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voracitude

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  • How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth

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  • Sounds like it could be a stim thing - impulsive, you say? Any chance there's (undiagnosed?) ASD there? The mentions of bitter spray reminded me of when my mother tried that to get me to stop biting my nails. I just stopped using my lips and tongue, and only used my teeth...

    Anyway, if it's a stimulation thing, maybe finding an alternative would be easier than getting him to stop entirely.

  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • but autism? Nah.

    Preaching to the choir haha.

    Regarding your point on the efficacy of acetaminophen: agreed wholeheartedly. Like /u/i_has_a_hat said, if you combine it with ibuprofen it's far more effective. My go-to for bad pain is 500-1000mg acetaminophen and 400mg ibuprofen; I stole the idea from my ex's neurologist when he prescribed it for dealing with the side effects of her main medication (and he also specifically said it would help with her period cramps too, hers were always bad).

    As to the guy taking 5 an hour... That's an incredible amount of acetaminophen, even "normal strength". You said you wouldn't, I think I couldn't take that many pills. Just the idea has me gagging 🤢 I think it's fair to call that one an outlier in the data.

  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • I appreciate the sources, but I don't appreciate the

    You... you didn't try at all, did you?

    Because nothing you've posted here is news to me. I think you'll find I said:

    If the danger is people not bothering to check what they're ingesting, I'll concede that's a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

    So I'll just quote directly from your very first link, because the rest of them don't say anything different:

    Responsible for 56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States. Notably, around 50% of these poisonings are unintentional, often resulting from patients misinterpreting dosing instructions or unknowingly consuming multiple acetaminophen-containing products.

    And

    At therapeutic levels, acetaminophen is generally considered safe. However, instances of acetaminophen toxicity often arise due to patient misconceptions about dosing or a lack of awareness regarding its presence in multiple medications they may be consuming. Intentional ingestion of large doses also contributes to toxicity.

    So, in around 50% of cases, the danger is people not bothering to check what they're ingesting. They took other medications containing acetaminophen and didn't know it, or they took other drugs that amplified the ability of the acetaminophen to cause damage (like alcohol, which is made very clear you're not supposed to take with acetaminophen).

    In the rest, overdoses were intentionally taken, so you can't really count those in the danger statistics since the goal was to use it dangerously.

    To put this in perspective:

    When taken at therapeutic doses, acetaminophen has a good safety profile. The therapeutic doses are:

    • 10 to 15 mg/kg/dose in children every 4 to 6 hours with a maximum dose of 80 mg/kg/d
    • 325 to 1000 mg/dose in adults every 4 to 6 hours, with a maximum daily dose of 4 g/d

    Toxicity is likely to develop in adults at:

    • 12 g over a 24 hours
    • 7.5 to 10 g in a single dose
    • Doses >350mg/kg

    Toxicity in children occurs following a single dose of 150 mg/kg or 200 mg/kg in otherwise healthy children aged 1 to 6.

    Just do the maths on how much acetaminophen you normally take for any given ailment, and you'll realise just how far beyond those doses the danger really lies (or maybe that you're one of the people who doesn't check what they're taking).

    So, to conclude: acetaminophen is indeed dangerous if you don't pay attention to what you're taking or how much. Other examples of things that are dangerous if you don't use them right: cars, ovens, lawnmowers, cotton buds, the internet... the full list is quite long, actually, but I'm sure you get the idea.

  • Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say

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  • Source please? I haven't been able to find anything credible about whatever danger it is you're referencing - unless the danger is overdosing because the person didn't know they were taking acetaminophen in different forms? If the danger is people not bothering to check what they're ingesting, I'll concede that's a clear and ever-present danger - just not one specific to acetaminophen.

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    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob's shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they'll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

    At least, this is how I've been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I'll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.

  • Eric Adams says many Gen Z voters who back his NYC mayoral rival Mamdani are ‘nasty, radicalized and hate our country’

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  • You don't hate our country, you said so yourself - you hate what it is right now, because you know it can be better. You want it to be better. That's not hate, that's love.

  • 'If an Aboriginal man hit a white man, he would be locked up': Lack of prison time for hit-and-run driver questioned

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  • I appreciate that, quite a lot actually - it was unexpected. I'm sorry for the tone of my previous message, I tried to edit it several times, but I kept getting an error.

  • 'If an Aboriginal man hit a white man, he would be locked up': Lack of prison time for hit-and-run driver questioned

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  • Ahh, you're one of those Australians who just can't admit that there's a problem at home. First of all, more lenient sentencing for non-aboriginals translates to harsher sentencing for aboriginals. They're inextricably linked.

