philpo

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[–] philpo 5 points 11 hours ago

There was one friend who got away. She was single when we met through a common friend group,but she got together with one of my best friends. And while we were close, neither of us overstepped any boundaries. When she later ended that relationship she moved away for Uni. We hooked up a few times after that, but it was always more of a "drunken/desperate" hookup the day after - or that was what we, especially her, tried to tell ourselves,not wanting to risk our friendship.

I moved abroad, married (she was there), got a kid, couldn't be happier. She is successful,but I don't know more about her - she basically cut all contact after we met (for a normal coffee) and I had my kid with me...

Tbh, I still miss her a lot, especially as a friend, but sometimes I also wonder "what if".

[–] philpo 4 points 1 day ago

Funny enough, nowadays Iran is far more free than Russia. They have "some kind of elections" which "within their ideological range" can be considered effective.(Basically as long as one manage to get by the religious control one has a certain chance of actually making it against opponents). And while insulting the religious bodies will surely land you in jail there is far more leeway towards the president - compared to Russia.

Russia is Putlers little bloody kingdom these days.

(And don't get me wrong - Iran is still a horrible, oppressive, theocratic and surely unfree regime that is fucking up the whole region. But that's from a western/northern perspective. If you compare Russia to Iran...well.... One is a tad bit less shitty)

[–] philpo 7 points 1 day ago

To be honest, 80% effectiveness for a generation 2 of a long term drug is a pretty nice value, especially in this field and the regulatory mechanisms it affects.

That's better than basically most psychiatric, antivirals, antihypertensive and antidiabetic medication.

Only a few long term drugs like contraceptives, some chemotherapeutics and some hormone replacement drugs work that well in that many cases. And most of them are not Gen 2 drugs in a new field.

[–] philpo 1 points 2 days ago

Man kann übrigens weiterhin über Key Reseller auf diese Spiele zugreifen.

[–] philpo 2 points 4 days ago

It is never a good idea to centralise essential drug production like this, because Hurricanes are the least of your problems. A single bad faith factor,a accidental contamination, a fire, etc. can all knock out a facility pretty easily.

And guess when a country needs the most iV fluids? Exactly. When it gets to war. Demand doubles then.

Which means the country could easily be fucked by two Russian agents. Just for the sake of capitalism and financial gain.

[–] philpo 6 points 5 days ago

You can even hook it up to your PBX and route calls depending on the number recognised and let the agent responding to the call read the customer data right as they answer. Tbh, a good CRM (there are good alternatives) is absolutely worth it

[–] philpo 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tesla, according to Musk,can keep the prices due to their insane margins. Musk actually wants these subsidies cut to destroy his competition.

[–] philpo 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk actually has stated multiple times that he is all for abandoning the subsidies as his own margin is big enough to sustain prices but it will "destroy" his competition.

[–] philpo 7 points 1 week ago

No. They deal with the fact that they didn't start the technological race until it was too late (and haven't fully committed themselves even nowadays) and that they strongly build their sale strategy on the Chinese market - which nowadays is basically an EV market and one where German cars are now seen as either preposterous or "Grandfathers car".

This comes together with a price hike (not only on EVs but also across their fleet - starting long before EVs were common and affecting the combustion fleet as well; see the price of the Golf or Passat compared to an average worker wage over the last 20 years + it's resale value), a major lack of quality control since COVID and a lack of financial planning for this upcoming storm.

In other words: Their problem was not the end of the subsidies (which basically only affected the ID3 anyway as neither VW nor BMW or MB had any other models below the maximum price threshold for the subsidy) but their lack of management flexibility in time with a rapidly changing market.

[–] philpo 7 points 1 week ago

No,but Musk has already stated that he actually wants that bonus gone because his own margin is high enough to keep the prices nearly the same while it will (quote) "destroy the remaining car industry".

[–] philpo 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As a paramedic I feel deeply offended that we are not on that list but nurses are. Travel agents,okay. But nurses? The insult!

[–] philpo 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the second part is not feasible in the way mentioned in the article with the victim being alive and talking - putting a fire extinguisher into someone's behind and releasing it will kill the person unless major surgical care is delivered within a very short timeframe (and even then chances aren't too good).

Pressure injuries from to the rectum do exist, as people are both horny as well as stupid/assholes. But a fire extinguisher is applying a pressure in the range of 15 bar. That would instantly tear the complete lower rectum and colon, even in cases where the pressure valve would not have been actually inserted into the victims anus but only released closely to it, as the sphincter does open up from far less pressure. A patient victimised like that would either bleed to death within a short time frame(minutes to hours) or die from sepsis (hours to days) with the first option being far more likely. It requires massive surgical and critical care efforts to even make people survive that - and measures that are easily recognised decades later. The patient would receive a anus praeter (articial stoma in the abdominal wall) and require weeks to month in hospital - under ideal treatment situations and only if not dying before that could be started.

Additionally the substances within a fire extinguisher are highly problematic - military fire extinguishers are almost always powder or foam based. The powder used is highly irritating to the body (and depending on the type plain toxic) and would absolutely killed a guy from the reaction alone. The foam is also highly toxic and irritating in this capacity and would likely also kill the person without medical care.

So no,as a healthcare professional who has seen a fair share of torture victims from Assad's torture chambers, that report does not seem valid to me. (And I am doubtful that a arab only publication would be allowed to visit a prisoner in these facilities..twice)

Don't get me wrong, I am very sure that there is torture and major human rights violations going on in the Israel's "detainee/military prisoners" system and these are beyond bad. But creating false/fake news discredits the real reports.

 

After he notified the community that he is in hospice care a few weeks ago, his wife has now notified the community that TTeck, the founder of the Proxmox Helper Scripts, has sadly passed away.

The project has been transferred to the community earlier so the Proxmox Helper Scripts as TTeck's legacy will live on.

Only a few people have contributed so much to Open Source as his scripts were a gateway for a lot of people who then ventured into self hosting an then onwards into an IT career.

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