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tonight's kind of at a 7.5 but mostly because it's EVERYWHERE and there is no way I can lie down that doesn't hurt that much and also I haven't slept (did I mention painsomnia makes painsomnia worse and more persistent)

(I don't get to 9 until I can't refrain from screaming even when I don't move, and 10 is "can't speak, can't communicate, can't do anything but try to forcibly restart my breathing, which sometimes needs a surprisingly large amount of conscious attention for an alleged autonomic function")

(It's not over a 4 unless I can't fall asleep because of it and it's not over an 8 until I can no longer refrain from screaming loudly when I move. 7 is "moving causes me to make involuntary noise but I can mostly control the volume".)

I will find it fucking hilarious if it's the fucking naproxen that's enough to take the pain from an 7 to like a 4, though

there is no fucking question mark in this post and anyone working around the disabled replies and quote posts to offer suggestions, even as a joke, will be blocked with extreme prejudice even if I've known you for three decades

sigh again because of how much the first sigh hurt, get out of bed without screaming loudly enough to wake anyone, limp into the bathroom and thankfully catch yourself when your leg half-collapses, and take the naproxen that's the only thing that fits into the remaining painkiller budget

Ah, that moment when you realize you have gone past multiple soft limits of "what drugs you can take for this specific pain and how many of them" and are staring down an approaching hard limit of "options you can combine" and are still in 90% of the pain, sigh deeply,

I am reasonably certain he was given a fae gift at birth, and it was "the ability to get people to willingly say the quiet thing out loud, on the record, repeatedly"

Alan Dershowitz’s Martha’s Vineyard Cancellation Recently, the emeritus Harvard law professor has felt shunned at his usual haunts. Is it “cancel culture,” or something else?

He's committed some excellent reputation assassinations but I think my favorite is www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Ughhhhh

The big risk factors for tetanus are a wound that was received outside/around dirt, the deeper the wound the more risk (deep puncture wounds are the highest risk), and animal saliva can also carry the bacteria so an animal bite can mean Tdap *and* rabies prophylaxis!

For the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) the recommendation is boosters every 10 years or if it's been 5 or more years since your last and you have a "higher risk of tetanus exposure" skin injury.

The magic words are "I was working in the yard and something jabbed me in the thick bit of my thumb, it healed right up but someone said I should get a Tdap booster just in case" (outside, puncture wound, healed over fast are the three major risk factors for tetanus)

This is a very interesting set of insights into Chotiner's thought process and approach

Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.

I will never support any form of increased intermediary liability for carrying speech, ever, on the grounds that every single time we have tried it (DMCA, FOSTA-SESTA, etc) it has caused immense damage to marginalized people with no recourse

Hilariously, I eventually concluded the legislation as written is self-invalidating

See, that's the perfect engineering hubris story because the only people who suffered were the people who committed the engineering crimes and everyone who had to rescue their hubristic asses has a story for the rest of their lives

a plumber with a sawzall cannot be stopped, merely redirected

Time for the traditional prayer whenever a highly confident dude uses the words "paradigm shift" in connection with any kind of construction: may the only casualty, when physics explains why the paradigm can only shift so far, be his wallet

a certain subset of the internet needs regular reminders of why centuries of engineering knowledge > one highly confident dude going "trust me, bro" and my only prayer each time is that there are no casualties except the highly confident dude's wallet

Right?! It is the kind of thing I want to parade around as the quintessential example of "performative bill that will go nowhere but the authors' re-election ads"

...huh! I dunno, I played it when it was still in Apple Arcade

Hmm, I don't have enough experience with thermal printers to have an opinion!

Heinlein and Spider Robinson were both strong influences! I can't *recommend* Heinlein to kids today for so, so, SO many reasons, but he is always so deeply fascinating as an example of how your unconscious bias shapes your efforts to envision a wildly more egalitarian society

Living with cats 🤝 babysitting the niblings = not asking questions about that loud thumping noise from the other room

I also found the Oregon Trail remake very well executed, although I'm not sure how much of my affection for it is nostalgia, heh.

Oh, and A Dark Room is hard to categorize (it's almost a resource management game, it's almost a clicker game, it's almost a roguelike, it's almost a lot of things, but it ends up being something greater than the sum of its parts) but the replay value is kinda low, it's more a one (or two) and done

The Last Campfire is extremely immersively atmospheric, although story-light: it's definitely got Myst in its heritage. It didn't stick with me long but that was on me, not on it

Cozy Grove kept me occupied for a while, and was pretty adorable, although it was less immersive (it's a "daily quest" type game). And if you haven't played 80 Days by Inkle, absolutely do, it's incredible