#risks and benefits

[maxinhealthcare]

Intramuscular Injection: What You Need to Know

Intramuscular injections, commonly abbreviated as IM injections, are medical procedures involving the administration of medications directly into the muscle tissue. These injections are commonly used for various purposes, including delivering vaccines, antibiotics, hormones, and certain medications. Understanding the ins and outs of intramuscular injections can provide valuable insights into their purpose, administration, risks, and benefits. Here's what you need to know:

Purpose of Intramuscular Injections:

The primary goal of administering medication via intramuscular injections is to ensure its efficient absorption into the bloodstream. By delivering the medication directly into the muscle tissue, it allows for a faster onset of action compared to some other routes of administration, such as oral medications.

Administration of Intramuscular Injections:

Site Selection: Intramuscular injections are typically administered in specific muscle groups, such as the deltoid muscle of the upper arm, the vastus lateralis in the thigh, or the gluteal muscles in the buttocks. The choice of site depends on factors like the type of medication and the patient's age.

Preparation: Before administering the injection, the healthcare provider cleans the injection site with an antiseptic solution and prepares the medication and syringe.

Injection Technique: The healthcare professional inserts the needle into the muscle tissue at a 90-degree angle and slowly injects the medication. They may aspirate the syringe to ensure it's not in a blood vessel before injecting the medication.

Post-Injection Care: After administering the injection, the area may be massaged gently to distribute the medication and reduce discomfort.

Potential Risks of Intramuscular Injections:

While intramuscular injections are generally safe, there are potential risks and considerations to be aware of:

Pain or Discomfort: Some individuals may experience temporary pain, soreness, or discomfort at the injection site.

Infection: Improper injection technique or inadequate sterilization of equipment can lead to infections at the injection site.

Nerve or Blood Vessel Injury: If the injection is not administered correctly, there is a small risk of injury to nearby nerves or blood vessels.

Allergic Reactions: Some individuals may be allergic to certain medications or components of the injection, leading to allergic reactions.

Benefits of Intramuscular Injections:

Rapid Medication Absorption: Intramuscular injections allow for quick absorption of medications, ensuring faster therapeutic effects.

Accurate Dosage: Healthcare providers can precisely administer the intended dosage of medication with IM injections.

Long-Lasting Effects: Certain medications administered intramuscularly can provide sustained therapeutic effects over an extended period.

Convenience and Compliance: For patients who have difficulty swallowing medications or require long-term therapy, IM injections can offer convenience and improved compliance.

Understanding the intricacies of intramuscular injections empowers individuals to make informed decisions about their healthcare. While these injections offer numerous benefits, it's essential to ensure they are administered by qualified healthcare professionals following proper protocols. If you have concerns or questions about intramuscular injections, discussing them with your healthcare provider can provide clarity and peace of mind.

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[niftyrevolution]

Benefits and Risks of Fractionalizing NFTs

Fractionalized NFTs are a traditional but dangerous investing strategy updated for the blockchain era. Investors purchase a portion — often referred to as a “shard” — of a pricey NFT or a portion of a sizable NFT collection through fractionalization. Lets see the Benefits and Risks of Fractionalizing NFTs through this article.

Benefits of Fractionalizing NFTs 

1. Quick estimation of value

One can easily determine the market value of unique tokens with the help of F-NFTs

In order to determine the worth of a piece of digital art that you own, all you have to do is divide the NFT that goes with it into multiple pieces and sell a few tiny fractions

This will assist you in determining the item’s overall cost

2. High liquidity

Fractional NFTs can easily get around the liquidity problems that expensive NFTs have

If you wish to sell a really expensive product that you possess, you could have to wait a while because not every investor will have the necessary funds on hand

You can divide an ERC-721 token into smaller fractions and then sell the resulting ERC-20 tokens for a lesser price

This can fix the liquidity problem and make the asset more attractive to investors

3. Democratizing investments and easy monetization

Investors with limited resources may be drawn to fractionalized tokens because they give them more possibilities to buy valuable assets in a secure manner

4. Curator rewards

The participant in the token sale is eligible to receive curator incentives, which are an additional sum each year

This makes it possible for people to make more money and improves the lives of artists who might not be blockchain experts

5. DeFi integration

Because fractional NFTs may be integrated with staking, yield farming, and dexes because they are effectively ERC20 tokens (a standard for developing and issuing smart contracts on the Ethereum network)

Risks of Fractionalizing NFTs 

1. The reconstitution problem

Reconstitution can be problematic if you just control a portion of an NFT, It is easy if you possess a whole NFT

It is completely yours, and you are free to sell it whenever you choose

It might not be possible for you to use even a small portion of an asset in a particular name if you only control 50% of it

You will be in danger if you sell a buyer 50% of that asset and they later decline to sell it back to you

What can be done, then? A method for reassembling fractions into the original NFT must be provided by fractionalization methods

2. Buyout auctions

The reconstitution issue can be resolved by buyout auctions

Why then are buyout auctions considered “a necessary evil”? It basically means that even if a single shard of a fractionalized NFT is destroyed, the remaining shards still retain some of their value

