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JacquelineDempsey posted:Edit: I am incapable of writing short posts. Definitely do not go to a chiropractor, whatever else you do. They are 100% quacks, every one of them. I have no advice on what you should do. You could try asking in the Goon Doctor?
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Yeah, make a thread in the Goon Doctor subforum, hope someone who's actually knowledgeable about healthcare takes pity on you.
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May 28, 2023 23:43
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I'll try a GD thread, I did look there first but there doesn't seem to be a one-off question thread, and solo threads on the first page are from, like, March. Doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic there except in the stickied threads for professional chat, whereas this one has some eyes on it every day. Appreciate the replies, though, thank you! And yeah, no worries, I am never going to a chiropractor, not after reading horror stories about them doing "adjustments" on infants (wtf their bones aren't even hard), etc. Also the goon chiropractor who showed up in a thread to defend his "profession". A challenging goon presents an x-ray image and asks his opinion. Chirogoon makes a diagnosis and suggestions on what "adjustments" should be made for this patient. Challenging goon was a vet, x-ray was from a dog in their textbook
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May 29, 2023 00:28
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Our air mattress sprung a leak. How can we patch it that won't just burst again It is apparently vinyl just with a weird fuzzy finish. Flocking? Killingyouguy! fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 01:22
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I would go for a second opinion if possible, I dunno how widespread of a problem insurance providers selling doctors on chiropractic is in your area but you might get better luck with a second doctor. The first thing that comes to mind for fixing a leak in an air mattress is the stuff you put on a tire to stop the leak, but I feel like that stuff might not be good to use indoors, seems like it would be toxic.
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May 29, 2023 01:42
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I'll try a GD thread, I did look there first but there doesn't seem to be a one-off question thread, and solo threads on the first page are from, like, March. Doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic there except in the stickied threads for professional chat, whereas this one has some eyes on it every day. As I understand it, there's no general medical questions thread because goon medical professionals don't want to have a thread where goon woo practitioners can hang out and try to argue about what healthcare actually entails. It's easier to keep things grounded in actual science if the threads are more distributed. When I posted a thread in GD for my own issue, I got a response within a day or two, for what it's worth.
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May 29, 2023 02:39
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There's no small question thread in TGD because nothing medical counts as a small question. Everyone has at least one complicating factor and things they're not talking about.
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May 29, 2023 02:52
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Here's a topical one for my fellow Americans. What's the etiquette on the phrase "Happy Memorial Day"? The actual reason for the holiday certainly isn't a "happy" thing; the tone it calls for is more "solemn and respectful". But realistically, to 99 percent of people it's mostly the unofficial start of summer, and a day to go to a barbecue or otherwise have fun. To military folks (and families) in particular: does "Happy Memorial Day" rub you the wrong way, or is it such a common thing you don't even notice it?
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May 29, 2023 03:38
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I feel like I almost never hear people say "happy memorial day" but I hear a lot of "have a nice memorial day weekend" in the spirit of the bbq/start of summer thing
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May 29, 2023 04:49
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Agreed that I don't recall hearing people day "happy Memorial Day", which would certainly rub me the wrong way (and I don't think just because I'm a vet).
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May 29, 2023 11:47
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Powered Descent posted:Here's a topical one for my fellow Americans. What's the etiquette on the phrase "Happy Memorial Day"? The actual reason for the holiday certainly isn't a "happy" thing; the tone it calls for is more "solemn and respectful". But realistically, to 99 percent of people it's mostly the unofficial start of summer, and a day to go to a barbecue or otherwise have fun. Any poor soul working retail this weekend/today is going to hear “Happy Memorial Day” from boomers throughout their shift. Same poo poo happens on Veterans Day.
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May 29, 2023 12:37
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I'd like to set up adblocking through my router. As someone with less tech know-how than your average goon but more than your average boomer (i.e. I've been using computers my entire life and can generally navigate settings well enough to fix minor issues that confound my coworkers, but anything involving the phrase "DNS settings" is still intimidating to me), is this a good guide for getting it working? Are there any pitfalls about doing it this way - e.g., websites or streaming services freezing up, failing to load, or otherwise not working correctly? I know I've seen a bunch of goons mention having their own custom adblocking setup which I assume means they found the Pi-hole method lacking in some way. Also, the article mentions a couple of different Raspberry Pi devices; if this is the only thing I'd be using one for is there any reason not to go with the cheapest, most energy-efficient option?
