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No. Do you? If so, why? If I had that visit, we wouldn't talk about the specific allergy med anyway, as I've been on it for almost a decade.

There are vast differences between them, so try others. Some even taste better than cow juice to some people. I prefer the coconut stuff, and I've never liked the taste of milk. So to me it's better. Moriah prefers cow juice, but it fucks up her digestion. It took me decades to realize, that like many people (most?) I have a low-level persistent digestion problem with dairy. It's impossible to know until you do an elimination, and realize what changes happen. I love that one, but Moriah likes to make foam/latte and says it's not as foamy.

I had no reason to.

Oh, the fact that I had photos of my setup taken from the glasses themselves really helped. He loved it. The smart glasses are his everyday except at work, where they are not allowed.

A reminder that you get nothing if you don't ask. I talked to the dispensing/measurement guy at Sam's, who said my wishes were not unreasonable, and he had me wait for the optician with decades of experience. I really like that guy. He spent a solid half hour going over my past glasses, my monitor setup, and all the details of my new eyes. He had a bunch of ideas, but also set me up with a no-cost followup with the optometrist this Friday. I've done one of these appointments with him before, and he fucking NAILED the setup for me then. That guy absolutely loves his job and to hear about success. I think this will be solved in a few days.

Oooooh, wrong product! This is oil based, would not work with a hose. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cutter-32-oz-Fogging-Insecticide-190368/204683905 That was my fuckup, I had a picture of the hose one for Moriah to buy before, and sent it.

I believe in me, and think I can achieve more.

It was the only compatible option at the store. Since then I did more research, which led to this post, and no new answers. So fuck it, just keep using it. Because it says so? Seriously, not being a smartass, it makes it clear it's ready to use, so I don't understand the question. The fogging machine sprays a TINY amount over a large area. About This Product Designed to help keep outdoor gatherings and your home's exterior areas comfortable. The Cutter 32 oz. Fogging Insecticide kills mosquitoes and biting flies. This insecticide is ready to use (no mixing required) so that you can begin treating areas right away.

I do not want to make myself dumber.

J&J stock took a shit after the manipulative liar did his speech. People are retarded. First, to take medical advice from a moron. Second, to be paying J&J money for a generic drug you can buy from any other brand for 1/5th. I wonder how much insider trading got done by the grifter team?

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I used AI to help me edit this, but not directly. I find that letting AI edit ruins the personality and flow of what I write. I think my style of clearly saying "THIS IS FUCKED" is important here, rather than the watery version AI wanted. "This may not be an ideal circumstance for your health." Yeah no, IT'S FUCKING FUCKED. I reference George Carlin: Here is the AI conversation in whole if you're interested: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/read-this-and-critique-it-pOjpAKXlTxOqOcRkSjFlQw#4

