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[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[recess-is-in]

see how easy it was to give that information!

[siryouarebeingmocked]

I'm pretty sure if a parent goes against doctors orders and harms their kid, that parent is still responsible for their actions. Is this post implying otherwise?

[gabelincoln]

I believe the idea is that it's a lot easier to resist the little girl screaming about being hungry because she hasn't been allowed to eat for 12+ hrs if parents are informed about why eating before major surgeries is bad rather than just being told that you can't let your child eat or drink for a day (which they will scream about because they're hungry and children) with no further explanation.

Doctors give a lot of advice and it's generally good advice, but being able to understand when a piece of advice is life saving medical necessity advice and when a piece of advice is more general good for your health advice is not something that should just be left up to the layman to determine based on repetition and tone alone.

[baygeethefirst]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

If you've never covered the military, or served, or if you don't have any family or friends in the military this would seem like a shocking story.

But it's not--not even remotely.

It is a common practice for our country to provide these special meals to our service men and women at least once a week--Has been for decades.

I did my due diligence to prove my point to anyone who doubts my accuracy -- in 2009 when Robert Gates was the secretary defense during the Obama administration I present you with a story from a reporter who was embedded with the soldiers in Afghanistan.

"The lobsters and crab legs are shipped from the United States and driven down on a refrigerated truck from Bagram.

On seafood night, the crew serves up 400 of the tasty tails, 130 pounds of Alaskan King crab legs, and 135 pounds each of shrimp and scallops."

Here is the link: https://dvidshub.net/news/519652/reporters-notebook-eatin-good-afghanistan

And here is a story from 2024 when Lloyd Austin was the secretary of defense and Joe Biden was the president of the United States.

"The military spent $103.7 million on meat, fish and poultry, including $16.6 million on ribeye steak and 147 orders of lobster tail for $6.1 million.

Orders of blueberries, ice cream and doughnuts also exceeded $100,000."

https://realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/01/28/waste_of_the_day_pentagon_posts_most_expensive_month_since_2008_1087219.html

I am once again disappointed with the lack of balance and context in my profession. Deeply embarrassed and disappointed in members of Congress, who were tweeting this out. Why? Well because how is it that they don't know this? 

You may or may not like who is the current president of the United States, but your obsession should not make something that is both a norm but also a show of gratefulness for our soldiers, an outrage to satisfy your unhappiness.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

I would much rather our soldiers eat lobster than our politicians.

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

"Fit for a king" I guess we're supposed to be mad these peasants and peons are eating above their station? Yeah let's feed them like Russian conscripts and see how that goes.

[beardedmrbean]

How dare we feed our people well, and give folks that are deployed something to look forward to on the regular.

Don't tell these people what's in the galley of a nuclear submarine, they might get all kinds of mad that we're giving all that quality stuff to guys who spend weeks and months stuck in a tube underwater.

[gabelincoln]

It's also important to remember that the military is huge. The DOD in its 2024 demographics report had 1.3 million active duty personnel. Spending $103.7 million on "meat, poultry, and fish" means that the DOD spent $80 per active duty soldier on that stuff and $16.6 million on Ribeye steak is $12.77 per active duty soldier (I know that they probably didn't actually buy a ribeye steak for every soldier, but it's just to put things in some perspective).

[lesbianshepard]

why are straight white guys so obsessed with world war 2

[lesbianshepard]

like i’ll talk about my interest in history and i’ll have guys be like “yeah i’m a history buff too i love world war 1 and 2″ like cool i was talking about ancient history. like the conversation was literally about ancient egypt. 

my fave thing is replying “oh, cool. i just can’t get into it. i like everyday life and religion and art. personally, i find war boring.” and let me tell you it’s a journey to watch them try and understand that killing thousands of people indiscriminately doesn’t hold my attention. 

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

yup it’s always the “oh you’re just not into history” and the response of “yes i am im just into ancient history” and you’re ready to throw 38 greek myths at them just to shut them up about the kinds of bombers the britsh were using in the second world war

[seidocatcher]

except like. they really dont give a single fuck about wwi/ii. they care about the weapons and machinery. do they care about the events and the people? do they care about why wars were actually important? in my experience, very, very rarely.

[prokopetz]

I think that gets to heart of it: they’re not history buffs in any real sense. What they are is war fanboys. They collect and curate technical information about wars just like any other fanboy collects and curates technical information about the subject of their fandom. It’s basically not real to them; knowing what exact metal the buttons of SS uniforms were made of is of no greater significance to them than knowing the exact height of the captain’s chair on the starship Enterprise - it’s just another shiny technical fact for their collection.

[ejomatic-deactivated20181206]

It’s incredibly annoying because WW1 and WW2 are actually really interesting in terms of how politics changed and the like but all people want to talk about is the fighting. :/

[i-will-not-be-caged]

This comic from The Nib is a great analysis of how the cultural obsession with World War II and “the greatest generation” has completely skewed our view of its history and totally fucked us up.

