(Part 2) Best products from r/trashy

I HIGHLY recommend Sensuelle Point Rechargable 20 Function Bullet for your wife. Easy to use, rechargable, different speeds. I'm also very sensitive to stronger vibrators and this one has been perfect for solo use as well as my SO using on me! I've purchased many vibrators over the years and for the past 4 years this has been my favorite. Half price on Amazon compared to in stores. There are cute color choices too!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKH8O8E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CiNWAbEYZRCKG

Or y'know, be a good person and pay for quality art. Maybe watch the first episode before buying but I strongly recommend spending $15 to support the awesome team who made it if it's something you enjoy.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0184MLQ26/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493920158&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=ash+vs+evil+dead&dpPl=1&dpID=51z5DFULNxL&ref=plSrch

I love coffee too. I recently got a delonghi espresso machine (this one or close to it https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07CTY9BFG/ref=psdcmw_14162661_t2_B000F49XXG)

Really great investment. Making espresso with your own choice of beans, freshly ground, is amazing. The frother works fine and once you get a knack for it I think you can make drinks on par or superior to Starbucks stuff.

If you enjoy coffee and don't have a gizmo like that you owe it to yourself to get one!

In my old neighborhood someone put one of these in the MIDDLE of the main street right where people drive into the neighborhood. A lot of people complained on facebook and would move it to the side of the street but he just yelled at people in the community facebook group and kept moving it back. I remember one of my favorite quotes of his was something about how people who don't live on that side don't see "the assholes that FFFFFLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY" down the road, he said it just like that haha. We had speedbumps, and it really wasn't that bad. One day it was just gone in the middle of the night and this guy practically cried in that facebook group for weeks straight for someone to return it. After a couple of days though my sister showed me a snapchat from her friend in the neighborhood of hims stealing it haha, glad he did.

Okay, I just read that journal article. It's specifically talking about infants who are exclusively breastfed. (It even specifies infants right in the abstract, so if you don't have access to a research database, you can see that bit in your link.) Therefore it doesn't apply to a three year old because a three year old is primarily on a diet of solid foods.

The article also states that mothers who do not exclusively breastfeed do not produce many leukocytes. So, by the time a child starts eating solids the whole effect described here is possibly null.

Further, the study states that the model only goes up to 60 weeks.

>For the lactation stage model, analysis was restricted to records where the baby was under 60 weeks of age (N=46 records, for 15 participants), due to the scarcity of data beyond this point.

The article mostly deals with breast infections, like overwhelmingly, but it does talk about what you're saying. Here's the relevant paragraph:

> In addition to maternal infection, a small but significant breastmilk leukocyte response was observed when the infant had an infection, but the mother was asymptomatic. This finding is supported by a recent study from Riskin et al.43 that also reported a response of breastmilk leukocytes to active infection of nursing infants. This further reinforces the potential of breastmilk leukocyte measurement by FACS to be used in assessment of the health status of both the breastfeeding mother and infant. While the mechanism behind the leukocyte movement into the breast during an infection of the infant is still unclear, exposure of the mother to the infant's infection may stimulate an immunological response in the mother that is manifested without evident symptomatology, but which influences breastmilk leukocyte content. A potential way for this to happen is during breastfeeding. During a milk ejection, duct pressure increases, milk ducts dilate and milk flows toward the nipple/baby's mouth. As oxytocin wears off, duct pressure decreases, milk ducts reduce in size and milk flows backwards,44 likely together with saliva from the baby's mouth. This is a time when it is possible that microorganisms from the infant could be transferred back into the breast, most likely during a pause in suckling, stimulating a local immune response.

A more recent article from 2015 also shows this relationship. But it doesn't go over 42 weeks.

>Breakey AA, Hinde K, Valeggia CR, Sinofsky A, Ellison PT. Illness in breastfeeding infants relates to concentration of lactoferrin and secretory Immunoglobulin A in mother’s milk. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. 2015;2015(1):21-31. doi:10.1093/emph/eov002.

