The U.S. has been damaged by the 2016 election and will suffer economically for decades. It may never really recover.
It looks like we are on the path to a full blown smoot-hawley Great Depression trade war. Except- it looks like it will be the U.S. against the entire world this time. Everyone else will simply route around the U.S. - leaving the U.S. in a weaker position even after it stops this nonsense.
It's just a fact that labor costs in India and China are much lower than in the U.S. And automated labor costs are even lower than in India and China (tho land is still much more expensive in the U.S. so the cost of doing business will remain mildly higher even when both automate).
Trends in inflation won't equalize labor in China until at least 2045 and in India until at least 2055. -- She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
The point of washing your hands is to dislodge a reasonable amount of germs, and perhaps to wash off fecal matter.
Urine is sterile in most people (but not everyone).
We encounter a large amount of germs constantly. But we get sick if we are weakened or we don't recognize the signature of the illness so our immune system is slow to react.
The U.S. has been damaged by the 2016 election and will suffer economically for decades. It may never really recover.
It looks like we are on the path to a full blown smoot-hawley Great Depression trade war. Except- it looks like it will be the U.S. against the entire world this time. Everyone else will simply route around the U.S. - leaving the U.S. in a weaker position even after it stops this nonsense.
It's just a fact that labor costs in India and China are much lower than in the U.S. And automated labor costs are even lower than in India and China (tho land is still much more expensive in the U.S. so the cost of doing business will remain mildly higher even when both automate).
Trends in inflation won't equalize labor in China until at least 2045 and in India until at least 2055.
Oh and I forgot to mention that losing your job also means you lose your health care. In some cases, that literally means you or your child will die.
There are very patchwork systems for the poor, but they systematically slow down use of the health care system so much that some people die as a result. I had a board gaming friend who lost her job at Exxon, lost her health care, then was found to have bone cancer. When I had insurance and got cancer, I was in surgery the same day and in chemo therapy three weeks later. She fought her way thru the system to finally receive chemotherapy after 9 months. By that time, it was too late and she died a painful, terrible death.
If you are poor and break a leg or have a serious illness, you go to the emergency room- sit for many hours- receive minimal substandard treatment- and are rushed out the door. And then are billed thousands of dollars in medical fees.
The U.S. medical system is bad horrible for about 40% of the population and horrible for about 30% of the population. It's the best in the world for certain diseases and if you are in the top 30%-- especially if you are in the top 10%-- and even more so if you are in the top.5% (lookin at you Steven Jobs- who got a liver by flying on his private jet which could have gone to someone else with less money who might have lived longer with it).
Well, the way our system is set up, job loss can be very close to killing people and their children. People spend too much and carry too much debt. The entire system is built to encourage this behavior.
Now add guns to people who feel they are being killed and their life is being destroyed by the company that may have asked them to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
Then add a history of work violence after layoffs going back for decades so people consider it an option.
When a large corporation fires/lays off hundreds to thousands of employees, it's a best practice to have armed police on business campuses for a period of time (months to even years).
Giving severance pay is another best practice..
So is giving advance notice that the change is coming (actually that's a legal requirement too).
So is having a meeting and giving some kind of explanation which shows respect for the employees and a reason why the change needs to take place and isn't arbitrary.
When youtube demonetizes content without warning, what they are doing is akin to a layoff.
Youtube could have reduced the likelihood of a shooting if they had:
Given 30, 60, or even 90 days notice that demonetization was coming. Given "severance" pay based on the content creators historical income. * To high income earners because they've done a lot for youtube in the past and they are less likely to get angry if youtube shows respect by giving severance. * To low income earners because *it's very cheap* and generates a lot of good will. * Distributed a video or -better- had a live conference where they explained why demonetization was necessary (advertisers refusing to pay for content, legal exposure to risk, etc.) * Let everyone know that there would be armed uniformed police on campus starting immediately and continuing for for an unspecified period of time.
Instead, Youtub did it in a really roughshod way, with little explanation, no to almost no advance warning, and then expected, in a country full of gun owners and regular mass shootings, that nothing bad would happen.
I've been seeing youtube content creators posting upset videos for a while now.
I don't blame Youtube for demonetizing content. I just think they ignored best practices because they didn't see it as a layoff/firing of thousands of employees. And that is part of the reason their employees were shot.
The more likely result would be a decade long recession where very few people had jobs.
