LLM promoting skills are becoming the new google research skills. My nursing school taught me how to google and look for the CDC page or the drug monograph or the manufacturers YouTube account. Now we're having to learn to ask the llm to fuzzy match the most likely relevant sources and follow the links to fact check from there. Wasteful sure but we're losing google as fast as it came in.

YOU. You get me.

nope just the oral ones and not even every day just as a refresher every few weeks or even once a month or less when I get smelly and it fixes it!

the penis is facing into a big hole under a smaller hole along with a bunch of tiny things with tails all within a lenticular outline

I'm really enjoying the quality of this discourse on the comparison of art to genitalia. This is exactly what I was going for. 🥂 That said, I would argue that the sperm pointing towards the hole and the litle hole above the big one is pretty darn yonic.

i suspect they are referring to this user having what reddit used to call a "cake day" referring to the anniversary of them making their account. that or theyre trans and just came out (closeted trans ppl are often called eggs) but I think it's the first thing since that profile does have the lil cake today. and idk that it's cringe (another comment) it's probably nice to be that recognizable (although anonymity has benefits).

I just jam acidophillus capsules right up into my vagina. don't need a billion CFUs if they don't need to worry about your stomach acid! sometimes colonization IS the answer! (this is gonna be my problematic quote in 20 years).

I'm going to mostly focus on the more legitimate answers since you already seem to know some of this was possibly / probably oversight / neglect and that they should have given you more.

a) the big one is pressure from regulatory agencies to prescribe less narcotics. Some of this is legitimate; a lot of the opiate crisis was started by pharma companies lying about how habit forming their medications are and intentionally encouraging dependency through overprescribing to sell more, but a lot of it is also just straight up puritanical and part of efforts to disrupt minority communities that are more affected by illicit drug use. In the end though, even if they don't share the stigmatizing view of it, there's little individual prescribers can do about it.

b) there's huge pressure in institutional environments to do ANYTHING to prevent falls. In addition to getting stingy with sedatives that might make you dizzy there's also pressure to have 1:1 care where people watch the patient in the bathroom and we used to even restrain old people to keep them from falling (although thank goodness that's finally falling out of favor). To get rid of that we'd have to accept that sometimes people just fall and crack their head open and die and that's life but we're just not there yet as a society. In the US everything needs to be someone's fault and if the doctor prescribes a sedating med and I give it and you fall, it's partially considered my and the doctor's fault. If we do ALL the environmental AND don't give sedating meds, it's considered less our fault.

c) There's legit specific medical reasons sometimes. If you had a bowel obstruction opiates are actually specifically contraindicated since they're the medications MOST likely to cause constipation. Now if surgical intervention was the best option it might make sense to give them anyway, but there may have been some waffling on what the best option was and they couldn't un-give you the meds if the final decision was to have you pass it with medication / enemas instead of surgery. And bowel surgeries have a huuuge possibility of sepsis and having to parts of the bowel removed and having to get regular vitamin shots for the entire rest of your life (once had a bypass patient so iron deficient she stated hallucinating) so that's not a decision to make lightly.

d) insurance in the inpatient environment likely didn't interfere with the medication prescription directly. they probably DID interfere with the surgical decision which may have interfered with the medication decision (see above). but the bigger issue is that insurance agencies in general do something waaay more insidious than just avoiding paying. they create and fill a psychological need to find someone to blame for things. every time something bad happens in the US we immediately try to figure out who to blame so we know who's paying for it. this is your health but also to your house and your car. the insurance is there more than just to pay but also to pay court fees if the blame isn't immediately placeable. if I give you a sedating medication and you fall, the insurance doesn't pay for it they make the hospital pay for it. So as a result the hospital pressures me to not give you that medication so you don't fall and leave them with the bill. to truly be rid of insurance companies in general we would have to fundamentally move away from blame culture. we would have to shift to a mindset of, wow that's horrible but we as other humans are going to take care of you. and like I said, we're just not there yet (but universal healthcare is definitely a step in the right direction; that kind of change can't start with individuals struggling to make rent).

idk we have one of those small handheld ones you can get at Walmart for like $20 for getting out wrinkles and getting odors out of things like heavy coats that you can't clean otherwise. it's also great for reshaping things that wouldn't otherwise survive an iron like vinyl game maps that come in a tube or my old stethoscope from school that had been coiled up in storage.

I really wanted aether to happen and it never happened but this is similar enough. The only big difference is no baked in 6 month deletion cycle but if I had my own server presumably I could just delete stuff that often and send out requests for content deletion at that interval and not all of them would get honored but probably most of them would.

I wholeheartedly agree with that developers sentiment that if any of my statements were really all that positively OR negatively profound that they would have been saved elsewhere by that time. It would reduce a lot of instances where people look up someone's posts from 5-10 years ago that became politically incorrect in that time and are representative of a mindset they've probably outgrown. Doesn't make it impossible, just unlikely, and to me that's good enough.

This is the best description of the phenomenon I could find easily, but it's kinda just a known thing in hair care groups like curly girl method stuff.