This just in: brain sleeve found filled with microplastics preventing washed amyloid fluid from draining.

Seriously though, this seems like a significant discovery!

Yeah it’s just a distraction like playing music/water sounds or getting tickled. Honestly, I’ve put an electric massager to my neck/head and the hum relieves the tinnitus pitch a bit. It seems like this is the tongue-version of that, but since it isn’t as loud they’re pairing it with some sound relief.

A neat idea, I’m glad that it helps people who can afford it. Hopefully it can be priced more reasonably in the future. In the meantime I will have to keep my headphones handy! lol

I believe I’m talking about the Sony CRE-C10 Over the Counter Hearing Aids. I heard about them from an article right before they hit the market They’re like $1,200 I think, but they’re effectively just Bluetooth hearing aids. They don’t have any particular qualities that make them good for tinnitus, just as I mentioned before it’s about just hearing something that isn’t silence so that you’re able to focus on something that isn’t the tinnitus you’re hearing. It should be noted, Sony themselves explicitly say they do not help with tinnitus, which is likely as true as me saying regular headphones don’t “help treat” tinnitus. However, I am pretty much crippled without headphones if I have a really bad flare up.

I use almost the inverse of these, the Sony LinkBuds (and S series). These are Bluetooth earbuds that have a gap in the ear canal so you can hear the world around you. The LinkBuds S are closer to a standard pair of earbuds with the noise cancelling or pass-through sound options, which is over-all nicer due to being able to inherently block out sounds from the bus. Anyway all this to say, I only mentioned them because they’re pretty similar to how I use my headphones.

I can’t speak on how the CRE-C10’s are or how effective they might be for my style of tinnitus, I’m merely making assumptions!

Not for $4,000 though. Also, after reading a bit more it’s just a pretty standard device that makes you think about something else. So for the meantime me setting up my headphones on a low-medium volume with something to listen to is far cheaper and provides the same long-lasting results (i.e. none confirmed). Nothing against the Lenire of course, I was mostly hoping treatment leaned on the side of fix!

In terms of effectiveness, I’m sure it does a great job. My tinnitus is definitely able to be noticed then gets worse, which is why having close sound right up in there helps a lot for me. (Speakers don’t quite “drown out” the tone the way in-ear or over-ear headphones do). The article also has it spot on about the wide range of causes and reliefs. I often use sounds of water to help alleviate a flareup.

Anyway, nice read. A little too bad it’s not something long term, and that it’s so expensive for what sounds like the prank shock-gum for your tongue and a pair of headphones

Between this and the tech Sony was working on for hearing aids I may have some reprieve.

Ozempic really will be the cure for everything…

Would that just mean boiling water and then filtering it?

If so, doesn’t seem as misleading so much as just missing an extra step for a headline. Edit: of course, in addition to the hard water specification.

Silly thought, but I wonder to what extent drugs would facilitate the process of adapting to new body parts.

I was thinking at first, I would guess that older patients likely have less adaptive reception, while younger patients undergoing limb-additive surgery would seem to be more likely to have the brain adapt to the mechanical limbs. But we can’t exactly test extra limbs on youth ethically, thus the drugs. Lol.

Only by choice, let’s be honest.

Don’t drop one! D:

Sounds like I need to buy stocks in celery…

There’s a lot of good points here. I think even “better candidates” like a veterinarian or a variety of scientists may not even be a full “solution” to the systems issues due to people having the capability to still be bad despite being good at something. I mean just how many anti-vax scientists came out after 2020.

On the other hand, with stronger meritocracy maybe being genuinely incorrect would disqualify you and we wouldn’t be in a position where you can spew complete lies and still be seen as a worthwhile candidate. But that of course would mean that the meritocracy has positive values, which isn’t necessarily a guarantee because as you said, man that guy sure is good at being bad… Let’s elect him!