Look, it's just a fact that even the lowest paid worker in the u.s. needs about $18,000 a year to survive.
You can survive in china for $3000 a year. You can survive in India for about $1800 a year (and many get by on $720 but with a very low standard of living and reduced lifespan).
A tax cut isn't going to cut it. High inflation in china and india are fixing the problem but it's going to be 2045 and 2055 before they approach wage parity (and that's assuming the inflation rate doesn't drop).
Meanwhile, automated factories are destroying even those low paid jobs in china and india.
Your view is unrealistic, simplistic, and naive.
You are a good example of the Dunning Krueger effect. You don't know much so it seems easy. But it's not. It's very hard and it's going to get harder as more automation replaces more jobs. Humans can't afford to retrain for a new career every 5 years. At a minimum, we need to have health care independent of companies (it's a big incentive to fire older and less healthy people and dump them on public assistance) and we need free education for adults. It doesn't have to be harvard level. But we can't put people into unforgivable debt and get thru this. Once they are in debt, they can't retrain any more. And instead of producing resources, they consume resources.
So far China is mostly directly targeting areas where Trump and republicans won the election.
Interesting way to play the situation.
The more likely result of these tariffs is that the u.s. will literally be cut apart from the global economy and everyone else will move on without the u.s. That and/or a huge recession (with the risk of a global world war that brings).
I've already seen some fools talking about taking on China militarily.
China would need to get *1* of their 260 nuclear missles above the u.s. and most of the u.s. would be back to the 1800s.
Mr. Trump's attitude about war and nuclear weapons is much to trivial. He doesn't take them seriously.
I stopped using it about 2006-2007. It was *already* too intrusive and the company founder had stated we had no right to privacy and the company had repeatedly secretly changed privacy settings to be more liberal and been caught.
It's not getting any better. Facebook is a danger to your financial safety.
and boy... so many mutual friends have ended their friendship due to facebook over the last decade. it's as bad as playing "Diplomacy" the board game (which is really nasty about ending friendships too).
Why? Machine Guns are such a small percentage of violent crime? Why? Live grenades are such a small percentage of violent crime? Why? Rocket Powered Grenades are such a small percentage of violent crime? Why? Ammonium Nitrate Bombs are such a small percentage of violent crime? Why? Ricin is such a small percentage of violent crime?
Switching a series of six 10 round magazines slows mass shooters down and gives other people with guns a chance to shoot them. Or other unarmed people a few seconds to run. And regardless of how you train, you can always screw up the magazine swap and drop a magazine or goof it up as opposed to killing 6 more people in the same time it would have taken to swap magazines.
There are weapons which are not sufficient to stop tyranny but which are way to dangerous to have in civilian hands. We already know that because we already heavily regulate them. The killing power of the combination of semi-automatic weapons combined with large magazines is in the range that requires heavier regulation. One person can injure over 800 people and kill 58 people very quickly.
Each subject received a total of eight 30-minute massage therapy sessions during the 4-week treatment period. Two massage therapy sessions were administered each week and were separated by at least 48 hours. Massage therapy treatments were conducted by certified massage therapists, each with a minimum of 1000 hours of training and with 3 to 21 years of professional practice. A standardized, precise 30-minute massage treatment protocol was developed, refined, and practiced by each therapist for 4 weeks before the study began. The treatment protocol consisted of 6 distinct phases within the 30-minute time frame; brief descriptions of each phase follow.
Phase 1â"preparatory tissue warm-up
(3 minutes) included bilateral pressure moving from the lower cervical region to the occiput. This procedure was repeated, with completion of 3 passes bilaterally.
Phase 2â"myofascial release
(5 minutes) included 3 palmar glide passes each over the deltopectoral, deltoid, and posterior deltoid regions bilaterally. Additionally, 3 passes with a soft fist contact were made from the occiput to the lateral shoulder along the upper trapezius bilaterally.
Phase 3â"axial cervical traction
(2 minutes) included application of manual axial traction with 1 hand under the head and neck and the other hand on the forehead. Gentle traction was applied with the head first slightly flexed, then with slight right lateral flexion, and finally with the head in slight left lateral flexion. Traction was held for 15 seconds in each position.
