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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Tetracycline is an antibiotic, so it kills stuff in your gut. Not all of it, but it is best to take probiotics if you’re taking any kind of antibiotic just to keep your gut flora a little happier. It also kills the bugs that tend to be the reason there’s pus in acne, which are what cause acne to be red and bumpy

    Accutane is like a roided-out version of vitamin A and works like vitamin A in your skin, just even more vita-tastically, or whatever scientific term is appropriate. This means that it clears up some of the causes of acne (makes your skin produce less oil, shrinks pores so they can’t clog as easily, etc.), but it’s so freakin’ vitastic that it goes too far. All my friends on Accutane in high school needed lip balm 24/7 and a few of them had frequent nosebleeds, especially while playing sports. One of them had to go off it very soon after he started because it made his acne much worse and he ended up with a pustule 2.5 inches across on his back that needed to be drained and packed.

    Inflammatory bowel disease is another thing that seems to pop up down the line for some accutane users, but AFAIK no formal causal link had been established, or perhaps heads are just in the sand. For what it’s worth, one of the folks I know from high school that took accutane has been dealing with inflammatory bowel problems since shortly after she took it, which was around 20 years ago.

    Very different drugs that work on acne from entirely different angles. Tetracycline won’t cause long term gut health problems all on its own unless you take it for far too long, or at unsafe dosages.





  • Yes, I know. As I said, it’s the northern border of the state between the Pacific and just south of Kennewick, Washington. But it does not flow through Oregon, as only the south bank is ever on Oregon land.

    The Columbia enters Washington from the north and then becomes its southern border all the way to the ocean. Being entirely surrounded by Washington for part of its course, it is accurate to say that the Columbia flows through Washington. Since the Columbia only interacts with Oregon as its northern border, beginning and ending its interaction on the same side of the state, it can not be said to flow through Oregon.

    But wait! What about Sauvie Island and the Columbia slough? Are those not examples of the Columbia flowing through Oregon? Yeah, but not on the same scale and there’s nothing on Sauvie Island except for corn mazes and naked people.









  • It’s that basic lack of respect that keeps my parents at an arm and a half’s distance. There was nothing I did as a child that the rest of the world didn’t hear about, even if I specifically asked them to keep something quiet. I stopped asking after a while, because I realized that guaranteed that they’d talk about it. Fucking weirdos.


  • Ditto. 7800X3D is a beast for games and I don’t give half a shit about productivity performance on my gaming machine. I got mine for around $350 early this year and I’m absolutely floored that it’s now over $400. That’s not the direction things are supposed to go.

    I think we may be in the last generations of x86’s desktop and laptop dominance. All phones and now all Macs run on ARM-based chips and they do just fine while sipping watts, compared to x86’s two big proponents both having faltering launches on their latest generations with ever higher TDPs where you only get more processing power by using more electrical power.