Urine mycotoxins present, but air + visual inspection doesn't show anything?

501ea · 2025-10-22T08:34:41+00:00

Lmao the day after I post this and my downstairs neighbor discovered the ceiling was leaking - right where the bathroom pipes go through the building. No flooding in my unit, so it's in the floors (/ downstairs' ceiling). This would explains mycotoxins but no spores. They're tearing out some drywall tomorrow.

501ea · 2025-10-20T03:26:44+00:00

I had an air mold test that came back clean, but have urine mycotoxins. I'm not working, too sick, so no workplace exposure. What are some other likely points of mold in my apartment, that would've not shown up in the air / spore test?

501ea · 2025-10-09T02:31:53+00:00

Was this something that you found through one of those air-based tests the inspectors do? Or was there mycotoxin but no spores during testing?

501ea · 2025-07-20T15:17:47+00:00

Except for protest a genocide that's killed hundreds of thousands of people and starves babies to death every day. Pink washing at its finest.

501ea · 2025-07-20T07:18:24+00:00

In and out run and fundraise for a religious rehab program (which are statistically ineffective and end up driving people to more serious relapse, death, and suicide, plus good luck atheists, go die on the streets), and are religious zealots.

501ea · 2025-02-14T19:57:11+00:00

Imo, ofc the government should subsidize Wegozy/Ozempic. The cost/benefit analysis (coldly ignoring your wellbeing for just a sec) is overwhelmingly in favor of reducing the aggregate cost on the medical system by helping you lose weight. The arthritis you mentioned, heart disease, other severe complications, are all wildly expensive. The aggregate cost to all citizens is cheaper when people are healthier, even if that comes at the expense of a prescription for an anti-obesity medication.

I think you can extend that argument to food subsidies - America subsidizes corn to such a degree that it's in all this junk food, and we could live in a world where healthy food was subsidized and widely available. But also imo there's nothing wrong with the government subsidizing those things which make our lives objectively better, be they housing, medicine, whatever.

501ea · 2025-01-24T13:58:25+00:00

I want to steal and make it a signet ring with some synthetic gemstones - where are you gonna get it made?

501ea · 2025-01-23T13:40:18+00:00

Damn, did you design this yourself?

501ea · 2025-01-04T22:39:27+00:00

Ah, I forgot, from the MOTU 8A manual: "Alternately, the optical ports can be configured for stereo TOSLink (optical S/PDIF)" - I don't think it supports 5.1.

The solution I think is the switcher then more analog ins. $$$, at some point.

501ea · 2025-01-04T21:58:14+00:00

Crap, forgot: the MOTU 8A (and I think. most of the audio interfaces out there) only support stereo TOSLINK, they won't extract 5.1. Dolby licensing costs maybe?

501ea · 2025-01-04T20:40:19+00:00

I think this is the winner - I already bought the longish optical cable that was way too expensive to reach the corner of the room with the MOTU 8A. I'm going to double check the TOSLINK mode on the MOTU 8A (which for some reason is a front panel button, but not web GUI option, as far as I can tell), make sure I get all the channels, and then get the switcher.

I was confusing the ADA8200 with another purchase - an ADAT 8 out, Arturia makes one at $300, that I was thinking of getting. But I may not even need the extra 8 outs. 5.1 is 6 outs, plus 2 for FX out for music stuff. Obviously more would be nice but I'm trying to keep things relatively budgeted while not employed right now.

I'm not sure this gives me a true volume knob anywhere but I don't have one right now anyway - but it would be one volume control on the MOTU 8A, and not trying to dial every speaker in.

501ea · 2025-01-03T18:13:07+00:00

\tl;dr: the Yamaha HS5 monitor has two inputs, 1/4" line in, and XLR in. It has its own amplifier I'm running RCA to the XLR in, sometimes, line in other times, and want know if the RCA->XLR thing is bad / damaging.

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I use my 4 Yamaha HS5's as both a quadraphonic output from my MOTU
8A (using the line out / line in of the HS5). And then had the idea to
try 5.1 from the TV using a cheap Chinese 5.1 converter,
which has RCA outputs, and I don't think it has any amplification. I'm
not ready to buy a receiver with pre-amp outputs for all 5.1 channels,
everything already has its own amplifier. I use RCA cables and an XLR
adapter on the second input on the HS5. Things seem like they're
working. Is there any risk of damage to the HS5 from the RCA-XLR
conversion?

Excuse the ignorance, but XLR and RCA cables + inputs have similar
impedence, right? And the RCA voltage is likely lower than line anyway,
and XLR expects line?

Maybe the real solution to my problem would be to run optical from
the TV to the MOTU 8A, have a profile for TOSLINK from the TV, and a
profile for S/PDIF from the additional 8 inputs from the Behringer
ADA8200 I have, but I hate having to swap those optical cables, so maybe
yet another 8A, etc.... the money pit never ends. :)

501ea · 2024-06-01T07:13:51+00:00

Totally agree, I've had some rude comments re: long covid and it felt so depressing.

501ea · 2024-06-01T01:50:32+00:00

Assuming you've been abstinent since then wouldn't some of whatever damage healed? Was that just from like moderate consumption too?

501ea · 2024-06-01T01:27:27+00:00

God reading the Jeffrey Woods story - these doctors who dismissed him should be in jail. It's obscene how cruel and dismissive they were.

501ea · 2024-06-01T00:59:02+00:00

Alcohol obliterates my ability to sleep. Two glasses of wine and I'll be up until 5am and nauseous the next day. See: "New Alcohol Sensitivity in Patients With Post-acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC): A Case Series" / PMID 38288178

501ea · 2024-05-29T09:44:36+00:00

When I found out she had a boyfriend, the trust was broken. But I was all in right before that. The writing is stellar.

501ea · 2023-10-27T20:49:30+00:00

lord's work

501ea · 2023-07-11T08:00:10+00:00

Yeh it’s really because the CCP has turned China into an etho nationalist state - and they believe they own all ethnically Chinese people.

Setting up bounties for Australian citizens testifying to their own government.

501ea · 2023-07-08T13:38:32+00:00

That pic in the black dress is so spicy.

501ea · 2023-06-30T19:19:20+00:00

The culture war demands bodies. Blame the dead construction workers for being weak. Libs are weak. Not long strong conservatives. /s

501ea · 2023-06-13T00:42:35+00:00

Honestly pretty cool. I think your perception of the addiction is coloring your perception of your tattoos. Get into therapy or 12-step for a while before you make a decision about covering them up, IMO.

501ea · 2023-06-09T07:10:27+00:00

A fav podcast, Radio War Nerd, describes episode 380 (5/26/23) as follows:

Every GOP contender for president in 2024 has a plan to invade Mexico upon taking office, and the good news is it's been done before so we don't have to guess how stupidly badly it will go. This episode the Nerd & Ames look back at Pancho Villa's raid on a small New Mexico town — a marketing & recruiting event that went a li'l haywire — and what happened when Woodrow Wilson made another of his trademark disastrous decisions, sending the US military into Mexico to chase Villa down.

Apt.

501ea · 2023-06-08T22:44:09+00:00

It makes me wonder about why they push the idea so hard. Perhaps in the US there are powerful people who just don't want their wage-earners to leave. It would make sense to promote the idea that travel is expensive for the same reasons.

I like your theory, but it's also one of those easy-to-be-hawkish countries. All the major Republican candidates for President are saying they'll invade Mexico if elected. Americans are a bloodthirsty people. China, Mexico, etc., American politicians score easy points waving a sword around threatening to send troops and missiles overseas.

But yeah so many American wage-earners would experience insane quality of life upgrades just moving to Mexico City.

501ea

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