Phase 4â"trigger point therapy procedure
(15 minutes) consisted of scanning palpation of the upper trapezius, sternocleidomastoid, suboccipital, splenius capitis, levator scapulae, and temporalis muscles to locate and manually treat trigger points.16 When located, active trigger points were treated by pincer or flat palpation with just enough pressure to elicit referred pain or autonomic referral phenomena. That pressure was maintained on the trigger point until the client reported that the referral pain had dissipated or for a maximum of 2 minutes. Pressure on the active trigger point was then slowly eased to elicit a vascular flushing. This procedure was repeated 3 to 5 times on each trigger point. Typically, 6 active trigger points were treated in the time allotted.
Results A decrease in both frequency and duration of chronic headaches.
(But also notice a small sample size for this study./shrug)
Imagine your entire body is enclosed by a layer beneath your skin of soft leathery material which can become less flexible in certain directions and put tremendous pressure on underlying tissues. Pressure applied in directions different than that of the pressure can soften, lengthen, and extend the soft leathery material, reducing pressure on the underlying tissues.
Especially in the case of chronic headaches and migraines this can reduce the duration and intensity of headaches and migraines ( migraines having nausea, light sensitivity, and visual distortion in addition to pain). In my personal experience, the migraines f
I ask the client how much pain they feel from 1-10. Pain level they self judge to be '3' is usually most effective unless they have been in extreme pain in their life (like passing a kidney stone- knocked unconcious in a car accident, etc.) .
Given long enough, even light pressure from your socks will melt and deform it. As a therapist, I need to use heavier pressure but only enough to effect change in about 30 to 60 seconds.
For migraines, you can start at the base of the skull and "iron" from the base to the crown one strip as wide as 4 fingers in about 45 seconds. If the pressure is correct, then an ache should spread out from the area (referred pain). Problem areas you can stay on for no more than 10 seconds before moving on.
It's kinda hard to communicate this in a text medium so please feel free to ask follow up questions if that isn't clear enough.
I work on people with disorders of this type all the time.
It can cause intense migraines, unexplained pain & weakness, it can put hundreds of pound of pressure on bones and underlying tissue and yet it responds to gentle pressure over time much better than strong pressure. It behaves bit like oobleck in that regard.
I just think of it as fascia mainly but I think of fascia different than most other people. Sort of like the Eskimos and snow.
Gr... Curse slashdot and typos... ArmaLite.. not armalad.
It isnt' really the AR15 that's the problem anyway. It's the killing capacity of weapons that exceed machineguns (which killed 7 people leading the NRA to help write a law restricting access to such terrific killing power after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.)
Magazines exceeding 10 shots should be registered and licensed the same as machine guns. And after a reasonable period to register or swap for smaller capacity magazines, possession of such magazines should be fined and punished the same as owning an unlicensed machine gun or semi-automatic modified to fire automatically. (that's up to 10 years federal prison, no parole btw.)
People don't even shoot at red light cameras with paintball guns.
the armalad 15's combined with high capacity magazines killing power is too high for civilians but too low to resist military weaponry.
We need to decide- give everyone live grenades, fuel air bombs, and nuclear arms or limit civilians to shotguns, handguns, small magazines, and track/limit the number of bullets they buy without returning casings.
I'd tax bullets with a floating rate sufficient to cover the annualized cost of shooting victim's medical, rehabilitation, and funeral costs.
Already blew the 1.5 degree carbon budget. On track to blow thru the 2.0 degree carbon budget very soon (2024? 2027?)
Wind power (and other alternative energy) is still good as are batteries that would allow coal plants to run at more efficient levels as are electric cars as are LED lighting solutions to reduce consumption.
If you want to address climate change you need to either find a safe (switchable) way to block incoming energy in huge quantities or you need to find a safe way (i.e. again- you can turn it off) to rapidly extract carbon.
For example, something that extracts carbon to make to rapidly make carbon fibers solid graphene would be useful.
But you are talking about needing to sequester 17 gigatons of carbon annually starting in about 10 years from now just to avoid blowing the 2.0 degree carbon budget.
That's part of the problem. The *U.S.* isn't. A minority of citizens (and I think a shrinking minority) has temporarily managed to grab power due to the timing that big data arrived (allowing republicans to lock in gerrymandering gains for a decade- in my state we are 55%R,45%D... our state house is almost 70%R. We are being screwed.
Likewise, red states adopt policies that either take the right to vote away from minorities or drive them from the state. We have states that are over 90% white still. And they are grossly over represented in the Senate and the Electoral college.
