Yeah same, I laughed with despair at the comics ending though so the TV ending being just ok was excellent by comparison.

The boys. I found the TV show pretty decent, not great but decent, and the ending was great in comparison to the comics.

Try slowly increasing your fibre content. Wholegrains beans and crunchy veg are easy ways to start. Most people don’t eat enough and are chronically constipated to some degree.

I’m glad you got checked out that incomplete emptying feeling can be a red flag so good decision there.

Excellent game. I really enjoyed my time with Slay the Princess. The voice acting was top notch, I really enjoyed working out what was going on and finding my way to the ending.

That does not sound like a healthy relationship. Is therapy an option? Individually or together?

Sounds like things are rough and your relationship with your partner might not be as balanced as you thought previously. Do you have some friends to talk things through with and get another perspective? Remember just because you loved someone doesn’t mean that they have permission to hurt you and you should not expect that in a loving relationship.

Everyone dies. Only certainty of life.

As part of my job in the hospital I often interact with dying people and their families. Palliative care - caring for people in the last period of their lives, in the UK focuses on patient experience and patient priorities. We generally aim for as pain free and as comfortable an end as possible and have medication which can usually make this a possibility.

The dying process for most people is a lot like falling asleep. They get more and more sleepy and spend less time awake. Eventually they go to sleep and the breathing starts changing with bigger gaps between breaths and eventually the breathing stops.

If it’s done well it’s a peaceful process with minimal pain and agitation.

If this is something you are concerned about it might be worth talking to your doctor about it. We have the RESPECT process in the UK which is a guided conversation about things important to the patient around the end of their life with medical recommendations for what is appropriate (not every treatment is appropriate for every patient).

Googly eyes on everything!

This many people fucking you around there was probably an error somewhere, wrong date or time or something. Otherwise all those people are assholes. Sorry this happened. I hope you still had a good BBQ with your family.

I think I’m a pretty kind and outgoing person. I’m also decidedly socialist, pretty much at eat the rich levels. So I think the world would change for the better, get some huge taxation going on the mega rich and funding for stuff like UBI. Dramatic shifts to renewable energy. People would probably stop killing each other. I can’t imagine doing that to someone else not in self defence.

I commute to work by bicycle and think cars are useful but good public transport is better so that is probably handy.

Down sides I’m a habitual comfort eater and love food so the obesity problem might get worse.

Sleeping downstairs, windows open overnight and close during the day.

Also gave in and brought an aircon so hopefully that helps when it turns up.

I have picked up HEMA historical European martial arts. It’s sword fighting. It’s super fun. Everyone at my club is a massive nerd as you might expect. It’s good exercise and genuinely fun. The down side is the kit is pretty expensive. At my club we have a newby joining session with a discounted attendance period which builds to a safety test before you really need to get safety kit which gives people a chance to try it before they spend hundreds on jackets and masks (and swords!).

What did you think? I am hearing mixed things.

The first time was when I was about 7 my little sister started choking on a fruit pastel so I did some back slaps and she spit it out.

I eventually went into health care so quite a few since.

It was decent, the final season was pretty pointless unfortunately and the finale didn’t live up to the hype. I will say the shows ending was a million times better than the comic. I laughed and despaired at how stupid the comic ending was but the show made sense at least and did better with several of the characters like Kimiko, Annie and Hughie.

Comic 5/10 overall ending 2/10. Show 7/10 including the ending, a quite watchable show.

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Do I know how to use the technology?

I would hope that in 100k years, assuming humans are still basically human, the tech would be user friendly enough I’d be able to use it.

I’d want to try and improve the world with it. Give free power and clean water to poor countries. Help with medical research.

Hell it might come with a built in library so I can download that to researchers.

That is an even cooler extension to the sharks are older than trees fact which I enjoy.

They have weird butt muscles and use the poop as trail markers if I remember rightly.

Yeah the race towards fascism is terrifying.

Very similar, we can diagnose and manage patients in most cases and recognise when we’re out of our depth. We are dependent practitioners so work with a consultant. Currently we can’t prescribe but this is planned to change at some point. We don’t rotate like resident doctors do so provide more continuity for the nursing team and patients.