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So I learned that the Aluminum in soda cans [and deodorants] can lead to future Dementia/Alzheimer's.
So this must also be true when [re]heating food with Aluminum foil?
Only one thing aluminium foil is good for, and everyone here knows it!
TIN FOIL MAGA HAT
Reheating food that is acidic and in contact with aluminum is probably inviting trouble. But pans coated with anti-stick "Teflon" coatings are also potentially poisonous. = most air fryers.
Let's put it this way, if you own pet birds, parakeets, cockateils, parrots, etc, one of the first warnings is to not keep them near the ktichen if you use teflon in baking or stove top cooking, the gas off from them can kill them. Canary in a coal mine?
Aluminum is in most deodorant with antiperspirant - Just skip the antiperspirant part and look for straight deodorant. I use old spice. The active ingredient is propylene glycol. That's going to be typical. Unless you're going all natural with rubbing a crystal rock under your arm or that shower to shower "smell like a hoagie all day... yeah...dude ....you stink..." Powder nonsense. Gonna make you look up hoagie if you don't know what it is ...😁
I am convinced that anti antiperspirant, deodorants with aluminum are one of the causes of breast cancer we have seen rise in my lifetime, (born 1950) there are lymph nodes exactly where you apply them. Just read the labels, there are many products sold that say "aluminum free". My favorite deodorant is Schmidts. It lasts a long time and contains no aluminum, and comes in some nice scents. My favorite is cedar sandalwood.
Yeah I quit using deodorants with aluminum a long time ago. I’ve used the Schmidt’s before and one called Native as well.
Yes.. and FIJI water has some special element Silica that gets rid of aluminium.. expensive water but worth it imo
Soluble silica reduces aluminum availability and ameliorates toxicity in several biological systems. It has therefore been suggested that these two species strongly interact in solution. However, there is only weak affinity between monomeric silicic acid and aluminum with reported log Keff of between 4 and 6 at pH 7.2.
Sometimes I feel weary of waiting and this causes me to not think rationally. So forgive me when I reply to things that aren't what I would normally say. I suppose we all get like this from time to time. We are near the precipice which I think is the economic downfall and I keep asking myself if I have gotten the word out to everyone who needs to hear it so they can plan for the upcoming disaster. This is mostly what causes me to grow weary and to not think rationally at times. So I suppose I will just have to tell myself that I have done what God has asked and give my mind a break from the turmoil. Maybe I should just go make some popcorn and relax.
Yes ... many of us get that way. I find it helpful when I am reminded of what I already know:
Thank you my friend. Sometimes I need a reminder of who I am. God bless.
We all do... This is why we need each other fren 😉🙃🙂
Exactly. Thank you for being a good ear when a friend needs one.
Thank you for this.
I very much needed it today.
This was so helpful that I read it three times and copied it into my notes for printing later... Will leave it in future journal pages to surprise myself later. ThankQ.
Thanks, TaQo. This is a good day to remind me of this. I appreciate you-and everyone else here.
There you go take a load of and enjoy the popcorn. It’s completely out of our control anyway. One day at a time ❤️
One of my favorite songs!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fzU5jdbKOUk
So funny! I sing this song through out the day every day. I also tell people all the time to just take one day at a time. Thanks so much for the video. I love it.
You're very welcome, I love it, too.
I'm very thankful for the times when I have a song stuck in my head, that it's this one!
I have never been so angry with my Ubuntu machine. If I wanted an OS that ignored all my wishes and did darn well whatever it wanted, I would have installed a Mac or a Windows.
I have been trying to get rid of these nvidia drivers that freezes my system every now and then, and no matter how many times I uninstall all the driver packages, boom, there they are back again.
Even added those drivers into module blacklist, but noooo, these drivers are so special that they get loaded regardless of whether I want it or not.
Good news - I am not the only guy, people have been complaining about this for years.
Bad news - there doesn't seem to be a clean solution, grrrrr.
Can you run a automatic monitor program to periodically check if they're loaded, and if yes --> uninstall? Say once every 5 minutes.
Not an ideal solution, but effective. You can play around with the timing to then figure out what routine is being used to reload the bad drivers. I guess to do it right and properly diagnose it, you'd also create a registry for every time it came out positive.
The only way to unload the drivers once they have been loaded is to turn off the graphical console (and close all apps running there) and unload them and then restart the graphical console.
But that still doesn't solve the problem if the driver freezes the system in one of those 5 min gaps.
Don't worry, I will find the correct solution even if it means wasting a lot of valuable time, lol.
somebody has to have gotten into the kernel and found where it allows/enforces this.
How married are you to that nvidia?
An AMD Radeon might be worth the switch.
Unfortunately I'm stuck with windows and RTX4090 + proprietary "stuff"...
I have an RTX4090 that I use for my AI workload, so cannot really get rid of it.
That would drive me nuts too ... maybe even enough to throw 10 pro on it and lock it down - dual boot.
There's got to be a way to manually install the driver, then lock it down without updating.
I ran into some of this via their auto updater game ready bs - took forever just to roll it back and get it right so i could work in Win10.
Now, I avoid all auto installation and Nvidia's utilities & just pull down the driver directly/manually and install. Not sure if you're able to do that or not.
