not sure what you mean by opioid+nsaid prescription painkillers, so I’ll assume it’s a mix of opiods plus NSAIDs. wouldn’t make much sense to add aspirin/naproxen/ibuprofen on top of that, as they are also NSAIDs and that role’s already been filled

paracetamol is also a fairly good painkiller so my guess is they’re probably going for some synergy there as well

The article title is not the title of this post. “Women warned weight loss jabs may affect the pill” appears for me when I click it. Is this one of those things where they switch the title around for different people?

Nationality of somebody born on a plane wouldn’t be a big deal as long as at least one of the parents comes from a country where lex sanguis applies. If lex solis applies (as in the USA) then they could in fact be stateless unless their parents have some other nationality.

And, if I remember correctly, the captain has the responsibility to record births and deaths on board an airplane. So you might be on to something with the paperwork.

what about the blood?

I think he means that the ureter itself cannot be transplanted, so the root cause is not solvable. A kidney transplant would be like putting in a new lightbulb in a defective lamp.

you now have tourette’s and speak that incantation uncontrolably. the only medication for it is lead-based. lead is otherwise harmless to you.

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Might I suggest Carrobiolo, in Monza? They make some pretty awesome stuff.

depending on your and your target’s degree of synaesthesia, you could try associating shapes and/or colours with smells. won’t work for everyone though, and some might look at you strangely.

for instance, chlorine, smells a bit concave and brownish-white, whereas ammonia smells like a highlighter-green (the darker kind) arrowhead.

then there’s the question of whether we all smell things in the same way (even without the synaesthesia)

were they speaking hiberno-english by any chance?

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Gout. Big toe on fire, throbbing with pain, joint swollen until there are no discernable features. Even a feather touching the area is enough to generate hot searing pain. The constant urge to ‘pop’ the big toe joint set against the impossibility to actually wriggle the toe without passing out.

Should drink lots of water to flush out the uric acid, but every trip to the bathroom has to be carefully considered because walking there takes 2-3 minutes of grabbing on to nearby things/people while stepping awkwardly on the outside edge of the foot, instead of 20 seconds of normal walking.

I’ve had severe tooth pain for a couple of weeks (a cyst - the pain killed the nerves in some of my teeth), and 3 days of gout until the meds worked well enough to walk less painfully were worse.

In large cities, sure, but mostly out of necessity. Historically, the communist regimes there sort of forced industrialization on people. Workforce was needed so they moved people from the countryside into flats, close to the workplace. As the change was mostly sudden, it was a bit of a culture shock due to people suddenly moving from their own house with a yard into a wee matchbox and not really adjusting behaviour to the new circumstances. So the apartment building culture in such places is quite different from the western one (in terms, for instance, of being respectful of your neighbour - like not drilling on Sunday at 8 am because that’s when the quiet time - according to the law - ends).

So the drive there is to get your own house away from hundreds of neighbours as soon as you have the means, even if it implies commuting in hellish traffic.

Coincidentally, also why you might see some pushback from those places when people suggest walkable cities with apartment blocks. Because when suggesting that, everyone thinks Sweden or Denmark, not Eastern Europe.

I share your feelings there regarding the choice or lack thereof with being born and seeing some of the points of antinatalism.

I don’t think that community fully understands what antinatalism should be. Casually browsing it though, it seems more like they’re more going towards eugenics than an actual antinatalist approach - i.e. applied to everyone, nondiscriminately, for reasons of morality (choice vs forced into existence, overpopulation and its ties to resource allocation and requirements and such). Arguably some posts there could be reasonably expected from non-antinatalist people, the sort of ‘if you can’t afford to raise them, don’t have them’.