That's my understanding of the procedure as well. The other method requires more prep but is quite easy.
If they catch it early they can measure how fast each leg is growing at 6 month intervals (and other measurements). Then they can go in and tell the longer leg to stop.
That procedure can be close to painless. A month with a soft cast and crutches, another month with just crutches, and a third month with no physical activity.
I'd be very surprised if it was to become taller. I'd have to watch the clip again, but I only recall seeing the device stretching his pants on one leg.
I know they'll do it to fix leg length discrepancies above a certain threshold, especially if the other procedure isn't viable. I don't know if there's other medical reasons to consider it.
To follow the thread of tangentially related concepts:
The Ilizarov apparatus (caution NSFL). The leg is intentionally broken, then a terrifying cage encourages it to heal in a different size or shape.
I'm not sure how much it's used now, but I was presented with it as patient as a potential option about 20 years ago. It was kind of a "please don't pick this one it's clearly worse" choice. Thankfully they'd done about a decade of prep work to enable me to pick the less extreme option.
All things which I don't know how to spell are smarter than humans.
Proboscis monkeys are divine beings.
Or worse: it's in telephone mode now, so obviously you only want the sound from the "call" because there's no other reasons the microphone could be on.
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To echo what another person said I came here from /all
A solid chunk of Philip K Dick's output worked better as movies/TV than as books.
There's definitely something there, but the books feel somewhat unfinished/unpolished. Which makes sense, his books weren't popular in English until after the release of Blade Runner, which coincided with his death. Maybe the popularity of the movie would've given him more time and resources to revise future works.
A Scanner Darkly is the only one where both the book and the movie felt about the same quality.
Chittenden county is moderately dense. It has about 25% of the state's population. There's public transit in the form of buses and it seems moderately used. It's a rural state, but not nearly as rural as you seem to think.
In contrast I grew up in a significantly more densely populated suburbs in the greater Boston area. People might use the commuter rail, but I'm not even sure what other public transit even existed. If it's there I've never heard of anyone interacting with it.
The decision to use Adobe suite is more likely to be a company wide decision. Part of Adobe suite lock-in is also familiarity making things faster. By promoting others, that may help future generations avoid at least part of the problem.
Google services may be much more piecemeal. Even if the boss personally happens to think there's a productivity benefit to using a given search engine, it would be unusual to block others.
Practicing what you preach is sometimes important, but I'm not sure how much it bears on these issues. A single company eschewing either won't make a difference. Getting the public to slowly consider alternatives may.
True but I'd just like to sit and admire the word frugivorous for a moment
Maybe folks just like symmetry.
If your comments are going to gum up the thread with a segment that they don't think will have any effect, what's a few more to match?
As a kid I had heard Got my Mind Set on you by George Harrison on the radio once or twice.
A few years later when I was starting to listen to music for myself I heard the Weird Al parody, and wanted to track down the original. I didn't remember any lyrics to the original so the best I could do was accost people with a very poorly sung chorus of "this song is just six words long."
It didn't go well. I didn't find the original until the Internet had caught up enough for me to find it easily.
I had a similar arc with Downtown by Petula Clark. Thankfully without me trying to sing a parody chorus at anyone.
It's also worth noting that this is famous enough that Amazon has offered a service called Mechanical Turk since 2005.
The implementation and service are both fine in theory, but you do need to be clear that what's being paid for is humans pretending to be computers.
Slice it before you go. Are items with bread not found in picnics?
Sandwiches are perfect for a picnic, and it's an occasion you'd want to gussy them up a bit for. Fancier bread might be the cheapest and most obvious way to do that.
I'm responding more to the feeling that a community has a single human posting. Even as a reader it can feel that way.
Part of the problem may be lack of tagging and filtering tools.
For example:
I'm not interested in memes so if a community is largely filled with them, my only way to avoid them may be to block the community. This includes communities that I might otherwise subscribe to, or want to engage with.
This is also tied into community fragmentation, community discoverability, and feeling the need to browse All to see anything. I don't know how widespread my issue is, but I have seen others mentioning having extensive block lists of communities.
I think that's part of the point. It's someone's job to make the original comic.
Removing the titular protagonist should ruin a work. Removing them here does absolutely nothing. It makes no more or less sense, despite losing a core component. One would hope a comic in widespread syndication would fare better.
At least with memes when they're inevitably bad, it's probably someone fucking around, not a paid professional.
Folks with aphantasia are also more likely to lack an inner voice.
I wouldn't say my birthday in my head before responding. My inner voice isn't so different from yours, except being in a conversation mine is silent. With typing as well mine isn't always present. Typing on my phone I have to think the word to swipe it, but on a keyboard I sometimes just type.