No one expects the US inquisition. Wait, yes they do. Nevermind, don’t get to make those jokes anymore.
The US doesn't inquire anymore: we've reached the "straight to the death camp" part of our transition to nazism.
Who is Delores Umbrige in the current Trump cabinet, Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Elon, 100%. Take the wands out of the picture, and rename "Ministry of Magic" to "United States Government" and suddenly that chunk of the Harry Potter story is just a documentary about DOGE.
There are definitely risks, hence the infection warning at the end there. Mechanically speaking, it's pretty simple... think of like a pump action squirt gun 'super soaker' or w/e from when you were a kid, except the end of the gun loops back into the tank it pulls from: so you push the mechanism to build up pressure, then pull the trigger to release that pressure.
Instead of pump it's a button over a one way valve that's on the reservoir that hangs out in your scrotum like a 3rd testicle. That's filled with a few mL's of saline, and when you press the button it squirts the saline into prosthetic balloons that match the shape of your corpora cavernosa - the two chambers that run the length of your shaft that normally fill with blood to enable fun times. Anyway, push the button until it's hard, engage in fun times, then push another button that's basically just another one way valve to release all the saline back into the reservoir. Everything is internal - you feel the buttons through the skin of your scrotum.
There are pictures (animated - nothing gory or anything... it does depict a penis and this is a sfw thread, so I won't direct-post it here, but it's about as sfw as a picture of a penis can be... high-school health class textbook type of image) in the link I posted down toward the bottom of the page if you're curious.
I always thought it was kinda cool - we can restore a pretty significant part of someone's life with just a couple balloons, tubes, and some saline, and it's not like most prosthetics where we're replacing something (i.e., total knee replacement uses a prosthetic femoral head and tibial plateau, but before we can place those, we break out a powered saw, and things like a hammer and chisel to cut out the original femoral head and tibial plateau... it's gory as fuck). The penile prosthesis just kinda sits in space that the body already provides.
Storming Sour Patch Kids Factory
Honestly that's the only part that gave it away.
So, if your doc hasn't already discussed stuff like this with you, you've got a shitty doc. But, 100% there are treatments for that.
I'm a surgical tech, so my brain always jumps straight to the surgical option - there are probably things to try first, but just in case nothing else works and your vasculature really insists on being a... well, dick; there are still options:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/penile-implants/about/pac-20384916
I've been in a few of those surgeries, and it's literally just putting a balloon in the chambers that usually fill with blood to produce an erection. You fill the balloon manually from an internal reservoir when to get it up; then release the pressure back into the reservoir when you're all done.
In any case, sexual health is part of health: don't let social anxiety or fear of awkward or anything like that get in the way.
And if you go the surgical route, FOLLOW YOU PRE AND POST OP INSTRUCTIONS TO THE T!!! I've also done a revision of one of those implants cuz our patient didn't keep himself clean during the immediate post op period, and got an infection that is the stuff of nightmares. Definitely don't be that guy.
What about the pilots tho
OOH and another idea:
Just add an imprint of a cock and balls. This actually kills two birds with one stone:
- The tit depicted on the flag is biologically male, which according to republicans is all that matters. Since male tits are a-okay, problem solved.
- Virginia will be the first state to officially represent the trans community in their flag!! This would be a truly historic moment for a community that really needs some more representation in our government!
This gave me an idea
In unrelated news, the graphics for the Switch 2 are fucking incredible - look at this shit! This is wild!
This is real
This seems to happen way more often than actually eating the onion, cuz reality is more ridiculous than most of what they put out.
Puking an onion? Idk what to call it.
I’m not gonna go learn how to draw well just so I can shitpost.
Who said you need to draw well to shitpost??
still better than AI
...Harris was just a backup bandaid after the bandaid before her dropped.
She remains a great option in contrast to Trump, but then so does the contents of a colostomy pouch after a meal of blue cheese and corn.
Since we're not playing presidential-candidate-triage a few hours away from the general, maybe keep her on the shelf for now?
More liberals should have kids.
We can't outbreed stupid: stupid breeds like rabbits. If that's what our planet is depending on, it's a lost battle from square one. Having a kid just so it can be a footsoldier against a hoard of orcs is cruel as fuck.
Yeah, some employers are really stupid about it. They treat it like a crystal ball. I'm not an expert in psychology, so the best I got is second-hand insight, but one of the perks of working in a hospital is I get to routinely pick brains that are a lot smarter than mine, to include a couple of psych PhD's: ask them about the Myers Briggs and they immediately start ranting about how it's pseodo-science bullshit. And some doctors do rant about shit outside their scope of expertise, which pretty well puts them at the same level of idiocy as the rest of us (i.e., if your ortho doc starts raving about how vaccines cause autism, the MD on his badge carries literally zero weight: he knows the fuck out of bones, but until proven otherwise it's best to assume he got his education on vaccines from Fox news). But when experts in psych bitch about psych stuff, I take that at face value.