It's neat stuff, but I rather doubt it is effective at 156+ weeks in developed countries. If it is, the research doesn't address it fully. And as the article says, they didn't have enough data to speculate on that one way or the other. Again, the article is specifically studying infants who exclusively breastfeed anyways.

The physical health benefits aside, I am also aware of the psychological health benefits of breastfeeding as well. However, those taper off after 9-12 months, and begin to fully reverse after 24 months.

>http://i.imgur.com/IxDsTof.png

> Sutin, A. R., Stephan, Y., and Terracciano, A. (2016) Breastfeeding and Adult Personality. Eur. J. Pers., 30: 484–491. doi: 10.1002/per.2030.

If the trendline there is correct, then mental health could be further negatively impacted once you get to 36 months of breastfeeding.

However, I couldn't find a single peer-reviewed article that studies breastfeeding at 36+ months, neither in terms of physical health benefits nor psychological impact. In fact, the intro to this book states exactly that:

> "There are no official statistics on children over the age of three years. Most surveys only collect data on younger children, e.g., the British Infant Feeding Survey cuts off at nine months, others at one year or two" (p1).

My quick examination of research available to me shows that research done on "extended breastfeeding" is all in the 12-24 month range. I couldn't find any that weren't. There was some interpretative work on it out there, though, but nothing quantitative.

Annnnd I've spent way too much time on this now.

When it comes to hair loss in men - assuming it's Androgenetic Alopecia, a.k.a. male pattern baldness - there are two main options: medications you can take, and hair transplants (and PRP therapy, which I'll get to).

The standard medications are Finasteride (a pill, which you might by the name of Propecia), and Minoxidil (what everyone knows as Rogaine, which is topical). Finasteride lowers your serum levels of DHT, an androgen that is responsible for Androgenetic Alopecia. Think of it as the thing that attacks the hair follicles, causing them to weaken and fall out. Note that this is all simplified, though - I'm not a doctor, and it's also about 4am so I'm a bit delirious, but I have a bunch of experience with this stuff...more on that later.

With PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) therapy, they basically draw blood, spin it up in a centrifuge to separate the plasma, and then inject that plasma into your scalp. The success/efficacy rate of this varies. It's also kinda pricey. It seems that doctors are kinda meh about it, because it's not the most powerful treatment. It's absolutely safe, though, and certainly something someone could try.

The big gun when it comes to saving hair (in addition to medication, which is often used in conjunction) is a hair transplant, of which there a couple of methods. All in all, when performing a hair transplant, a doctor takes hair from areas of your scalp where the hair is not susceptible to DHT (in men who have Androgenetic Alopecia, some hair is susceptible, and some isn't, hence the patterned baldness), and basically moves it to the areas where the hair is susceptible. They're just movin' hair around - it's all your hair. But the hair they've moved there has, like...well the DHT can't take it out.

Oh, and one more note on hair transplants: the days of "bad hair plugs" and all of that are pretty much gone. It used to be that doctors would effectively cut out circular sections (or plugs) of hair, and transplant them. Problem is/was, if that hair that's been transplanted stays - not being susceptible to DHT - but the rest of the hair in the area falls out, you can end up looking...well, pluggy....dare I say like a doll that's had its hair ripped out in sections. But now the procedures are much, much better. Hair transplants are also something of an art, the goal of them being to make you look natural. Some people perhaps have unrealistic expectations - if you're say, 42, and lost a bunch of hair, a hair transplant is not going to make you look like you're 16 again. Even if a doctor did try to do it, if you lose more hair in the areas to which the hair was transplanted, you could run into a case similar to that described above. You might not have "plug" looking sections, but it probably wouldn't look so great. So balance is key. And everyone's hair/hairlines/rates of hairloss are different. And ultimately it's important to have a good surgeon, because there are certainly cases wherein a doctor doesn't do things with an even keel.

