>If you forget to pack one for your kid on vacation, should you need to see a doctor to get one?

You don't need to. You can have your doctor's office send the prescription to a local pharmacy.

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A small addition or aside to the conversation, but clippers are a neat version of the classic flint and steel.

Star shaped wheel for easy grip. Removable poker with the gas button to poke or fix things, and easier to refill if need be then most cheap lighters if you find one you like as well as the flint and steel being very easy to replace. Also costs as much as a Bic where I am.

We want to find species like us humans, probably thinking it’s easier to set up communications between us and them. Also we’re looking for resources. IMO.

I remember seeing a fight in a nightclub a few years ago. This guy was getting some rough handling by one of the door staff and his girlfriend stuck her epi-pen in the back of the bouncer's neck. Guy ended up in hospital.

pretty sure it's high priority, and low chance of forgetting the epipen.

it's possible that there is medical coverage for prescription medications like epipen, whereas regular tylenol etc would normally not be covered.

Narcan is not something you’d abuse, it either does nothing or makes you come down from a high, either way it’s does the opposite of motivating you to use it again. Also availability depends on the state. Many places have politicians who intentionally limit access to narcan, even ban first responders from using it, despite clear evidence that it saves lives.

Because it's the only thing we know that can sustain life

It's true that you can possibly make non-carbon-based life, but we have no idea what any signs of that life would be, so we just stick with what we know what our form of life makes (C02, methane, etc)

What diagnoses would you expect someone to get to have narcan prescribed?

Queer means "generally LGBTQ in some nonspecific way"

It very intentionally does not mean anything specific. Could be because they're not sure themselves of anything other than not being hetero or cis, could mean they just don't want to tell you anything specific.

Either way, it doesn't refer to one specific kind of person because it isn't supposed to.

That is not correct. I didn't down vote you though. The heads on a drive move in and out along the disk. But not up and down. Even today hard drives are in use and it's more a concern of stopping it mid write than anything else.

With great power comes great responsibility & I think we can all agree on that.

This is correct ^

To answer the question in a bit more depth, the Big 4 (EY, PwC, KPMG, and Deloitte) have management consultancies. MCs advise company management on how to enact specific changes in their organization. This typically falls into one of three catagories:

• Strategic: High level business decisions, like which markets to enter, which products to launch, which companies to purchase/divest, etc. The big stuff that the C-suite is invovle with.

• Process: How to actually implement a given strategic priority. Like, if you decide to sell a new product, how do you operationalize that? What does your sales model look like? How do you optimize the manufacturing and supply chain? How do you set up a shared service center to handle support issues?

• Technology: The actual software and tech that allows for the change. If you decide that you need new CRM software, how do you actually implement that and get it integrated with your existing technology stack.

The software devs will work with the consultants in the third example - the consultants will do the design and planning to ensure that the business objectives of the technology are met, while the software devs will actually do the coding and implementation to those requirements.

>But I don’t like your attitude.

Fair enough. I just don't like the attitude of humans thinking they're superior (be it animals or other humans) because I've seen the gruesome stuf they do based on that.

I thought you were referring to intellect as I was if you would be so kind as to acknowledge. And yes of course we do because we have the intelligence to do so. Can I not go into space? Can a lion breach the cosmos? We’re on the same page bud. But I don’t like your attitude.

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So we're clear that we humans choose the definition of superior?
'Cause a few comments earlier you demanded the science to proof that...

Societal inertia.

A lot of what happens in any society, happens just because 'that's the way we've always done it.'

The main issue is time- once someone is told they are allergic to something and should carry an epipen in case of anaphylaxis, why require a prescription for it?

If you forget to pack one for your kid on vacation, should you need to see a doctor to get one?

Things need prescriptions when they're potentially dangerous or abusable. Epipens (a bunch of adrenaline in rapid-injection device) are both.

How commonly people need a medicine isn't a factor in whether it's available over the counter or only with prescription.

I've heard with the older style platter hard drives which spun and had arms which read the data it was possible to physically damage them if the read heads did not have time to "park" correctly but I'm not sure if this was really true.

But strangely we can get narcan everywhere.

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Our nerves use electricity among other mechanisms to coordinate very vital things like heart rate, breathing and the entire brain. Throwing in a bunch of external electricity can make any sort of crazy malfunction happen.