    Secondly, you said the whole court system, and now you want to ignore over half of it just because it doesn't involve "penalties"? Moving the goalposts but that's not a problem for me, would you like to know why? Because these trends in civil justice are in fact indicative of trends in the whole court system, including in the criminal courts, where sentencing is shown by the data to be overly harsh against aboriginal Australians:

    1. https://www.premiers.qld.gov.au/publications/categories/reports/assets/exploring-sentencing.doc
    2. https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi013.pdf - over-representation at all levels means more guilty verdicts and more penalties, and more means harsher because where a non-aboriginal would get off the aboriginal gets convicted
    3. https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/pathways-to-justice-inquiry-into-the-incarceration-rate-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples-alrc-report-133/3-incidence/convictions-and-penalties-imposed/ - right at the top:

      3.44     Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander defendants were convicted in the same proportion as non-Indigenous defendants, but were more likely to receive a sentence of imprisonment.

    That's just three results off the first page. Your argument is myopic and easily debunked, that's why you moving the goalposts doesn't actually impact my point in the slightest.

    Thirdly,

    Finally, the existence of a government strategy to mitigate racism in the justice system is not evidence of harsher penalties for minorities

    So there's a strategy to combat a nonexistent problem? Are you even sentient?

  • Interesting roots 🤔🤔

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  • 'If an Aboriginal man hit a white man, he would be locked up': Lack of prison time for hit-and-run driver questioned

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  • However, that doesn't mean the whole court system is prejudiced towards harsher penalties for our indigenous. I'm sure many

    Sure, are ya? Sure enough to back that up with some kind of evidence like a peer-reviewed study? Maybe two, or a statement of a strategy to combat this very issue, with cited sources on the data, from an official Australian government website?

    Because for me to be sure of anything, I need more than just vibes. I need facts, and so should you.

  • How many wolves could kill a tiger?

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  • In any fight, circumstances are king. You need far, far more variables defined in order to be able to answer this question, and even then it won't be a certain outcome. Who has the element of surprise? What's the age, weight, and sex of the tiger (and the wolves)? How recently have the tiger/wolves eaten? Does anyone slip on a banana peel during the encounter?

    Maybe we're going about this wrong. Are you trying to make sure the tiger is dead or are you trying to use as few wolves as possible?

  • Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief'

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  • Hey, I didn't violate any rules. I just suggested an apparently-legal activity 🤷

  • That should fix it for sure!

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  • I'm quite certain these are completely separate times and places, how the hell has someone tried this more than once?

  • The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

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  • Stripe simply passes through communications between merchants and banks, Stripe has nothing to do with deciding disputes. Source: I deal with this every weekday and sometimes on weekends.

  • Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief'

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  • The $10 Payment That Cost Me $43.95 – The Madness of SaaS Chargebacks

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  • What’s really going on here? Why do banks completely ignore the terms customers agreed to when they subscribed or in cases where they’re clearly making false claims?

    Because they can. There's no incentive to side with the merchant - from their perspective, "what are you gonna do, not accept cards from a certain issuer?". I've thought in the past that it might be a numbers game - the real problem customers do it a lot and get caught. I don't know if that's true though, I suspect it's got more to do with keeping penalty fees.

    And why aren’t customers required to provide any proof at all?

    Because that would mean the bank would have to verify the proof, and there are no consequences for not.

    What actually prevents someone from using a SaaS product, filing chargebacks every time they cancel their subscription, and essentially getting refunded for the last several months of usage?

    I can answer this one as a consumer, because I've reflected on it frequently while fighting disputes.

    • not having energy
    • forgetting when you do have energy
    • not having time
    • not wanting the confrontation
    • thinking you won't get a refund so it's a waste of time you don't have anyway
    • illness

    A lot of reasons can come up. It's not really relevant though, I think card companies should spend the resources we do validating our evidence for chargebacks, but then they'd have to pay people to do that and they don't keep the penalty fees. Big hit to their bottom line.

  • 'Free Palestine worse than KKK' claims Jerry Seinfeld, funnyman who dated 17-year-old

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  • "Funnyman" so famously "funny" he's been regularly lampooned for decades as being formulaic, bland, and predictable. Quite literally the source of the

    What's the deal with...

    meme. He's popular like pop music, and his comedy is about as deep. This kind of dullness tracks with Zionism and genocide apologia, so I suppose these comments aren't that surprising.