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steve2470's JournalTriggering avalanches on the road to Stelvio Pass, northern Italy
https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/988140259182563335
How much should you have in savings at each age?
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/how-much-do-you-need-in-savings-retirement-emergency-fund/(I know this article will probably prove highly controversial, only presenting for critique and discussion)
You save to mitigate personal disaster.
Let’s zoom out from granular advice on maximizing returns on your taxable and retirement investments, or deep dives on CD yields or mortgage rates. At the most basic level, savings enable you and your family to enjoy the freedom associated with money and avoid the pain of debt.
There are two main reasons to set money aside: Insurance against bad financial weather and provision for your retirement. You might also save for a down payment on a house or for your wedding, but the first two are the must-haves.
Bad news: We’re not doing so well on either point. About half of Americans are at risk of lowering their standard of living in retirement, according to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, while less than 20 percent of people feel very confident they’ll enjoy a comfortable retirement.
Jasper, Georgia: -30F! The new ice age is upon us!
Obviously a broken monitor.
http://www.wx-now.com/Current/KJZP (undoubtedly will be MUCH warmer by the time you click)
http://www.wx-now.com/Weather/WxExtremes?usa=true (will probably not show it by the time you click but here it is)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jasper,+GA/@34.4508633,-84.4493388,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x885f867aea5604e1:0xdcd064c2abc94738!8m2!3d34.4695524!4d-84.4289888
Google Maps says it's 57F, which makes a lot more sense
Tube Is YouTube Without Any Attention Stealing Clutter
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/tube-is-youtube-without-any-attention-stealing-clutter/Web: Search for a video, watch that video, then get on with your life. That’s Tube, a third party website that strips YouTube back to basics.
My YouTube sessions has a tendency to…keep going. I watch one video, then another, then scroll through the comments, and then maybe another video and crap it’s midnight.
This doesn’t happen because I’m weak. I mean, I am weak, but that’s not the only reason this happens. YouTube’s entire interface is designed so I’ll spend as much time there as possible. It’s a trap.
Tube isn’t. There’s no recommended videos here. No comments either. There’s only search, and videos. It’s the perfect way to find something specific, watch it, and then do something else. I highly recommend it.
Almost 100% of Europe for the next 5 days is ABOVE average in temperature
https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/985855212974985216eta: I think, if you look really closely at that map, you see some small parts with average temps.
now on a new med, Parnate
Our regulars here will remember my experience with weaning off 2 anti-depressant meds and starting an MAO inhibitor, Selegiline. My doctor put me on a transdermal patch called Emsam.
To sum it up quickly, the Emsam made me extremely irritable. I gave it a good try over a month's time but could no longer tolerate that side effect. It's history now.
My doc now has me on Parnate, another MAO inhibitor. This one has more side effects and is even more sensitive to tyramine-containing food and drinks. It also does not work well with "excessive" amounts of caffeine and chocolate. The chocolate one I can work with, the caffeine one is problematic for me because I like my coffee and diet Pepsi. I have not had any diet Pepsi or other caffeine-containing beverages in a few weeks now, but I've kept the coffee.
He stepped me up over a few weeks from 30 mg a day to 50 mg a day. I've had some pretty extreme postural hypotension (you feel faint after getting up abruptly), difficulty walking, feeling overmedicated, feeling sedated, and oh the headaches. One time I probably took my doses too close together and got the absolute worst headache of my entire life (and I usually never get headaches). Wow, if migraines are like that headache, I really understand now how horrible they are.
I also seem to get a small headache off only two cups of coffee. I brew it normal strength, and I still get the small headache. I'm really hoping that eventually I can tolerate the caffeine better.
To sum up, if the worst side-effects don't go away or get a lot better, this won't be tolerable either. I'll give it a few more weeks and see my doc on the 19th to discuss my treatment.
Quick PSA: I would never try MAOI treatment with any doctor other than a psychiatrist or ARNP (Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner) who are trained in these meds specifically. They are just way too risky to be prescribed any other way.
Also, this is a great site with tons of information on meds: http://www.pdr.net/browse-by-drug-name
Another great site is https://www.drugbank.ca/drugs
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=star
The suggested donation used to be $35 per year but they got rid of that text. You can donate as little as a dollar, as far as I know. Again, donating is VOLUNTARY but in return you get rid of the ads.
Best wishes to all.
The Internet Apologizes: Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/an-apology-for-the-internet-from-the-people-who-built-it.htmlThere have always been outsiders who criticized the tech industry — even if their concerns have been drowned out by the oohs and aahs of consumers, investors, and journalists. But today, the most dire warnings are coming from the heart of Silicon Valley itself. The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive. The inventor of the World Wide Web fears his creation is being “weaponized.” Even Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he lamented recently.
To understand what went wrong — how the Silicon Valley dream of building a networked utopia turned into a globalized strip-mall casino overrun by pop-up ads and cyberbullies and Vladimir Putin — we spoke to more than a dozen architects of our digital present. If the tech industry likes to assume the trappings of a religion, complete with a quasi-messianic story of progress, the Church of Tech is now giving rise to a new sect of apostates, feverishly confessing their own sins. And the internet’s original sin, as these programmers and investors and CEOs make clear, was its business model.
To keep the internet free — while becoming richer, faster, than anyone in history — the technological elite needed something to attract billions of users to the ads they were selling. And that something, it turns out, was outrage. As Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, points out, anger is the emotion most effective at driving “engagement” — which also makes it, in a market for attention, the most profitable one. By creating a self-perpetuating loop of shock and recrimination, social media further polarized what had already seemed, during the Obama years, an impossibly and irredeemably polarized country.
Very long article, worth reading.
Question submitted by steve2470
A scientist purposely gave himself which illness in order to prove how the illness was caused ?
https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/in-order-to-prove-how-the-illness-was-caused-a-scientist-purposely-gave-himself/In the early 1980s, two Australian doctors, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, began exploring a completely different hypothesis: that ulcers were caused by bacteria. Their interest in the matter, research, and eventual hypothesis that ulcers were caused by the spiral bacteria H. pylori were widely mocked in the greater scientific and medical communities since it was believed that no bacteria could survive the harsh conditions of the stomach.
Eventually, after numerous frustrations in their research (H. pylori grows slowly and the first 30 out of 100 early samples were ruined when lab assistants disposed of the culture samples too soon) and poor reception of their work in scientific journals, Barry Marshall took matters into his own hands. In 1984, Marshall had his stomach cultured via endoscopy to establish that he was free from H. pylori, then he drank a broth laced with a culture of the bacteria. He anticipated that he would fall ill with an ulcer within a year or more of ingesting the broth, but was shocked to find out that within a matter of days, he was symptomatic. Eight days after ingesting the laced broth, he had another endoscopy which revealed that his stomach was severely inflamed and the bacteria had completely colonized it, and after a course of antibiotics starting on the fourteenth day, he was cured.
Today, as a result of the research carried out by the duo and by Marshall’s willingness to be a guinea pig, we now know that H. pylori is one of the major causative factors of stomach ulcers (NSAID pain relievers like ibuprofen are the major causative factor of non-bacterial cases). In the end though, a few weeks of stomach problems aside, Marshall had the last laugh. Not only was their research immediately validated, both eventually won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work.
I got it right at the site above, but I was lucky
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