I have unfortunately been thrust into the chronic illness "community" three years ago, and since then keep meeting people with complex chronic conditions: mold, vaccine injury, Long COVID, chronic fatigue, Grave's disease, gut issues, autoimmune, etc. I've observed that the most vitriolic debate in many of these communities is the...
I run into two situations where I want to wager: * With a friend, about some future outcome * With someone I'm having a debate with on the internet, as a way to settle the debate and test our beliefs With friends, I've been tracking these wagers with a Google...
I have unfortunately been thrust into the chronic illness "community" three years ago, and since then keep meeting people with complex chronic conditions: mold, vaccine injury, Long COVID, chronic fatigue, Grave's disease, gut issues, autoimmune, etc.
I've observed that the most vitriolic debate in many of these communities is the medical people "we must treat what's wrong with us" vs. the mindbody people "we must treat the reaction to the fact there is something wrong with us". Both hate each other, there's tons of bad blood, people are banned from certain communities, etc.
Having looked into and practiced both methodologies, my sense is that, like most complicated dichotomies, both are right, although for deeper... (read more)
Update: I'm pretty sure that making and running this site would be illegal in many jurisdictions.
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Domain: Language Learning
Link: YouTube Channel
Person: Alexander Arguelles
Background: Polyglot and director of foreign language education at various institutions, known in the community for his rigorous and inventive study methods
Why: He has various videos of him live-studying different languages which give learners direct insight into his methods.
Yeah, I think my ideal site would be some combination of PredictionBook and LongBets. I may code one myself, if I can't find one.
(...and by code one myself, I mean find a friend to help me, because I'm worthless at coding!)
I run into two situations where I want to wager:
With friends, I've been tracking these wagers with a Google Calendar invitation, but this doesn't work as well with internet strangers (people don't feel comfortable as often sharing their email).
What I'm looking for is something similar to https://longbets.org/ where people can keep track of wagers and even open them up to public comment. Does something like this exist?
Features would be:
Nice to have:
I have one, and it's far less comfortable.
Besides, buying these sorts of masks new should be left to healthcare workers or ("essential" workers) and those that most need them. The rest of us should wear cloth masks.
must free of anything ending -ate (except stearate) or -ic acid; free of magnesium except magnesium stearate (it's insoluble)
The only product you link violates this. It contains stearic acid...
edit: Chris explains this here: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/podcast/2016/12/26/zinc-definitely-fights-colds-youre-probably-using-wrong-kind/#comment-48164
" The stearate isn’t a problem. I was trying to simplify. "
Completely agreed. I even publicly announced on my Facebook when Bitcoin was USD that I was buying 100USD worth, but then once I looked into how to even convert USD to Bitcoin, I said "eh, not worth, even it for some interesting economic experiment".