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Comment · 1 month ago
I have the same issue with ALL earbuds. Long ago after seeing a comment recommending silicon "hookz", I found them on ebay for $1 and gave them a try. They've kept my earpods and airpods in even while running and dancing. My current pair has worked perfectly for years.
I've never tried the over-the-ear version. This is one example of the style that works for me: https://www.amazon.com/OneCut-Pairs-Silicone-Compatible-AirP...
Comment · 1 year ago
Disease can change body odor, and dogs have been trained to "sniff out disease" [0][1] (i.e. detect via smell) for years. Various researchers have been working on robot noses that would be able to do the same.[2] Presumably a widespread and/or less expensive version of this "robot nose" is what doku means by "AI nose sniffs out many common diseases".
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01629-8
[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-do-dogs-sn...
[2] https://bigthink.com/the-future/robotic-nose-smartphone-dete...
Comment · 2 years ago
> it seems like some will choose to work and pay taxes in order that someone who is able but unwilling to work can have better housing and food than they do
This is certainly possible because it already happens now with the current setup.
Comment · 2 years ago
As I said, I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.
Yes, I believe people should have food and water sufficient for survival regardless of their ability to work.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.
The government can work to provide the medication that its citizens require to stay alive. Under such a system, those who are able and willing to work can, via taxes or other contributions, provide medications that some citizens require to stay alive. Many such systems seem to cost less overall than the system currently existing in the United States, so the average man who will work will have to work fewer hours to pay for an average dose of average quality anything required to stay alive.
Alternatively or in tandem, the pharmaceutical companies can sell such medications at cost, with rebates and coupons for no/low-income patients, while still making plenty of profit on reasonably priced pharmaceuticals that patients do not technically require to survive.
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)...
Comment · 2 years ago
I don’t think the average man should have to work any hours to pay for an average monthly dose of average quality anything that they require to stay alive. Perhaps I’m insane.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
> Honestly don’t bother with canned O2. It is not 100% pure, which is an absolute necessity, and they don’t deliver nearly the quantity you need to knock out a cluster
They definitely don't knock out the cluster, but do seem to slightly lessen the pain in minutes. I wish triptans helped, but no luck yet with any we've tried.
Thanks for the help with O2 :)
Comment · 2 years ago
(not the person to whom you were replying)
Hello, fellow clusterhead! May I ask how you obtained 100% O2? Insurance won't cover it because I have no respiratory issues, and medical supply companies won't talk to me because of insurance denial, even with valid rx. In the meantime, I've been using the canned O2 from sports stores, which is expensive and seems unnecessarily wasteful.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yep. And something "made fast" is also perfectly reasonable usage for vastly upgrading its speed. "Fast" can absolutely be a contronym.
Comment · 2 years ago
Related article quote about a bear attack:
"Literally, as I was being eaten by a wild beast, I wasn't thinking about Jesus or my family or my son. I was thinking my insurance was not going to pay for this," she told The Independent. "I had to make this calculus as I was being eaten, 'Do I want to survive this?' Not, 'Can I survive this?' Not, 'What am I going to look like?'" [0]
In an AMA, she said that the worst part of the bear attack wasn't the bear attack, but dealing with her health insurance. [1]
[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1byn1l/i_was_mauled_b...
Comment · 2 years ago
I've lived in places where the "ice event" that caused the power to go out was freezing rain. That kind of ice can make trees heavy enough to lose limbs into power lines and makes roads slick enough for vehicles to crash into transformers and power poles (hence the power outages), without outdoor temperatures necessarily being cold enough to preserve frozen goods and without there being enough easily available ice outside (e.g. ~.5cm covering on all surfaces) to bring inside for stuffing the freezer.