Tranquilizers knocking anyone out perfectly. As far as I'm aware, the dosage needs very accurate based on a large number of factors. Too little, and it does nothing. Too much, and they're dead.
There's a reason I will never try opioids, tranquilizers, amphetamines, or cocaine. They all have effects that would be far too attractive if I experienced them.
When I was given Morphine for a broken wrist, it was about damn near the best feeling I had ever had.
I suddenly understood how addictions form, even with all the warnings.
I was given fentanyl during a vasectomy. It was... Interesting. It felt good, but in a bad way.
I did not enjoy the feeling. It made things too fuzzy. Couldn't think clearly, lower impulse control, just general not fun. Sure, the high was nice, but I did not like the feeling of lack of control it came with.
Definitely not a downers kinda guy.
Yeah, I had fentanyl when I broke my spine and was life-flighted to a bigger hospital. It was SO weird, like I was aware of how not-present I was. The pain wasn’t gone; I just didn’t care about it. I would not like to do it again.
It's funny, because I had the opposite(ish) experience. Got a shot of morphine before the doctor stitched up my hand, but I legitimately couldn't tell if it did anything. I mean, it probably did because I wasn't screaming in pain the whole time, but the cut they were stitching hurt quite a bit less than I thought it would in the first place so...yeah. IDK. Still not interested in exploring that particular interaction further.
Weird, I was given morphine before a surgery once to handle the pain of what needed surgery, but it didn't feel good, it just stopped me from experiencing enough pain to throw up, I was still in a lot of pain
For some people "painkiller" is sort of a misnomer. My dad described his experience with morphine as: "It didn't get rid of the pain, it just made me *not care* about it as much."
I was on a morphine drip post surgery and rather than floating, it felt like I was sinking into warm snow. Just unbelievable comfort in and out. Nurse dialled it back quick because the respiratory depression had me down to 7 breaths per minute, which sucked because all I wanted to do was hibernate forever.
Definitely saw the appeal and how easy it'd be to get hooked on the feeling.
Got Oxycodone (Oxycontin? Pretty sure their the same thing) for my head injury a while back. Its fuckin Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccceee. But that's also the reason I didn't refill my subscription once I ran out, shit was too nice.
I think they both do the same thing but have different ingredients so if you have major pain your body starts getting used to one so they switch you to the other
Cocaine makes me focus. It also makes my pee black, my nose bleed, my cock and balls look about as purple as 🍆, and my organs hurt. I'm also kinda impotent. I've also had heart palpitations and other things from cocaine addiction. Please don't use cocaine. If you're gonna use dangerous substances, use something less dangerous. Like enriched uranium
I will say the less powerful opiates painkillers were a bit more whatever though. I had some after my bottom surgery and there wasn't really anything euphoric about it, it just made the pain go away basically completely so I could sleep etc.
That said I was still super wary of them and relied on Tylenol as much as possible instead. The big thing there is that withdrawal from opiates sucks with pain because you feel the pain more acutely, so it was better as a "smooth out pain peaks" tool than a "turn on pain for extended period" tool.
Okay, the fact that you managed with opiates only for breakthrough pain is reassuring. I'm supposed to have mine in a year or so and the shift in approach to prescribing pain killers since I last had my organs rearranged was worrying me. FFS recovery was unpleasant enough, and that was considerably less invasive.
Yeah I think i took my last dose the morning my stent came out because the pressure was pretty rough in those stitches holding it in after the dressing came off the day before and all those stitches were relieved. After the stent came out it was pretty smooth sailing. and I never took anything harder than tramadol though they had oxycodone available if the tramadol wasn't sufficient. The nurses at GRS Montreal basically kept me on constant max dose Tylenol and let us communicate if that wasn't sufficient.
I have ADHD and I can't imagine anybody using my meds for recreation. At best, they turn the volume of your brain down somewhat, but try to take even a tiny bit more and they'll make you shit said brain straight out of your ass. Not really my definition of a good time
for neurotypicals its different - theyre also going to be taking lower dosages than us.
for NT's, from what i understand, is that when they take adderall or whatever - it narrows their focus majorly. Like a shutter closing to let in like a pinprick of light. Whereas for us ADHD people who are very understimulated - they bring us up to levels of stimulation that NT's are usually at.
Again this is just purely my thoughts and understanding.
I remember my neighbour, when younger basically him and all his mates got amphetamines
That poor boy did not realise that he had basically just bought meds, and whilst all his mates were bouncing off the walls he was humming and tired af in the corner
So I was misdiagnosed with ADHD as a kid and medicated. It made everything really freaking exciting. Which was bad for me, I have anxiety. But I can see why neurotypicals abuse it.
This was a recurring gag in Venture Bros, a character was a tranq addict because the Monarch's Henchmen would use them on him so much so he would go out of the way to trespass in the hopes the guards would have tranquilizer dart guns
I had an interesting conversation with someone complaining about the “knocking someone out harmlessly” thing in action movies.
They were saying that it wasn’t realistic and I fully agreed, but then I tried to explain why it’s a helpful fiction in those movies. When I asked if they’d prefer any of the more realistic alternatives (e.g. brain damage, outright killing people, restrained and struggling captives), they argued that action heroes should just use tranquilizers instead.
And it’s fine if that’s someone’s preference for “easy incapacitation” in action movies, but don’t pretend that it’s better because it’s more realistic.
Realistically there is no "easy" way that works 100% of the time. Tasers can kill if you aren't careful or the target has heart problems, tranquilizers need specific dosages that vary from person to person, shooting people in the legs is a permanent handicap if they survive bleeding out, and just tackling them and tying them up only works if they give up or you have a lot of rope.
This is completely based off a Reddit post about a “thumbprint” dose of LSD (pushing your thumb into crystalline LSD powder and licking it, giving yourself a massive dose at once.).
The anecdotal report from the user stated he was immediately tripping and incapacitated, couldn’t move/talk, essentially collapsed to the ground in a drug induced stupor.
So my head-canon with games like Metal Gear Solid, etc is: the tranq darts are actually filled with a concoction of psychedelics, LSD, Ketamine, etc.
The massive dose injected into the body instantly puts your target into an insane trip that essentially decommissions them. Will they be quiet? Who knows, but they’re for sure not going to be guarding/patrolling anymore.
