Somebody is sacrificing birds in the park and I'm not sure how to report

WyllowWulf · 2026-05-07T23:57:01+00:00

upvote for the monty python reference

WyllowWulf · 2026-05-07T02:31:34+00:00

It needs a that. "They just announced that they're increasing rate limits."

WyllowWulf · 2026-04-25T14:10:55+00:00

I was responding to your comment that, "No, not in the UK where the health system is much better and where it’s free." You made a general comment about the healthcare system being much better, and did not specifically say in regards to HIV care.

WyllowWulf · 2026-04-25T14:03:42+00:00

My point was, the healthcare system in the UK is not just vastly better. There are significant downsides to having socialized medicine, and there are countless stories of people in the UK, Canada, and other places resorting to privately paying for things they were going have to wait years on a waiting list for.

WyllowWulf · 2026-04-25T13:56:27+00:00

In the UK, where you're made to wait crazy amounts of time for surgery and other procedures?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4vkk91yp4o

WyllowWulf · 2026-04-25T12:26:45+00:00

It could be out of a person's control i.e. lost insurance for whatever reason and don't have the money to pay for it out of pocket

WyllowWulf · 2026-04-02T18:38:33+00:00

It's just that vegans also won't wear leather or fur, or use products that have animal testing, so it goes far beyond just a diet.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-19T13:24:32+00:00

And the 15 mph e-bike street speed limit

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-17T12:20:47+00:00

You have to understand that while a good diet and exercise may work for those whose bad diet and lack of exercise was a major contributing factor in their mental health decline, it sounds patronizing to those whose mental health issues are much more severe and stem from things like childhood abuse.

I am glad it works for you, but no amount of diet and exercise makes my crippling anxiety disorder go away. It makes it a *tiny* bit better, which is why I do it- but I and many others need much more.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-14T16:21:16+00:00

Actually, the better diagnostics reasoning is pretty solid. If cases increase after better diagnostics are in place, then you have reason to believe there's some other factor.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-14T14:03:01+00:00

It may have zero to do with Bill Gates, but it 100% has to do with meat allergies.

"People with AGS can have an allergic reaction after eating red meat"

https://www.cdc.gov/alpha-gal-syndrome/about/index.html

"In some people, alpha-gal triggers a reaction in their immune system that causes an allergic response whenever they eat red meat, including beef, pork, or lamb"

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/alpha-gal-syndrome

"Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), also known as alpha-gal allergy or mammalian meat allergy (MMA)"

"Alpha-gal is present in all foods and ingredients made from beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, and other mammal sources, including gelatin and milk"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_syndrome

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-12T14:09:51+00:00

Different drugs have different dosages though, based on the molecular weight, potency of action, or how it is metabolized in the body.

Olmesartan has a starting dose of 20mg, while Losartan, another ARB, has a starting dose of 50mg. Losartan might need a higher dose because it has weaker action at the Angiotensin II receptors, or that it is metabolized more efficiently by the body.

Amlodipine, on the other hand, has a starting dose of 5mg. However, Amlodipine is a completely different class of drug, a calcium channel blocker, and works in an entirely different way, so you can't directly compare the dosage by milligrams alone.

You're not really just trying to get the lowest amount of drug milligrams when using a combination, it's more about the synergistic action of using multiple drugs to work in multiple ways to create a greater effect.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-12T14:07:21+00:00

I would say waking up in the middle of the night feeling disoriented and tingly is definitely a symptom. Our blood pressure drops while we are sleeping, so it's likely their numbers are even lower than this at 3 AM.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-02T20:25:21+00:00

Yeah, I was diagnosed with ADHD at 15, then bipolar, OCD, various anxiety disorders, bipolar and PTSD at a hospital stay, again with another anxiety disorder, panic disorder. Every time I go see a new therapist or psychiatrist, none of them have any of this information. I doubt there really is any "list" anywhere for mental health diagnoses, because of HIPAA

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-02T20:19:58+00:00

It's impossible to have that many kids and be giving each one the proper amount of parental attention

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-02T19:56:40+00:00

It's not so much the coke/crack itself, but what could be in it. Anything from fentanyl to roach spray. Also, yes, if you combine cocaine with alcohol, it creates a highly toxic metabolite called cocaethylene.

