UntitledNo4
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Comment · 1 month ago
It depends where you are in the world. I bought mine at a pharmacy in Poland on a visit, but I've seen reports of people buying online from Poland, and even people buying it on Amazon. You can check out Reddit as well, as I've seen people sharing websites there.
Comment · 1 month ago
Tabex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisine) is what helped me (and my boyfriend) quit smoking after many years (~30) of smoking and several failed attempts to quit using nicotine gum and patches. We have now been smoke-free for over 5 months, which is still not long, but much longer than we have ever lasted before.
It seems strange to me that with all the talk about the importance of quitting smoking that Tabex is not well known. A course of treatment lasts 25 days, costed me €35 for the whole course, you can buy it online, you stop smoking on the 5th day, and it makes quitting a lot easier. Really.
It does still require motivation in certain situations when you used to smoke before (going out drinking, clubbing, etc.) but it's still much easier than with anything else we tried, and after the first couple of weeks your brain rewires itself. Five months in, going out with friends who still smoke, we were both not tempted to take a cigarette from them. This is huge for us.
If you really want to quit smoking and everything else failed so far, give it a try.
If you do buy online, just make sure it's not a counterfeit. I don't have any advice regarding that, we got ours at a pharmacy on a trip to Poland.
Comment · 5 months ago
I recently bought tickets to a concert in France (I live in Germany) and ended up not being able to travel and had to resell my tickets. Apparently according to French law you are not allowed to resell a ticket above its face value and so I had to resell it through the same ticketing company I bought it. They allowed me to set a price with up to a maximum amount which was less than how much I bought it (by a Euro or two) to cover their fees. It was also possible to name a specific buyer who would then get be able to buy your ticket.
Maybe there’s still another way for scalpels to game this system, I don’t know, but I’ve been to a few concerts in Paris and I’ve never seen scalpels hanging outside the venue selling tickets, which would be the norm in Germany, so maybe the system does work.
Comment · 8 months ago
I tried this with a project I’m currently working on with Claude to see how it compares to what I’m already doing.
I think it’s interesting and asked good questions, but that it would be more suitable for non-developers who really don’t know where to start. For me, it missed some of the aspects that that I was able to spec myself as an experienced developer.
I’m not going to use it myself, but I wish you the best of luck.
Comment · 1 year ago
I want to know more about your uncle. I'm not on Facebook, but that would make me consider joining...
Comment · 1 year ago
The Straight Story is not at all surreal, but rather simple and heart-warming, and somehow still somewhat weird.
Comment · 3 years ago
I didn't even know what tinnitus was until someone told me they have it and explained what it was. I assumed everybody hears those noises.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've had tinnitus since such a young age (probably genetic), that I don't remember myself without it. Mine usually doesn't bother me, I guess I'm just used to it (and also that it's not as bad.
Like other people here mentioned, I found that the best way to deal with it, when it does bother me, is to have another background sound that stops you from focusing on it.
I'd recommend trying to "listen" to Sleep, an 8.5 hour album by Max Richter written to be played while you sleep, although I also sometimes play it in the background during the day since it helps me switch off and focus on what I'm working on.
Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe it's me, but I think that approaching someone you've never spoken to and asking them out is creepy. Regardless of the setting. I would never go to anyone in the gym, or at the shops, or even at a bar and ask them, "hey, do you fancy going out with me?" as the first question.
You start chatting to someone, you gauge their reaction, the chemistry between you, and take it from there if you feel that there is interest from the other side as well. It's probably better if you don't even ask them out on your first chat or the first day.
I wouldn't think it's a career risk to start chatting to someone at work, unless you continue doing so even after they've shown signs that they are not interested in talking to you, and then they're definitely not interested in dating you either.
I'm a gay man, who goes out pretty often, and although we gays are much more direct with each other, I have never gone up to someone and asked "do you want to go out with me?" or had someone ask me that as a first question. That would be weird even for us, who are okay with going to the dark room with someone we've only met three minutes before.
Comment · 4 years ago
TV's and PC's made my eyes bleed immediately. I'm a non-native English speaker and I can't help wondering if those are actually signs that it _was_ written by a native English speaker (US, or otherwise).
Comment · 4 years ago
Sex with Emma and Fred