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Nintendo Kid posted:he'd try to crowdsource the death ray instead ans act confused when he finds out you can't make one out of used nissan stanzas / 
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infernal machines posted:it's great, by any reasonable definition uber is a criminal enterprise. an international criminal enterprise. their entire business model is illegal pretty much top-to-bottom in almost every market they operate in. they run counter-intelligence and smear campaigns against their "enemies" in business, the press, and possibly even in government. the thing about criminal enterprises is that RICO is surprisingly specific. it's a law pretty much custom-tailored to prosecute the mob and nobody else to fill out rico predicates you can't just break the law for money. you gotta break federal laws for money, and they have to be federal laws about things the mob ran back in the day: extortion, drugs, prostitution, pornography, mail/wire fraud just being an openly and unabashedly criminal enterprise isn't enough. we apparently need new laws to prohibit businesses that freely state they will have employees break the law for money, if the law broken isn't about mob stuff
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i can see expanding RICO to include anything else going over about as well as the first shot congress took at outlawing ACORN and inadvertently also caught lockheed martin and northrop gumman and boeing and all the rest of the MIC
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the great thing about cats is that they're intensely territorial one of my favorite bars has a bar cat. sit on a little heating blanket in the corner, occasionally get pets. scruffy little thing 
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Dec 10, 2014 06:32
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Cantorsdust posted:one of my favorite bars has a bar cat. sit on a little heating blanket in the corner, occasionally get pets. scruffy little thing there is a convenience store a block from me that has a store cat. it lounges on the product/till/wherever and is remarkably chill
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Dec 10, 2014 06:36
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i love store and/or bar cats and im deathly allergic to cats office dogs can go straight to hell though
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Nintendo Kid posted:people pay attention to dogs once they start barking Diabetic alert dogs are good because some diabetics are terrible at managing their blood sugar (so pumps are not the best solution), and as Fishmech here alluded to, it's a dog that you cannot ignore because it is literally trained to not stop bothering you until you have done something to fix your blood sugar levels. They're basically as well behaved as police dogs and the programs to train them are just as rigorous. It's pretty cool.
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triple sulk posted:some diabetics are terrible at managing their blood sugar (so pumps are not the best solution) this is literally why those pumps exist hth
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Dec 10, 2014 06:51
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this is literally why those pumps exist hth people gently caress up keeping the pumps filled dude
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this is literally why those pumps exist hth http://www.onetouch.com/articles/insulin-pumps quote:Pump therapy is appropriate only for people who are highly committed and responsible. Because the pump uses only rapid-acting insulin, any sort of malfunction (such as a detached needle, blocked tubing or battery failure) causes a rapid drop in blood insulin levels; dangerously high blood glucose levels can develop within hours. Although pumps have built-in alarms to alert users to such problems, they are not foolproof. For this reason, pump users must frequently monitor blood glucose levels throughout the day and diligently keep their pump in working order. This includes making sure the basal rate is set correctly, checking the tubing for blocks or kinks, keeping the insulin reservoir full and changing the infusion needle every two to three days to prevent infection.
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good dogs are good. good cats are good. hth
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Nintendo Kid posted:people gently caress up keeping the pumps filled dude i'm going to be honest, this really seems like the kind of problem that will solve itself sooner than later. i'm not sure that $30 000 dogs are really necessary
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infernal machines posted:i'm going to be honest, this really seems like the kind of problem that will solve itself sooner than later. i'm not sure that $30 000 dogs are really necessary ok, hitler
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infernal machines posted:that's 20th century thinking. he's going to disrupt the death ray space and innovate a new paradigm of mass terror gonna crowdsource deathrays. instead of building his own he'll send out a bunch of free laser pointers and then make an app that pays each one of them a small amount of money if they all go point their lasers at whoever he wants deathrayed infernal machines posted:i'm going to be honest, this really seems like the kind of problem that will solve itself sooner than later. i'm not sure that $30 000 dogs are really necessary how will our generation solve the insulin pump problem? will we gamify it and give them a cheevo every three times they clean the insulin tube, or will we just program the pump to send out a whatsapp message to the person's closest Facebook friend (as determined by a proprietary algorithm) whenever the person goes into insulin shock?
