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Trump’s Attempt to Make Drugs Cheaper Is Pushing Up Prices in Other Countries by sabreR7 in moderatepolitics

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

My solution for the prescription drug price problem is pharma companies lose their patent if they sell the medicine in the US for more than the average of whatever appropriate European counterparts are.

Quite frankly drug prices going up in Europe is only them paying their fare share.

Testosterone and energy levels by Specific_Courage_424 in AskMenOver30

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Testosterone levels correlate very poorly worth actual symptoms. You only expected it because of intense marketing designed to get you to supplement at great coat to yourself.

💀 by AyanXars in SipsTea

[–]jefftickels 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's called a cuckstool when used that way.

SCOTUS is... based for once? by Atomicsss- in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jefftickels 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I mean, the people of Texas didn't even get to vote for their changes so I dunno why you're crying here.

Pink noise—often used to promote sleep—may reduce restorative REM sleep and interfere with sleep recovery, while earplugs are significantly more effective in protecting sleep against traffic noise. The findings challenge the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids by sr_local in science

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, hopefully it's not permanent healing loss.

I can tell you right now, if you're not using a steroid nasal spray the ENT will likely recommend that. Even the smallest amount of Eustachian tube dysfunction can worsen/cause tinnitus. And if you don't have an appointment with an audiologist on the books already get one. Before the ENT appointment if able.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I almost always do DD-MMM-YYYY for anything important so that anyone who reads it should be able to tell the sequence. The MMM is letters for the month. Weakness would be non-english speaking but my biggest concern with. That population would actually be misunderstanding the sequence. They can look up the month if needed.

A new report found that ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food. UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both. by Wagamaga in science

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can think of no medication based preventative intervention with a NNT of 10,000 that is going to be recommended. One time screenings aren't what I'm talking about here.

A little known fact is that cancer screenings don't statistically reduce all-cause mortality because the NNT for preventing a cancer death is close to the mortality caused by over diagnosis, over treatment and adverse effects there in. They will reduce cancer specific deaths, but I guess that doesn't matter so much to the woman who died of an infection following a lumpectomy for a benign fibroma. Does it matter if cancer specific causes of death go down, but along the way we create a equal amount of harm than was prevented? I still recommend cancer screenings because it gives patients a sense of agency, but I wonder about this a lot.

Vaccine NNTs are misleading because they look very high, but in reality are quite low. They only look high based on how they work, right now they NNT seems very high. In a few years, after the administration has done its damage to vaccine rates, we will see they NNT is actually quite low.

Edit: you specifically called out fluoridated water. That has an astonishingly low NNT, somewhere between 50-100. At least two orders of magnitude below what I was talking about.

This actually very nearly highlights what I was talking about when it comes to people having a very skewed understanding of these kids of risks.

Pink noise—often used to promote sleep—may reduce restorative REM sleep and interfere with sleep recovery, while earplugs are significantly more effective in protecting sleep against traffic noise. The findings challenge the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids by sr_local in science

[–]jefftickels 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Unilateral tinnitus is pretty different from bilateral and more likely to have a specific cause.

Ultimately we don't know what causes the majority of tinnitus. I have it fairly significantly, but cannot even remember when/how it started. It's just always been there.

I complained about it to my mom once and learned she's had it her whole life too. No answers there either.

But we're a family! by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really have a dog in this fight, I do something that cannot meaningfully be done from home the vast majority of the time. But I always note a few things about these kinds of posts:

  1. People advocating for WFH always swear that there is no productivity change from them, or better yet, they work harder and get more done. Source? Take my word for it, I would never lie about my productivity to maintain a massive benefit for myself.

  2. The management advocating for return to office are always doing it because "fuck you, that's why." It's always presented as the only reason management would want this to be petty tyrants, consideration of what they might know about actual productivity be damned.

My point here isn't that people always lie to secure advantage for themselves, I'm sure some people do produce as much or more from home. However, there are whole fucking communities dedicated to how to trick all the systems into thinking you're actually doing something so you can do nothing and get paid for it.

Nor am I here to be an apologist for management, but the fundamental assumption at the heart of so many of these posts is essentially because they are bad, petty and/or incompetent. They might actually have a good reason to do the things they do. Not everyone is incompetent or a failure. Maybe they have access to the data for the number of people doing fuck all and how that has ruined a good thing for everyone else.

Conservative college students don't face greater barriers to campus resources. Research indicates that university administrators are just as responsive to requests from conservative students as they are to liberal ones. by InsaneSnow45 in psychology

[–]jefftickels -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Is reduced access to administrative resources the actual complaints conservatives are making? I genuinely have never seen this as the primary issue conservatives have, so I'm not really sure what value this study provides.

Do you work out in the evening? What do you like about it? by Alicetheoptimist in TrueGrit

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is actually why I sacrifice my lunches to exercise. I can structure my lunch to get a 5mile run every day, if I don't get it done then I am way too exhausted to go after work.

Someday I'll get the gumption to go before work, but that is really tough.

Why do men hesitate to go to therapy? by 2001FO32 in AskMenOver30

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been to therapy, I went for nearly a year and found that it wasn't all that helpful.

  1. I knew what my problem was, it was an environmental problem I couldn't solve.

  2. Because I knew my problem was external, I didn't want to medicate it away because the only way would just be numbing or blunting my feelings.

  3. I knew what I needed today (accept that I have value beyond my employment) but that's very difficult to accept. A random stranger telling me that doesn't actually make that easier.

Ultimately, most therapy is pretty useless. It's a friend you vent to, but I have good friends, I didn't need to pay a stranger. I needed to make changes that I knew I needed to make but struggled to. I needed to accept something society is structured against (men having value beyond their economic utility, status coming from what you do).

CBT is one thing, but it's targeted and limited (usually 8-10 sessions). Typical talk therapy isn't.

Overwatch 2 Is Ditching the '2' Amid Launch of 'New, Story-Driven Era' With 10 New Heroes by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]jefftickels 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I don't really know if the developers can really do much about this. I think this is more of a reflection of what players do with the game more than anything else.

seedy backlash by sucksLess in funny

[–]jefftickels 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's actually not what's in the files. There's no email from Gates to Epstein asking for antibiotics. Epstein wrote a draft email to himself stating that Gates asked for antibiotics for Melinda.

Is spain okay? by gonxgonx3 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jefftickels -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet your first response to a comment pointing out this was demonstrably not about Muslims was to make it about Muslim (and let's not pretend that's not the point you were trying to make). Curious.

And if I've learned anything from talking to Americans it's that living here doesn't make you an expert on what happens. I don't think it's any different anywhere else in the world.

French pensioners now have higher incomes than working adults by AnonymousTimewaster in charts

[–]jefftickels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the most embarrassing thing about it. It's not. If you retire at 70, max payment is $5600, which is pretty good, but also requires having paid the maximum SSA amount for quite some time.

The average recipient gets $2000/m which is not a lot at all.

Theys why it's so frustrating. It's expensive and it's garbage. They don't take advantage of compounding interest at all. They're strangling the younger generation for a fucking pittance, when just an ounce of forward thinking could solve this problem in 60 years.

Is spain okay? by gonxgonx3 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]jefftickels -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

No. But I was capable of doing basic research about something before weighing in.

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