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by vacri 9y ago
Fair enough. I guess I was thinking of shallow burns like sunburn rather than serious ones with destroyed skin. After all, two sentences after the one you've just quoted is If the burn does not have any blisters or broken skin, such a
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by vacri 9y ago
I was unaware that ice came out of a cold running water tap. That doesn't happen here down under. You can definitely use creams like sunscreens or similar. True, I did overstate a bit - you don't want to use something like butter
873.
by vacri 9y ago
Burns need to be kept cool and moist. Applying anything thick and cool (within reason - lotions for example) to the burn will help. Cool the burn under cold running water if possible ('take the heat out'), then put something on it
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by vacri 9y ago
Is Google Daycare staffed, or are the kids directed to a Google Group and advised to self-help?
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by vacri 9y ago
> Apple's male employees are cavalierly dismissed as "not exactly breeders", which must be one of the harshest judgments I've ever heard applied to such a large group. 'Harshest judgments'... have you been
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by vacri 9y ago
People probably don't want to leave their infant children home alone while they go to work, regardless of the overtime situation.
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by vacri 9y ago
It's good to see May's government is really focused on those all-encompassing Brexit talks it needs to do. > "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornograp
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by vacri 9y ago
Meh. I saw this kind of reasoning on P & T's Bullshit , where they had a local business owner complaining about government regulations mandating the minimum number of parking spots for people with disabilities. Both Penn and the g
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by vacri 9y ago
And the libertarian response to that issue is not the ounce of prevention, but the pound of cure. Rather than have a priori environmental legislation, the libertarian position is to wait until the (possibly irreversible) damage is done, t
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by vacri 9y ago
> Those names are chosen to sound good Are you saying that the name Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act was chosen for something other than descriptiveness
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by vacri 9y ago
Animals that copy other animals tend to be the smarter ones.
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by vacri 9y ago
> But you KNOW going in - there's no support. https://xkcd.com/1053/ Also, from the article, Firebase wasn't google when they went in, plus it was a side project that suddenly took off, not a thought-out
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by vacri 9y ago
The heartache in Lola's story is not the bit about her caregiving. You ask what the fundamental difference between Lola and last-century wife? Hiding her from public view and not letting her out of the house seems like a pretty big one
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by vacri 9y ago
> I don't think you know as much about the history of women as you think you do. Well, I know enough to know that 'women only left the house twice in their life' is an outlier, not a yardstick. You can just as easily poi
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by vacri 9y ago
Independent of the tunnel, a network of sleds able to move vehicles at one sled per vehicle... is going to be ludicrously expensive and the maintenance costs will be huge. Current roads don't need sleds, sled tracks, elevators, switchi
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by vacri 9y ago
The Fine Article mentions a number of times where Lola was not allowed freedom of movement. She had no freedom of movement, no pay (or ability to direct money), no personal life, no say in what she did, and was kept in place by fear. It cer
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by vacri 9y ago
The British and the anglo Dominion countries (can/aus/nz) have police that follow Peelian principles. Sir Robert Peel introduced these reforms in 1829, well after the American Revolution, and somewhat in response to the shady prac
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by vacri 9y ago
A better analogy would be ticketing in Jira versus ticketing with Post-It Notes. The main job of the professional (medicine/programming) is not what's at stake here. We're talking about documentation. Jira is a heavyweight ti
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by vacri 9y ago
I had a friend who was a QA process engineer at a regional hospital. He identified a significant source of errors - every morning there was a 'double-handoff' as the doctors handed off to nurses, who ended their shift and handed o
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by vacri 9y ago
The free market rewards people with money. The problems in healthcare aren't really being felt by people with money.
891.
by vacri 9y ago
I co-majored in a psychology and neurophysiology degree - psychologists should absolutely and totally be excused from meds prescribing. They do zero serious biochemistry, and often not even token biochemistry. Meds may need to be allowed to
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by vacri 9y ago
I was specifically making a point about what 'misconstrued' means, particularly given the OP wanted to flag everything. I realise you don't read every comment, but I go into more detail in the first paragraph only two comment
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by vacri 9y ago
I was using your requirement for analysing comments ('flag comments that can even be misconstrued as misogynistic') against your comment itself. You gave zero reasons as to why women should have equal access to the workplace, on
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by vacri 9y ago
> [Flag everything] .... I don't wanna work with a bunch of men for the rest of my life. Do you? I don't really want to flag proactive, mature efforts at discussion of people's problems, just so you can leer at more wome
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by vacri 9y ago
There's been a few studies where identical resumes have been sent out with "white-sounding" and "non-white-sounding" names, with the white names getting more follow-up. > They won't even give us a solid def
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by vacri 9y ago
> complement Typo? Hard to tell.
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by vacri 9y ago
If MRAs were primarily motivated by actual concern for men's lot in life, they'd do more proactive work. Instead they are mostly reactive, coming out of the woodwork when something is mentioned about women. They bitch about how ba
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by vacri 9y ago
It's bizarre that the issue made it to court and the website still hasn't been fixed. That's a long time.
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by vacri 9y ago
> "it's a standard contract" For my current gig as a linux sysadmin I was hired a couple of years ago, and handed a standard employee contract. There was a clause in there that I agreed not to install free software on my
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by vacri 9y ago
> Streaming services are the future of media. If Cannes wants to be irrelevant then so be it. Electric cars are the future of transport. If Formula 1 wants to be irrelevant then so be it. Carving out your niche doesn't make you ir

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