'These are people in the prime of life': The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer
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    Antibiotics and other prescription medications are more often prescribed to older folks, so the increase should be seen in those populations, not primarily more in younger populations. It is unlikely that antibiotics or other similar medical interventions are responsible for the phenomenon seen in the op article.

    Also, as a prescriber, I do warn my patients of the dangers of taking antibiotics willy nilly. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  • Is Quietlab sleeping mouthpiece a scam?
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    Snoring is produced by soft tissues vibrating when they flop where they shouldn't (i.e., blocking airway).

    It is thus indicative of reduced airflow, which can result in negative health outcomes - including yes, brain damage. The full condition is called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), but there are other conditions like upper airway resistive syndrome.

    From the pictures I see online, it looks like an over the counter mandibular advancement splint (MAS). MAS are used for management of OSA, but only per the prescription of a sleep physician, who needs the results from a sleep study as well as an examination of the patient.

    Not all OSA sufferers will tolerate let alone benefit from a MAS. There are drawbacks and side effects with a MAS that may not be discussed with all patients, let alone purchasers of an OTC product.

    I have a custom fitted one, and even as someone in the industry, I find there are certainly limitations to it.

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  • Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News
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    Bicycles stand out too much in Australia. If it's unique and cool, people will fuck with it. Furthermore, it's far easier to physically pick up a bike and chuck it in the back of a van than a car, and not very many people are going to interrupt a thief using bolt cutters, particularly if they're wearing hi-vis.

    So you're left with needing angle grinder resistant locks, with none of the portable ones being long enough to fasten around the body and any fixed stand so you have to get creative about where you park, and even then somebody might just unbolt the fixed point. Creative means it might be away from other bikes and or cameras, reducing security.

    Then there's no clearly visible registration so even if you report a lost bike, nobody will easily be able to tell if the one being ridden by is yours or someone else's...

    Eliminate theft and you're still left with vandals, and there are a LOT of destructive people with plenty of time on their hands...

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  • Nitro Deck Plus and TCL NXTWear S XR
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    When I was playing Mario kart I kept trying to look up and I ended up with my head tilted all the way up. Not sure if I'm just not used to it. 😅

    Eyes felt fine, but I probably played for an hour at most tonight.

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  • Nitro Deck Plus and TCL NXTWear S XR
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    They work well with my Samsung phone (DeX is detected), the cable is a bit annoying but I can understand why it has to be the way it is.

    Quality is pretty decent. 3d mode does work too, but I think I prefer my quest2 for that.

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  • Very niche case use, and the only other related post I can find used a different pair of glasses. Mine unfortunately can't just be plugged straight into the Nitro Deck+, but needs to have the included USB c to HDMI, then a powered HDMI to USB C adapter. It works fine (with audio) at that point. The powered HDMI to USB C adapter I used was this one: https://amzn.asia/d/90FQYfo I'm ordering a USB C splitter cable and hopefully that will reduce the number of cables needed. Hope this helps anyone else who happened to have this specific issue. 😅

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    Is it really just ageing/ getting older? How is this supposed to work? How is everyone else doing this?
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    Putting aside whether it's normal for you to be experiencing aging so early*, you should still see another PCP because they didn't manage your actual concern: "I am experiencing issues functioning day to day life, and would like a plan to manage this".

    It would have been one thing if the doctor had said "yup, just you, so let's get you into an assisted living arrangement now", or "I'm fairly certain this is just your shitty genes, but to rule out anything else, let's send you for X tests and see the Y specialist".

    From your post, it doesn't sound like that was the case.

    *The joke goes that after thirty you don't get injured, you get permanent disabilities.

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  • Wisconsin health officials recall eggs after a multistate salmonella outbreak
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    And that's only if your area has actual regulations on what free range even means.

    For reference, here in Australia:

    Under the law, eggs labelled as 'free range' must come from hens that are able to roam and forage outdoors for at least eight hours each day. The maximum outdoor stocking density for free range egg farming is 10,000 hens per hectare of land or one hen per square metre.

    That is awful! I buy a brand that has 40 per hectare, they have portable sheds that gets rotated across the property, and the hens get guard dogs to protect them as they roam.

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  • Parenting nightmare: Kiss on the cheek causes child’s incurable infection
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    HSV infection of infants leading to death is a real thing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8284346/

    There are many things adults should and should not do in the early years of a child's life to set them up for success in the future... including not inoculating their mouths with decay causing bacteria (common pathway is testing food temp on a spoon, then using the same spoon in the baby's mouth).

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  • Recommendations for private tracker for keys?
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    Not sure how much it will bother you but I'm certain they'll be found on AliExpress and eBay.

    Maybe even a dollar store, it seems the sort of thing they'd carry.

    The original link I sent is an automotive store, the kind that sells oil and wipers and towball accessories. Maybe you have something like that near you?

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  • It wasn’t just race and politics that motivated Voice to Parliament ‘no’ voters. Here’s what we found when we dug deeper
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    They tended to believe ATSI weren't disadvantaged in this society and that it is already a fair and equitable place? That they "preferred a hierarchical society where the social status of different groups is maintained"?

    ...yeah that's just racism with extra steps. 🫣

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  • I figure I might as well post some stuff to the Fediverse. I have a Meross MSG100 to add "smart" connectivity to my otherwise dumb powered garage door. To my pleasant surprise, Meross can be hooked up to Samsung SmartThings, and you can set a routine for when you arrive within a certain radius of home (100m is the smallest), it can then open the garage door. It can even be set to note if you've been gone long enough (I have mine set to 10 minutes). For more precise location detection, you have to do a little finangling to get it to be hooked up to the Modes and Routines app where you can then also set a location setting that includes connecting to your home wifi. The finangling involves setting up a virtual switch in SmartThings (as garage door openers aren't "supported" by M&R, but a switch is), and having a routine in ST linking the switch's state to the garage door. If you don't have ST Labs (only available in USA and KR), then you can make a virtual switch using Samsung's own web ui: https://my.smartthings.com/advanced/devices Anyway, we tested it this afternoon and it worked fine. For those without a Samsung phone, this will be a lot harder to set up (if not impossible). My backup options were: 1. Getting my Cardo set up (whenever it arrives) and yelling Hey Google open the garage door, waiting for it to go 'sure, what's your pin', and yelling that at it... from like two roundabouts away from home. 2. Buying and installing a Riders Magic Touch 3. Buying and installing a Mo-Door 4. Buying and installing the Garage Door Opener from Vizi-Tec (hooks up to brake line), apparently you do a zip-zip-zip-braaake on your brake and it activates it? 5. Taking apart a garage remote and making my own version of any of the above, including like the FlashToPass/FlashToOpen (they don't exist anymore sadly) which activated when you flashed your high beams 6. Tucking a remote into my tank bag and smashing the shit out of it 7. Do what I've been doing which was stopping, glove off, open jacket pocket, fish out remote and press button, shove it back into pocket, glove back on, roll into garage Anyone got any other unique ways of managing their garage door whilst on the motorcycle?

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    The context: The British activist, who also goes by pseudonym Posie Parker, spoke at a "Let Women Speak" event outside Victorian parliament in March that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, who joined the anti-trans rights demonstrators and repeatedly performed the Nazi salute. MP Moira Deeming's involvement in the "Let Women Speak" rally led to her suspension and eventual expulsion from the Liberal party.

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