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triple sulk posted:Diabetic alert dogs are good because some diabetics are terrible at managing their blood sugar (so pumps are not the best solution), and as Fishmech here alluded to, it's a dog that you cannot ignore because it is literally trained to not stop bothering you until you have done something to fix your blood sugar levels. They're basically as well behaved as police dogs and the programs to train them are just as rigorous. It's pretty cool. what other interesting dog related info do you have
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Main Paineframe posted:gonna crowdsource deathrays. instead of building his own he'll send out a bunch of free laser pointers and then make an app that pays each one of them a small amount of money if they all go point their lasers at whoever he wants deathrayed Main Paineframe posted:how will our generation solve the insulin pump problem? will we gamify it and give them a cheevo every three times they clean the insulin tube, or will we just program the pump to send out a whatsapp message to the person's closest Facebook friend (as determined by a proprietary algorithm) whenever the person goes into insulin shock? whichever one is easier to monetize. probably the latter option combined with targeted advertizing to their friends and next of kin for funeral services and bereavement gifts
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Jonny 290 posted:what other interesting dog related info do you have he's the guy who's obsessed with pugfucking isn't he?
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also another thing the diabetic dogs do is if their owner continues loving up they can go and get someone else to call 911 or whatever
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Main Paineframe posted:gonna crowdsource deathrays. instead of building his own he'll send out a bunch of free laser pointers and then make an app that pays each one of them a small amount of money if they all go point their lasers at whoever he wants deathrayed Meth dealers used to buy dozens of boxes of pseudoephedrine ('pseudo') at a time to stock up on cook supplies. The FDA, DEA and law enforcement agencies tightened down purchase limits so the dealers distributed the pseudo gathering to the customers. now the cost of a bag of meth to the end customer is $SUM_OF_MONEY and 2 boxes of pseudo. this is obviously impossible to trace from the supply side. the cops disrupted their own poo poo lmao
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Jonny 290 posted:the cops disrupted their own poo poo lmao the free market always finds a way
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and if all else fails the diabetes dog doesn't need to be fed for up to a week after owner death 
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Jonny 290 posted:Meth dealers used to buy dozens of boxes of pseudoephedrine ('pseudo') at a time to stock up on cook supplies. The FDA, DEA and law enforcement agencies tightened down purchase limits so the dealers distributed the pseudo gathering to the customers. now the cost of a bag of meth to the end customer is $SUM_OF_MONEY and 2 boxes of pseudo. this is obviously impossible to trace from the supply side. doesnt last very long tho because then it means all the meth buyers are flagged for tryin'a buy too much pseudo in a given time period.
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:and if all else fails the diabetes dog doesn't need to be fed for up to a week after owner death wouldn't that be unhealthy for the dog tho'?
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Nintendo Kid posted:people gently caress up keeping the pumps filled dude you load them every two days and move the barb+hose that's jammed into your flesh to a new site my buddy has one and it is better in every single way to needles and testing kits aka poorly managed diabeetus pumps are also significantly cheaper and lower maintenance than a goddamn dog "having things like vision and feet" were only appropriate for diabetes patients who were highly committed and responsible before pumps became widely available
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:you load them every two days and move the barb+hose that's jammed into your flesh to a new site an ex good friend of mine is The Worst Diabetic he was on dr phil for being such a general fuckup across the board was a weird day recently when my friend sent me a youtube link and told me to sit down before watching that is unrelated to anything i just wanted to share
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Nintendo Kid posted:also another thing the diabetic dogs do is if their owner continues loving up they can go and get someone else to call 911 or whatever for lots of p serious treatment methods like transplants they literally won't give it to you if you don't have kids/relatives/family b/c the recovery is so touchy and requires daily monitoring for months for you to not die p amazing that you will be kicked off the bone marrow transplant list for not having a sibling that you're cool with enough to live with you in order to dial a phone they're getting better at lots of medical automation, particularly for patient quality of life issues, but there's still really no substitute for just having another person around when it comes to monitoring dogs and helper monkeys just don't cut it
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:for lots of p serious treatment methods like transplants they literally won't give it to you if you don't have kids/relatives/family b/c the recovery is so touchy and requires daily monitoring for months for you to not die this is something the diabetes dogs are trained to do, go and alert the other people you live with that something's happened without them having to remember to keep checking up on your dumb rear end every few minutes. as well, doing the same thing in public.