[jhiaxus-soup]

we need to stop glorifying war and weapons

[da-boy-o-kultur]

While I can understand the annoyance with guys who claim to be into history but are actually into the weapons and vehicles I also feel like a lot of the replies here boil down to “I’m angry because they don’t play the way I approve of”. These guys just prefer a different aspect and approach it in a different way than you do. Just have your fun and let them have theirs.

[dashaibo]

Hey you know what obsessive fanboys who collect technical information usually have with each other?

Autism.

You bunch of pretentious ableists.

[stop-stalin-and-suck-my-dick]

I think I’ve said this before but as An Autistic™ I don’t even give a fuck about special interests, everyone is allowed to be interested in whatever the goddamn fuck they want, and you can be buttmad about it of you want but it’s your fucking problem, not a flaw of theirs.

[queen-of-upshur]

Exactly! My little brother is exactly the type of “WW2 fanboy” the people above hate on, and you know what? It is his special interest. He loves watching all kinds of docus about WW 2 on TV, because he cannot read well and doesn’t have the attention span for reading, but the docus are perfect for him. Then he talks about things with my grandma who was alive back then or with me who graduated in History, and it makes him so happy. He can talk for hours with no end about it, about all the different weapons, tanks, who did what when…

Like, just let men have interests.

[ellas-cottage]

I think it’s fine as long as you don’t like. Idolize Hitler or Stalin or some shit.

Let people have interests ffs

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

They got mad because it was white men who dared to enjoy something and that pisses the absolute fuck off out of a shit load of people on this site.

[gorey-gorella]

Normalise not saying ‘white men’ when you are annoyed at quirky autistic interests

[emeraldmercury]

Also white women are just as obsessed with true crime and the Salem witch trials for the same reasons that racist white dudes are obsessed with WW2. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

[cookingwithroxy]

World War 1 and 2 are some of the best documented and most talked about major historical events, period. We have actual video footage of some of these things, as well as a plethora of photographs. Actual living people could give testimony and talk about it. Records were kept and uncovered.

It is very obviously the most easily accessable set of major historical events to get into

[knightoflodis]

I am glad that there were people here protecting those that just have special interests into those things. Btw. If you actually get into WWI and WWII history stuff, there is so much deeper down. Like. Yeah “guns are cool”. But. I have watched basically a whole historical YouTube series on the small arms used in WWI. And there is so much history behind like a single rifle besides “this weapon was used in war to kill people”. That series dove decently into the development of the weapons, the designers, and the politics of whatever country and how that guided how the weapon ended up. Like. These videos took a glimpse into the lives of these people and let you see them as human beings and see what they do and little bit as to why.

I also watch a lot of Tasting History, and Max Miller did a whole series about rationing in WWII, which meant looking into how housewives did what they could to keep their families fed with what they had access to. And watching Max Miller has made me realize that we really should have more history focus on women in history and what they have done in the background to keep society moving.

I don’t know. All of that stuff is very interesting to me. But I also don’t limit my history to just the world wars. I like history in general. I like how technology was developed (yes I have a bit of a fascination for weaponry, but I obviously like cooking/baking history and I am interested in learning about other kinds of tech). I like learning about how humans lived, survived, and thrived. History is cool. Whether you focus on one pinpoint or you dabble everywhere. It’s cool stuff and we shouldn’t gatekeep parts of it.

[thathopeyetlives]

As usual, the blazing contempt is bad in general and also completely not the attitude you want if you genuinely want to know why someone does something. Even if you want them to stop.

I do become increasingly convicted of the need to resist excessively loving the bright sword for its sharpness - this is also how you sometimes get pernicious fascination with things like Nazi weapons.

Beyond just that, I think it’s indeed true that a lot of people completely fail to engage the human cost and tragedy of war beyond the combatants, and how this very often is incentivised in a way that can’t just be summed up as the atrocities committed by particularly bad people.

I don’t like that Nib comic much. It has some points (the lesser-sons-of-greater-sires patriotism of the GWOT was bad) but that doesn’t mean it’s broadly correct.

Really, though, it’s pretty obvious why people are fascinated by WWII:

- Incredibly well documented

- from the perspective of an American or Brit, almost none of it was *just* futile misery on a large scale.

- totally mythic level of moral clarity (from a liberal perspective and especially if you don’t look too closely at certain things). If it hadn’t actually happened, people would think it was obviously fake propaganda (if recent) or myth/legend (if a long time ago). But it actually did happen and the moral clarity really is there (unless you’re a lying commie).

- Related to “mythic levels of moral clarity” there really is genuinely the fact that (American, British, French, Polish, and maybe USSRian) white men come out looking genuinely pretty heroic for fighting against other white men (the Nazis) and then supporting the emergence of the liberal world order. (Once again, if you accept some level of liberal values).

