Sure thing, troll ✌️

I’m not reading the manual of the Uber I’m about to climb into. A firefighter isn’t going to read the manual of a car they’re trying to pry me out of.

I DO read the manual on the Kia I actually drive. To read about the recommendations for the tires. To read about replacing fuses. To find the load hauling capacity. Not how to open the fucking door.

safety shouldn’t influence artistic choice

Did you really just string those words together in all seriousness without a hint of irony? And that folks is exactly why we need the NHTSA.

A child isn’t going to find that. A rescuer who isn’t familiar with Teslas isn’t going to be able to find that.

I couldn’t even figure out how to open a fully functional door from outside the first time I got in a Tesla. I’m an adult who’s been driving my entire life.

That’s not innovation; it’s a safety hazard for the sake of the aesthetics of a handle that doesn’t stick out. I don’t view that as a reasonable trade-off.

I just wanna say that I appreciate the hell out of you.

Pharma companies are basing pricing for these one-time-in-a-life-dose drugs on supply and demand principles. There will never be high demand for these drugs because the conditions are so rare. And only needing to be dosed once for a complete lifetime cure means that there is no recurrent payment happening the way you would have with a drug that needed to be dosed repeatedly over a lifetime.

You’ll hear all the usual excuses about “muh R&D costs 😭😭” but the truth is they’re pricing it this way because they can. Because somewhere in the bible of capitalism, this is the way things work.

(R&D costs are just an excuse for greed: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-fall-2018/pharma-lies-people-die-myth-busting-fact-sheet-on-medicine-development-and-pricing/)

It’s illegal to ask you not to discuss wages in the United States. Violation of federal labor law.

OP is in Denmark, so no recluse spiders there lol.

I’m on book 8, and if you can believe it gets even better. I’m a little speechless about it.

Homeopathic products contain zero dose of active ingredient, not even a microdose

Yeah DS9 is peak for me for sure. TNG will always be my first love, but DS9 is like the deeper gourmet experience.

Although, I will let you know that I am currently enjoying Strange New Worlds. It has more of that fun and optimism of the old series that NuTrek seemed to think it was too cool for.

I’m simultaneously happy for you and jealous of you.

Naomi rescued herself by jumping unprotected across an entire expanse of vacuum and then rigged a signal to communicate with her friends, not even from scraps, but from literally nothing.

Fucking genius badass. Hence my username.

Maybe read that comment a little closer there.

Generalized convulsions are a pretty well-established effect of nitrogen toxicity.

“In the few experiments in which nitrogen was breathed for 17–20 sec unconsciousness supervened and was accompanied on most occasions by a generalized convulsion.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation

Known in the scuba diving world as “getting narced” (nitrogen narcosis)

https://www.scuba.com/blog/dealing-nitrogen-narcosis-2/

“In severe cases, divers have been known to experience convulsions, possibly causing loss of consciousness in extreme cases.”