It's used widely for actual hiring decisions. If you're qualified for a job but they want an INTJ but you're an ENTJ according the overgrown Facebook quiz, you get a rejection letter.
It's unethical as fuck, and absolutely rampant in corporate America.
Now, as a team building exercise or role play to get to know potential clientele, yeah no harm.
The speedometer is also predictive.
Looking for 'Machinima' like episodic series that role-play through games (not 'lets play' vids, but actually in-character productions)
Thinking along the lines of Freeman's Mind, Neeb's Subnautica, Red vs Blue (their channel is locked behind some kind of 'join' thing... wtf...)
Anyway, nursing student here! ...it's melting my brain. I don't trust my time-management skills to actually fire up any games right now - the addiction is real, and I'll fuck up my grade; but the 'itch' is also real, so I'm trying to find something to give that gaming fix, but in little short bursts so I don't one-more-level my way out of the program.
Study up, give my brain a nice 10-20 min break, then get back to it.
Not really picky on the game or genre, just looking for something in-character. YouTube is absolutely STUFFED with videos of people just playing games, but hardly any focused on delivering an actual story. Or rather, I'm sure it's there, it's just lost in a sea of low quality s
Backing up electronic text books?
Nursing student here, nearing the end of the program (WOOOOOO!). Most of my textbooks are digital, cuz those were cheaper than the physical versions, but when I log into my 'eLibrary' now, there's a little notification flag that pops up saying access to it ends soon (a month or so after I graduate).
Um... what the fuck?! I'm still going to need access to that material through my nursing career or if I decide to go for a higher degree type.
Most of my textbooks are published by Elsevier, and hosted in an 'eLibrary' at https://pageburstls.elsevier.com/ - once the book it open, it's obnoxiously locked down: copying via ctrl+C does nothing, printing a page or print-to-PDF results in just the sidebar text and page header, but the actual 'book' is blank; and trying to save a copy with the Firefox extension "Single File" also results in a blank page. There is a copy feature built in, where you highlight text and a little windo
Looking for a 'block element' like way to hide specific videos on YouTube
As Youtube becomes filled with more and more shit, I'm increasingly interested in block/hide type features. Even for videos that aren't shit, I'm seeing the same ones appear constantly in the recommendations, even if I've already watched them.
Or in the 'videos' page of a channel, being able to zap-out-of-existence ones I know I don't want to or have already seen: basically the channel should appear completely blank eventually if I've had enough time to pick through it, giving me an at-a-glance gauge of whether there's new content in future visits.
Figured there'd likely be an extension that does this, but I'm not seeing one...
Using Firefox. I do have uBlock Origin, and my first thought was to use the block-element feature to accomplish this, but that's doing things like hiding all the thumbnails vs the content specific to the video I targeted with it.
Any tips?
Best alternative to WhatsApp?
Edit - y'all are awesome! I'm gonna check out all of these - thank you!!
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A family member is moving out of country and convinced the best way to keep in touch is with WhatsApp. I really don't want to install any Meta shit on my phone.
Any recommendation for a FOSS or other alternative from a company that's less of an ethical dumpster fire?
'Theatrical' Metal?
Been on an Avenged Sevenfold kick lately, with a strong emphasis on songs like The Stage and Wicked End and most of their respective albums. I think it's technically progressive or symphonic metal, but it's got a pretty unique sound even within that category. Idk if 'theatric' makes sense, but I'm struggling to put to words what's setting their music apart in my head.
Anywho, I'm looking for more music that has a similar vibe, but running into the familiar problem of streaming services being trash when it comes to categorizing metal. Any recommendations?
Looking for data on women's health outcomes post Roe-v-Wade
I'm guessing the legal fuzziness is causing a reluctance to report from providers, but I'm having a hell of a time finding much of anything post RvW.
Specifically, I'm wanting to compare rates of IUFDs/stillbirths, speed and effectiveness of care following IUFDs/stillbirths, and maternal complications/deaths - all in states (or countries) that offer access to abortion care vs locations where that's restricted.
Hypothesis is that if someone needs an abortion and can't get one, they're more likely to have a IUFD/stillbirth, and since poor abortion access correlates with poor women's health in general, that they're more susceptible to sepsis or death as a result of delayed or insufficient care following the IUFD/stillbirth.
This is for a presentation that's ready to go as is, but with an election happening RIGHT NOW I'd really like to drive these points home.
Any pointers for sources of info on things like this would be much appreciated - thank you, all!
