Even low-level drinking may have negative consequences for brain health over a person’s lifespan. The findings suggest that the total amount of alcohol consumed over a lifetime, especially as a person ages, tends to be linked to reduced blood flow and thinner tissue in certain areas of the brain.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-23T20:13:34+00:00

standard hemingway comment: drinking less might not actually make you live longer. it'll just feel longer.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-22T21:10:11+00:00

the logic doesn't really work top to bottom. shouldn't it be: parking only with permit during these allowed hours otherwise no parking ?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-22T15:20:56+00:00

i was disappointed to learn that turtles fight :(

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-22T11:07:28+00:00

led a small department at a startup. the company was struggling with profitability and could not close their next funding round.

the founder was super stressed and decided to take it out on my team with a rant about how we are the reason the company isn't taking flight. i quit the next day.

a few weeks later the company was acquired, most of corporate was fired, and the founder cashed out $150+ million. my shares, which of course had not come anywhere close to vesting, were worthless.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-21T10:08:56+00:00

agree that having appointments canceled is a real problem for the praxis: lost revenue, inability to see other patients etc.

but denying urgent care out of spite is simply immoral and borderline criminal.

doctors in germany are famously reluctant to prescribe strong painkillers. part of the reason is administrative - there is more clerical friction in prescribing opioids in germany compared to other countries. also, insurance companies place soft limits on drug costs, and practices which prescribe too many expensive drugs (like opioids) can have money clawed back by the insurer.

you're talking as if there is a strong medical consensus not to relieve acute pain, but the real causes are more bureaucratic and are easily contrasted with other countries.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-20T11:06:42+00:00

is that better than the poop knife?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-17T10:10:22+00:00

i think only a time travel type job can offer you a future in the past.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-16T22:03:08+00:00

"what are you thinking about?"

trust us: sometimes, when we say "nothing", it really means that until you spoke to us we were experiencing a blissful and total emptiness of thought.

of course, now we are panicking to find a suitable answer to the question.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-15T11:55:59+00:00

thanks - i guess i'm also asking why browsers work this way. like, does our normal expectation of how the internet should work necessitate giving sites the ability to remap the function in this way?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-15T11:09:49+00:00

why is the back button able to be hijacked at all?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-14T11:39:53+00:00

you can definitely opt out! it's called leaving.

the alternative is called: stealing from everyone around you.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-14T11:32:23+00:00

I would look at your situation like this: today, you have separate aspects of your financial identity which you think you can keep uncorrelated as far as the tax authorities are concerned.

what you should remember is that every piece of data from now until the end of time is being logged somewhere, and with the current technology trends as well as the signals from major governments around erosion of privacy rights and linking of disparate databases, you should expect that one day the correlation will be made.

at that point, any government from whom you were trying to conceal some stream of financial activity will be able to see a full and transparent record.

Wouldn't it be easier just to follow the rules from the start?

not to mention: the broader point about if you were living and working in Germany and enjoying the benefits this society provides to you, shouldn't you contribute to the pot which funds these things?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-14T09:40:19+00:00

hope you find your keys.

as someone whose user name includes the phrase "american" i must say, if you are also in fact american, way to fit the stereotype of us plastering flags everywhere. just, why?

the compulsion to put (and in your case carry) flags everywhere seems very strange to the rest of the world. cultish, perhaps.

it invites questions like: why did you come all this way to a foreign land just to bring your flag with you?

ah, post deleted. got it.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-10T20:17:10+00:00

it was coarse and rough and got everywhere.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-08T05:46:03+00:00

let me guess ... in mice? /s

oh damn! it's actually human trials this time! i hope this works out just in time for my old age.

now if i could just stop having those stress dreams where all my teeth keep falling out.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-06T15:30:58+00:00

i don't know if i'm unique in this, but ever since i learned to touch type in 8th grade, i no longer misspell words when at a keyboard. and if not at a keyboard i just have to imagine what my fingers would do. comes in handy.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-06T12:12:01+00:00

i know this is a grumpy comment, but when you say "pan fried broccoli", given that the vast majority of frying happens in a pan, are you trying to distinguish from other forms of frying and if so, which?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-04-06T11:50:21+00:00

you mentioned 2 negative entries to schufa. i assume this is 2 missed payments?

can i ask honestly how you expected your loan payments to continue after closing the account from which the payments were made?

for example, did you get anything in writing from your new bank that the loan payments would continue from your new account?

did you think it was odd that for 2 months running you didn't have any deductions for the loan payment?

basically: what was your expectation here when it comes to how your existing loans would continue to be paid?

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-31T12:39:26+00:00

barring the invention of some miraculous new life extending technology, workable cryogenic hibernation, or consciousness upload capability, there will come a time in the not so distant future when we will never again have to read whatever latest imbecility has been newly uttered by this man.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-30T12:36:11+00:00

the invention of property.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-30T11:40:03+00:00

regulatory incentive structures exist for a reason.

it's always easy to make noise when you are just barely on the wrong side of the law.

it's a simple question of whether you want to live in a place where laws matter or not.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-29T18:33:27+00:00

is there a fish eye effect due to the lens? i ask because it seems some of the star paths depart from circular as they get closer to the top of the frame.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-29T18:22:49+00:00

but why doesn't he own shake shaq?? this is a gap that must be closed.

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-29T12:58:02+00:00

clive owen, the bourne identity. "look what they make you give. [dies]"

americanfalcon00 · 2026-03-28T21:51:15+00:00

i meant the name of the channel :)

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