Crossing my fingers the majority can take back the House later this year in the 2018 elections. Republicans have been tossing aside precedence going back over a hundred years to push their power. But by doing so, once it flips back they have no protection either.
Demographic trends are not in their favor in particular states like Texas (probably Blue again soon based on presidential year election percentages) but smaller states are an issue. It would *really* benefit California to ship about 40,000 of it's minority, gay, etc. citizens to Wyoming. It would flip two senate and one house seats Blue. That 568,000 citizen state has 2 senators. California with 38,000,000 citizens has 2 senators. It's really not democratic any more.
yes, it's quarterly numbers on statista that I thought were monthly. I had tried to post a correction but slashdot said too soon. I couldn't edit it to correct it, started working on the patio and just got back to it.
Slashdot is dumb for not letting you correct posts *and* not letting you post for several minutes after a post.
Well, yes. I retired at 51, after all. Perhaps I was just lucky with my technical picks. A couple 35%+ returns on a big pile and avoiding almost all the decline in 2008-2009 (I was out at 13,200) were all fed by good old fashioned technical analysis.
More importantly, I believe that a lot of other traders believe it and many Algo's appear to use it. And I've seen the stocks drop 10% within 5 minutes when technical support was broken more times than I can remember.
I also believe in fundamental analysis. And I know it's hard to compete there because some people get to walk in the door and look at the actual order book or even get a seat on the board while the rest of us get old data.
I also believe in the random walk. But, just like poker, there are times when particular moves are more or less likely.
It led me to enter gold for a long term investment at the start of 2017. That's one we can check back on in 2020.:-)
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The U.S. has been damaged by the 2016 election and will suffer economically for decades. It may never really recover.
It looks like we are on the path to a full blown smoot-hawley Great Depression trade war. Except- it looks like it will be the U.S. against the entire world this time. Everyone else will simply route around the U.S. - leaving the U.S. in a weaker position even after it stops this nonsense.
It's just a fact that labor costs in India and China are much lower than in the U.S. And automated labor costs are even lower than in India and China (tho land is still much more expensive in the U.S. so the cost of doing business will remain mildly higher even when both automate).
Trends in inflation won't equalize labor in China until at least 2045 and in India until at least 2055.
--
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
The point of washing your hands is to dislodge a reasonable amount of germs, and perhaps to wash off fecal matter.
Urine is sterile in most people (but not everyone).
We encounter a large amount of germs constantly. But we get sick if we are weakened or we don't recognize the signature of the illness so our immune system is slow to react.
The U.S. has been damaged by the 2016 election and will suffer economically for decades. It may never really recover.
It looks like we are on the path to a full blown smoot-hawley Great Depression trade war. Except- it looks like it will be the U.S. against the entire world this time. Everyone else will simply route around the U.S. - leaving the U.S. in a weaker position even after it stops this nonsense.
It's just a fact that labor costs in India and China are much lower than in the U.S. And automated labor costs are even lower than in India and China (tho land is still much more expensive in the U.S. so the cost of doing business will remain mildly higher even when both automate).
Trends in inflation won't equalize labor in China until at least 2045 and in India until at least 2055.
Oh and I forgot to mention that losing your job also means you lose your health care. In some cases, that literally means you or your child will die.
There are very patchwork systems for the poor, but they systematically slow down use of the health care system so much that some people die as a result. I had a board gaming friend who lost her job at Exxon, lost her health care, then was found to have bone cancer. When I had insurance and got cancer, I was in surgery the same day and in chemo therapy three weeks later. She fought her way thru the system to finally receive chemotherapy after 9 months. By that time, it was too late and she died a painful, terrible death.
If you are poor and break a leg or have a serious illness, you go to the emergency room- sit for many hours- receive minimal substandard treatment- and are rushed out the door. And then are billed thousands of dollars in medical fees.
The U.S. medical system is bad horrible for about 40% of the population and horrible for about 30% of the population. It's the best in the world for certain diseases and if you are in the top 30%-- especially if you are in the top 10%-- and even more so if you are in the top .5% (lookin at you Steven Jobs- who got a liver by flying on his private jet which could have gone to someone else with less money who might have lived longer with it).
Well, the way our system is set up, job loss can be very close to killing people and their children. People spend too much and carry too much debt. The entire system is built to encourage this behavior.
Now add guns to people who feel they are being killed and their life is being destroyed by the company that may have asked them to work nights, weekends, and holidays.
