Uranium_Green
@Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily a stretch or workout that I’m going to suggest, but more if you’re exercising get help from someone who knows good form.
I got into doing sit-ups/core strength exercises as a teenager, alongside bad form and bad sleeping/living conditions + stretchy ligaments have completely ruined my back.
The first thing that’s actually started to help in a way that doesn’t cause other issue has been seeing a physiotherapist, who worked with me to identify exactly which muscles were stiff, which muscles were over stretched, range of movement, etc…
And then walked me through what exercises and and positions would actually help with my difficulties.
Otherwise a massage gun used properly can be a game changer, but same thing, if you have a partner, ask them to help you out; don’t over stretch trying to fix things.
- Comment on CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room 1 month ago:
Jesus H. Christ, I immediately thought oh it’s not going to be as bad as it sounds, the. The video does genuinely show it being as bad and worse than it sounds.
I’m autistic, when I get particularly distressed, I’ll end up impulsively hitting my head against walls or with my fist. Generally that behaviour is worse when left alone after getting into that state to begin with. By leaving these kids to actively self harm by isolating them, likely has worsened their situations, and probably has caused the epilepsy in the one child to become apparent.
My partner is a teaching assistant at a mainstream school which takes on a huge number of SEN children, mostly autistic, about 5 with down syndrome, and recently a lot who were fostered. They would never in a million years think that anything like what’s shown in the video is acceptable, it’s genuinely heartbreaking that this has occured, let alone that noone is being held accountable for this abuse.
There’s got to be so many better ways of helping these kids when they’re distressed instead of just throwing them into what is effectively a padded cell.
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 1 month ago:
I could be wrong, but I asked my chef friend why chicken would be stringy after I got a Chinese meal where it was like it, he suggested that it’s overcooking them that can cause it.
With KFC I could fully believe that you’ve been being served chicken that was cooked that morning and had been left under the heat lamps for hours.
- Comment on A common nasal decongestant lacks evidence but is still sold in the UK 1 month ago:
It’s for the silliest reason as well, we stopped including psuedoephedrine in OTC cold meds because Theresa May government were concerned about people using it to make meth, with no evidence that people in the UK were using it to make meth…
You can still get pseudoephedrine but you have to request it at the pharmacy, as it’s a pharmacy medication now.
So in reality no difference in terms of accessing it, if you really wanted to make meth, just means that most people can’t get an effective decongestant when they’re on their way to work…
- Comment on had my first bottle explode. have you? 3 months ago:
The ginger bug is probably what affected it here, my wonderful neighbour has given my a few homemade bottles of ginger beer before, and one’s exploded in the fridge, the other had enough pressure build to blow the lid off when opening from a remaining 2 inches of dregs.
Apparently, there’s just something about ginger fermentation that really builds pressure
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 3 months ago:
My brother in Christ, how much do you know about housing? Renovations? Insulation? Mycology?
The standard that likely had not been followed was ensuring that the property was watertight to begin with.
The dry rot that is spreading through their house is effectively going to condemn it.
Your take of “hurdur, how hard could it be to do some insulation? you glue on the boards, mesh and render” is asinine at best.
Lots of these companies didn’t do their due diligence to ensure the suitability of the properties before installing.
Which then disproportionately effects people who are less likely to be able to afford repairs due to them already being on very limited lower incomes, the exact reason why they are getting this work done via these schemes.
I took wouldn’t want to trust the same company that put me into that position to be the one to rectify it.
- Comment on So…. What’s the worst idea you went through with? 3 months ago:
Out of curiosity, have you come up with a reason why it tasted so tree like?
What colour did the mead end up being?
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 3 months ago:
They don’t necessarily require a starter explosive, certain types do of course. It’s more about overcoming the initial energy required, for example the arc from an electric arc lighter could probably overcome that requirement in a lot of scenarios.
- Comment on reskined mine sx-70 3 months ago:
For the texture/pattern around the edges where the squares are cut off; I would either remove them or taper them down towards the edges, so they are less likely to catch and eventually pull away.
