pastabatman

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That is not what "all cause mortality" means.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This was almost certainly an older style of MRI that didn't use superconductors. You could turn these off and on, but the strength of the magnetic field was much lower that what can be achieved with superconductors.

I also looked up the wind down time and I was mistaken. It's a day long process to wind down and wind back up and MRI and do all of the testing and adjustments, but the loss of the magnetic field happens in a few hours. I edited my post.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Radiologist here. There are multiple safety zones (four to be precise) around the machine and extensive screening procedures are required to access the inner zones. The magnet of an MRI is always on and extremely strong. However, you need to be pretty close for it to pull a gun from your hands. Like, less than a few meters. That would be zone 4. He should never have been that close.

The button he pressed is called a quench. It's for life threatening emergencies only. Think "patient trapped between the machine and a metal object." It vents the liquid helium used to keep it superconductive and basically destroys the machine, but the magnetic field dissipates in minutes. There is a way to wind the machine down without destroying it in situations that aren't life threatening or for servicing, but it takes hours for the magnetic field to dissipate and even longer to bring it back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This looks bad, but the last time Jared Hess and Jack Black teamed up we got Nacho Libre, which was good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Screen durability and the distracting crease are the two biggest problems with foldables, so they are making a phone where a third of the screen is always unprotected, added an additional crease, and sharpened the radius of both creases. Hard pass for me (and most people), but this is more of a statement piece for their manufacturing and engineering prowess than a mass market product. Hopefully the advances they make will improve single fold devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Facebook is the reason Trump was elected in the first place (Cambridge Analytica).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Tesla's image is definitely tarnished. It may not be meaningfully affecting their bottom line or forecasts yet, but a bad reputation is hard to fix. As competitors start to step up and current owners look to replace their aging Teslas over the next few years, it's going to make a difference. I've got high hopes for Rivian, personally.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The hackers sent the documents to Politico from an AOL.com email address with the name "Robert" lmao

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why is a website restricted to certain browsers? This isn't 2005.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

The document was sent to Politico from an AOL.com account with the name "Robert" lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I'm also heavy into the transgender world. So is Trump actually. It's this world. I usually just call it "the world" though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Great and terrible example of the power that the right wing media bubble has on people and the damage it can cause. This isn't a political issue or a matter of opinion. This is objective and scientific, with extensive real world evidence of vaccines eradicating contagious diseases.

Vaccines are perhaps the single greatest public health breakthrough next to basic sanitation. People have been convinced of an objective, scientific falsehood that puts their own children and the public at large at risk of disease and death. This is brainwashing, full stop.

Antivaxxers existed before COVID, but they were the fringe. It's now a mainstream Republican belief manufactured out of thin air because COVID was bad for Trump politically and any improvement in the pandemic post-election was good for Biden. The stark partisan split proves it.

 

The building where I work is decorated exclusively with art donated by local artists. I think this one is super cool.

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