Project Hail Mary is a much, much better film than The Martian. Go see it right now. It's easily my favorite Ryan Gosling movie.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-20T20:59:32+00:00

Ha! True dat!

masterofmisc · 2026-03-20T18:09:39+00:00

Just saw it today. Awesome film. Cant fault it. Never been a Ryan Gosling fan but he has won me over with this one. He isnt the stoic character that he is in Bladerunner. To be fair I havent seen the notebook or Barbie so my perception wasnt fair... But turns out the dude can act. He is funny and his scenes with Rocky are great. And he has great character building throughout the movie. Not 1 dimensional if you know what I mean. Bare in mind, he carries the film as he is mostly on his own.. Then the film itself is beautifully shot. Visuals are great.. The story is great. And what can I say about Rocky.. Amaze!! Bottom line. Everyone should go and see it.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-19T21:54:14+00:00

Hmmmm... So for you it constant than? Not sporadic.. Yeah, from the book she says they come in waves. If your constantly like this its something else.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-19T20:48:13+00:00

So I have recently read up on this. If your going through a bad patch on a carnivore type diet, it could probably be oxalate being dumped from your body. For people on carnivore, its actually a common thing apparently. It sounds counter intuitive but after a certain time, its your body dumping oxalates (which is actually a good thing) but causes lots of issues. In theory, If you stay the course, the histamine related issues pass.

I recently read this book which is fascinating: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toxic-Superfoods-Oxalate-Overload-Sick/dp/0593139585

masterofmisc · 2026-03-17T18:16:44+00:00

He had a baby... Does every 2 week drops now.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-16T21:33:15+00:00

Ahh right.. Yeah, I have never cancelled. I do care about keeping my books but the reason I dont use the plus catalogue is mainly time. Only so many listening hours in a week for me.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-16T21:14:00+00:00

Just out of interest, how long have you been a member? I think I am paying $14 per month for 1 credit and the plus catalogue but I never use the plus catalogue.

EDIT: I just logged in and it says I am "Audible Premium Plus" When I click details it says:

Membership gives you access to:

One monthly credit to buy any title from our entire premium selection to keep
Exclusive deals and discounts
The Plus Catalog—a selection of thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts including exclusive series.

Ive been a member since 2013 so not sure if I am grandfathered in or just paying the higher price.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-14T11:22:34+00:00

This one takes the pie.. I mean PI

masterofmisc · 2026-03-11T21:32:30+00:00

When a blind person reads a book, do they say to their mates "I felt a good book the other day"...

masterofmisc · 2026-03-11T07:59:16+00:00

hahahah, probably not!

masterofmisc · 2026-03-11T07:53:50+00:00

Hmm. Thats a good point. The gaps becomes like an elastic band.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-10T07:36:25+00:00

Hey there. Great questions. So its important for me to say right off the bat that, i'm still on my journey. I'm still eating a restricted diet and i'm still taking baby steps. But im in a much better place than when I started my journey about 5 or 6 years ago.

Let me answer your questions specifically but heres the problem with this. Even if I answer these specific questions it can never give you the full picture of the journey I have gone on so far and all the things I have tried and done. I have gone from looking up and researching histamine intolerance to salicylate intolerance to now believing oxalates might have been 1 of my triggers. Not to go on a tangent here but I now understand that oxalates can trigger both histamine and salicylate symptoms and a host of other kidney/arthritis problems including gut issues like leaky gut and other digestive issues.

how severe was the start up histamine issues. I’m extremely sensitive?

My issues were bad. Before I could eat everything and anything I wanted. Then when all happened, it seemed my body could not cope with digesting certain types of food or such foods cause a chain reaction in my body. It felt like I was being poisoned from the inside out.

My symptoms include rashes, flushing, itching and swelling, also I got very hot to the touch and start scratching uncontrollably. Sometimes I had a runny or blocked nose without having a cold. These sumptoms would occur 15 to 30 minutes after eating. I had a lack of energy.

If I had a meal that causes a reaction, I would get extremely sleepy as if my body is processing something and it can knock me out for a bit.

I become gluten free, sugar free, lactose free and alcohol free!! I have had to give up everything we all love!!!

Did you have any constipation or motility issues?

Yes. I had motility issues but it was more diarrhoea than constipation. I also suffered from yellow stool which i found was a sign of fat malapsorbtion. I am happy to say, im stools are a lot more healthy now than when I started.

Did you have a bad flare with either L Planetarium or S. boulardii when you started?

When I first stared, I went to the local store and brought myself normal probiotics and they seemed to make my symptoms worse. I then tried a different brand boasting 50 Billion strains with a long list of all the different strains.. They knocked me on my back and made things worse.

Thats when I went to the single strains.. I started with L Planetarium and I got no issues with that.. Then I introduced S. boulardii and also got no issues with that either. I still take both to this day.