Otherwise, this is a very cool idea that I’d like to see updates on!
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 1 year ago:
To freak us out when we’re a little bit too high…
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 1 year ago:
Very true, I don’t disagree there
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 1 year ago:
I have no disagreement with your assertion, aside from the neglected aspect of in terms of energy in Vs energy out; the research is likely to help inform nuclear weapons design, yet if they are able to achieve more energy out than in (3mj out Vs 2mj in (though of course they required 300mj to run the lasers to produce this reaction)) then they are providing important data that may help inform different future designs of power generating fusion reactors, this is something that current other designs don’t appear to have achieved afaik.
I doubt they will ever really use this style as a functional form of power generation, but if what they learn from the research allows eventually for a longer functioning fusion reaction that has an overall positive energy output, then it may be rather valuable.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 1 year ago:
Thermonuclear bombs are a mixture of fission AND fusion, the amount of energy required to achieve fusion requires fission to provide said energy.
Lasers igniting fusion is a bit of a more of a stretch to create a weapon from (the lasers require 300 mega joules of energy which in turn is 2mj of energy into the reaction and 3mj energy out); it may provide context and more information for fusion as a whole but that information is relevant to both weapons and energy research, not one or the other.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 1 year ago:
Researching this doesn’t prevent renewables being researched or rolled out? I think the nuclear scientists developing this might be better researching as opposed to researching fission reactors or researching renewables as this is likely their area of expertise.
Fusion is a long shot but if it was achieved it would be world changing (hopefully for the better)
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 1 year ago:
Outta curiosity, how is fusion viable for bomb research? (Ignoring the fact that the world’s current nuclear arsenal is already incredibly powerful, and that 100mega ton bombs have been designed and 50Mton bombs have been tested)
- Comment on Suspected Chinese operatives using AI-generated images to spread disinformation among US voters, Microsoft says | CNN Politics 1 year ago:
I find it interesting how it appeared clear in 2016 US election that Reddit for example was being a target of Russian interference, (alongside other places like Facebook and Britain during Brexit), even with Russia in a weakened state China appears to have seen what was being done as valuable.
The playbook always seems to be to stoke wedge issues, including funding groups on both sides of the political isle; funding the NRA and BLM seems to be two of the most common examples. The reality being that the amount of disruption and destabilisation that is achieved, it must be that these governments must see it as good value for their money.
- Comment on UK economy finds reverse gear with surprise decline in October 1 year ago:
That’s mostly just Coventry…
- Comment on A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks 1 year ago:
I read through the link, both the details on the air forces vehicle plans and the ‘encounter’ later.
This one is odd but I do still wonder what the feasible explanations of this may be.
The smell of sulphur can be cause by many things, including burning vulcanised rubber or geological activety. The radiation might be explainable, but I have no indication of what the readings were (background and of the area/objects/burns), which makes it more hard to make any suggestions. Though his injuries did immediately make me think radiation exposure…
Lastly, the molten metal recovered from the site.
What is the composition of the metal? And if they say they pried it from a crack in the rock, the shape that it has taken is too perfect… The angle on each bend is near identical, and the length of each straight is once again identical (something screams not pulled from a natural crack in rock to me).
Nothing concrete can be explained by this, but it is intriguing…
- Comment on Mosquito-borne disease risk looms for UK - study 1 year ago:
Was in a Tesco’s about a month back and saw this bugger flying around my mum’s partner whilst queueing for the self checkout with about 4/5 more flying around, I picked it out of the sky and got a photo of it
Couldn’t make a positive ID on it, though I’m unsure if its a local one - I’ve always heard to be wary of stripped legs
- Comment on Labour vows to ‘rewire Britain’ as pylon plans spark row in Tory party 1 year ago:
This is such a silly one, pylons have been here well before I was born, to me they are a part of the landscape, I literally have one within 200m of my house.
As the other commentor says, unless we’re intending on moving to HVDC, then there’s not real point as losses will be rather staggering.
