities in medicine (besides ultrasound). The amount of radiation from non-atmospheric sources vastly outweighs the cosmic (non-UV) radiation humans are subjected to, to the point that it’s not really even worth considering outside of maybe astronauts or people who take long-haul high altitude flights extremely frequently.

The amount of ferrous material in blood is negligible at best, and there’s an estimated 3 to 4 grams of iron in the entire human body. The pressure from your heart pumping and the relatively high percentage of blood’s mass that is not iron (about 5kg) means that the effect of the iron if it was responsive to magnetic fields is slim to none.

I’m in my 30’s and my Dad still refers to me as “kiddo” sometimes.

Yeah, my old desktop computer is getting turned into my first dedicated Linux machine and my current desktop isn’t getting updated to 11 until October 13th.

“Then” means that you will be doing something subsequently. “Than” means that you will be doing something instead of something else. Normally this is a grammatical nitpick, but it actually changes the meaning of your sentence by using the wrong word.

Subaru has great safety ratings and the “used Subaru tax” (as in, a used Subaru tends to be more expensive) is because they are very good cars. They have some of the best safety ratings on the market.

…except that we do know what gets put in every medication. Every ingredient has to be registered and tested, and if they change the formulation at all, they have to test it again to make sure it’s safe.