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Disease can change body odor, and dogs have been trained to "sniff out disease" [0][1] (i.e. detect via smell) for years. Various researchers have been working on robot noses that would be able to do the same.[2] Presumably a widespread and/or less expensive version of this "robot nose" is what doku means by "AI nose sniffs out many common diseases".

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01629-8

[1] https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-do-dogs-sn...

[2] https://bigthink.com/the-future/robotic-nose-smartphone-dete...

it seems like some will choose to work and pay taxes in order that someone who is able but unwilling to work can have better housing and food than they do

This is certainly possible because it already happens now with the current setup.

As I said, I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

Yes, I believe people should have food and water sufficient for survival regardless of their ability to work.

I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

The government can work to provide the medication that its citizens require to stay alive. Under such a system, those who are able and willing to work can, via taxes or other contributions, provide medications that some citizens require to stay alive. Many such systems seem to cost less overall than the system currently existing in the United States, so the average man who will work will have to work fewer hours to pay for an average dose of average quality anything required to stay alive.

Alternatively or in tandem, the pharmaceutical companies can sell such medications at cost, with rebates and coupons for no/low-income patients, while still making plenty of profit on reasonably priced pharmaceuticals that patients do not technically require to survive.

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(19)...

https://www.house.mn.gov/Caucus/View/DFL/31433

I don’t think the average man should have to work any hours to pay for an average monthly dose of average quality anything that they require to stay alive. Perhaps I’m insane.

https://archive.is/vtbh9

Honestly don’t bother with canned O2. It is not 100% pure, which is an absolute necessity, and they don’t deliver nearly the quantity you need to knock out a cluster

They definitely don't knock out the cluster, but do seem to slightly lessen the pain in minutes. I wish triptans helped, but no luck yet with any we've tried.

Thanks for the help with O2 :)

(not the person to whom you were replying)

Hello, fellow clusterhead! May I ask how you obtained 100% O2? Insurance won't cover it because I have no respiratory issues, and medical supply companies won't talk to me because of insurance denial, even with valid rx. In the meantime, I've been using the canned O2 from sports stores, which is expensive and seems unnecessarily wasteful.

Yep. And something "made fast" is also perfectly reasonable usage for vastly upgrading its speed. "Fast" can absolutely be a contronym.

Related article quote about a bear attack: "Literally, as I was being eaten by a wild beast, I wasn't thinking about Jesus or my family or my son. I was thinking my insurance was not going to pay for this," she told The Independent. "I had to make this calculus as I was being eaten, 'Do I want to survive this?' Not, 'Can I survive this?' Not, 'What am I going to look like?'" [0]

In an AMA, she said that the worst part of the bear attack wasn't the bear attack, but dealing with her health insurance. [1]

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1byn1l/i_was_mauled_b...

I've lived in places where the "ice event" that caused the power to go out was freezing rain. That kind of ice can make trees heavy enough to lose limbs into power lines and makes roads slick enough for vehicles to crash into transformers and power poles (hence the power outages), without outdoor temperatures necessarily being cold enough to preserve frozen goods and without there being enough easily available ice outside (e.g. ~.5cm covering on all surfaces) to bring inside for stuffing the freezer.

Yes, they're commonly used as "starter" credit cards, to increase credit score. I presume they also come with the other benefits of a credit card, such as the amount of security deposit required when renting a car, as well as fraud and chargeback liabilities and timelines.

I am not the commenter to whom you’re replying. But for what it’s worth, I regularly “actually encounter[]” homeless people, and personally interact with at least a few of them multiple times per week. My image of them is neither abstract nor idealistic. I agree with what deepspace wrote.

Can you show us a single example of someone who destroyed their life because they couldn't stop counting their steps?

‘I Am Obsessed With Taking 100,000 Steps A Day,’ Woman Says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkhD0Lo-fxk

Not the user who made the original report, but I had the same problem. I got stuck on the second mine because the tutorial textbox covered that shape and so I couldn’t flag the mine.

iPhone SE, Safari

Every SD-accepting phone I’ve had has had a cap on the capacity card it would accept. Not sure whether that’s the norm or if I didn’t buy the right phones.