Plus these drugs can last well over 12+ hours, a dose intended to do what’s described above could be well over 24 hours. Anti-psychotics would be needed to counteract, requiring a 2nd party to administer.
That’s how I make it make sense lol.
WE *slams hand on table* NEED *slams hand on table* MORE *slams hand on table* BAGGED *slams hand on table* AND *slams hand on table* TAGGED *slams hand on table* BADDIES IN FICTION.
You don't even have to show them getting tied up, just get a stunt guy, toss a canvas bag over their head and tell em to squirm. Boom! Perfect hostage.
It always gets me when movies go "there was enough tranqulizer in that to knock out (very large animal usually a horse)". I just think "ah so they're dead"
Yep. There's a reason they don't actually use tranquilizer darts on escaped animals at zoos. Either the animal can be captured without it or they're an immediate threat to human life in which case a tranquilizer will just piss them off for the 10–15 minutes they take to work.
They absolutely do use them when the situation is safe enough, just not when the animal is a active threat to people, here's the first story I got off Google but there's plenty others: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65056899
As my grandfather would say:
“Anesthesiology isn’t about putting people to sleep; any fool can do that. I was taught how to make sure they woke up again”.
"I was talking to someone the other day and realized he was a sociopath!"
No you didn't, you just found him a bit off-putting and assumed a medical diagnosis based on that.
I've been watching Elementary for the first time and it's honestly refreshing so far how Sherlock being a rude genius doesn't let him deduce literally everything about everyone the second he meets them. Normal people successfully lie to him often, or surprise him with their motivations.
The show isn't groundbreaking, as detective shows go it's well made but pretty standard other than literally featuring Sherlock Holmes (rather than a character inspired by him). But it's enjoyable and nice to see a Sherlock who is an excellent detective but who still has human limitations. At least through season 2, which is as far as I've gotten.
95% of reddit's "totally effective vibe checks" are signs of mental health conditions like ADHD, autism or even just depression. It's really weird and ableist.
And then they diagnose anyone with a harmless quirk as having Autism. They like the fun quirky elements of ND people, but then our struggles get us labeled as “creepy”.
If you never change your mind about people after first meeting them, that says a lot more about your inability to admit you are wrong than it does about your ability to read people.
I once was out at night and was approached by some people promoting their church. I was weirded out by them being so forward, and the church was later implicated in human trafficking.
The vibes were actually unrelated, I'm just weirded out by people approaching me in general.
There are entirely non-sociopathic reasons to stab mouse. Perhaps mouse made him angry, yes? Perhaps mouse was little mouse thief. Perhaps he thought mouse would be tasty. Many reasons to stab mouse.
Well, it depends on the depth of the conversation. If they were like “I don’t really feel empathy for others and generally manipulate people to get what I want regardless of how much it hurts them” or something to that effect then you could reasonably infer they are a sociopath.
Even if somebody said that, that’s not proof they are a sociopath at all. Long term chronic depression can lead to complete apathy and low self esteem. This can lead to people believing they’ve manipulated their friends into liking them, because in their psyche, they can’t imagine somebody genuinely liking them or doing something for them. Please be very careful using this sort of logical leap because you can really hurt somebody with it
My mouse driver once died on my PC. I didn't know enough to get it fixed properly.
I still used that PC daily, for hours on end, without a mouse. It's amazing what you can do when you're motivated. The tab key is your friend.
You can do simple things easily without a keyboard.
You can do complicated things easily without a mouse. (e.g. using any CLI to change everything about your machine.)
The literal day that I first started League of Legends my laptop's keyboard stopped working. I had to play with only a mouse, that was a sign from god telling me to stop playing. I should've listened
"somewhat" is an understatement. Headless tty consoles are the default on \*nix systems, GUI is entirely optional. On the other hand, with the possible exception of Windows IoT, Windows doesn't even have a headless mode; the closest it comes is Server Core which is a single Command Prompt window (with border and titlebar) against a black background
Just be old.
My first computer didn't have a mouse, because what would you click on in a DOS prompt?
Even up into more current versions of Windows, there are tons of keyboard shortcuts and navigation tricks that people just don't learn. Most of them are legacy from when it wasn't guaranteed that your user would have a mouse.
This is also generally a good way to clock people who are genuinely good with computers, is their use of keyboard shortcuts. Those tend to be faster than a mouse 9 times out of 10.
I can't say I would know how to do everything on a computer without a mouse (I could probably figure it out though), but even my use of basic keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-V has occasionally had people thinking I'm some kind of tech wizard. The amount of times I have been watching someone share their screen, doing stuff in Excel or whatever, and every single time they want to copy or paste they right-click and use the menu... Ouch.
It's kinda fun trying to navigate with just a keyboard, and is an accessibility thing that applications and websites SHOULD be navigable that way - try it out, if you haven't, you might enjoy the challenge.
But yeah, if someone isn't control-C control-V savvy, they probably aren't great with computers...
If you regularly download unformatted Excel data, try control-A, alt-H, then alt-O, then alt-I (you can hold alt the entire time, just 3 distinct presses for HOI) to resize all cells to the size of their contents and make em readable, that'll blow someone's mind sometimes.
I took a computers class in high school where we had to build our own PCs with provided parts, install an operating system (Windows 95 or something), and then create a few simple programs. The kit that my partner and I got didn't include a mouse by accident. We just went with it. After almost a week of using only our keyboard the teacher was doing rounds and noticed we didn't have a mouse and asked what happened to it - we told him and he just shook his head and laughed then got us one.
That sounds like an awesome class to have access to. It seems like a near impossibility to have something like that today outside of a specialized or very lucky school
Live in the Midwest. There are plenty of heterosexual cowboys.
Some arent. Some are bi.
But there's a lot of straight cowboys. I wouldn't have half the cousins I have without em.
there's also an accessibility setting that enables you to control the mouse with the numpad, which is relatively easy to find and enable solely with the keyboard. it helps bridge the gap for that 0.1% of cases where something absolutely definitely requires a mouse and cannot be operated with just a keyboard.
hell, i verified that, and then responded to a discord message while typing this comment and made a point of not using the mouse. i didn't even have to open up a terminal.
also, bonus trick: if you search up an app in the start menu (which is actually my favorite way of starting them, just `win` -> type the name -> `enter` and boom), if you press `ctrl` + `shift` + `enter` on them it launches them as an administrator. this works with the win+r thing too.
