LycanGalen

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From this popsci article: "Bird wings may not seem all that threatening. After all, like most other birds that fly, the bones in goose wings are hollow. But because geese can weigh up to 25 pounds, the muscles in those wings are incredibly strong. They have to be to lift such a heavy bird into the air and carry it hundreds of miles at a time during migration.

So you really don’t want to be pummeled by those wings—they can quickly knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones. All of these injuries have been reported after goose assaults."

If you're willing to hunt for a 2009 oldie, I have a guilty love for The Saboteur.

GTA/Assassin's creed esque where you play a race car driving Irishman helping the resistance in WWII, Nazi occupied Paris.

Gameplay can be repetitive, but free roaming Paris was a lot of fun. Plus, when I finally travelled to Paris IRL, I had a few "I know this place!" moments that felt really cool as a first-time visitor.

The eligibility criteria is different province to province. But generally speaking, if you meet the criteria for a prescription in your province, PrEP is covered mostly or entirely by your public health insurance.

To qualify, you have to be having dominantly or exclusively unprotected anal sex, with increased risks - (multiple partners, history of STIs, multiple prescriptions of PEP within 6 months, or sex with an HIV positive person who is not taking treatment/unknown viral load). That, or inject drugs and share injection supplies.

https://bccfe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/PrEP-Enrolment-Prescription-Request-Form_v2026_06_02.pdf

https://www.prepalberta.ca/accessing-prep

Ontario has no criteria because you have to pay for it with private insurance, or already be so poor or so disabled that you qualify for financial assistance. Not all private insurance plans cover PrEP.

CATIE.ca is a great place to get all kinds of HIV & Hepatitis info, including how to access services.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/lemmyshitpost · 31 pts · 40d

It only has some of the things that are in urine: urea, creatinine, and uric acid, It has things that aren't in urine: Skene's gland secretions, and is missing things that are in urine: salts, amonium, toxins, etc.

So if I dump protein powder in your coffee, did I put cream in it?

Well, it's sort of pee. It's got the same chemicals in it that our body puts in urine, plus excretions from the skene's glands, which are related to the prostate in guys. It also isn't carrying waste from the kidneys, so it's "clean" pee, if that makes sense. Same idea as how cum and pre-cum overlap, but aren't the exact same thing.

on But what if I need it? · c/lotrmemes · 1 pts · 49d

Strangely, I'm kinda ticked about cell phone manufacturers no longer giving us power adapters because 'everyone already has several, and it's wasteful', but would be 100% OK with never seeing another hex key provided with furniture.

I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.

All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn't mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don't give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from "don't take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods")

Do you work for one of those providers? Again, trying to figure out where you're getting your information from. Not saying you're incorrect; would just like to know where you sourced that info. It would be useful to reference in the future.

ISDE shows that Bell and Telus (and their sub-brands) also use B12, which is the same band AT&T and T-Mobile use for rural and building penetration. The big 3 also use B17, which I'm not even sure the US providers use. That said, I'm the first to admit my work with cellular mobility wasn't at the granular level of specific frequency coverage. Hoping your info source can help clear that up.

Just thinking your question through for fun. I'm sure there are more dedicated fans who will tear this to shreds:

Tatooine is/was home to numerous moisture farms, which implies at least some moisture in the air to be able to extract. Granted, the size of water droplets needed for a visible rainbow is more than the minimum 1.5% relative humidity needed for those extractors to work. I can't find anything on average relative humidity for Tatooine, but considering 1.5% produces only 1.5L of water/extractor/day, yet the Lars farm supposedly had a moderately successful hydroponics garden, plus drinking, cooking, and minimal cleaning water implies a higher average humidity than 1.5% while still at least scraping by. According to 'The Complete Location Factbook' Tatooine has 1% surface water. To keep surface water in the desert, you need either a ground source (underground water may or may not exist - I found conflicting info), or you need rain. In Star Wars: Rise of the Jedi, when Rey goes to Tatooine, you can see cumulus clouds which also implies occasional rainfall.

So I'd venture that at just the right time, it could be possible to have visible rainbows.