Then add a history of work violence after layoffs going back for decades so people consider it an option.
It's a volatile mixture.
When a large corporation fires/lays off hundreds to thousands of employees, it's a best practice to have armed police on business campuses for a period of time (months to even years).
Giving severance pay is another best practice..
So is giving advance notice that the change is coming (actually that's a legal requirement too).
So is having a meeting and giving some kind of explanation which shows respect for the employees and a reason why the change needs to take place and isn't arbitrary.
When youtube demonetizes content without warning, what they are doing is akin to a layoff.
Youtube could have reduced the likelihood of a shooting if they had:
Given 30, 60, or even 90 days notice that demonetization was coming.
Given "severance" pay based on the content creators historical income.
* To high income earners because they've done a lot for youtube in the past and they are less likely to get angry if youtube shows respect by giving severance.
* To low income earners because *it's very cheap* and generates a lot of good will.
* Distributed a video or -better- had a live conference where they explained why demonetization was necessary (advertisers refusing to pay for content, legal exposure to risk, etc.)
* Let everyone know that there would be armed uniformed police on campus starting immediately and continuing for for an unspecified period of time.
Instead, Youtub did it in a really roughshod way, with little explanation, no to almost no advance warning, and then expected, in a country full of gun owners and regular mass shootings, that nothing bad would happen.
I've been seeing youtube content creators posting upset videos for a while now.
I don't blame Youtube for demonetizing content. I just think they ignored best practices because they didn't see it as a layoff/firing of thousands of employees. And that is part of the reason their employees were shot.
The more likely result would be a decade long recession where very few people had jobs.
Look, it's just a fact that even the lowest paid worker in the u.s. needs about $18,000 a year to survive.
You can survive in china for $3000 a year. You can survive in India for about $1800 a year (and many get by on $720 but with a very low standard of living and reduced lifespan).
A tax cut isn't going to cut it. High inflation in china and india are fixing the problem but it's going to be 2045 and 2055 before they approach wage parity (and that's assuming the inflation rate doesn't drop).
Meanwhile, automated factories are destroying even those low paid jobs in china and india.
Your view is unrealistic, simplistic, and naive.
You are a good example of the Dunning Krueger effect. You don't know much so it seems easy. But it's not. It's very hard and it's going to get harder as more automation replaces more jobs. Humans can't afford to retrain for a new career every 5 years. At a minimum, we need to have health care independent of companies (it's a big incentive to fire older and less healthy people and dump them on public assistance) and we need free education for adults. It doesn't have to be harvard level. But we can't put people into unforgivable debt and get thru this. Once they are in debt, they can't retrain any more. And instead of producing resources, they consume resources.
So far China is mostly directly targeting areas where Trump and republicans won the election.
Interesting way to play the situation.
The more likely result of these tariffs is that the u.s. will literally be cut apart from the global economy and everyone else will move on without the u.s. That and/or a huge recession (with the risk of a global world war that brings).
I've already seen some fools talking about taking on China militarily.
China would need to get *1* of their 260 nuclear missles above the u.s. and most of the u.s. would be back to the 1800s.
Mr. Trump's attitude about war and nuclear weapons is much to trivial. He doesn't take them seriously.
I stopped using it about 2006-2007. It was *already* too intrusive and the company founder had stated we had no right to privacy and the company had repeatedly secretly changed privacy settings to be more liberal and been caught.
It's not getting any better. Facebook is a danger to your financial safety.
and boy... so many mutual friends have ended their friendship due to facebook over the last decade. it's as bad as playing "Diplomacy" the board game (which is really nasty about ending friendships too).
Why? Machine Guns are such a small percentage of violent crime?
Why? Live grenades are such a small percentage of violent crime?
Why? Rocket Powered Grenades are such a small percentage of violent crime?
Why? Ammonium Nitrate Bombs are such a small percentage of violent crime?
Why? Ricin is such a small percentage of violent crime?
Switching a series of six 10 round magazines slows mass shooters down and gives other people with guns a chance to shoot them. Or other unarmed people a few seconds to run. And regardless of how you train, you can always screw up the magazine swap and drop a magazine or goof it up as opposed to killing 6 more people in the same time it would have taken to swap magazines.
