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  • How do I actually get rid of post nasal drip?

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  • So it turns out that phenylephrine spray (i.e. topically applied) is actually super effective. It only lasts for a couple hours, although it's insanely fast to start working.

  • HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death

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  • It sucks when you're led to believe you can trust people whom you definitely should not trust. Universities, like all other organizations with people in them, are full of broken people who don't know how to respect those with whom they disagree. My former supervisor (and underlings) cost me a lot more than thousands of dollars of therapy. But I know I have to forgive them, or else I'll just perpetuate the cycle in creative ways I can't imagine.

  • How am I supposed to obtain income?

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  • What if you don't know anyone willing to help you get a job?

    Ask them for who they know. Heck, even if they are willing to help you, still ask them for more contacts.

    It legit took me over a decade of work experience to finally realize that "networking" was really just a simple graph-traversal algorithm for finding friends. If those friends need help with something that pays, then offer your help.

  • How am I supposed to obtain income?

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  • In many ways, I feel similarly. However, "this one weird trick" got me out of it. Think of networking as something you do to find like-minded complex-abstract-problem-solvers. You're just finding friends. If one of those friends has a particularly tough problem and they're willing to pay you, then, congrats! You now have a job offer!

    The algorithm is simple: ask people what they do, why they do it, and, crucially, who they know. Then contact each of those people, name-drop their friend, mention interests you might have in common, and ask to meet you talk about fun stuff. Repeat. Follow up with people to let them know you appreciated meeting with them (or not...if you didn't really appreciate meeting with them). If you get the sense that someone is looking for help and you're interested in what they're doing, offer your help. The worst thing that can happen is they say no.

  • Back on Standard Time

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  • Or, you know, wake up at the same literal time, no matter what the clock says. Listen to your circadian rhythms, not some number on the wall. The time shift doesn't magically give people an extra hour. That's all marketing. DST stands for Daylight Stealing Time, as far as I'm concerned.

    Disclaimer: I'm a night owl; I could care less for waking up early.

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  • ...coolant to warm enough to evaporate the moisture...

    Where I come from, we just scrape off enough ice to see where you're going, and crack a window to keep it dry enough the interior doesn't freeze. But, hey, if you know how to leave early enough to get to places on time in a warm cabin, more power to you 😉

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  • ...in Chicago ... pre-heating the car is a must 3 months of the year.

    I don't believe you've lived anywhere cold for very long. Cold places existed long before remote start. The car warms up while you finish shoveling and brushing off the car. You're warm from shoveling, and the car is ready to go. If it's just cold and you're late to whatever, you sit your shivering ass down behind the wheel and drive away anyways...

  • When we finally get to a 4 day work week, will you be happy to see Friday go, or Monday?

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  • Hear hear! Monday/Friday off is overrated. Get rid of hump day!

  • Biden EPA Rejects Plastics Industry’s Fuzzy Math That Misleads Customers About Recycled Content

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  • I upvoted... Where's my Nobel?

  • Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest ever drone strikes on Russian capital

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  • Biomass power station produced four times emissions of UK coal plant, says report

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  • Yes, the reporting is incredibly lazy. Such is The Guardian's standards.

    Drax is the largest power station in the UK. Assuming the figures in Wikipedia are in the same ballpark as the nameless report that The Guardian is referencing without citation, Drax has a capacity of 3.9 GW. Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is capable of producing about 2 GW of net electricity. It's doubtful they're actually running either to capacity, but we can estimate that Drax produces roughly double the power as Ratcliffe-on-Soar. That means Drax is still roughly emitting double the carbon per watt.

    It would be nice to know whether that figure includes biomass transport across the Atlantic...

    edit: typo

  • Guess I should type faster

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  • As they say: Some people want to watch the world burn... Other people want to carry the torches.

    I salute your bravery.

  • Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge

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  • The chemistry is substantially different, so we'll probably have to wait until scientists run some tests to get a more precise set of parameters that affect degradation. I expect failure modes like dendrites are basically impossible with solid-state, but electrode cracking is still possible. There might even be new and exciting ways they can degrade! Regardless, this is still great news.

    Engineering Explained has a good summary: https://youtu.be/w4lvDGtfI9U (Piped link: https://piped.video/watch?v=w4lvDGtfI9U)

  • KOSA is dead! (US)

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  • America’s Political Chaos Is Enviable When You Live in an Autocracy

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  • It's a bit of a paradox, because public unrest is a feature of democracy, not a bug. What autocrats fail to recognize is that the appearance of a peaceful society without conflict is not the same thing as a peaceful society without conflict. Public protest and unrest is a symptom, your society telling you something is wrong, not the thing that's wrong.

  • the evolution

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  • There's a "block user" feature in Lemmy. It's useful in situations like these. Some people never learn the limits of vulgarity.

  • the evolution

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  • Pretty sure they're either a troll or wildly ignorant. Either way, it's probably safe to just ignore them.

  • 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

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  • Unless you're willing to claim we're in a civil war, then I'm not willing to call Republicans "the enemy" ... That's that the real enemies of America want of us: to divide and conquer from within.

  • 'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling

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  • I think you're just projecting your own beliefs onto him.

    That's fair; my statement was pretty strong. But I think we can agree that by comparison Biden cares more about it than his opponent, a known insurrectionist.