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by aestra 13y ago
> It only takes a few days of use for signs of addiction to show. Eh... not for me. I can use caffeine for days and then not use it for days no problems at all. Of course probably because caffeine does absolutely nothing to me. I just li
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by aestra 13y ago
Yes Armodafinil is in Schedule 4 and it is a stereoisomer of Modafinil. You're thinking of the prodrug Adrafinil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrafinil There's a few reasons why Adrafinil isn't schedule
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by aestra 13y ago
It is a Schedule 4 drug in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_IV_drugs_%28US... Same schedule as Xanax,Valium, Ativan, Ambien...
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by aestra 13y ago
Just to let everyone know, a very very rare but very serious side effect of modafinil is Stevens–Johnson syndrome and other potential life threating skin conditions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%E2%80%93Johnson_
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by aestra 13y ago
>1.5 tsp brewed grounds, rectally [caffeine] Ah yes, coffee enemas, the pinnacle of pseudoscience - and dangerous at that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_enema Some proponents of alternative medicine have claim
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by aestra 13y ago
Isn't this the same as the $30 "activation fee" that almost all cell phone providers charge? Not for anything but just to add a fee for the hell of it? Because I can fee?
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by aestra 13y ago
Agreed. This person sounds like an egomaniac. http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/14/to-avoid-regret-put-ro...
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by aestra 13y ago
Depends on what you mean by the old days. It is thought that hunter gathers had the most leisure time in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
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by aestra 13y ago
If Foxconn could do better economically in Poland, you bet your ass they would be in Poland. Wage is just one thing to take into consideration. Working conditions, forced overtime (perhaps without pay), safety, etc...
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by aestra 13y ago
>The amusing part is that having this critical services being managed by the state seems so obvious to us that we don't think we are specially socialists Neither does most Americans with many of their socialized services. Very few p
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by aestra 13y ago
Apple does not sell more laptops than all other PC vendors combined. Not by a long shot. http://www.dailytech.com/Chromebooks+Capture+21+Percent+of+2...
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by aestra 13y ago
Anecdote alert! A friend of mine told me a story about how his car spontaneously caught on fire sitting in his driveway while he was sleeping. The fire department had to investigate. I don't recall the cause though. Wasn't anythin
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by aestra 13y ago
I've been pulled over and harassed by the police for doing absolutely nothing except driving with an out of state license plate. I got no citation and the officer had no reason to pull me over. I was also pulled over and harassed inclu
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by aestra 13y ago
Even the person in the article could have gotten out of trouble if they kept quiet. "Where you do work?" isn't a question they should be answering. Just exercise your right to remain silent. ALWAYS. Keep quiet. I'm sorry
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by aestra 13y ago
I had a friend call the paramedics from home when she got seriously injured. The police did not show up. USA.
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by aestra 13y ago
Recording the police doing their job in public in generally legal and is a protected First Amendment activity. Courts keep ruling in favor of recording police. Laws prohibiting it are not constitutional. >Openly recording the police is p
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by aestra 13y ago
A (black) friend told me this story. Many many years ago, him and his friends (a bunch of black teenage boys) went to Walmart. Two of his friends stole a couple of packs of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. They got caught, and the police were called and se
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by aestra 13y ago
Um absolutely not. I am not giving my ssn to a random police officer.
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by aestra 13y ago
Oh I know exactly what you're talking about. Just was making a suggestion. I am in my 30s I understand the physics completely and always did even before your post.
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by aestra 13y ago
Remember the Seattle WTO protests? http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/General/Pict... Or the union protest in Michigan? http://images.politico.com/global/2012/12/11
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by aestra 13y ago
Yeah. I was traveling, took a train, and left my phone in the car parked at the train station.
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by aestra 13y ago
>- How would using real names affect the discussion here? We have had many people post candid accounts under throwaways. Some have been informative, some have been mean and hateful. We can take the good with the bad. Some people can post
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by aestra 13y ago
> People positively compete to be giant assholes. People compete to be giant assholes under their own names. Facebook logins with picture and all.
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by aestra 13y ago
So wait, you can't just buy cream in the UK? What would be the difference than skimming it off the top? I'm also wondering if you can make your own non-homogenized milk by mixing the cream with the skim milk. Full fat milk is 4% c
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by aestra 13y ago
Because we found out the cause of rickets, and there was an initiative to prevent it. I believe milk was probably chosen because calcium aids in vitamin D absorption and most Americans see milk as a dietary staple. http://ajcn.nu
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by aestra 13y ago
>but the rest did taste different/worse than the milk which you can buy in Germany I think this might be the difference in how the cows are raised and how often they are milked, perhaps. And their diet. In the US we go for quantity
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by aestra 13y ago
It tastes completely different, much thicker, much rich. 2% tastes almost like water compared to whole milk. The first time I had whole milk was at an after school program I went to in elementary school. They fed us a snack first thing when
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by aestra 13y ago
>Then, in December, Facebook announced a change to the algorithm it uses to determine what kinds of updates ("stories") users see in the News Feeds. In a blog post, Facebook said it wanted to feature more "high quality&quo
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by aestra 13y ago
If you would like to read a more detailed, just as simple, but much longer explanation of bitcoin I recommend this: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
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by aestra 13y ago
Only 188 Susan B. Anthonys/Sacagaweas/Presidential coins. ;) (the US really needs to get rid of their dollar bill if they expect all these incarnations of the dollar coin to finally catch on)

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