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  • Like I get the rest, but everytime someone brings up the paper straw argument they seem like an asshole.

    Not only because the reason wasn’t directly tied to climate change (it was because straws in the ocean would choke animals etc), but because it’s still something positive for the environment. Like yeah eliminating the rich would obviously be better, but complaining about the straws is still complaining about getting to do something good.

    It kinda still makes it sound like you’d act no differently like a billionaire does in regards to pollution of you had the money, because if switching to paper straws is THAT annoying to you after all these damn years, why wouldn’t you be the kind person who takes a private jet instead of a short drive?

    Like, it’s something you and the ultra rich probably both complain about, even though it’s something good for the environment. Think about that.







  • I know of that, but that’s usually after a quick check up and checking both arms plus pulse. Because if a person usually doesn’t have that high of a pressure and hasn’t gone through any excitatory activity, then they’re at risk of stroke or cardiac failure, especially if the pressures vary between arms by over 25 points. It’s the stroke and cardiac failure risk why high blood pressure is in part called the silent killer - you can live asymptomatically but then the long term effects can get you (more so if the case is extreme).

    In which case, you’d want to be able to quickly administer some kind of fast acting medication (usually injected to lower it), which a person can’t do at home, and then monitor them for awhile before prescribing them a standard high blood pressure medication and a follow up with a general doctor, and depending on future results then do more tests like an ultrasound.

    Asymptomatic doesn’t mean things are okay. There’s many diseases that are asymptomatic or at least not overtly symptomatic (as in, the patient can’t tell they actually have a symptom until after it’s been treated and they then notice the difference) but ideally you’d actually treat them before they’re symptomatic. Circulatory problems being one of them. Another being hyper cancers and certain organ failures like kidney and liver failure.