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This reminds me of the tenuous RIAA claim that every pirated piece of media represented a lost sale back when they were suing their customers in the 2000s.
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“For me, art is about human connection.” I find the story of a human who makes an excellent fake pretty fascinating. There are noteworthy examples of forgery-as-art throughout history. I think art, as a concept, is a big enough space to ho
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Is there another option out there or are you referring to the lomography back? I shot pack film for many years and switched to Instax Wide when that ran out, but I miss using a camera with manual focus.
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How do you know that we over-prescribe SSRIs and stimulants?
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I don't have a metabolic condition, but I am on medications for a chronic condition that have "weight gain" as a side effect. I don't know why these medications cause weight gain, but I can tell you from experience that
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To me, this is the biggest challenge that comes with having ADHD as an adult. The quality of my work slips if I can't find some sort of novelty in it. It doesn't always have to be greenfield, though. It can be complex and layere
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Physical activity is undeniably important to managing mood and chronic pain for me. Something that isn't discussed whenever this topic comes up, though, is how unbelievably hard it is to get started when you aren't active. I ha
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> Feels like a case of outrage-for-clicks. The BI article is definitely outrage for clicks. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual journal article was more measured in its conclusions and this is just typical bad science reporting
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In general this argument doesn’t make a lot of sense — the west can still be generating too much carbon to be sustainable even if China is generating more.
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> chronic migraines as an example, that shit is a response to something Sort of. I think the _chronic_ aspect of chronic migraine often ends up being a response to something, but migraine itself is considered a primary condition. In my
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I think you’re absolutely right that that physician bandwidth is the cause, I think you could characterize the transactional medical experience as a side effect of that problem. When I say transactional, I mean that each interaction has a c
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Yes! Also, I’m glad it’s helped you; migraine is utterly miserable. Like many folks with chronic migraine, though, my approach has multiple facets. Emgality is part of my management strategy and it significantly improved my total number of
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A bit of a tangent. My experience suggests that the transactional nature of modern medicine is part of what makes these types of investigations so hard. A doctor will be booked solid all day without time to reflect or investigate and that
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It's not even pain-oriented. It's visibility-oriented. I deal with chronic migraine and it's extremely difficult to get on SSDI for that disorder (unless it is secondary to something more visible, like a TBI). Other invisib
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Some of us are just unlucky and face a bunch of challenges with CPAP. I was first prescribed a full face mask. I didn’t tolerate it well. I swallowed air and woke up every morning feeling like I was going to vomit. I had to teach myself t
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While losing weight can improve OSA, studies have shown that, in most patients, it does not eliminate the disorder.
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My experience was also very similar to the GP’s, and I’ve gone through it twice, at two different sleep clinics. I definitely don’t have routine follow-ups and the one (singular) follow-up I had was useless. I’ve had to essentially figure
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You can find a Baratza Encore used for ~$100. Gives a surprisingly uniform fine grind (not as good for coarser grinds like french press, though). Out of the box it's not perfect for espresso because the grind level is in steps that ar
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+1 for a lever! I found a busted up old La Pavoni years ago, replaced all the seals and it’s been good to me ever since. There’s a bit of art to pulling a shot on a lever but once you get used to it, it’s a really fun way to make your cof
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In my head, I keep making this comparison to photography. I like to take pictures. Usually, I take many, many -- hundreds -- of pictures for a project and I'll find one or two that I like most in that bunch. I think this is a pretty
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Insurance covers it, but I had to try (I think) four other treatment modalities and show that they weren’t sufficient first. My neurologist is really tuned into the insurance process because she’s seen Botox help so many people and we were
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Fun fact: cosmetic Botox led directly to the discovery that it could be used to treat chronic migraine — some people who received it for cosmetic reasons noticed that it improved their headache symptoms and reported this to their doctors.
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Botox for migraine absolutely changed my life. I went from almost continuous daily migraines to 2 or 3 4-hour migraines per week. Each treatment is progressively more effective, this change happened for me over the period of a year. It got
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> all the builds are all discovered Isn't that more a feature of the community than the game itself, though? You're always free to experiment and roll your own builds. That's what I'm doing with Diablo 4 and I'
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A cursory google suggests that post-viral fatigue from COVID is expected to last a few weeks. Long COVID can last months; I know at least one person who still has long COVID symptoms from an infection that occurred in April 2020.
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Comparing a software engineer to a cardiologist is contrived, though. Comparing the knowledge and skill of two engineers at the same stage of progression is still hard. "I have two skilled senior engineers and I have approval to prom
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Definition 1 of prejudice in a lazy google search is "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." Certainly that figures into most reasoning, considering that perfect information is impossible.
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The opposite is also true: the JavaScript AWS SDK on Zeal is v2 and the bleeding edge is v3.
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This is a point of frustration for me -- I have reduced vision, but I wouldn't even qualify as legally blind. It impacts me to the degree that I don't drive a car, which is pretty inconvenient living in America. There's a wh
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If it's not the government's job to ensure privacy protection, whose is it? I'm also cautious about ham-fisted internet regulation, but privacy doesn't give any of the entrenched social media players an advantage and I

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