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I used a CPAP for about a week. The tinnitus (which has never 100% gone away since) and head splitting pain of the thing blowing out my ear drums all night were a bit of a bother, so gently caress that. Was easier and less painful to lose weight.
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Main Paineframe posted:Even in Silicon Valley, six figgies is enough for rent and food as long as you don't expect to own a McMansion, have kids, drive a luxury car, or buy all the videogames and take-out you want every month. The high cost of living in the biggest urban areas means someone making $100k won't be living a luxurious lifestyle, but they're not gonna be broke either. I think the rentals start at $4k or more. 3x that (recommended) is $12k/net a month and (I do payroll) that's about $14k/month gross in California or $168k annual.
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I wish they would design masks for 24hr use and to look as understated as possible for those of us that use non-invasive ventilation.
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Jun 29, 2023 06:52
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FizFashizzle posted:Get a referral to neurology/sleep from your PCP. Couple differences when I got mine I recall; they did in fact just do a home sleep study for me and not a "facility" one, it apparently gave them more than enough info (apparently the home study thing had motion sensors/audio collection capability to register tossing and turning and/or snoring). Not sure whether or not my easier diagnosis was because my potential apnea was diagnosed by my general practitioner when they did an ultrasound of my arteries and found issues (said mine looked decades older than they should due to the stress apparently). CPAP "titration" was just done at the sleep doctor when I got the prescription as I recall, plus they had someone deliver the machine (which I technically rent via insurance) and size things like the mask then. Do need to clean parts of it briefly every day (with a more thorough scrub down every week or so, though not more than maybe 15-20 min for the big clean) and eventually re-order supplies every so often, mostly so the system that humidifies the air doesn't get crud/bacteria in it. I did notice a rapid improvement in sleeping once I got used to the mask (real issue is nose breathing when I don't really do while awake, so there's a "switch-over" that can take a while; stuffy noses are also a nightmare). It is more of a major issue than you'd think; my doctors specifically quoted untreated apnea could be as much as a two year difference in lifespan vs treated, and given the heart/circulatory impacts not to mention just the general wellness you feel at actually getting a good night's sleep (went from sometimes sleeping 10-12 hours on a weekend and waking up tired to feeling great at 7 hours max) I believe it.
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Yeah I had a take home sleep study and that was fine to get me prescribed a CPAP.
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I wish I could wear a CPAP. I have very bad sleep apnea, but my anxiety is such that I can't stand to wear a mask (also I'm a stomach sleeper). You know how they say keeping O2 levels above 95% is the key for restful sleep? I was below NINETY percent 49% of the time.
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VideoGameVet posted:I think the rentals start at $4k or more. 3x that (recommended) is $12k/net a month and (I do payroll) that's about $14k/month gross in California or $168k annual. yeah lovely apt in menlo park i think 5 or 6 years ago was already $4k
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Spoke Lee posted:I wish they would design masks for 24hr use and to look as understated as possible for those of us that use non-invasive ventilation. Just wait until Mad Max comes to pass and you’ll be able to wear whatever you want on your face.
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SirFozzie posted:I wish I could wear a CPAP. I have very bad sleep apnea, but my anxiety is such that I can't stand to wear a mask (also I'm a stomach sleeper). You know how they say keeping O2 levels above 95% is the key for restful sleep? I was below NINETY percent 49% of the time. I was a Stomach Sleeper before I started cpap. If you can force yourself through the anxiety and get used to sleeping on a side/back, its lifechanging, its great. ITS FANTASTIC, and your anxiety about the mask vanishes once your body makes the leap to go "Hey... I uh... feel good after doing this thing."
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I'll wake up on my stomach with my CPAP mask on all the time. It's workable. The hose is long enough that I've never yanked the CPAP machine off the nightstand from rolling around either. It's not as terrible as it sounds. Wearing a mask with positive air pressure against your nose and/or mouth was definitely uncomfortable the first few nights but as stated, that's just your brain reacting to it because it's an unknown experience. It disappears fast.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's been a few months since Eric Adams did something weird in New York City at he just wanted to remind everyone that he is still the Mayor, still really into good vibes, and still a weird guy. God I hate this idiot so much
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's been a few months since Eric Adams did something weird in New York City at he just wanted to remind everyone that he is still the Mayor, still really into good vibes, and still a weird guy. This man has never had kids or even watched Kindergarten Cop
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Sir Lemming posted:This man has never had kids or even watched Kindergarten Cop He actually does have a son because his son famously posted the picture of Adams' house that showed he lived in New Jersey during the campaign. His son also moved to Albania to become a local rapper there. So, his son is pretty weird too.
