@danielfazio Your tooth infection sounded pleasant
Mine was easily the worst experience of my life lol
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I woke up with a swollen jaw last month.
Call dentist. They tell me come in immediately. It’s one block away.
Doctor looks around. Partially erupted lower right wisdom tooth. Puss coming out when he pokes it. Infected
Refers me to dental surgeon 10 minutes away. Gets me in immediately
Wisdom tooth extraction scheduled for 3 days from then. Get antibiotics. I take antibiotics.
I feel AMAZING.
Like a veil has been lifted. Insanely high energy levels. Clear thoughts.
For YEARS every time I’d floss my gums would bleed.
I floss that night. No blood.
Wisdom tooth gets taken out. Finish antibiotics.
Gums never bleed while flossing since. Energy levels still high.
Have felt amazing since.
How long was there a low grade infection my body was actively fighting? Until one day it just became too much. Could have been months, or even years.
I often think about how if this were 500 years ago, I would have simply died. No antibiotics. No wisdom tooth extractions to clear the source. It just would’ve eventually ended in sepsis/death
9mmSMG@9mmsmg
In my 20s, I came as close to dying as a human possibly can and still survive unscathed. I had a small cut on my hand and I treated it as such. I cleaned it off and stuck a bandaid on it. The next morning my hand had ballooned 2x it's size and was killing me amd I had a low grade fever. I thought. "Wow that's infected, I'm going to go to the ER tonight for some antibiotics." A few hours later I had a bad fever and decided to wait another few hours for my girlfriend to get off work and bring me. It didn't go as planned. She found me collapsed in the hallway, unable to move. Thankfully she called 911. I don't remember much during all this, I felt like I losing my mind or on some sort of psychadelic. Nothing made sense, people around me talking about me like I wasn't there. Like I wasn't even a participant any longer, my eyes weren't open so I was witnessing it on a radio. I don't remember anything else. The next thing I remember was a few days later, waking up in the ICU, confused as to where I was. I had gone into septic shock rapidly. My fever was so high that I was at risk for severe brain damage. My blood pressure was so low that my organs were at risk and my kidneys nearly stopped functioning. I was as good as dead. You know what saved me? Antibiotics. Without them, there is a 100% chance I would have died. I was healthy and in good shape, but that infection entered my blood and nearly took me out. Antibiotics are the single greatest medical advancement we've seen as a species. They've saved countless lives. Today there is a new trend of denying every single medical advancement because of how Covid was handled. I'm seeing posts saying "infections aren't real", "diseases aren't real" and "antibiotics are toxic poisons." These 21st century Grugs are going to cost lives, similarly to the covid vaccine obsessed maniacs did. The kicker? I think it's all for social media clout. I would bet anything if one of these people were dying from a septic infection and were offered IV bags filled with Vancomycin and Piperacillin-tazobactam or a glass of raw milk and some Ivermectin, they'd choose the former. Opinions are great, but stop advising people to die from treatable conditions for clicks.
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@CaryKelly11 Guy went when I was passing him in a crosswalk, it just pushed my back tire left 2 feet and turned me but I never fell off lol
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In 1984, I was riding my bike to school against traffic, on the sidewalk.
A man coming out of Dunkin Donuts looked left but never right. His car knocked me off of my bike and ended up on top of it.
The frame was bent and the bike was ruined. The man scolded me for being on the wrong side of the road and left.
I dragged the bike near the dumpster and told my mom it got stolen.
I’m telling you this now because we didn’t have social media then.
Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸@MikeBales
In the early '80s, I was riding my bike and my foot slipped off the pedal, causing the spiked edge of the pedal to take a chunk of flesh out of my right shin. I'm telling you this now because we didn't have social media then. That is all.
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@LabRatKnatz @vigildisciple @radioactivered I use cream of tartar as a potassium supplement lol and u got me wondering...
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@vigildisciple @radioactivered TBQH, I have no idea at what point it's a concern.
Common sense says ingested and inhaled isotopes are most dangerous. Conversely, all natural potassium sources contain trace K-40; all biology must be tolerant, to some degree.
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Hypothetical: You walk into an abandoned warehouse and you see this, what is your first reaction?☢️
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@Forrestkelly89 @shawngorham Maybe you just break part of it out to see what's underneath?
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@shawngorham What mean? Like just rip it out and hope the house doesn’t fall down lol
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Demolition Numbers:
Bid: $5400 - kitchen, bathroom, tile floors and base.
Labor: 32 hours x $30 = $960
Dump Fees: $215
Direct Costs = $1,175
$4,225 GROSS profit or 78% margins - overhead and workers comp will knock it down closer to 50%
But look, you aren't going to get rich... BUT this job was done with just 2 guys in 2 days. Meaning you can make about $500 per day per worker. Get 10 guys out there doing demo = $5000 a day and your entire job is just making sure they have work everyday.