There are weapons which are not sufficient to stop tyranny but which are way to dangerous to have in civilian hands. We already know that because we already heavily regulate them. The killing power of the combination of semi-automatic weapons combined with large magazines is in the range that requires heavier regulation. One person can injure over 800 people and kill 58 people very quickly.
You do not need that kind of firepower to hunt.
Yea... we don't share a common vocabulary and text has it's limits.
Read these and then try to read my statement below them in light of them.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://www.fasciablaster.com/...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Note especially:
Massage Treatment
Each subject received a total of eight 30-minute massage therapy sessions during the 4-week treatment period. Two massage therapy sessions were administered each week and were separated by at least 48 hours. Massage therapy treatments were conducted by certified massage therapists, each with a minimum of 1000 hours of training and with 3 to 21 years of professional practice. A standardized, precise 30-minute massage treatment protocol was developed, refined, and practiced by each therapist for 4 weeks before the study began. The treatment protocol consisted of 6 distinct phases within the 30-minute time frame; brief descriptions of each phase follow.
Phase 1â"preparatory tissue warm-up
(3 minutes) included bilateral pressure moving from the lower cervical region to the occiput. This procedure was repeated, with completion of 3 passes bilaterally.
Phase 2â"myofascial release
(5 minutes) included 3 palmar glide passes each over the deltopectoral, deltoid, and posterior deltoid regions bilaterally. Additionally, 3 passes with a soft fist contact were made from the occiput to the lateral shoulder along the upper trapezius bilaterally.
Phase 3â"axial cervical traction
(2 minutes) included application of manual axial traction with 1 hand under the head and neck and the other hand on the forehead. Gentle traction was applied with the head first slightly flexed, then with slight right lateral flexion, and finally with the head in slight left lateral flexion. Traction was held for 15 seconds in each position.
Phase 4â"trigger point therapy procedure
(15 minutes) consisted of scanning palpation of the upper trapezius, sternocleidomastoid, suboccipital, splenius capitis, levator scapulae, and temporalis muscles to locate and manually treat trigger points.16 When located, active trigger points were treated by pincer or flat palpation with just enough pressure to elicit referred pain or autonomic referral phenomena. That pressure was maintained on the trigger point until the client reported that the referral pain had dissipated or for a maximum of 2 minutes. Pressure on the active trigger point was then slowly eased to elicit a vascular flushing. This procedure was repeated 3 to 5 times on each trigger point. Typically, 6 active trigger points were treated in the time allotted.
Results
A decrease in both frequency and duration of chronic headaches.
(But also notice a small sample size for this study. /shrug)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
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Okay, so in light of those:
Imagine your entire body is enclosed by a layer beneath your skin of soft leathery material which can become less flexible in certain directions and put tremendous pressure on underlying tissues. Pressure applied in directions different than that of the pressure can soften, lengthen, and extend the soft leathery material, reducing pressure on the underlying tissues.
Especially in the case of chronic headaches and migraines this can reduce the duration and intensity of headaches and migraines ( migraines having nausea, light sensitivity, and visual distortion in addition to pain). In my personal experience, the migraines f
Oh, I thought of another measure I use.
I ask the client how much pain they feel from 1-10. Pain level they self judge to be '3' is usually most effective unless they have been in extreme pain in their life (like passing a kidney stone- knocked unconcious in a car accident, etc.) .
Oh... The irony of that statement by an "Anonymous Coward"
My sides are hurting. Good one!
It's a tradeoff of pressure and time.
Given long enough, even light pressure from your socks will melt and deform it.
As a therapist, I need to use heavier pressure but only enough to effect change in about 30 to 60 seconds.
For migraines, you can start at the base of the skull and "iron" from the base to the crown one strip as wide as 4 fingers in about 45 seconds. If the pressure is correct, then an ache should spread out from the area (referred pain). Problem areas you can stay on for no more than 10 seconds before moving on.
It's kinda hard to communicate this in a text medium so please feel free to ask follow up questions if that isn't clear enough.
I'd say about 1-2 pounds?
Oh... The irony of that statement by an "Anonymous Coward"
My sides are hurting. Good one!
I work on people with disorders of this type all the time.
It can cause intense migraines, unexplained pain & weakness, it can put hundreds of pound of pressure on bones and underlying tissue and yet it responds to gentle pressure over time much better than strong pressure. It behaves bit like oobleck in that regard.
I just think of it as fascia mainly but I think of fascia different than most other people. Sort of like the Eskimos and snow.
