‘lol-butt-plug’ aside, bass is as much about how it feels as how it sounds. I wonder if bass generation from a rectally inserted speaker would cause that booming/fluttering feeling you get in your chest at a concert.

I mean… It’s a testable hypothesis at least. For science!

A real tragic loss: it seems the road was damaged. :(

IBM SK-8845 Ultranav USB keyboard

IT’S GOT THE RUBBER MOUSE NIPPLE AND EVERYTHING! Fucking lol, that’s amazing. I’m tempted to go that route just for pure nostalgia sake… I should probably avoid anything that’s long-discontinued though, as I probably wouldn’t be able to repair it if it stopped working, and then I’d be back at square one.

Cherry MX Brown switches

The actual post in the center of those is brown, right? I popped a key off, and the ones in mine are kind of a yellow-orange color like the Helios v2 ones you posted, but with a black housing. The noise they produce is pretty much entirely from the bottom of the keycap hitting plastic when it bottoms out (which is significantly dampened by rubber o-rings I added to it) and then another plastic-on-plastic sound on release… which maybe that is the components of the switch hitting itself? Most of the noise is from release. Slowly depressing a key until it bottoms out, then slowly releasing it so that all of the plastic-on-plastic collisions are super gentile, a keystroke makes virtually no noise.

I would bet dollars to donuts you would love something along these lines if you swapped out the standard keycaps with low profile ones.

I’ve never even heard of magnetic switches. I’m intrigued! Trying to imagine the feel of spring pushing against a magnet, I think I you’re right: that sounds like it would feel great! I’m going to hit a few local electronics stores to see if I can find one to try out - seems like an endcap-display kind of thing.

Skimming that second link you posted, I see a few options on the keycaps, but none that say low profile. Would that be a 3rd party purchase thing, or am I overlooking something from Keychron?

The magnetic switches themselves don’t actually click, right? I pulled up some reviews and it still sounds clicky, but I’m guessing that’s the plastic-on-plastic sound of the keycap hitting the post… so, does the rubber o-ring trick work with these to make it fairly silent?

The Ornata also looks like a solid choice per my wishlist. I haven’t had great luck with Razer - tbh, part of me’s been looking forward to the Blackwidow finally breaking so I’d have an excuse to be done with them. But… a match is a match!

Thanks for the feedback!

key roll-over

I’ve heard people mention that issue with membranes. In a gaming context, the most I ever see myself hitting would be while sprinting diagonally (shift, W, A or D), jumping (space) and using an item or ability (1), for a total of 5 simultaneous key presses.

…is 5 within reason for the cheapies? …and do any of them have supporting software that isn’t shit? I had a Logitech gaming mouse a few years ago and writing macros on that trash was a nightmare.

It’s part of a whole-health or holistic model of healthcare. It’s good in that it acknowledges that there’s more to a person than the specific issue(s) they’re checked in for. We have a tendency to become kinda desensitized and lose sight of the human vs the ‘lap chole in room 4’. Spiritual health is one of the pillars of that model, and that’s what chaplains are there to provide.

The problem is that “spiritual” is just assumed to be religious, and religious is just assumed to be Christian, at least here in the states.

The other problem is that chaplains assume they’re part of a patient’s healthcare team by default, so they tend to just waltz into patient rooms and start talking to them as though they’re automatically welcome. Many patients lean on their religion when they’re stressed, and if that makes them feel better, then fuck yeah that’s cheap medicine. Some of them are so distressed that they want to speak to a religious official - enter the chaplain. Ideally, the chaplain functions like part psychiatrist and part liaison, tackling whatever it is that’s causing the patient spiritual distress and then connecting them with the people or resources needed to put that at ease. In other words, it shouldn’t matter if you’re a Christian or Satanist or astrologist or Pastafarian or anything in between - the chaplain should be able to see to the needs of each with equal competence.

In actual practice? “…well that’s why Jesus di–” OMG SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

Even looking at them through the lens of “they’re healthcare providers” it’s still super fucked up that they just butt into the patient’s space unsolicited. Like, imagine if a urologist did that… “Hey it looks like you’re here for a lap chole? Nice, nice… anyway, you’re a human with a prostate, so don’t mind me, I’m just gonna… get… up… in there… Alrighty that’ll do it, have a nice day!”

…and given the state of healthcare in the US, that’ll probably come back as $1700 extra on your bill that your insurance won’t cover cuz that doc was out of network.

But yeah, imo the chaplain should stay in their office unless a patient specifically requests to see them. Not every patient feels empowered to say no when the fucker just drops in right next to them and asks if they want to talk about whatever god they’re trying to push.

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Right back at you if you have any questions about the OR! Anything specific to the procedure you’re about to have, this late in the game I’d definitely stick with your healthcare team and not a random internet stranger, but anything that’s OR in general, I got you!

