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New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by wintermutestwin »

greggsy wrote: post #79
hattar wrote: post #34

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I spent my whole life only breathing through half a nostril on a good day. About 10 years ago I got surgery and Sublingual Immunotherapy drops, and the results have been life changing. I sleep better, my mind is clearer, I feel like an entirely new person. I am not exaggerating when I say that I still occasionally think about how nice it is to be able to breathe clearly.

Flonase (fluticasone) has been a life changer. I have taken for granted how valuable breathing is in terms of speech, let alone sleep and general fatigue.

I’ve taken it for over 30 years now. It has indeed been a lifesaver and so much better than all the pills. One side effect is blurred vision and I have definitely noticed a slight blurring in the last couple of years. I gladly accept it as a small price to pay for decades of relief.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by sharpshadow »

If I notice an unusual and not predicted weather change I usually check for space weather news to see what’s the sun up to. Afaik no weather model can include solar flares reasonably which can temporarily change the weather on earth abruptly.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by cess11 »

N2yhWNXQN3k9 wrote: post #83
thanatos519 wrote: post #54

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I tried nose strips but I don't like disposables. I now use silicone nostril openers - two little tubes attached at the base that you stick up your nose. It came as a set of 4 sizes so a bit of waste there, but one size fit me and one size fit my wife.

These work well, but I wonder about hygiene. I keep mine in a glass dish on my desktop and attempt to cleanse them in hydrogen peroxide on occasion. Ultimately, surgery is the best option in my experienced opinion, but it also has diminishing returns over time (~20 years in my case). This occurred recently for me, and I am looking to consult with an ENT again, when I feel like taking the recovery leap. With that said…

If it's silicone, just put it in boiling water sometimes, as you would a menstrual cup.

Silicones are common in cooking utensils and used at temperatures way beyond what you'd need for your hygiene purpose.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by saalweachter »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #111
greggsy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flonase (fluticasone) has been a life changer. I have taken for granted how valuable breathing is in terms of speech, let alone sleep and general fatigue.

I’ve taken it for over 30 years now. It has indeed been a lifesaver and so much better than all the pills. One side effect is blurred vision and I have definitely noticed a slight blurring in the last couple of years. I gladly accept it as a small price to pay for decades of relief.

I feel like this is a trade-off not always understood and accepted in modern times; we expect our medicines to be perfect and our bodies to be restored to new condition, and when this isn't the case we feel betrayed.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by make3 »

fallingknife wrote: post #101
make3 wrote: post #92

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With the state of how the ai agents stuff already is, if you don't think that most tech jobs will be automated away in our lifetime, I don't what to tell you. Within 10-15 years, AI research automates itself and no one ever has a software engineering job ever again. I think sometimes of how crazy it would be if we could send GPT 4.5 in the past somehow, what effect that could have, just a magical almost all knowing b…

My 3 month old son is twice as big as he was when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10!

do you see meaningful reasons for it to not get there or are you just making a snarky comment

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by appleorchard46 »

greggsy wrote: post #79
hattar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent my whole life only breathing through half a nostril on a good day. About 10 years ago I got surgery and Sublingual Immunotherapy drops, and the results have been life changing. I sleep better, my mind is clearer, I feel like an entirely new person. I am not exaggerating when I say that I still occasionally think about how nice it is to be able to breathe clearly.

Flonase (fluticasone) has been a life changer. I have taken for granted how valuable breathing is in terms of speech, let alone sleep and general fatigue.

Moving to the coast made me feel like I finally woke up, after growing up perpetually stuffy and sniffly. Turns out I'm not a mouth breather after all!

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by mattgreenrocks »

greggsy wrote: post #79
hattar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent my whole life only breathing through half a nostril on a good day. About 10 years ago I got surgery and Sublingual Immunotherapy drops, and the results have been life changing. I sleep better, my mind is clearer, I feel like an entirely new person. I am not exaggerating when I say that I still occasionally think about how nice it is to be able to breathe clearly.

Flonase (fluticasone) has been a life changer. I have taken for granted how valuable breathing is in terms of speech, let alone sleep and general fatigue.

I have had bad allergies for a lot of my life. I probably have some sort of histamine intolerance behind it all.

Recently my allergist gave me a tip with regard to nasal congestion. First, you can use Flonase and Astepro together, apparently they work better when used together. Astepro has an antihistamine in it that can help. Second, moisturize the interior of your nasal passages with a drop of muciprocin in each nostril applied inside your nose at the tip of it, then squeeze your nose gently to distribute. This lets you use get the benefits of Flonase without drying out your nose (which can trigger congestion).

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by fallingknife »

tough wrote: post #103
fallingknife wrote: post #99

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Who cares what most people know about plumbing and electrical wiring? It's not most people's job to fix it when it breaks.

I guess his point is what happens if there's no one left who knows about plumbing and electrical wiring? but yeah, i dont think that's gonna happen like that

Yeah, but he is extrapolating something going from common knowledge to specialist knowledge as a step towards it being something that nobody knows, and that's just not what it is at all.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by pixl97 »

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote: post #58
jiggawatts wrote: post #40

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The panic about these is way out of proportion with the real risks. Modern systems have all sorts of over-voltage protection, and we no longer use "telegraph wires" directly connected to vulnerable electronics like speakers and amplifiers. All modern telecommunications are over fibre or radio links.

What about ground to satellite communication?

honestly I'd be more worried about the upper atmosphere puffing up and taking out low satellites, like what happened with a starlink launch last year.

Re: New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

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Post by acuozzo »

HKH2 wrote: post #110
Aachen wrote: post #106

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I didn't read the comment in that way, but rather that it's better to kill electronics while we still have people alive who know how to build back better rather than that it strikes us in a situation where robots make everything from food to food-making robots

A guy once wrote a whole book about that. Unfortunately he started randomly killing people.

I don't condone what he did, but...

1. His intention wasn't to destroy in order to build resilience.

2. His targets weren't random.

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