Gr... Curse slashdot and typos... ArmaLite.. not armalad.
It isnt' really the AR15 that's the problem anyway. It's the killing capacity of weapons that exceed machineguns (which killed 7 people leading the NRA to help write a law restricting access to such terrific killing power after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.)
Magazines exceeding 10 shots should be registered and licensed the same as machine guns. And after a reasonable period to register or swap for smaller capacity magazines, possession of such magazines should be fined and punished the same as owning an unlicensed machine gun or semi-automatic modified to fire automatically. (that's up to 10 years federal prison, no parole btw.)
People don't even shoot at red light cameras with paintball guns.
the armalad 15's combined with high capacity magazines killing power is too high for civilians but too low to resist military weaponry.
We need to decide- give everyone live grenades, fuel air bombs, and nuclear arms or limit civilians to shotguns, handguns, small magazines, and track/limit the number of bullets they buy without returning casings.
I'd tax bullets with a floating rate sufficient to cover the annualized cost of shooting victim's medical, rehabilitation, and funeral costs.
Pedestrians were safe with horses.
Jaywalking was already illegal in 10 countries by 1917 however.
Cars and pedestrians don't mix in uncontrolled circumstances. One of them is softer than the other.
Already blew the 1.5 degree carbon budget. On track to blow thru the 2.0 degree carbon budget very soon (2024? 2027?)
Wind power (and other alternative energy) is still good as are batteries that would allow coal plants to run at more efficient levels as are electric cars as are LED lighting solutions to reduce consumption.
If you want to address climate change you need to either find a safe (switchable) way to block incoming energy in huge quantities or you need to find a safe way (i.e. again- you can turn it off) to rapidly extract carbon.
For example, something that extracts carbon to make to rapidly make carbon fibers solid graphene would be useful.
But you are talking about needing to sequester 17 gigatons of carbon annually starting in about 10 years from now just to avoid blowing the 2.0 degree carbon budget.
Think larger.
Well, see the photographer was probably storing their images on the cloud, don't you know. ;-)
That's part of the problem. The *U.S.* isn't. A minority of citizens (and I think a shrinking minority) has temporarily managed to grab power due to the timing that big data arrived (allowing republicans to lock in gerrymandering gains for a decade- in my state we are 55%R,45%D... our state house is almost 70%R. We are being screwed.
Likewise, red states adopt policies that either take the right to vote away from minorities or drive them from the state. We have states that are over 90% white still. And they are grossly over represented in the Senate and the Electoral college.
Crossing my fingers the majority can take back the House later this year in the 2018 elections. Republicans have been tossing aside precedence going back over a hundred years to push their power. But by doing so, once it flips back they have no protection either.
Demographic trends are not in their favor in particular states like Texas (probably Blue again soon based on presidential year election percentages) but smaller states are an issue. It would *really* benefit California to ship about 40,000 of it's minority, gay, etc. citizens to Wyoming. It would flip two senate and one house seats Blue. That 568,000 citizen state has 2 senators. California with 38,000,000 citizens has 2 senators. It's really not democratic any more.
I have a friend who owns one (the SUV) and I have a friend who is on the list to get one.
I have three other friends who have non-tesla hybrid electric/i.c.e. cars.
Oil is back up to 70. It only makes the case for electric cars better. Non-Tesla electric car sales are very strong in China.
yes, it's quarterly numbers on statista that I thought were monthly. I had tried to post a correction but slashdot said too soon.
I couldn't edit it to correct it, started working on the patio and just got back to it.
Slashdot is dumb for not letting you correct posts *and* not letting you post for several minutes after a post.
Well, yes. I retired at 51, after all. Perhaps I was just lucky with my technical picks. A couple 35%+ returns on a big pile and avoiding almost all the decline in 2008-2009 (I was out at 13,200) were all fed by good old fashioned technical analysis.
More importantly, I believe that a lot of other traders believe it and many Algo's appear to use it. And I've seen the stocks drop 10% within 5 minutes when technical support was broken more times than I can remember.
I also believe in fundamental analysis. And I know it's hard to compete there because some people get to walk in the door and look at the actual order book or even get a seat on the board while the rest of us get old data.
I also believe in the random walk. But, just like poker, there are times when particular moves are more or less likely.
It led me to enter gold for a long term investment at the start of 2017. That's one we can check back on in 2020. :-)