Also, demo is about the lowest paying, least valued trade, so I dont recommend it... but if you need work it's an honest living.
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@SamaHoole Any brand recommendations or 'type' of container & ingredients?
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Nobody has ever given a full-throated sales pitch for a tin of sardines. That is a market gap.
Allow me.
The tin is food-grade steel, lined, sealed, oxygen removed. The environment inside is more controlled than most restaurant kitchens you have eaten in happily and without incident.
No preservatives. Canning is heat and the absence of oxygen. Just the fish, suspended exactly as they were the day the boat came in.
The omega-3s survive it. Studies comparing fresh to tinned show no meaningful difference in EPA and DHA. The fish was caught, canned within hours, and the fatty acids went nowhere.
The bones are edible. They have been sitting in olive oil long enough to become soft, and they are the calcium delivery mechanism the sardine built for itself. You eat them. That is the intended use.
What the tin actually contains: EPA and DHA in immediately usable form. Selenium, iodine, B12, CoQ10, vitamin D, calcium, complete protein with every essential amino acid.
Your protein shake has twenty-three ingredients. The sardine grew its own nutrition in the North Atlantic and asked for nothing.
A food humans have eaten since before written history now apparently requires a defence.
Buy the tin.
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@unless_you_do Hey neighbor!
I'm from the southern coast of alaska! Lots of mtns, glaciers and wildlife!
I imagine Russian coast is similar!
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> Doughy manlet with a Napoleon complex, desperately combing over his bald spot like it's fooling anyone
> Penn Entertainment literally paid $163 million to learn that frat boy humor doesn't scale
> Business Insider detailed his violent sexual encounters with women young enough to be his daughters
> Lost millions day trading then convinced his braindead followers to buy his bags
> Built an empire on "saturdays are for the boys" while sliding into 19-year-old TikTokers' DMs at 47
> Bailed out his own employees during COVID after spending months ranting about government handouts
> That perpetually red face isn't from passion, it's from chugging Bud Light at 2pm on a Tuesday
> Emergency pizza reviews became his desperate attempt to stay relevant while Barstool circled the drain
> Penn dumped his worthless company for one dollar, making it officially less valuable than a McChicken
> Now he's back to reviewing pizza in strip malls like a washed-up food blogger with anger issues
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@HSchenewark I have it. It’s manageable, but I have crashed a couple of times and that is scary.
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The librarian in our small town announced her resignation at story time today as she needs to care for her son who was recently diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome.
You’ll never convince me it’s natural. Getting deathly allergic to red meat from a tick bite?
So sad for this boy whose life is now changed. Alpha gal is the worst part of living in Missouri. I know several people struggling with this disease. It’s a real concern and it’s made me think about moving, but what’s really scary is how fast it’s spreading and I don’t think anywhere will be immune to it soon.
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@555Galfan @FiredUpCoug Many Americans use an airsoft gun for this behavior
It shoots small plastic pellets, especially useful for disciplining children from various distances when grilling meat outside
GIF
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@FiredUpCoug あなたの子供はまだ幼いように見えますが、私の子供が私に侮蔑的な発言をして来たら、何回もそれはいけない事だと注意をします。親にも心がありますものね。とても大きな洞窟ですね。
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Parenting Advice Needed:
I took my daughter to see a cave today.
Right before we reached the entrance, she ran ahead of me. I heard her say, “Oh, what’s this? Shiny!”
I rushed in after her, but she had completely disappeared.
A moment later, she somehow came out of the cave behind me without me ever seeing her pass.
We’re walking back to the car now, and she’s acting very strange.
She keeps muttering under her breath and saying deeply hurtful things to me. So far she has called me fat, stupid, and informed me that my feet are hairy(?!).
Has anyone else dealt with this kind of behavior? Is this just a phase?
Shoot, I gotta run- She was right next to me a second ago, and now she’s disappeared again!
What on middle-earth is going on?!
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@SJPDADDY @giveashitnature I think the black bears in my town know not to mess with humans and they rarely do
They make their rounds every night trying to get into ppls trash
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@giveashitnature Don’t the bears know if they kill the human then there won’t be any more apple cores or orange peels left for them along the trail? 🤷♂️😜
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The banana peel you tossed on the trail is going to get a bear killed.
Every single apple core and orange peel left on a trail teaches a nearby bear that human hiking trails are a food source.
In bears, it is almost always fatal.
Wildlife managers have a phrase for it: "A fed bear is a dead bear."
Once a bear associates humans with food it keeps coming back. It gets bolder. It approaches campsites. It gets too close to people.
At that point there is no rehabilitation, no relocation that reliably works. The bear gets euthanized.
The bear didn't do anything wrong. It learned exactly what we taught it.
Leave no trace means leave no trace.
Pack it in. Pack it out. Every time.
