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Surprising how little the pain of IUD insertion is talked about — or how $2 of pills for cervix softening could materially improve the experience for women who haven’t previously had a vaginal birth. IMO should be the standard of care to offer that or lidocaine

@ProofofMaro Reminds me of rope core memory / little old lady memory from the 60s!

Girlies in tech, I’ve invented a new hobby for us! ‘Crocheting with Computers’

Wild that Google browser still shows you a lovely plaintext email — and then lets you open your phone to see a copy-paste multi sized font monster that would put a serial killer to shame

Can’t get over that drug store gum is sugared plastic. Like polyethylene (same family as plastic bags) and polyvinyl acetate (like white glue) sorts of plastic. Everyone I’ve talked to about this just seems surprised that I’m surprised.

@SnazzyLabs @anshelsag Why not? Are there certain items you were hoping would be easier to cut and they’re not?

@anshelsag No.

I’m just updating the firmware on my kitchen knife…

@clarejtbirch @BhandarkarPawan has the old school defender dream been retired forever?

@BhandarkarPawan lmfao no i'm looking at miatas (still)

I am seeking a wealthy patron to sponsor my purchase of a cool car. In return, you may borrow the car from time to time.

@thesamparr Another interesting Russian Jewish immigrant who went on to become a single food magnate is Sam Zemurray. He was basically synonymous with the 🍌 trade for half a century. Was one of the richest men in America at his peak. He’s the reason for the term ‘banana republic’

The guy who invented Peeps has one of the most interesting stores I’ve ever heard: Sam Born was a Russian Jewish immigrant who studied to become a rabbi in Ukraine. - Came to America. Made candy instead. - Named his company "Just Born", a pun on his last name plus the fact he made everything fresh daily. - In 1953, it took 27 hours to make one tray of Peeps with 80 workers spooning marshmallow into molds by hand. - Sam's son Bob automated it down to 6 minutes. Same machine design still runs today. Today they make 2 billion Peeps a year. All out of Bethlehem, PA. #1 non-chocolate Easter candy for 20+ years. Russian Jewish immigrant studying to be a rabbi accidentally builds most iconic Easter candy in America out of a town called Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Maybe the most American story I've ever heard.

@aakashgupta I guess this explains why I reflexively close my eyes during the hardest parts of a work out (require balance, stability, + strength)

Your visual cortex burns 44% of your brain's energy budget. Turning off the lights in the shower is the fastest way to slash that load to near zero. Your brain is 2% of your body weight but burns 20% of your total energy. Visual processing alone eats almost half of that. Every photon hitting your retina triggers a cascade of neural signaling that demands oxygen, glucose, and ATP at rates higher than almost any other cognitive function. When you kill the lights, you're removing the single largest energy load on your cortex. That freed-up metabolic capacity gets reallocated. This is where it gets interesting. A 2022 study from the Laureate Institute for Brain Research measured what happens when you strip sensory input from anxious patients. High-frequency heart rate variability, the gold standard marker of parasympathetic activation, increased significantly compared to controls. Blood pressure dropped. Breathing rate fell. The nervous system shifted from sympathetic dominance to parasympathetic mode within minutes. The warm water adds a second mechanism. Core body temperature rises during the shower. When you step out, temperature drops rapidly. That cooling signal triggers melatonin production and primes the circadian system for sleep. Layer darkness on top: no photons suppressing melatonin through the retinal ganglion cells, no blue-light signaling to the suprachiasmatic nucleus that it's still daytime. The shower is doing three things simultaneously. Reducing cortical energy demand by eliminating visual input. Activating the parasympathetic nervous system through sensory reduction. Triggering thermoregulatory sleep signaling through the heat-then-cool cycle. A $0 float tank that takes 10 minutes.

@patrickc Also makes a great host/hostess/thank you gift!

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@GrantSlatton Maybe mosey on over to Bellevue and knock?

do i know anyone who was a software dev on the microsoft excel team in the 90s / 00s? or can anyone introduce me? just have a bunch of random historical questions

@patrickc Can’t wait for this to be a Google Maps restaurant filter

Have wanted something like this for ages — it looks great.

@tylerangert Also, this is very cool! Congrats! 🥳

@tylerangert 80,000?!!

we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity. here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image search, "find similar" inside of a photo, and "live search" with the camera. all done with local models and completely private. auto-growing albums coming soon :-) Angles has been exceptionally useful for my friends who do creative work. when words fail to describe what you are looking for, you can simply tap on any asset and instantly see everything else like it across your entire library. we're in early beta - if you want access please send a DM to @patinasystems with your testflight email! i have spots available for another 50 people

@GrantSlatton Curious why dental insurance doesn’t step in here? If one provider is consistently billing whatever x per person more than other dentists in the area, why are they keeping them in network or not asking more questions?

insane that we tolerate living in a society where you can go see one dentist and he's like "ya u have 13 cavities, will be $4000 to fix them all" then see another and he's like "that guy was full of shit and trying to scam you, you're fine" ???

giving things away on fb marketplace and am reminded of this perennial favorite youtu.be/8HXFurHCkP8

Imagine not being incredibly excited and optimistic about the future

@DrClownPhD Seems like a wildly fun 45 min of cardio

Women will do anything to “work out” except actually work out…

@devonzuegel You’re welcome to design a home for me any day!

Casa Contenta – Punta Islita, Costa Rica

Waymo via the uber app in Austin was delightfully unexpected.

@pitdesi There are FDA approved devices for capillary blood draws (like Tasso) that have comparable accuracy to venous draws for a number of panels

After four failed blood draws on my wife this week (she has challenging veins), I’m wondering if Theranos would have solved this eventually…