southsamurai

I’m gonna argue with the title.

Obsolete means no longer of use, in a general sense.

Just because people don’t know that the tool is there, or don’t know how to apply it, doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. Hyphenation still has its original utility, it helps communicate in writing what is evident in speech.

I get what they mean, but the title is not accurate to the rest of the article, imo.

I don’t, because it would require a trip to the hospital. Ain’t allergies fun?

But they’re not exactly easy to digest anyway, and how they’re cooked matters to the people I know that do eat them

Mind you, if you’re driving far enough to go on a tangent, you should pack a bag. For that matter, you should always keep a small bag of basic supplies in your own car anyway. A change of clothes at least.

And, if you’re smart, you’ll have a go-bag for an unexpected overnight trip ready to grab in case it happens.

Of course, that comes back to the EDC mindset of preparedness.

That mindset is often compared to the old scout motto, and that’s one of the good things that scouting did.

It’s a shame scouting died off because of the bad parts of the organization itself.

You know, my uncle was the den leader for our area, and it’s something he’s fondly remembered for.

Speaking of, anyone remember back when scouting was less about badges and more about useful skills and camaraderie?

Man, I miss camping, too. Not just scouting camps, but all of it. My family would go several times a year. When I grew up, I would even go out alone and do primitive camping.

I ran into a bunch of feral dogs and coyotes back when I was doing it. Damn near got killed by them once, and ran into trouble another time.

Luckily, I always parked my car in a location that was easier to get back to that it was to get away from, if that was an option. You always want the hard hike to be towards your camp site when you’re alone because, if something happens you want a better chance of getting out in a weak or injured condition.

A long hike is bad enough if it’s downhill. But you still have a long drive back to a town or city.

Which gives you plenty of time to go off on tangential thoughts.

Sin tar is the usual way, though it’ll sometimes come out more sin tawr, where the au is a bit more drawn out.

Sin tore is a fairly common one.

However, sin tar is more common, at least with what I’ve heard in meat space. That’s a fairly limited thing though, since most of the people I have talked to over my fifty years have been fellow southerners. We do tend to use softer vowels in most cases, and tar is softer than tore in the way we tend to do vowels.

However, with the latin and Greek origins of the word, I’d argue that the tar or tawr would lean closer to that than tore, just because of similar words. When an au is present in medical terminology (which is where almost all of my latin and Greek comes from) it usually gets pronounced aw or ah, not oh.

But, I never hear anyone pronounce the initial C as a K, and that’s the way it would have been in both of those languages originally. The Greek version is spelled with a K, when written with the usual alphabet rather than Greek. Kentauros.

Which is an aside.

Wikipedia lists the two I did as the usual pronunciations, fwiw. And all the dictionaries with audio options are either those two, or slight variations of them, where the au sound is rounder or flatter than the norm.

Thing is, it’s a word in a living language. Whatever the original English pronunciation may have been, that can change, so supporting a pronunciation is kind of meaningless. What matters is consensus over time, and by location.

So, a regional accent that sounds more like cent-ur is just as valid in that region, it just isn’t standard. So would any other variant be, if there’s enough people using it to be called a consensus.

Nah, the roman system developed from even older systems.

They’re tally marks, with a twist.

You take a stick and cut a notch, that’s one. This works up to a point, and that point is 4 or 5, when it becomes unwieldy, and our brains have trouble using the groups of notches.

So you need a new mark to denote a grouping. The v notch is basically adding a / to the already present \ or | tally mark, denoting that the new symbol represents a group of the previous ones.

Different methods have 3 base marks, with the fourth being the new one, others do it at five.

Roman numerals stop at 3 individual marks, and there’s no record of why. But avoiding 4 repeating symbols is consistent with the higher numerals as well.

Basically, once you hit |||, the next number with be the | subtracted from the next higher digit. It works with IX, as well as XL, XC, etc.

But, the idea you suggest is sometimes presented as a possible origin for the earlier systems. Thing is, other tally systems that originated separately follow the same basic concepts, without using the same V symbol, but using other cross marks. Not that it matters because nobody knows. Nobody back then passed the information along.

It does kinda make sense, but the idea that it’s the simplest way to make marks on sticks and stones does too

Yeah, that’s part of why I shifted to baggy stuff. More comfortable, easier to shop for.

Well, depending on who you ask, vanity or capitalism.

Women’s sizes were chosen.

Men’s sizes are typically measurements, usually waist × inseam and neck × sleeve × chest

Women’s sizes are harder because they have a wider range of measurements needed to get a good fit. Bust size, waist size, and hip size can have different ratios to each other, even when the waist size is the same. So, Wanda might have a 20 inch waist, a 58 bust and a 36 hip measurement. But her sister June might be 20 waist, 36 bust and 58 hips. Obviously, clothing measured the way men’s is wouldn’t give as reliable a guide.

So, way back when mass produced clothing came onto the scene with standardized sizes, something needed to be picked.

Turns out that a size 6 sells better than a size 20, even if the actual measurements are exactly the same. Not that men’s clothing is immune from vanity capitalism, you should see the clusterduck that is XL sizing.

