Uranium 🟩

My grandfather (who died well before my time), but I picked up the saying from my mum;

“Pray to God, but row to shore”

My sister gave me the following to bring me up from the depths of despair, and to bring me back to earth before I make an Icarus of myself:

“This too shall pass”

The article is subscription locked for me as well, strange…

This is one of those things that has no impact on my normal day to day, but is still absolutely mind blowing any time it comes up

What’s fascinating is that Cuba also has the most medical doctors per capita (IIRC), they also provide more Drs to the third world than any western nation.

Essential preventative healthcare which is particularly effective during childhood;

Fluoridated water (teeth are pretty essential, also don’t rinse your mouth after brushing as you want that fluoridated toothpaste being in contact for a while)

Iodized salt (Iodine deficiency in pregnant women and young children can massively effect IQ, it causes a specific goiter around the neck)

Essential multivitamins and minerals, and fish oil.

(There’s also an argument to be had here for supplementing lithium at about 1mg daily, as it reduces violent crimes, depression rates and suicides)

Is this because of the risk of worms or halitosis?

I imagine it would help if you said for what?

Explicitly for piracy? Or like your own Jellyfin instance or?

That looks like the absolute perfect place for their retirement, I had a retired ginger barn cat who spent his retirement lounging in the garden, most affectionate cat I’ve known.

100% percent possible, Ive used ones that are over 100 years old that use literal needles on the play head

The only thing that really breaks on them is the old elastic wound up with a hand crack to power them (which is relatively replaceable)

Fill a rubber glove with water and tie the opening, now squeeze three of the fingers and observe what happens with the remaining ones

The cardiovascular system is effectively a very long bag of liquid, if you compress one area it can no longer hold the same volume of blood, that blood needs to go somewhere else, which increases the pressure in the other areas

Ahhh, that makes sense!

Your initial comment sounded like you were saying missing Google Music didn’t make one lick of sense

Not that google deciding to shut down google music didn’t make any sense

I wonder if anyone has implemented a keyword blocking system?

In effect if a title has a “flagged” keyword which has been previously defined by the end user, it simply autohides the post.

I am no programmer so no clue regarding how hard it would be to implement

My friend, in the UK you can literally buy Panadol both with and without codiene over the counter at a pharmacy

They have said multiple times they use the without for the most part, which is just paracetamol (acetaminophen).

The UK and elsewhere don’t have the same problem with opiates as the US does.

It’s not an offense to drive on medications unless it impares you, in effect giving the police reason to stop you from driving if impaired by it and legal means to prosecute you if you cause harm due to the imparement.

That also means I could drive whilst high from my cannabis prescription if there was no imparement.

Obviously I am unfamiliar with your personal situation, but a friend experienced a similar thing in her relationship:

She got diagnosed with vaginismus, which is basically involuntary muscle spasm around the vagina, which makes penetration painful to impossible.

I believe what helped her (alongside talking therapy), was using a dialator set/kit (basically very soft, untextured dildos that start very small (a few mm, and go up to about the size of a penis), which are explicitly made to help with Vaginismus.

She initially was treating more it a bit more like physio than intimacy; according to her BF, she didn’t realise you are supposed to effectively masturbate with them, apparently she would just lay there with one in and then wonder why there wasn’t much improvement, her therapist corrected her regarding this.

I also found out that her BF didn’t like sucking/playing with her nipples (also correctly guessed he was bottle fed from that, haha). Told him to stop being an idiot and engage with that bit and it’s no longer an issue for them; turns out getting your partner turned on and really in the mood can help - who’d have thought!

Another suggestion that have a much more immediate impact, but is less conventional and does carry some risks so I’ll mention it for the sake of covering all bases;

Poppers as in Alkyl Nitrites, the things that are popular in the gay clubbing scene, help massively with this by reducing the constriction of smooth muscles in the body/abdomin… (Meaning it loosens the muscles in the wall of your vagina, and also your butt), it also has secondary affects on blood pressure and makes you feel slightly drunk and mild euphoric

My neighbor Nick, he was a long haired Jesus-esque hippy who ran forest schools for inner city kids who didn’t do great in classrooms.

He also managed the forest in one of the areas thought to be an inspiration for Tolkien.

He taught me to whittle, about having a greater respect for nature. His partner ran a potions club (during the height of Harry Potter popularity), which was mostly identifying and collecting herbs and plants to make balms, syrups and creams for our parents.

He and my dad built me a playhouse on stilts (like 7 foot high, so we could still store things under it)

For a couple of my birthdays he did a forest schools type thing where we would go out to the woods, build dens, forage food, start a campfire using a bow drills etc

One of the birthdays, he’d brought a fishing rod along; the plan was to catch some invasive rainbow trout. After about 10 minutes we here “Oh bloody hell” and turn around to see he’d hooked a huge native brown trout, which we manage to get back into the water. He tries again and this time only manages to hook a tiny thing as small as my hand, luckily my mum was ready the camera this time!