In the event that one of the 100 shards belongs to an owner is lost soon after it is minted, they can launch a buyout auction and place the winning bid to recover the NFT, receiving 99% of the revenues back

3. Undesired buyouts

But it’s important to remember that unforeseen buyouts do occur

There is a potential that no one will be able to gather enough money to bid fairly on an NFT if it is valuable enough

4. Recurrently Issued Collectively Kept Shards (RICKS)

In addition to providing a different approach to the reconstitution issue, RICKS also avoids the liquidity and coordination problems associated with a full buyout

How does it function? In contrast to an all-or-nothing buyout auction, the protocol instead releases new RICKS at a set rate, or a certain percentage every day, week, or month, for a given NFT

The revenues from the sale of the new RICKS for ETH at auction go to the current owners of RICKS

REFERENCE: 

 1. https://10clouds.com/blog/defi/fractional-nfts-explained-benefits-and-risks/

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[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

[slimynematode]

ode to sierra sam

[stardust-falling]

Having more thoughts about Shen Jiu because of course I am.

I don’t think he has the capacity for empathy or genuine selflessness.

He spent the entirety of his formative years deep in survival mode, and because of that, he evaluates people solely based off of how they might threaten or ensure his safety and/or comfort. As far as individual people themselves with their own perspectives… honestly I don’t think he even thinks of that.

Maybe a controversial opinion, but I don’t think even YQY is exempt.

Shen Jiu doesn’t have a moral code. When every day is spent on surviving, a moral code is a luxury.

And really, he just never got out of that mode. See, the thing is, once you’ve had enough adverse experiences it only takes a little bit to trigger you back into that mindset. Shen Jiu was used to being scolded and then beaten or abused, so for him, even a simple chiding is a precursor to abuse— even if he DOES recognize that nothing more will happen, his body and mental patterns will still go into that preparation time.

So of course he never left survival mode, because even if nothing is actively happening, your mind will keep reinforcing those patterns.

For someone with a normal upbringing, as far as I can tell, empathy is something you learn and develop from those around you. Many seem to think it’s something innate and natural and if you don’t have it then there’s something wrong with you from birth. I think Shen Jiu falls into exactly this category of thought— and so he doesn’t even consider that he could try to learn and develop it as a skill he can perform, even if it doesn’t come naturally.

Of course, would he even try? He hasn’t been given any incentive. Any time he has tried to do something good, he ends up getting hurt (saving Yue Qi leading to being taken by QJL) or misinterpreted and admonished (the well ghost incident, keep in mind my earlier point about scoldings perpetuating the same patterns).

So he stays in that same vicious cycle, perpetually in survival mode and unable to escape, even in a relatively secure position (see: his paranoia).

Now, this is all relevant to the discussions of SJ’s feminism, misogyny, and/or lack thereof. I feel like a lot of discussions aren’t really getting the full picture.

SJ sees people, no matter who they are, as solely how they can affect him. Just because this isn’t exclusive to women, or because if comes from a reasonable place, does that really mean it doesn’t play into misogyny?

Let’s take another angle.

I think his abuse of LBH and other talented disciples also is rooted, deep down, in this same issue. He’s not just hurting LBH only to hurt him, his aim is specifically to stunt his cultivation. There’s jealousy at play there of course, but there’s a bit more layers to it too— SJ doesn’t think he’s capable of goodness. So reasonably, he’ll be a bad teacher. He already knows what happens when someone becomes more powerful than their oppressor. LBH may be a child now, but a part of SJ whether he acknowledges it or not sees him as a future threat that needs to be treated as such.

It’s rooted in fear— because everything is with SJ.

So does that mean it’s not actually abuse?

No. The behaviors he shows are still abusive, the reasoning just gives a lens for understanding.

Now, with his views on women— I mentioned in the tags of my original post that I don’t think he views women as people. This is based in that earlier idea of how he interprets others based off their risk and benefit to him. For women specifically, though, there’s another layer.

Shen Jiu grew up in a society where women are inherently lesser— and he grew up in an extreme version of this. He saw women being treated as property firsthand(both as slaves, as well as QJL’s views on his sister). Your worldview is shaped by the world that you view during those early years. Whether he agreed or not, SJ would still take on the patterns of his environment. This, though, is just the same as general societal misogyny and ingrained bias. I don’t think he’s any different than anyone else in this way.

But where SJ’s particular flavor comes in is that to him, women are a source of comfort. For various reasons— positive past experiences, less threatening (or at least don’t carry the dangers men do). He craves comfort— needs it really, because he doesn’t get it and his cortisol levels are always so high they’re poisoning his body. Women are the best source of that comfort for him.

It’s not that he likes them— at least, not any more than someone would like drinking water, or a coat in the winter. They’re fulfilling a survival need for him.

That is what the objectification is where SJ is concerned.

So… is it misogyny?

I’d say yes, in a way it still is. It’s not violent, and it doesn’t come from some inherent sense of “superiority as a man” but at the core of it all, he’s still not viewing women as people, and he has no interest in changing the status quo, because it benefits him to be able to go purchase comfort at a pleasure house, even if it’s not what people usually do there. The picture is bigger than just misogyny, but the traits taken as themselves are misogynistic nonetheless.