Not the person you asked, but yes. My not-logged-in recommendations are scarily great. They’re excellent (better than my logged-in recommendations, as of my last check) on the non-incognito browser on one machine, and merely very good on the incognito browser on the other machine.

I can't give money, but I have a stack of notecards and some stamps. I'll happily send a silly joke and happy holiday wishes to anyone who emails their address (email in profile). No promises, but if there's anything in particular you like (e.g. snow, the ocean, bears), let me know and I'll see if I have a card or joke to match.

I’ve never seen a shop that will let anyone stay in the vehicle while it was being worked on, even for something so simple as an oil change. Where did you find one?

As someone with anxiety, I don’t think the interpretation/conclusion is necessarily that “I’m a victim.” For me, it’s more the realization that I’m having a reasonable reaction to my surroundings and circumstances, meaning the problem isn’t “I’m broken” but rather, “These thoughts/patterns/habits are sub-optimal and unhelpful.” It was a great weight off of my shoulders to see that the problem wasn’t me, myself, alone. That realization helped me find the right things to work on and change to improve my personal experience of reality (a work in progress) and to hopefully also improve reality for others.

Jacksonville, FL, and Sitka, AK, are both “consolidated city-counties”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

I’d wager that most people would assume “largest city” meant “largest city [by population]” because that’s clearly what search results assume. “Largest city in USA” first lists the Wikipedia entry for “List of United States Cities by Population” [0], with the next bunch of results assuming the same thing. For me, the 9th result is the first to mention land area.[1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/largest-c...

Yes, you should know that coffee is actually hot and may burn you. Likewise, McDonalds should know how hot is too hot and not serve its coffee at dangerous temperatures.

In case you're unaware of the context, in short:

McDonald's launched a smear campaign against the lady who spilled hot coffee on her lap. The elderly lady was in the passenger seat of a parked car at the time, and the coffee was so hot that it fused her labia and she needed multiple skin grafts to recover. She asked McDonalds to check their coffee equipment (surely it was malfunctioning if coffee was that hot) and asked them to pay her medical bills, but they refused. During the trial, it was discovered that McDonalds had received hundreds of complaints about the temperature of their coffee and done nothing. The jury awarded her more than she was asking, which amounted to something like the profit from one day's coffee sales.

https://www.rd.com/article/hot-coffee-lawsuit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaura...

Some ceramic items shouldn't go into the microwave because they have metal embellishments or trim. Some ceramics have lead glaze, which means they're not food safe once cracked or chipped, but I can't say whether microwaving them would make them more dangerous or less food safe.

> For most Americans, they don't have glass plates/bowls at their work

As a note, most people I've seen microwaving their leftovers at work were microwaving plastic because that's how they packaged the leftovers from home. If there aren't dishes at work, let alone a full kitchen, then leftovers are transported, heated, and eaten from the same container.

Oh! I honestly have no idea because that isn't something I noticed in my admittedly shallow research. But you've given me some great questions to ask my allergist next week. Thanks!

Allergy shots include the small amounts of the allergen, given in such doses as to allow the immune system to build a tolerance to the allergen. [0][1] It reminds me of psychology's "exposure therapy". [2] In layman's terms, allergy shots teach the immune system to chill, whereas this "inverse vaccine" (as I understand it) deletes a substance from the immune system's memory.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/allergy-shots/ab...

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25194-aller...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

If my workout clothes are sweaty, they come into the shower with me. A rinse is good enough until washing day, and uses no extra water/power.

Yes, I know people with kids. They did do multiple loads daily for the first few months but stopped doing laundry every day once each baby was ~6mo. (Though neither parent found time to make workout clothes sweaty during those months.)

When I was a kid, our three-kid family did laundry once a week and there were fewer than 7 loads.

I don't know anyone who does laundry every day, so this seems like a reasonable thing to try to figure out.

It took me a bit to get it, but this is an excellent explanation. Thank you :)