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One of the greatest lecture in the world

@SancastleAir @ChrisGPackham @vizcomic I think it might have been the number for Swap Shop

@ChrisGPackham @vizcomic Didn't that used to be the same number for wife swapping parties?

A WARNING ! Late , but better late than never ! Thank god for @vizcomic.bsky.social . . .

@drewwagar @tragicbirdapp It’s “engagement farming”

@tragicbirdapp That's the correct answer.

Anybody who has ever lost a pet knows how heartbreaking it can be. If people say “it’s just a pet”, they really don’t understand. #NationalGriefAwarenessWeek #Grief #Pets

@ReallyOkPerson I’m in a DBX with pre-engineered SCO FSD (mass manager experimental). It’s now better than it ever was, and can land pretty much anywhere. You just have to be careful about heat and fuel use, but it’s still the cheapest good explorer.

I wish there was a way to engineer or enable legacy ships to have optimized SCO. Maybe when they're done selling the new ships they'll make it an option. I wanna take my DBX outside the bubble again but once you have that optimized SCO you can never go back. #EliteDangerous

@MartinSLewis Used to think PayPal was safer because your card details aren’t given to the seller. Then my wife was scammed out of over £1000 after trying to buy a knitting pattern for a few quid. PayPal did nothing, it took NatWest’s investigation before she got her money back.

Is paying via PayPal a bigger risk? How to budget? Has govt ever told you (Martin) to stay schtum? NEW MONEY-QUESTION TIME POD! Here u ask the Qs incl on EV energy bills, why bank accounts lie etc. Do listen podcasts.APPLE.com/gb/podcast/the… open.SPOTIFY.com/show/6tsU1ycEN… BBC.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

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@buitengebieden @debs_hardy

They just having fun.. 😊

Changed tactics after @JamesBlunt got it on the first try a few weeks ago.

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@CartlandDavid @bikerwise Something that everyone who is involved with end-of-life interactions should start doing.

From FB: I know the exact pressure it takes to crack a rib during CPR. But last Tuesday, I learned a patient’s silence can break a doctor’s soul. His name was David Chen, but on my screen, he was "Male, 82, Congestive Heart Failure, Room 402." I spent seven minutes with him that morning. Seven minutes to check his vitals, listen to the fluid in his lungs, adjust his diuretics, and type 24 required data points into his Electronic Health Record. He tried to tell me something, gesturing toward a faded photo on his nightstand. I nodded, said "we'll talk later," and moved on. There was no billing code for "talk later." Mr. Chen died that afternoon. As a nurse quietly cleared his belongings, she handed me the photo. It was him as a young man, beaming, his arm around a woman, standing before a small grocery store with "CHEN'S MARKET" painted on the window. The realization hit me like a physical blow. I knew his ejection fraction and his creatinine levels. I knew his insurance provider and his allergy to penicillin. But I didn't know his wife's name or that he had built a life from nothing with his own two hands. I hadn’t treated David Chen. I had managed the decline of a failing organ system. And in the sterile efficiency of it all, I had lost a piece of myself. The next day, I bought a small, black Moleskine notebook. It felt like an act of rebellion. My first patient was Eleanor Gable, a frail woman lost in a sea of white bedsheets, diagnosed with pneumonia. I did my exam, updated her chart, and just as I was about to leave, I paused. I turned back from the door. "Mrs. Gable," I said, my voice feeling strange. "Tell me one thing about yourself that’s not in this file." Her tired eyes widened in surprise. A faint smile touched her lips. "I was a second-grade teacher," she whispered. "The best sound in the world... is the silence that comes just after a child finally reads a sentence on their own." I wrote it down in my notebook. Eleanor Gable: Taught children how to read. I kept doing it. My little black book began to fill with ghosts of lives lived. Frank Miller: Drove a yellow cab in New York for 40 years. Maria Flores: Her mole recipe won the state fair in Texas, three years running. Sam Jones: Proposed to his wife on the Kiss Cam at a Dodgers game. Something began to change. The burnout, that heavy, gray cloak I’d been wearing for years, started to feel a little lighter. Before entering a room, I’d glance at my notebook. I wasn’t walking in to see the "acute pancreatitis in 207." I was walking in to see Frank, who probably had a million stories about the city. My patients felt it too. They'd sit up a little straighter. A light would flicker back in their eyes. They felt seen. The real test came with Leo. He was 22, angry, and refusing dialysis for a condition he’d brought on himself. He was a "difficult patient," a label that in hospital-speak means "we've given up." The team was frustrated. I walked into his room and sat down, leaving my tablet outside. We sat in silence for a full minute. I didn't look at his monitors. I looked at the intricate drawings covering his arms. "Who's your artist?" I asked. He scoffed. "Did 'em myself." "They're good," I said. "This one... it looks like a blueprint." For the first time, his gaze lost its hard edge. "Wanted to be an architect," he muttered, "before... all this." We talked for twenty minutes about buildings, about lines, about creating something permanent. We didn't mention his kidneys once. When I stood up to leave, he said, so quietly I almost missed it, "Okay. We can try the dialysis tomorrow." Later that night, I opened my Moleskine. I wrote: Leo Vance: Designs cities on paper. The system I work in is designed to document disease with thousands of data points. It logs every cough, every pill, every lab value. It tells the story of how a body breaks down. My little black book tells a different story. It tells the story of why a life mattered.

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@FarkasLorant001 @EliteDangerous Yes it was on the ground at Lafitte Biological Assembly - among others. I only went to that one as it was high level and always seemed to be in daylight. There were also CZs in space. As to complexity - you didn't mention that in your original reply. Complexity is another thing.

@gorf123 @EliteDangerous Is that was done in the ground? 🤨 And let's just not get into the complexity of things... Go there bring that. Go there shoot that. 😐

Greetings Commanders! The much anticipated Elite Dangerous: Vanguards update is almost here, bringing with it a full rework of Squadrons to give you more options and customisation in managing your groups! You can read more about this update here: elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4…

@FarkasLorant001 @EliteDangerous Like the ones in Beta 3 Tucani at the end of June? inara.cz/elite/communit…

@EliteDangerous Are we ever going to have ground community events?

@Nohkz_GG @AxelBlazen @TheYamiks SCO works on old ships. They get hot, and you have to keep an eye on fuel, but you can still do 180,000ls in a Type 9 (for example) in a few minutes.

@AxelBlazen @TheYamiks These work, but as soon as you find a system where the other star is a 100.000ls away, you'll quickly realise these just dont get anywhere near the Mandalay or even Cobra Mk V. SCO is King.

Anyone still wants these?!

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If you were a stay-at-home dad for this period, do the same. While it's not a State Pension error, it's a NI contributions error, it's your State Pension that is affected.

Autistic people are often infantilized and treated like children. Autistic adults have a hard time accessing services, healthcare, and accommodations because much of society sees autism as a childhood disorder. image: @SensoryStories

@ReallyOkPerson It's moving quicker than the last one. It's been going less than a day and is already almost at tier 2. This is supposed to continue for four weeks. They're going to add at least one more tier, I'm certain.

I think I'll do this one.