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Jonny 290 posted:Meth dealers used to buy dozens of boxes of pseudoephedrine ('pseudo') at a time to stock up on cook supplies. The FDA, DEA and law enforcement agencies tightened down purchase limits so the dealers distributed the pseudo gathering to the customers. now the cost of a bag of meth to the end customer is $SUM_OF_MONEY and 2 boxes of pseudo. this is obviously impossible to trace from the supply side. futurewife is absolutely shocked at how much meth is used literally everywhere outside of new orleans/baton rouge (where it's primarily a mix of heroin and crack) basically everyone with a drug problem outside of a shrinking number of notable cities will for sure be on meth
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why the gently caress am i paying five figures for a dog that can't dial 911? for that kind of scratch it had better cook meals and change my diaper too
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Nintendo Kid posted:this is something the diabetes dogs are trained to do, go and alert the other people you live with that something's happened without them having to remember to keep checking up on your dumb rear end every few minutes. my point is that this sounds dubiously beneficial over just "having someone live with you" since that's the minimum req for lots of other things slipping into a diabetic coma isn't like having a stroke where 5 minutes makes a gigantic difference in outcome tho yeah i could see that being useful in public where drunkenness/homelessness is a thing my diabetic buddy has been thrown out of several establishments for suspected inebriation (football games and an airport) b/c the symptoms of hypo are p similar if you don't have training btw you're supposed to check their breath - diabetic ketoacidosis results in distinctive fruity breath
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infernal machines posted:why the gently caress am i paying five figures for a dog that can't dial 911? yeah I'm pretty sure you can hire a Filipino caretaker for that instead of getting a five figure dog.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:"having things like vision and feet" were only appropriate for diabetes patients who were highly committed and responsible before pumps became widely available jfc i have so much trouble comprehending how this is a thing. i was diagnosed severely reactive hypoglycemic and i managed to reboot my diet just so i could get out of the anxious/depressed/comatose shithole that was my late teens. cravings are a loving bitch, but, jesus, it's your loving feet/eyesight you're going to destroy. edit: and i don't mean that in a 'why can't everyone be on my diet' way ultramiraculous fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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b/c ofc sulk is pro-medical device dog
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:my point is that this sounds dubiously beneficial over just "having someone live with you" since that's the minimum req for lots of other things the point is they mostly go to people who are proven to not be able to handle poo poo on their own, or even just with someone else who lives there. having to have the dog is more a sign that a lot of people don't expect you to do the things right, but that dog is going to go out of its way to ensure that if you gently caress up it will either keep you on task or get someone else to do so.
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Nintendo Kid posted:the point is they mostly go to people who are proven to not be able to handle poo poo on their own, or even just with someone else who lives there. but those kinds of patients tend to live on their own, without any kinda support structure whatsoever tho i'll ask futurewife, maybe there's a larger intersect between "diabetic who can't manage a pump 3 times a week" and "diabetic with a loving family" enough to warrant needles and a thirty thousand dollar dog over a five grand insulin pump
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:tho i'll ask futurewife, maybe there's a larger intersect between "diabetic who can't manage a pump 3 times a week" and "diabetic with a loving family" enough to warrant needles and a thirty thousand dollar dog over a five grand insulin pump Seriously, some people are just really, astoundingly bad at managing it for any of a variety of reasons. If they wanna spend the money then who gives a gently caress.
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triple sulk posted:Seriously, some people are just really, astoundingly bad at managing it for any of a variety of reasons. If they wanna spend the money then who gives a gently caress. the people selling the dogs do for sure
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:but those kinds of patients tend to live on their own, without any kinda support structure whatsoever a five grand insulin pump doesnt do jack poo poo when they dont remember to use it properly!!!
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Nintendo Kid posted:a five grand insulin pump doesnt do jack poo poo when they dont remember to use it properly!!! *feeds insulin dog the insulin out of the fridge*
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