What kind of mic should I use to record lectures in a large classroom?
Nursing student here. I record lectures so review them at high playback speeds, and to share with classmates who aren't able to make it to class.
I've been using the small clip-on battery powered mics made for doing interviews, but last semester revealed a few weaknesses: The profs don't like to actually wear them, so I just clip them onto the lecture podium - works fine while they're standing at it, but they don't have good range, and most of the profs move around a lot as they lecture, so the volume of the recording is all over the place or completely silent if they stray too far away. Also 99% of the time a student asks a question, the mic doesn't capture it at all, so I just get a few seconds of silence followed by some random info with no context. The battery is also only enough to get through about 2/3 of a class period - fine if I remember to swap them out during a break, but not ideal.
Going forward, I'm hoping to find an option I can just plug into my laptop, sit near the fr
Any way to keybind 'hide thread' for Lemmy? (Windows/Firefox)
I visit this site probably more than I should, and when I browse, then come back a bit later to browse again, I'm seeing a LOT of repeat content.
The one and only feature I miss from that other site was being able to browse by reading a thread title to assess if its something I want to click on, if no hit 'H' to hide it, and it's gone; next one bumps up, and repeat.
So I'd skim by pressing H... H... H... H... "Ooh that one looks cool!" read the article, comment w/e, H... H... H... H... then I'd pop back in an hour later, and those threads would still be gone.
Unsure if that was a built-in feature or part of the RES thing. ...is there an RES -or- 'LES' for Lemmy?
Software recommendation to record long videos (~4 hour lectures) using a USB webcam and a separate Bluetooth mic?
The laptop I'll be recording them with is running Windows 11 Pro.
Not loving the 'Camera' app that comes stock with Windows.
Tried recording just with my cellphone, but ran into issues with audio quality and battery life. I have an old webcam, and just ordered a tiny bluetooth microphone that I'm hoping to either plant near or literally pin onto the prof if they're cool with it.
Not looking for anything fancy... ability to choose both video and audio device, record/pause, and save so that I can upload to YouTube and forward it to the class. (side question... best video format for this?).
Not really familiar with this kind of software... I recall one of my gaming buddies being a fan of OBS Studio, but unsure if that's just on-screen capture for gaming/streaming or if it can do webcam-only too - DL'ing right now to experiment. In the mean time, taking all suggestions!
Thanks, all!
Edit -
Took about 5 mins to get all the shit on my wishlist figured out in OBS (https://obsproject.co
Trying (failing) to use MS Word wildcards to detect any two capitalized letters, and insert a space between them...
Follow-up to this thread - this is way more specific, so hopefully worthy of its own thread. I think wildcards are the best option for my skill level (basically none), and have gotten a good chunk of what I wanted to accomplish done with those.
An issue I've run into and can't seem to google my way out is making TTS pronounce acronyms in a sensible way. For example "PACU" (post-anesthesia care unit) is usually vocalized as "pack-you" but my TTS software likes to say things like "pace-uh". Or "PO" (latin abbreviation for 'by mouth') is vocalized by just saying the letters, but TTS says "Poe". Stuff like that.
When the TTS comes across a capitol letter with a space on either side, it just pronounces the letter, so I'd still lose things like "pack-you" but at least hearing it spell out "pee ay see you" would make sense, vs "pace-uh" which is gibberish and confusing at high playback speeds.
Best I've come up with so far is <([A-Z]{2})> on the Find
Any good options to prune out similar-but-variable bits of text from a large document?
Nursing student here!
So we get a shit load of reading assignments, and since everything's digital nowadays, I've been leaning a lot on text-to-speech software that effectively converts reading assignments to listening assignments.
The problem is textbooks have a LOT of just... noise. Every image has something like "FIGURE 13.5 SURGICAL DISASTERS!" "FIGURE 13.6 YOU GOT SUMMONED TO COURT!" etc. In-text citations are EVERYWHERE, copyright info is EVERYWHERE... reading the content, you just skip over all that crap, but pasting it into a TTS service, all that trash gets spoken aloud and adds up to a huge time sink every chapter, and distracts from the actual lesson.
Googling it, the best I've been able to come up with is doing a find and replace in MS word for things like FIGURE **.*^13 with wildcards on and the replace field blank... but it's not very consistent - sometimes it works, sometimes not. Same with nuking parenthesis and the text within with \(*\)
All that said, I'm wond
Tinkerers of Lemmy: I need a materials suggestion to modify a headset.
Skip to the tldr if you don't want the novel explaining the reasoning.
A friend gifted me their old Razer Kraken headset a while ago. The leather Razer uses is some CHEAP shit, so the couple years in a closet leading up to it landing on my noggin left it in a state of deterioration that would sprinkle my head and ears with little bits of black leather.
