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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Is that a factor with synthetics? Even with things like cadeveric cartilage grafts, they’re so heavily treated prior to implantation that they’re pretty much just innate… there’s nothing to really reject. Synthetics I’d assume are even less so - cataract surgeries are super common, like millions done every year, and I’ve never seen a patient come back for a revision because of a reaction to or rejection of the synthetic lens.

    I think they’re just acrylic or silicone depending on the product.

    So… basically one of those with a ring of titanium sandwiched in the middle of it?

    Actually, I just remembered the answer to most “well why don’t they just <really obvious solution>?” questions: money. Bad investment to research and develop a prosthesis that might get like 2 orders per year. Boo.


  • I wondered that as well. With normal bone there’s a cortical layer on the outside - solid/dense, and a cancellous core that’s kind of spongy. Teeth are similar, but I don’t know much about what makes them different from regular bone other than the enamel which doesn’t appear to be a factor here since they shave all that off anyway.

    Since they’re just sticking in a chunk of tooth with a hole drilled in it, it wouldn’t be able to open or close like an iris… functionally all I can tell they’re doing is inserting a fixed aperture for light to pass through, so my question is why bother with a biologic prosthesis in the first place? Bone or tooth both seem like a lot of unnecessary* steps when we could just do basically a cataract surgery and replace the lens with an otherwise normal synthetic lens prosthesis that we use all the time; except with an opaque ring made of something stable like a titanium foil which would provide that same fixed aperture.

    *I’m just a tech, and I’ve never done one of these in person, and intraoperatively is when I get to pick surgeons’ brains about all the why’s behind the operation. So, don’t put any weight into it seeming unnecessary to me - I’m sure there’s a reason, it’s just over my head at this time.





  • I could have sworn there was a mod for one of the GTA games that replaces the model/skin of the grenades with can of biscuit dough. You’d throw it, it’d roll and do nothing for a sec, then there would be no actual explosion, but that muffled splat sound the cans make and some dough would squeeze out from the seams.

    …but the everything else responded normally as they would to a grenade; so a can of biscuit dough popping would still send people ragdolling away from it, cause cars to explode, etc.

    Maybe it was just a parody gif someone made and not an actual mod? I can’t find it. Q_Q





  • Political violence, regardless of ideology, is not the answer and must be condemned.

    Love ya Bernie, but I gotta disagree on this one. What he’s saying is pretty much just more ‘paradox of tolerance’ that leads to the ratchet clicking further right.

    People keep shunning what happened to Kirk as a crazy extreme response to a “difference of opinion” as though we’re discussing a budget proposal for a new bridge or something. And yeah, with shit like that there’s a justifiable argument to be made by both sides.

    When the ‘opinion’ being advocated for is one that seeks to deny life or liberty because of their skin color or gender or w/e, it stops being a debate and instead becomes a fight for survival. That person is literally an enemy combatant spending their life trying to kill you. And when someone is trying to kill you, violence is absolutely a justifiable response.

    …and I know that’s not why the shooter killed Kirk, but even if it was a dark skinned /gay/trans/muslim/<insert target of right wing bigotry here> who shot Kirk in response to his vitriol toward them, that’s still fucking justified because he spent his life promoting violence to those people.

    So no, if your ideology is that you hate people because of what’s in their pants or the color of their skin or w/e, then you’re a piece of shit; if you act on that ideology, then you’re an existential threat to those people, and if that culminates with a bullet in your carotid artery then your death will mark a sudden reduction of evil and hatred - and that is worth celebrating.

    Evil fuckers like Charlie Kirk should never be tolerated.