<kmath>
<FioraAeterna> NZ: how many years of surgery wait time are you on NHS: maybe 2 or 3 my friend NZ: you are like a baby. watch this… https://t.co/03PE4RzfJF
<Ellied>
NZ understands that people only live about 80 years, right?
<Ellied>
that was a weak joke take. a) I'm sure they do, and b) I don't think the average trans person lives to be half that right now, especially if they have to wait half of a typical human lifetime for care.
<UmbralRaptor>
The life expectancy figures I've seen thrown around are terrifyingly low.
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* UmbralRaptor
has no idea why Keldysh's new linux partition won't boot.
<kmath>
<whitequark> PSA: when you encounter the word "amblypygids" in the article DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCS google images it. it is not worth knowing
<UmbralRaptor>
Apparently they are also known as tailless whip scorpions.
<UmbralRaptor>
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<Ellied>
UmbralRaptor: oh yeah! I saw those at the Field Museum's collection of various dried arthropods
<Ellied>
The guy who worked with them was talking about how they have those whiplike antennae that they feel their surroundings with, and they mainly live in really dark caves, which makes them very hard to catch
<Ellied>
Field biology: The set of life choices that leads you to stumbling through a cave, in pitch darkness, groping blindly for whip scorpions.
<Iskierka>
it does mention they must be a qualified vet
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<Ellied>
so getting a degree from vet school is definitely worthwhile it seems
<Ellied>
at the "In school till I was thirty" club. Physicist: "I get to play with humongous machines, and I know everything about how they work and how to operate them." Engineer: "I make six figures a year, and all I have to do is occasionally sign papers." Vet: "I get to cuddle kittens"