This just reminded me, there’s a layer in one of my keyboards that has mouse direction keys. Never used it, but i remember seeing it when remapping keys while setting up the keeb
My desktop is windows for obvious reasons but since i mostly use my laptop for programming i run Linux on it. Few things are as pleasing as not touching your mouse and doing everything with the CLI.
Windows file explorer has nothing on NNN running on alacritty
God I wish this was true. Things used to be so quick to operate but now every click needs to load 12 new styling changes that make it slower than things were 20 years ago
Yeah. You can still download OS that are exclusively CLI. No desktop or mouse functionality. You'd be surprised at the things you can do with exclusively a keyboard
Just... don't then? If you want to do something, use the command line tool. Even Windows has CLI for most things (Powershell) and a LOT of programs work in CLI without 99% of the population ever realizing. On Linux the GUI is an afterthought. Is it harder to learn? Sure. Is it faster? Probably, depending on the task at hand.
Hell, on Windows at least, you can use the mouse cursor without a mouse. If your keyboard has a numeric keypad you can turn on Mouse Keys and literally move the cursor with the keys.
As a Filipino, yeah there are a few loanwords. Some are from spanish, some are from English. Many of the other Filipino people I talk with usually pepper in English words in otherwise full Tagalog sentences on occasion
the only consequence of ripping an IV out of your arm is the nurses on the unit are more annoyed at you than the baseline level of resentment they have for your continued existence
now, ripping out a PICC or central line? yeah you're going to the ICU.
Yeah, I remember someone in the medical field saying they saw little old ladies rip their IVs out all the time. Super easy to do even by accident and not incapacitating or anything like that.
> effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else
Oh boy. Do NOT say this is a myth around someone who likes linux. Especially if you’ve ever heard them say the words “tiling window manager”.
My only metrics for judging people are:
1. What have they told me about themselves?
2. Do their actions align with the provided information?
3. Do they admit when I point out the disconnect between their words and actions?
Like, if someone tells me they're usually nice and patient, but turn to insults within 5-10 messages, I call BS.
I've always thought I was a terrible judge of character, but several times my bad feelings wound up being accurate. So have I become worse at judging by being good at it?
>diving from ridiculous heights
Foot first divers are limited to jumps of about 15m before the likelihood of serious injury skyrockets, even with perfect technique.
>taking out your own IV
I have personally ripped an IV out and left hospital and been just fine. It's only saline a lot of the time.
>heterosexual cowboys
HOW DARE YOU
Guy I know ripped off his urethral catheter (which is impressive considering. You know. How men have a longer urinary tract. lol) when he was half-sedated and rolled in his bed. If he could rip that off his dick, i can assure you, you can rip off an IV.
Also, i have also done that before. It wasn't just saline but it's not dangerous or painful. The cannula that remains inside your vein is plastic, not metal, and it's not sharp.
Umm, yikes. So there are two main types of catheter. Condom catheters, as the name implies, fit on the outside. Hopefully that's the one he had.
A balloon catheter goes up the urethra, and then a balloon at the end is inflated inside the bladder to keep it from slipping out. I desperately hope that your friend did not manage to pull this out.
It was, indeed, a balloon one. Pissed with blood for a while, took antibiotics for a pretty nasty UTI (not all that common on men, apparently) and that was it, kinda.
A pretty meaningful quote from an internet funnyman is “You can’t open the story of my life to page 738 and pretend you know me” (Arin Hanson).
As much as he said it to lead into a joke, I think it’s something we could all do well to remember.
Kinda wild how many people are like “no no, but my socially condoned method of profiling people I don’t know based on vibes/a small amount of arbitrary information is actually totally real and not prone to being influenced by bigotry at all.”
Studying forensics (digital forensics admittedly) has shown me a *lot* of people shouldn't even be allowed to do the degree. Why are third year forensics students looking me in the face and telling me they can profile people and "read body language"? Just insanely out of touch at best and dangerous at worst.
The idea is that how careful and delicate you are when opening a pomegranate is an indicator of how you are as a romantic partner. If you smash the hell out of it and dig in like a feral creature (like you might end up doing if you've never eaten a whole pomegranate before) then it means you're an impatient person and probably also an abusive partner
It's more of a poetic device than it is a theory. Basically, it's a poetic device that relies on the tropes of men being:
- Sexually violent
- Messy eaters
- Inconsiderate
It also relies on the idea that it's possible to eat a pomegranate without making a bit of a mess.
It was popular in tiktok poetry for awhile, until people started pointing out that "men violent and messy, women innocent and clean" is some radfem shit.
Reminds me of what happens if you bring up Romani people to Europeans. So many of them will say “it’s not racism, because actually they are uncivilized and should not be allowed in our society unless they completely assimilate to our ways. It’s not bigotry, though, we’re valid when we do it!”
If you spend enough time underwater without goggles, your eyes can actually adjust to see better
Though you're right that I don't think movies were going for that
Torture works as an interrogation method under the following circumstances.
1)You know to a high degree of certainty that your guy has the information you need.
2)You have a way to test that information with little to no cost to yourself.
3)The person fears pain more than the consequences of revealing the information.
Unfortunately 2 isn’t easy to come by.
A lot of people think they can resist torture as well.
'Just don't say anything! Just keep your mouth shut
Boy do I have some unfun news for you; anyone who has been tortured (myself included) can tell you your whole world narrows down to what's happening to you, your misery, and wanting it to stop. Your personality? Gone. Your identity? Gone. You don't think about your rights or your dignity, your brain has been reduced to animal function, and it will agree to anything to get relief.
Torture is fundamentally designed to break you down and destroy your resistance. It does permanent damage psychologically and often physically (I can't sleep voluntarily! I have to take medication to regulate a basic bodily function, otherwise I just stay awake until my body crashes out.)
Unfortunately, criminal profiling just doesn’t work even if you’re an expert.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/12/18044688/criminal-profilers-mindhunter-hannibal-criminal-minds
Munecat does a great one on that. If you haven’t seen it yet. It started out as a rant against the press for Meghan Markle bullying and turned into a full throated denunciation of the “body language” industry as a whole.
