I have (had ;'( ) a local account, and bitlocker was activated. I only found out when my motherboard bit the dust, and that triggered the no-TPM bitlocker thingamajig. Goodbye data.
Of course it hits right as I needed the data on that laptop. Fucking murphy and his fancy legal words.
If anyone is in a situation like mine, you might find luck with a little DIY hacking: https://www.techspot.com/news/106166-old-bitlocker-vulnerability-exploited-bypass-encryption-updated-windows.html
To this day, I still wonder if the massager that my parents had, and LET US USE ON EACH OTHER, was actually marketed as a massager. It was basically the wand from the image above, but instead of the little egg/tooth vibrating thing on the end, it was like a massive UFO shape with different contours cut into rubber around the edge, and was big enough that it would be the appropriate size if we used it as a mace. Like, were they the typical 'too innocent' to think about it as a sex toy types, or was it really meant to be a massager?
Thoughts I shouldn't have at night for $500, alex!
Forget the label. Don't even worry about what you are or might be. Just don't 'push through' things you're uncomfortable with. If someone, pretty woman or dashing dude, asks you out, just ask yourself what you want to do right then and there. If you're comfortable and want to see them again, do it, and if you aren't comfortable and don't want to see them again, don't do it.
Yes! That's the one! That damnable skull!
The edutainment games were great! I still remember one where you would fight robots through a factory to build your vehicle that you would race against the villain. It was all about bigger engines being more powerful but weighty, larger tires and their racing characteristics vs. smaller tires, airplane wing styles... I think it's why my brother is an engineer now, lol.
Fucking red alert, man. Our computer couldn't handle it, so it would take 20 minutes to build a single refinery as the individual frames t. i. c. k. e. d. b. y. Meanwhile, our parents' rule was we had to switch who was using the computer every 30 minutes. That fucking sucked.
It feels like such a silly example now that I know the game, but tales of symphonia made me give up for about three years before coming back and beating it. There's a section where you're supposed to go to a specific city to progress, but there's a semi-secret long way around that lets you experience a different character's story early. Well, I somehow sucked at following directions and went the semi-secret way, and then couldn't figure out how to get ANYWHERE that let you do anything. I wandered around the same continent for several months (playing a few hours a week) before moving on.
Jesus, the finding people thing was tough, but finding the quest item that I had already looted from a grave and either dropped or sold to a random merchant? Game ending, man.
Yum, I guess. My sink is pretty far from food prep, and my body is in the way, so hopefully my insect intake is only going to be coming from poorly regulated peanut butter factories.
My personal theory is that if I hole up even more often in my room and tell myself I'm going to start a workout plan, pick up an instrument, and talk to people, when I die I'll be reincarnated as a better person that can be deserving off love.
I like how even the dude says not to do this.
The real issue with 'immunizing' yourself against venoms is that you need to have enough antibodies ready to go in order to neutralize the relatively large amount of venom injected when the venom is injected. Just having the memory B and T cells isn't fast enough, usually. That means you have to keep the antibody count high by continual injections. The typical ramp up time for antibodies is 14 days on first exposure, and 3-7 days on second exposures, pic from an old friend who teaches immunology courses. Compare that to the typical amount of time it takes for the venom to cause damage or kill you: something like 20 minutes for the black mamba (though it usually takes a few hours, per that article), 10 minutes for one of the deadliest rattlers (wow, I didn't know 10 minutes, that's fucking fast, though again, that's probably on the small probability side and it usually takes longer), and generally within hours for most species.
I don't know actual numbers for the amount of antibodies that are injected in a typical antivenin dose (see the last paragraphs of the methods section for how they measure serum concentration of antivenom), but I'd assume it's a lot of significant figures. Antibodies average 150 kilodaltons, so you'd get avogadro's number of them less 6 significant figures (so 6.023 x 10^17) or so to get 1.5g of the stuff (and I'm totally guessing here, sorry) which would probably be a decent amount to dilute through the vials.
Hopefully someone who works in a lab for antivenins can come in and give better insight into the amount of antibodies per dose.
The data is indexed and parsed somehow. The last report on it that I saw had a picture of a semi-famous person be properly indexed under the person's name, despite it being a picture that was taken by the person talking about recall, which means the image was not public. Whatever recall was doing, it analyzed the picture, and that's probably not a local process.