I have a Synology device in my home that we had been planning to upgrade. They may have reversed the ban, but I think Synology has landed on my boycott-for-life list over this BS.
I've really wanted a Framework laptop ever since they became available, however as a power user with poor eyesight, anything less than 17" is an automatic deal-breaker for me. I need the text to be legible if a full page is displayed in a PDF reader that's snapped to fill half the screen.
I'm pretty sure that if there is a god, then the act of deliberately subverting what you believe to be his laws by exploiting what you perceive to be a technicality for your own convenience isn't going to work out in your favor in the end.
Not at all. The Jewish perspective is essentially that Jewish law stems from the creation of an all-knowing God, and therefore any seeming ‘loopholes’ must not only be known to Him but explicitly intended to exist. On this basis, it must be perfectly valid to use them!
Only if you believe the loopholes to be actually loopholes. I'm not religious, but taking the word of God and declaring that it means something else than what it actually says would be a textbook example of the sin of hubris, no?
That would remove all interpretability as a side effect, wouldn't it? I'm not religious either, but I imagine that would make all sorts of literal claims problematic as measured against modern ethics, and make it impossible for contradictory claims to be resolved.
Personally I do think interpreting rather than following the word of your chosen supreme being is the height of hubris. Intentionally interpreting it such that you can ignore the ostensibly obvious meaning even more so.
Then again if a text allows for ways to skirt the spirit of a prescription then maybe the 'supreme' being that is supposed to have dictated it isn't all that.
The eiruv only works as a loophole for the added stringencies by the Rabbis. Anything that's considered totally public in actual Torah Law (which is a big debate what exactly that is) is not subject to the permissibility of creating an eiruv.
Religious Jews consider your contention to be blasphemous, as it suggests there’s a way to outsmart god, which would directly contradict his apparent higher being status.
People of faith are finding their way to practice in the context of modern society. As humans we generally try to make sense of the world, and faith is a big part of this community’s world.
Personally, I think that commitment and the thoughtfulness behind it is something to be respected.
The first subversion that occurred was the administrative change that said you can subvert the rules within your home. Then the rabbis proceeded to enlarge the home boundaries.
All my life, I've suffered from frequent (as in daily) headaches. I even have a photo of myself from my 10th birthday (or thereabouts), where you can visibly tell from how I'm holding my head that I had a headache. The nature and intensity of my headaches has changed over time.
In my 20's I discovered Excedrin (acetaminophen + caffeine) and, surprisingly, it not only worked, but worked very well. One tablet would kill most of headaches I was having at that time of my life in about 15 minutes.
Unfortunately, it stopped working for me by the time I was 30. It no longer has any noticeable effect.
Aspirin, Naproxen, Ibuprofin, and Tylenol 3 have no effect, either.
disclaimer: Not medical advice. Just an exercise in theory. See a real doctor/neurologist or migrane specialist.
I would be very suspect of a Medication Overuse Headache (MOH) due what appears to be acute/abortive use of painkiller medication as compared to a prophylactic usage of other drugs. I'll do this exercise mostly ignoring the #1 concern because presumably your doctors would be hyperaware of that.
# Pathways
0. Excedrin is combination of aspirin, acetaminophen, & caffeine.
2. Acetaminophen --> Central COX Inhibition, possible COX-3 inhibition (splice variant of COX-1) --> Reduces Prostacyclin/Prostaglandin/Thromboxane Synthesis --> Decreased inflammation, nociceptor sensitization, pain signaling
3.a. Acetaminophen --> Metabolized to N-Arachidonoylphenolamine (AM404) --> Inhibition of reuptake of Anadamide (endogenous cannabinoid) --> Increased activation of CB1 receptors
3.b. Acetaminophen --> Metabolized to N-Arachidonoylphenolamine (AM404) --> Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid (TRPV1) agonist --> active? at periaqueductal (central) gray --> opioid receptors that send descending axons to modulate pain at the level of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
4. Acetaminophen --> Enhancement of serotonergic descending inhibition (5-HT pathways)
3. Tylenol-3 (acetaminophen) doesn't work in isolation (surprising!!!).
4. Headaches probably not -COX mechanisms
5. Caffeine is likely needed for -adenosine, vasculature effect implicating cerebral vasodilation
6. Densensitization strongly implicates +CB1/+TRPV1 as well as -adenosine, +Sero, +Opioid.
# Concluding Thoughts
0. Need to address MOH, this should be a conversatio with your real doctor.
1. Then for the headache, normal first-line would probably be a TCA prophylaxis such as amitriptyline with bonus target +sero/+opioid. Assuming you've tried this.
2. The failure of your other drugs means you should probably try CGRP Inhibitors to target vascular and pain-signaling effects. Maybe even gepants (acute)
3. Botox could be a consideration in a complex CDH case.
4. Zebras: Ditan/Lasmiditan. I assumed +vasoconstriction, but could be -vasoconstriction which is why non-combination drugs failed. Target 5-HT1F and avoid vasoconstriction for symptomatic relief, but doesn't treat underlying. Probably avoid due to MOH.
# Clarifying questions for your doctor, not me
1. Is your headache pulsatile/throbbing (migrane) or dull, tight, & persistent (tension-type)?
2. Onset characterized by stress (tension-type)?
3. Is it unilateral (migrane) or bilateral (tension-type)?
# What I would do next
1. Make an appointment with a neurologist
2. Before the appointment, make a detailed headache diary (when your headaches start/end, intensity of the pain, location and quality of the pain, associated symptoms (nausea, light senstivity), any potential triggers, what you did to try to relieve the headache and if it worked)
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