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  • I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?

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  • You don’t control geopolitics but you do control your own outlook. If you can’t accept a someday threat but continue living today, then you are losing the battle before you even know if you have to fight. Yes, losing the ability to get through the day is overreacting, even in light of the threat potential. I could give you 6 other things to worry yourself into paralysis about if I wanted to. But you control your own outlook.

  • YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

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  • Uncritically accepting anything is always a problem. In this case, American Venezuelans are not representative of their entire home country, as OP says. But on the other hand they likely know more about Venezuela than the average American, so I wouldn’t reject what they have to say categorically either.

  • YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

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  • And most groups really. The dynamics are often the same. We see the folks who were wealthy and discontent enough to leave. It can’t be overstated how expensive it can be to move to the US from some places. People have to save for years just for the airfare.

  • united states of the americas

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  • I guess we no longer need the pretense.

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • It didn’t take much to knock you off the wagon did it? Poor showing. Try again.

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • “Dietary fiber” is carbohydrates that you can’t digest for food but which your gut bacteria can live on happily. Take psyllium husk capsules or eat foods with lots of dietary fiber.

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • Is serotonin only effective within the brain?

  • YSK that your gut is connected to your brain. Bacterias in your gut can naturally create serotonin and dopamine. If you have happy gut bacterias, you will feel happier

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  • Never have so many unrelated points been made so quickly, incisively, and fruitlessly!

  • Iran offers to sell weapons systems for crypto

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  • There is very public evidence. A former national security advisor Alexander Lebed claimed that 100 nuclear suitcase bombs had been “lost track of” on the TV program 60 minutes. That’s not very hard evidence, but it’s certainly worrying. And I don’t know what kind of hard evidence you could reasonably hope to get over such a damning and embarrassing state of affairs. Is Russia going to issue a report documenting how they lost 100 portable nukes? Doubtful.

  • Rectal Oxygenation Could Save Your Life One Day

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  • Yeah exactly. Hank Green hints at this in the video title but skin is the biggest problem that had to be solved to move us onto land. How does one keep from drying out? It’s like we made a spacesuit for ourselves and now live in it.

  • Iran offers to sell weapons systems for crypto

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  • Just when you’re celebrating the collapse of your enemy, you realize that all their armaments are hitting the secondary or black markets, going into who-knows-whose hands. Same thing happened with the breakup of the USSR. Nukes were “lost.”

  • Tony Perkins Calls For Boycotting "Woke" Chick-fil-A - Joe.My.God.

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  • They went through a very public divestment of the company from all the “family” centric hate groups. The owners still donate to them personally but the company’s charitable giving arm does not.

    You could call them woke for “backing up” a gay marriage or you could say they chose not to go to the trouble of breaking heads over some gay marriage. I know the Trump era has emboldened the worst of us, but that doesn’t mean everyone is for sure willing to prove that their PR has been phony all along. They don’t have enough to gain.

  • When you opt out of super spreader family holiday events, get side-eyed but everyone else gets terribly sick

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  • Vindicated, yes, but does seeing your whole family sick actually make you smile?

  • Rectal Oxygenation Could Save Your Life One Day

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  • I learned about this from an awesome Hank Green video about how life evolved to move out of the ocean onto land. Developing air breathing lungs was one step in that, and it appears that lungs developed from stomachs. Any soft tissue with a lot of blood flowing through it close to the surface can absorb some oxygen. Some fish began to develops such sacs and use them to gulp and capture airborne oxygen. And he notes that there are some surgeries today where they may “aspirate the patient’s colon” with oxygen to keep their blood oxygen up when conventional breathing must be supplemented. Breathing through your ass is in fact a thing.

  • Here we go again

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  • Well, a lot of ways. You do it at the post office rather than at a polling place - this may be a critical difference for populations routinely underserved by few polling places with long lines. You can also submit a ballot that you carefully filled out at home with all your research materials next to you.

    It’s pretty obviously different. But I think what you are really saying is “I don’t want to have to go anywhere further than my own mailbox to vote.” And I’ll grant you it is less convenient than that. I know convenience always makes a difference, and for some people is actually more like accessibility. But if voting takes a little effort… just do it. I always drop mine off at my polling place rather than mail it. I like the ritual.

  • YSK: The pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online

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  • YSK: The pulled 60 Minutes CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online

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  • Don’t put any trust in any kind of top level domain, friend. They’ve never had much meaning.

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • Not only does it need to become possible, it needs to become more effective than other treatments like crowns and implants. I think it’s going to be a long time, and even then will only be applicable in limited cases for a long time, and will be really expensive.

  • Bay Area homeowners are hiring a sword-wielding man to help them kick squatters out of empty properties: ‘The average squatter has no melee experience’

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  • In theory. Long term vacancy is not in any corporate landlord’s plan, though. They will adjust rather than seek impossible rent forever. And aside from large apartment buildings, most residences (75% of 1-4 unit buildings) are owned by small landlords who don’t give a shit about network effects.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump

    gizmodo.com /sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Sisters hanging out, holding hands (and feet)

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Cuddle train has left the station!

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    It’s not a proper gardening community without this posted at least once, so let’s get it out of the way :D

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    This potted succulent REALLY gave our doorstep some pizzazz this year