Chetzemoka

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[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

War of the Worlds (2005) with Tom Cruise is easily one of the most stressful movies I've ever seen, and I love it.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For mine, it's the only safe place from the scary, scary thunder.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

You really need to go rethink your entire life. It is not morally acceptable to debate the value of the lives of human children under any circumstances. Period. They are CHILDREN.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

No, even though I watched both series and all the other movies, it was still hard to follow. It was just so poorly written and paced. The editing jumped around, moments with critical information were breezed past without enough time to absorb what just happened.

Honestly, it should have been a great movie. It has all the pieces; they were just so badly executed. It's the first MCU thing I was genuinely excited to see in quite a while, and instead I sat there the whole time wondering how this ever made it through any kind of quality control.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am prescribed a medication to increase acetylcholine called pyridostygmine by a specialist to treat my ME/CFS. So this knowledge is out there, just not common yet. And as always with these conditions, research funding is virtually non-existent.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xylazine also causes refractory skin lesions similar to krokodil. Current leading hypothesis is that it's because of localized vasoconstriction leading to tissue necrosis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482722/

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dark healthcare provider humor incoming: When considering these kinds of questions regarding CPR, we actually say, "Well, they ain't getting any deader."

CPR actually reverses death. That's why it only works sometimes and only if provided in a very short window of time after you've died. Nothing that is done during CPR is going to make that worse. So yeah, the reality is that it's a little bit of a controlled free-for-all. It's called "heroic measures" for a reason.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Birds and wildlife in my neighborhood. I'm technically in suburbia, but enough old growth patches have been maintained that we have a surprising amount of wild animals that live in or travel through the neighborhood (Massachusetts, US)

Merlin app is amazing for identifying birds at the feeder I put on my back deck. And the rest of the animals, I mentally collect like Pokemon.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same. Airplanes. Seeing them, being on one, just so giddy and excited every time.

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