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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14d

feeling the bsky rando-heckling repulsion field strongly enough to step away again. contact elsewhere.

Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14d

I do not believe a word of anything from the US administration. Tylenol was in the news and I took the opportunity to remind people it's Actually Dangerous. To wit: hundreds of thousands of people wind up in hospital annually, and thousands die. My father among them. I was not "dooped" about that.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14d

agreed

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14d

great, cool, I'll tell that to the hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of accidental deaths every year (including my father).

Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 14d

I mentioned it because (a) I was experiencing a flood of people saying it's a super safe med and (b) it literally killed my father.

sorry this doesn't fit your beat-timing preferences. I tried hard to make it clear I was not saying anything at all about pregnancy.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

like ibuprofen can cause stomach bleeds, and if your health status puts you at risk of those, ibuprofen can be a terrible and even deadly choice too. a lot of drugs used very casually have serious caveats about dosing or interactions. that's all I meant to point out. a fact often learned too late.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

yeah not trying to speak to pregnancy at all. pregnancy is dangerous in a lot of dimensions; from a quick literature search it seems the consensus (narrow) safest path for pregnancy actually _is_ tylenol. I was speaking more generally, like "consider other nsaids if they're safe for your situation."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 15d

CVF are proud supporters of the other important event at the UN today highlighting the need for "Clean Indoor Air".

It is of vital importance to *everyone*, but especially for Clinically Vulnerable people.

Thank you @drbronking.bsky.social
💙💜💗

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 15d

"Clean Indoor air is a gap in our public health frameworks. We need to close that gap."

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

like your Erdős number but backwards

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

I guess there's this line people draw between condemning people's actions vs. inherent nature, a person's redeemability, guilt-vs-shame, etc. Sure, whatever. But like if your whole life's work is to embody a given moral project, is it doing a lot to split that particular hair?

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

I agree with this so much. Every time people get all critical about the social function of shame (and even the legitimate self-critical, reflexive, not-meeting-my-own-standards function of shame) I wonder what exactly they have in mind to better serve that function. What else is moral condemnation?

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

At this point I have seen so many people with medical tragedies that at long last boil down to either "mis-dosed drug" or "drug side effect" or "drug interaction" that it's now the first thing I ask about when discussing health issues. "Do you by any chance have some medication you take regularly?"

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

At this point I have seen so many people with medical tragedies that at long last boil down to either "mis-dosed drug" or "drug side effect" or "drug interaction" that it's now the first thing I ask about when discussing health issues. "Do you by any chance have some medication you take regularly?"

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah exactly. It's like decades of mom and apple pie marketing makes everyone think it's totally harmless. Which it mostly is, right up until it suddenly kills you.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

(Or see also my other friend who also nearly lost their liver because they had a strenuous and painful manual labour job and would often down a beer and a tylenol in the same couple hours after work. People just do not know! It is like taking a restorative nap on a railroad track.)

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

Also key fact if you happen to have an ageing boomer parent who likes an occasional drink in the evenings and maybe also has some arthritis: alcohol in your blood makes the effects on the liver dramatically higher.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

np! I would be thrilled if it was generally understood as having A Strict Limit everywhere. I like healthy livers.

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 15d

GNU gettext on Windows
What does Woe32 mean?
“Woe32” denotes the Windows 32-bit operating systems for x86: Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 95/98/ME. Microsoft uses the term “Win32” to denote these; this is a psychological trick in order to make everyone believe that these OSes are a “win” for the user. However, for most users and developers, they are a source of woes, which is why I call them “Woe32”.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

yes exactly. you can't fix a failed liver. you get a transplant or more likely you just die.

Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

i'm not a pharmacist but my experience is that the general public is deeply unaware of the consequences of exceeding standard dosage, and take it like pain-relief candy rather than potentially liver shredding power tool.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

I mean, personal tragedy time: tylenol killed my dad. Everyone thinks this is a fairly harmless drug to take a lot of and it absolutely is not. Sorry! Please don't involve pregnant people or autistic people in this story though. Just internalize en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracet... and pick safer drugs.

Paracetamol poisoning - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

I'm very very very slightly torn on this. I mean obviously the whole tylenol prenancy autism thing is just another "punish women for everything" piece of right wing garbage. But also tylenol is incredibly dangerous and causes acute liver failure and death at astonishing rates nobody talks about.

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Graydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 15d

US .. envoy .. to Syria!

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