Yep. My mother-in-law taught me this. Walking is a pretty great universal cure, if you’re lucky enough to be able to walk long distances.
But also: hamstring stretches. YMMV, but whenever I feel the “twinge” that used to precipitate sciatica and a too-long stint of sleeping on the floor, I do some hamstring stretches and it dissipates. I haven’t had “back pain down to the knee” since I figured this “one simple trick!” out…
And back stretches. It really helped me to think about spinal stenosis and to realize and envision that massive cabling of nerves at the base of the spine, and then to remember to stretch several times a day to give that “wiring” some more room (especially after compressing and scrunching them for twelve hours straight hunched over a laptop on the couch!).
Wow. Blast from the past. Just tried to log in after 20 years and it worked…but I didn’t get farther than it requiring full name and a phone number and lots of other mobile web badness before noping out.
If they still have those account creds and first names, y’all reckon VKontacte has our old messages? :X
Oh well, have great memories, pouring one out for ICQ tonight.
As declaredapple said: talc and asbestos grow together in many mines.
So it’s difficult to say that any talc is safe without testing or knowing provenance.
It’s disappointing (but not surprising) to see your comment downvoted. And all the diminishing comments.
Yes, cigarettes are dangerous, but those I’ve known that were exposed to asbestos and died (horribly) from it never smoked.
There are entire communities in the US that used asbestos in sidewalks and playgrounds.
Companies like Johns Manville dumped it by the truckloads onto playgrounds. People spread it over sidewalks and driveways and drive-in theater parking lots, sprayed water to harden it. That stuff was the definition of frangible. Kids played in it when it was dumped, played on it when it hardened. People reminisce about the powder, falling like snow, from the factories, and wiping it from their cars.
In the 90s, EPA officials showed up in hazmat suits, ripping up sidewalks and driveways and basketball courts. The company responsible created a fund for victims, went bankrupt, and now is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway .
“Lung cancer” shows up prominently in the obituaries in those towns many years later. And the billboards in those areas are dominated by meso ambulance chasers (it’s good money for the lawyers and the victims’ families can be strung along, many reports of “penny checks”).
It’s an environmental disaster we should learn from and not repeat, but I don’t have a lot of hope reading this thread.
I live in Florida, where these subscription-only car washes proliferate like kudzu; they’ve crowded out the good old gas station stalwarts that you might or might not get stuck in for several years now.
And the cause for their spread has been widely and publicly known for years: somebody found out that these things print cash. You own the land, you pay for one or two employees on-site max. Once PE woke up to the “strategy,” it was game on.
PE gets excited and overdoes it, wealth extraction hearkens enshittification, corner car washes are the new dollar store.
So I almost didn’t read past the subtitle, what’s actually new here? Oh:
“The omnipresence of the car wash in American life may be underappreciated: There are twice as many car wash outlets as McDonald’s and Starbucks locations combined.”
That’s almost unbelievable. Twice as many as McDonalds+Starbucks!
(Another concern: Who’s on the hook for all the PFAS cleanups when the scheme goes bust? Because you know it won’t be PE.)
McDonalds + Starbucks is a weird connection. You'd think the first thing to compare them to would be number of gas stations ...
186,000 gas stations vs 60,000 car washes.
And a quick sanity check of my town - we have more gas stations than car washes (though some have car washes) and way more burger joints than car washes, and also more coffee shops than car washes.
This is awesome! Have really been thinking about this a lot lately, and my SES->Google Workspace solution works, but isn't viable if we ever left Google Workspace. I might set one up because abdullahkahlids' statement is compelling and correct: "If enough people do it, then over time it will become easier for more people to host their own email." (Plenty folks did this in the heady 90s...)
A few questions:
- I see that it seems to require Ubuntu, assuming this would work on Debian as well without too many needed tweaks? And are there plans to support CentOS? Ubuntu is my daily driver as a desktop OS, but I rarely use it for server apps due to all the "extra stuff" installed and the network stack is slower out-of-the-box than CentOS and I am usually too lazy to do anything about that other than put my server stuff on CentOS.
- Is more documentation available (especially a hardening guide)? For example, I see that Munin's installed (huge fan of Munin, but I'd want to firewall it off for sure), Roundcube used as the front-end management, there are variables you'd want to configure (like support email), I'd probably want to not have sieve open to the world, etc. Basically, I'd love to see a concise list of services and open ports at minimum, so I could figure out what to omit from installation and what to firewall off.
I've been using it for over six years now, I'm always worried it'll stop working...but besides having to bump my node.js version a few times, so far so good, knock on wood.
A few years ago, my parents were downsizing and I wanted to find a respectful home for some of the amazing stuff he had in the garage, so we donated to the Vintage Computer Foundation: https://vcfed.org/artifact-donations/.
They don't take everything, but it felt better to give this to them than to have folks who didn't know these systems' import taking them to the dump.
Also highly recommend attending Vintage Computer Festival events if you get the chance.
But also: hamstring stretches. YMMV, but whenever I feel the “twinge” that used to precipitate sciatica and a too-long stint of sleeping on the floor, I do some hamstring stretches and it dissipates. I haven’t had “back pain down to the knee” since I figured this “one simple trick!” out…
And back stretches. It really helped me to think about spinal stenosis and to realize and envision that massive cabling of nerves at the base of the spine, and then to remember to stretch several times a day to give that “wiring” some more room (especially after compressing and scrunching them for twelve hours straight hunched over a laptop on the couch!).