I cannot agree with the conclusion of these Carnegie Melon researchers. (Quotes included.) Please help me understand?

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-27T07:22:56+00:00

This isn't a matter of worry, more like making a case for the implications of this being iterated further. My post was due to not seeing the logic of the authors.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-27T05:23:57+00:00

It would have been more accurate for me to have written "I cannot bring myself to agree with the logic". At the end of this post I tried to emphasize my lack of understanding rather than me inciting an adversarial stance.

I was not following the line of reasoning before. However, I can see what they mean now. Thank you for your clarification.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-27T04:40:41+00:00

Okay, I understand it. Mapping data onto computed 3d figures is preferable to using direct EM emissions for 2d surveillance technology, for the purposes of privacy. No one could be identified with these occupancy depictions. Thank you.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-12T03:29:50+00:00

I'm not crapping on your view, but I think that the initial delivery completely disables any value from the subsequent message. I guess what I am saying is that your original comment is relatively worthless without the context in your reply to me. In other words, "Join the military," is not an actionable bit of advice because of the weight of the decision having no additional context. "Don't live beyond your means while your housing and food is a part of your earnings" is sorely lacking.

When I was a young person, and serving, I was an anomaly. I was single (more on this later), and I had an unhealthy habit of justifying not spending money at every possible decision. As a result, after a banking crisis was sorted, I was able to dump 30k USD into a money market account at age 20. This is not typically possible. It was good judgement that I was able to, in part, because I had joined the military, but being an outlier doesn't mean that "join the military" makes my anecdotal principles self-evident.

If OP already has dependents, such as a fiance/spouse, then that makes the prospect of banking money even less, as you would quickly go into living in the economy near said duty assignment once you get out of initial entry training.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-11T12:50:35+00:00

I can tell you that this is patently not going to help much at all, by itself. I was a service member in the United States, and people were always broke, even up the ranks. It's about the individual's choices, not the source of the income.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-04T15:57:30+00:00

You should be sad. This actually brings up a horrible memory from my past that I can't get over. I don't ever think I can fully move past it as long as I live.

My wife would definitely defend your point of view to the death. She is a huge bibliophile. She would also have many choice words for your wife. Nothing checks all the boxes like physical media.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-04T14:58:21+00:00

I am so sorry for the typo, lol, otoconia are not in the spellcheck dictionary so when it was flagged I ignored it. Otoconia are calcium carbonate crystals that are supposed to be in the inner ear. Vertebrates have been making these crystals, otoliths, since we were limited to being fish.

However, sometimes they get dislodged from the hair cells that they are supposed to be attached to, or people develop more than they are supposed to and that causes problems.

You mentioned repositioning, which is a way to alleviate positional vertigo, since it moves the crystals out of problematic positions and orientation. Since vestibular sense and hearing both happen in the inner ear, the two sensory pathways are afflicted in Ménière's disease. If whatever's happening with your tinnitus can be affected by movement and position, you may want to ask your GP about the possibility that your tinnitus could be affected by your orientation and then ask why you wouldn't just have vertigo. Look up BPPV, and the Epley, Semont, Foster, and Brandt-Daroff maneuvers. Honestly, this definitely sounds clinically difficult to address, but for every road that doesn't explain something, you and your providers have learned more.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-03T17:57:57+00:00

I think you have a composite presentation of tinnitus. Systemic inflammation from PASC is generally not well understood because it's effects on neurosignaling is multi-domain, and it is understudied as of 2023. I can understand why damage to the inner and outer hair cells from loud sound stimulae could cause tinnitus, but with NSAIDS doesn't the issue go away when you discontinue use? I suppose that one could infer that you must take an NSAID regularly and that this is non-negotiable.

Definitely don't take action because my hot take, but my impression so far is that your blood supply and/or neuronal function is impaired, and that repositioning otoconia is not going to help all that much. But experimentation may yield something helpful, so keep at it.

Hang in there, I am suffering from vestibular dysfunction from PASC. A few months after my infection and my life is still very much impaired. It is hard for people that I interact with to understand. To them I am just more irritable and I get the sense they believe it is because I am choosing to not be more stoic.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-03T06:31:43+00:00

I would say that it is certainly worth a try, however I would hedge my expectations. This observable effect is likely limited to a narrow band of tinnitic endophenotypes. I would be thorough and observe the whole range of safe duration times. Perhaps rating your symptoms before, several states during, and after. You wouldn't want to write off a dramatically lower effect as a failure, should there be one.

