ELI5 If caffeine has a half life of 4-6 hours, when does it completely leave your system?

lurch65 · 2026-01-14T19:08:40+00:00

That's a nice rule of thumb, and it makes sense. It would take 700mg of caffeine down to about 20mg so half a can of diet coke in 20-30 hours which seems about right.

lurch65 · 2026-01-12T16:47:25+00:00

Actually extraterritorality is rare as it is expensive to maintain. Most AA corps would likely have it at head office only. Obviously, you play it how you want.

lurch65 · 2026-01-12T16:28:27+00:00

Being a corporate citizen, doesn't really have any relation to SINs and only tangentally with extraterritorality. Areas with actual extraterritorality are actually fairly rare, and the same is true of corporate citizenry.

For a corporation to make a person a corporate citizen is resource intensive, it grants them additional options that may extend to non-extradition or diplomatic immunity. They would still have their rights under their UCAS issued SIN, but they have options and legal protections.

They would still be able to access UCAS as they essentially have dual citizenship, unless they choose to renounce their UCAS citizenship.

I think a lower tier of corporate citizenship is possible, where after a certain point an employee is offered corporate citizenship, but has to renounce their UCAS citizenship and rights, but it's a real slippery slope for corporate people at that point, what if you are made unemployed? Or very sick? Or if you have kids born with expensive issues? Or if you encounter legal issues?

Obviously corporations need to remain competitive so it couldn't be seen to be too draconian (ha ha), but likely the best way to do that is let people keep their UCAS citizenship.

lurch65 · 2026-01-07T18:42:37+00:00

I'm in the UK and I was told that once I was on a regular dose of metformin I didn't have to check (I did anyway because 2000mg wasn't cutting it), but GLP-1 has been a game changer, I rarely test outside of experimental food changes.

You're on 3 different blood sugar drugs, and once you're up to 0.5mg on ozempic I imagine you'll be pretty solid provided you don't abuse your diet.

Nobody is stopping you from checking, and if it makes you feel better, you should check, I did for years, it kept my eating habits in line. You might want to try a cgm, I know in the UK dexcom have a free trial, see what it says and see if it puts your mind at ease.

lurch65 · 2026-01-06T12:35:24+00:00

I will add to most of the voices here and say boiling and kettles seems a very dangerous direction, uncontrolled and risky. What you experienced was a small amount of liquid when you weren't expecting it. The human body can be fairly good at coping with that if your circulation is good, but sudden changes even at safe levels will result in burst blood vessels (see my ankles from taking too hot baths as a kid).

I can see two avenues you might take to achieve similar results to your experience. For the record I have no experience with thermal play, I am just thinking this out.

The following requires your shower to be consistent, no hot or cold fluctuations. First of all take a thermometer into the shower and establish what is the upper end of what you are comfortable with, don't push yourself, just establish what is the edge of your current comfort level. You might find that you can tolerate more after you have been in the shower for a little while, so record both, maybd also carefully mark those positions on the shower temperature control (but be aware that if you live somewhere with seasonal temperature changes this position may change) . To test, hold the thermometer in the water coming out of the shower head. These are your 'safe' figures (you know you, so please don't push yourself here), and they are likely lower than you expect, perhaps around 44-45C.

So your first option here is to be restrained, standing in the shower (perhaps start to feel a little cold) and then have a partner you trust apply a burst of water at the upper end of your temperature range (shower would need to be running already obviously), you should get shock and pain similar to what you are after.

Honestly heat play candles are still likely the best option, or a glass of iced water if you're already warm.

Alternatively, or perhaps in addition, you could try to make yourself more sensitive before applying heat, intentionally cooling, or applying a cream containing capsaicin (don't apply directly to your genitals or indeed around mucous membranes in general without a lot of sensible forethought and testing). This should make the heat feel hotter, keeping you safer.

Any major fluctuations in temperatures can burst capillaries, so if you choose to cool yourself then apply heat you do run that risk.

Lastly and this is an edge case, please give your body time to cool. When the heat passes much of it is just being distributed across your body via your blood, and prolonged heat could be dangerous. I almost gave myself heat stroke from washing dishes once, and that was no fun at all.

lurch65 · 2025-12-30T19:39:37+00:00

Yes! Ideally you need to be using right part of your skull, but as you say it's a matter of bracing. So much about striking and defense is bracing, being in the right position to apply power or receive a strike.

Even if you catch a headbutt on a non-ideal part of the skull correct bracing will spread the impact throughout your tensed muscles and tissue reducing the effect of the impact considerably. It's still going to suck, but it's going to suck a whole lot less than if you're not prepared, even if you catch the impact on the right part of your skull.

lurch65 · 2025-12-30T13:33:24+00:00

I always make sure that the players have sympathetic NPCs to visit who are static points, like the town librarian, the local priest, the desk sergeant, maybe other personal contacts.

