MrShankles

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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

You can use money from your 401k (stipulations vary) for a down payment on a first home, without the tax penalty (in America at least)

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a surprise, I have that same photo! The one he wanted nobody to ever see anymore. Whoops, guess it's on two servers now

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad SpruceBringteen posted a link to that video, cause I had never seen any of them... and I'm a bit sold on that thar dumbshit

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Incomprehension of fraction to decimal conversion is why 90% of people who say they are bad at math, say they are bad at math

I feel called out. I was in high-school Calculus (11th grade) before I "truly" understood fractions. Like, I honestly somehow managed to make it to Calculus without knowing how to add and subtract fractions without a calculator. Thought I was dumb in math until 9th grade algebra, and didn't start becoming a bit of a math nerd until Calculus

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a second look at the men in the background in that one shows the usual AI fuckery. The other one's pretty dang good, though in comparison

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I was actually thinking the exact opposite. Interesting to me though, is that we both see the subtleties which makes it look like AI. I can't point it out exactly (like too many fingers or something), but it's like the contours of their faces are off? Or something uncanny, at the least. I feel like photoshop could do it better (though not nearly as fast)

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 34 points 1 year ago

YOU FUCKING DONKEY!!! This is inedible because it's FUCKING RAAWWW!!

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can confirm that the "p" is not silent in tacypneic, unlike in pneumonia. It's a weird one imo, but that is how it is

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really cool, and I appreciate the insight! I always liked Spanish ('Latin American' in my case) because you can pronounce the words as they are spelled. Doesn't matter if you know what it means, but you can still pronounce it (for the most part)

I've always been told that Portuguese is like "Spanish and French had a baby". Not sure how much truth there is to that, but a quick anecdote: My wife and I were in a cab with a native Portuguese speaker who knew a bit of English and a bit of Romantic languages. My wife knows a bit of French; I know a bit of Spanish... and between the three of us, we were able to speak to each other in a kinda "creole type" delivery. It was really cool to experience

Lastly, I have to ask... do you think "bradypneic" would be pronounced "BRAY-DIP" or "BRA-DIP" in English?

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This happens to me a lot in the medical field. "Parenchymal" has been my most recent, and I have to think about it every time I hear it or try to say it

I read it in my head as PAIR-EN-KIME-AL, but it's pronounced PA-RINKA-MAL... though how I read it does help me to spell it

Some words I still can't pronounce, but I know how to "read", such as "klebsiella aerogenes"

While we're on the subject: "Tachypneic" is pronounced like "TA-KIP-NIK", but I never hear anyone try and pronounce "Bradypneic". One would assume that it's pronounced like "BRA-DIP-NIK" (or maybe "BRAY-DIP-NIK"), but I can't confirm. I think saying "bradypneic" intimidates people

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I'll never unsee this now lmao; thanks for the laugh (and future laughs, for every time he uses that same mannerism)

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right though, I only read the summary and then commented from there. Having now read the full article, it seems that it's the "county" (that runs the hospital) listed in the lawsuit. Why not the hospital themselves? Or is that how the law works (as in, who is liable) when dealing with federal laws that were broken?

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