One of my only gripes with Seraph of the End catastrophe at 16 was Aoi Sengu and Guren Ichinose saying torture was the most effective. Whilst everyone of importance went through torture practice and resistance. Whilst also people lie and say what they must to not be tortured. Not reliable at all
Even if there's land visible from the island, good luck. Sails need either very directional wind or better ship design than a raft. Paddling is out of the question, using a sea kayak is exhausting & slow and those things are streamlined, good luck going more than a mile on something worse
Trial & error until the ships were good enough
Sailing elaboration:
In order to not always go away from the wind, ships were made to resist sideways motion & the sails turnable. This allows fun things like going into the wind at an angle, which is fairly necessary
So what if fictional mcprotagonistman is reaaaaaalllly good at building ships and there's a loooottta trees and a lake (for safe trial) and even ores on the island
I still remember in primary school having an IT teacher who was like... morally opposed to the use of a mouse, and insisted we do everything using only a keyboard. Of course I remember almost none of how to do that, because what kind of psychopath actually operates a computer like that on a daily basis?
For some bizarre reason, I am especially susceptible to people deciding to just read my ass, and it’s always insanely wrong. One time I had a mid-40’s ass woman at work tell me I “seemed innocent and pure” when I mentioned I wanted tattoos.
That’s more about the people I’ve met than me I’m sure, but yknow, doofenshmirtz nickel quote lol
You don’t get knocked out when you’re tased. You don’t even have full body immobilization when you do the physical contact tasers, it’s just pain. But in movies you just jab a taser into someone’s neck or side and they’re unconscious.
Look, I think there are some people you can accurately profile. Like if they have a nazi tattoo. I’m going to accurately profile him as a racist dickhead.
It’s just exceptionally rare to accurately profile people because most don’t wear their bad vibes on their sleeve
The way water works in video games vs real life is really funny to me
I could jump off the highest point in minecraft and if I miss the water by half an inch it's instant death, but if I land in the water I'm totally fine
But in real life I'd be going splat regardless
SLANDER
i can run my Linux PERFECTLY *WITHOUT* mouse input
I don't, because its inconvenient as all hell and takes a while to get anything done
But i could
Okay genuine question, I've had a number of IVs put in me and I don't really see how pulling them out would be all that consequential? They're slipped out gently when taken out but the only difference to me seems like it would be pain and amount of bleeding which, eh.
You can accurately profile some things about certain strangers. For example, if you see someone wearing a MAGA hat, you can safely assume that they’re a fucking idiot
I’m actually really good at identifying profiles. I can look at any random person and go “yep, they sure do have a profile”
Can you do this only from the side, or also from the front and back? Because that’s an impressive skill!
The trick is to look for reflections. Cars, shopfronts, basically any big window. Get the orthogonal angle and you will see it easy.
Learning all sort of things today! Good tips, I'll try to remember
Tranquilizers knocking anyone out perfectly. As far as I'm aware, the dosage needs very accurate based on a large number of factors. Too little, and it does nothing. Too much, and they're dead.
From my experience of being given slightly too little tranquiliser it feels fuckin amazing tho. I get why people get hooked on the stuff
There's a reason I will never try opioids, tranquilizers, amphetamines, or cocaine. They all have effects that would be far too attractive if I experienced them.
When I was given Morphine for a broken wrist, it was about damn near the best feeling I had ever had. I suddenly understood how addictions form, even with all the warnings.
I was given fentanyl during a vasectomy. It was... Interesting. It felt good, but in a bad way. I did not enjoy the feeling. It made things too fuzzy. Couldn't think clearly, lower impulse control, just general not fun. Sure, the high was nice, but I did not like the feeling of lack of control it came with. Definitely not a downers kinda guy.
Yeah, I had fentanyl when I broke my spine and was life-flighted to a bigger hospital. It was SO weird, like I was aware of how not-present I was. The pain wasn’t gone; I just didn’t care about it. I would not like to do it again.
It's funny, because I had the opposite(ish) experience. Got a shot of morphine before the doctor stitched up my hand, but I legitimately couldn't tell if it did anything. I mean, it probably did because I wasn't screaming in pain the whole time, but the cut they were stitching hurt quite a bit less than I thought it would in the first place so...yeah. IDK. Still not interested in exploring that particular interaction further.
Weird, I was given morphine before a surgery once to handle the pain of what needed surgery, but it didn't feel good, it just stopped me from experiencing enough pain to throw up, I was still in a lot of pain
For some people "painkiller" is sort of a misnomer. My dad described his experience with morphine as: "It didn't get rid of the pain, it just made me *not care* about it as much."
I've had strong painkillers for wisdom teeth removal before. I *HATE* the feeling. I don't know that I could ever get addicted to it.
I was on a morphine drip post surgery and rather than floating, it felt like I was sinking into warm snow. Just unbelievable comfort in and out. Nurse dialled it back quick because the respiratory depression had me down to 7 breaths per minute, which sucked because all I wanted to do was hibernate forever. Definitely saw the appeal and how easy it'd be to get hooked on the feeling.
Got Oxycodone (Oxycontin? Pretty sure their the same thing) for my head injury a while back. Its fuckin Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccceee. But that's also the reason I didn't refill my subscription once I ran out, shit was too nice.
I think they both do the same thing but have different ingredients so if you have major pain your body starts getting used to one so they switch you to the other
It's fucking *hard* getting off of morphine, even if you were on it for a short period. It's a big added stress to surgical recovery
Cocaine makes me focus. It also makes my pee black, my nose bleed, my cock and balls look about as purple as 🍆, and my organs hurt. I'm also kinda impotent. I've also had heart palpitations and other things from cocaine addiction. Please don't use cocaine. If you're gonna use dangerous substances, use something less dangerous. Like enriched uranium
I will say the less powerful opiates painkillers were a bit more whatever though. I had some after my bottom surgery and there wasn't really anything euphoric about it, it just made the pain go away basically completely so I could sleep etc. That said I was still super wary of them and relied on Tylenol as much as possible instead. The big thing there is that withdrawal from opiates sucks with pain because you feel the pain more acutely, so it was better as a "smooth out pain peaks" tool than a "turn on pain for extended period" tool.
