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youshouldknow·You Should Knowbywaterbogan

YSK that there are a range of medications that can prevent alcoholics and other addicts from relapsing

If you or one of your loved ones is struggling with this its worth knowing and worth asking your doctor about. Article mainly discusses generic anticonvulsants that have proven beneficial, but there are others such as Naltrexone that can also be helpful.

YSK that there are a range of medications that can prevent alcoholics and other addicts from relapsinghttps://quillette.com/2023/08/28/medications-can-help-keep-alcoholics-sober-why-are-they-being-ignored/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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til·Today I Learned (TIL)bywaterbogan

TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditions

As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated, including your heart and brain.

Well thats it, I’m definitely staying out of the sun now!

TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditionshttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230823-the-curious-ways-your-skin-shapes-your-healthOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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til·Today I Learnedbywaterbogan

TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditions

As the largest organ in the body, the skin can have a profound impact. The chemicals released by diseased and dysfunctional skin soon enter the bloodstream, where they wash around, damaging other tissues. Amid the ensuing systemic inflammation, chemicals from the skin can reach and harm organs that seem entirely unrelated, including your heart and brain.

Well thats it, I'm definitely staying out of the sun now!

TIL your skin health can actually impact your overall health including heart and neurological conditionshttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230823-the-curious-ways-your-skin-shapes-your-healthOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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newzealand·Aotearoa / New Zealandbywaterbogan

Anybody got the UVNZ app on their phone?

Its a great little app for those that are easily sunburnt, has been a godsend in the past. But when I try to open it currently it throws an error message "Data missing or incomplete" I know it gets its UV data from NIWA, but when I checked on their site there is nothing to say it has been discontinued. The cancer society / sunsmart site also still shows it as current too. Cant find anything else about it online.

Anyone else use this app for Android (or IoS)? Is it still working for you?

Edit: have discovered that the developer Jeremy Burke has put out a new version called GlobalUV which I'm trying now, that looks quite similar and seems to be working

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fediverse·Fediversebywaterbogan

Funding the Fediverse - use an awards feature to fund instances

Saw this proposal originally posted on Github and thought it was worth posting here and expanding on

This is an excellent idea, I liked awarding posts on reddit on my old username, probably spent quite a bit with reddit until they permabanned me for god alone knows what reason.

This plus Premium memberships would give the admins of the bigger servers such as lemmy.world a reliable income stream that would enable them to maintain and improve infrastructure. The money would go to whichever server a user that buys the awards or Premium membership happens to reside on (for me it'd be lemmy.world)

Its a simple reality that running a server with thousands of users on it costs money and time, and it has to come from somewhere more reliable and lucrative than donations

It does raise an issue in that a payment processor would be required, and a business would have to be created for that as well. Perhaps several instances could co-operate and share the payment processor and create between them an organisation or business for that purpose, there would need be some means of tagging each payment so that it can be directed to the correct instance

I want the fediverse to survive and thrive, and for that it needs some income beyond donations to support instance server costs, bandwidth and the time and effort and resources expended on battling DDOS attacks, bots etc etc

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support·Lemmy.world Supportbywaterbogan

Post I made shows 6 replies... but I can only see 4?

Made a post in a fairly niche community a few days back, it got 6 replies, only 4 of which I can actually see. Is this some sort of federation issue or something else? Its been showing 6 replies for a couple of days at least now, so if that was it I would have thought the last 2 would have come through by now

Post in question is here; https://lemmy.world/post/2264735

Maybe if someone on another instance or on kbin can take a look for me and see if they can see all 6 I'd appreciate that thanks

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til·Today I Learned (TIL)bywaterbogan

TIL General Motors built a 61 Chev Impala with a flat / boxer type 10 cylinder engine and front wheel drive

This was built as a test/ prototype, and was an ancestor of the FWD 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado and 1967 Cadillac Eldorado. The engine was a prototype of a modular engine family that was intended to range from 2 to 12 cylinders, based on the Corvair flat 6. Only 2, 4, 6 and 10 cylinder engines were built before the project was abandoned

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/engine-prototype-the-stillborn-corvair-gen2-modular-engine-from-two-to-twelve-cylinders/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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lemmy_support·Lemmy Supportbywaterbogan

Unable to log into some other instances

I joined via lemmy.world, but there are some communities on other instances I want to subscribe to and post on, such as lemmy nz and discuss.tchncs.de/. When I go to communities on those instances I am not logged in, and when I go to do so after entering my username/ password I just get a spinning circle on the green button after clicking Login.... and I never actually get logged in

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