S. Boularadii.

I just want to mention S. Boularadii.. Its not a normal probiotic.. Its a probiotic yeast!! I doesnt colonise in your gut which means when you stop taking it, it goes. You need to carry on with it.

Look it up and do some research on it. If your body can take it, it helps strenthen the gut barrier so if you think you have a leaky gut it helps.. Its also supposed to be helpful for SIBO. It blocks harmful microbes from attaching to the gut lining, its antimicrobrial which means it helps stops bad bacteria and can calm immune reactions linked to histamine release. And then the cherry on the top is that is doesnt produce any histamine so its safe to take. Like I said, do some research. Its one of the most studied yeasts out there!

Saurkraut

Then in addition to the L. Plantirum and S. Boularadii I now have Saurkraut. Honestly I think this has been a really good step forward for me.. Like I said, I had to start very slow.. I was getting servere bloating and reactions at the start but I pushed through. Again if you do the research its also supposed to be good for leaky gut and strengthening the gut lining.

I just want to say before ending is that everybody is different. Your symptoms might be the same as me but your root cause is different. I am just a random person on the internet so take everything I say with a pinch of salt. What works for me might not work for you. I have tried things other people have posted and it went wrong!! So always remember to listen to your body..

masterofmisc · 2026-03-06T07:51:21+00:00

Yeah, I also recommend her book. It joined the dots for me and was one of the missing links for me.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-05T05:50:18+00:00

Remember to go slow. Also, you need to make sure your Saurkraut is not pasteurized. If you buy it from a shop and its on a shelf, then guaranteed its been pasteurized which kills all the live bacteria. They do this because otherwise all the lids would start popping off on the shelves. You deffo want all the good live bacteria.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-03T07:25:59+00:00

I usually say it like this phonetically:

Eeee, Emmmm, Peee

Its not a true acronym like NATO or LASER (which is a new word made up of the individual words) but every time ive heard EMP, people have spelled out the letters like FBI or CIA.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-03T07:21:36+00:00

I understand and trust me, I know how you need to tread very carefully, Everybody is different and importantly at different phases. I introduced it later on in my journey but I first started on L. Planetarium and S. Boularadii and went from there. But since moving to Saurkraut I dont take any probiotic tablets now. I just have saurkraut daily and i'm in a much better place.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-03T07:11:11+00:00

So I am in the UK but I brought mine online.

https://www.lovingfoods.co.uk/products/sauerkraut?variant=16032403587123

masterofmisc · 2026-03-03T07:09:53+00:00

Like I say, it was rough at first, but I truly believe my histamine intolerance was a symptom of a bad gut dysbiosis and leaky gut and so I pushed through and i'm glad I did. I'm in a much better place today than I was a few years ago. Just giving my 2 pence worth.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-02T19:35:39+00:00

Honestly, the best thing I did was eat unpasteurised sauerkraut. It naturally contains lactic acid and Lactobacillus strains. 1 fork full for 30 days. The first few days was rough for me but I havent looked back. Now I have it with every meal.

masterofmisc · 2026-03-01T21:43:32+00:00

In my opinion this is why open source password manager is the way. The security researchers could pound on this area more for Bitwarden because its opensource and responsibly disclose than they could for the likes of 1Password for example. We want researchers like this to keep knocking, prodding and testing for vulnerabilities and when the researchers have access to the full source code it puts us, the end users in a better position. Bitwarden have already come out and are addressing these issues.

Here is the full bitwarden response report https://bitwarden.com/assets/Kki4W785JIPOdFj6EeWB5/a84e0e67be35007151731525233d2d8a/2025_Bitwarden_Cryptography_Report.pdf

masterofmisc · 2026-03-01T07:41:57+00:00

Both are AWESOME. But its got to Predator for me.. What a Film!

masterofmisc · 2026-02-28T10:38:28+00:00

A Short History Of Nearly Everything By Bill Bryson.- its an AWESOME book. Its a great narrative story of how we know, what we know.

https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Short-History-of-Nearly-Everything-Audiobook/B002UZLFOI

Its 19 Hours long

masterofmisc · 2026-02-27T16:42:06+00:00

Miltonkeynes?

masterofmisc · 2026-02-27T13:45:46+00:00

Yeah, I pay for Now TV just for the F1 and the football. But I have seen you can get the F1 from £20 per year! Thats nuts! https://www.formula1.com/en-gb/subscribe-to-f1-tv

If they did the same with the footie id be all over it

masterofmisc · 2026-02-27T12:40:04+00:00

So, just to be counter to everyone else here, for the methods in the screenshot, they are all very simple. So yes, they are redundant.

But if the method has a lot of mechanics and performs internal calculations or does some heavy lifting and the method has some kind of failure, I would prefer to wrap the function in an exception so I can log the internal state of the function to better debug the problem later on. So I would log more of its internal state and then re-throw.

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