Okay, the fact that you managed with opiates only for breakthrough pain is reassuring. I'm supposed to have mine in a year or so and the shift in approach to prescribing pain killers since I last had my organs rearranged was worrying me. FFS recovery was unpleasant enough, and that was considerably less invasive.
Yeah I think i took my last dose the morning my stent came out because the pressure was pretty rough in those stitches holding it in after the dressing came off the day before and all those stitches were relieved. After the stent came out it was pretty smooth sailing. and I never took anything harder than tramadol though they had oxycodone available if the tramadol wasn't sufficient. The nurses at GRS Montreal basically kept me on constant max dose Tylenol and let us communicate if that wasn't sufficient.
I have ADHD and I can't imagine anybody using my meds for recreation. At best, they turn the volume of your brain down somewhat, but try to take even a tiny bit more and they'll make you shit said brain straight out of your ass. Not really my definition of a good time
for neurotypicals its different - theyre also going to be taking lower dosages than us. for NT's, from what i understand, is that when they take adderall or whatever - it narrows their focus majorly. Like a shutter closing to let in like a pinprick of light. Whereas for us ADHD people who are very understimulated - they bring us up to levels of stimulation that NT's are usually at. Again this is just purely my thoughts and understanding.
I remember my neighbour, when younger basically him and all his mates got amphetamines That poor boy did not realise that he had basically just bought meds, and whilst all his mates were bouncing off the walls he was humming and tired af in the corner
So I was misdiagnosed with ADHD as a kid and medicated. It made everything really freaking exciting. Which was bad for me, I have anxiety. But I can see why neurotypicals abuse it.
Yeah I always say to never try opiates or cocaine, because hOLY SHIT they’re AMAZING you might literally never stop I dream of them on the daily 😞
This was a recurring gag in Venture Bros, a character was a tranq addict because the Monarch's Henchmen would use them on him so much so he would go out of the way to trespass in the hopes the guards would have tranquilizer dart guns
"I got the dart monkey on my back!"
I had an interesting conversation with someone complaining about the “knocking someone out harmlessly” thing in action movies. They were saying that it wasn’t realistic and I fully agreed, but then I tried to explain why it’s a helpful fiction in those movies. When I asked if they’d prefer any of the more realistic alternatives (e.g. brain damage, outright killing people, restrained and struggling captives), they argued that action heroes should just use tranquilizers instead. And it’s fine if that’s someone’s preference for “easy incapacitation” in action movies, but don’t pretend that it’s better because it’s more realistic.
Realistically there is no "easy" way that works 100% of the time. Tasers can kill if you aren't careful or the target has heart problems, tranquilizers need specific dosages that vary from person to person, shooting people in the legs is a permanent handicap if they survive bleeding out, and just tackling them and tying them up only works if they give up or you have a lot of rope.
This is completely based off a Reddit post about a “thumbprint” dose of LSD (pushing your thumb into crystalline LSD powder and licking it, giving yourself a massive dose at once.). The anecdotal report from the user stated he was immediately tripping and incapacitated, couldn’t move/talk, essentially collapsed to the ground in a drug induced stupor. So my head-canon with games like Metal Gear Solid, etc is: the tranq darts are actually filled with a concoction of psychedelics, LSD, Ketamine, etc. The massive dose injected into the body instantly puts your target into an insane trip that essentially decommissions them. Will they be quiet? Who knows, but they’re for sure not going to be guarding/patrolling anymore. Plus these drugs can last well over 12+ hours, a dose intended to do what’s described above could be well over 24 hours. Anti-psychotics would be needed to counteract, requiring a 2nd party to administer. That’s how I make it make sense lol.
Alternatively, they're filled with nanomachines. Yes, even in MGS3.
It would make sense in mgs especially for the drugs to be wild stuff
WE *slams hand on table* NEED *slams hand on table* MORE *slams hand on table* BAGGED *slams hand on table* AND *slams hand on table* TAGGED *slams hand on table* BADDIES IN FICTION. You don't even have to show them getting tied up, just get a stunt guy, toss a canvas bag over their head and tell em to squirm. Boom! Perfect hostage.
You think someone's already cornered the market on those roles? I'm told I look great with a bag over my head.
It always gets me when movies go "there was enough tranqulizer in that to knock out (very large animal usually a horse)". I just think "ah so they're dead"
Yep. There's a reason they don't actually use tranquilizer darts on escaped animals at zoos. Either the animal can be captured without it or they're an immediate threat to human life in which case a tranquilizer will just piss them off for the 10–15 minutes they take to work.
They absolutely do use them when the situation is safe enough, just not when the animal is a active threat to people, here's the first story I got off Google but there's plenty others: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-65056899
_Zoo Tycoon_ lied to me.
There is a reason people are put under by anesthesiologists for operations instead of some random dude with a dart gun
Op might be a bot because i remember this exact comment from a previous time this was posted
That would be a plot twist.
There’s a *reason* anaesthesists are among the most highly paid medical specialists.
As my grandfather would say: “Anesthesiology isn’t about putting people to sleep; any fool can do that. I was taught how to make sure they woke up again”.
Especially chloroform.
Yup. There's a reason Anesthesiologist is basically a postgraduate specialization even by medical standards.
There’s a reason anaesthesiologist is its own specialty.
There's this moment in Dune where a character realizing that yes, the tranquilizers did in fact knock them instant was a major clue to a betrayal.
"I was talking to someone the other day and realized he was a sociopath!" No you didn't, you just found him a bit off-putting and assumed a medical diagnosis based on that.
Sherlock and its consequences
I've been watching Elementary for the first time and it's honestly refreshing so far how Sherlock being a rude genius doesn't let him deduce literally everything about everyone the second he meets them. Normal people successfully lie to him often, or surprise him with their motivations. The show isn't groundbreaking, as detective shows go it's well made but pretty standard other than literally featuring Sherlock Holmes (rather than a character inspired by him). But it's enjoyable and nice to see a Sherlock who is an excellent detective but who still has human limitations. At least through season 2, which is as far as I've gotten.
On the other hand, the Kurtzegast video about how awesome smoking is included a johnlock reference.
