A stroke is caused by one of two things:

1. A blood clot blocking an artery feeding part of your brain

2. A blood vessel rupturing (aneurysm rupture) that causes pressure to build inside or against your brain, squeezing blood vessels shut like a pressure bandage.

Both of them cause a lack of oxygenated blood to the brain, and treating one type makes the other worse.

As an aside: the city I used to live in had an ambulance with a CAT scanner in it that would be dispatched to suspected strokes. They could diagnose whether it was 1 or 2 and treat it right away.

As to why arterial widening causes lacunar strokes, the article didn’t make it clear how or what small vessel disease is.

Gas exchange also doesn’t happen in your arteries or veins, but in your capillaries. Your capillaries are small enough to just barely fit a single red blood cell (the RBC often need to bend to fit through) and that close contact of RBC and capillary wall allows fast and near complete gas exchange. The tightness of a capillary is a feature, not a bug. So it could be that you don’t have consistent contact with the same RBC for long, and mostly are in contact with blood plasma?

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One of the most important elements in successful revolutions is recruiting class traitors. They have the means to make it successful and work the establishment from the inside as well.

I have a suggestion!

One of these puppies will chew through literally anything, and you can run it as slow as you want as you feed them in feet first!

Alternatively we could also use the Wall Street Brazen bull

The other thing businesses do that should be illegal is target “high cost” employees.

Their healthcare insurance provider will provide them a monthly report and if you suddenly start $1 million worth of chemo it shows up in next month’s bill. The insurance provider doesn’t tell them who it is by law, but they DO tell them it’s costing the company a ton and hiking their monthly premiums. in a company of 100 people it’s not hard to figure out who it is…

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Yep same. Got a 3 day ban for jokingly saying they should have tested a mk-48 torpedo on the hantavirus cruise instead of letting them scatter to the wind like dandelion seeds.

Not meaningfully, no. In the middle of a dry desert far from other bodies of water you could theoretically form cumulus clouds downwind of your site (I have heard of this happening), but it would be teeny tiny.

The amount of water evaporation is just orders of magnitude too small. The earth gets about 1kW of energy per square meter, so a 9GW data center is approximately the same amount of waste heat as 9 million square meters, which is 900 hectares.

All my homies hate copaganda