There's also a table in that Wikipedia article that breaks it down for a few real world train services with percent capacity ranging from 27 to 65% (in different networks / on different trains, though). But yeah, humans like their personal space, even in trains, those wasteful brats.
Glad it helps you get by!
I hadn't heard of the rotating antihistamines trick and was curious about the mechanism, so I asked Dr. DuckDuckGo. Could've always been some other tolerance mechanism, like faster breakdown of the drug, which rotating might help with. The paper does mention benadryl and a handful of other substances, but it's also ancient by research standards, so I don't know if that applies to all antihistamines or if some circumvent tolerance induction somehow.
Does rotating them actually work? I thought they all just blocked your histamine receptors, so your body couldn't care less just which substance did that for expressing more histamine receptors / making more histamine, thereby developing tolerance.
Edit: Yeah, so I hate to place a nocebo here, but taking a break, not rotating them, seems to be the only effective remedy to anti-histamine tolerance. That is, if taking a break is tolerable, of course. I don't know if that has to be said but please take medical advice from your health care professional of choice and not from a lemmy comment.
Tolerance developed to one antihistamine extended to others, even though the chemical relationship was not close.
Return of pharmacologic response to an antihistamine after discontinuance of the drug takes from 3 to 14 days.
I recently saw a scatter plot somewhere, I believe it was speed vs energy efficiency or something body weight vs cost of transport. And all animals, as well as most modes of transport follow a roughly anti-proportional relationship on a log-scale. If you're fast heavy, you use a lot of energy. If I remember it right, the fastest most efficient animal was the salmon (?). There was one single outlier from that trend, an animal that is much too fast and much too efficient for its weight at the same time: Human on a bike.
Thank you for this detailed context. On the one hand, that makes perfect sense: Closing a loop hole. On the other hand, it's chilling how this could be extended to cover other media or, ultimately, other community-driven projects, like open source, which rely on donations to survive.
Yes, but at least here I can choose an instance in a privacy friendly jurisdiction or one that is small enough, including a self-hosted one. It's not a perfect shield, but federation helps a lot with digital independence (which is why it's prominent in pre-internet theories of how to make anarchy work without collapsing into warlordism).
Spoiler alert, both British officials and EU officials are openly considering to slap an age restriction on VPN software, too. Would turn into a weird Catch-22, where you need a non-restricted VPN to download a non-restricted VPN, like in China right now.
Oh, I absolutely am blaming the politicians behind this (and the lobby groups behind them). The only strictly wrong thing Reddit does is how it implements that law, i.e., using third-party age verification that happens to also use your data to profile you and that has been shown to be insecure (Further Reading links in my post).
Agreed. Lemmy, while being very new, mimics features of ye olden times. Newsgroup era and all... But Reddit kinda started that way and then, as all good things, slowly enshittified. It seemed to resist enshittification longer than most sites. At least that was my impression. But good things can't last. There's no such thing as a free lunch, after all, I guess.
Here I am, not enough hands for all the cookies and kitties. Haven't used Reddit in months and perfectly happy without it.
Still sharing my sadness about seeing "the old internet" slip further and further down that slope.
Rarely. I would say that about 19/20 pages work as expected. I do keep a manually hardened Firefox install on my device for the rare site that I do want to visit but that doesn't load in IronFox for some reason. In my experience, VPN breaks the internet more than IronFox does. And I still want to use VPN.
The EU will need to form a proper federal state or be torn apart in the persistent attacks of the other major world powers that actively try to prevent just that unification.
This is tragic and evil and another good reason to talk about intellectual property rights and ownership, but I am smirking a bit reading this article, as I can't shake the feeling that Arnold Schwarzenegger paid for it. Two screenshots from Judgement Day, and a title card for the movie at the bottom of this article 🤭?
Edit: bemusement about the Governator aside, I think this should be really straight forward to regulate. I remember the EU passing regulation a few years back that it only counts as a purchase online when you have to click something that clearly says "Purchase" or "pay now" and not, for example, click a nondescript link or "continue" button. IANAL but I could see similar regulation saying "if it's called 'buy' or another term that implies permanent ownership, it must be permanent and can't be revoked. Otherwise, the company must call it 'rent' or sth along those lines".
Another sad demonstration that Signal, while much preferable over non-encrypted messages, still hard-links your social graph to your phone number, which is often tied to your identity.
Le texte suivant est en anglais. Avertissement concernant le contenu: violence sexuelle.
::: spoiler Content warning: Like the original post, this post talks about sexual violence.
In agreement with OOP that, sadly, this will almost certainly enable more prison rapes of trans women than it might prevent prison rapes of cis women... but isn't this shifting back and forth the blame besides the point? The punitive system in most countries has a rape problem. The perpetrators are mostly men. However, most men have never raped anyone and most men never will. Protecting both cis and trans women is good, and I understand how it's decently convenient to separate prisoners just by gender or sex, but this completely ignores prison rape by males of males. The following might be a super naive idea taken directly from cheater servers in online video games, but how about a dedicated 'rapist prison'? Naive suggestion: When you are caught committing sexual or other severe violence against another fellow human in the punitive system two times, you serve the rest of your sentence in a dedicated 'rapist prison'. Now, I'm not saying that this place should be unsupervised: Exactly the opposite! The 'rapist prison' could receive extra staff, both for direct (more guards) and indirect (more social workers) prevention. However, inmates will still perceive being sent to that place (where there's always a bigger rapist than you) as a threat, which may discourage a lot of future prison rapists from becoming exactly that. As always, decisions can be disputed in court, e.g., if a prisoner feels like they have been wrongfully sent to that place.
I mean: Putting aside for a moment the bigger questions of 1) whether a punitive system heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions that prioritizes the atonement of an individual's sins directed against a universal moral authority is a good system, instead of a system focusing on compensation of the victim, like in the earliest documented legal system, and 2) how we can move from a system of punishment towards a system of rehabilitation.
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Thanks for the detailed timeline. I seem to remember that my watch stopped connecting to the server and I found a lot of mostly negative press about the acquisition, so I kinda stopped following it. I also didn't really have the capacity to get into the weeds of it. Good to hear that it was not as bad as I perceived it at that time, after all.
There's also a table in that Wikipedia article that breaks it down for a few real world train services with percent capacity ranging from 27 to 65% (in different networks / on different trains, though). But yeah, humans like their personal space, even in trains, those wasteful brats.