I find that Piped has a fairly decent “algorithm” for suggesting videos if you are already on a video. For example, “trending” doesn’t do anything for you, it’s effectively the same as not being logged in. Feed, once you have your subscriptions, is the same but for your channels.

But once you’re on a video of one of your channels, the suggested content is pretty good. If you go to SEA or PBS Space-time you get other space videos. If you go to electroBOOM or Practical Engineering you get other electrical/device type videos, game channel and videos and so forth. And it’s pretty spot on, whether your watching let’s plays or reviews or philosophical discussion around it, it usually keeps it fairly in line with whatever that channel/video topic is on.

It’s not perfect, like if you want the full broad spectrum algorithm. However, it’s good enough for me as I tend to find that if I’m in a specific rabbit hole anyway I’m not really trying to find the diverse content, but continuing down what I was looking for.

It’s an election year in the midst of an onsetting recession, so shareholders want to consolidate. I think on top of that models are being sold as something that can replace certain task forces - normally there would be rehires, and there still will be but I think it will be after its seen that they aren’t ideal replacements.

My partner is a med tech. Unless it states otherwise on their chart/care plan, she always makes sure those meds get taken. It can be uncomfortable or awkward, but depending on the residents level of ability there is no way to determine their safety, whether they remember to take it, etc. Is it unfortunate that we can’t trust their autonomy? Yes, but it’s also necessary. For her case, these are residents who are paying for this service, and while in the moment they are upset that she lingers while they take their meds, it’s the service they pay for.

Basically, yes. All med techs at her job always deliver then watch the resident take the meds. The only time this isn’t the case is if the residents care plan specifically mentions it’s okay for the resident to take their own {labelled medicine} by leaving it with them.

Of her 80 residents that amounts to be about 3 people who she is able to just leave the meds for. This is because these are people who are in assisted living for physical problems, not mental decline. It’s not always that these people do or don’t know better, it’s that they may just not be in a place mentally to do it for themselves, even if they have moments or even are mostly lucid.

I’d say it’s more from the perspective of these people are paying for that service and it’s not so much their own lack of autonomy but your provided care.

What makes its limitation 500 gallons “per day”?

Piped recommends are pretty good when you are watching a video, but other than that I haven’t come across many

Moderation tools and the lemmy system overall (from my understanding, not activitypub outright but the codebase for lemmy)

Personally I feel like I use my beehaw mostly to interact with federation, but in part because scrolling through local I run out of posts. Sometimes I’m conversational, sometimes I’m not and just want content.

I do like that Beehaw is somewhat walled off though. My experience being on Kbin and Beehaw has been great with lots of poignant conversations. I recently created a slrpnk.net after some of these talks made me want to have a backup made just in case, plus it’s nice to see a different side of the fediverse.

Well, it’s federated with lemmy.world and I have found that 9/10 comments are bad takes, basic/shortsighted, and aren’t really responsive to actual discussion. Every once in a while there’s someone who speaks out against the absurdity but it feels so few in far between. I actually find it difficult to read through comments because it is disheartening to read people even of this sort of community defending corporate actions and completely ignoring any discussion about it. I’m not even talking about “this isn’t my opinion and I don’t want to read it” - I love discussion it’s why I’m here.

In part it’s why I’m against the threads federation if only because the flood of content seems so much more meaningless. I like that when I am looking through Microblogs on KBin (I think it’s the right name - the ability to see mastodon posts) it’s people and their hobbies and conversational questions - or just art with various themes. From what I’ve been promoted about Threads on Instagram it’s not like that at all. I know it’s less of an issue for lemmy but is it not the principle?

All this to say - if I don’t have to do anything on my end, I’ll likely continue using it as it is and it realistically won’t affect me too much outside of scope as I use multiple fediverse accounts already anyway. If it comes to be that I migrate or recreate an account I’ll probably stick around but I do definitely interact primarily with federation first I think.

Pretty much anything with unskippable cutscenes, like Max Payne 3, or when you’re locked into an area for an hour like FO3 or Borderlands 2