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- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 3 days ago:
Based on random “offer” mailers I get, I’m a little shocked that the cash guy was within 30% of market value.
- Comment on If the US dissolves for whatever reason and goes into a state of anarchy what would happen to the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545
The middle east is definitely a major producer of oil, but the US produces even more.
However, what would likely impact the world even more is that the US has the largest refinery capacity and exports 15% of the petroleum products it makes. Global refinery capacity is 103.5 million barrels per day, the US constitutes 18.4 million of that. While it’s relatively quick for other oil producing nations to bump up their crude production, any major disruption in refining would have huge effects on the prices of petroleum products. Refineries are very expensive and complex. They cannot be scaled up quickly unless there is idle capacity to bring back online.
- Comment on Update on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier 2 weeks ago:
Outer Wilds says “hold my beer.”
- Comment on Update on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier 2 weeks ago:
I also got white text even after turning dark mode off and refreshing the page. I had to “select all” to read it.
- Comment on sampling bias 3 weeks ago:
Or some portion of people generally prefer throwing surveys in the trash, but for unknown reasons decided to complete that one.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
Dota 2. I barely enjoy it, but it’s hard to find games that a friend group will agree to consistently play.
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
You might end up in a sticky situation.
- Comment on Am I allergic to my dog, and if so, what solutions do I have? 1 month ago:
Those are good addendums, but I’ll add one more qualifier to your nasal rinse suggestion. Never use tap water. Use only distilled water or water that has been boiled. Pharmacies also sell aerosol cans with saline solution, which is what I use for the convenience factor. Then you don’t have to worry as much about sanitized water and mixing up a solution. Saline rinses should also have at least half an hour of being upright before laying down. Don’t do a rinse then immediately lay in bed.
If budget isn’t tight, all bedding including the allergy covers benefits from getting in duplicate so you can take your time with the laundry. I was a lot worse about washing bedding when remembering late in the day meant there wouldn’t be enough time to wash and dry before bedtime.
- Comment on Am I allergic to my dog, and if so, what solutions do I have? 1 month ago:
Sounds like you have already convinced yourself the answer is probably yes.
You could also have a high sensitivity to dust mites. Talking to an allergist could help you narrow down what specifically bothers you. Allergy tests aren’t that big of a deal to have done.
Before trying to rehome the dog, do your best to make your bedroom a dog free zone. Keep the door closed and don’t let her on your bed. Shower before bed and don’t touch your dog between showering and getting in bed. Wash your bedding often. Don’t ever sitnon or get in your bed in clothes that have been around your dog or on furniture your dog is allowed to lay on. An air filter can help, but is limited in what they can actually accomplish. Filters can help with dust that comes in through your hvac vents, but any sources of allergens in your room will easily produce irritants at a much greater rate than a filter can capture them.
I’ll avoid specific medical recommendations, but I will list a few things worth checking out. Non-steroidal nasal sprays could help your sleep. Nasacort was the one recommended to me by a doctor. One lesson I had to learn with that is to not use it right before laying down. You need to give it time to drain. It does bother my stomach a bit, so timing it with a meal or snack can help. Pataday and opcon-a drops have both been helpful for me. Opcon-a does cause a temporary burning sensation. I would recommend starting with lower dose twice a day variants The extra strength stuff also hurts my stomach. (your eyes and sinuses drain down your throat.) Eye drops and nasal sprays are more targeted than tablet antihistamines so they can be a little more effective.
You might want to ask your doctor about a sleep study. In my unprofessional opinion, I would suspect you are experiencing apnea.
If you have a polyfill pillow, try switching to foam, or better yet buckwheat. Polyfill is a dust sponge. Every time you toss and turn it will release a cloud of dust right by your face.
You’ve lived this long with your dog, so it’s worth trying to find ways of improving your sleep hygeine and symptom management before jumping straight to no dogs. Although, a no puppies after this dog rule could be warranted.
As far as not having some of the symptoms you think should be present, chronic exposure vs acute exposure can have different reactions. If you are always mildly reacting to your dog, then you won’t experience some of the acute responses. (Again, not a professional)
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
You’re only making money if you downsize, move somewhere cheaper, or switch back to renting. If you move and all the other houses have gone up, then you just end up having to sink any gained equity into affording your new place. Rising prices really only help developers, realtors, and REIT’s.
- Comment on Baby Showers!! :) 1 month ago:
Were they drinking soda in a lab room filled with fissile material?
