Don't f**k around with your health. Something is wrong, get it checked out.

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Ah, if only we could afford to do so, in America XD

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College edition: Do not get a degree in something “you love.” Not solely for that reason at least. Hear your education toward an end goal job. A degree does not equal a job anymore.

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It's great to get a degree in something you love, but be realistic about the job opportunities it will bring. There's no such thing as bad education.

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laziness is a self fulfilling thing. The more you lie in bed, the less likely you are to get up. And if you do, you are gonna feel like going back to bed. Get active!

The same is also kind of true for the brain. Those who don't stimulate themselves mentally while they are young are at greater risk of getting dementia. Do activities to keep your brain sharp!

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Walking takes more brain power than doing a crossword, apparently. Better to be physically active than sedentary and just mentally active.

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Quickbreads include muffins, banana bread, biscuits, and soda bread.

All quickbreads rise by acid-base reactions. Usually in baking that means one of four acids: acetic acid, lactic acid, citric acid, or tartaric acid. If a recipe is calling for one and you don't have it, look up a substitution tool and use one of the others.

Acetic acid = vinegar

Citric acid = citrus juice

Lactic acid = buttermilk, yogurt

Tartatic acid = cream of tartar

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Lysergic acid = 😵‍💫

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You are not *afraid*, you perceive a risk that hasn't been managed. Fear cannot be solved, but risks can, learning to identify fear based language and converting it to risk will help get you out of the downward emotional stress spiral, and possible onto a path of resolution.

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Still not gonna jump out of airplanes.

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Never make a large financial decision without considering *all* the tax consequences.

Also, *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* refers to the distance traveled, not submerged depth.

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"Also, *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* refers to the distance traveled, not submerged depth." I appreciate that fact...

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Windows key + V in windows 10 and 11 brings up your clipboard history

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You need to turn the feature on first, but it is very useful. And you can even pin things you need a lot and they will survive a reboot. I have one statement I type a lot at work and it is pinned so I don't have to type it anymore!

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Add all the water at the beginning when making pizza dough.

Once you have a ball of dough, if you add water it's not going to incorporate well and you'll have to work you dough twice as hard to make it soft enough.

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Hmmmm that is how the recipe is written, just don't add flour all at once. Add flour until you get the right consistency. This includes while kneading.

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If you live in the United States and have any insurance, you don’t need a prescription to get a month of physical therapy. It’s called “direct access”, and you can call your local PT clinic and request a walk in appointment.

Here’s why this matters:

You hurt your back. Nothing major, you just moved wrong, maybe you heard a pop (or maybe not) and now it hurts to move. You could call to get in with an orthopedic specialist, but they’re booked a month out. You wait the month and see the doc who orders an MRI. That’s a 2 week wait. You do the MRI and have a follow up with the doc a week or two later. He sees something like degenerative disc/joint disease (which, if you’re over 25, you probably have) and sends you to PT. 2 months after your initial injury, you start PT. You have all sorts of weird compensatory movements due to the pain, everything hurts, and PT needs to work through months of guarding and compensations to make any progress.

Or.

You hurt your back with the same injury and mechanism as before. You call the doc and they’re booking a month out, so you make the appointment. In the meantime, you start PT. You work for a month to help stretch/strengthen/get things moving appropriately again. At the end of the month one of three things happens:

1.Your back feels better and you cancel your doctor’s appointment
2.Your back is getting better so you keep your appointment and request continued PT
3.Your back is NOT getting better, and you can tell your ortho that you’ve been doing PT for a month with no improvement, so they move alternative treatment options.

In any case you’re in a much better situation than you were in the first situation.

***ETA: This is covered by insurance. Just pay your usual copay. The clinic will verify your insurance before you start to make sure you’re in network*** *See ETA 4 if you’re worried about deductibles or not having insurance*

ETA 2: [Here’s a link to what each state offers](https://www.choosept.com/globalassets/choosept/assets/pdf-downloadables/direct-access-by-state-map.pdf)

ETA 3: I used back as an example, but it’s anything you’d need PT for, from back to neck to knee or hip or shoulder…hell if your toe hurts and it’s been jacking up how you walk, we can probably help. We can also help with tension headaches!