But, with “dressy” clothing, mens shirts are usually going to be measured. Women’s sizing, particularly dresses and pants, they go by the fairly arbitrary numeric system based on ratios. Just don’t ask me how it was calculated originally, I never cared enough to find out.

Thing is, while those sizes were originally meant to standardize things, that no longer works. You go get a size 6 in one store, hold it up against a size 8 from another, and they’ll be the same measurements. Why? Because they’re playing a numbers game based on vanity. Some places, a size 6 is unrecognizable as an actual size, it’s just so far off from the median.

Also, I use size 6 a lot because it was, at one point, the “default” size for models and mannequins. I think that’s changed, but it stuck in my head, so I tend to pull it up as a baseline example. I know it’s usually what’s used for fitting models, which is a whole thing of its own. It varies a lot more nowadays for runway and catalog work though. Height is more important in catalog work afaik.

Anyway, tangent aside, shoes are a bit more practical. Women’s feet have a slightly different set of angles, so just a toe-to-heel measure wouldn’t work exactly the same between men’s and women’s feet. I can’t recall the exact points where measurements occur to get the different sizes, but that’s what it comes down to. You have to measure the feet differently to get a good fit.

Which is the overall why none of the clothing sizes will cross over well.

Yeah, a men’s XL is going to fit a woman with a given bust measurement about the same as a women’s xxl (iirc, don’t hold the exact conversion as fact, I’m just pulling from memory here), but they may not fit the same.

A men’s dress shirt is going to fit a woman horribly, even if it’s the right chest or neck diameter. It’ll be cut for a bigger waist, with longer arms. But a woman’s dress shirt will fit z better*, because that’s taken into account.

Funnily enough, men that lift a lot of weights end up having trouble fitting men’s clothing sizes as well. You get something that fits your chest, it won’t fit your waist (unless you’re a power lifter, where you tend to see less difference between chest and waist than in bodybuilder circles), and it may not fit your neck worth a damn. Buy for the neck size, your sleeves can be baggy.

The patterns used don’t scale up the same as the human body does as it puts on muscle. It’s still not as big of a pain in the ass as it is for women with significant differences, but it is a pain in the ass lol. I’ve never been able to buy a suit off the rack. I’ve only had a few, but they all had to be tailored.

Yeah, in a historic setting, use something readers will recognize, as well. Arsenic, Mercury, that kind of thing. They’ve been used as a poison, and have accidentally poisoned, for so long that they’re tropes of their own. Both of those in specific were available in the region you’re using.

Plus, they’re going to be really easy to describe the actions of, and don’t require medical knowledge to understand the effects of. Well, the stuff that’s going to be useful to show on page anyway, the stuff that happens inside organs might take a little.

Hot is typically subjective, since it tends to be used for sexual attraction.

So, you’d have to answer that for yourself.

That being said, it comes down to symmetric features in a pleasing ratio to each other, plus a proportional body. She fits the typical standards of beauty that are universal, and not reliant on fluctuating specifics (like when there’s a social shift towards something like big boobs vs average or small).

Since she’s also what you would call well put together, her features get maximum enhancement via clothing, makeup, lighting, etc.

Ngl, I love me some twinks.

Back in my salad days, they were always so sweet and fun (on average). Even more than the queens, it was the twinks that made me feel welcomed and embraced by the local culture as an outsider.

No such thing as a sub lemmy.

They’re communities.

That dog is most definitely not cute

It is regal and majestic as fuck

Gary stu is a new term for me lol. Didn’t know this version of the whole mary sue trope merited its own term.

But, I’m not actually seeing what you’re asking about. Do you have any female examples?

The closest I’ve seen is someone like Moon Girl or Ironheart in Marvel. But it’s my opinion that the hate they get isn’t because they’re really good at solving problems. They also aren’t really a fulfillment of what you’re describing because they aren’t portrayed as being good at everything. But they’re the closest I can think off offhand.

But I’ll echo other comments. Batman often succeeds by failing first and then figuring out how to counter what caused him to fail. That’s the basic version of modern Batman. Give him prep time, and he’s god tier; surprise him, and you might get away with whatever it is if it’s a one time thing.

This cat has seen some shit!

If the lack of sensation was from lack of blood flow, it would mean tissues were dead, and you’d essentially be fucked. You would already be seeing other symptoms, and they aren’t pleasant. The amount of sensation loss from restricted blood flow returns quickly, or not at all.

What you’re dealing with is most likely from nerve compression. Two days is enough to see a doctor and verify that there’s nothing major going on, but typically you’re looking at a gradual return of sensation over days to weeks. Thing is, if it isn’t returning as it should, delaying treatment is a pretty bad idea. There’s limits to treatment to begin with, but sooner is better than later, you dig?

It’s a thing. In bed bound patients, it’s common enough that I’ve seen it dozens of times. They get a leg stuck through bed rails, and a nerve gets compressed, and then they’re all pins and needles, or without sensation for a while. In facilities, it’s on the staff when they’re in that position long, but in home health, you’ll show up and the patient may not have had anyone with them overnight, and that’s when our can take time to resolve.

