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9 hours agoThis may just be a language thing. Those aren’t allergies to me, they are symptoms of allergies.
To me, allergies are things like a peanut allergy, penicillin allergy, latex allergy, etc.
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2·11 hours agoThe lame answer is that there are specific legal requirements around what sound they have to make.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-571/subpart-B/section-571.141
Obviously, thats in the US, but i bet other regulatory agencies have similar.
3·1 day agoAccording to the one i just had to replace, combo carbon monoxide detectors need to be replaced. I don’t know how the carbon monoxide part works, but i wonder if it’s a reagent or something.
1·1 day agoStrongly agree. Everyone has a perspective, and even exclusively presenting objective facts will still be biased due to what is included and what is excluded.
As an example of someone who handles this well, I’d recommend Layne Norton. He’s a fitness/physiology/diet communicator. He has a PhD in it (which by itself doesnt prove much), but he is very careful in every video to only make supported claims, and he clearly states when he is only giving opinion.
For example, he will point that understanding a single mechanism doesnt tell you the whole story, so you need randomized, doubled blind, placebo controlled human trials (and preferably many), to really understand something.
That’s something that so many influencers in that field get wrong. They’ll talk about a single study that looked at the effects of a plant on a certain metabolic pathway in a petri dish, and use that to recommend people take it as a supplement. This ignores the obvious possibility that in vivo results wouldn’t match in vitro, and that the pathway they discovered isnt completely overshadowed by a different pathway with the opposite effect.
He has a few biases/conflicts of interest, which are explicitly mentioned in pretty much every video: he sells supplements, he invests in a protein bar company, and his PhD research was funded by the beef and dairy industries.
To me, it seems like they think the fact that I selected the “public transit” option means that walking must be minimized at the cost of everything else.
E.g., It will recommend I take 2 busses followed by a train, followed by another bus rather than just having me walk for 15 minutes to a bus/train line that goes directly to my destination.
How would they know that?
The same way they do driving estimates. They have your phone’s location, and they know where you are trying to go. They could have the trip “end” when your location is actually inside the place you are trying to get to, instead of ending the trip when you pass your destination at full driving speed when you dont see a parking spot out front.
They collect so much data, it would be trivial. If you are going from your house to a Starbucks, they could absolutely just have the “end” condition be when your phone notices the Starbucks wifi.
P.s., not that I think they should be collecting that data, but the reality is that they are
Yeah, this is really the answer. Over and over and over again, it’s clear that the policy of his regime has always been to “flood the zone”.
Every single week, they do something unique and so heinous that it would have ended any prior administration. They can keep things from sticking by just continuing to do stuff like that and get popular focus on a new thing. The people that should be able to keep them accountable legally are similarly overwhelmed.
Greenland was probably never a serious thing for the regime, it just had to serve a purpose of keeping their opponents busy. It’s the political equivalent of a gish gallop.
2·6 days agoOne thing that’s missing in this article is a good discussion of the soil. They mention that it’s bad and clay-ey, but that’s not really the case. This region formerly would have been either tall-grass prairie or burr oak savanna. Notably, this ecosystem creates perhaps the best and most fertile soil on the face of the earth.
To create developments like the town mentioned in this article, this highly fertile soil would have been completely bulldozed down to the subsoil. All the real soil would have been piled up to places that slowly erode into the river systems, never to return.
The highly fertile deep topsoil native to this region is spongy, which is hard to build on, especially in a place with a frost line that is relatively deep.
4·6 days agoI saw a stack of like 20 of them at a thrift shop for really cheap a few years ago. I saw that there would be a big potential with those for someone who knows what they are doing. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people, lol.
It’s pretty crazy how different two hives can behave, even right next to each other. You can have one that gets really angry while the other is completely calm. One thing to keep in mind is that people assume bees need flowers, but depending on where they live, some bees get the large majority of their nectar/pollen from trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Northern_American_nectar_sources_for_honey_bees
One the pig/cow thing, that is definitely something people do. Pigs are really good at packing on weight, but feed costs money. They eat most things humans do, so you can feed them all sorts of kitchen scraps, wormy apples, or whatever you can get your hands on.
You already have a lot of good responses, but one thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that you can cook on parchment paper. It’s obviously not a method for scrambled eggs, but something delicate like fish can just be put on parchment paper in a pan. Alternatively, you can fully wrap it in parchment.
It isn’t as good as teflon but it does get functionally close
Finally someone phrasing it right. Cast iron can’t possibly get as good as Teflon because even a perfect layer of seasoning can’t compete on a chemical level. It absolutely gets good enough, though.
5·8 days agoThe explosion of hops onto your ceiling is practically a right of passage for a brewer.
“Acer” is the genus name for maples.
The way most beekeepers make money is not selling honey (or wax). The biggest money makers are actually selling bees (in a package, nucleus hive, or full hive), or selling queens (genetics of a queen dictate the temperament of the hive). This is not including the huge commercial beekeepers who make their money off of pollination contracts.
This means that beekeepers are incentivized to get new people into the hobby, so beekeeping is very apprenticeship focused. Local clubs can put you in contact with someone while will be happy to show you the ropes (and give you a bunch of honey in exchange for the help).
To get started learning, all you really need is a veil and gloves (about $50 new total), but you may be able to get used gear for way cheaper. When you start doing hive inspections on your own, you’ll need a hive tool, smoker, and probably a bee brush (also about $50 total new).
If you want to get your own hives, the major costs are the bees themselves (which are way cheaper to buy through a club, like ~$100 last time i checked), and the boxes themselves, which can run a couple hundred for a hive. If you live somewhere with bears and/or skunks, you’ll want an electric fence, too. Usually, it’s better to have 2 hives, too, because if a hive dies in the winter, you can split the other hive and you are barely worse off.
If you are handy and have the tools, you can build your own hives to save money. Also, you can capture wild bee swarms by leaving swarm traps around during the right time of the year.
Lastly, there is specialized gear for harvesting honey, but usually you borrow it from a club.
Tl;dr, you can go all in to start by yourself for like $700, but you can get started as an apprentice for like $50 (or honestly just borrowing gear for free).
A whole article about right wingers being obsessed with having kids, and no mention of the quiverfull movement?
Ever do an acerglyn (maple/honey)?
The studies in that mini-review did not investigate different allergies. They each focused on different symptoms; either skin inflammation or mucosa inflammation (conjunctiva, nose, sinuses). The allergen responsible was not characterized.
The only paper that looked at a specific allergy is the one I cited.
I could also cite multiple studies showing that use of bee products can make allergies worse.
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/24/12074
https://www.jacionline.org/article/0091-6749(79)90143-X/pdf
https://www.jabfm.org/content/jabfp/7/3/250.full.pdf
There are more, too.
Ignoring the fact that selling something fraudulently is automatically bad, I can think of a few reasons. First of all, they can’t make it identical. They can beat certain tests, but that’s why it’s a cat and mouse game.
Second, even if it was 100% identical, there are still reasons to support the “real” thing. If I buy fake syrup, I’m probably getting something made from an industrial monocrop like sugar beets or corn grown far away. If I buy honey from a local beekeeper, I’m investing in more trees/flowers/etc. in my own area. I’m also investing against the widespread use of pesticides harming our whole ecosystem.
Read my response to them. If you can find more randomized, controlled, human trials, I’d love to see them.
Northern baptists were decentralized abolitionists, while southern baptists were centralized and pro-slavery.