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This story just reminded me of a newsletter that I got from a coworking space in the Hudson valley (so NYC adjacent, on the metro north line). It was for a mixer event where the itinerary was like: 6:00 meet, snacks 6:15 talk from the mc on, idk, the power of positive thinking for business owners 6:55 meditation 7:00 curated networking Just such a weird, bougie thing to make mindfulness a standardized line item.
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Supreme Court just ruled that explicitly race-based affirmative action for college admissions violates the 14th amendment. Opinion was just handed out seconds ago. But, there will probably be news stories pretty soon. 6-3 vote. The sides are who you would expect.
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Times doesn't have a full article up yet, but has mini blurbs: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1674422849011089411 quote:The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful, curtailing affirmative action at colleges and universities around the nation, a policy that has long been a pillar of higher education. quote:President Biden is scheduled to leave the White House early this afternoon for a quick trip to New York City, but White House officials have not ruled out the possibility that he could make remarks about the ruling before he leaves. quote:At the end of the majority opinion striking down race-based affirmative action in college admissions, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that universities could still consider applicants’ discussion of their personal race-based experiences as part of essays: “Nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise. But, despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.” quote:Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the Harvard case because she had been on the university’s board of overseers, but still joined Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in that case. A footnote said Justice Jackson joined it “as it applies” to the U.N.C. case and that she “took no part in the consideration or decision” of the Harvard case.
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This is the only reason they ruled the way they did for the majority black districts after basically destroying the voting rights act just a few sessions ago. That was the only cover they could give themselves to not be called the most racist court since Plessy.
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I was listening to... I think the podcast version of NBC Nightly News?... and they talked to someone who said that when California did this the percentage of black and latinae students in univesity systems being enrolled dropped 50% and has yet to recover. Seems bad man.
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https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1674423966830850049?s=20 what are these...."distinct interests"?
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mdemone posted:https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1674423966830850049?s=20 The fact that our armed forces are majority minority.
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mdemone posted:https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1674423966830850049?s=20 Sending minorities into the meat grinder. Though military acadamies, I think, mean West Point/Annapolis/USAF so it's really about *optics*. It's not just white officers sending over propotionally POC enlisted to injury and death, but POC officers too!!! It really just underscores the fact that it's a move to limit access to higher education ( and thus, theoretically, better employment oppertunites ) to blacks and latinae people - and make sure there are less black and latinae doctors/lawyers/nurses/teachers to perpetuate systematic racism that way as well.
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Yeah, they know that it would be a huge blow to recruitment if all the officers were white.
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Willa Rogers posted:What is the current racial breakdown of the u.s. military? For all armed forces:  The army is much less white: quote:White, Not Hispanic: 54% Male/Female split is about 85/15. The army makes up about 50% of the armed forces total. So, that means that the Navy and Air Force are disproportionately white. https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/2022/08/05/90d128cb/active-component-demographic-report-june-2022.pdf
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A bit of a rant here I went to a school in a city for undergrad and the same school same city for graduate school and the difference in diversity was astounding. Like, the private university just clearly was participating in just enough black/latine students to not get side eye. The fact that these assholes get bothered by seeing different people just ASTOUNDS me. Your mediocre white kid has tons of options. Brayden can get drunk at another school before you give him a job. I hate this court and I also hate the disingenuous white people using asian students to oppress black people. edit: Maybe this will be like Janus where colleges will find a way to allow more people of color and do better with recruiting practices. Mooseontheloose fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jun 29, 2023 |
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shoeberto posted:This story just reminded me of a newsletter that I got from a coworking space in the Hudson valley (so NYC adjacent, on the metro north line). It was for a mixer event where the itinerary was like: This just makes me think of a lot of TED talks I've seen. There's some "expert" on mindfulness and how engaging in thoughtful meditation, and they talk about all these technically sound concepts, but then they're like "I used these skills to achieve my success with Lockheed-Martin in the bomb making division. Anyway it's been great doing this talk, and I hope the rest of you middle managers and vice presidents or whatever can use these skills to go out there and max profits." And of course the people who do the actual labor are exempted. They need to be on the clock and working their full 8 hours. Begrudgingly given their 15s (or heavily encouraged to not take them by being passive aggressive about it), and short lunches. Maybe if you work the morning shift your manager will say something about self-care or w/e before cracking the whip and making sure that you are doing the job of three people because all those mindfully engaged go getters from the middle on up have slashed labor to the bone for another boost to quarterly profits (and their bonuses). gently caress the mindfulness industry and all the associated woo.