ETA 4: I’m seeing a bunch of people rightfully worried about unmet deductibles and still having to pay out of pocket. Most clinics have a self-pay option which is substantially better than what we charge insurance (because we only get reimbursed a fraction of that). The self pay is basically just enough to cover overhead. If that’s not doable, many will also offer financing.

If you’re worried about the financial strain, *tell your therapist!!!* I’ve treated plenty of people who tell me at the evaluation that they’re strapped for cash. Instead of seeing them multiple times/week, I’ll do the eval to figure out what’s wrong, and then give them stretches and/or exercises, and educate how to progress them. I’ll have them come back in a few weeks and we can update the plan based on how they’re doing. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than living in pain!

Finally, if finances are absolutely limiting, a lot of public health clinics have resources for free or reduced cost/sliding scale PT. It’s generally one or two days per week and it’s therapists who are volunteering to help folks out.

The system is broken, but that doesn’t mean you have to live in pain.

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This is a bad idea. You haven't yet seen a doctor, so you have no idea whether you even need PT. Depending on what's wrong, PT could make it worse. If you think you strained a muscle, you might have actually torn a ligament, so the therapist would be treating you for the wrong thing. I don't believe most PT places would touch you without a script from your doctor for liability reasons.

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If you get a burst of floaters in your eye and see a curtain-like vision cut moving in from the side, top, or bottom, you may have a detached retina and have to get to an eye doctor asap, as you could lose vision in the affected area. This is a highly charistic pattern of vision loss that is caused by the retina peeling away from the back of your eye. It’s a medical emergency but it is highly treatable.

If you have a high correction for myopia you are at increased risk for it. Tends to happen in middle age or later as a consequence of a vitreous separation. I had it happen in both my eyes while in my middle 50s.

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see more here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinal_detachment

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And you may get a cataract in the eye a few months after the surgery due to scarring, and will need to have your lens replaced with an implant. The upside of this is that you will see better than you have in years and they can correct your myopia with the right lens implant. No more glasses for driving.

Pro tip: If you have a strong correction in both eyes, ask the surgeon if they will indicate lens replacement is medically necessary for BOTH eyes so you are not stuck with a normal vision eye (the one with the replacement lens, which will have a correction) and your other, terrible vision unaffected eye (which in my case was like -7.50 or something).

The retinal surgery blew away my insurance deductible of $7,000, and with the surgeon’s medical note of necessity, the second lens replacement was 100% covered and essentially a freebie.

Then I had the retina detach in that eye about 18 months later… at least, they didn’t need to change the artificial lens to fix the retina.

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Changed original to reflect that, according to an ophthalmologist who replied, apparently you will not necessarily go blind if it’s not fixed within 24 hours, but you do have to be seen by someone asap to ensure that you get proper care. It’s urgent to be seen, but the clock is not ticking quite as fast as I understood it to be.

— And I had a friend who did indeed partially lose vision in the affected eye because he waited from Saturday AM to Monday to be seen. So as with most things in life, YMMV.

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They're not called "Star Destroyers" because they destroy stars. It's because they're ships. Starships. But they're like Navy Destroyers. Star Destroyers.

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I'm not sure when in my life this will be useful

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Some credit cards cover accidental damage to electronics for a predefined period of time. Use those cards for buying computers and electronics.

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These are through VISA and Mastercard, so widely available and rarely used. There are specifications and rules so read the disclosure.

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When you are writing a paper and need x number of sources…if every source says the same thing you can use and cite all of them. It doesn’t have to be separate discrete pieces of information. So 5 sources all say the sky is blue…you cite all 5 sources and bam you have 5/10 out of the way (for example). No one told me this til I was in grad school and they were like 25 page paper with like 30 citations and I started freaking out cuz it was the biggest paper I’d ever written.

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I read a footnote that said "I had this in a dream"

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