ulterno

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  nimbus

  Ah man too many variants to keep track of.

  When I got COVID, it luckily wasn’t too bad. None of the “loss of senses” stuff.
  Just had some weakness and reduced metabolism (ok, I did get pretty slim in the wrong places) for ~ a month and was then kinda fine.
  The second time I got it, only a little weakness. I even walked over to the clinic for testing, alone.

  And I’d call that very lucky, considering that the common flu, the next year, ended up being worse on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a cartoon on it too, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple:

  1. Drink water
  2. I Clear the snot in the wash basin every 30 minutes
  3. I Don’t drink the snot that comes in backwards from your my nose, no matter how lazy you are I am feeling
     • spit it out in the wash basin
     • this way you I don’t get cough
  4. I don’t take paracetamol or symptomatic relief medicine, instead keep 2-3 handkerchiefs to keep it clean
  5. Sinuses blocked and blowing nose is not enough, there is a medicine for it. But if you can, try some mace and nutmeg powder instead.
  6. Fever? Yes. I Sleep with it.
     • Feeling weak, I take some ORS (the one with sugar in it)

  And the most important part, don’t go around coughing/snorting it at other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because then it won’t be creamed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I can buy a GPS map device. Cash payments are not much of a problem until the Govt. starts adding that extra tax on cash withdrawal from ATMs. I will need to wait for companies to grow a brain and stop using WhatsApp for work.

  For all else, I use my computer anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “can be” ⇏ “has to be”

  And it’s not fiction that sets high standards, but the people watching it, that are doing so.

  Now you may say that the people are setting those standards only because they are watching said stuff.
  But that is just rephrasing, “the people watching fiction are incapable of having their own imagination”.

  Back in school, I had a classmate that had a much greater height than others, due to steroid usage.
  Now if you say that his parents did that because they watched “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure”, I’ll say it was not released yet and I have no reason to believe that they bought comic strips from another country and went ahead and made a ‘gag’ piece a basis for their standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨✅✅✅⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to make a video.

  If you can also write an article, you can call it ‘science’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Forget combat, how many times have you nearly missed slipping and falling while climbing stairs because of imperfect foot placement?
  Well, for when you actually and up being in a bad enough position to slip, you get to save yourself, positioned perfectly for the next stride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all have free gravel.
  And that is why we don’t get any other ability.

  Oh yeah, you need to transport it yourself though.
  You will find it on roadsides, clogged-up open drains, hilly areas, riverbeds etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were to lose my ability to walk, would I choose:

  • ability to maybe walk, maybe like an old man, maybe not
  • ability to teleport along with my stuff, 7" per thought

  On the other hand, maybe I can only teleport once, for when I take the pill. That might end up being pretty useless for this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  get an LLM to perform complex calculations

  That would be like: a human taking a calculator and then installing a human emulator on it, just so that it can make mistakes that feel similar to human mistakes, just taking much more energy and making the mistakes more frequently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal Genres (Accurate)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about Alkali Metals, Alkaline Earth Metals and Transition Metals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite board game!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, maybe if you are covered with petrol (gasoline) and you stick it in long enough for the bottom of the handle to get hot enough to ignite it.
  Of course, that is assuming that the Voltage is high enough to get the metal hot enough before the petrol evaporates away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to occasionally let some fires through, just enough to let the users feel the heat before fixing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I have seen drains clog up so bad that the parapets act like a bowl and capture the ~1m of water with the roof still staying mostly intact (although seepage would have greatly increased there), so something other than my calculations is holding up that roof.

  So I guess one would have to rely on the melting-refreezing to break down the roof, considering that without the phenomenon, the ice would be pretty fluffy and light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lowering power consumption on Opteron⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP seems to be looking for LibreBoot compatibility, so it might not be as easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  snow load

  Now I am kinda curious about how heavy snow can get.

  I live in a snow-less flat-roofed region and the load capacity seems to be ~1.5 kN/m² ^[engineeringtoolbox.com/simply-supported-slabs-loa…]. So, even the cheapest compliant (maybe I should be checking govt. docs for compliance values) building not designed for snowfall should be able to manage 15cm of rain/snow.

  Well, that is much lower than the 1m of snow that I would expect building up in case it really snows and it could get higher considering the parapet walls tend to ~1m high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Episode] Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 8 discussion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice points.
  I haven’t been following this one for a few EPs now because I treat this as a brain-shut-off anime and haven’t been in the mood to shuf off my brain lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a perfect anime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I realised just recently, that having even normal scene progression choreographed with background music, makes a great difference in the impact it makes.
  I learnt that while watching Lord of Mysteries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to make a statement
  Create a certain impression; communicate an idea or mood

  Yes. Satire.
  I am poking at the current trend of evolution of products.

  Of course, cars are not wasting so much of energy on those things just by being turned on… Yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  battery management system, heat losses in the wiring, etc.

  No, that number corresponds to the WiFi you need to connect it to, to send all the telemetry and the LLM that will be running on some server in the US, picking data out of your telemetry and deciding which company to sell it to, while your car is powered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  transit

  “We mean electric cars, you commie! The next time you talk about that thing, you are going out that window.”

  \s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be nice to have a 300dpi 3D printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might as well get one of the printers used by the national mint, to print your constellation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, make sure the judge gets to watch 4x 10 minute ads for every 30 minutes of watching anything in 720p after having paid in full for the highest tier 4K subscription plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And blockchain DNS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has cancel culture gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah.
  I would think of hitting Abel with a rock as being the most anti-Abelist thing and still, for some reason, it is considered Abelist? Very weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  our digital identification system

  which one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But then that lets people socialize using the game without the company being able to harvest their data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither did Playstation from what I remember