MRI sometimes uses a non-radioactive contrast depending on what you’re trying to get images of. MRI is probably the safest imaging modality, but it’s very expensive, kind of difficult sometimes due to how long it takes, and isn’t useful for every kind of imaging that needs to be done.

They require the certificate to be installed to have access to the network.

The boxed sets are great gifts. The pie and baking boxes are good for the holiday season pastries and whatnot, but the general cooking/grilling box sets are very good gifts for people who do those kinds of cooking. I use a lot of their herbs and the granulated garlic (both roasted and plain), but my favorite blends are Northwoods, Greek, and the Creamy Peppercorn (it’s listed as a dressing/dip mix, but I use it as the seasoning for pork chops).

I agree with you completely, but I wanted to make people aware that the option exists in case they are able to make use of it. A solution that helps some people but not others is better than a complete lack of a solution.

A lot of states have places for early in-person voting. You might have to drive a bit of a distance, but it allows for in-person voting in a less chaotic environment.

I use Proton when I’m on my university’s campus because they switched to using EDUroam for the campus wifi. I used to be a Sys Admin at a different university a while back, and from what I know, EDUroam allows the IT department to monitor basically all of the traffic over the network. I don’t know exactly how deep that stuff goes, but if I was doing anything personal or sensitive like banking or whatever, I’d flip on the VPN on my personal computer. I also don’t have any personal accounts logged in on the school issued laptop because they have it loaded with institutional spyware. Once I graduate, I’ll blank the drive and reinstall the OS to have a decent Lenovo laptop on hand as a spare.

Edit to add: I use Proton because it was the least shady service that I could get for a reasonable price as a student. It is also helpful for finding textbooks. :)

That is a deeply unfortunate genetic mutation. As if life weren’t hard enough for them already.

Humans kind of have that with HPV. Get your vaccines!

A lot of “tumors” seen on wild animals are fungal infections from invasive fungal species brought by humans. It really sucks because fungal infections are very hard for mammalian immune systems to fight without help from antifungal medications.

I once got to meet a Tasmanian Devil baby at a zoo. The zookeeper was carrying him around in a little pouch to keep him comfy while his mom was getting a vet checkup. (The picture is one I found on google because the picture I took is buried in some backup folder from about 6 phones ago)

If the jewelery was given as a gift in good will, it would be worse to reject it or to accept it and never use it.

They do feel hardship, but there are quite a few people that see donating to trump and trump merch as necessities (and not all of them are Americans).

The issue comes from the fact that if there’s any amount of implantation and the very earliest stages of development, a pregnancy test will come back positive and there are many diagnostic tests (most imaging modalities) and many procedures (such as non-obstetrical emergency surgeries) that will get delayed or sometimes even denied because of the positive pregnancy test. Every AFAB that comes through an ER that might need imaging gets a point-of-care pregnancy test that has to come back negative for something like a CT scan unless it is a very dire situation because of the radiation risk to a developing embryo.

Obstetrical procedures like abortions are not the only ones that are gate-kept for AFAB patients because of the policies surrounding risks to developing embryos or fetuses.

Edit to add: The studies do say that the estimated incidence of clinically unrecognized pregnancies is approximately 20%, but given the myriad risk factors that can feed into that outcome, things like exposures, stresses, SES, and access to medical care may increase that incidence rate in some populations.

I was referring to the many instances in which the blastocyst does implant, but fails to grow past the initial stages of development. Progression to the point of differentiation of tissues is the hurdle that many fertilized ova fail to clear. Failure of implantation is still important to discuss in the political context given that there are so many people with an absolute absence of biology education that think that life begins at fertilization.

They want to go back to the days where life expectancy for women is to the “ripe old-age of died in childbirth”.

The proportion of pregnancies that end in miscarriage is MUCH higher than that. Many “pregnancies” (read: fertilized ova) don’t implant in the uterus or implant and fail to progress which ends up looking like a heavy period that’s a little late. Judging the start of “life” as fertilization is absolutely inane because of how many fertilized ova just don’t make it past 16 cells or so.

I was about to comment a similar sentiment. I didn’t realize I stopped existing or had my gender identity reassigned because I’m on lemmy instead of other social media.

At this point, Israel is a rogue terrorist state that needs to be cut off from all material and financial support until they agree to permanent ceasefires and handing Netanyahu and his cabinet over to the ICC.

He was banned from trying to join any branch of the military because he did so poorly on the ASVAB (and probably also failed a psych eval). While many police departments are deeply corrupt, I don’t think any of them want the bad press that would come with hiring him. Maybe he can get hired as a deputy in a sheriff’s department run by someone like Arpaio.

“Assault” is shouting and threatening, “battery” is actually making contact. It sounds like she got the pepper spray out in time to prevent him from touching her, which is a very good thing.