you shouldn’t do it if you want to have a life

Huh, I guess working and providing for my family while starting a business and keeping myself in shape isn’t a life after all. Suppose I’d best just kill myself, because I smoke weed every day. Too bad really, it was a very nice day yesterday and it looks like today’s gonna be a good one too.

Or maybe you don’t know enough to be proscribing life advice 🤷

Found the Kerbal.

I’ve done it. Circumstances sometimes demand, what are you gonna do? 🤷 But also, I always clean up after myself - wipe down around the sink if I splashed, and rinse the toothpaste out of the sink itself. That’s just courtesy, professional and general.

It sounds like the health care sector in the EU generally is worried about the misuse of acetaminophen, like for a “Paracetamol Challenge” on the level of the “Tide Pod Challenge”: https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/what-is-the-paracetamol-challenge-that-has-europe-nervous/

The misuse of any OTC drug is worrying, but this doesn’t translate into a general discouragement, and certainly not because of the “danger” that some people might not take it as directed.

I’ll give you one guess :P

but autism? Nah.

Preaching to the choir haha.

Regarding your point on the efficacy of acetaminophen: agreed wholeheartedly. Like /u/i_has_a_hat said, if you combine it with ibuprofen it’s far more effective. My go-to for bad pain is 500-1000mg acetaminophen and 400mg ibuprofen; I stole the idea from my ex’s neurologist when he prescribed it for dealing with the side effects of her main medication (and he also specifically said it would help with her period cramps too, hers were always bad).

As to the guy taking 5 an hour… That’s an incredible amount of acetaminophen, even “normal strength”. You said you wouldn’t, I think I couldn’t take that many pills. Just the idea has me gagging 🤢 I think it’s fair to call that one an outlier in the data.

I appreciate the sources, but I don’t appreciate the

You… you didn’t try at all, did you?

Because nothing you’ve posted here is news to me. I think you’ll find I said:

If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

So I’ll just quote directly from your very first link, because the rest of them don’t say anything different:

Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

And

At therapeutic levels, acetaminophen is generally considered safe. However, instances of acetaminophen toxicity often arise due to patient misconceptions about dosing or a lack of awareness regarding its presence in multiple medications they may be consuming. Intentional ingestion of large doses also contributes to toxicity.

So, in around 50% of cases, the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting. They took other medications containing acetaminophen and didn’t know it, or they took other drugs that amplified the ability of the acetaminophen to cause damage (like alcohol, which is made very clear you’re not supposed to take with acetaminophen).

In the rest, overdoses were intentionally taken, so you can’t really count those in the danger statistics since the goal was to use it dangerously.

To put this in perspective:

When taken at therapeutic doses, acetaminophen has a good safety profile. The therapeutic doses are:

• 10 to 15 mg/kg/dose in children every 4 to 6 hours with a maximum dose of 80 mg/kg/d
• 325 to 1000 mg/dose in adults every 4 to 6 hours, with a maximum daily dose of 4 g/d

Toxicity is likely to develop in adults at:

• >12 g over a 24 hours
• 7.5 to 10 g in a single dose
• Doses >350mg/kg

Toxicity in children occurs following a single dose of 150 mg/kg or 200 mg/kg in otherwise healthy children aged 1 to 6.

Just do the maths on how much acetaminophen you normally take for any given ailment, and you’ll realise just how far beyond those doses the danger really lies (or maybe that you’re one of the people who doesn’t check what they’re taking).

So, to conclude: acetaminophen is indeed dangerous if you don’t pay attention to what you’re taking or how much. Other examples of things that are dangerous if you don’t use them right: cars, ovens, lawnmowers, cotton buds, the internet… the full list is quite long, actually, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Source please? I haven’t been able to find anything credible about whatever danger it is you’re referencing - unless the danger is overdosing because the person didn’t know they were taking acetaminophen in different forms? If the danger is people not bothering to check what they’re ingesting, I’ll concede that’s a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.

I’m quite certain these are completely separate times and places, how the hell has someone tried this more than once?

Stripe simply passes through communications between merchants and banks, Stripe has nothing to do with deciding disputes. Source: I deal with this every weekday and sometimes on weekends.

What’s really going on here? Why do banks completely ignore the terms customers agreed to when they subscribed or in cases where they’re clearly making false claims?

Because they can. There’s no incentive to side with the merchant - from their perspective, “what are you gonna do, not accept cards from a certain issuer?”. I’ve thought in the past that it might be a numbers game - the real problem customers do it a lot and get caught. I don’t know if that’s true though, I suspect it’s got more to do with keeping penalty fees.

And why aren’t customers required to provide any proof at all?

Because that would mean the bank would have to verify the proof, and there are no consequences for not.

What actually prevents someone from using a SaaS product, filing chargebacks every time they cancel their subscription, and essentially getting refunded for the last several months of usage?

I can answer this one as a consumer, because I’ve reflected on it frequently while fighting disputes.

• not having energy
• forgetting when you do have energy
• not having time
• not wanting the confrontation
• thinking you won’t get a refund so it’s a waste of time you don’t have anyway
• illness

A lot of reasons can come up. It’s not really relevant though, I think card companies should spend the resources we do validating our evidence for chargebacks, but then they’d have to pay people to do that and they don’t keep the penalty fees. Big hit to their bottom line.

Just here to echo the sentiment that you’re still pretty young, so if you decide that’s what you want then absolutely go for it. But also I’d like to ask: I know you said the relationship cooled off, but how do you actually feel about her? Would you lose her entirely in the divorce, and would that make you sad/does that really matter (maybe not)? Just trying to get a better picture of your feelings for her and if that’s shifted.

It’s pretty telling that she’s okay with you having “a woman on the side”, that’s a pretty big change if it wasn’t okay before, and I wonder why that changed. Did you get any clarification on how exactly her “outlook on life has changed”?

“Better living through chemistry!”, I call it.

Framework are standouts in customer service and warranty; I recommend them because their ethos is repairability and re-use. They design their products for maximum interoperability of parts - so for example of you got one of the original laptops, you could upgrade the internals to new framework parts and buy (or build, or 3d-print) an enclosure for the original parts that still work, and turn it into a file server or whatever. You won’t run into this situation you have now, where you can’t get a part a few years later because the company themselves can’t get one. And, it’s all open source, so you can build and modify as you like… and equally if not more importantly, so can everyone else. Robust ecosystems are nice to have!

If it’s a Razer, it was probably pretty expensive. Is a Framework (https://frame.work/) in the budget? If so, he’ll have a great work machine capable of gaming, and upgradeable too.

Another option is a lower-spec laptop supplemented with a GeForce Now subscription for demanding games. If you have a decent internet connection, the service actually works really well - far better than earlier services which tried to sell gaming on the cloud. You can try it for a day for $4 (or $8, for the top-tier hardware) to see how you go with it on your home connection.

Uh-huh. So it “would have burned to the ground” with fewer than a dozen LEO injuries in the LA protests, even by the most conservative estimates (source)? What does that make January 6th then, with over 140 LEO injuries (source)?

Keep these numbers handy.

There are many theories, but nothing really replicable. Genetics definitely play a role, and air pollution is implicated pretty heavily, but we don’t have a “do this and you get autism” yet. There could be more than one cause, too - biology is messy.

Jesus, thousands of posts in a day and hundreds of accounts? There has to be automation there. Even if you’re using automated tools to moderate, what a pain in the dick. Cheers for keeping the chuds like this asshole at bay.