I always feel a bit weird when reading migraine threads on the internet, because mine seem so much milder, but it's still debilitating. I remember first noticing the migraines in grade when I was 16, but it took me years before realizing they were migraines. I thought that most people had pain like I did, and just powered through with some Advil/Tylenol.

My migraines follow a very regular schedule. I wake up and just know that I will have a migraine. It's like a nagging thought. Worse after days of poor/little sleep, or days where the temperature changes dramatically, or if there is a big storm. At around 14:00 the pain grows in intensity, I feel nauseous and uncoordinated, very sensitive to light. Lying in a dark room and listening to a podcast/YouTube video is the best way to get through this period, I can get to the edge of sleep and it makes it easier. At around 20:00 the pain has usually mostly subsided, and by 22:00 I'm pain free but exhausted.

I tried a few prescription medications after talking with a doctor, but they didn't have much of an effect, so I just accepted that once every 1/2 weeks I would have to deal with it. Whenever I would read about migraines online, I would feel relieved, because mine seemed so much more mild. No aura, the pain is usually gone within a day, and if I needed to be out and about I could manage, even though it was painful.

About 5 years ago an ex-partner offered me a Bufferin (Aspirin mix), and right away it helped with the symptoms. Read into it and saw a study that suggested some people respond well to high-doses of aspirin and caffeine for migraine relief. It worked exceptionally well for me. 9/10 migraines knocked out immediately, with the rest being substantially reduced in length and intensity. I get maybe 1 migraine a year now that is truly bad.

Recently talked to a new doctor who prescribed me propanolol (he was afraid about the high dose of aspirin on my stomach), and it's been just as good.

I just feel fortunate to have easy access to migraine relief, and I hope that others are able to find something that works for them as well.

I think my biggest trigger is changing weather. I usually attribute this to changing light levels but I'm not sure.

I spent about 30 years getting migraines before I realized that wearing sunglasses helps my light sensitivity. It seems like that'd be a fairly intuitive thing to have tried, but somehow I never did.

What about the article is flamebait?

> The people who by their own actions and choices ruined America's inner cities have never been held accountable.

Who are these people?

The criminals doing crime and the people who enabled them in the name of inter-ethnic conflict.

I think a similar situation you can look into is the sanctions on Carrie Lam. While they are sanctions instead of a lawsuit, they did result in her losing access to all banking facilities in HK and China regardless of the fact they probably didn't think she didn't anything wrong. I think for most countries, keeping their banks working trumps almost all other considerations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/hong-kong-carr...

Why do you believe that the anti-meat lobby has more sway in society than the meat lobby?

I haven't used it, but I know that Coalton adds static typing to Common Lisp, might be something you're interested in.

https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton

I'm more into Scheme than CL, but am aware of Coalton. My current lisp is Gerbil: https://cons.io which already has a type annotation system and will be enhancing it for the next major release (v19).

I think that there was a sense that WotC was going to do something special for Magic's 30th anniversary - something for the community at large. Instead, they released a mediocre, $1000 product.

Yeah, it's entertainment for passing the time while charging. Tesla has long had Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, etc. apps in their cars for this reason, along with a number of games.

It's pretty neat. It's really cool to go car camping and effectively have a portable mini-theater come with you.

How can cannabis possibly end your life?

A bit contrived, but the blood pressure effects can be pretty bad for me. I’ve unexpectedly fainted after smoking before and banged myself up a bit. I suppose it’s possible to faint and hit your head on something you wouldn’t want to.

Yeah, people have died this way. I think the case in San Jose (IIRC) was a dab taken standing up, with a metal radiator behind them.

Sit down, take it easy.

Watch out for pretzels then.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/01/14/b...

Try to eat the plant and choke on the leaves?

Choking makes you as equally dead as any other cause. Dead is dead, no difference to the victim. It’s naïve to think cannabis is harmless, it can absolutely be lethal as a consequence of behavior or messing up any of the million different variables that your body needs regulated to keep you going long term.

Step on a stem you dropped and while you're hopping around on one foot you fall face first into the fireplace?

Trigger latent schizophrenia?

How any mind altering substance can. People take it because it is psychoactive. The ways it can end your life are innumerable. ("But what about alcohol!" Yes and? Because one thing is bad another thing can not possibly be bad?)

Also there is at least some link between it and schizophrenia. Anecdotally the weed smokers I know are, let's say, not the wisest and most moderate people I know. (Correlation and causation, I know.)

This is the case for me as well. I was learning Common Lisp for fun, and I loved it, but macros never clicked for me. I could understand how they're powerful, but I never developed a sense for when using a macro would make things easier. Probably just not enough time with the language.