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by spiralx 4y ago
You're on daily dexamphetamine right? I don't really have any experience in taking that medicinally although I spent a decade or so where for good chunks of it I was taking speed every day to go to work, consistently enough to hav
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by spiralx 4y ago
> Dextroamph on its own already raises that to such a ridiculous level that if I'm not careful on it, my body can actually act on thoughts before I even try to move. That has only happened once, but it was so fascinating that I noti
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by spiralx 4y ago
No, drug approval takes time everywhere with a health care system. Heck I've been on methylphenidate for my ADHD for almost 15 years now, and it's still off-label when prescribed to an adult in the UK according to the NICE.
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by spiralx 4y ago
This is the best answer I've had so far, thanks! And even better that book is available on Kindle Unlimited, thanks for the recommendation. > You could also make an argument for rum is native to Britain given it was likely in invent
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by spiralx 4y ago
> Whereas unmedicated I do nothing... on amphetamine I did everything, always. > I can sort of imagine what taking a "proper" dose of meth would be like... So I used regular amphetamines for years (which ended up leading to
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by spiralx 4y ago
> My brain immediately worked far better than usual as well, but I couldn't direct it. I could socialize more easily, go about tasks more easily, but I was dramatically less cognizant of what I was doing and why. That part was even
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by spiralx 4y ago
Good to clarify that it's only methamphetamine that is neurotoxic, the dextroamphetamine used for ADHD medication is not. And meth turns out to have several mechanisms through which it is neurotoxic, seems to just generally be a very r
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by spiralx 4y ago
Her second video makes it clearest that it's her voice that really is that chirpy :) https://www.tiktok.com/@voiceofkat/video/7157105733128015109
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by spiralx 4y ago
What? I've been using it for years and that's not true, there's several settings to customise formatting. Have you tried selecting "Advanced" for Config Settings, maybe that's why you can't see those setti
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by spiralx 4y ago
That page also claims that "picnic" has a racist origin based on lynching, despite being derived from a French word from the 1690s: https://www.etymonline.com/word/picnic Their entries on "long time no s
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by spiralx 4y ago
See now I don't think this is true, because AFAIK England doesn't have any native spirits, and nobody I've asked could think of one either. Gin came from the Dutch and it's introduction caused a literal "Gin epidemi
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by spiralx 4y ago
vBulletin appears to still be in active development so I would imagine it's still ahead of the crowd, whether phpBB has caught up to where vBulletin was a decade ago is the question.
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by spiralx 4y ago
The US definitely has always had a strong Calvinist bent to it and there's been discussion of the increasing influence of Calvinist thought amongst Evangelism in recent times - see "creeping Calvinism" as it's been calle
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And it has a rick-roll in the README.
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I've got ADHD, and the enforced outdoor smoking gave me the perfect excuse to dip out of any social situation that I found awkward or uncomfortable as well as give me somewhere else to recombobulate. And I agree that it gave you a grea
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by spiralx 4y ago
Snus is something you put between your gum and lip.
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by spiralx 4y ago
Looks interesting, I've got a couple of user scripts I was considering turning into an extension, this looks like it'll make that simpler to start working on. Thanks :)
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by spiralx 4y ago
The same way any other infix operator would, the operator has to have an expression on either side so the first % can't be an operator, and you can't have two expressions next to each other anyway i.e. you can't have "x
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by spiralx 4y ago
I use the dev tools to find the containing element with max-width by using inspect, clicking on the text and then finding which ancestor has the width, and then it's something like div.article-text { max-width: unset !impor
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by spiralx 4y ago
Print shops nearly always print multiple copies/multiple pages of a job onto larger sheets and them cut and collate them afterwards, as the print step takes the longest time which includes moving sheets in and starting the print and th
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by spiralx 4y ago
I use the Stylus extension for Chrome (also available on Firefox) to write user styles for sites, mostly to improve the legibility of text, but for sites like HN and Reddit that I browse a lot I've customised their look and feel extens
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by spiralx 4y ago
There's nothing stopping exchanges from operating a fractional reserve system, and all of the ones that have collapsed pretty much did so.
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by spiralx 4y ago
How do you know they haven't? Just because things aren't perfect doesn't mean things can't be better than they were previously, the NHS has been around for 70 years after all.
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by spiralx 4y ago
They've got a companion piece on money in general if you liked this one: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by spiralx 4y ago
The dryness of Australia comes from the fact that current bring cold Antarctic water up to its west coast which leads to dry winds that blow eastward, which compounds with the complete lack of any mountain ranges to serve as rain shields to
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by spiralx 4y ago
If you don't even know about these organisations then you're not really qualified to talk about what doctors should or shouldn't be doing or what power they do or don't have. https://www.bma.org.uk/ htt
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by spiralx 4y ago
There are 195 countries, so Ukraine is doing well growing six times the average amount of wheat produced, but I'm guessing there are far more than 195 iron mines in the world and so a single mine that produces 1% of the world's ir
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by spiralx 4y ago
Some combination of Tampermonkey, MutationObserver and IntersectionObserver almost always gets there in the end, but despite having a default user script template with this exact skeleton it's a lot more of a pain in the arse to achiev
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Which of course, has also never had a proper audit done.
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by spiralx 4y ago
I hadn't considered that at all because they're so little used, but it would be an issue if they became so. I'm using Stylus for user styles nowadays which provides an option to allow you to target the CSS within an IFRAME us

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