I suspect that came directly from irl

Spent a night at the Iceland Blue Lagoon Retreat hotel for a special occasion. It’s like $1800 USD per night so it was a huge splurge. We saw Rebel Wilson staying at the hotel too. It was fancy AF.

Absolutely wasted if you only spend one day, but we couldn’t afford 2.

Low doses of ibuprofen are better as an anti-inflammatory, and higher doses are better for pain relief, from what I’ve learned online (I’m not a doctor).
I imagine the muscle pain you were dealing with was due to inflammation from overexertion or something?

It can be prescribed in much higher dosages, unlike paracetamol, but the regular over the counter stuff is the same.

200 ibuprofen = 250 paracetamol
Extra strength just doubles both
But prescription for ibuprofen can go up a bit from that. Never seen a higher prescription for paracetamol.

I think you replied to the wrong comment

It seems like you’ve mistaken what “strong” means.

But I shouldn’t have said “long term”. The dangers of each are different.
Ibuprofen is relatively safe to go a bit over the recommended dose, but not over the recommended duration.
Paracetamol is relatively safe to go over the recommended duration, but not the recommended dose.

You’re the second person I’ve seen saying that ibuprofen is stronger than paracetamol. Where does that come from?

It is slightly stronger, but the dose is smaller. A single dose of router either is roughy the same pain reduction, and similar damage for exceeding their recommended usage

I don’t think that actually happens.

Ibuprofen and paracetamol are roughly the same in theme of pain relief and harm in long-term use.

Honestly I think the Americans have it right, here.

You end up taking fewer painkillers of you start taking them early and get ahead of the pain. If you wait until the pain is already severe, you end up taking more.

Idk why this happens, it’s info I got from a nurse, and intuitively it feels right.

Rosa Parks lived until 2005

(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.

85% neckbeards

I’ve fantasized about this.

I had some friends who actually DID build a secret room behind a bookshelf, where they had their home theatre or something like that I forget (they were more like close coworkers of my wife than my own friends, but they were super nice).

For space elevators, to the best of my knowledge, there is no known material that can withstand the forces involved. Not even CFNTs.

For wormholes, we’re getting so deep into speculation that the conversation doesn’t even really matter.

That’s how you get to cars.

Add more trains.
The trains now need to seat fewer people so make them smaller. Maybe 2-7 people per train.
Most routes aren’t needed at any given time, so you might as well only run the train when someone needs it.
Rather than keeping the unused trains in a central depot, keep them at the departure points
We can’t staff all these trains, and if the departure points are peoples’ homes, then let’s have the people themselves drive it
The network of destinations requires a TON of rail switches, and coordinating that is a complicated. Better to use a technology that doesn’t require switches, like wheels on pavement.

Boom, cars.

So it really depends on what you’re optimizing for.

The point I was trying to make was that tech bros are almost certainly trying to optimize for convenience, because they live in a bubble where thats what’s important to them (or that’s what has the highest margins).

As he said, rail is cheaper to maintain than roads. So the roads you replace with rail result in a net reduction of maintenance costs

We had good nationwide rail, and instead of expanding it, we dug it up and replaced it with nationwide roads.

So let’s do it again, dig up the roads and replace it with rail.

Trains can be faster, safer, cleaner, and more comfortable. We can still have roads for the last mile, but trains for Intercity and interstate.

The problem is “perfection” looks different to different people.

If you’re optimizing for efficiency, then you’re absolutely correct.
If you’re optimizing for convenience then shit like personal taxi drones is probably gonna be better.

I mean, currently both space elevators and wormholes (as transportation) seem physically impossible.

If we’re not sticking to the realm of our current understanding of physics, then that opens the doors for techbros too, because we’re in the realm of speculative fiction and things can be however we say they are.