It seems to be an ongoing and prevalent issue...note time stamps
Last time I was using Windows 10, I could only set it to not do update for 2 weeks or so max. Alteast on my Ubuntu, I can disable most updates.
On the whole, Linux is far better for me than both Windows and Mac - I run all my VMs on them, and the kvm beats the crap out of HyperV and VMWare any day, and I can automate everything as I want.
The problem I am facing is not really auto installation it looks like. It seems like the nvidia modules are compiled into the kernel or something. I might have to rebuild a custom kernel.
Ubuntu is a shit OS, with forced snaps packages. I recommend something like Arch (Or any Arch-based like EndeavourOs or CachyOs) or Fedora.
Winaero Tweaker is the absolute bomb for ANY version of 10 that you want to lock down. It absolutely will not allow windows update to do squat - and has many options just for windows update, but also a lot of other things they obscured, hid or otherwise messed up so you can't use YOUR PC like a true power user... It'll even lock down Win10 Home, which is way worse than 10 Pro for updates...
One lesser-known name that I hope gets arrested in the swamp draining?
Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take Two Interactive--and the king of microtransactions.
It's basically criminal in how much he wrings his players for every penny they've got--and how many are so manipulated that they play right along and make excuses for it, calling you terms like "brokie."
No, video games are not important to human civilization. But it would mean a lot to ME.
(Arrest LeBron James too, while you're at it. Who knows how many Diddy Parties he's been to and how many children he's molested. I want that man RUINED.)
I don't know who that is ... I'm still getting my money's worth out of Team Fortress 2...."Bloody fruitshop owners"..."It's just ham"....
It's only like 20 years old...😂😂😂
God bless you all frens.
Harris Campaign Declines To Say Whether She Supports The Hurricane Or Not
https://babylonbee.com/news/harris-campaign-declines-to-say-whether-kamala-supports-the-hurricane-or-not
Weekend Knowledge Dump- September 27, 2024...Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.
https://www.activeresponsetraining.net/weekend-knowledge-dump-september-27-2024
Author Donald Jeffries on American Memory Hole, the JFK Assassination, and Other Anomalies of History...KunstlerCast
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/kunstlercast-410
Crib Notes: 6 Lessons Toddlers Can Teach the Rest of Us...The simple mindset of a toddler is a lesson for all of us.
https://archive.ph/wip/Kav1K
Rural Revolution...In-your-face stuff from an opinionated rural north Idaho housewife
http://www.rural-revolution.com/
Day in Photos: Global Elections, Hurricane Helene, and Training Cadets...A look into the world through the lens of photography
https://archive.ph/wip/O3kxL
Octogenarian Couple Has Been Square Dancing Since 1956—Credits Good Health, Happy Marriage to Dance
https://archive.ph/wip/uNcUK
LUX RADIO THEATER -- "NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY" (4-28-52)...David Von Pein's Old-Time Radio Channel
https://youtu.be/eLDivjfnx0Q?si=yUi4h2bAoGYAijeP
Friday Poem...Josephine Redlin - All the Carefully Measured Seconds
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/09/friday-poem-416.html
Celebrating Sufficiency today.
From "The Journey from Texts to Translations" by Paul D. Wegner...
"About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who wrought surprisingly feats and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned him to be crucified, those who had in the first place came to love him did not give up their affection for him. On the third day he appeared to them restored to life, for the prophets of God had prophesied these and countless other marvellous things about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared. (Ant. 18.3.3 SS 63-64)
Good morning GAW family! It's finally feeling like fall where I live, so I plan to get a little extra outdoors time this weekend. I hope y'all are safe if y'all live in the path of the storm. Lifting y'all up in prayer. Everybody have a blessed day, and know how much you are appreciated!
Cool dreary morning. Slowly cooking up my first batch of lemon garlic elixir. Praying for everyone impacted by Helene.
Sidebar picture goes fucking hard.
I had fun making that one!
can't stop the signal, Mal.
u/#confusedpopcorn
u/#wierdpopcorn
u/#jesuslovespopcorn
Prayers for all the Frens impacted by the Hurricane 🌀
u/qanaut I see the new gifs thanks! Any chance we can get the Tom Delong wtf gif?
I'll add it to the list for when Part VI is released!
I've got a few others I wanted to add, but they had to wait until after the popcorn edition. 😁
Yessss!!
I think the wtf delong gif is going to come in handy soon lol. Please bring it soon sir!
OMG !!! u/Qanaut YOU ROCK!!!!
u/#popcornmonster
OMG! I thought i turned off my computer camera!
Is the 'watch the water' post about the recent unnatural storms they are going to use to destroy homes, roads, communities so that no one can get out to vote?
What in the MkUltra is going on with the trending words…
mndful ctsie d*mure
🤷♀️- what are they trying to program us with?
I truly believe that social media has some type of a programming platform. Somebody, somewhere, chooses these keywords, and I believe that content creators are given a stipend for using them.
I see them inserted in text, used verbally, and in a play track. I’m just wondering what these three words above are programmed to cause a person to think or act in a specific way. These often occur on content creators who have 1,000,000+ followers.