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@reeeeedar @supa2001 @SanSabaTech @hajime20250823 Yes and learn how firm it feels at different cook levels so u can gauge off that when u don't have a thermometer
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I have spent the last 8 years building a list of 200+ business ideas.
Sweaty, low risk, great businesses.
Comment "Ideas" and I'll DM you the list.
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We do so well for pressure washing / gutter cleaning (via cold email) that I might just start and scale one to $50k/mo this year just to prove a point..
If you want my business plan, comment "Exterior" below and I will DM it to you.
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@HimalayanPlaye1 @joshstrength First time I tried this on squat I tweaked my back and I was like 25
I'd do it on leg press and other lifts but for most ppl prob not squats
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@joshstrength Should this be the standard way of training? Hitting your lifts as quickly as possible?
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Division 1 football players training in a compensatory acceleration style (CAT) upper body strength regimen were compared to a traditional regimen in their off-season. The CAT group was instructed to perform the positive rep as explosively as possible. The traditional group performed repetitions at a traditional tempo.
At the end of both off-season training programs, both power and strength were assessed. Power was tested with a seated medicine ball throw and a force platform plyometric push-up test. Strength was assessed by a one rep max in the bench press.
Both groups increased strength and power. The group that trained in a Compensatory Acceleration Training (CAT) style improved their bench press by nearly double the amount of the traditional group. Average power, as expected, increased significantly more in the group that trained explosively.
Jones, K. K., Hunter, G. G., Fleisig, G. G., Escamilla, R. R., & Lemak, L. L. (1999). The effects of compensatory acceleration on upper-body strength and power in collegiate football players. Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research (Allen Press Publishing Services Inc.), 13(2), 99-105.
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Fred Hatfield was ahead of his time advocating Compensatory Acceleration Training. It is simply superior! Training adaptations are not just a result of weight on the bar. Adaptations from training are a byproduct of tension and duration. You respond to how much force produced, how fast the force was produced, how long you produced it, and how many times you produced it. Force=mass x acceleration. More tension is result of greater bar speed. Maximal strength training and power adaptations can result from lifting weights with maximal force; one more reason to compensatorily accelerate weights.
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@HSchenewark You don't wear headphones when doing this type of stuff?
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Funny how everyone says all you have to do to succeed in blu-collar biz is answer the phone.
I missed 4 calls yesterday.
What they don’t say is how hard it is to hear your phone ring when you’re running a leaf blower or even when the propane is going and you’re pushing loud metal wheels across a parking lot.
I did call all of them back though.
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@TiminJillsson @PretentiousT10 @jtalksports @HannahDCox Original post was abt young ppl dying unexpectedly
Cause of death is less relevant for a grandparent
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@PretentiousT10 @jtalksports @HannahDCox I value consistency. You decided to announce your family's losses on social media. You want others to give details of death in the family? Keep it a buck and tell us about yours, unless you're too cowardly to.
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I have a genuine question.
Why does nobody just say the cause of death anymore? Particularly when it’s a young person who dies unexpectedly?
This used to just happen when it was due to su*cide (and even that was odd to me but I attributed it to the shame loved ones feel when that happens). Now it’s like the norm and it just makes people assume it’s su*cide when it’s not…
If you’re announcing the death online it’s to inform people who know the person enough to need awareness/closure but not well enough to come to a funeral, so why not just answer the biggest question?
Dexerto@Dexerto
Fitness YouTuber Jeff Nippard has announced that his fiancée Dr. Stephanie Buttermore has died at the age of 36
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@JackedBasedMgr @HannahDCox She's insinuating it's not suicide
"Not posting cause of death of young person used to just happen when it was due to suicide, now it's just the norm and makes ppl assume it's suicide when it's not"
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@HannahDCox its a sad scenario, maybe the cause of death is legitimately not known. Maybe it is known, and they want privacy.
your post insinuating that it's suicide is, I don't know the right word--but should be edited
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@nosferatu_616 @ItsJoshuaYoon Can u point me to info backing that up?
From where I'm at it looks like Putin is one of the few respectable leaders in the world who actually wants peace and what's best for his ppl which is not war
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@ItsJoshuaYoon Lies and fables.
Russia is pretty much Israel.
China and North Korea will bark but won’t bite.
Though I hope I’m wrong.
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Russia, China, and North Korea are ready to annihilate Israel
The real Trump and the military are behind the scenes coordinating the secret plan to dissolve Israel JEEWS
It will appear like America is attacking Iran
But behind the scenes
Israel will burn to the ground
If I was Trump
This is exactly what I would do knowing how deep and vast the inner infiltration Israel JEEWS have established within the US infrastructure
Who is going to make the first shot heard around the world?
I have an idea…
🤭
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Been using the Ninja Creami for over 2 years now and it still blows my mind
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it or take it for granted
1 scoop of whey + milk frozen for 24 hours
That’s it
Top with oreos if you’re feeling it
50g of protein and tastes AMAZING
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