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  • A known side effect of Ibuprofen (and most NSAIDs) is sweating, so the faster release tabs that aren't in your system as long and thus clear out faster, dont have that aide effect... maybe

  • TIL that the term "marijuana" has a racist history, and meant to play off of anti-immigrant sentiments.
  • When cocaine usage first exploded, it was almost entirely in "laborers, youths, black people, and the urban underworld". Most of the early history of its usage is associated with non-whites and lower class peoples. Making it illegal worked for a long time until the cocaine boom happened and then it became popular with disco and rock, but again, still mostly used by non-whites. It wasn't until crack became a thing that the racial divide became more clear - rich whites got the clean cocaine, everyone else got addicted to crack.

    https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300255874/html

    The switch to being heavily used by the rich white class is a "relatively" recent development.

  • New idea for a language course
  • A large foundation for the belief in critical periods for language are based on Genie, a feral child who was entirely unable to learn a spoken language despite significant efforts. Today, she can use some sign language but cannot speak.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

    So the answer is largely believed to be: No. You cannot learn a spoken language if you missed the critical period.

    It's also literally impossible to test/study ethically, so nobody actually knows.

  • Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes
  • Signal does not. https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

    Tl;dr: Signal gave the court timestamps for three out of nine phone numbers that the court demanded data on. The timestamps were the dates three phone numbers last registered their accounts with Signal. That’s it. That is all the data there was to give.

    This is why I use Signal. This is why I donate monthly to Signal.

  • Sovcit put the sheriff on notice.
  • Maybe..

    But overstand is a common word in Rasta.

    They make a lot of intentional linguistic “adjustments” that are made for political/ spiritual reasons. I believe the switch from understand to overstand has to do with feelings of sovereignty and not being “under” someone.

    The sovcits have probably borrowed this idea of making a political statement by changing language

  • Advice and personal eyperiences with sleep hygiene?
  • Lifetime chronically poor sleeper here - Look at Andrew Huberman for advice.

    Natural supplements: magnesium threonate, glycine, l-theanine, apigenin. No melatonin.

    Prescription: 50mg Trazadone when things are really bad. Dogs can easily get this drug prescribed :)

    Hygiene: regular sleep time. No phones in bed. Cold room. Improved bedding. If you can't sleep or wake up in the middle of the night, get out of bed and do -something- that isn't on a screen for a few minutes. No water near bedtime. No caffeine after noon. Try a white noise machine and a high quality eye mask such Manta.

    10 minutes of sunlight immediately after waking. View the sky before the sun sets. Enable blue light filters using something like Twilight, specially for evening hours. Avoid overhead lights at night and, if possible, at night switch to lights that are lower than your head.

    Regular meditation and breathing exercises. No alcohol within 4 hours of sleep. Don't eat any food near bed time.

    Get a sleep tracker such as Oura to provide metrics and data on the efficacy of these various methods and to see how your body reacts to timing of stuff like meals, alcohol, supplements, etc.

  • I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?
  • ...? Did you even look at the picture? That's 60-70%+ of the brands in any major retailer. It a bit of an oversight to suggest that poor decision making is leading to buying from these shit companies. You have to actually go out of your way to NOT buy one of these brands.

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • I don't know what sort of copium you're smoking. I lived in rural Michigan for most of my life. Train is absolutely not a viable mode of transportation for rural America. There's a reason trains and subways still exist on the east coast of America and in most or Europe, Asia, and south America - they are useful.

    They died out everywhere else because guess what, they are not ideal at all, and the convenience factor of cars is basically unbeatable. Even if we had a high-speed rail connecting our major cities, okay, how do I get to my destination? Another train? What about when I live 35 miles from the city center.... another train...? Sounds absolutely atrocious

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • .Assumimg youre refering to the US, fixed rail is not a feasible mode of transportation for 90+% (ignoring something like a subway or monorail) of travel in modern America. Intra-city or between a major metropolis, sure. But that still exists... you can still take them... because the utility of them keeps them alive...

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • People with drastically more information, data, and money decided this is the right call. These decisions are not made in a box and the town (mayor/chamber of commerce) is always involved.

    What if the reason more people don't stop in the town is because the narrowwness made it a difficult to visit the town?

    People drastically more involved than any of us decided this is the correct course of action to revitalize the downtown.

  • General TBP Snark
  • Absolutely right. Very vile. Hopefully, the lawyers win this and ban binding clauses like this. However, small correction - Disney is claiming this should be handled in an arbitration court - ie, private. They doesn't mean they won't pay out for wrongful death, it just means the case isn't public and others won't benefit from the outcome. I'm not saying that's a good thing. Disney is absolutely in the wrong ans hopefully the courts decide clauses like this are illegal. The debator inside of me is also saying, I also probably wouldn't want this case being public.

  • Derby, CT road widening
  • It's a few hundred year old town that refuses to grow. It's not a historic site. It's just some old town that uses to exist due to the historic limitations of transportation.

    A town that's been stagannt for 60 years doesn't yell "I'm important"

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