I could go into his specific relationships with women and how that informs his character, but this post is already long enough. We know that he mentally divides people by sex, and that distinction has a lot of weight in his judgment of them. Even if it comes from a place of trauma, even if it comes from a general worldview that applies to everyone, he still views women as a commodity— so on some level, and from an outside perspective, he is misogynistic.

In the end, though, it still all comes from him being stuck in survival mode. His lack of empathy, his viewing others as risks and benefits— these things themselves aren’t moral failings— it’s just a consequence of his environment. He’s a bad person because he won’t confront this, develop a moral code, and act on it, not because he doesn’t experience empathy.

But in his circumstance, there’s not really a chance for him to choose to be good. Because he’s still trying to survive, and goodness is a luxury he doesn’t realize he can afford now.

He’s scum, but pitiful, you know?

[ballad-of-the-lamb]

new art soon i promise i've just been dealing w/ a migraine for the past couple days that's been killing me and preventing me from getting anywhere

[lloydfrontera]

sometimes i do feel for the adaptation team of tged when it comes to the relationship between alicia and lloyd because like. they were fighting a losing battle since the very beginning.

either they respected the source material and got crazy people (me) pointing out that the protagonist has more chemistry and relationship build up with his best friend than he does with his supposed romantic interest.

or they change it in the adaptation to make alloyd have more interactions and build up and get crazy people (me) upset and questioning why they're omitting or changing scenes that make lloyd and javier's relationship deeper in the novel to make them seem less close than they truly are.

there's just no winning for them because this is something that is inextricable from the source material

in the novel lloyd and javier's relationship is the core of the plot. whatever they have going on is the heart of the entire thing. and either you accept that and the fact that there's bound to be people who will see it as something romantic and be disgruntled when lloyd is unceremoniously married off to someone he barely knew and did not want to marry for 90% of the novel. or you change it and completely destroy the core of the plot, ruining what's probably the best part of the story.

it's an impossible choice,,,, if you're someone who can't stand the idea of having a protagonist who's a little fruity with his best friend that is lmao

[heartisbrave]

bottoms doesn’t need a sequel but I need another movie with the exact same cast and crew. time for gay people to have their own brat pack

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

[creativemedianews]

Democrats evaluate the risks and benefits of losing Biden

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[marc--chilton]

hang on i'm once again thinking about house being stupid with love. stacy moved in with him a week after meeting him. that's HUGE change. could you imagine how much he'd have to be obsessing over her to make HIS home THEIR home??? and he still wasn't over her 5+ years later after everything either.

(and like. i wonder if there was ever a moment there for wilson where he's watching house and stacy be so witty and beautiful and in love together and thinking to himself, huh. so this is what that feels like.)

[orcinus-veterinarius]

The beluga rescue made it into the mainstream media. I’m sure everyone is being normal in the comments.

[les-mis-amiss]

Bossuet: Should we head to the Musain?

Joly: Oh, we can walk there, it's good exercise.

Grantaire: It's a 40 minutes walk, if we take the subway it'll only take 10 minutes.

Joly: We can cut through the park. Exposure to nature has showed to have a beneficial impact on mental health.

Grantaire: ...

Bossuet: People keep coughing on him in public transport.

Grantaire: That tracks.

[quackarooz]

Its the way that I've been replaying the games recently and every now and then I feel compelled to rant to my friend about how STUPID Phoenix Wright is

[zeb-z]

idk it’s like. yeah Bad, you should be talking about the cursed team. yeah Tubbo, you’ve got an excellent theory crafted here, a super solid argument that your team is cursed. but it’s no surprise that red will not hear you out, because blue’s relationship with red is just in such shambles. Bad has burned bridges and destroyed any sort of love, any sort of trust, any sort of anything. Pierre has spat on the flames. The fact they managed to have a genuine talk about the enchant agreement is a miracle (and only because it was half OOC in my opinion, and because Phil is the only one on red who will extend a bit of trust because he just doesn’t want to fight), but still hasn’t done much for blue’s favor.

everything that red has suffered when they have tried to talk, everything Bad has done to them specifically with ruthlessness in the name of victory, has now shown to have consequences. so yeah, blue could so be the cursed team, and Tubbo could be right to a terrifying degree and have it all figured out - it’s not gonna stop red from fighting because they can’t hear him out. how can they trust a thing he says? why would they talk to Bad now at the final hour? why would they sit there and show mercy when so often none has been shown to them?

it’s the name of the game. to tear them all apart and see just how far they’ll go. the eye wants them to burn bridges and turn on eachother in the name of victory, and Bad played very well. it’s a shame he represents more than himself, but an entire team. it’s a shame those bridges he burned might have been the ones they needed now that red is in the lead and has a chance of winning. yeah man, blue might be cursed, but red has found evidence in their own favor - and why on gods green earth would they take blue’s word when Bad has proven time and time again he will abandon honor for victory?