- Comment on How Hollywood Shot Actors with Arrows before CGI 1 month ago:
Also statically mounted arrows on a body harness.
- Comment on A scammer just tried to scam the Kroger pharmacy to get my info out of them by pretending to be my insurance company. 1 month ago:
I’ve received more healthcare provider PII leak letters in the last couple years than the number of appointments I’ve had. Everyone is so eager to come up with some shiny new software to sell in the healthcare goldrush, but so many of them are absolutely terrible at security.
- Comment on You'd better 1 month ago:
Feud
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Yes, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.
The part that’s missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 1 month ago:
Is there a directory of comunities compiled somewhere? I’m not sure how I would go about figuring out the best place to post something if I wasn’t already familiar with a relevant community.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 1 month ago:
Similar to your third option, cut kielbasa into ⅓" slices. Brown in generous amounts of butter. Remove from pan and brown a similar volume lf sweet onions. Add in sliced cabbage about half way through and adjust your heat to keep everything browning. Get the egg noodles going. When the cabbage has cooked down enough to be tender add the kielbasa back in and turn down the heat. Season with salt and peper, and a couple splashes lf balsamic vinegar. Be conservative with the balsamic, but it will really make the seared kielbasa pop if you get it right. Then serve with the wide egg noodles when they finish cooking. The wide egg noodles should look more like a wide fettucini, not the short curly noodles that many stores carry.
- Comment on Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals? 1 month ago:
Isn’t that just a crappier version of bulimia?
- Comment on Life saving hurricane info locked behind a paywall 2 months ago:
nhc.noaa.gov is the best for quick, up to date official info about expected impacts. Also local county and municipality pages are important to check for evacuation orders and routes.
For anyone who wants technical deep dives into the meteorology of tropical storms, I can’t recommend tropicaltidbits.com enough.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 2 months ago:
Natural Intelligence has already proposed solutions. The real lie is in expecting us to believe that decision makers would be any more likely to act on the solutions that AI comes up with.
- Comment on Double-Sided GBoard Keyboard 2 months ago:
The shape they choose for the frame is a Möbius strip, which has the primary defining characteristic of having only one side and one edge. If you pick a row of keys to follow, after one loop around, you’ll be on the underside of the frame. Continue to go around another full turn and you’ll be right where you started. A similar math curiosity would be the klein bottle, which has a single surface.
Adam Savage on Tested nerding out about Möbius strips and klein bottles.
- Comment on Double-Sided GBoard Keyboard 2 months ago:
It’s one-sided…
- Comment on Dreams come true 2 months ago:
The trouble is that a fad doesn’t have to be functional to be used by short-sighted trend chasers as a justification to make cuts. How many jobs did we see outsourced to India in a way that didn’t even come close to matching the quality of the people laid off? The people who make the decision to replace jobs with ai systems will loudly declare success and move on to their next role before the long-term consequences are fully realized.
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 2 months ago:
Likely unrelated, but after I’ve cut raw garlic cloves everything feels weird, almost sticky, no matter how much I wash my hands.
- Comment on Ol switcharoo 2 months ago:
As long as the earth-sun orbit stays close to 1 au, then ejecting the moon wouldn’t necessarily be world ending. There would probably be some aquatic life extinctions from the loss of tides, and some nocturnal species might be affected by the change in light levels.
The sun diameter is 1.4 million kilometers, and the earth-moon irital radius is 0.38 million kilometers. So trying stick the sun between the earth and moon at the current orbital radius just makes the sun 1% more massive.
- Comment on What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me 2 months ago:
Bioluminescent ferns bordering a wooded path would be rather magical.
- Comment on UPDATE: Here is the final design of the Humorless Toaster, that this wonderful community helped me pick yesterday! (Needless to say one of the previous versions was unintentionally problematic) 2 months ago:
He was planning to retire 6 months ago, but the market hasn’t been doing great and his brother in law had to borrow some money to deal with gambling debts.
- Comment on Launches 3 months ago:
Yes, one is a final solution, the other is just pushing your problems elsewhere without regard for who else it could affect.
- Comment on What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean 3 months ago:
As the current owner of a 1930’s era property with tons of glass and rubble in the ground, please don’t. We have landfills so that individual properties don’t get filled with trash.
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 3 months ago:
0 C wouldn’t quite be frozen solid for chicken since it’s not pure water. So technically it is defrosted, but it should start out closer to 10 C for good results.