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Rakdos92 said:
I ope the latter won't be the case. Best of luck, man.
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Sadly I am in the hospital now. At minimum my old friend the atrial flutter is back alongside the COPD, diabetes, and hypertension.
A pulse of 48bpm is nobody's friend. I'm not having a good time.
 
Despite the pain I'm in and the anxiety about potential blood clots and stroke I find myself strangely happy being here in the hospital. It's like having people that care about me. I've barely spoken to anyone in person in months and not had anyone treat me with care in far longer.

No wonder my dreadful, all-consuming fear of death has been struggling with suicidal thoughts lately. No worries there though, my fear is easily winning that fight.
 
So I'm in the hospital and feeling pretty shitty but there's also a channel on the TV in my room that is basically Law & Order 24/7.

Thus I'm sick, homeless, in the hospital, and I've got all the Law & Order my brain can eat. Plus free wifi.

So I guess there are bright sides even now.
 
Got the cardioversion today but it didn't fix my heart completely so they're gonna do cardiac ablation on Wednesday which will involve putting a catheter up through my groin into my heart to make scars inside my heart to stop the arrhythmia.

Supposedly it's very safe, but I'm still scared as fuck
 
MadGreenSon said:
Got the cardioversion today but it didn't fix my heart completely so they're gonna do cardiac ablation on Wednesday which will involve putting a catheter up through my groin into my heart to make scars inside my heart to stop the arrhythmia.

Supposedly it's very safe, but I'm still scared as fuck
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I hope that everything goes well
 
I notice I have a lingering Audible credit from before I shut down my subscription half year ago. Any recommendations?
 
Okay, I asked around some friends and they have encountered the same phenomenon, despite it being weirdly specific, so I want to ask here too:

Do you know that weird state where you aren't quite awake yet, unable to move, your nose is congested, you are drooling on your pillow, and a strangely catchy pop song plays on repeat in your brain, one that feels familiar, but you can't place the name of it?

Again, it's weirdly specific, but apparently people besides me have experienced that before.

MadGreenSon said:
I notice I have a lingering Audible credit from before I shut down my subscription half year ago. Any recommendations?
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What are your overall tastes? Any genres you are into?
 
ShogunTrooper said:
Do you know that weird state where you aren't quite awake yet, unable to move, your nose is congested, you are drooling on your pillow, and a strangely catchy pop song plays on repeat in your brain, one that feels familiar, but you can't place the name of it?

Again, it's weirdly specific, but apparently people besides me have experienced that before.
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Sounds like a sleep paralysis demon with aspirations towards being an idol/pop star.
 
MadGreenSon said:
Scifi and fantasy mostly, I like horror too.

Currently have all the 3 Body Problem books
Dune
Brain Wave
A few Horus Heresy books
the Scholomance books

Not looking to get any more Dune or 40k or adjacent books
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Right off the top of my head:

The Black Company, about a Sellsword Company working for an evil overlord, is pretty good, and I've seen it described as "Imagine Lord of the Rings, but told from the perspective of an Easterling Captain", if you are into that. The setting is, for all intents and purposes, humans-only.

The Dwarves by Markus Heitz, which I'm currently on. It's your typical, traditional fantasy, where Dwarves are Dwarves, Elves are Elves, and Orcs are Orcs, with the protagonist being an orphaned Dwarf that was raised by a human wizard, so what you see is pretty much what you get.

If you are into Mechs and Power Armor, there is the Brigador Audiobook, which is ground-level Military Sci-Fi (think more along the lines of Battletech or Titanfall than anything high-concept or about complex politics) about a unit of soldiers of what is essentially a Latin American Dictatorship in Space, on the night the regime's leader dies and everything goes to hell. You don't really have to have played the game to understand it, but it helps if you know what a Touro or a Buckmaster are. It makes for a nice standalone, if you don't want to jump into a whole series.
 
Been bugging me for a while: what's that condiment with the green bits in it on an american hot dog? I think they are sweet-sour pickles, but turned into a sauce of some kind?
 
