Nephrew [he/him]

As a paramedic it's been very disheartening to see the amount of non-emergency calls we attend rise and rise. We go and see so many people who just needed a GP, or needed a GP a week ago or 5 years ago.

It used to be these people would just go to the emergency department at the hospital but even that is way over capacity these days , and so people feel they have no choice but to call an ambulance.

There have been many changes in ambulance practice lately with the intent of keeping people out of the hospital and ED by treating and leaving them at home, or treating them with non-traditional ambulance tools, like prescribing antibiotics

I doubt there is any actual coco in a tootsie roll

Chauchat means Hot Cat in French

Instead of boiling the worms alive, maybe they should be left alone and we could just use another type of fabric

I love sci-hub so much.

I wouldn't have a degree without it. I can't begin the count the amount of papers I have stolen with it. Hundreds and hundreds.

The idea that I could pay 19.99$ for each paper is ridiculous.

Also my lame ass school blocked sci-hub on the wifi under the idea that it is "unethical " lol

More like buttulism

I don't know, I think many doctors struggle with the profit driven Healthcare system as well.

Also I'm sure many of them do become doctors because they want to help people. I mean there are so many different types of doctors some specialize in people with disabilities, some do gender confirmation surgery.

I think "death to doctors " might be pushing it a little

Click here to watch Stone Cold a movie from 1991 starring Brian Bosworth free on youtube.

It's an absolute banger of a action film that whips ass from the first second of the first scene.

The best part is he is an undercover cop that fails in every single part of his mission, dozens of people die, because the terrorist nazi biker gang fully succeeds in their evil plan

In this film the entire Mississippi Supreme Court is killed by Lance Hendrickson with a machine gun .

The Boz does not prevent this from happening in any way.

Usually good vegan recipes in the vegan weekly megathread

Don't want to be poised by lectins? Just make your food hot

The weak penetration of alpha radiation gives it some interesting properties.

The first being that it is very difficult to detect because it will literally be stopped by air alone after a short distance. So to use an alpha detector and find alpha contamination you have to put the detector within like an inch or so of the contamination. This is very different from say gamma radiation which you could detect from across a room or even further.

Second, it is an very large particle. An alpha radiation particle is basically the helium molecule without any electrons so it's 2 protons and 2 neutrons (iifc). Compare this to beta radiation which is a single electron. As we know protons are thousands of times larger than an electron, and an alpha particle has 2 of them . So it has a lot of mass.

So what does this mean practically for working around alpha radiation?

Well first that it's difficult to detect if you have contamination on the surface of the body, since you need to have a special alpha detector ( which are rare) and basically slowing and carefully frisk each inch of the body. Luckily in the wild alpha contamination usually coexist with beta contamination which is much easier to detect.

Second, if it was to get INSIDE the human body, it would be nearly impossible to detect because the particles would not be able to make it outside to ping the detector . If you were to eat it for example. This why there is no eating or drinking allowed in nuclear power plants , to reduce the risk of contamination entering the body.

Due to the very large mass of the particle, it can't go very far but what it does hit it destroys. For the epidermis that is no concern because you have 4-5 layers of skin that take damage all the time and aren't concerned. But for something less protected like your internal organs, you would take fatal organ damage pretty quickly.

So polonium -210 is a very special isotope of polonium because it's an alpha emitters only. So special in fact it's not a natural element so to speak, and can only be created using a nuclear reactor. However due to alphas weak penetration, you could smuggle polonium through any airport by simply concealing in a vial of water, no particles would ever escape the water to ping a detector and thus its undetectable.

This is of course exactly what happened to Alexander L, who was poisoned by the Russian government in 2006. Polonium was smuggled out of Russia in a vial of water and put into tea that Alexander drank. The alpha radiation ripped him apart inside while being completely undetected outside, and he died.

A very impractical murder, but very unique.

Honestly bless the heart of the dumb but kind monk who wrote this one down

Chalk up another win for our friend beans, a type of cooked food that doesn't give put you in the hospital

:bean:

Truthfully there are like 40 freegans in existence, I don't know if it's a relevant position

Freegans don't deserve the "Egan" suffix.

Bunch of racoons

Watching Band of brothers followed by Generation Kill is a such a whip lash experience. Even though they are both made by HBO. At least Generation Kill was made without Tom hanks interference.

Generation Kill portrays the military at every level as stupid and bloodthirsty

Water for crops to feed to cows : 10^10 gallons.

Someone who is good at water conservation please help me my state is drying up

You know I heard that when they were filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s in Germany they had to import little people actors from turkey because all the little people in Germany had been killed in the holocaust

My top three

"Doctor was throwing around words like ""renal failure""".

The guy that ate a pig kidney and was surprised it tasted like piss

"I broke my instapot cleaning it in the bathtub "

The snap focus over the shoulder to reveal the hat makes me laugh every time I see it