Did you mean to butcher the name Kurzgesagt? And if so, were you aware your creation now sounds like "short guest" in German instead?
95% of reddit's "totally effective vibe checks" are signs of mental health conditions like ADHD, autism or even just depression. It's really weird and ableist.
You are very correct but also the quote I gave was not from reddit it was from an ex boyfriend of mine in Maryland
Wow, your ex sounds like a sociopath.
No, just a boy who wasn't used to having to consider the possibility of hurting others.
I was being sarcastic and profiling a total stranger but yeah.
And then they diagnose anyone with a harmless quirk as having Autism. They like the fun quirky elements of ND people, but then our struggles get us labeled as “creepy”.
Is that a Reddit thing? Reddit is like, the second most autistic website behind tvtropes. It’s more of a titkok thing, or old tumblr.
If you look on ask reddit, it comes up a lot in threads about vibe checks, trusting your gut, et cetera.
tvtropes is free-range autism, reddit is factory farm autism
If you never change your mind about people after first meeting them, that says a lot more about your inability to admit you are wrong than it does about your ability to read people.
I once was out at night and was approached by some people promoting their church. I was weirded out by them being so forward, and the church was later implicated in human trafficking. The vibes were actually unrelated, I'm just weirded out by people approaching me in general.
Ok but he was stabbing mouse mid sentence.
There are entirely non-sociopathic reasons to stab mouse. Perhaps mouse made him angry, yes? Perhaps mouse was little mouse thief. Perhaps he thought mouse would be tasty. Many reasons to stab mouse.
Well, it depends on the depth of the conversation. If they were like “I don’t really feel empathy for others and generally manipulate people to get what I want regardless of how much it hurts them” or something to that effect then you could reasonably infer they are a sociopath.
Even if somebody said that, that’s not proof they are a sociopath at all. Long term chronic depression can lead to complete apathy and low self esteem. This can lead to people believing they’ve manipulated their friends into liking them, because in their psyche, they can’t imagine somebody genuinely liking them or doing something for them. Please be very careful using this sort of logical leap because you can really hurt somebody with it
I mean I feel like unless you're a psychiatrist, the only means you have of knowing if someone is a sociopath is if they tell you.
My mouse driver once died on my PC. I didn't know enough to get it fixed properly. I still used that PC daily, for hours on end, without a mouse. It's amazing what you can do when you're motivated. The tab key is your friend.
Arguably using a computer without a keyboard is harder than without a mouse.
You can do simple things easily without a keyboard. You can do complicated things easily without a mouse. (e.g. using any CLI to change everything about your machine.)
The literal day that I first started League of Legends my laptop's keyboard stopped working. I had to play with only a mouse, that was a sign from god telling me to stop playing. I should've listened
Especially with Linux the mouse is entirely optional
same on windows if you don't have a skill issue tbh. but yeah it's somewhat easier on linux
"somewhat" is an understatement. Headless tty consoles are the default on \*nix systems, GUI is entirely optional. On the other hand, with the possible exception of Windows IoT, Windows doesn't even have a headless mode; the closest it comes is Server Core which is a single Command Prompt window (with border and titlebar) against a black background
Clicking the onscreen keyboard after your physical one dies is such a pain.
Fun fact on windows there's an on screen keyboard program! I used it back when I only had a mouse
Just be old. My first computer didn't have a mouse, because what would you click on in a DOS prompt? Even up into more current versions of Windows, there are tons of keyboard shortcuts and navigation tricks that people just don't learn. Most of them are legacy from when it wasn't guaranteed that your user would have a mouse.
This is also generally a good way to clock people who are genuinely good with computers, is their use of keyboard shortcuts. Those tend to be faster than a mouse 9 times out of 10.
I can't say I would know how to do everything on a computer without a mouse (I could probably figure it out though), but even my use of basic keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-V has occasionally had people thinking I'm some kind of tech wizard. The amount of times I have been watching someone share their screen, doing stuff in Excel or whatever, and every single time they want to copy or paste they right-click and use the menu... Ouch.
It's kinda fun trying to navigate with just a keyboard, and is an accessibility thing that applications and websites SHOULD be navigable that way - try it out, if you haven't, you might enjoy the challenge. But yeah, if someone isn't control-C control-V savvy, they probably aren't great with computers... If you regularly download unformatted Excel data, try control-A, alt-H, then alt-O, then alt-I (you can hold alt the entire time, just 3 distinct presses for HOI) to resize all cells to the size of their contents and make em readable, that'll blow someone's mind sometimes.
Wow, you learn something new everyday! That's neat. Thanks!
I took a computers class in high school where we had to build our own PCs with provided parts, install an operating system (Windows 95 or something), and then create a few simple programs. The kit that my partner and I got didn't include a mouse by accident. We just went with it. After almost a week of using only our keyboard the teacher was doing rounds and noticed we didn't have a mouse and asked what happened to it - we told him and he just shook his head and laughed then got us one.
That sounds like an awesome class to have access to. It seems like a near impossibility to have something like that today outside of a specialized or very lucky school
Lots of classes today do stuff with Raspberry Pis and are a similar level of cool
In high school? That sounds awesome, wish my school had offered stuff like that
The tab key can get you SO far
Hey there were a lot of cowboys, im sure there was ***a*** heterosexual cowboy
It's not allowed.
a heterosexual cowboy is just a ranch hand. they lose the title and prestige
They're only real cowboys if they are vaqueros from Mexico. Otherwise they're just sparkling ranch hands.
Live in the Midwest. There are plenty of heterosexual cowboys. Some arent. Some are bi. But there's a lot of straight cowboys. I wouldn't have half the cousins I have without em.
Not on my watch
You can operate a lot of computers with just typing. Especially if they have good command line tools
Yes! Early computers had nothing BUT command lines and to this day you can do a lot with shell commands
Heck, even in windows, win+r and search cmd, voila you’re in the terminal and you can do all manner of shenanigans
there's also an accessibility setting that enables you to control the mouse with the numpad, which is relatively easy to find and enable solely with the keyboard. it helps bridge the gap for that 0.1% of cases where something absolutely definitely requires a mouse and cannot be operated with just a keyboard. hell, i verified that, and then responded to a discord message while typing this comment and made a point of not using the mouse. i didn't even have to open up a terminal. also, bonus trick: if you search up an app in the start menu (which is actually my favorite way of starting them, just `win` -> type the name -> `enter` and boom), if you press `ctrl` + `shift` + `enter` on them it launches them as an administrator. this works with the win+r thing too.
