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How to Protect Yourself from Ticks and the Dangerous Diseases They Spread
  • First I got a wall but Firefox reading mode got me through.

    The relevant parts:

    How Can You Avoid Getting Bit?

    In order to avoid tick bites, wear long clothing, stuff your pant legs into your socks and consider treating your clothes with permethrin insecticide to avoid unwanted passengers. Environmental Protection Agency–registered tick repellents, especially those containing DEET, are also effective at keeping the parasites and other bugs away. Avoid obvious tick habitats such as shady brush, even if it’s in your own yard. When you return home, throw your clothes in the dryer and do a thorough check for ticks on your body. Ticks love nooks and crannies, so pay extra attention to damp spots such as your armpits or the backs of your knees. Also check your dogs because dog ticks can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which can also infect humans.

    Even with these preventive measures, if you see a tick lodged on you, skip the matches or nail polish and resist the urge to pick it off with your fingers—you’ll only leave the tick’s mouth lodged into the skin. Instead use tweezers and pluck at the site of the bite as close to the skin as possible. If you’re planning to go camping in areas with known high tick counts, carry fine-tip tweezers—they could save your life. The CDC advises to consult your health care provider after noticing a tick bite if you start to experience flulike symptoms such as headache, chills or fever. It’s always best to catch tick-borne illnesses early.

    If you're not in the Americas, the Rocky Mointain Fever won't be relevant. But for example, in Europe, Tick Borne Encefalitis (TBE) is a big problem. Information on this and even other countries:

    https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/tick-borne-diseases

  • Steam Summer Sale starts tomorrow: What's on your wishlist for the Steam Deck?
  • I am playing it right now! It was at 20% sale a few days ago. Don't know if it'll get even more discounted later.

    It is nearly perfect for the deck. I only have a small grievance with moving things in the inventory. It takes a long while to step through the slots. But maybe I'm doing something wrong.

  • Steam Summer Sale starts tomorrow: What's on your wishlist for the Steam Deck?
  • Tunic is also on my wishlist. Crossing fingers!

  • take me hooommee, to that place, iii beloooong
  • Is this a reference to something?

  • How do y'all feel about writing things by hand?
  • I enjoy writing by hand, but I do look forward to a good e-ink device (Products like the remarkable have a subscription model and it's closed hardware and software, which is a big negative to me). Waiting to see how projects like PineNote evolve.

    For now I just write on which ever notebook is closest to me. The act of writing is more important than actually storing information somewhere outside of my head.

  • JWST Just Dropped Its First, Raw Images of Saturn And We're Totally Gobsmacked
  • This is just a teaser and I'm looking forward to the finished images.

    However it always amazes me how disappointingly non-detailed pictures of planets can be even on the most powerful telescopes. Because they're that far away! It takes something like Cassini going all the way there to give us a better look.

    That said, the most powerful view of Saturn for me was the one I saw with my own eyes through a local telescope. It was just a little blurry thing but just actually seeing it there with the ring shape with my own eyes was indescribable.

  • What's your favorite movie/serie/TV show opening credit ?
  • As soon as I read this, the song started playing automatically in my head. Along with most of the visual sequences, and Richard Dean Anderson's smile.

  • My plants a few months apart. Cat is still around too.
  • Ohh such a nice stand and such growth!

  • Anyone else really bad at thinning plants?
  • Exactly! What if I'm removing the ones that would otherwise have the best chances‽

  • /r/pics employing weaponised bureaucracy in the fight against Reddit
  • I deleted my posts but not my account so that I can keep deleting them.

  • Gas Stoves Emit More of the Carcinogen Benzene Than Expected
  • I wonder how this works in places like my family home in Colombia. There's municipal gas distribution for gas stoves. An electric stove for the majority of the population involves a prohibitive cost, both initially when buying the stove and ongoing, due to electricity costing much more than gas.

    On the other hand, houses over there tend to be open to the air, where vents are not even needed because there's very little separation between the air inside and outside.

    And I wonder if the stove gas used varies a lot between places and how that might affect the presence of benzene.

  • Vuelve la esperanza a Colombia
  • De donde es esto? Tienes algun link?

  • "ugh so many ppl think they have adhd nowadays"
  • I take meds and I will never fold. Best I can do is actually doing the laundry.

  • I'm curious - Do you folks like weight on your body (people, animals, weighted blankets on top of you)
  • I am continuously surprised that some people sleep under a single blanket. This is not a custom where I'm from. I wouldn't be able to relax!

  • Resting is being busy
  • This actually sounds like a good way to deal with it.

  • I need to conserve my attention
  • My package deliveries usually say something crazy like 'between 9 and 16' and... There goes the day.

  • Resting is being busy
  • It's the fact that it's not even relaxing. It's just there, in mild dread.

  • Anyone else really bad at thinning plants?

    I have learned a lot about how it's needed, in particular for short growing seasons and to prevent some pests. Still, you would think I'm killing puppies or separating twins.

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    glasslyrata Alacran @mander.xyz

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