skyechurch

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by skyechurch 5y ago
This is very silly, acetaminophen is very effective against pain, and for many people (e.g. me) is tolerated much better, especially at higher doses, than ibuprofen etc. There is already way to much panic about drugs/medicines, especi
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by skyechurch 5y ago
NSAIDs and Tylenol definitely work differently on different people and on different types of pain ime. The stronger ones, like Torodol, can be very effective on even quite serious pain, but you can't even get it _with_ a prescription
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by skyechurch 5y ago
There should be little badges, like employees at nuclear power plants wear, except if you exceed a certain threshold of online discourse you are quarantined in a wifi free zone until you have decontaminated. Irl most people oti are not as
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by skyechurch 5y ago
That's a good quote, but Freddy Got Fingered is beyond conventional notions of 'good' and 'the worst thing ever made'.
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by skyechurch 5y ago
The market is responding to its incentives and producing an optimized product, line goes up and all is right with the world.
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by skyechurch 5y ago
I had a brain tumor removed 2 years ago, and I have very similar symptoms still, although everything seems to be improving. I don't know how comparable these situations are medically, but I do know it is very difficult to find doctors
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by skyechurch 5y ago
>In evaluating the destructive power of a weapons system, it is customary to use the concept of equivalent megatons (EMT). Equivalent megatonnage is defined as the actual megatonnage raised to the two-thirds power: >EMT = Y[^]2/3
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by skyechurch 5y ago
It is a mistake. The bomb does not damage a radius, it damages an area which is quantified by a radius squared. Again, this is high school geometry, not controversial, and maybe there are factors not explained which make this correct in a
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by skyechurch 5y ago
But they are referring to a radius of a surface area on the Earth being destroyed, which goes as radius^2 (or ~volume^2/3 if you detonate in optimally). >This seems quite vitriolic and uncalled for. I apologize if this sounded too h
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by skyechurch 5y ago
>A 100-megaton bomb releases 10 times more energy than a 10-megaton bomb, but it does not do 10 times more damage. This is because the blast effects of explosions scale as a cubic root, not linearly. So a 10-megaton bomb detonated at an
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by skyechurch 5y ago
>How so? He waged war like a war. I don't personally recommend waging wars on chemical compounds or the desperate predestined "losers" of the economy, but there's something to be said for winning a war with cruelty v
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by skyechurch 5y ago
>A massive slice of talent and raw human resource is just dying every year, but the solutions that have worked in other countries are just impossible to implement here due because the the methods that are known to work are politically de
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by skyechurch 5y ago
I had read Moby Dick before, and found it enjoyable, but listening to the William Hootkins audio version opened it up for me in a way my reading of the text never did (eg it's actually a very funny book, which entirely escaped my notic
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by skyechurch 5y ago
>Without good dental hygiene adults can expect to lose their teeth by age 40, at which point (in a foraging society with primitive tools) that adult is going to be more than slightly malnutritioned. If you go camping, and forget your too