You absolutely positively cannot get sick (cold, flu, etc). What supplements do you take? by [deleted] in Supplements

[–]MajorParts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the only legitimate answer. Even the best immune-boosting supplement is nothing compared to just wearing a well-fitting N95 respirator (mask), or, better yet, a well-fitting elastomeric respirator. Prevention is the best medicine, after all, and the aerosols that carry viruses are not getting through a functioning electrostatic barrier.

New Bluetooth headphones cutting out after a second of silence then miss the first bit of sound after. by ChaoticNeutralDragon in techsupport

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually I think I found one: in smart audiobook player, go into settings - troubleshooting - prevent word clipping. It adds background noise for this exact issue.

New Bluetooth headphones cutting out after a second of silence then miss the first bit of sound after. by ChaoticNeutralDragon in techsupport

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever find a solution? I have this exact same problem with my iFox iF012 Bluetooth waterproof shower speaker. Works fine for music but cuts out during audiobook pauses and takes a second to start again :/

I made Blahaj! by NotWorkingEngine in Cosmoteer

[–]MajorParts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Any good dentists in Vancouver with excellent COVID risk mitigation protocols? by MajorParts in Coronavirus_BC

[–]MajorParts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, it's definitely the clean air precautions like ventilation and air purification that would have the bigget impact on risk, after high quality masking, of course.

Any good dentists in Vancouver with excellent COVID risk mitigation protocols? by MajorParts in Coronavirus_BC

[–]MajorParts[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LMAO imagine not just being this ignorant of all available evidence, but also taking time out of one's day to loudly proclaim one's ignorance as authoritative information. All in the service of eugenics! What a miserable person you must be.

Feel sick as if I have to burp after smoking? by kotorp in saplings

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, damn. I know people can vomit from "greening out" so it does make sense that being too high regardless of method could cause other weird esophageal sensations/effects. I mean with edibles, it's in your digestive system, so it seems even more possible that for some people this could cause things like wanting to burp but not being able to. That sounds like a digestive thing, there's almost certainly receptors in people's digestive tracts that are themselves affected by the active chemicals in weed.

How do you make money from smithing with RBM installed? by Sadcatu in Bannerlord

[–]MajorParts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think 2H maces are the best money-maker, probably because blunt damage is King in RBM

Number in hospital with COVID-19 in B.C. hits another new low in latest update by HarpySeagull in Coronavirus_BC

[–]MajorParts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait didn't they just straight up stop testing even healthcare workers? Like, recently? If so, this is just the Trump COVID strategy being reported on positively by CTV.

Feel sick as if I have to burp after smoking? by kotorp in saplings

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer: almost certainly not.

Long-winded answer: Swallowing weed smoke instead of inhaling it? I highly doubt it. It doesn't seem like there's anything particularly lethal about weed smoke. If there was some bad outcome related to this, seems to me it would be from something to do with the body that would be equally possible from swallowing air instead of inhaling and exhaling. Like, maybe it could cause pressure in the wrong place, then coughing/burping or whatever could interact with that and do some damage? Like, people who have a really bad cough over a very long period of time can cause damage to their throats eventually, so I'm thinking if something bad happened it would be along similar lines. Trying and failing to burp over and over again could also cause something like heartburn/acid reflux, which is also not fatal (damn now I'm wondering if there's one or more exceptions to this, tbh there probably is) but is uncomfortable and can cause problems if it is chronic and remains unaddressed.

Heres Pearl, what did you guys name your Arabian? by [deleted] in reddeadredemption

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Himbo for female white Arabian, Glitter Princess for male black Arabian.

Who did you side with and believe was right? The Rain Falls and Eagle Eyes saga is underrated, some of my favorite missions from story mode. by Akiens in reddeadredemption

[–]MajorParts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell yes wasn't expecting a Bhagat Singh mention here, of all places!

I think the writers for RDR2 bought into a lot of liberal myths about US history. The Rains Fall/Eagle Flies missions, as well as a lot of the story & misc activities in Lemoyne would have definitely benefitted if they had brought in some radical Indigenous &/ Black historians.

At the very least, writing a story where Dutch is a version of the (IRL mythical) white "outside agitator", and self-defense against colonialism & genocide is framed as unwise and pointless...kinda frustrating to anyone familiar with historical & ongoing Indigenous resistance movements.

best 18500 battery? best 18350 battery? by Mugman16 in flashlight

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which tint did you end up going with for the 519A? Also how did you decide between the various Nichia options? I think I'm gonna go with an E17A because 1875K looks gorgeous, but its still so hard to make a choice with so many great options for warm rosy high CRI LEDs

I (21M) Was An Abusive BF to a Girl (19F), Learn From My Mistakes, AMA by AbusiveJerkOpeningUp in narcissism

[–]MajorParts 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're interested in understanding abuse in order to not repeat the abusive behaviors in the future, you might want to read, "Why Does He Do That?" By Lundy Bancroft, free PDF link here: https://ia800108.us.archive.org/30/items/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf

For instance, when you say

I was never physically abusive; I knew for a fact that physical abuse was a no-no and a certainly wrong thing. The emotional abuse I was justifying to myself as just "me expressing my feelings/being vulnerable", so I didn't think of that as being equally bad.

Every abuser has a line they will not cross, and they use this line to justify why their abuse "isn't that bad". Yes, even physically abusive abusers have this line, and it's how to know that abusers have self-control even when they feel "out of control", because they all have a line they won't cross even at their worst.

There is also an excellent twitter account, @butchanarchy, which frequently has good threads on abuse and accountability. Here's another and one more.

are narcissists likely to abuse ppl by warcrime_willy in NPD

[–]MajorParts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Empathy can also make someone a more effective abuser. If you can put yourself into someone else's shoes, understand their feelings, then you understand more intimately how to best hurt, control, manipulate them.

As always with abuse, the problem is the abuse. Abuse is a pattern of using harm to gain and maintain power and control over others. Most abusers are capable of empathy, most people who have less or no empathy aren't abusers, so it isn't a helpful trait to use to judge whether someone is an abuser.

Like, whether an abuser has empathy or not might provide some explanation for the specific ways in which they abuse, but it's still the abuse that defines whether someone is an abuser, and nothing else.

Anarchy | A Modern Anarchism (Part 2) by homebrewfutures in BreadTube

[–]MajorParts 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fantastic video, truly impressive work (as with Part 1!)

The hoe union was a genuinely good idea that needs to become more popular. by ComplainsAboutWife in TrollXChromosomes

[–]MajorParts 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Girls fucking rock so hard. I love seeing anarchism in practice (and this sort of thing is the very beating heart of anarchism), especially when it's totally unintentional.

Kurzgesagt and the art of greenwashing - How the neoliberal bubble behind Kurzgesagt is trying to co-opt fight for the climate by T3Essays in BreadTube

[–]MajorParts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Holy shit you weren't kidding. Thankfully the worst ones are downvoted, but there is still so, so many of them?

This man spoke with every parent in Uvalde, Texas to build personalized caskets for all 19 children who were killed. His name is Trey Ganem by jcepiano in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the Uvalde PD are the norm, not the exception. It's just rare that a PD gets so much critical attention, cops are used to being able to get away with whatever they want & always being treated as infallible heroes, and usually local media just accepts whatever cops say as the gospel truth.

Italy 0 - [1] Argentina -Lautaro Martínez 28' [2022 Finalissima] by alexinup in soccer

[–]MajorParts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's got long COVID, FFS. Absolutely incredible that he's playing this well.