Just like lemmy more

There was a time I wouldn’t have been able to choose. Truth be told, the only reason I can choose is that I can’t hike any more, so that’s what I really want back.

But, ngl, at my age, I think I’d end up choosing the beach more often than hiking if the ability came back.

I mean, people did it for a long time before Bell cooked up the first version.

And we lived without portable phones as a common thing for a decent amount of time after that.

Cell phones are handy at first, and can be great. But they aren’t necessary

Trust me, when it comes down to chickens, the chickens always come first.

Why? Because they are vicious little buggers, and if you try to make them wait they will eat you.

"Oh, hello monkey, is that a treat for me in your hand? How lovely, nom nom nom. What? I took your finger with the lovely dried bug? So sorry. Oh, hello monkey, is that an open wound in your hand for me? Nomnomnom. What? I’m not supposed to devour the flesh from your bones? So sorry. Oh, hello monkey, is that a bone sticking out from where your finger used to be…

You get the idea.

So, I can say with authority that if the egg had come first, the chicken would have eaten it.

I wrote it, and it fucks with my head lol

Well, the location and specific cause don’t actually matter.

When deciding what, if any, medication you should take, having a reliable supply is a major factor, and that can go kerflooie even in a perfect system if something goes wrong during manufacturing.

So, what it comes down to with depression meds, is what are the consequences of stopping cold turkey?

Some of them, if you stop with no “weaning” period, the effects can range from mildly unpleasant all the way to lethal, though the lethality isn’t like it can be with things like beta blockers where there’s a rebound effect possible.

So, if you’re in a situation where you’re concerned about sustained access to a medication, research it thoroughly before starting. Not all antidepressants are the same, so working with your provider to get on one that’s easier to come off of suddenly is a wise choice. Or, discuss the issue with them and see if they can arrange something in house if your access is dropped.

Some psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health clinics can actually provide meds directly, in some cases. So you might be able to be weaned off safely at no cost or very low cost, if the worst happens.

There’s also the option with some medications to wean yourself off if you have a supply in place to work with. It’s going to vary a lot because the type of med matters, the delivery method (as in caplets vs capsules vs pills, etc) matters, and how long you need to wean off can be longer than whatever supply you have.

The key is to be as prepared as possible.

With all that in mind, it should be reasonably safe to begin treatment currently. Just talk it through with your provider, and go from there

Fair enough. I would argue that the word choice and phrasing of your first comment isn’t in line with the one you just made, but definitely fair enough.

I would say that if improved privacy isn’t motivation enough in and of itself, then the people lacking that motivation wouldn’t care even if there were some added incentives until they got into the absurd range of basically buying customers. The folks that don’t care about privacy enough for an improvement at this scale just won’t care about any improvement to their privacy at all.

Exciting?

Why the heck does anyone need adrenaline and dopamine hits for something like email?

Ngl, I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad sloppy joe. Some that were more just edible than really enjoyable, but it’s hard to mess up browned beef with spiced tomato sauce.

But, yeah, you make a sauce yourself, really dial in the spice mix, and it can be next level good, waaaaay better than your school cafeteria joe.

Ain’t that the truth!

If you got him talking about his art, you could end up in these long, deep conversations with him, and he was always just so damn nice.

I wish like hell the account I talked to him on the most didn’t get nuked during the protests. I can’t go back and revisit those conversations now.

The guy was just well rounded, smart, and as you said very down to earth.

It wouldn’t be accurate to call him a friend, but I liked him a lot. Like, if he had figured out where I live and had knocked on my door, I would have invited him in; there’s family members I don’t let in my door, and I’m paranoid as hell about strangers showing up uninvited.

I’m gonna argue with the title.

Obsolete means no longer of use, in a general sense.

Just because people don’t know that the tool is there, or don’t know how to apply it, doesn’t mean it’s obsolete. Hyphenation still has its original utility, it helps communicate in writing what is evident in speech.

I get what they mean, but the title is not accurate to the rest of the article, imo.

Fair enough!

Though, on a practical side, I know a guy that eats all sandwiches with a knife and fork for that reason. Even grilled cheese!

Joke response: that’s what she said

I don’t, because it would require a trip to the hospital. Ain’t allergies fun?

But they’re not exactly easy to digest anyway, and how they’re cooked matters to the people I know that do eat them

Infintevalence pretty much nailed it

We’re country as fuck up here. Not a small town any more, but still more rural than suburban.