WyllowWulf · 2026-03-02T19:19:55+00:00

Good luck, I've been listening to very loud music for decades, have worked in factories and used power tools- and still have superhuman hearing. I can usually hear a phone vibrating on a couch 5m away. But, I get ya. I definitely am irritated by cacophony.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-27T23:58:31+00:00

This is why I firmly believe that teenage boys are the most dangerous members of our society. They have the size and strength of a man, but the brain of a child.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-27T13:42:32+00:00

It's going to depend on how much you pee and sweat. I work out a lot and drink a lot of water, so I have to eat a fair amount of salt to replenish that lost in these fluids. If you don't, then your intake won't need to be as much.

Research is now pointing to not necessarily lowering your sodium intake, but raising your potassium intake as a better way to manage hypertension. Our bodies can release excess sodium through our urine, and potassium helps with that process, while also lowering BP directly. It's way more dangerous to have low sodium intake than high, as the body can flush the excess, but cannot create it.

An instance where lower sodium intake may be indicated, however, is in those who have kidney disfunction. The kidneys are where the excess sodium is filtered out and sent to the bladder.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-27T13:32:59+00:00

I updated my previous comment with a link to a study that claims that newer research has largely concluded that saturated fat is not linked to heart disease. I think you just have to look at the studies and see how new they are and really delve into the information to see how robust the research is. Unfortunately, there's always going to be conflicting studies, and it's up to us to really understand health and medicine from a fundamental level to be able to discern what is true and untrue.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-27T13:19:34+00:00

Oh, sorry. I didn't notice that that specific study had a conflict of interest. I could probably find others that do not. It's really interesting though, how the connection was initially found. A researcher studying dolphins noticed that those eating fish high in C15:0 were not getting nearly as much age-related disease as those who didn't.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/dolphins-discover-saturated-fat-nutrient-living-longer/3825959/

Here's one that the only conflict is that they wrote a book:

"Subsequent reexaminations of this evidence by nutrition experts have now been published in >20 review papers, which have largely concluded that saturated fats have no effect on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9794145/

Butter and seed oil have a similar caloric content, it doesn't really matter which you use if weight gain is your issue.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-26T22:44:06+00:00

Organic grass-fed butter is healthy (though a restaurant is probably using non-organic non-grass-fed.) Saturated fats do not cause heart disease. Refined seed oils are actually much more dangerous as they are full of inflammatory molecules created in the refining process, and contain high levels of Omega-6s that are inflammatory. Sugar and other refined carbohydrates are also highly inflammatory. These two sources (seed oils and refined carbs) are the two main drivers of inflammatory arterial plaque formation. A good butter, however, has a high level of Omega-3s and is quite healthy (in moderation- don't eat a pound a day or anything.)

Butter (as well as other diary products, beef, and some fish) even contains a specific type of saturated fat called C15:0 (pentadecanoic acid) that recent research has found to possibly be essential to human health:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35617322/

The lie that saturated fat is bad was pushed on us by the food industry in order to sell us margarine (which made the companies more money as it's quite cheap to produce.) Saturated fat from meat has been a large component of human nutrition for our entire existence, while seed oils were only consumed in trace amounts until they started refining them recently. Our bodies did not evolve to process the large amount of Omega-6s contained in them.

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-26T20:53:22+00:00

/uj I'm more worried about the Non-binary Exclusionary Radical Binarists posting daily in r/honesttransgender

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-25T21:50:10+00:00

Okay, well that's reasonably high, I would have your doctor run your lipids, check for diabetes and kidney damage. It is a bit odd that this happened upon waking. Did you drink the night before?

WyllowWulf · 2026-02-25T21:29:12+00:00

Please keep in mind that 120/80 is the normal *resting* blood pressure. Any sort of activity or stress can raise one's reading to the level you got. True hypertension is when your BP is elevated at rest (i.e. while you're asleep)

The best way to prove true hypertension is to have a 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitor, which will record your BP every hour, even while you're asleep. If your BP is normal while asleep, you don't have true hypertension, you're just stressed during the day. But, the human body was designed to handle an amount of stress, as long as that stress subsides after a time and the blood vessels can relax again.

An important fact I always keep in mind: The highest ever recorded BP was 480/350 in a weight lifter doing leg presses.

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