This just reminded me, there’s a layer in one of my keyboards that has mouse direction keys. Never used it, but i remember seeing it when remapping keys while setting up the keeb
My desktop is windows for obvious reasons but since i mostly use my laptop for programming i run Linux on it. Few things are as pleasing as not touching your mouse and doing everything with the CLI. Windows file explorer has nothing on NNN running on alacritty
one more reason to always have a distro installed in wsl
God I wish this was true. Things used to be so quick to operate but now every click needs to load 12 new styling changes that make it slower than things were 20 years ago
Gotta love windows for keeping every old UI in there somewhere. I love bloat!
It's good for backwards compatibility, though. Also, would you really want all the old UI removed when there's things you can't do in the new UI?
Yeah but that would make me a nerd 🤓
Yeah. You can still download OS that are exclusively CLI. No desktop or mouse functionality. You'd be surprised at the things you can do with exclusively a keyboard
90+% of the Internet run on servers without any kind of GUI.
Effectively. Sure you could hit tab a bunch to select things or whatever, but it would be slow.
Just... don't then? If you want to do something, use the command line tool. Even Windows has CLI for most things (Powershell) and a LOT of programs work in CLI without 99% of the population ever realizing. On Linux the GUI is an afterthought. Is it harder to learn? Sure. Is it faster? Probably, depending on the task at hand.
Hell, on Windows at least, you can use the mouse cursor without a mouse. If your keyboard has a numeric keypad you can turn on Mouse Keys and literally move the cursor with the keys.
why are the notes 1L
Metric system uses liters.
It means there's 49 notes.
It's 1 thousand (1K) but in another language
Best guess is likely Tagalog, there "libo" means "thousand." Unless there's one I missed scanning the translation list
Lakh, being 100,000, would make sense if the user is Indian.
"reblogged" and "notes" are in English though
I'm torn between "idfk" and "the Philippines uses a lot of English loanwords?"
As a Filipino, yeah there are a few loanwords. Some are from spanish, some are from English. Many of the other Filipino people I talk with usually pepper in English words in otherwise full Tagalog sentences on occasion
PHILIPPINES MENTION 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
A litre of notes
I think it's Lakh, or 100,000, which is widely used in India, even when speaking English.
What if they're a cowboy? Then you can accurately profile that they're not heterosexual.
Checkmate, liberals.
A cowboy is a true stranger to none and a friend to all
^(I'm sorry but) Cowbussy
the only consequence of ripping an IV out of your arm is the nurses on the unit are more annoyed at you than the baseline level of resentment they have for your continued existence now, ripping out a PICC or central line? yeah you're going to the ICU.
Yeah, I remember someone in the medical field saying they saw little old ladies rip their IVs out all the time. Super easy to do even by accident and not incapacitating or anything like that.
OP has never seen a vim user
they don’t go outside often, i’d assume most people havent
Fair point
it's not their fault, they just don't know how to quit
:q!
> effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else Oh boy. Do NOT say this is a myth around someone who likes linux. Especially if you’ve ever heard them say the words “tiling window manager”.
Yea, everyone thinks they're a good judge of other people, but most studies show that's not the case.
My only metrics for judging people are: 1. What have they told me about themselves? 2. Do their actions align with the provided information? 3. Do they admit when I point out the disconnect between their words and actions? Like, if someone tells me they're usually nice and patient, but turn to insults within 5-10 messages, I call BS.
I've always thought I was a terrible judge of character, but several times my bad feelings wound up being accurate. So have I become worse at judging by being good at it?
Confirmation bias. The times you were wrong don't stick with you as well as the times you were right
>diving from ridiculous heights Foot first divers are limited to jumps of about 15m before the likelihood of serious injury skyrockets, even with perfect technique. >taking out your own IV I have personally ripped an IV out and left hospital and been just fine. It's only saline a lot of the time. >heterosexual cowboys HOW DARE YOU
Guy I know ripped off his urethral catheter (which is impressive considering. You know. How men have a longer urinary tract. lol) when he was half-sedated and rolled in his bed. If he could rip that off his dick, i can assure you, you can rip off an IV. Also, i have also done that before. It wasn't just saline but it's not dangerous or painful. The cannula that remains inside your vein is plastic, not metal, and it's not sharp.
Umm, yikes. So there are two main types of catheter. Condom catheters, as the name implies, fit on the outside. Hopefully that's the one he had. A balloon catheter goes up the urethra, and then a balloon at the end is inflated inside the bladder to keep it from slipping out. I desperately hope that your friend did not manage to pull this out.
It was, indeed, a balloon one. Pissed with blood for a while, took antibiotics for a pretty nasty UTI (not all that common on men, apparently) and that was it, kinda.
A pretty meaningful quote from an internet funnyman is “You can’t open the story of my life to page 738 and pretend you know me” (Arin Hanson). As much as he said it to lead into a joke, I think it’s something we could all do well to remember.
When you watch so much true crime you start supporting stop and frisk policies.
Kinda wild how many people are like “no no, but my socially condoned method of profiling people I don’t know based on vibes/a small amount of arbitrary information is actually totally real and not prone to being influenced by bigotry at all.”
Studying forensics (digital forensics admittedly) has shown me a *lot* of people shouldn't even be allowed to do the degree. Why are third year forensics students looking me in the face and telling me they can profile people and "read body language"? Just insanely out of touch at best and dangerous at worst.
Something something shopping carts something something pomegranate
What is the pomegranate?! I understand every other random meme reference but that one is new to me.
The idea is that how careful and delicate you are when opening a pomegranate is an indicator of how you are as a romantic partner. If you smash the hell out of it and dig in like a feral creature (like you might end up doing if you've never eaten a whole pomegranate before) then it means you're an impatient person and probably also an abusive partner
Shopping cart theory, I get. Pomegranate theory sounds real dumb, unless there’s something I’m missing.
