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- Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Science Microthreads
- Replies: 69
- Views: 169373
Re: Science Microthreads
Good article about the health risks of wood burning. https://undark.org/2022/03/02/wood-burning-stoves-raise-new-health-concerns/ I just skimmed through it so far, but the source seems good. When I stayed with a friend for a while in NJ, I smelled smoke every other day, and not from someone smoking....
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Butterfly nets are better than fly swatters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3786
Re: Butterfly nets are better than fly swatters
I had an ant issue once, where they entered through a crack on the balcony, crossed the dinette, kitchen, and living room, and made a trail down the public hallway towards a neighbor who was on the Board of Directors. I put ant poison in the hole, caulked it up, and placed ant traps along the route ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
- Replies: 421
- Views: 268080
Re: Run-up to WW3
Unpopular opinion: pour a ton of money into genetic research to make people smarter, share the technology with the world, wait a generation, then we could stop spending so much money and killing so many people because even if another country takes over it won't be so bad.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Little Raves
- Replies: 103
- Views: 124314
Re: Little Raves
I just got good results from blood tests that I ordered. Direct-to-consumer tests, without having a doctor except one who ordered the tests, which isn't legal in the previous state I lived in. First time in probably over 15 years that I had a blood test. I have a gene that raises my bad cholesterol ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7126
Re: Apologies for downtime
Wow, glad the forum is back. I thought you finally had enough. The list of defunct forums I frequented has been growing since the 1980s.
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:59 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: A challenging communication thing that happened to me, or, why I avoid speaking to people
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7966
A challenging communication thing that happened to me, or, why I avoid speaking to people
All of us suck at this though, right? But you can reply anyway. I have a college educated friend who asked me what a detector is when I said I got a radon detector. Was I supposed to respond as if she meant "what's radon"? I don't know her super well. I tried to cover all bases but not sure if I was...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 286423
Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Found dead in dumpster
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:01 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Every Day Carry
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18052
Re: Every Day Carry
I guess I can endorse this wallet, for $15.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:05 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Seen on the internet
- Replies: 118
- Views: 218501
Re: Seen on the internet
I kept finding affordable wallets that I liked (the looks of) on Temu, super cheep. I avoided them. I figured the leather ones would have a super thin layer that would wear quickly, or else they would be made of smelly, harmful chemicals.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:08 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Science Microthreads
- Replies: 69
- Views: 169373
Re: Science Microthreads
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/10/25/flu-shots-alzheimers-dementias-vaccinations-infectious-diseases/ an annual flu vaccination for three consecutive years reduced the dementia risk 20 percent over the next four to eight years, while six shots doubled it to a 40-percent reduction... In...