The heroism-longing, which it is perilous to stir, will probably always sit there unless either liberal or Christian values utterly pass away.

- the level of technology was really notable in terms of being in the mechanized age but not the modern era where things are all computerized.

[gabelincoln]

I think it's also relevant that WW2 is the earliest major conflict where you're really able to go out and touch and interact with the actual artifacts of the war in a state that's closer to "how it actually worked" than "archeological dig".

Especially in the US there's tons of museum ships that are still on the surface, and there's a bunch of tanks and other vehicles from WW2 that still exist and some of them even still run. And going smaller than that it's pretty accessible if you want to get a WW2 era infantry rifle to just go and get one. You go back even to say WW1 and it's a lot more difficult to find these intact artifacts and going back even to like the late 19th century and they're all gone (admittedly some of that was due to them being cannibalized for WW1 and 2 look up USS Oregon).

There's something different and special about the idea that you can go and see or even interact with these things that played such a prominent and well documented role in what is arguably the most important conflict to the modern day and then you get to read the documentation about all of them and read the stories relating to them and a lot of those stories are thrilling in their own right before the stories about how they were used. Edited to complete the thought I was trying to express in this post.

[vintage-tigre]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Which deadline are you referring to? Because we've passed about 20 since this climate change nonsense started and not a single apocalyptic prediction has come true.

[gabelincoln]

It is really hard to take environmentalists seriously when they're this obviously using environmentalism as a trojan horse for communism. If environmental collapse were considered a serious threat by them they'd be primarily concerned with stopping it in politically agreeable ways and instead this guy is acting like communism is going to magically solve environmental issues.

[wildgifthorses]

We're a little past this era but when people were like "actually being more conscious of the political implications of blah blah blah could let you take this in a more interesting direction!", this was generally true but it was kind of sleight-of-handing away that (1) you can make pretty much any genre fiction more interesting by adding more sophisticated political reflections but (2) if you want this to be possible, you have to allow the reflections in question to take forms other than pure party-line tumblr leftist propaganda, i.e. your evaluative criteria have to be "apolitical". Which is to say that people who demand that you "think about the political implications of XYZ" are distinctive not in that they want you to think about politics but in that they want to stop you from thinking about politics, since "thinking" creates the possibility of an outcome not in conformance with the party platform. This also goes for any subset of "politics", i.e. "this would be better if you thought more about race", "this would be better if you thought more about homophobia", etc.

[gabelincoln]

This is also the source for the "keep politics out of X" lines that were mocked/called hypocritical. People knew that they were being preached at for political propaganda but they didn't have the vocabulary to express the idea that they didn't want to be preached at.

[kaijuno]

CROCKPOT SEASON is here!!! 9 easy and cheap crockpot dump recipes

[maxineonpoprocks]

this is really cool but my autistic ass NEEDS measurements or basic instructions otherwise i just don’t kno what to do

[gabelincoln]

I'm 99% sure that the displayed package is the measurement for all of these. Just dump the whole thing in the crockpot and let it cook for that much time.

[markrosewater]

when was the last truly bottom up designed set? and if its been a while, how likely is another one?

Tarkir: Dragonstorm. The one before that was Aetherdrift. : )

[thecornwall]

Wasn't Aetherdrift designed as a "travelogue set" and then a "racing set"? That's top down!

Tarkir, on the other hand, is wedge-colours with dragons, which is.

[gabelincoln]

Aetherdrift was partially initially conceived as those, but it was also conceived as "the vehicles set". However, nowadays the worldbuilding team and the card design team work much more closely together than they do in the past so the distinction between top-down and bottom up are much muddier.

[markrosewater]

When you did the 40k Commander sets, what were the discussions like as to what factions you would choose, and what colours those factions would be? I agree with some of the decisions, like Temur Tyranids and monoblack Necrons, but surely Chaos needed Green because of Nurgle? ty!

Ethan Fleischer was the lead designer for the Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks, and I know he and his team spent a lot of time figuring out colors for the factions. Note the product needed all the color represented which influenced sone choices.

I do not know the property, so I can’t speak to color pie issues.

[gabelincoln]

Nurgle on his own is green/black. But Chaos as a whole being Grixis fits very well. The way a faction is expressed is different from the way that faction's subfactions should be expressed. When you're at a low resolution (Warhammer 40k as a whole) then getting into the nitty gritty of each god's colors doesn't make sense. But when you're zoomed in looking at a smaller part of things it's different. If you were to make a Warhammer 40k Forces of Chaos set of Commander decks you'd definitely have Nurgle as GB, Slaanesh as RB, Tzeentch as RU and Khorne as RG or maybe mono-R. But when zoomed out the way the 40k decks we got were you don't have the cards to be having these nuanced depictions of the subfactions of various groups.

[markrosewater]

According to Spotify, I've listened to 215hrs of Drive to Work this year. So I'd like to ask you to give yourself a high five for making such a good podcast.

Thanks for listening.