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Atahualpa posted:I'd like to set up adblocking through my router. As someone with less tech know-how than your average goon but more than your average boomer (i.e. I've been using computers my entire life and can generally navigate settings well enough to fix minor issues that confound my coworkers, but anything involving the phrase "DNS settings" is still intimidating to me), is this a good guide for getting it working? Are there any pitfalls about doing it this way - e.g., websites or streaming services freezing up, failing to load, or otherwise not working correctly? I know I've seen a bunch of goons mention having their own custom adblocking setup which I assume means they found the Pi-hole method lacking in some way. You can use lists of which domains to block, there are a bunch of popular ones. You'll notice occasional sites not working, but the pi-hole has a pretty easy web interface for temporarily turning off blocking or adding specific sites to an allowlist. FTP Mobile games are one of the worst offenders, if that's your jam. The cheapest/simplest raspberry pi should be fine (the Zero W, I think?), though you'd get a tiny bit better performance with one of the ones with ethernet. One caveat - unless you want to manage a little server for fun, it's going to be much more time efficient (and similarly cost efficient) to use a service like https://nextdns.io/ - I switched from running a couple pi-holes to that and it's been definitely worth the couple bucks a month. Edit: also, using a service like that instead of a pi-hole makes it easy to block ads when you're not on your home network, which is pretty nice. It's not impossible to do that with a pi-hole but it's trickier. Trapick fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 16:01
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I do like how the solution for the "I'm scared of DNS" goon is "set up DNS". For real though NextDNS is going to be a lot easier on you OP. It takes all the maintenance issues out and you won't have to spend hours troubleshooting where exactly in the link something has broken
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May 29, 2023 21:02
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Another positive for NextDNS: you can easily apply it to your mobile devices so your get the benefits on the go without having to set up a VPN.
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May 29, 2023 22:03
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I just use the free tier AdGuard dns servers. I have not had any trouble with things not working, which is good, because there are no logs or config of any kind.
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May 29, 2023 22:11
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Edit: I am incapable of writing short posts. My bottom-right rib has, for my entire life, existed as a weird pop-in, pop-out thing. I can push it, it will click in (you can hear it), and if I take a big enough breath it pops back out, audibly. I don't know what the deal is; it's such a non-issue I've 100% of the time forgotten to actually bring it up when I've gone to a doctor. Not sure I've ever had x-rays in the bottom part of my ribs, either, so maybe they never caught it. Well, anyway, this is kind of anecdotal and maybe not that helpful.
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One of my work computers requires a weekly restart for hygiene. It specifically has to be a restart; powering it on and off doesn't count. Does that really make a difference?
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May 30, 2023 16:47
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I'm guessing that when the rule was just "power it off and on" they caught some clueless worker just turning off the monitor and thinking that was the whole machine.
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May 30, 2023 17:39
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Since windows 8 the default for shutdown is to do a sort of half hibernation, where the os part of what's in memory gets written to disk and then recalled on boot. You can bypass this with shift+shutdown or just do a regular restart for an actual fresh boot. So yes, there is a difference.
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ultrafilter posted:One of my work computers requires a weekly restart for hygiene. It specifically has to be a restart; powering it on and off doesn't count. Does that really make a difference? They have "fast restart" turned on. In the Windows search bar, type "power options". In the left pane click "Choose what the power buttons do". Click "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and then take the tick mark out of "Turn on fast startup" Note that this may be impossible to do depending on how your org's Group Policy is configured.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Since windows 8 the default for shutdown is to do a sort of half hibernation, where the os part of what's in memory gets written to disk and then recalled on boot. You can bypass this with shift+shutdown or just do a regular restart for an actual fresh boot. So yes, there is a difference. Ugh I had forgotten this. I did some settings or registry tinkering to disable that. In the era of SSDs a proper boot is so fast it doesn't really matter anyway. And that hibernation setup caused some problems for me. It might have been related to running a multi boot system.
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What is it about "regular use" that stops a cast iron pan from rusting? The actual cooking surface is always getting scrubbed and oiled, but what about the handle or the underside of the pan?
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:What is it about "regular use" that stops a cast iron pan from rusting? The actual cooking surface is always getting scrubbed and oiled, but what about the handle or the underside of the pan? Same question actually but for car tires. Seems like if a car is parked for months at a time the tires lose a lot of air pressure where if it's driven every day the tires generally stay at inflation for 6, 9, 12 months at a time.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:What is it about "regular use" that stops a cast iron pan from rusting? The actual cooking surface is always getting scrubbed and oiled, but what about the handle or the underside of the pan? when you season the pan you are supposed to include the whole thing, handle and underside too, so they are in fact protected by a thin layer of oil. after that, as long as you make sure the handle and underside aren't exposed to moisture/water for a prolonged period, they will be fine
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regulargonzalez posted:Same question actually but for car tires. Seems like if a car is parked for months at a time the tires lose a lot of air pressure where if it's driven every day the tires generally stay at inflation for 6, 9, 12 months at a time.