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Good lord you idiots. All Academy application have a political component. One has to get nominated (except for CG) by a congressman or a senator or one of the weird Vice Presidential slots. They are avoiding restricting politicians ability to select by race(in good and bad ways), because that might get challenged. And there are five federal academies not four.
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Youth Decay posted:https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1674426191162515463 The decision leaves lot of wiggle room for colleges to consider "racial experiences" and proxies for race aside from a check box for black/white/etc on the application
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Space Force? (no, I'm kidding, Coast Guard) edit: Going back to the "Fifth Service Academy", since there was a post in between
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Kith posted:joe biden fuckin sucks for a hundred reasons but i'd rather have that than someone who is actively malicious and dangerous for a million reasons. this does not mean i am happy about joe biden or enthusiastic about joe biden, it means i am willing to accept the lesser evil That's how they get you though. You can't vote FOR the person you actually want because you have to vote AGAINST the Greater Evil. And there is ALWAYS a new "Greater Evil," so the cycle never ends.
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the_steve posted:That's how they get you though. Yeah it’s almost like politics is the art of the possible and Utopianism has historically produced nightmarish results.
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Joe Biden is the most progressive president we've had since LBJ and that's very very faint praise.
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SirFozzie posted:Space Force? Kings Point USMMA
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Youth Decay posted:Joe Biden is the most progressive president we've had since LBJ and that's very very faint praise. Jimmy Carter de-regulated the craft brewing industry. Without him, progressive enclaves like Brooklyn, NY and Boulder, CO would be desolate wastelands because the hoppiest IPA in the country was never developed to draw in their bearded denizens and create those burgeoning urban environments.
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Youth Decay posted:Joe Biden is the most progressive president we've had since LBJ and that's very very faint praise. Yeah, and Italy was the most left-wing of the Axis Powers.
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the_steve posted:That's how they get you though. You can vote for whoever you want, 74 million people voted for Trump. It's just that if someone both complains about Republicans doing bad things and brags about not having voted against them, other people might spot the inconsistency.
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the_steve posted:That's how they get you though. Yes friend keeping the fascists from ascending every two years by marking a ballot does get pretty tiring but I mean so does putting the trash out and I gotta do that every week.
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James Garfield posted:You can vote for whoever you want, 74 million people voted for Trump. It's just that if someone both complains about Republicans doing bad things and brags about not having voted against them, other people might spot the inconsistency. It's only inconsistent if they lose their state by 1
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mdemone posted:https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1674423966830850049?s=20 The amicus curae brief is on the docket, you can just look at it yourself. https://www.supremecourt.gov/Docket...y%20Leaders.pdf It's 50 pages long, but here's the summary, which argues that racial diversity in the officer corps is essential for the military's ability to carry out its duties as well as for its ability to recruit and maintain internal morale. quote:Diversity in the halls of academia directly affects performance in the theaters of war. In Grutter v. Bollinger (“Grutter”), 539 U.S. 306 (2003), Fisher v. Univ. of Tex. at Austin (“Fisher I”), 570 U.S. 297 (2013), and Fisher v. Univ. of Tex. at Austin (“Fisher II”), 579 U.S. 365 (2016), this Court adjudicated the constitutionality of colleges and universities considering racial diversity as one of many factors in admissions practices. These cases remain of great interest to Amici because of their potential impact on the military’s ability to cultivate a diverse, highly qualified officer corps.2 That ability hinges, in turn, on the military’s continuing admission of diverse student bodies into its service academies and continuing recruitment of diverse students into Reserve Officer Training Corps (“ROTC”) programs at civilian universities nationwide, such as Harvard College (“Harvard”) and the University of North Carolina (“UNC”). Indeed, because most of the military’s officer corps come from service academies or ROTC, the diversity of these institutions and programs directly impacts the diversity of our military’s leadership.
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