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yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

I like the increased variety of beverages you can get from the unholy drink cloaca, but only one person at a time can use it and there is always only one machine. And that one person has to navigate a gajillion menus to find their beverage of choice, increasing the amount of time they are preventing others from getting their beverage.

The improvement is actually greater than this graph shows, since while house fires more than halved, the US population increased by 51% from 220 million to 332 million.

Peer review, this was also my experience

I also cannot overstate how much better electrical systems are these days. The house I grew up in didn't have circuit breakers. Most of our wall outlets were for two-prong, not three-prong, until my dad replaced them. "Eh, I'll take a look...this ain't bad, just need the needlenose and some alligator clips" was a sentence I heard more than one Boomer-age parent say when what they should have been saying was "I'll call the electrician." There were a lot fewer wall outlets, so they tended to get overloaded easily.

#....you used pennies instead of fuses?!

Yikes.

i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!

My dad was not fat (or particularly old) when he developed diabetes. He had been 20+ years in the military, ate right, exercised, etc. In fact, for a good chunk of my childhood he was almost underweight trying to meet a way-too-strict military weight requirement that didn't take an individual's build into account.

NOTICE FOR PSYCHOTIC PEOPLES LIKE ME AND THE NEW TOMODACHI LIFE: Please please pretty pretty please be careful while playing Living the Dream, esp if you’re currently unmedicated!!!

This doesn't affect me, but there's a possible scene in that dream where the miis have a conversation with a lamp where they say something that breaks the fourth wall (I don't remember what exactly), there's a brief moment of silence, and then suddenly the mii whips their head up to look directly "at you", then the dream ends. And while to me personally this was a funny "oh shit he can see me lol" moment, I did very much also immediately think that this is gonna fuck someone up.

news about pcos today

Good news about PCOS/PMOS (which I have), but my ADD brain has decided to focus in and get mad about the ADD/ADHD comparison.

im srry if this sounds bad or rude or anything i dont want it to come off like that but like the thing u reblogged about censoring subtitles being ableist, how is it ableist if u dont mind me asking? like im disabled myself and obviously theres lots of different ways someone could be disabled but i dont understand how subtitles being censored has anything to do with that. srry if this sounds like im trying to be argumentative or anything i get told that a lot. ;p

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