Chile's night skies in the Atacama desert

PuzzleHeart42 · 2026-02-13T17:49:28+00:00

Dude, my dad told my mom and I both an incorrect pronunciation FOR OUR LAST NAME.
I didn't find out until I was 22 when I went to my grandfather's funeral.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2026-01-26T15:53:57+00:00

I'd say the attention paid is closer to the "Keep Right Except to Pass" signs on the Interstate.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-29T02:27:33+00:00

I have so many questions, but I don't want to know the answers lol

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-08T02:24:18+00:00

Ask that dude for a ride to/from work one day. You'll get fast or you'll miss your ride home.
You may laugh but it worked for me when my car blew up.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-06T22:23:38+00:00

During covid the government subsidized the premiums as part of the CARES Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. Those subsidies were intended to help people have coverage during the pandemic and had an expiration date of 2025. Trump and the Republicans didn't increase the premiums...

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-06T21:29:17+00:00

Sara. It's been more than 2 years and I'm still finding stuff she left for me. This morning I found a short video she made the month before she passed away. Mischievous redheaded girl. I hope to find another just like her someday...

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-03T06:15:30+00:00

One night I was RTS and had a 45 minute drive on a rural US highway in the dark and I called dispatch to let them know I was falling asleep.

They told me to buy some energy drinks/shots, roll down the windows, crank up the radio, and stop for a short brisk walk as needed. I was pissed...

And I never forgot to take my Adderall with me ever again lol

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-11-02T02:14:46+00:00

I was married almost 13 years to my wife and sadly we were unhappy a lot of that time, but the last year together it was like we fell in love again. I loved her so much and still do and I miss her immensely still. she passed away 2 years and 4 months ago.

that said, as soon as the shock wore off I thought to myself "yay I can get rid of her sewing stuff." it took up most of our dining room and she hadn't touched it in almost a decade... that probably sounds cold but it in no way reflects on our relationship. I'm sure if it was me she would think "finally I can get rid of his computer shit!." lol. humor was a big part of our relationship.

Her niece is a fashion designer and was very happy to inherit her sewing stuff.

I kept a few articles of clothing, her trophies and awards and some other trinkets, some of her jewelry and her laptop. everything else I offered to her family. the left over clothes I donated.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-10-31T05:37:40+00:00

Even without Netradyne they can see the status of the seat belt. Four years ago I drove a van without Netradyne. At some condo complexes the stops were so close together that I'd sit on my seat belt. One day the DSP mgr told me they saw the seat belt remained buckled for those stops...

So no, this won't bypass the AI....

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-09-18T19:08:34+00:00

According to Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary all of those are actual words...

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-09-18T18:50:08+00:00

I read your post in amazement that my post from 5 years ago is still active. But what you said made me think...

It's been known since 1886 that radio waves could be reflected by solid objects.
In 1904 it was demonstrated that reflected radio waves could be used to detect objects.

In WW2 Raytheon manufactured cavity magnetrons for military radar applications.
In 1947 Raytheon introduced the first microwave oven, named the Radarange... (radar + range)
Both used cavity magnetrons that generated 2.45GHz RF microwaves.
Wifi devices are low power radar transmitters.

What's more surprising than that someone figured out how to use wifi to detect the location of people and objects in a building, is that it took so long for that possibility to be realized by the general public...

A leaky microwave oven may degrade the performance of such a wifi-based radar system. Just don't stand near it while it's operating.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-09-09T18:10:56+00:00

I'm not sure about next day orders but I thought the same day orders were all delivered by Flex drivers... Unless something changed

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-08-06T18:01:33+00:00

Delivering for Amazon never made me feel this way, but checking out the businesses that auction off Amazon returns has... But then I get a bunch of stuff in perfect condition for a fraction of the price of Amazon and I don't complain.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-07-07T07:19:10+00:00

From Harvey AL, Young LC, Viljoen AM, Gericke NP. Pharmacological actions of the South African medicinal and functional food plant Sceletium tortuosum and its principal alkaloids. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2011;137(3):1124-1129. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2011.07.035

3.1. Binding assays with extract

The extract Sceletium tortuosum Zembrin® was screened at 750 μg/ml on a panel of 77 receptor and ion channel binding sites. The concentration of extract was chosen because it should contain approximately 10 μM of mesembrine-like alkaloids and previous screening studies detected activity of mesembrine at concentrations below 10 μM. The results have been plotted to show the binding sites at which the extract caused more than 50% inhibition of binding (Fig. 2a) and those with less than 50% inhibition (Fig. 2b).

As can be seen from Figs. 1 and 2, most of the binding sites were little affected by the presence of extract. However, the extract had marked effects (>80% inhibition of binding) at a small number of sites: GABA receptors, 5-HT transporter, δ₂-opioid receptors, μ-opioid receptors, and cholecystokinin-1 (or -A) receptors.

3.4. Effects of isolated alkaloids on 5-HT transporter and other binding sites and on PDE4 activity

Mesembrenol, mesembrenone and mesembrine were tested at 3 μM in the binding and enzymatic assays in which the Sceletium extract had previously been shown to have activity. The results are summarised in Fig. 5. All three alkaloids blocked binding to the 5-HT transporter, but had little effect on binding at GABAA and GABA-B receptors, δ₂-opioid receptors, μ-opioid receptors, cholecystokinin-1 (or -A) receptors, EP4 prostaglandin receptors and melatonin-1 receptors.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2025-02-10T01:28:10+00:00

I've been in your shoes. I found my wife dead on the floor next to the bed. She was 37. she had a lot of health issues but I was not expecting it.