- Comment on Heating mats or heating lamps 1 year ago:
At minimum I’d suggest getting something to insulate them from the window sill, this could pir board or a silicone mat, but the heat mats I’ve used in the past have been very effective, the ones I’ve used are about 18w, which isn’t a huge power draw.
No clue how cold it gets where you are, but the tomatoes and beans certainly seem like they’d benefit
- Comment on Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents 1 year ago:
…Like you realise most secondary schools have the set of responsibilities and expectations on a single page that the child will sign in year 7, right?
It’s basically just symbolic and of course you can choose to not sign it and will still go to the school, but to say that they never agreed to it, atleast in my experience is a stretch. Though obviously there is a lot more nuance in this conversation.
The reality is underfunding of both schools, as well as sports/youth clubs, the schools being unable to make effective punishments, and parents not caring what their child gets up to both online and in school likely are the key things to blame.
Plus the effect on the psyche of children growing up in a world which they know is fucked and seeing genuinely so little to improve it probably doesn’t help.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
But storage without inpacting available energy requires an excess, and the current shortfall of renewables is that there isn’t enough energy produced for a significant excess (same goes for nuclear). Either way I was addressing the literal aspect of energy generation being 24/7 with nuclear.
Not to mention I could see viable uses for nuclear still, especially in processes that are effectively 24/7 hot water production via heat exchangers for providing heating to literal cities, energy production for large arc furnaces.
And don’t mistake my view of nuclear as not seeing the benefits of renewable, my father lived on a boat where the heating and appliances were all run via solar panels and forklift batteries for more than 10 years of his life.
- Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled 1 year ago:
I mean you can vary it pretty significantly depending on the reactor type, but even if you couldn’t you can still put the energy to work in alternative ways, such as pumping water up into reservoirs/damns to generate energy at other points, or using the excess energy to split water. There are many ways to use excess energy.
- Comment on New artwork by YoAz 1 year ago:
Wow, that’s pretty stunning; I don’t want this to come across the wrong way but it reminds me of the Arizona Ice tea designs (this is obviously better), something about the design reminds me of Native American weave designs
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I can’t tell if this is a real person posting this or not, bu the article posted reads like AI generated content.
Even if it’s not, I wouldn’t trust an article that gives advice on choosing roofers and then uses corrugated abestos fibre cement roofing in their title picture. It probably means the person writing it doesn’t have a clue (assuming it is a person and not AI spam)
- Comment on Please help me find/place a quote from Aleister Crowley 1 year ago:
Did you read the description of the book the guy linked?
This is an objective biographical study of Crowley written by someone who lived and worked intimately with him. Dr. Regardie observed “The Great Beast” at close quarters while serving as his personal secretary. The Eye in the Triangle was written many years later, after long contemplation. Regardie combines the psychological insight afforded by his professional training as a Reichian analyst with his grasp of Crowley’s magical personality.
The passage you’re looking for describes talks about Aleister Crowley in the third person, it’s likely that the passage wasn’t written by Crowley himself, so a source like the one linked may be useful.
Also Libgen if you’d rather download the book and ctrl+f the passage you’re looking for
- Comment on NAC makes you insensitive to alcohol 1 year ago:
It’s also useful for other addiction treatment for things like meth, etc. IIRC it can also be used to cycle with ADHD meds to reduce tolerance, (though if taken with them, you don’t get any benefit from the ADHD med).
NAC is also useful for things like COPD, and weirdly is a pretty great chelation agent for heavy metals and I want to say is also used for paracetamol overdose.
Semi-related: is there a nootropic/drugnerds community on Lemmy yet?
- Comment on Which is the India's Best Highway Infrastructure company? 1 year ago:
How about you fuck off with your spam advertising?
- Comment on Guardian sacks cartoonist Bell in antisemitism row - BBC News 1 year ago:
pressgazette.co.uk/…/guardian-steve-bell-cartoon-… this article goes into it a bit more, tbh I’m struggling to see it as well
