Not in the slightest.

Its both about your decision making in getting to that point, and about what you might do to get out from under those debts.

Exactly the issue we see in this situation.

I tried looking this up, and they don't say anywhere what they mean by prescription. Mine are 90 days, so I want to assume thats normal but don't honestly know. Looking up dosing it seems that 3x300mg is as small as is prescribed, and it can go up to 3x1200mg.

Then we have the increase in incidence. The incidence rate is already small in those age groups, so even doubling it is a tiny number.

I'm going to stop taking it (I take something between 1/10 and 1/5 of my prescribed dose anyhow) and think about if the benefit to me is worth the added risk.

I unfortunately don't really have the luxury of just stopping it - if I don't take it, the nerves in my hands and feet start to almost feel like they are 'buzzing', like constantly, randomly active.. which makes sleep practically impossible

Sorry to hear that. I'd say that risk very small absolute risk is worth it then, given both the quality of life and the other health problems that lack of sleep would bring.

I have worse version of that, when I feel any sensation as pain all over skin. Nothing helps much, so I got into opioid abuse.

Right now, fresh out of rehab, thinking about my options.

Well damn. I take this as needed for a back injury that left me with chronic pain. My prescription is for a LOT more than I take (I take it about 20% as often as prescribed).

Now I'm not so sure I want to take it. My saving grace is that I'm on the younger end and haven't taken it that long.

After reading the paper and looking into dosing I learned that I'm taking a tiny fraction of the normal dose. Wow. Learn something every day.

I had to look this up because I wasn't aware of it. It seems the creators themselves have refuted this and said that it was a journalist twisting their answers.

https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-work-in-progress-s...

That's a bit overly reductive of their answer:

'It's not something that I want to come out and rebut. Like, yes, it's a trans allegory — it was made by two closeted trans women, how can it not be?! But the way that they put that question in front of my answer, it seems like I’m coming out emphatically saying, “Oh yeah, we were thinking about it the whole time.”'

I have to say, thats like someone saying anything I write is an allegory for my career (military). It may be informed by it, but its not an allegory beyond the fact that it shaped me.

Sure, the same way LotR is not an allegory for WW1, but it's difficult to miss the connections, whether Tolkien intentionally placed them there, or simply because those themes were something he felt deeply about.

In both cases the artists were, as one would say, working through some stuff...

Turns out "You can't go home again" is a powerful storytelling frame

Some of these are, as others have commented, guidelines meant to be broken. Others are solid insights into technical limitations leveling the playing field (Phase One being equal to a phone after compression and resizing when displayed on a phone).

I have to say that the one regarding the rule of thirds was... wrong. Thats always been a rule to break, and square isn't even close to a new format. Shooting 120 film in 6x6 is, and was, common. Its what the Apollo Astronauts took with them. Its also my favorite format.

I actually really feel this. Before I retired I had a homelab in the learning, testing, experimenting sense. I didn't run anything for home "production" on it because the downtime wasn't appreciated.

Now I have a more capable rack, but it's all just running stuff I use. I don't experiment on it at all, and I don't use it to gain any new skills.

So I do call it a homelab, but its not quite what people understand that to be.

I do believe the Absolute History channel on youtube has their series now, if you want an easy to stream source.

This is awesome, and a nice trip down memory lane for when I lived in Hawai'i.

Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.

Oscar Voss was updating some of xyr other pages as recently as 2018.

* http://alaskaroads.com/home.html

Looks like this one [0] has an implied update in 2023, as thats the latest listed road trip.

Seems he just doesn't have anything to update on some of the pages.

0: http://alaskaroads.com/roadgeek-superlatives.htm

My first SLR was an A100.

Fond memories, I carried that camera all over the world for 6 years.

Everyone here keeps touting an old phone, and I have to heatedly disagree.

But a Kodak Pixpro FZ55 or FZ45. Brand new for $130 or less, beats even the best smartphones, and are Japan's top selling cameras for a reason.

I disagree as well.

One of those instant print cameras (and a limited budget) is probably best for teaching people to see, which is the core skill in photography. The pain of having to pay for refills is a major part of that learning experience.