But when it’s blood that’s restricted, it isn’t just sensation that’s an issue. You get discoloration as well. If that color doesn’t start returning to normal relatively quickly as soon as the pressure is gone, you’ve got trouble. People can and do lose limbs that way. It can actually kill you if left in place; dying body parts are not good for the rest of you. But

You didn’t mention anything about the skin being blue, or worse colors, so it’s unlikely that blood restriction is what caused the issue.

Yeah, I enjoy the movie a good bit. It has some minor flaws, but they caught the feelof the Odd verse very well.

And I don’t think any story involving a rooster can be boring. They just don’t allow themselves that luxury lol. If you want, there’s a weekly post on !casualconversation@lemm.ee (I think that’s the right instance, I’ll check here in a second and edit this if my memory is messing with me) about pets; I semi regularly have stories on there, and most of them are our rooster roostering.

I can see your story in my head too. Just chilling, enjoying the company of love, some wine and a friendly vintner, and then cock-a-doodle-doo right in your face. Chickens have zero chill in that regard.

Well, I guess a nice jewish arm would also be nice, but the gentile ones don’t have to have the tip snipped

Sorry, the typo made me giggle

I’m with you! Supervillain origin story: go!

But, you want limits on what a piece of machinery strapped to you can do.

Ever see somebody lifting super huge weights, and the muscle just rips off and rolls up? Or someone carrying something huge and heavy (like my johnson) and take a step just a little wrong and bye-bye knee?

You get a mechanical arm, it’s gotta be hooked to you. If the attachment is something like a strap, it doesn’t matter what the arm can do, the strap is the weak point, and will eventually fail.

If the arm is grafted onto bone and muscle, guess what the weak point is. The arm can maybe lift a ton, but what actually happens is that either the ton just sits there while your arm pulls you to it; or, your arm pulls itself off of you in a spray of blood and gristle

Honestly, the first one of what would really happen if you were trying to pick something up. You don’t have the mass and stability to move something that heavy, you’ll get pulled to it.

But, let’s say you’re strapped to a crane by unbreakable chains. Then, pop-pop goes the shoulder right out of socket, tearing the flesh around it until the arm stops pulling.

Most likely, whatever would be translating your wishes to the arm would stop sending a signal after whatever connection broke, but if it was not done right, it would get ugly fast.

So, I gotta ask, are you redantman in disguise? Because he had a habit of asking questions that looked silly and simple on the surface, but weren’t.

So, the first big barrier is that we don’t have the tech to make an arm that can exceed human levels of strength without damaging something. It also hasn’t developed to where the really strong options can fit into an arm sized package yet. Hydraulics can do crazy stuff, but you can’t pack it into an arm and get super strength.

The second barrier to having a limb that’s super strong is that it’ll rip itself off, or you’ll be limited to the strength of the rest of your body.

So, if you aren’t familiar, go look up “hang clean” on your favorite video site.

It’s a power lifting move, and it was my specialty, though I dabbled in the clean and clean and jerk some. Weightlifting terminology is weird lol

Point being, your max lift on a clean is not limited by your arms as much as you might think, even though you’d think that your grip strength is a hard limit. If you had a powerarm™ and did a clean, you’d still be limited my what your legs can do, right? That’s where you really explode from. Yeah, if your arms and hands are too weak, you can’t finish the lift, but having jacked arms ain’t gonna get the bar up

But it doesn’t stop there, where it’s obvious that the lower body is the limit.

Curls. Even single arm curls, you’re still using the rest of your body. The shoulder is engaged, the trap, pec and even lat on that side engage you stabilize and contribute to the lift.

And, that continues in a chain all the way down to wherever body is in contact with the ground. Weight machines can shorten the path, but only by putting you in contact with the ground via the machine.

You get CYBERPUMP ™ installed, and you’re still limited by whatever the bones and muscles it’s connected to can support. If you get too far over that, you could just end up with the

So you don’t want a super powered arm. You want a prosthetic that matches your overall strength levels. If you want enhanced strength, it would need to be all over, via an exo-suit, or something similar.

Now, the reason that your bro can’t get top end prosthetics that at least match as close as possible to a “natural” arm is that we live in a capitalist dystopia where we prioritize the profits of the few over actual benefit to the many. Not that an amputee would automatically get bleeding edge tech in an non capitalist world either, they’d end up on a waiting list until the very resource intensive high tech stuff was available, but still

It really is.

I’d legit cuddle that pig too though

Being real, even “light” PTSD is no joke. Compared to some combat PTSD survivors I’ve known, my version is a cake walk. Like, support group meetings can get real because folks can trigger each other, and the vets, they can sometimes totally dissociate from the world around them because the trauma is just that deeply ingrained and suffused into their system. But that doesn’t mean your trimmed traumas amd symptoms aren’t absolute hell too. A different area of hell, yeah, but still

Me, it took years of group therapy, 1 on 1 therapy, and support groups to get to the point where I was stable enough to return to life on a realistic level. Time helps for sure, but I’d not be here without the external support to get that time.