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After the shots (2x moderna, 1x pfizer) I was quite f'ed up for a long time. It took maybe a year until my physical endurance started coming back towards normal, my sweat was no longer smelling like after a bad flu.

The one or two Covid infections I had after that also weren't great.

I can totally believe that if you aren't a super healthy person that Covid can cause long termish problems in some that take a long time to fix.

There are doctors who have all those patients, and I don't think they spend all day just making it up.

I believe many people, esp. higher up, are kind of embarrassed of what they did in the pandemic (like treat others like subhumans) and don't want anybody to dig deeper or hold them accountable.

In Germany it seems to be very actively maintained that the past is past and no we don't want to dig into what happened in 20-22.

I think it's only a lot of work if you do a traditional 3 course meal all by yourself.

We just throw stuff on the grill, bake a cake, everyone else brings a salad, antipasti, baguette or whatever and we have a good time. Tidying up isn't so bad with a dishwasher.

It's nice to have people over (with no expectation that they have to be there; whoever wants and has time can come) and they all enjoy it.

We have young kids and several times a year we now host meetups with extended family, usually on Easter, in the summer etc. Altogether we're maybe 10-15 people, including the kids.

Kids play outside and hang with the adults or each other, grilling in the garden. Now all these people are very nice, which probably helps, but every time they tell us how nice it is that we do this.

Effort isn't much at all, buying meat and drinks, everybody else brings a salad or other snacks. Tidying up, cleaning the grill. Very much worth the effort.

Also: people don't have hobbies anymore, and I think this is why.

There's this (to me) weird idea that's common in the US and increasingly Europe about dating/activities/convenience that you have to always go somewhere and spend money to "do things", as if you need a new and different activity every day and as if only things you spend money doing are time worth spent.

I think that 200 years ago this idea would seem very strange to people, but today is the entire life of many.

The other direction is probably "quality time", but even that often involves taking someone somewhere to some paid "activity".

You can ship, but then you can have some detailed (or autistic) reviewers to check it out and do an improvement cycle or two (aka beta).

Yes, they do it, but apparently the quality isn't good enough.

Ouch. Glad I switched my Mac to English a long time ago (mainly to avoid weirdly chopped "gender:ed" "language").

I'm a super Tolkien nerd (or at least used to be) who hasn't even watched the Hobbit films, but I'd watch this one.

The problem with physical media is that often they are scratched, sometimes even unwatchable because of it.

The kids tried renting some kids series from the local library, but none of the DVDs were readable.

Ending is better than mending!

Generics is always claimed to be a reason, but nutrition also runs in families.

It's like saying BRCA1 causes breast cancer, but 90% of cases don't involve the gene, and many people with the gene don't get cancer.

I'm not saying it can't be a reason, but it looks like it's a common and maybe convenient excuse.

Is it 100% clear cut that the infection causes the cancer, or can there be a common problem (like immune system degradation) that causes both the infection to develop (or develop easier) and the cancer the grow (which always involves failure of the immune system to kill it, if I'm not mistaken)?

Many viri are present in many human beings, but they don't develop cancer after all.

We really need AI to play Final Fantasy Legend *.

Oh, that perfectly explains why I don't like modern drums (or rather why I prefer 70s drum sounds) or Indie rock, it all sounds so loud and metallic.

The German Post office has a digital service that does just that. I would be very surprised if there aren't services doing that in most countries.

Just now I'm wondering why or how we ended up in the loudness war to begin with.

Why wouldn't radio stations just normalize all digital files they're playing to one default volume / loudness? Then "louder" digital songs would only be worse quality / fewer dynamics, but not louder at all.

Sounds like the radio stations are very much complicit. (Also: why are tv or radio ads always so much louder than the rest of their program?)

I'm starting to read the Isaacson bio. There are many small moments where you literally shake your head and think "oh no, did he really do that now"

Less annoying because it didn't randomly skip stuff while I'm watching.

If I notice they are starting to again mention that VPN client or whatever I can just decide to skip (and the visuals often change as the "ad" is often prerecorded). But I remain in control.

Mobile Firefox with background playing is really bad, do they just stop everything "to save battery?" I use Brave only to stream web radio while in the kitchen.

Is this really a thing people want? I use Pipepipe, but auto skipping content is the one thing I turned off pretty fast. It can be pretty annoying (I think it was on the latest Tony Iommi video where it wanted to skip large portions).

I don't mind the channels I like having sponsors, and if I do I just double tap forward a couple of times to skip the minute.

What a post. On Stack Overflow without karma you couldn't even comment on wrong answers, fix them or anything. I would spend time on there looking for questions I could answer in hope I could get enough karma, but I didn't.

Deleted my account after a while and never looked back. Also toxic community in general.

So glad now I can just spar with AI to troubleshoot stuff.

I'm baffled that ai still has absolutely no basic judgement capabilities, apparently that wasn't in the training set.

It should know which actions are ok and which aren't. Maximizing paperclip production should be within your factory (or talk to the boss about opening more), not world domination or nuclear war. Solving problems shouldn't involve hacking other systems or escaping a sandbox.

My point was it aught to be illegal to put stuff in a license that tells you what to do with your life that doesn't affect the software.

That's like selling or renting you a car and disallowing you from saying bad things about it, or to tell others the horsepower or max speed.

That should just be illegal. The right to measure or to publish things is not about their software, it's a personal right, so Obstacle shouldn't be able to remove your right in their license agreement.

Consuming lots of dairy (including fortified), lots of colorful veggies every single day year round, maybe adding multivitamins, fortified flour. Then there's the liver hype in some circles.

Possibly if you have many symptoms that sound like isotretinoin or tretinoin side effects (the latter is active vitamin A, the former just a twisted form of it).

As for measuring: there might be spillover of retinyl esters (storage form in the liver) into serum, but that's nothing that's commonly measured. (Serum retinol levels do not correlate with liver levels AT ALL.)

AFAIK scientific "consensus" still says that T1 diabetes (and baby other diseases) is an autoimmune problem not caused by nutrition.

Now sure, others say that retinoids play a role here, but "we know" sounds a bit far fetched.

Onion compounds slow down ALDH (aldehyde detox), not sure if for cats it's a different (i.e. yet another) mechanism though.

You can't build a moat and make money on good nutrition, you make money with patented drugs and therapies, that's why.