And you also have to manage politely telling them how silly they've been.

Once got a ticket for "a broken DVD-drive". Went on over. 'Twas a CD-drive.

"Well what was the issue, why didn't my DVD-drive work?"

"Well if you look real close, this is actually a CD drive and thus incapable of reading DVDs"

She took it well enough with humour. Some don't..

I agree with a lot of that but honestly, what is the Russian capability currently to open up a new front anywhere if we are not talking nuclear war?

Sure they're prepared to waste a lot. But can they waste that much without getting into so severe issues that even their propaganda won't push through? Oh right, I forget, propaganda is basically for foreign states and domestically you can just use threats of violence and arrests.

Also "carrying capacity" is a poor way to talk about bad infrastructure.

The world isn't full. It's built wrong.

but I wouldn't even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.

;>

If an empty bank account is unobserved, is it truly empty?

The amount of money I don't have remains the same, does it not?

because it just seems to be a catch-all for when they’ve

That's exactly what it is, actually. It's a diagnosis of exclusion. Ie when you've excluded "all you can think of" (=all they can be arsed with/you can afford) and you still have symptoms, you get IBS diagnosis.

I have it as well.

But IBS is a functional disorder of the large intestine, whereas most of the bad bowel movements I have are kinda orange-ish in colour and very often float. Which lead me to finding out about steatorrhea, having too much fat in your stool. Because that is more linked with small intestine disorders, like celiacs and NCGS.

So essentially I've been hurting from this since the 80's, literally, and the doctors have always either shrugged or just plain not given a fuck. Despite almost four decades of similar symptoms. But then last year I tried an exclusion diet, just rice, fish, potato and chicken, as they're all very low on allergens, especially if you leave out garlic and onions and other allergy-triggering spices.

For meds, the best I had at one point was Litalgin, but it was banned because it lowered white cells or some such. (It was known at the time I used it, you just had to check them regularly but now you can't get it anymore.) But also now that I've mangled my ribcage last year, I got amitriptylin for my ribs and while reading about it on Wikipedia, noticed it's also used for IBS when nothing else helps. And yeah, I think I'm in less pain (from that) than I was before starting it. But it does cause me quite heavy fatigue. Like as in I didn't have anywhere to be so I slept like 14 hours.

It's just so fucking annoying when the doctors are like playing tennis

"no this is a psychiatric thing!"

"nuh-uh, it's a somatic disorder!"

"no it's not, none of the labs are positive!"

"but this guy is clearly suffering and he isn't in any significant way psychiatrically sick so it must be somatic"

"but none of the tests show anything positive so it can't be somatic and thus must be psychosomatic!"

repeat ad nauseam for about thirty years

Eh, not exactly. I'm curious as to what sort of a contraption it is.

Here. Saved the third guy a click.

Thanks for the tip, but yeah, I am European.

It's called non-celiac gluten sensitivity and I just found that article a year ago or so and genuinely before being on a gluten free diet for months, I thought the same as South Park creators, that it's more than likely just a fad and not an actual chronic health thing.

But now since I've tested the difference myself, I know otherwise.

I actually tried avoiding wheat and wheat derivatives altogether, which is kinda hard in Europe, since technically a lot of the glucose used is wheat derived, whereas in the US it's usually from corn. And unlike in celiacs, which is an autoimmune disease, even small amounts of the allergens can give you symptoms. So "gluten free" in the EU is just any product that's less than 20mg/kg (ie ppm). And while ofc there needs to be some cutoff, clearly that's not enough for whatever I have. Loads of other people had complained about that specific brand's "gluten free" as not being properly gluten free either.

There's one beer brand which I can somewhat drink, and they've always been "the" gluten free beer here, despite predating the gluten-free craze. And that I can have and not have generally symptoms, but then other brands tried doing "gluten free" as well, I tried a few and those didn't suit me. But then again those reactions also aren't that reliable. They're reliable, but like... I'd say with an 80% certainty.

I have had a gastroscopy when I was in the army so they're pretty sure I'm not celiacs, which is why no-one ever suggested this diet to me. I basically spent 10 years wasting life due to like chronic fatigue that just fucking magically went away when I started doing a gluten- and casein-free diet (no gluten based products and no dairy whatsoever, even lactose free).

But the doctor's here won't recognise it as an issue. Or as the issue I have.

Username does not check out.

I tried most diets and am not 100% sure it's actually the gluten in it, but avoiding gluten-containing foods and products has regifted me with the ability to trust a fart.

It's not even genders, it's a whole different type of reproduction. Sexual types.

Mushrooms do not have male and female sexes; instead, they have mating types, a system of genetic factors that determines compatibility for sexual reproduction. Unlike animals, fungi don't possess specialized organs for sex, but can have thousands of different mating types within a single species, allowing for broad reproductive compatibility and increasing genetic diversity.

Mushrooms must look at us like we look at monocellular life.

Just remember to back that shit up.

Nothing like forgetting your brain on public transport and getting instant amnesia for the past five years.