While we’re in driving distance of a good hospital, it’s a drive, not something in town. There’s just not enough people to keep a hospital in use often enough to make it reasonable in a capitalist system at all, but even in an ideal, post scarcity system, the resources to build and run hospitals are going to be best located where the most people can benefit from it.

And pretty much everything scales the same. Why locate a big university in a town with maybe 10k people if you include outlying areas? To support that kind of endeavor, you’d need more people to do the work, so the town would get bigger because of the large undertaking.

It’s a balance. If you want to have bigger centralized services, you need more people to make it work. And, if you don’t already have the population, attracting bigger things is harder, so the chances of things like public transit, resource intensive facilities, exotic supplies/foods coming there are lower.

It results in people that value the benefits of a smaller population center over the usual benefits of a bigger center being the only ones that’ll move out

There’s nothing funny about guard geese. They don’t fuck around

Yeah, it’s an issue for sure.

Southeast.

Now, I’m going to warn anyone ahead of time, this comes from conversations in meat space, not reading. So if you want sources, you’ll have to go dig up a body, and hunt down an ENT that I can’t even remember the name of.

With that disclaimer, the smell of boogers outside the nose is the smell of the proteins reacting with the acids on your fingers and the air.

When they’re inside the nose, they’re moister, and stuck to the inside of the nose, with no contact with anything volatile.

If you want to test this, get some plain, cheap tissues. For a few hours, blow your nose occasionally, sniffing the resulting expulsion. Notice that there will only be a very faint smell, if any.

Now, pick your nose and wipe the substance onto the tissue and wait a few seconds before sniffing. You should notice a slightly stronger smell. Then, just pick the nose and roll the booger around a little, then sniff. Slightly stronger again.

Boogers, inside the nose, are a lot of water, mixed with your own proteins and traces of whatever microbiota are there, plus hints of particulates. In other words, they’re damp and warm, but non reactive in situ.

Once you pull them out, you’re exposing a greater surface area to air, causing the water to evaporate faster, and anything I’m suspension to be exposed to air.

If that removal is done via bare finger, the oils and acids of your sebum can react with the proteins and other solids.

Happens with mucous from the lungs as well. Ever notice tar when you’re sick and cough something into your hands, it smells different than when it’s into a tissue? Not that most people would notice, what with being sick, and possibly also having a stuffed up nose.

But guess what! It isn’t just those mucuses. Vaginal secretions change smell on fingers vs other surfaces. Not as much, because the ph involved is different, but if you’ve got a sensitive sniffer and pay attention, it’s there. Even semen changes smell a little, though you really gotta pay attention because it’s over fast for some reason I’ve never figured out.

In theory, I’d guess that rectal mucosa would too, but that’s going to have much stronger smells to begin with because of where it’s produced. So I doubt you’d be able to detect it even if you were willing to try. I’m not willing to try.

Fwiw, yes, I know that means I’ve sniffed my own semen on my fingers. What? You weren’t curious about the stuff when you first cranked some out?

That’s exactly it :)

Sin tar is the usual way, though it’ll sometimes come out more sin tawr, where the au is a bit more drawn out.

Sin tore is a fairly common one.

However, sin tar is more common, at least with what I’ve heard in meat space. That’s a fairly limited thing though, since most of the people I have talked to over my fifty years have been fellow southerners. We do tend to use softer vowels in most cases, and tar is softer than tore in the way we tend to do vowels.

However, with the latin and Greek origins of the word, I’d argue that the tar or tawr would lean closer to that than tore, just because of similar words. When an au is present in medical terminology (which is where almost all of my latin and Greek comes from) it usually gets pronounced aw or ah, not oh.

But, I never hear anyone pronounce the initial C as a K, and that’s the way it would have been in both of those languages originally. The Greek version is spelled with a K, when written with the usual alphabet rather than Greek. Kentauros.

Which is an aside.

Wikipedia lists the two I did as the usual pronunciations, fwiw. And all the dictionaries with audio options are either those two, or slight variations of them, where the au sound is rounder or flatter than the norm.

Thing is, it’s a word in a living language. Whatever the original English pronunciation may have been, that can change, so supporting a pronunciation is kind of meaningless. What matters is consensus over time, and by location.

So, a regional accent that sounds more like cent-ur is just as valid in that region, it just isn’t standard. So would any other variant be, if there’s enough people using it to be called a consensus.