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CaptainPedantic

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  • Medication lasting 8h, not 3 or 14?

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  • I've been on 70mg of Vyvanse (Elvanse) for a few years. It's just enough to get me through a 10 hour work day. Everyone's bodies react differently.

    You'll get used to the medication, so a given dose will feel like it's doing less over time. If I don't take my meds for a few days, my pulse will be elevated when I start taking them again. After a few days of that, it's about 10 BPM higher than my non-medicated heart rate. I've found the first day of a new stimulate medication to be not at all representative of what long term use is like. After being on a few stimulant medications for a while, it eventually feels like I'm my normal self, just more focused.

    Do not split the pills over food without talking to a pharmacist first. With stuff like Adderall XR, splitting the capsule can make the meds instant release. I'm not sure if Vyvanse is the same way or not. Either way, don't rely on an idiot on the Internet (me). Ask a professional.

    Personally, I've found Adderall XR to work decently well for 6 to 8 hours. That's not enough for me, but it might be for you. A smaller dose of Elvanse is also a good idea. Personally, I'd go with changing dosage before changing meds. If the smaller dose is still not going well, try a different med. I tend to give myself a couple of weeks on the med before I think about changing it unless I have an extreme reaction. I only did one day of Ritalin because it made me extremely aggressive, for example.

    Good luck.

  • As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For

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  • Ah! Thank you for the explanation

  • As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For

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  • If Tesla's stock crashes, then the value the banks could get from selling it is much lower.

    If Twitter and Tesla go bankrupt, the banks will have loaned out billions to own something worthless.

    At least I would assume that's how it works.

  • Animals that use Drugs

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  • The Elephant getting drunk bit is a bit sus

    They'd have to eat a massive amount to get drunk.

  • Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people.

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  • One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.

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  • Ground control noticed helium leaks and the spacecraft had a cluster of thrusters fail. That's not almost dying in a horrific way.

  • Scientists 'shocked' at new Stonehenge discovery | BBC News

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  • Wensleydale?

  • Any love for the Honda Odyssey?

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  • I thought it was the four speed that was the biggest problem, but I guess both were bad. I have one in a 2000 Accord V6. The damn transmission doesn't have a fucking filter. No wonder they crap out.

    You're right about it being an otherwise great vehicle. The third row seats in the Honda are comfier than the middle row of a Ford Freestar van.

  • Witness the beauty of the 1996 Toyota Previa

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  • What's real wheel drive, supercharged, and mid-engined?

    This glorious machine!

  • How to catch houseflies?

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  • Get a dish towel wet and use that to swat at the fly. The weight of the water and the extra length of the towel let's you get it going faster than the fly can react.

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  • Put one foot in front of the other And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor Put one foot in front of the other And soon you’ll be walking out the door

    Sorry. That's the best advice I can give

  • Costco, Walmart pressured by Christian groups over abortion pill

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  • 172 million in shares

    Lol. The combined market cap of those 5 companies is over a trillion dollars. So they own a combined 0.01% of those companies. Whooptie fucking doo

  • What has he done to deserve this?

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  • It has nothing to do with disliking learning. Trying to learn and use a system of measurement without being immersed in it is really hard. For years, I've set all my temperature measurements on my phone and thermometers to Celsius, but because I'm surrounded by people and systems that don't use metric, I have to convert back and forth between the two. It's a lot of mental effort for basically no gain.

    Every day, customary speed and distance units and my intuitive understanding of them are reinforced when driving and seeing street signs. I know how long a kilometer is, but if you say "My brother lives 45 kilometers away", I'd have a difficult time truly understanding that. I wouldn't be able to estimate how long it would take to drive there, for example.

    Another issue is cost. In my job, it would take weeks or months to update all of the documentation and code to metric. Then customers would have to approve of all those changes. A whole bunch of machinery still uses customary units too, so they would have to be replaced or updated.

    I say all of this as a metric lover and evangelist. It's not trivial to convert an entire massive country to metric. Countries that have converted already should be hugely proud of themselves for accomplishing a difficult task.

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  • I feel gross agreeing with Rand fucking Paul about something.

  • Need help picking out a heating solution for the winter.

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  • This is correct, but they do make portable units with two hoses. Those will be as efficient as a window unit. Costco sells dual hose models for a few hundred dollars. I have one and it works well for heating and cooling.

  • Loyalty

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  • For something slow moving and sticky like fake maple syrup, a plastic bottle will let you squeeze the syrup out instead of waiting for it to slowly drip down to the nozzle.

  • Physics Girl Long Covid and ME/CFS Livestream [Fundraiser + Interviews]

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  • Buddy, I just shit your pants.

  • New mpox strain in DR Congo 'most dangerous yet'

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  • The last outbreak was not contained. Prior to 2022, there was no sustained transmission outside of central Africa. The 2022 outbreak saw significant transmission all over the world. There were 30,000 confirmed cases and 42 deaths in the US alone.

    Just because something isn't extremely contagious right now doesn't mean it can't become a pandemic. A virus can will mutate, it can go unnoticed, etc. As it stands, mpox can be transmitted by respiratory droplets.

    Smallpox was a related virus. It too was transmissible through close contact with other people. It killed 300 million people in the 20th century. While vaccination is likely going to prevent mpox from becoming anywhere close to that deadly, I'd rather not play with fire. Don't ignore a nasty virus.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Good to know, thank you! I'll have to look closer when I visit a forum next.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Reddit does shitty stuff, but at least I'm able to find stuff on there. Why Discord took off as a medium to replace forums is beyond me. It's not easily searchable, and search engines can't index it. If people aren't fastidious about replying to messages they're responding to, it's just a nonsense stream of consciousness from dozens of people.

    That being said, I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy's comment nesting is excellent. It's very easy to follow conversations.