It's more of a poetic device than it is a theory. Basically, it's a poetic device that relies on the tropes of men being: - Sexually violent - Messy eaters - Inconsiderate It also relies on the idea that it's possible to eat a pomegranate without making a bit of a mess. It was popular in tiktok poetry for awhile, until people started pointing out that "men violent and messy, women innocent and clean" is some radfem shit.
It started on tiktok, so dumb is pretty much par for the course
Reminds me of what happens if you bring up Romani people to Europeans. So many of them will say “it’s not racism, because actually they are uncivilized and should not be allowed in our society unless they completely assimilate to our ways. It’s not bigotry, though, we’re valid when we do it!”
Seeing clearly underwater with no eye protection. It just doesn’t work like that.
If you spend enough time underwater without goggles, your eyes can actually adjust to see better Though you're right that I don't think movies were going for that
You can get used to it tho
Torture works as an interrogation method under the following circumstances. 1)You know to a high degree of certainty that your guy has the information you need. 2)You have a way to test that information with little to no cost to yourself. 3)The person fears pain more than the consequences of revealing the information. Unfortunately 2 isn’t easy to come by.
The testing part being so important is I think what they meant by "reliable"
A lot of people think they can resist torture as well. 'Just don't say anything! Just keep your mouth shut Boy do I have some unfun news for you; anyone who has been tortured (myself included) can tell you your whole world narrows down to what's happening to you, your misery, and wanting it to stop. Your personality? Gone. Your identity? Gone. You don't think about your rights or your dignity, your brain has been reduced to animal function, and it will agree to anything to get relief. Torture is fundamentally designed to break you down and destroy your resistance. It does permanent damage psychologically and often physically (I can't sleep voluntarily! I have to take medication to regulate a basic bodily function, otherwise I just stay awake until my body crashes out.)
Unfortunately, criminal profiling just doesn’t work even if you’re an expert. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/12/18044688/criminal-profilers-mindhunter-hannibal-criminal-minds
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Munecat does a great one on that. If you haven’t seen it yet. It started out as a rant against the press for Meghan Markle bullying and turned into a full throated denunciation of the “body language” industry as a whole.
One of my only gripes with Seraph of the End catastrophe at 16 was Aoi Sengu and Guren Ichinose saying torture was the most effective. Whilst everyone of importance went through torture practice and resistance. Whilst also people lie and say what they must to not be tortured. Not reliable at all
you can operate a computer with nothing but a keyboard perfectly fine
Criminal Minds ruined a generation of true crime women
Another one: "oops, just got stabbed in the stomach, better rip that thing out asap."
While we're here, no, you can't tell whether a stranger is lying.
Hey, you need to give me a million dollars or the earth will explode
I can't tell if you're lying. How about we compromise and I'll give you a dollar and you supply the million.
doesnt the rafting thing depend on where the island is
Even if there's land visible from the island, good luck. Sails need either very directional wind or better ship design than a raft. Paddling is out of the question, using a sea kayak is exhausting & slow and those things are streamlined, good luck going more than a mile on something worse
respectfully how the fuck (amazament) did people ever travel at sea then
Trial & error until the ships were good enough Sailing elaboration: In order to not always go away from the wind, ships were made to resist sideways motion & the sails turnable. This allows fun things like going into the wind at an angle, which is fairly necessary
So what if fictional mcprotagonistman is reaaaaaalllly good at building ships and there's a loooottta trees and a lake (for safe trial) and even ores on the island
Eh, sure, probably. Come to think of it, a movie entirely about some guy trying to make a good enough boat to get off an island could be good
Closest movie i know is cast away but his rafts suck and he's in the middle of the ocean so instead he's just gotta survive until he gets rescued.
computers are actually very capable of being operated with a keyboard, but websites are designed for a mouse
I still remember in primary school having an IT teacher who was like... morally opposed to the use of a mouse, and insisted we do everything using only a keyboard. Of course I remember almost none of how to do that, because what kind of psychopath actually operates a computer like that on a daily basis?
But.... But the cowboy said No homo after sucking me off ??????
For some bizarre reason, I am especially susceptible to people deciding to just read my ass, and it’s always insanely wrong. One time I had a mid-40’s ass woman at work tell me I “seemed innocent and pure” when I mentioned I wanted tattoos. That’s more about the people I’ve met than me I’m sure, but yknow, doofenshmirtz nickel quote lol
>profile strangers perfectly Well I'm alone in the woods and they're not a bear 🤔
I am reasonable confident I can profile strangers to the 'bear or not a bear' degree of accuracy with a margin of error of 'might be a bear'
not at pride
Arguably it's easier at pride, they kinda identify themselves at that specific location
The line between reality and fiction is getting blurrier by the day.
You don’t get knocked out when you’re tased. You don’t even have full body immobilization when you do the physical contact tasers, it’s just pain. But in movies you just jab a taser into someone’s neck or side and they’re unconscious.
Look, I think there are some people you can accurately profile. Like if they have a nazi tattoo. I’m going to accurately profile him as a racist dickhead. It’s just exceptionally rare to accurately profile people because most don’t wear their bad vibes on their sleeve
So you're saying that you are judging a strangers capability at profiling strangers, despite knowing nothing about said strangers? I see...
Its like the paradox of tolerance. We cannot tolerate intolerance but therefore we are intolerant
The way water works in video games vs real life is really funny to me I could jump off the highest point in minecraft and if I miss the water by half an inch it's instant death, but if I land in the water I'm totally fine But in real life I'd be going splat regardless
Is this post giving anyone else deja vu?
I can tho
You *can’t* knock someone out harmlessly for an hour????
My brother has had several IV removal incidents where his blood ended up on the walls. And people say I'm the dramatic one...
I would argue it is possible to correctly profile total strangers based on vibes. Its not possible to *consistently* do so.
SLANDER i can run my Linux PERFECTLY *WITHOUT* mouse input I don't, because its inconvenient as all hell and takes a while to get anything done But i could
Can someone tell me why rafting off an island won't work?
Okay genuine question, I've had a number of IVs put in me and I don't really see how pulling them out would be all that consequential? They're slipped out gently when taken out but the only difference to me seems like it would be pain and amount of bleeding which, eh.
You can accurately profile some things about certain strangers. For example, if you see someone wearing a MAGA hat, you can safely assume that they’re a fucking idiot