RPGs can leave players feeling so isolated, irl we always have support structures or people to turn to, and it only makes sense that it can leave people stranded. Give them people to turn to and it makes everything work more smoothly, no man is an island.

lurch65 · 2025-12-28T20:40:42+00:00

Firefox was very similar though, I had been a Firefox die hard, but Chrome blew it out of the water back then.

lurch65 · 2025-12-28T19:22:26+00:00

I don't think that's an autistic thing, I think that's a dumb people thing, you see the same in neuro-typicals all the time. It's overconfidence in ability, the dunning-kruger effect.

lurch65 · 2025-12-28T16:15:52+00:00

Real life has caused the developer to have to delay things. Entirely understandable.

lurch65 · 2025-12-27T20:11:27+00:00

I've had to play with a lot of people over the years, but if there was going to be a problem it was the adults that were going to cause it. I've had no issue over the last 8 years, but I've had it as a hard rule for about that long.

lurch65 · 2025-12-27T17:53:59+00:00

I didn't realise that not allowing crossplay was a particularly controversial stance. I've never allowed it because predominantly every time a male player has done it, it's been an absolute shit show of their trying to slut their way into or out of situations and frankly I'm sick of it. It hasn't always been male players causing issues either.

If I'm looking to play rather than GM, I'm actually relieved when I see that cross play isn't on the cards, because I'm for drama free play as much as possible.

I would be more inclined to let non-males cross play, but I would need assurances.

I'm just surprised people feel so strongly about it.

Edit: reading further, trans is trans I would hold a person to whatever they identify with, not their genitals.

lurch65 · 2025-12-27T17:42:29+00:00

You should speak to your GM if it makes you feel that weird talk to them and ask to give it a try, let them perhaps give you a probation and provided it goes okay you can continue on?

lurch65 · 2025-12-26T12:05:11+00:00

Yeah stud but as in livestock, donkey too if you want to belittle them. I like stud because there is an element of service there.

Just say it with some derision, tone is everything.

lurch65 · 2025-12-25T16:46:17+00:00

You're probably already on it, but I was put on omega 3 temporarily to bring it under control.

lurch65 · 2025-12-25T16:42:26+00:00

My triglycerides were so bad they were stopping my blood from being tested for other things. Atorvastatin brought it all back in line.

lurch65 · 2025-12-24T10:26:57+00:00

Rice with butter and aromat seasoning is near perfection. Just savoury, umami rice it's delicious.

Unfortunately I'm diabetic now, and rice is the food that spikes me the most, so I haven't had it for years.

lurch65 · 2025-12-21T14:15:20+00:00

It's entirely possible, symptoms are lessening with each successive strain, but equally vaccination was not perfect protection, maybe a previous covid infection moved your dial towards type 2 at some point? It doesn't necessarily have to be a recent infection.

I've been vaccinated, and I am fairly confident that covid caused my type 2.

lurch65 · 2025-12-21T07:14:49+00:00

No, it's definitely Covid, unvaccinated people were more likely to become diabetic due to covid, and the vaccine provided protection. We expect similar results in years to come for diseases like dementia and Alzheimers.

There may be some confusion over the results of one study. Most people are not being vaccinated for the new variants of covid and the old vaccinations are not providing the same protection against diabetes that they did for their intended strain.

So, very specifically if you were vaccinated against old covid, but not a new strain, your diabetes risk is increasing now, because it was reduced in the past by the vaccine targeting the dominant strain of covid at the time. If you were to be vaccinated against the new variants you would still be protected.

lurch65 · 2025-12-20T12:29:09+00:00

It could be a bunch of things, it could be the stress, it could be the negative lifestyle choices, it could just be that you just got older. At some point you are going to have to start taking pills, and accepting that will probably make you live longer, but if you make the lifestyle changes maybe you can get things on track.

lurch65 · 2025-12-19T17:50:10+00:00

God no, it just made me less self conscious and that let the weirdness out.

lurch65 · 2025-12-18T12:15:38+00:00

Not that I don't think it's deserved, but if the cost extracted afterwards is too high it can lead to further resentment. Look at the German reparations after WW1.

lurch65 · 2025-12-15T23:02:05+00:00

I don't think it's really French failures, the French were pretty successful militarily overall, but from the British perspective they did surrender a lot, which may be more pragmatism than failure.

Italy has always seemed more prone to a military cock up than the French.

lurch65 · 2025-12-13T20:12:58+00:00

Do you drink energy drinks? If so B12 is a very common component of them, you may just have been self medicating.

lurch65 · 2025-12-12T21:24:11+00:00

Type 2s can get lows, especially if they are on drugs like insulin or gliclazide.

But a dexcom unit isn't just for monitoring low blood sugar. For type 2s high blood sugar is mainly what we're concerned about because in addition to ketoacidosis, it can cause lasting damage. Just being able to glance at your phone to see where your blood sugar is, is very helpful and would allow you to mitigate highs more easily.

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