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It has been popular. People were traveling out of country for joint replacements. Costs were less for travel, surgery, and recovery than what they would pay for it here. Covid put a damper on travel for a couple years, so not sure if it’s still as popular. I would consider it if/when I need knee replacements done. Considering what I’ve heard about the quality issues of joint replacements in the US, I don’t want one here.

There really should be better options, but it’s where this country is currently at, where some home chemistry is something people would have to consider. You’re right, it’s dangerous and certainly has a lot of risks. With some background in it myself and access to resources that the general public doesn’t have, I would still be hesitant to try something I’d cooked up in the basement at home. But, I’m also not at the point where I’m going to die from a treatable but unaffordable disease.

I’m a quality chemist. I test the API’s that process chemists make to be sure they’re right. Yeah, reactions don’t always proceed as intended. These guys do understand the risks, and are only trying to provide an option. Here in the US the insurance companies are perfectly willing to let us die because funding expensive treatment hurts their bottom line. Unless you’re independently wealthy, a small scale reactor at home may become the only option a person has available. Definitely risky, but why not take the chance when corporate America has determined you’re not valuable enough to save?

Commodore basic on the PET computer, back around 1981-1983. My grade school had three of them in the library, and since my mom was a teacher, she would sign one out for summer break and bring it home if any were available.

His watch has ended.

I’d probably sit and play Unreal, or maybe Riven if I was feeling more chill. Could easily burn through 12 hours like that. Just need to be able to take a case of Jolt, a few bags of chips, and some Skittles along and I’d be set.

Fluffy death from above!

For the love of god! My anus is bleeding! (-Yay! Hooray!-)

I spent just over two months at a new job unable to do anything because everyone was too busy to give me the required training session. Hated it. Can’t imagine sitting around like that for a year.

It’s a dual drive redundant setup. Unless something catastrophic happens, I doubt both drives will go out at the same time. I could do an offsite backup as well, but just haven’t.

Been using a Synology NAS for the past year for automatic photo backups. Take a photo, it gets copied to my drive at home so long as there’s internet access available. No issues so far. Turned off my backups to Google.

Bro Hymn by Pennywise is playing right now. Listening to the punk channel on XM.

It looks cool, but imagine if you had to evacuate from one of the upper buildings in an emergency. Probably aren’t any central stairwells going all the way down. Have to buy a parachute and learn to base jump.

I set on Lemmy.zip during the blackout protest on Reddit, and haven’t gone back to it. Don’t miss it. Lemmy has grown a lot in the past few months. It’s only a fraction of the Reddit userbase size, but steadily filling out and getting better.

That would also be acceptable.

This took a lot longer to happen than I expected. Do Putin’s plane next.

West Wing. When it came out years ago, (24 actually…) I saw a couple episodes and it didn’t interest me. But about 8 years ago I ended up watching every episode on Netflix and loved it. But wow, if I had to slog through to season 4 of a show to enjoy it, I would never get there.

Heh, not surprising. With new editions come new rules. I just hope that somewhere along the way the combat resolution got simplified. I remember us having to roll handfulls of d6’s, and it taking way too long to figure out success or failures.

Huh, I’ll have to do some reading and see what’s changed.

There’s a 5th edition to Shadowrun now? I’m going to have to look this up. Still have my first edition stuff on the shelf that I got back in high school. Hope you can find some good players and have fun. We always had a great time with Shadowrun, and you can incorporate future versions of the city you live in into the game.