deliriousdreams

I had always heard that the East Asian populations tended to have very dry ear wax. I guess it never occurred to me it was possible to just not have any.

… The ear wax thing is wild. Is this a known phenomenon? Does your PCM know you don’t have ear wax? Did they tell you that during an exam? How did you find out?

“Let’s speed run it.” “Say Less!”

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Usually the doctor isn’t the person asking this question. Every time it’s been asked of me (usually it’s on a form I fill out before my appointment), it’s by a nurse who’s prepping me to see the doctor (the person who takes vitals and health history) and obviously this question is part of taking a health history. Especially if the doctor you’re seeing isn’t your normal family doctor/GP (like if you went to the emergency room for a gunshot wound).

And having been to the emergency room a time or two in my life and having never been pregnant, I can say they never worried about whether I was pregnant if I had an obvious injury (like a gunshot wound) because triage is a thing.

I can understand why the question is asked. I do think it’s tiresome. That doesn’t mean there’s not a good reason for it.

Would you like to see the picture of how I found it?

Yeah. I wasn’t sure it would work for your use case necessarily, but I did remember seeing that a version of the Walmart onn box was available in Europe, so I didn’t want to discount it altogether.

Either way I do hope you find what you’re looking for and if I come across suggestions that might work I’ll try to post them here.

Possibly? I don’t know for sure because I can’t find a store front selling it, but it does appear that these devices are region locked and that there are people in Asian countries sharing ways to end around the region lock.

No. It looks like it has a different name.

https://tv.mythomson.com/en/Thomson-Streaming-Box-Plus/270

To be fair, I believe that’s the “Walmart” one op talks about in the post. I believe they do sell a version of this same set top box in the UK and possibly other parts of Europe. So it may be a viable option still.

Probably.

Your vacuum doesn’t go under furniture more than likely so to clean under there you quit being a janitor to become a furniture mover?

I guess it’s turtles all the way down.

A fair assesment. Except that you have to (and should be) cleaning the upright vacuum as well. Vacuum fires are no joke.

Yeah. I’ve got an 870 that’s still cleaning. It gets stuck under furniture and needs to be rescued at least once a week, and last week it lost its ass dustbin somehow mid clean, but it’s still kicking.

On the other hand I own 3 different raspberry pi’s. One for Home Assistant, one for Pihole, one for booting the server computer when I’m not home if I want to stream a movie from my library.

There was a point where tires were expensive but they lasted a long time because so few people had cars and they didn’t drive them often. So two brothers who owned a tire company were trying to figure out how to sell more tires to the few people who owned cars.

The answer was to get them to wear their tires out faster by providing a list of places they could visit that would warrant the expense of wearing down their tires.

So the stat rating was more of a "this place is worth a visit/road trip system. And they published this list and it caught on and then restaurants wanted to get Michelin stars for the notariety and the essentially free press.