To what end, I wonder?
I feel like it has to be financially motivated and the only thing I can think of is they want users paying for premium directly rather than having it gifted from a different accounting bucket. But that doesn't seem like strong enough motivation on the surface.
I brush mine in the shower.
The youngest of the patients at Alcor is two-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong, a Thai girl with brain cancer, who was cryopreserved in 2015, reports Reuters.
“Both her parents were doctors, and she had multiple brain surgeries,” More tells the publication. “Nothing worked, unfortunately. So, they contacted us.”
This is a bit chilling. How do you begin to move on with your lifeif you're holding out hope that your loved one will be revived one day? What happens to this girl's body once her parents die? What happens if they beat the odds and master cryo and the girl gets revived in 100 years? That sounds incredibly traumatic.
I'm primarily a lurker. I've been trying to be better about participating lately because I'd like to help the fediverse grow and be a meaningful online meeting place.
Why are they collecting financial information??
They sent mod mail on the 27th, demanding replies by the 29th. Clearly, they're pushing to have this resolved before the new API rollout, but if only 2300 subs are still dark, so they not have enough content? Why the drastic push to force reopen everything? Are they hurting that bad?
We shoot for at least once a week. My partner would prefer 1-2x per day, for me I waffle between a couple times a month to a couple times a day. We're currently working on our communication both in and out of the bedroom to try to improve on that.
We have kids and stressful jobs, so that plays a role too.
And it's not like we learn this stuff in school. It's not written out anywhere. We have to rely on word of mouth, people with experience, or people like the commenter above you who are familiar with the ins and outs.
The bottom line is that it is complicated on purpose and designed to wear you out so you don't get coverage for your most basic human needs - like peeing without your urethra being on fire.
Oh very cool! I've never seen this one before 💕
I find myself making fun of the engineering, but I think it's a defense mechanism. I've had a pretty strong interest in the Titanic since I was a kid, and if I were offered the opportunity to see it, I think I'd be more likely to go. And it's scary to think I'd end up on a vessel that wasn't designed to do the thing it advertised it can.
How much did the people who went actually know about the sub they were on? How common is it to sign a waiver about dying to go on a commercial sub?
It's easy to laugh with hindsight, but it's scary to think what could have happened if I were in the position to choose to go.
For the curious:
Speaking to MailOnline, Willot confirmed this 'was indeed a tricky procedure. They are very reactive and won't stop struggling once caught, preventing any shaving attempt if not anaesthetised.'
This was done by exposing the ants for a few seconds to carbon dioxide, then strapping them down firmly.
Hairs were removed using a high-power binocular telescope and a very sharp blade.
'It's the same as shaving your own chin: the scalpel blade has to move in the opposite direction of the hair's growth. It has to be a delicate and gentle motion,' said Willot.
After practising on large soldier ants, he found that a smaller worker ant could be entirely shaved in an hour of delicate work.
He estimates around 40 ants were shaved altogether to produce seven good examples for the experiments.
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