So they could only find 4 shootings and had to somehow make it sound like a lot. Just goes to show you can make statistics say anything if you don't care about reality.

An antenna? If you don't have a TV, you can get a tuner dongle and antenna for your PC and use VLC or other streaming video clients. Unfortunately, the services that take over-the-air signals and put them online usually get killed off by lawsuits. But tuner dongles and half decent, compact antennas are pretty cheap.

If it's POSIX compliant then it will work on all versions of Linux/Unix. Otherwise it depends on specific implementations that have branched for decades.

I was just chatting with some people about how I've discovered how bad habit and conditioning affect neurotypical people. This was in the context of visual, audio, and other gender cues that cause NT people to misgender trans and non binary people. I had recently discovered how the gender conditioning can make it difficult for NT people to change when things are automatic in their brains. They aren't used to having to concentrate to remember words like i do, so they don't have that easy place to inject conscious decisions.

So yeah, there are some things we are superior at and if NT people would just accommodate our disadvantages, our advantages could benefit them. But the current political atmosphere is isolationist and individualism, so they want everything to benefit them since they can't stand to collaborate to get the benefits we offer.

Again, adverse effects doesn't mean death, the fact that the description you posed has that last sentence is the alarmist thing and only applies to certain drugs, of course.

The difference in absorption rates between oral and rectal administration can be as much as double or triple or more in some cases. For example I remember reading a study from the 70s or 80s on methylprednisolone. The absorption rate orally was about 90%, but rectally was only around 35% likely due to bacteria in the rectum decomposing the drug before it could make it into the blood.

So, over the long term the difference in dose could have a significant impact on health. Getting 3 times more or less of any drug, even something relatively safe, will likely mean "adverse effects". With estradiol this could mean greatly increased side effects for overdose like nipple soreness or mood swings, or greatly decreased effect for underdose meaning testosterone takes over again and hair loss and body hair growth restart. These are "adverse effects", but are not likely to be deadly, but still considered overdose/underdose.

More evidence that although I love the idea of the MIT license, it is not good when large corporate interests and their money get involved. It's too easy for the code to get scooped up and relicensed or just hidden away. Copyleft licensed projects are the only ones I'll work on anymore.

Overdose doesn't mean die, it means getting a larger dose in your blood than the labeled dosage. Over a long period of time dosing too high, there may be side effects. Sorry if I used medical terminology, but I work in healthcare so it's common terminology there. I sometimes forget that the media has warped the meaning of some of these terms.

Can and should are two very different things. The two have different absorption rates for different things. You may overdose or it may be totally ineffective. There may be toxic contaminants that taken orally might not be absorbed much, so its relatively safe, but taken rectally might be absorbed into the blood stream. There's also the sanitation issue. The mouth is generally better at capturing and keeping infections out of the body than the rectum, so you may need to sanitize the pills which might be difficult if you don't want them to dissolve. And relatedly, there's the matter of the inactive ingredients. They're designed to be swallowed, but may cause issues left behind in the rectum. Most pills that are swallowed just use starches which isn't a big deal, but to make things dissolve quickly there are other ingredients including sometimes sugars which could encourage microorganism growth if you don't sanitize them or some ingredients may trigger diarrhea or other reactions.

There's usually not research done on a drug taken sublingually as to how it would affect a person rectally, so it's usually not going to be well known.

That said, ask your doctor. If there is any data about doing it, they would be more likely to know.

X is a right-wing propaganda platform now. Bluesky is not a good alternative though. It's just as controlled and toxic as X was just before Elan bought it and will eventually become what X is now when a major corporation or rich person decides to grab it or it goes public. The federation functionality is just for show and marketing. I wish people would stop just jumping when platforms become truly horrible and then jumping to something that will be made as horrible very easily after it becomes popular enough.

Unfortunately, the current state of the patent office is extremely understaffed and mostly nontechnical. So, there's not enough qualified examiners to examine patents, not just in software, but medical devices, voting machines, and lots of other industries. So essentially if a patent is submitted by a major company, it just gets rubber stamped. And it's up to the courts to sort it out. Unfortunately that sorting out is biased and understaffed, too, so usually the initial case will go to the patent holder by default and it's not until an appeal or two on those biases and technical misinterpretations that it can be invalidated. So it's rare for a smaller company to be able to spend that much money to invalidate an obvious idea like this. Of course this is by design to give large corporations an unfair advantage. If they want some tech, they just sue for a stupid patent, wait until the company either folds and then they can steal it legally, or goes bankrupt fighting it and they can acquire them hostilely.

I'm still friends with many of my exes because I formed good friendships with them either before or during relationships. It's only the toxic typical straight, monogamous relationship dogma that says we have to stop caring for and start hating people we care about when we're no longer romantically involved and so romance and friendship need to be separate so a breakup doesn't mean losing your best friend. Friendship is the bedrock of all of my relationships since I learned that regardless of their or my gender (I'm pansexual, though).

I mean it's a "water is wet" kind of "discovery" for anyone who has or understands ADHD, but it's nice to see it spelled out in an accessible way for laymen. Many types of neurodivergence have advantages, it's just that those advantages are not as impactful as the disadvantages because they the disadvantages break societal norms. Just like a person in a wheelchair breaks the societal norm of stairs. Unless accommodations are made, they disabled person is unable to participate in society and thus they are unable to use or sometimes even show their advantages.