Did you say anything silly when you were waking up from surgery?

Surgical tech of roughly a decade, here: This almost never happens. Of the thousands of patients I’ve seen wake from anesthesia, exactly 3 of them so far woke up saying funny/weird shit. Two of them were WAY over the top hilariously thankful; and one was completely convinced that we were bullshitting him when we told him his surgery was over and that he was just waking up. He had zero recollection of being unconscious at all: from his perspective, we rolled him into the OR, had him shuffle from his gurney to the OR bed, then immediately shoved him back onto the gurney while saying ‘it’s all done!’. He was a little more receptive to it once he saw the sutures, lol.

The vast majority of people either want to stay asleep, or they wake up kicking and punching.

it’s weird to me that chaplains are pushed so hard with gender-affirming surgeries

It’s weird that chaplains are pushed so hard, period. This has been driving me nuts in clinicals - they’ll just drop into a patient’s room completely unsolicited and start asking religious shit. Like… dude, did that patient request a chaplain? No? Then get the fuck out! I can see the value in having a chaplain available to patients who want one, but until that request is made, stay in your damn office!

Thanks!! As a surg tech I don’t get much insight from my patients: they roll into the OR, I introduce myself, anesthesiologist knocks them out, and we get to work. And the times I do get to chat (case delay for whatever reason and the patient is just hanging out with us on the OR bed) I usually try to just keep them distracted with questions about their work or kids or music preference or shit like that. Anything to keep their focus away from the pile of what looks like medieval torture devices I’m assembling, or the alien environment that ORs are for anyone who doesn’t work there. …what I don’t do is grill them about the quality of care they’re receiving lol.

So, conversations like this one are the closest thing I get to direct feedback. So again, thanks!!

Once nursing school is finished up and I switch over to the dark side, there will be a lot more interaction with actual conscious patients, so the feedback I’m getting here is super helpful!

asking for name and pronouns, and then sharing their own.

Huh. We’ll ask during intake, but haven’t offered our own. Do you think that’s a good practice overall, or making it weird? You and a couple other posters have mentioned -and I agree- that trans patients are first and foremost patients who should be able to expect the same care as anyone else, to include not getting special treatment since that can be awkward for the recipient. I have noticed a couple nurses seem like they’re walking on eggshells - like they’ll get WAY apologetic if they fuck up a pronoun. It’s awkward just to see from the sidelines, lol.

My surgeon has awful bed-side manner / weight

Some surgeons are like that. Reeeaaaaally smart in their area of expertise; but dumb as rocks the second they set foot outside of that bubble, to include basic social skills. Med school really needs a course or two on “how to not be an asshole!” …often the side you see as the patient is the ‘nice’ side, too - once you go under, they crank the asshole up to 11 to the staff in the room.

But… we tolerate it. They’re good at providing healthcare, and if that wasn’t keeping them occupied, they’d probably be serial killers or some shit.

Hope your recovery is going well! Unsolicited advice: you’re only about 30% as good as you feel after surgery. It’s the drugs. When you start feeling good enough to return to your normal daily routine, NO YOU DON’T! Sit down, be lazy, and chill for a couple more days. And follow your post-op instructions to the T - the groin is a high infection rate area, so don’t cut any corners with whatever they told you to do for cleaning, dressing changes, etc.

Also, congrats!

As a surgical tech in the process of switching over to nursing:

How was your healthcare team? What did they do that stood out as good / is there anything they could have done better?

I hardly ever get trans patients, but I want to make sure their experience is as good as I can make it.

Not for a very long time, though!

No instances, but I’ve blocked 868 communities so far. Either languages I don’t understand or topics I’m not interested in… the vast majority of which being sports and anime/furry porn.

I’ve found I don’t really subscribe to communities to see a feed of just those. I’d rather see EVERYTHING and curate the feed reductively. Kinda seemed sisyphean at first, but my ‘All’ is fairly personalized now, so I’d recommend that approach to anyone who browses All frequently.

As a Russian? Surrender.

It feels strangely vindicating when symptoms that just look like ‘a weird bug’ to my dumb ass actually make sense to folks who know what they’re doing.

Thanks for the insight!

This actually brings back memories, lol.

So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.

Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.

I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.

Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.

Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.

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You can block element on that pop-up with uBlock Origin, and it starts working again.

If you can’t click anything, there’s a transparent layer still in the way, so you may need to do a second block element (click anywhere and the entire screen should highlight).

Weird side effect is that the scroll stops working sometimes, but if you make the video full screen then back it fixes it.

Harvey Milk, Sacred Band Of Thebes, Stonewall Riots…

Any people or events that showcase gay people taking up arms in some capacity. Basically, confront the stereotype that gay people are weak or fragile.

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