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Oh great, that means you can be selected again, right?

Oh wow, that’s a throwback

For anyone else who wondered how a teenage website dev could also be a millennial, in 2024, (and didn’t want to read the article) he died of lukemia in 2006 at age 15.

JLab Go Sport meets all requirements except ANC. Sound quality is good enough for that price point, I use these for exercise and haven’t had an issue with sweat, and the earhooks are comfortable.

My only issue with these is the case is quite bulky, though I tend to leave it at home/in my bag/etc unless I know I’ll need to take them off for an extended period.

Boar Taint would be an excellent metal band name.

Paula’s Choice for liquid or gel exfoliant and sunscreen moisturiser - personally I prefer the ultra sheer SPF 15 as the mineral based one feels rough on my skin. I’ll then top up with a higher SPF face sunscreen if necessary, as it usually is in Australia.

I also use Clinique’s All About Eyes cream, All About Clean 2-in-1 Cleansing + Exfoliating Jelly as my daily scrub, and Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion+ if I want a moisturiser without sunscreen.

If you try Paula’s Choice, give the routine finder a go to find the right fit for your skin type.

Oooh as a non native speaker, these are fun! Are the first two something like no vales polla or no vales ni polla?

Probably people picking up meat that has spoiled/not knowing what to do with it, and getting sick. @BirdEnjoyer said a friend of theirs has to unironically tell people not to pick up anything they didn’t hit themselves.

I agree with the sentiment though, good food shouldn’t go to waste.

Well considering I only learnt to drive automatic, it’s not looking good.

Singing meat!

I prefer “cum gutters”, makes the heteros upseteros

Yvan Eht Nioj

You had one job FFS!

Yeah I remember having the same compatibility and rewrite-ability issues with RW back in the ‘00s, ended up being easier and cheaper to stick with R.

Then you’re in for a very passable Jeppson’s malort.

Had to google what GSD meant because all I could hear was great southern Dane, waauw wuuuw

German shepherd (dog)?

Yeah I was thinking maybe it was some new racist term for “ese”, trying to understand what the “de” was supposed to be. Glad this guy spelled it out.

Top song - Fangoria, Un Poco Todo
Top artist - Kamilo Sanclement, narrowly edging out Estiva and Confidence Man

I had 4 pneumothoraxes when I was 14-15, 3 on my left, 1 on my right. After the one on my right (#4) the surgeon recommended a pleurodesis to permanently fix my left lung to my chest wall. Basically they rough up the skin between your chest and lung, then fuse them together with talc.

Recovery was excruciating, the first 3 days were the worst with a drainage tube stuck out the back of my chest, and once I got home it was weeks of taking it very easy, slowly expanding my lung capacity.

That was 15 years ago, since then I’ve had no pneumothorax requiring surgery (had a couple of minor ones on my right that rectified themselves), and it hasn’t stopped me from working out, both cardio and strength training. It has definitely reduced my lung capacity and I did have to go to a physio to relearn to breathe from my diaphragm, I’ll never be an athlete, but I wasn’t going to be one before my lungs collapsed in the first place. It also means scuba diving and anything with big pressure differentials on my body are out of the question, but that wasn’t something I was interested in to begin with. Overall, I’m still able to do the things I want to, I’m slightly aware of my reduced lung capacity when I think about it, and I have to work harder on my cardio to achieve a similar result to others, but do not regret it.

If your doctor is recommending it, and if these are regularly occurring, particularly with no obvious cause, I would take it. Two in a year is a lot lower than what I had, and the surgeon only offered the pleurodesis once the right side collapsed as that significantly increased my chances of both happening at the same time. Not sure what the medical advice is these days but in my case they were adamant about not doing it unless it posed a serious risk of both collapsing or if the air volumes were large - from memory my first was over 1L, subsequent were always smaller. Maybe ask what the risks of NOT having the surgery are, or what risk threshold(s) you’ve crossed that are driving the decision to have surgery now, rather than after another.

Agreed, my new music mix is usually pretty good too.