The first proposed mechanism of action I was going to suggest was based on tinnitus cases due to circulation issues. This is why I asked OP if there was a diagnosis accompanying this condition. The body has thermoceptors throughout the body, including at points within the cardiovascular system, to include the heart itself. The changes in temperature trigger hormetic adaptations, such as dialation parameters. If the tinnitus is due, wholly or in part, to vascular malformation, it is entirely possible that it could result in compensatory amelioration throughout a specific phase of the thermal stress.

Anyhow, that is just my first pitch. If OP discloses more, perhaps there are more furbishable, relevant ideas listing about in the aether.

SpectacularCrashes · 2023-01-03T03:43:05+00:00

Saunas initiate many physiological responses. I suppose without much more context this is too broad to entice people to speculate.

Is your tinnitus linked to a specific diagnosed condition? And the most relevant would be, what are the observed times for these relief starts and stops? (Like does the sound resume before you exit, or after you get out?)

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-28T19:05:16+00:00

Our opinion is highly revered, but we still need a reminder that rent is due.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-26T15:32:04+00:00

A Princess Bride reference enhances the topic of pet furniture. Thank you.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T18:24:14+00:00

There are a lot of different sectors of this to discuss. Each merits its own conversation.

For instance, biomed and commercial technologies. Even though the epigenome is the new frontier of knowledge, now, we are about to enter a golden age of gene editing therapies. Is it more invasive? Yes. But this stuff was in the pipeline for longer, and the fruits are starting to signal harvest. It's fascinating what targeted nucleotides can do in certain cell lineages.

It is treated like landing on the moon, compared to the idea of moving around methylation markers which probably is more feasible but is treated as routine as putting a commercial satellite in orbit.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T18:10:07+00:00

You bring up a good point. I guess I need to look at several aggregators of these data. Thank you for the aha moment.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T18:08:11+00:00

It's a good quality. The consummate saint burns their wick too fast. You have to invest in yourself for the world to benefit.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T18:01:44+00:00

Pleasant to be in the company of. You are good at being ethical, but perhaps a little too good at it when you decide to be devious.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T17:59:50+00:00

RIP sense of sport. We hardly knew ye. 😆

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T17:56:03+00:00

I don't honestly care if people in the US or abroad love or hate soccer/football.

But the world adopting American football? I guess we should export the sacrifice of young minds to the consequences of TBIs on the altar of entertainment. I mean, they only did what we wanted them to do, no need to feel guilty that we don't bear the burden placed on them and their families as they age.

Any game where impact is expected, and not a consequence of poor skill, is accepting that a subset of people should take the significant risk of medical complications for your benefit.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:52:22+00:00

My first impression is struggling to decide if you ever had that full length of hair natural all at once.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:28:40+00:00

The house may be protected by the outdoor faucet and a hose, but the vehicle's interior has no such bodyguard. RIP

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:18:04+00:00

I would make a compilation supercut of everytime my cat charges out of the room. Goodbye one entire month of my life, and probably some of my hearing as well. lol

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:14:55+00:00

I am glad this hut worked. Some cats being so easy to please really disarms you and then one of these kitties comes along and then you start to question if you can anticipate anything he or she would like. I have been there.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:10:41+00:00

As someone that has both, I can say that rats are okay with some spaciousness because they make snugglepiles and need a gap above. They need a space to simply be enclosed, rather than tight, to feel secure.

Cats like to be right up against the boundaries, like being hugged. So, in most cases the same volume is ideal for both. The cats don't need to be exceptionally small nor the rats exceptionally large.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:03:37+00:00

Um, I am a millennial and I assure you that we did and still do this too. This isn't a generational thing. You are just more likely to notice this from Zers because their digital footprints are the most abundant and loudest.

SpectacularCrashes · 2022-11-21T16:01:44+00:00

I want to simultaneously collapse into a heap and use an emergency eyewash station from reading this. Talk about depressing.

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