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Mother is (stage 4) SCLC-ES, completed 4x carboplatin + etoposide, now in the immunotherapy (durvalumab) "maintenance" phase. She is having pretty severe nausea, seems to be worsening with each immunotherapy round, but the doc doesn't seem concerned. Zofran/compazine mostly holding it together, but obviously this is not a nice way to live.

Is this typical of durvalumab?

So I was on Google Earth and saw that PSHS (built around 1990) has been demolished and replaced by another building maybe 100 yards behind it. Why was that? It wasn't a particularly old building.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-processing-times.html

Spoiler: it's grim. My cohort (Aug 2025) had their estimate increase.

When I get to the end of the ATIP request they require me to print a signature page and reupload it, but I seem to recall someone on here saying there was an option to avoid this. What is it?

I've been on the market for 10 months, 1400 applications sent. I got the form email trying to get me amped up about participating in a dystopian process.

So I asked if a human option was available. They said it's an HR requirement to screen out AI-generated candidates. I then declined the interview for privacy reasons and I also mentioned that it's unfortunate that the employer, despite having never met me, already doesn't feel I'm worth a human's time, and that I am in fact worth a human's time. I then politely withdrew my application.

Feels bad turning down an interview but I take some solace in that after 1400 applications, the chance of any interview actually leading to an offer is effectively zero so I haven't really lost anything.

Note: We're ALL worth a human's time.

Title says it all - what would be involved in making an ROV that could survey at that depth? Is such a thing even doable at the DIY level?

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I know where there's a plane in the ocean (a relative crashed there and was never recovered), about 100 miles off of the California coast in 7k feet of water. I don't know what condition the plane is in - it could just be shreds of metal or it could be in good shape. The coordinates I have are as accurate as minutes, seconds weren't recorded.

I've tried finding oceanographic surveys to see that spot and haven't been able to find anything great (certainly nothing easy to use). I'd like to be able to pan around in case currents moved the wreckage.

Could this be seen with a DIY ROV? The pressure at that depth is 235 bar so it's not exactly the bottom of the local lake.

As an alternative, how might I go about seeing that spot on existing surveys?

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I'm old, so my vaccination record is largely on paper from the 80s/90s. My high school is closed for the summer so no idea if they have my record, they said to call back when they reopen.

I guess the fastest route will just be to get titers done. Where can I get them? FWIW I'm unemployed and uninsured.

So in nursing there are "direct entry" MSN degrees that let people who already have a bachelors get a nursing education via a masters program and sit for the RN license.

While a masters is generally overkill for an RN, the target market for these programs are people like me: career changers that don't have enough available financial aid available to do another undergrad degree (associate or bachelors), but are willing to do it at the masters level to get new loan limits.

Does any such program exist in the radtech world?

Kling 3.0: "Start frame is required when prompt contains element references"

Why is this required, and is there a way around this? Do I just upload an all-black image or something?

What should a the experience section of a nursing resume for a new entrant to the field look like? I have tons of experience from my past career (IT) but obviously none of that transfers.

So back in the day I bought beater cars for cheap on Craigslist - $500-1500. Nothing crazy. I'd like to avoid a loan but I'm not looking to buy a jalopy.

How are people buying expensive cars on sites like CL and FB? Are people actually rolling up to some place with $15k? Beyond basic robbery concerns, at that point things like forged titles become a concern.

So how are people buying cars privately?

I hope this is the right place to ask.

In the US there's been a ban on giving hormones to poultry since 1960. Assuming that's followed, is there anything like a hormone given to US poultry that could perhaps behave like one... and that wouldn't be given to European poultry (or perhaps in lesser quantities)?

This probably applies to all states that license the profession, but I'm looking at the MA 2nd Fireman license if it matters.

If you have a license from a given state, are you really locked-in to only getting work in that state?

My situation:

• BS in IT

• 12 YOE as helpdesk/sysadmin/cloudadmin/script monkey

• 1200 applications sent over the last 7 months of being unemployed.

Obviously regular IT is over for me but was considering health informatics as a master. Quickish degree, but unsure of the market. Epic seems like a slam dunk but I'm unemployed so learning Epic is not possible since employer sponsorship is required.

Unfortunately I don't have 2+ years of runway to retrain into something solid like xray or nursing.

1. Is the health informatics job market in as bad of condition as that of "regular" IT?

2. Is a masters enough to get someone work?

Movie was about a Ford Mustang that had its original owners, then got forgotten about and left in the woods to rot. Some hippies then find it, restore it, and use it as their hippie mobile. The movie had tons of 60s/70s music. Guessing the movie was made in the 80s.