[imtellingyoustoriestrustme]

Basically 14 hours left before I leave and oh man I am nowhere near ready

[eviltoxicmosssauce]

"i want him in a way that is concerning to feminism" <- trite, overdone, equates feminism to prudishness and is thus concerning to feminism in itself

"i want him in a way that is concerning to medical science" <- well now we're getting somewhere.

[importantcatpics]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You can only drink the drink you get from this wheel for a month!

https://wheelofnames.com/uh3-8jf

how're you feeling?

Great!

okay, I could do it

okay, I couldn't do it

dead

horrible

im allergic/intolerant

Results

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[artemisiamasterofnone]

I got water but that's not the point

I ALMOST GOT SPINAL FLUID. SPINAL FLUID.

[jacksfoxevangeline]

Apple juice. I'm not a toddler but I will happily take it over coffee or oatt milk

[babylon-butterfly]

water that’s good

[stars-below]

Piss

[roseverdict]

I'M SO MAD (/lh) IT WAS ONE PIXEL AWAY FROM MILK

i don't know what tango is in the context of drinks but apparently i'm only gonna be allowed to drink it

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

It's like fanta but better

[dragongrowlings]

Ocean water. I'm going to die

[important-cat-pics]

[important-cat-pics]

[ilikeit-art]

[cartoondog]

we are gonna be vacuuming up this post for the next five years

[im-a-dragon-cawcaw]

[imtellingyoustoriestrustme]

[magnetothemagnificent]

I do think there's something poignant about Artemis II being launched Seder night, in the month that was the first month ever observed by Jews as a people, in the month where Hashem first pointed to the moon and said "הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשׁ֥וֹן הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחׇדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה׃" - "This new moon shall be for you the head of the months, it shall be the first for you of the months of the year." I really hope it'll be successful and that the launch and return goes smoothly for the crewmembers.

[what-even-is-thiss]

So often times when an author ends up becoming culturally or historically relevant or whatever a university or other similar institution will collect their papers. That is, they will physically store away their notes and letters and rough drafts and whatnot. Sometimes this even happens while they’re still alive.

A friend of mine knows an author whose papers were archived while he was alive and he gave them permission to do so but they ended up going through every square inch of his house looking for papers and not letting him touch anything until they were done.

That makes me wonder. In an increasingly digital age will people’s “papers” more often be online or on the computer? I certainly do most of my writing online. If I become relevant will one of the universities I went to try to gain control of my world anvil account? Will they want my notebooks that just put stickers in?

In the case of some writers their “papers” can include important personal objects. When I went to the archive at the Harry ransom center I saw Arthur Conan Doyle’s ouija board for example. It’s just a normal ouija board.

If I die important, delete my Google Drive and hide my tarot journal. Archivists will have to piece together my life from my stupid ass tumblr posts just like everyone else.

[lensdeer]

I made a little web app to generate xkcd 2501 edits right from your browser

[knebellindemann]

?????? I didn’t expect it to keep getting worse

[asingularcanadian]

If the salary you are offering is not enough to cover the median asking price to rent a bachelor's apartment within an hour commute of where the job site is, not only should you not be allowed to post it but you should also be shot dead so that everyone is saved from your greed and stupidity

[targetedknowledge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How to disable Copilot in Windows 11

Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11

You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.

[sevastiel]

HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!

For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot

Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.

If done correctly, it'll look like this.

While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.

Integrated search will have you going to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!

To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings

And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!

Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.

If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)

In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.

Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.

This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.

If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.

One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)

and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.

It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.

Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.

GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!

[hunter-rodrigez]

I would like to once again recommend to you all Winero Tweaker, a free program that lets you adjust a bunch of windows settings with a single click instead of digging through 30 different setting screens and registry entries.

There's well over a hundred settings, here's just a few of them:

(sorry the classic taskbar option no longer works with current windows 11 version)

Fair warning: This is a powerful tool which means it can also do some damage if you don't know what you're doing, but every setting comes with an extensive explanation, as you can see in the Ads and unwanted apps screenshot.

This tool will even turn windows 11 from a bloated mess into a (more or less, this tool isn't magic) usable operating system.

[manga-and-stuff]

Some tech advice for you all from my personal blog. I figured the more people see this the better, and I got a lot more followers on this blog.