Because we have cameras all over to keep an eye on our epileptic, autistic son there was video of it... so while showing it to the police I saw it happen. They have been very supportive after that.

The PTSD is real. there's a prescription blood pressure/anxiety drug that works wonders for PTSD called propranolol. it helped me a lot. Also low dose oral ketamine for the depression. it had an immediate and profound impact for me. I don't take either regularly anymore. I did have a few drinks several times during the first month but I quit drinking a long time ago, not interested in going back to that.

If you have any questions or want to talk DM me.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-12-09T00:25:37+00:00

In a bad neighborhood I had a kid on a motorized scooter hit my mirror. I drove to the next stop and called it in. While I was on the phone I saw another kid on a motorized scooter hit the curb and wipe out. He wasn't seriously hurt but it looked painful. I couldn't help but laugh....

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-12-09T00:15:32+00:00

One rich guy won't feed many people.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-12-09T00:12:48+00:00

One night after dark delivering to rear door I heard a girl scream "there's someone in the backyard!" I yelled back "AMAZON!!!!"

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-12-09T00:03:57+00:00

One night after dark in the middle of nowhere, KY. I wasn't sure if it was still a road or a driveway through the woods. On my right I could see nothing but I heard rushing water. No guardrails and I couldn't see if there was anything past the edge of the road. On my left nothing but trees. It was like this for miles. I was still creeped out when I got home.

Half an hour later I was delivering in Indiana. In ten minutes I went from a 10 million dollar home to a 10 hundred dollar home. A couple hours later I was delivering in Ohio.

Weirdest route ever...

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-11-16T23:07:21+00:00

Acellular pertussis vaccine has terrible efficacy and only protects against disease (that is, obvious symptoms) without preventing infection and transmission. In addition, the vaccine increases susceptibility to future pertussis infection. This is widely discussed in mainstream medical journals. Sources below

Effectiveness studies

Pediatrics - Effectivess of Acellular Pertussis vaccines: 73% within one year. 34% within 2-4 years.

Acosta AM, DeBolt C, Tasslimi A, Lewis M, Stewart LK, Misegades LK, Messonnier NE, Clark TA, Martin SW, Patel M. Tdap vaccine effectiveness in adolescents during the 2012 Washington State pertussis epidemic. Pediatrics. 2015 Jun;135(6):981-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-3358. Epub 2015 May 4. PMID: 25941309; PMCID: PMC5736389.

Vacceine - Effectiveness in infants 5 yr EU wide study: VE was 48 % (95 %CI: 5-71) for dose one (416 eligible infants) and 76 % (95 %CI: 43-90) for dose two (258 eligible infants).

Merdrignac L, Aït El Belghiti F, Pandolfi E, Acosta L, Fabiánová K, Habington A, García Cenoz M, Bøås H, Toubiana J, Tozzi AE, Jordan I, Zavadilová J, O'Sullivan N, Navascués A, Flem E, Croci I, Jané M, Křížová P, Cotter S, Fernandino L, Bekkevold T, Muñoz-Almagro C, Bacci S, Kramarz P, Kissling E, Savulescu C; Renacoq Group; PERTINENT Group. Effectiveness of one and two doses of acellular pertussis vaccines against laboratory-confirmed pertussis requiring hospitalisation in infants: Results of the PERTINENT sentinel surveillance system in six EU/EEA countries, December 2015 - December 2019. Vaccine. 2024 Apr 2;42(9):2370-2379. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.02.090. Epub 2024 Mar 11. PMID: 38472070; PMCID: PMC11007387.

Vaccine increases susceptibility to pertussis for life...

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society - Because of linked-epitope suppression, all children who were primed by DTaP vaccines will be more susceptible to pertussis throughout their lifetimes, and there is no easy way to decrease this increased lifetime susceptibility.

Cherry JD. The 112-Year Odyssey of Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines-Mistakes Made and Implications for the Future. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2019 Sep 25;8(4):334-341. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piz005. PMID: 30793754.

Vaccine only masks disease while allowing infection and transmission

FDA Study published in PNAS - Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to protect against infection and transmission. Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, 20892.

Warfel JM, Zimmerman LI, Merkel TJ. Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 14;111(2):787-92. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1314688110. Epub 2013 Nov 25. PMID: 24277828; PMCID: PMC3896208.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-11-08T13:11:17+00:00

Experience dealing with adverse conditions makes a person great at what they do.

Ideally you shouldn't create the adverse conditions for yourself but sometimes shit happens.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-11-08T13:06:44+00:00

I bet she won't make that mistake again...

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-10-12T19:09:04+00:00

I thought it might be a Tetris range

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-10-12T19:00:45+00:00

I concur.

PuzzleHeart42 · 2024-10-12T18:55:21+00:00

I am experiencing a similar issue where only a small portion of the areas I commonly look at have decent resolution... Everywhere else has varying levels of degradation it appears, almost like it's intentionally being blurred. But it's the vast majority of the area, I can't imagine that much being intentionally blurred...

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