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Urgent care is closed, won't open until tomorrow. Had dad run me to the store and they don't carry an ear kit with the bulb sadly. So I'm wondering if I'd be safe to try out some of this expired sudafed to see if it doesn't unclog my ear. Or should I just wait one more day and go tomorrow to the care place?

I found a study that says that dried cucumbers go up in calories because of this or that getting concentrated, but like, the raw cucumber even if eaten whole with all that stuff in there, it still has a minuscule amount of calories. How does drying it raise the calories? Please explain like I'm 5.

The study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292994599_Nutritive_value_of_convection-dried_Cucumis_sativus

Edit: I tried rereading it but I still don't get it. If you have a bucket of water with 10 stones in it, and then freeze or steam it, we're still looking at 10 stones. I don't get how this works.

That's what I had last night and my coworker acted like it was weird.

What I have:

All the videos downloaded in highest available quality

im good at pirating shit, so price isn’t a factor

What I don’t have:

The software

The skill to use it

The knowledge of what software to use and where to find guides on it.

There’s a few people who’ve created content, and a lot of it’s quite good (RIP Eugene dabs) so I was hoping I wasn’t the only person who started with zero background and wanted to make videos.

If it can handle audio as well that’s a bonus but not relevant to my immediate ideas for “first projects”.

Thank you in advance to anyone kind enough to offer advice

So I've heard a couple of times about writers for The Economists being college interns and in a recent ep (195) the guest referred to them all being 19. I was wondering if there's any actual documentation on that, or is it just vibes based?

i'm working on projects for a portfolio and i'm at the point where functionally things work, but they need to look good at some point too lol. i'm trying to dig through resources online, but a bit overwhelmed. does anyone have a general guidelines they've picked up or just resources they found helpful?

You're not allowed to say "humans" that's too obvious

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I am looking for books/movies/graphic novels about ::adventure time:: I have fantasized for years about a dope graphic novel along these lines. Something like the "Children of Kali" from Ministry for the Future. Just looking for some escapist thrills. Please share what you've got.

Also, I've already seen How to Blow up a Pipeline and enjoyed it.

Side question: I wonder if any Yankee neo-Nazis volunteered with Azov only to come home to their CHUD families and got disowned put Zelensky is a judeo-trans-Marxist or whatever the fuck FOX told them.

Documentaries are especially welcome. Short videos (even youtube) too. Think of it more as a... tankie youtube.

I'll start:

• The TeleSur video on the tiny man square mass occur
• Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019) by the Empire Files
• Ukraine on Fire (2016)
• Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang and My Brothers and Sisters in the North

There's this article I found and this other one that does go into some interesting cases etc., but I'm looking for something that actually goes into more details about how it actually works. Like a book or a good explainer? Or maybe one of y'all more knowledgeable comrades can make a good effortpost or something . Thanks.

I'm not saying that things were hunky-dory by any stretch, but looking at the horror stories from most of the world, Japan seems tonhave been considerably less fucked over. Why?

I have a general feeling that they're bad (the org, not the individual children lmao) but am fuzzy on the details of why. It's generally agreed among leftists that it's child labor right? And that they love teaching little kids that capitalism = cool and good. I've got a niece in girl scouts and I'd just like some more concrete examples and reasons not to support them so that my family understands that I'm not just being cheap... although yeah ok I admit it the shrinkflation over the years is one of the reasons I don't give them money, fine.

Or uuuuuh if you think they're good actually then explain for the class pls. Make me feel bad about buying knockoff treats for a third of the price and then not donating the difference. 🍪 🍪

Been seeing a lot of libs say they can't trust the NYT and mainstream news any more but I'm sure there's plenty of reasons to not trust them already. Recent or historical examples

I was reading the super summarized version of capital that Nia Frome wrote on red sails, and this question popped into my head. In the general formulation, capitalists exploit workers who they employ, because they pay them a wage that is not in line with the value that they imbue into their product. When I think about a laundromat, though, there’s not really any employees to be exploited, seemingly. There’s certainly an owner, and they are renting out a service, but they don’t have employees working under them. Is it more akin to like, being a landlord? I was also thinking it has similarities to the Terry Pratchett “boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness” in the sense that if you can’t afford the whole washing machine, or live in a place without one, you end up spending much more on washing clothes in the long run. Anyways, I would love to hear your thoughts comrades :].

Looks like my friend but can't find it nowhere. Esp. shave head.

I just realized I have no idea why this happened. Does anyone have a good dialectical materialist explanation?

Just wondering if anything good is happening somewhere. Maybe some local organizing wins? Would be nice to see something positive happening.

on a daily basis, the quote of Donald Trump saying "Israel has hypnotized the world! May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States" goes through my head. What quote is stuck in yours?

There was this huge hullabaloo about Google employees forming a union, but I'm assuming that went nowhere considering how ruthless the company was with it's layoffs. Anyone got the full scoop?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12594495

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