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flyingjake@lemmy.oneOPto Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Believe it or not, Ojibwe people also have a story about Paul Bunyan26·6 months agoThank you for sharing!
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I have a huge bump/whitehead on nose bridge, is it safe to lance it or what is the best way to erradicate that?5·7 months agoI would say it depends and could be one of those questions you don’t trust the Internet to answer. With the caveat I’ll happily add my bit of wisdom. If it’s filled with white and relatively new, sure try to relieve it.
- try to see if there’s a pore clogged, do some gentle squeezing around it and see if you can find the offending pore. Also note if the bump is squishy or hard. If it’s full of fluid it might squirt right out along with a hair follicle or solidified oil
- If you find a pore but can’t squeeze anything out, sterilize a needle (wipe with rubbing alcohol and let it air dry) and try to clean out the pore if you can
- If you’re really stuck you could try to puncture the skin with the needle, but draining a cyst this way will likely only help temporarily and it will grow back
- If it’s too large and/or full of “hard cheese” you may need to surgically remove it, meaning cut it open with a scalpel, drain the cyst, remove the sac, and close it back up. I would not advise doing this on your own, particularly on your face/nose and if you try this and fail to remove the sac it will potentially get infected and likely grow back soon anyway
Also, I am not a doctor and this is my opinion
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?12·7 months agoIt’s often not so simple as a person making a choice and knowing the outcome. There are often many tragic factors that contribute to the situation that resulted in the overdose. One common situation is someone is injured and prescribed opioids by their doctor, perhaps having been influenced by drug companies like Purdue pharma. As they take it they become addicted, eventually the doctor cuts them off and they go to other doctors, then they may find it easier to buy from a dealer, then they may find it more affordable to buy fentanyl, and then maybe they take too much or get a bad batch and od.
They didn’t start taking drugs knowing it was going to be a bad path, they started because their doctor prescribed it and by the time they figured out they were addicted they were no longer in control and may not have had the resources to get out. It’s often not just a question of willpower but one of support and resources to help you up.
There are many other scenarios, but it’s rarely a simple result of a few conscious choices and almost always a result of people suffering in bad situations and it’s ok to feel compassion and empathy even if they weren’t completely innocent in it all.
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?11·8 months agoWatts are part of the electrical properties along with volts and amps. Laptop chargers have the same watts and volts but more amps.
This is incorrect, Watts (power) is the product of amps * volts. The formula is P = IV. Anything with the same power and voltage will have the same amps.
The volume of power consumed would be Watts * time and gets you to capacity and usage units like watt-hours.
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into PiecesEnglish5·8 months agoLol I believe it would be rapid uncontrolled oxidation
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?4·9 months agoExactly what I was thinking, I’m not sure of any example coming before the original Charlton Heston version.
Don’t have a name for the trope tho
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!0·10 months agoOr packets from a fast food restaurant
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto World News@lemmy.world•Greece introduces the six-day work weekEnglish3·1 year agosocratic method: a method of teaching by question and answer; used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train, Raises New Concern On Car's SafetyEnglish161·1 year agoTo be fair, it could have fully driven itself into the train: “fully self driving” <> “fully safe driving” /s
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Android@lemmy.world•PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics companyEnglish51·1 year agoSame here, I was a big fan of Nova until I discovered Niagara about a year ago. It’s a totally different concept from the icon based launchers. I love the minimalist approach to widgets and the self optimizing app list. Tying it in with sesame has led me that product as well and I’m finding the whole solution to be really nice
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do birds find it unpleasant to be out in the rain?7·1 year agoI mean just because you like taking a bath or swimming doesn’t mean you’re going to enjoy standing in the rain too
Umm that’s donuts if they’re from Dunkin’ 😜
When you’re talking about relative change, one degree F is 5/9 of a degree c, so if London cools by 18F that would be 10c.
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s testEnglish1·1 year agoI’m not sure where that number came from but according to Wikipedia the conversion from momentum to electricity loses 10-20% and the conversion from electricity to battery storage is another 10-20% leaving a theoretical recovery at 60-70%. In real world tests, Teslas recovered 20-32% range with regenerative braking, a far cry from 2-5% you cite. https://electrek.co/2018/04/24/regenerative-braking-how-it-works/
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s testEnglish3·1 year agoIdle losses are real but not very substantial in a modern engine compared to the bigger factor you’re missing which is that in city driving tests there is a lot of speeding up and slowing down, ICE vehicles throw away all the energy used to slow down as heat in the brakes which makes city cycles particularly inefficient while an EV captures that energy through regenerative braking, dramatically reducing the net cost of those momentum changes.
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s testEnglish331·1 year agoIt’s the New York Post, temperature would be a chilly 45F for their American audience
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This person's rejection reasonEnglish3·2 years agoI wonder if an argument could be made that birthdate is a component of your genetic information including family medical history? It is also potentially age discrimination?
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website•Star Trek Resurgence GiveawayEnglish2·2 years agoFunny I never had much Star Trek gaming experience but have recently gotten into gaming more and been a lifelong Trek fan (maybe not an official Trekkie tho). this game looks pretty interesting and I’m now just learning about it since I also don’t pay attention to the epic store!
flyingjake@lemmy.oneto Malicious Compliance@lemmy.world•Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ ruleEnglish284·2 years agoThis is fantastic, while having them obviously in drag is delicious, it would be even more stark if some of them present as traditional male too and really bring the point home.
Thank you, my pedantic friend. (I say this because I’m often the one making the comment and getting the eyerolls)