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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Butterfly nets are better than fly swatters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 134
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: 417
- Views: 245702
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: 108442
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: 6
- Views: 281
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: 5016
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: 272
- Views: 265403
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: 15136
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: 115
- Views: 202156
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: 66
- Views: 154093
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...
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 12:05 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Child labor vs effective education - which is worse?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6055
Re: Child labor vs effective education - which is worse?
You mean ineffective education right? No. If money is no object and the experts can design any education system they want, like one teacher per underachieving student, and the best tutor after school, that would result in the most effective education possible, but it would make some students misera...