The speakers are good though, and free is free, so no complaints: I hit it with some duct tape and peeled it off repeatedly until all the leather bits were freed up - the cloth layer underneath the leather is now the outermost layer, and no more black sprinkles all over, so yay.
Unfortunately the tape pulling on the ear cushions was a bit too much for whatever adhesive Razer uses to stick em on to their mounting plate, and they pretty much just pulled off. Also no biggie - replacements are pretty cheap on Amazon, so I got a set and lived happ
Is there some way to make bluetooth only auto connect if it isn't paired yet; but then stop so it doesn't just randomly switch devices?
I have my phone set to remember my car, my wife's car, and a pair of bluetooth headphones. When it's within range of one of them, it connects and all is well.... until it detects another one, then it changes to that.
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed my wife on the interstate. Didn't notice her car, but did notice my music suddenly stop... oh well; not gonna futz with bluetooth when I'm driving... guess it'll just be quiet for the rest of the trip.
Couple minutes later, it comes back. Yay!
Make it home, and as I'm getting out of the car, the wife pulls up, so I wait for her and we're chatting our way back to the apartment. She mentions her car randomly started playing heavy metal on the way home for a minute, then stopped. Now the gears are turning - I ask if it was around the area when mine went silent, and yup! I was a couple lanes over, but my phone detected her car and ditched mine to connect to it.
I've noticed it auto-hop from my car to my headphones or vice versa
Any tips on getting pirated media onto the TV?
Watched the first episode of The Acolyte on Disney+, and there so many ads that I swear the ad-to-star-wars radio was 1 to 1.
...so I set sail. I'm so sick this. But now I've got three video files on the comp (Windows 10), but I'm struggling to get them into the TV... We have a Roku, but apparently my comp doesn't support 'Miracast', and that seems to be a huge road block going by guides online.
Hoping to not spend an arm and a leg, but probably need some cable or something other than Roku. I'm probably the least techy person on Lemmy, so please idiot-proof any instructions.
Thanks all!
Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up?
Previously I've been pretty gentle with modding that game - things like SkyUI to make it a bit more PC friendly, utility mods like the one limits soul gems to ONLY being filled with their highest tier (no more wasting a grand by filling it with a mudcrab). Also LockPick Pro to effectively skip lockpicking, cuz I hate Skyrim's (bring back Oblivion's model!)... that's kinda it.
Looking for mods that bring something new to the actual gameplay. I know there are a ton of them - what are your favorites?
Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
Initial scrolling of the Steam Summer Sale seems pretty lackluster, but digging through the comments sections in other threads, a few gems have stood out, and it doesn't appear we have a thread dedicated to this yet, so post what you think are the best deals here!
Not mandatory ofc, but it'd be helpful if...
- One game per top level post, so comments stemming from it are focused on on just it.
- Hyperlink the game title to its Store Page
- Include both the normal and sale price / %off
- Include a short blurb about the game - if it's one you've played before, what did you like about it? If you're diving in blind, what grabbed your attention?
Good hunt'n!
Probably a stupid question, but what can I do to 'degoogle' a Google Pixel 8?
Just switched to a new phone carrier, and they had a promotion that included a free phone: the Google Pixel 8. I'm not a fan of Google, but I am a fan of free, so I took the bait.
It's already bombarded me with pitches for their new AI bullshit. I've opted out of as much as the settings allow, but I'm under no illusion that doing so actually provides any real privacy.
So, damage control time.
On my previous device I used YouTube Vanced for music and videos, but I guess Vanced isn't around anymore, and I'm pretty out of date on what the current options are... any insight on streaming specifically?
*I'm a medic who's only surface-level competent with tech, so please idiot-proof any instructions.
Thanks all!
Anyone have luck with a hair growth inhibitor? Especially my fellow gentledudes who could be mistaken for sasquatch after skipping a day of shaving.
I've heard of things like Nair that make it fall out... if that was a one-and-done solution I'd be all for it, but I'm hoping for something that slows or stops it from growing.
I go clean shaven, but I get the '5 o-clock' shadow the second I put the razor down, and look homeless if I skip a day or two.
Tried growing a beard - looked alright, but the amount of product and effort I shoved into that thing was ridiculous. And it was maddeningly itchy the entire time (lasted about a year putting up with it).
I've spent the last couple years with the conclusion that hair is just annoying, and I want it gone with as little effort and expense as possible.
Kinda partial to keeping the eyebrows and lashes cuz they keep shit out of my eyes, but honestly if losing them is the cost of getting rid of the rest of it, I'd call that a fair trade.
Some initial searching shows there is a market for hair growth suppressants, but chewbaccoids like myself might not be among the target audience lo