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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pills here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Medication isn’t just a bandaid on outside factors, it can serve as a short term treatment tool to help someone face the issues they are struggling with. I would bet most people on some kind of antidepressant were not on them permanently, just long enough to get stable and see results from therapy and work. That’s the problem with being anti-medication without much nuance, it stigmatizes the tools people use as being unnecessary bandaids or crutches. It just screams “you don’t need meds, just deal with your issues”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pills here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with portraying it like this is there is no room for nuance, it pits medication against society with no room for both. Maybe it wouldn’t read like that if there wasn’t a societal stigma against mental illness and meds, but that’s ironically the world we live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting the die in diet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also nothing but protein and a smidge of fat. The only carbs you get is the little bit of sugar in the wine, but considering it recommends dry wine that’s not much. I bet you’d have the worst headache of your life by day three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They never could have imagined our modern society at all. The amount of power and influence held by just a handful of private citizens couldn’t have been accounted for in the 18th century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences German humor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like untranslatable, as the context just doesn’t work in English. You either have something that doesn’t make sense or - if you use the other meaning - a statement with no humor. The pun is completely dependent on the German phrasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure. Whatev's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that’s the definition: an essential organic compound that is not a mineral, fatty acid, or amino acid. It’s the “everything else” category for essential nutrients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who can relate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately hears that every time the word beaver pops up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, they made plenty of mistakes, otherwise they would have won the war.

  Therein lies the problem, because even if they somehow executed an absolutely perfect strategy they would not have won the war, not in the long run at least. I agree that Wolfenstein doesn’t glorify them since its reasoning for them winning is outlandish sci-fi technology, but a lot of media that assumes they could have won is glorifying, even if indirectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be noted that a lot of their blunders later in the war can be traced back to Hitler (or one of his sycophants) getting involved and overruling far more experienced Generals, many of whom were not party members. It could also be argued that the economy they set up, while impressive given the state of Germany post-WWI, was an entirely unsustainable war economy that relied very heavily on slave labor. That’s not to say they were completely incompetent, but they did vastly overestimate their own abilities and made many mistakes as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I understand it is that your colon will work harder to reclaim water if you’re dehydrated, so staying hydrated will help keep stool softer overall. That said, rehydrating while constipated (or immediately before a bowel movement) won’t make a real difference since the water has already been absorbed from the stool and it can’t add it back.

  I would imagine your drinking lots of water before, if you do it consistently, is probably just contributing to your overall hydration which makes it easier next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👣👣👣⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s usually done to let them pretend their being impartial and “equal opportunity” despite never really intending to be. I personally think it’s bullshit, internal promotions are totally valid and shouldn’t be seen as favoritism (unless the candidate is wildly unqualified).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁 👁⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lighter iris color correlates with higher light sensitivity and better low light vision. The higher density of pigment in a darker iris blocks light better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preference⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ibuprofen probably isn’t stable for a decade. Then again, apparently no one knows for sure! Studies pick an arbitrary amount of time to test and then call that the shelf life if it remains usable. So far it doesn’t seem anyone has had the patience to test the absolute shelf life of ibuprofen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that free radicals are good (they are necessary, but excess free radicals are definitely bad), but more so that there is no solid research to suggest that dietary antioxidants have any effect whatsoever. All the studies that show any beneficial effect have been shown to have major flaws or have not been able to be reproduced consistently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more complicated than good or bad. High levels/sustained stress are definitely bad, but there’s some research to suggest that short-term oxidative stress is an important trigger for various responses in cells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might not be to the point of permanent damage, but you certainly wouldn’t be feeling good. You probably wouldn’t be iron deficient, but a lot of vitamins are only stored in small amounts in the body.