It's 2025, medical care should (and can be) de-centralized. Despite the pharma industry's insistence that you need their version of deeply controlled health care, they have lost control, if you so choose. Background: I had an appointment with my PCP, who I've used for about 15 years. Unfortunately, ACA/Obamacare's complexity and extremely high costs drove him to close his neighborhood family practice and go to the Cigna conglomerate. This was probably one of the drivers behind ACA; concentrate the power over health into highly centralized major corporations. I moved along with him to using Cigna specifically for him. Later on, my insurance plan got a divorce from Cigna and I could not reliably count on what was covered with him or what the costs would be. It became a game/fiasco to deal with the billing, despite the claims (lies) of the ACA. Some of the problems: My appointment this week was a "forced" one, not because I need to see him on my own accord. In order to get a prescription renewal for Montelukast, a common, non-dangerous allergy med, I had to have a "checkup" with him. Stop and think about this. Take a moment. My allergy med, that has no potential for abuse, and basically zero risk, is being gate-kept behind a $146.98-$365 forced appointment. Is this not completely fucked? Is this not the evidence we need that the system is just a massive centralized power and money grab fueled by government complicity? Aside from the cost itself is the time and stress of dealing with totally unpredictable billing. Over the years with him being off-network, I have had to pay anywhere from $0 to $365. Nobody can fix this, and despite all assurances at their office, it's just random. I may get the insured discount price of $146.98 for those who do have insurance, but a high deductible. I sometimes get an "all paid up" bill and have no idea why. And sometimes it's the ultra-high $365 uninsured/cash price. WTF! What are the alternatives? Meanwhile though, while he's been a fantastic doctor, the resources available to us mere mortals and consumers have grown astronomically. It's far less important to talk to a medical professional now, compared to 15 years ago. You can do so much on your own. In particular, my changing needs have mostly been solved by ME, not him. And he fully agrees with this. While he gave me a prescription for a very important drug that's part of my core needs, I had to go outside of the $1100/mo pharma game to make it affordable. Since then, again according to HIM, I've become more knowledgeable on that one specific topic than most PCPs who have only broad but flat knowledge. I developed vertical knowledge in what my specific needs are. And in solving the problem of big pharma cost, I also solved the prescription problem because I simply buy it on the gray market without one. It's also recently become very easy and pretty affordable to have your own testing, or buyer's group testing, done on the gray market options that cost literally less than 1/20th of the US pharma price. So it's not only cheap and easy, but safe. Risks and opportunities: Of course, I'm not medically trained. There is alleged risk in not having routine checkups, but there's also strong evidence that they don't really increase longevity. (Citation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6353639 Systematic offers of general health checks for adults do not reduce illness or death rates and are unlikely to provide significant benefit, but may lead to unnecessary tests and treatments.) Still however, it means I need to maintain a conscious awareness and expend effort. Which I already do. I think it's foolish to think that you can meet your health needs with 15-minute increments of doctor time, and absolutely nobody cares more or has more invested in your health than...you. There's risk in the gray market, but then, there's always been risk with pharma too. I can mitigate risks with testing. I think this is even more true for chronic challenges, like diabetes for me. That's because it's something you can concentrate on over time, and continually read, which is what I've done for years. This builds person-specific, disease-specific knowledge that likely exceeds a PCP's more horizontal knowledgebase. I'm able to measure, adjust, experiment, measure, adjust... Over and over again, until I get the results I need. For example I've managed my A1C, myself, from dangerous to BELOW the "norm" for most Americans eating the standard junk American diet. This is because I learned about how both nutrition and peptides affect me specifically, as well as the general population. The decision flow: So anyway, I originally had a "forced" appointment today, which I rescheduled yesterday, for Friday. Because I wasn't prepped for it. I wasn't sure what data I needed to have ready for the one health mystery I have ongoing. This morning when I woke up and was having coffee with Moriah outside, thinking of how to collate the data for this discussion, it hit me. I can do it with AI tools, and de-centralized medicine where I simply pay an Indian/Pakistani doctor or NP by the hour to consult with me. For far less than the 15 minutes with my PCP. Maybe offer to engage my PCP on a video appointment AFTER I have more knowledge, and see where that goes. I've done this for minor things in the past rather than try to engage my PCP's massive corporate bullshit, and it has gone well. So I said to Moriah, "I think I'm done with Western industrialize medicine." She fully and instantly agreed. I'm going to blow off the Montelukast and see how that goes. Do I still even need it? If so, I'll gray market it from India like I do with Metformin.

You probably only need that because you've been using stupid shitty oil.

That's when the RH has to go down, the opposite when it's super hot outside and you cool it.

I already saw a pissup on Twitter showing how this is more Orange Jesus shit, probably. Also that crazy fuck he put in as emperor of medicine or whatever. Basically every medical professional in the discussion said it was bullshit, and I moved on. I thought about posting it here but I figured one of the woke MSM watchers here would do it for me.

Previous discussion debunking soy and estrogen/testosterone: New info on dairy milk and this problem (on top of what we knew came from beef): https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-side-effects-of-the-hormones-in-milk Within an hour of drinking dairy milk, blood levels of the estrogen estrone in men go up and testosterone goes down.

Life is too short to give a fuck.

Some of you will immediately think I'm retarded. I can't necessarily argue, but on this topic, I'm not. I've carefully tracked it. Both thermostats monitor it, the Homepods have humidity sensing, and I have other sensors that happen to have humidity as an aside. AC removes ABSOLUTE humidity, but RH is relative to temp obviously. Since our AC can be fighting 115 degrees to get to 77, that's a huge amount of relativity. RH=ese×100 So...that change means the RH goes up by up to 90% if all else were equal (which it's not). I don't have any way to know how much water is removed relative to all this. I can't get any AI to give me a conclusive number. The best I can come up with is around 50% removal of AH, but there are surely a billion variables. Anyway, our humidifier has not kicked on for months, and the thermostats occasionally warn us that RH is above whatever is "not good." I think that's 60%. In winter, obviously, the reverse is true and we dump 6+ gallons a day into the air. I don't know that this info is useful really, but I find such data and experiments to be fun and fascinating.

I was expecting more of a dog wiener commentary.

Free to good home, phones were traded in so the cases stayed with us. 15 Pro Kevlar case, ultra thin, and sturdy. 15 Pro Max Peak Design quad-lock case with gray fabric texture. This one is still in use until the new phone arrives in about a week, then can ship. And this case, unused, for iPad Pro 11", M4 5th gen (current model). I bought two of them to compare and then forgot to return it. Not a bad case at all, liked the other one slightly more. https://amazon.com/dp/B0D2VPN7YR

I also have my iPad set into the firmware's ultra-dense, small mode, for maximum space. It's a one-time setting you can do on the Pro during first setup. It changes the entire OS's scaling and resolution, which is fantastic with proper glasses (or presumably great vision). My guess is you may not need to have 37 windows open on a huge screen plus another screen in order to do your job most effectively. Anyway, I think I'm going to go talk to my optometrist and do like the Quay thing, find a good tier 2 RX solution, not the $500 everyday non-computer lenses I use.