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Earwicker posted:when you season the pan you are supposed to include the whole thing, handle and underside too, so they are in fact protected by a thin layer of oil. after that, as long as you make sure the handle and underside aren't exposed to moisture/water for a prolonged period, they will be fine Just so people dont get the wrong idea, the oil isn’t exactly what’s protecting the pan, but the polymerization of the oil from the seasoning process.
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Earwicker posted:when you season the pan you are supposed to include the whole thing, handle and underside too, so they are in fact protected by a thin layer of oil. after that, as long as you make sure the handle and underside aren't exposed to moisture/water for a prolonged period, they will be fine but people in the 1700s weren't doing that whole cover-your-pan-in-oil-and-stick-it-in-the-oven thing, their pans were just naturally seasoned from use by the cooking oils they used in food. and the pans still worked fine back then so there's gotta be more than that RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 21:01 on May 30, 2023 |
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May 30, 2023 20:58
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People probably died a lot more in the 1700s right
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:but people in the 1700s weren't doing that whole cover-your-pan-in-oil-and-stick-it-in-the-oven thing, their pans were just naturally seasoned from use by the cooking oils they used in food. and the pans still worked fine back then Why would you figure that cast iron pans in the past wouldn’t be intentionally seasoned just like we do today?
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:but people in the 1700s weren't doing that whole cover-your-pan-in-oil-and-stick-it-in-the-oven thing they weren't? cast iron cookware has been around for centuries, and the concept of using oil and heat to protect iron from rust is not exactly a new technique nor is it confined specifically to cookware, what makes you think no one was doing that in the 18th century? and for that matter what makes you think their pans were "always fine"? i'm sure there were plenty of 18th century people who didn't take care of their poo poo properly and it rusted, just like today.
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litany of gulps posted:Why would you figure that cast iron pans in the past wouldn’t be intentionally seasoned just like we do today? i figured the modern process of doing all that comes from an understanding of polymerization and poo poo and the traditional process was more like "just cook with it lol", with the seasoning happening slowly over many usages but that is just my first impression, i'd love to know more
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Human beings are pretty good at figuring out a thing, but not figuring out why a thing does what it does, not until later, at least.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:i figured the modern process of doing all that comes from an understanding of polymerization and poo poo and the traditional process was more like "just cook with it lol", with the seasoning happening slowly over many usages if you just start cooking with it without seasoning it first the food is going to stick and also if you are cooking something with enough water content and not enough fat, you might start the rusting process. these days most cast iron pans you buy in a store are pre-seasoned so you can in fact take it home and just start cooking. Leave posted:Human beings are pretty good at figuring out a thing, but not figuring out why a thing does what it does, not until later, at least. yeah you don't need to understand polymerization to see the basic fact that water causes iron to rust, and that oil repels water, so using oil to protect iron from water and using heat to "bake it in" so to speak is all you need to know Earwicker fucked around with this message at 21:32 on May 30, 2023 |
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The only major difference between the practical life of a person in the 1700s and a person now is that they didn't have access to industrial chemicals and poo poo, you certainly don't need any of that to figure out how to store cast iron. Probably something like 1500 years ago some guy in China noticed that his pans last longer if you put food oil on em and didn't really care about why, and then everyone starts doing it for the rest of human history because iron is a lot more expensive than oil.
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I have a couple of cast iron pans that were given to me by my grandparents, who had not used them in an unknown number of years/decades, and I myself haven't used them in a decade, and they haven't rusted. Well one did, a little, because a damp Tupperware was put on it, but otherwise they've been fine. (I use a couple, these are just awkward sizes and shapes for what I use the pans for so they get ignored.)
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Why do nukes make mushroom clouds? And would a nuke of any size make a mushroom cloud?
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Leave posted:Why do nukes make mushroom clouds? And would a nuke of any size make a mushroom cloud? Mushroom clouds are a thermodynamic effect of a very strong heat source rising into the atmosphere, and a lot of things other than nukes make them
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Yeah, but they're throwing nukes in Starship Troopers, and not those other sources. Well, maybe they did, because I don't know the other sources.
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Mushroom clouds form because the air around and explosion is very hot. Since it’s hot it both rises and expands at the same time so the cloud will be large at the top. Any concentrated explosion (ie a bomb and not something more dispersed like a gas explosion) can make them, even hand grenades can a little bit.
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