Rakdos92 said:
Been bugging me for a while: what's that condiment with the green bits in it on an american hot dog? I think they are sweet-sour pickles, but turned into a sauce of some kind?
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How do you even know about specific sauces on American hot dogs, but only by sight?
 
because occasionally I want to try american food and have to sift through various pictures of meals like hamburger, fried chicken, and the afromentioned "american" hot dog. It stuck with me because all others had normal-looking photos, what you'd expect when you hear the name. The hot dog stuck with me because it was that unusual for me to see a green sauce of some kind.
 
ShogunTrooper said:
Do you know that weird state where you aren't quite awake yet, unable to move, your nose is congested, you are drooling on your pillow, and a strangely catchy pop song plays on repeat in your brain, one that feels familiar, but you can't place the name of it?
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Scygnus said:
Sounds like a sleep paralysis demon with aspirations towards being an idol/pop star.
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Liminal Sleep Paralysis Ear Worm. A mental parasite that feeds passively on your memories, dreams, and mental perceptions of music (but not the sound itself) and excretes mental sound mishmashes of the same, generally perceptible only when your brain is otherwise at the minimal activity level, like non-rem sleep. These "waste signals" occasionally interfere with neural communication signals, causing temporary paralysis.

Might want to get that checked. Those things can cause brainrot if left untreated.
 
Melmar said:
Relish. It's almost like a jam made of pickles.
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Specifically, the kind used in American grill culture is a sweet dill pickle relish. Relish is a broad kind of food or sauce made from pickled vegetables that are cut up but still discernible (that means that some variants of Fasskraut are technically relishes)
 
Hatless Nuance said:
Liminal Sleep Paralysis Ear Worm. A mental parasite that feeds passively on your memories, dreams, and mental perceptions of music (but not the sound itself) and excretes mental sound mishmashes of the same, generally perceptible only when your brain is otherwise at the minimal activity level, like non-rem sleep. These "waste signals" occasionally interfere with neural communication signals, causing temporary paralysis.

Might want to get that checked. Those things can cause brainrot if left untreated.
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We usually just call them Daydream Worms because they're a lot more common and not nearly as problematic as Deep Dream Worms or Nightmare Worms. You don't need to search by the full scientific name.
 
Rakdos92 said:
Got any recipes for homemade?
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With the caveat that I've never actually made any of these, here's a few different ones: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/244523/sweet-pickle-relish/
www.theprairiehomestead.com

Easy Homemade Dill Relish Recipe • The Prairie Homestead

This easy homemade dill relish recipe is just right-- not too sweet with the perfect pop of dill. Includes instructions for canning or freezing!
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Tangy Dill Pickle Relish Recipe - Food.com

After searching for a great dill pickle relish, I combined a couple and came up with this wonderful tasting relish. Hope you enjoy it as much as my f
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A cute woman who said she was a nurse offered to shave my balls.

Then I got gassed and woke up with my chest aching and bleeding from my crotch.
 
Hatless Nuance said:
You most likely still have your balls. Your ballsack or another point of soft flesh on your pelvis is the easiest place to make an incision to then run the tube they use to perform heart operations. This also works for many other organ surgeries.
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Yeah, they jabbed a burning wire into my heart to force it into compliance.
 
MadGreenSon said:
Yeah, they jabbed a burning wire into my heart to force it into compliance.
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I understand it is very rare these days to need to open the chest for any internal procedures. Guided tubing fed through the leg or the crotch that then has the medical tools run through it can take care of almost anything short of removing entire organs.
 
Hatless Nuance said:
I understand it is very rare these days to need to open the chest for any internal procedures. Guided tubing fed through the leg or the crotch that then has the medical tools run through it can take care of almost anything short of removing entire organs.
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True. I still have a deep ache in my chest from it though, which is probably psychosomatic.
 
Okay, this question is probably rather common but still:

Authors, what do you do to get in the right headspace for writing? Like, any specific rituals or habits you've cultivated, so that your brain doesn't make farting noises at you when you stare at the document?
 
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