[imtellingyoustoriestrustme]

ow.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[1989nihil]

the fact that the captions didn't translate gora pakoda is a crime!

gora means somthing along the lines of fair skinned, or outright white

pakoda or pakora is a fritter made with various vegtables in a gram flour batter and then fried

gora pakoda thus means white fritter and is often used as a term of andearment for white people or as mild, but friendly insult (depending on context)

[stayoutofitnick]

[charlesoberonn]

White boy shocks tiktoker by cooking in perfect Indian.

[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.

[imtellingyoustoriestrustme]

I've had a few procedures myself, and even though they've never explained the reason to me I already knew because my mom (who didn't actually finish nursing school but took enough classes to Know Things) told me when I was a kid, so I grew up thinking this was common knowledge.

Which leads me to think that this is a really good illustration of something that I've noticed causes a lot of miscommunication between the public and highly educated professionals of almost every stripe. Medicine just happens to be the highest stakes one as well as the most common one because it literally deals with our health. There's no opting out of interactions if you want to stay well.

Basically, the deeper people get into a field, the more they forget what average people can be reasonably expected to know about it. Even high school bio and undergrad college bio are a world apart (to say nothing of chemistry), but out the other end of med school and residency a decade or more later, I imagine they probably start to merge together the way junior high bio and high school bio do for us normies. So then people who do these procedures day in and day out end up defaulting to one of two modes in patient interactions:

(1) obviously this reasonably competent person in front of me MUST know this incredibly obvious and basic contextual information (that my own children know)! stressing they why of it is unnecessary, I only need to provide a simple reminder of how long (since different procedures have different requirements and we don't want them guessing wrong because of Potential Consequences)

Or, worse

(2) these people are all fucking idiots who can't even grasp the kiddie-level basics so there's no point in telling them why, just tell them what to do over and over and hope the repetition sticks

I've observed this first hand with a few different friends in the medical field who will, off the clock, sometimes complain about spending all day repeating the same tired points and how stupid/ignorant/etc. their patients must be not to know XYZ. "Antibiotics don't work on viruses," for instance, is pretty common. Or misunderstandings that arise out of the wildly different definitions of mild/moderate/severe from the layperson perspective compared to the professional perspective. (The sickest you've ever been only scratches the surface of "mild" in a clinician's eyes unless you had to be hospitalized, and even then it probably only moves the needle to moderate. So anytime a layperson says something was severe, the skepticism automatically engages. I've watched it happen in real time and had to remind them of the layperson definition. It's fascinating.)

And that's without getting into all the arguments around the rise of self-diagnosis with the internet, or the fact that doctors naturally end up looking at symptoms from a statistics-based population perspective (which normally works because 1 in a million odds of the Terrible Thing are fantastic! basically 0! There's no way! Until you're the lucky bastard who comes up with the certainty and actually has it but nobody believes you because You're Too Young For That or it's So Rare You Must Just Have Anxiety Instead, and then those stories get passed around in patient circles and only deepen the mistrust divide on both sides because for every "they were wrong and it was Something" there are literally hundreds of "they were right that it was Nothing" stories that don't get told)

A lot of unnecessary and dangerous hostility has been created because wildly different levels of information make it really hard to talk across the gap without translators. Nobody knows what they don't know, and going off of what's common knowledge only works with people who have a common knowledge base to you. Medical professionals spend all day every day working alongside people who understand basic principles that are absolutely world-altering to laypeople simply because nobody ever told them. Meanwhile laypeople don't know what context they're missing that could help them get better informed, so they turn to the Internet which is hit-and-miss at best. And then when patients try to advocate for themselves with whatever they found online and get written off regardless of the source (sometimes PubMed gets dismissed even quicker than some rando's blog because, honestly, would you trust someone who to your assessment can barely count but wants to tell you how to solve the quadratic equation? neither do doctors about any research we laypeople do), it just digs the trenches deeper.

What we really need are trained intermediaries to sit in on some of these appointments to bridge the gaps. AI can't do it because it has no theory of mind to figure out what assumptions are going unspoken, but artistic types (especially storytellers and actors, people who are used to having to put themselves into other people's shoes to see through their eyes) with a strong fundamental grounding in science, a lot of close connections who don't have any special medical training to help them maintain perspective, and the willingness to basically do couples therapy for doctors and patients would be fantastic at it. It'd need some refinement to figure out where the real pain points are and how best to address them, but more informed patients, less irritated doctors, reduced tensions during interactions, and gainful employment for the people that AI tech bros are trying to render obsolete seems like a win-win scenario all around to me. Someone get on that 😅

medicine has a lot of problems, but understanding and respecting each other shouldn't be one of them.