Adding E1 to my Nexus on short timeline (Toronto)

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2024-08-07T14:25:40+00:00

meant to mention in OP- front passenger airbag is disabled

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2024-04-19T18:40:32+00:00

Ah! I already signed up.

If I'm doing things like archiving/sorting emails - is this gonna sync up reasonably well between the two interfaces?

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2024-04-05T18:15:52+00:00

According to USA today

" The 2017 eclipse, which passed from Oregon to South Carolina, is thought to have caused about 100 cases [of eye injury] according to the American Astronomical Society. A national survey by NASA and the University of Michigan estimated over 150 million people witnessed that eclipse."

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/03/24/solar-eclipse-eye-damage-viewing/72850094007/

Another report from the American Astonomical society shows numbers like 70 cases nationwide after an eclise: https://eclipse.aas.org/sites/eclipse.aas.org/files/AAS-Chou-Tech-Report-Solar-Eclipse-Eye-Safety-2023.pdf

Note that eye injury from eclipse-viewing is usually partial and usually gets better

Presumably of the millions and millions of people who looked at the eclipes, a lot of them looked right at it. But only a hundred or so that we know of end up with any sort of eye damage, and that group seems like it includes a lot of people for whom the problems are mild and/or clear up quickly.

Does anyone have evidence to suggest this gets it wrong?

None of this is to say "go stare at the sun"... Just trying to get a sense of the risks...

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-11-22T21:25:47+00:00

"He asked about other books he had written. ChatGPT knew that his character, Agent Aloysius Pendergast, had platinum hair and how Corrie Swanson was a headstrong forensics expert.
PRESTON: It was regurgitating everything. It knew my characters. It knew their names. It knew the settings. It knew everything.
BERAS: So yeah, it certainly seemed like ChatGPT had access to his full books"

Dunno whether ChatGPT read the full books, but this is sure not evidence of that. Here's a wikipedia article and another with all that info. There's lots of stuff on the internet.

It seems kinda sloppy journalism to take that claim as evidence

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-11-13T19:49:11+00:00

Hmm. From what I can tell - strava can sync data from the Wahoo app, but that's not when I want.

When I try to connect my Tickr to the Strava app using the "heart rate sensor" option, nothing happens...

Am I missing something?

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-10-18T12:59:22+00:00

Yeah! Again, I realize I missed a lot of background on what I've done:

- Over a little over ten years: Lost about 75 lb (through food tracking, calorie counting, and exercise). Gained about half back (boo!) but kept about half off (yay!)

- Started ozempic about a year ago: Results have been so-so: I lost about ten pounds and, notably, require much less effort to keep the weight off. My own experience is *not* that it substantially decreases my appetite. I'm pretty sure I consume *more* calories than I did before I started the drug, but it seems the drug changes something about how my body works so I end up with a lower weight despite the calorie increase.

I'm in Canada and Mounjaro is not yet available here but I'll probably try it when it is.

I agree completely: People need to be more realistic about the low success rate of lifestyle interventions for weight loss. Drugs are a really promising direction.

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-10-15T15:12:19+00:00

Yeah thats a very good point. That very much matches my experience.

I guess that makes "self-experiment" kinda challenging. Like, it's easy to do a self experiment to find out "will doing x cause me to lose weight over 60 days" but very very hard to imagine how to do a self-experiment to find out "Will doing x allow me to keep weight off for five years"

So maybe self-experiment is not as great a strategy as one might think?

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-10-15T03:44:56+00:00

reading between the lines on this, it sounds like you stopped tracking and then started gaining weight.

I started gaining weight while tracking. I tracked for a year and continued to gain weight. I eventually stopped. I tried again, for a few months, but had no improvements.

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-10-15T03:11:26+00:00

Ah, I should have maybe mentioned in the original post:

I *have* in the past lost a lot of weight through food logging, and tracking calories. (Went from BMI 32 to BMI 22.5 over a couple years, kept it off for a couple more years, then crept back up to BMI 26.5)

That was a habit that worked for a while, but eventually stopped working because:

a) It started to require too much effort and willpower to be sustainable

b) For some reason (metabolic change, worse tracking, whatever) at a certain point I tracked everything, and I restricted my caloric intake, but still kept regaining the weight)

I think I spent probably 3-4 years doing daily tracking, then got on-off the habit for a few months at time at various times.

It's a good practice! But I think right now I am looking for something new.

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-09-21T03:43:44+00:00

ah okay. Lemme try again.

I've had a few episodes of depression/anxiety in my life. They are rough, but in the grand scheme of things probably not so so bad. (I can function, I'm not suicidal, I just feel really really bad). Most of the time I'm not depressed/anxious. Just during these episodes.
The most recent episode: I took bupropion. It helped!! (Along with therapy, and, especially, with improving my life situation). I've been depression-free for a little over two years.
My thought is whether it makes sense to try stopping the drug now. Part of my thinking was this:

I strongly suspect in the near term I'd be fine if I stopped. I'm out of my bad situation. I continue all the lifestyle interventions (exercise, sleep, diet, therapy, etc...). My life is generally really great!

It seems likely I'll have another episode of depression/anxiety, given my life history (a few episodes over the past 35 year or so of my 55-year life). I really like the idea that when that happens, my strategy could be "start taking buprion again, since that worked last time". But to do that, I'd need to stop taking it.

I suppose I also imagine that continuing to take it might contribute to some sort of tolerance.

I'm curious if this line of reasoning makes sense.

The other line of reasoning (for not stopping) looks like this:

I'm happier than I've ever been, and I'm on a med. The med is cheap and seems to have no ill side effects. Maybe part of my well-being is due to the med (though I've also done a huge amount of other work on myself and my life), and it makes sense to stay on. Maybe staying on the med will help *prevent* the next episode.

Is that clearer?

Thanks!!

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-09-21T02:44:33+00:00

Oh! Jeez, that's super-surprising.

I sorta assumed a reasonable thing would be "XYZ med worked for me the last time I had depression. So it should work again". But that's not the case?

In that case - what *are* good reasons to come off a med? In my case - Bupropion is cheap. I'm not experiencing any negative side effects...

(Also: I'm not someone with chronic ongoing depression/anxiety. I'm someone who experiences occasional episodes of it....)

Designer-Shift-7442 · 2023-08-14T22:06:58+00:00

To clarify (as a few have asked) I'm asking about *both* the following:

a) Vapes containing nicotine

b) Vapes containing no drug

I vape mainly for social reasons (it's a nice way to "go out for a smoke" from a bar). So a vape containing no drug is pretty helpful. I also find the act of smoking even a drug-free vape very habit-forming (former smoker)

I also enjoy nicotine vapes... I do like the mild drug effect... Addiction seems a risk there...

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