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  • RICE may be on its way out

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    I have been tracking this and similar developments/shifts in recovery protocol because of my tendon problems. All the newer protocols for Achilles tendonitis call for relative rest, which means you avoid only specific activities but otherwise stay active. This avoid muscle atrophy and encourages/improves blood flow, helping healing, whereas as total rest does neither of those. The other thing I’m following are the new findings that anti-inflammatories can impede healing. I take a prescription nsaid for knees and joint pain, but I also have a tear in my Achilles tendon, and I have to wonder if it’s slowing down the healing for that. But I’m hesitant to stop the nsaid, the last time I went off it for a week, I could hardly bear it…
  • Laughter is the best medicine

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    https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18nyoQwpUB/
  • Corvid-human connections

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    All the crows I know are assholes.
  • European heat wave

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    AdagioMA
    Meanwhile in Portland (west coast), our highs have been in the 60s since the weekend. We may get up to 72 tomorrow.
  • Happy Canada Day!

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  • USMCA renewal ...

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  • It didn’t have to be this way

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    @wtg said: His entire presidency is a huge branding and money-making exercise. Anyone who thinks he gives a damn about the country is deluding themselves. Exactly.
  • Birthright citizenship

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    ShiroKuroS
    There are so many logistic, not to mention human rights, problems with this. Oh wait, logistic messes? Human rights violations? Those are right in the Trump administration's wheelhouse.
  • At least for now, Ford engineers still better than AI

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    Guess it's not just happening at Ford. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html
  • Man-Made Cells, creating life

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    @CHAS said: Somehow that is not comforting. Let’s see if this makes you feel better: Now that human has figured this out, eventually AI will learn it and improve on it.
  • World Cup soccer/football thread

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    England 2 DR Congo 1 After the game Harry Kane got the team in a line in front of the stands packed with fans and is leading the team and the fans in a song. Have never seen that. Kane is a superb player and captain of the team.
  • Oh cool, we really should have thought of this before now

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  • Jesus Christ just no

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    Somebody kidnap Ken Martin before he tries to get her nominated. PLEASE
  • After the budget and staffing cuts...

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  • Why 'Asia's cleanest village' bans tourists on Sundays

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    Its "Asia's cleanest village." I am surprised it's not in Japan.
  • What are you watching?

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    In The Hand of Dante. Dark, as so much is now, but great filmmaking. Good cast.
  • Bit of excitement in my neighborhood too

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    Another picture from a neighbor today. He’s been within a mile of my house all day. [image: 1782873809104-img_3059-resized.jpeg]
  • Split-brain patients

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