robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@patcharcana Why would you need a wooden substrate for that? Various substrates I've seen were all nicely dremelable (cutting traces with a small dremel always worked really well).

@futurebird

What do you think about various vote swapping arrangements with voters from states that are closer to even than yours?

@erin

Similarly, what about beehives? :)

@grimalkina

Do they mean peers you're likely to interact repeatedly with, like to interact exactly once with (because of organisational distance), or both? (I expect this to at least sometimes differ significantly between the two groups, because in exactly one case trust between two individuals can exist.)

@_dm @lcamtuf

So people showed off with their contributions to the municipality? :)

@mwk The multiplication factor will vary greatly over spark size, so it's kinda a stretch to call it a multiplier.

Or maybe I'm wrong, Leidenfrost causes it not to violently boil, and the colling is fast enough for their purposes?

The most recent #Sachgeschichte (about chains) claims that the cooling bath for hardening is water (it's surely oil: water would visibly boil and Leidenfrost effect would make cooling insufficient).

I've used WDR's contact form to tell them that and we'll see what happens.

@patcharcana

Why is that a toxic trait? Communication is not only direct and literal, stuff is also communicated via choosing to say something or not. Compare e.g. someone who proudly describes themselves as originating from a farming family in e.g. communist Poland, vs. someone who, if asked, would say so, but doesn't broadcast it very much.

@mcc Is it duty or VAT or both?

(I was very surprised by the requirement and pharmacist was very surprised by my surprise, so I think they were unaware of this exception applying as opposed to not willing to apply it.)

Swiss law on prescriptions is *weird*.

There are categories of medicines (Abgabekategorien) with a clear demarcation between requiring a prescription (A-B) and not (D-E). Notably category C is missing, because it was eliminated in 2019 (it used to be "can be sold in pharmacies only but without prescription" IIUC). Some of the stuff from C went to D, some of it to B.

That would be clear. However, "this medicine was once in C" is an exception to the requirement for prescriptions for medicines in B! (See https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2018/588/de#art_45) Thus, we effectively still have C, but it's way more confusing.

This story was brought to you by a pharmacy wanting a prescription for KCl from me. (Which I'm really amused ended up in B, given that it has a similar safety profile to table salt afaik: you can overdose on it, it can have bad interactions with your other medications or diseases, it's kinda hard to overdose without really trying.)

@whitequark

Aside: not sure where you spent your childhood, but depending on that you might not know about and find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrocyte_sedimentation_rate interesting (ISTM that there's a clear split of countries that use ESR and CRP as the standard test for inflammation).

@eta Shouldn't it be EEEPY?

@tobi82 @Martin__Hope@sueden.social

Das ist hier beschrieben: https://www.lgl.bayern.de/gesundheit/infektionsschutz/molekulare_surveillance/bis_c/index.htm

tl;dr Einige Arztpraxen nehmen Abstriche von allen mit Atemwegbeschwerden und das ist die Anteil von verschiedenen gefundenen Erregern.

@whitequark

Thanks, I always thought that the anticoagulant ones contained sodium citrate. I wonder what makes EDTA unsuitable for donated blood and/or citrate for blood for analysis.

@whitequark

Which kind of container it is? (As in, what of any additives it has?)