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Water Boil Advisory

This is why I think something like mastodon works really well for government, public works or any service that wants Twitter/Facebook like notifications without all the bullshit like having to deal with all negatives of having those accounts.

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Is it normal for your BP to rise after quitting

I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice.

Smoking -dilates- constricts your blood vessels and capillaries. Drinking thins your blood. After quitting your body is going to over compensate the other way for a little while.

Congratulations on quitting.

Edit: correction for constricts rather than dilation

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Cancer incidence rising among adults under 50, new report finds, leaving doctors puzzled and worried

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Nitrates are a huge concern and linked to colon cancer at this point. In basically any preserved lunch meat even if "nitrate free" where celery salt is added and usually creates more nitrates than the nitrate added stuff. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat

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Why use immutable Linux ? And which one ?

Been using nixos for a couple months now. It's nice and I really enjoy having all my configuration in one place and able to be version controlled. The down side being installing and configuring things take a bit more time to read how nix does it. I have it on a laptop that I've been playing with and removed it and put rocky for something else but I am 100% confident I can go right back to the way i had it.

So far the cons I'm seeing is installing vscode plugins are a little annoying and setting up to do python development on existing projects not very easy.

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Colon cancer is killing more younger men and women than ever, new report finds

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Probably nitrates for specifically colon cancer.

Nitrates are a huge concern and linked to colon cancer at this point. In basically any preserved lunch meat even if "nitrate free" where celery salt is added and usually creates more nitrates than the nitrate added stuff. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat

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Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? (Uğur Erdem Seyfi)

I came to the same conclusion. If I have a problem that I know nixos can solve it's useful tool in my belt. But man you try to do anything out side the box the learning curve is massive. Good for those that know but when you only get to tinker a few times a week for a couple hours just getting things to work can be fun at first but gets old very quick.