https://medicine.tufts.edu/news-events/news/how-does-acetaminophen-work

Has there been progress since 2022 on figuring out its pain killing mechanism? If it just didn’t work for headaches I would understand, mine are migraine and no painkillers work for those, but it has not worked on anything I tried it for, I gave up years ago. It’s not even that safe, I don’t understand why it’s still around.

I called my standing desk a dancing desk. Didn’t just stand there. I don’t have one now we are back in the office though, some people do but they are all short - I’m taller and it seems too odd to be looking into everyone’s workspace.

Tylenol (paracetamol).

Literally never does anything but make me feel slightly poisoned, and there is still no clear explanation of how it “works”.

I think there should be pedestrian, bike routes separate from cars, like storefronts should face both ways, and the intersections with signals, but where practical should have bridges for the walkers, so they don’t have to deal with the cars.

I also really want replicator tech, want to be able to use any input to get basically any output, at least in terms of materials. Throw in the trash, it is sorted into its component elements (safely) and then those can be combined to make clean water, salt water, building materials, whatever.

I want also a floor and walls that eat the dirt, and clothing fabric that can cool even in humidity.

The Storm X-Men one was pretty bad. And so disappointing because I love the character.

Best ones I think are the second X-Men, Logan, and Into the Spiderverse.

I do love Chris Evans as Captain America though. His expression of slight disapproval throughout the films is fantastic.

Large body dominance is different from fine motor handedness, write with right hand but stronger left side, cartwheel left hand first. Or vice versa. It is interesting as heck.

I agree with this. It takes me weeks, if not months, to really unwind.

My kids taught me to look at subscriber counts on a streaming service to measure popularity, I go to a lot of live shows and kept getting surprised at which bands were popular or unknown, don’t have a good handle on it. So that’s generally what I do now.

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My mom kept up with her friends from high school and college until she or they died, I cannot.

My dad was ridiculously smart, like could learn anything, keep a lot of knowledge in his head, could look at any idea and really consider it without believing or reacting to it, if that makes sense. I don’t have the same fearlessness.

Other people seem to think so, but I am not any nicer on the outside than on the inside, not unfailingly polite and certainly get defensive sometimes.

So I am going to say yes because what’s on the outside is what I feel in the inside, and people think I am nice.

Garden, fuck, go to the beach, read, dance, cook and ferment, hang out with people. Probably still work some for money if I needed it to buy stuff like drinks or an e-bike, or to travel, I’m sure we’d still have a money economy of some sort. Same stuff I’d do if I could afford to retire. If I was a few years younger, would foster a kid or two.

Oh, and I’m sure I could live a full and healthy life without paid employment, myself.

Not damage but the most entertaining, terrifying, and educational event - I made a mango soda, fermented it with some ginger beer and it was lazy getting fizzy so I bottled, refrigerated and promptly forgot about it. Found it a few weeks later and figured since it wasn’t fizzy ok to open.

Mango soda on the floor, walls, ceiling of three adjacent rooms. It exploded up but did not break the glass bottle. The second one I opened outside facing away from me and got to taste the small amount that remained in the bottle - probably the best drink I have ever made, all lost due to my negligence.

And when you get to the end, start looking for the opening and merge, don’t slow down or gun it and try to get ahead of five more cars.

Yeah you have to manage your expectations and also close the shades. But if you are coming in from the heat, the house will feel cool even if it’s not cold. Usually with a heat pump (and older not so insulated house) we can comfortably get up to about 20f lower than outside, set it at 78 in summer and it works ok, still seems to manage the humidity inside too.

It doesn’t work that way for me. I have been so cold that clothing didn’t make me not cold. Even here where it rarely ever gets to freezing. Hot weather, I can slow down, sitting still in the shade with a breeze I can be comfortable from 90F to about 100F. Don’t know about hotter, we haven’t reached it yet.

I don’t try to do work outside when it’s that hot. If daytime event in the sun - hat or visor, long sleeved loose linen shirt and pants, and oddly enough, Merino wool thong and socks are often more comfortable than anything else.

Hot yoga is 90-103 so I guess I can also move in the heat without freaking out but they manage the humidity, it’s different from outside. And I sweat a lot in those classes.

Any of these I prefer to being cold, cannot get warm. Maybe I need to talk to Wim Hof, but it seems better to be tolerant of heat, than cold.

Hmm. I am not convinced I can be much happier for $15 but a coffee for me, split a breakfast sandwich with my husband in the little Cuban cafe near me. Or buy gas and a diet coke and go by myself, alone, to the beach, that is such a relaxing activity.

Personal computer? Windows 3, I believe, but worked on computer earlier than that by a couple of years - I’m not sure what OS, it was maintained by this old guy named, no kidding, Mr. Fox. Had a rudimentary spreadsheet program.

Well certainly not the career aptitude testing in high school, which put me in ministry (the religious kind), philosophy, or military.

I was a cashier at a bunch of places and kept ending up working in the back office, then developing ways to do the bookkeeping on the computer (this was so long ago they were using paper ledgers). I did accounting systems for years, but doing accounting now, with coworkers I like.

I would not call it a passion but an aptitude. And as my former boss says - so much better to have a job you don’t love with great coworkers, than a job you enjoy with people you don’t.