I have hypothyroidism I don't experience "as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump." Are you drinking coffee or tea? You shouldn't eat or drink for an hour after taking a synthroid pill.
Hi, from the other coast. I wish I had solar maybe someday. Do you ever watch Artisan Electric from the UK? He tried to run his shop on 100% solar+battery. He ran into a problem where sunny day batteries full shop using power but the panels themselves were throttling. They had no where to send the extra power. He bought a bitcoin floor heater (lol), charged EVs, and some other stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evkdqTcMbWM
I never used to drink any caffeine. In fact the few times I had tried it when I was a teen or my 20s it made my chest pound my heart raced so much. It was Lebanese strong cardamom coffee so maybe not the best example.
Then at age 34 I started a new job my first shift work job, late evenings, some overnight jobs. I started off with fancy coffee like french vanilla. A year or so later the first Starbucks opened. I was drinking venti quad shot lattes.
Then energy drinks were permitted for sale here (we had a can ban for years). I recall after drinking a Rockstar 750ml for breakfast and the following muscle spasms made me consider I should tone it down.
So I've settled a bit a small coffee in the evening. Sometimes I don't even finish it.
That reminds me of when I was undiagnosed with hypothyroidism only in reverse. In my late 20s I made an effort to dress better, no jeans or dirty sneakers, hair cut, gel, gym at least three times a week. Then all that started to slide, brain fog, stay at home, just no energy.
It took probably 10 years but finally I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I wonder if a lot of overweight people started out like me but were never diagnosed. At diagnosis I wasn't overweight but I have since gained weight just due to my metabolism now. I was always slim all my life now I'm on the low end of overweight.
So yeah weight can be a problem but so can other issues. It's difficult to be yourself when you have hidden weights you don't even realize are dragging you down.
Here in Canada when the new CPC took power its leader PM Harper muzzled scientists from speaking about most things but most of all anything about climate change. It also destroyed climate data claiming the ledgers were old fashioned, but they were the only copies.
The CPC political are the old centre-right PC party that combined with more right secessionist and (evangelical) Christian political parties.
Harper is still lurking in the shadows and pulling strings decade after being ousted as Prime Minister.
Believe it or not I've never seen it. I'm a big sci-fi fan but it was never on any station in my region of Canada years ago. Plus over the years it seemed to be really hard to find in any form whether torrents, DVDs, or anywhere really.
You hear of media companies that delete old music and video from their own archives. People saving what they can may have the only copy left in existence.
I agree physical books are great since you can hold them, smell them - nothing like an ebook. There is also a big advantage for us middle-aged folks that ebooks have and that's adjustable font size. Bifocal glasses help bit making font bigger is better.
Funny you say that. I do often go to the comments because some of the people commenting here on HN are famous. If not famous they are more involved in IT or other industries at a high level.
I know I'm a nobody but it's interesting to read comments some are better than the linked articles.
Yes, in Windows 50% of my day is fighting with something obscuring my view or taking focus. Something pops up just as I was clicking or pressing Enter. I have to sign into multiple systems in the morning and sometimes it takes four attempts to enter creds for one login because I keep getting interrupted. It's infuriating.
>When pressed, HR and her supervisor mentioned her absence from department-bonding activities.
At an old job HR said that employees who unfriended a co-worker were guilty of harassment. I never heard that officially but I do believe it having worked there so long and how management acted.
I had my status cut from full-time to part-time and posted it on my secured, friends only, locked-down as much as possible Facebook account. The next morning my manager called me 5 minutes after my work day began asking me to remove that comment ("or else" I assumed). He read to me verbatim what I had written, the time, even some of the comments to it so he obviously had a print-out or screen shot (doubtful HR could figure that out). I suspended my Facebook account until I was abruptly laid off four years later by the aggressive abusive manager I had complained about 8 years earlier.
This is the same organization that cut the janitorial staff from three shifts to two day shifts and cut staff from a dozen to one person per shift. the same place that complained when you didn't submit your anonymous employee survey.
Keep work and friends separate. HR works for the company not you. You trade your time for their money there is no culture.
I started in IT (officially) late in life at the bottom; help desk. I don't know if I could survive anything more stressful. College was a blast but help desk is torture it's not what I (or anyone) want but it pays well. The call app we use pops up in the lower right side of the screen when a call comes in. One day when I was off work there was an antivirus update on my own computer the notification popped up in the lower right part of the screen and I got a jolt of adrenaline and anxiety.
I think years from now people looking at old photos will marvel at the high resolution for such old pictures. Starting around 1999 they'll see fuzzy 1.2 MP digital pictures, but then over the next ten years picture quality improves and teh amount of pictures increases. So from 1999 to about 2009 will be the "fuzzy ages".
What freaks me out is how invasive YouTube/Google is. I have browser ad blockers, script blockers, privacy addons. Sure I am logged in though which pretty much defeats the purpose of all those.
My often used example is the time I went car shopping with my sister. She was buying a new car I went with her (age old women vs salesman bias). The dealership was over an hour from my town, my sister lives in a different town. I didn't do anything other than stand there, no info of mine given, no forms filled out.
Back home two hours later YouTube has showing on recommendations for me videos for new car shopping.