Anyway, I have all of this info in my head because I have a history of seeing doctors for hair loss. I started noticing that I was losing hair when I was 22 or 23. I saw perhaps one of the best dermatologists in NYC, who specializes in hair loss, who recommended I use Finasteride and Minoxidil (hair transplants are usually a last resort, or a later resort, as it's hard to tell how severe someone's hair loss will be when they're young, and whether they'll be a candidate for a hair transplant. Some people have hair that is too thin, and the density of it too low to make a transplant feasible, or just cosmetically effective).

For years I didn't take Finasteride because I was just plain scared of it. There are horror stories you can read, but you really shouldn't, if only because they're rocky at best. I also have a history of depression and some body dysmorphia, and so the hair loss thing was always hitting me hard - standing in the bathroom at 3am, staring in the mirror for hours kind of hard. After a point I just couldn't stand to think about it, because it would paralyze me, so I avoided the issue best as I could.

I did however start using minoxidil/rogaine a few years later. Still not sure how effective it's been. Truth is, though, that nothing is so effective as Finasteride when it comes to medication. Finasteride can slow down hair loss dramatically, and even regrow hair in some people.

Fast forward to this past summer. I went to see a great doctor about PRP. I had never become comfortable with Finasteride, what with the horror stories written on the internet no one should even read to begin with (along with some conflicting studies about safety, that are fair game but will certainly do your head in if you're inclined to worry/obsess), the fact that you're supposed to stay on it forever (yep, but mind you I've never even liked taking Tylenol, let alone taking a medication every day for my entire life), and general dissatisfaction with the info I had gotten from doctors over time. Unfortunately some doctors don't understand Finasteride ("it only effects your scalp"...well, visually maybe, but it lowers serum DHT levels, so that statement was incorrect), some don't like it (I had a dermatologist tell me he "wouldn't mess with that stuff"), and some are so comfortable with it that if you question the safety, they give you the well-you're-not-a-doctor treatment. Heaven forbid someone should want to learn about and understand their body despite not having been to med school.

So I go see this doctor about PRP. She's amazing. She talks to me for over an hour. I love her. I want to hug her. She's the kind of doctor you wish you could go to for absolutely everything. She tells me she understands that I've been so uneasy about Finasteride, and that some doctors are a bit cavalier when it comes to prescribing it. She did say, however, that it's worth trying, just to see. Okay, but, "let me take a look at your hair and scalp."

So she does. She has this little microscope on her iphone, she's taking pictures, I love that she's being so thorough. She isn't saying much. She sits back down at her desk and says, "so I think you have a rare autoimmune disease." For the next fifteen minutes or so I kind of blanked. Here I had been thinking for years that my worst problem was having to decide about taking Finasteride, and now I've been launched into the stratosphere. And from what I did hear while I was half blacked-out was that this autoimmune disease causes a scarring form of hair loss such that you can never have a hair transplant, can't save your hair once it's gone and, fun fact, something like a hair transplant or even PRP - which a doctor I had seen previously wanted to do immediately - can make this disease explode.

So she told me there was a specialist I needed to see as soon as possible, and told me, "don't wait." Oh fucky fuck.

I'll save you the rest of the story. It's not fun. The abbreviated version is that I went to see this specialist (all of this without insurance...yay), had a biopsy, have this disease, am now taking Finasteride, using minoxidil, a steroid, and have to get injections in my scalp every month. It's certainly an option to just go bald, but I know myself, I know that for me, it would be deleterious to my mental health. And if for one second I stop trying to defend my position, I just don't want to lose my hair. This issue of how self-image and appearance is tied to mental health, and what people "should" or "shouldn't" care about is a whole other conversation. But I will say I quite despise the out-hand-dismissal of "deal with it, men go bald." I've heard that. It hurts. To anyone dealing with hair loss and wanting to do something about it - do something about it. And don't worry too much if you can help it, because there really is a solid strategy against hair loss that you can take up. Unless you like the idea of being bald, which is totally cool too, and fuck anyone who says otherwise. (I mean don't fuck them, fuck what they say. Now I'm just thinking about someone doing lewd things to words.)

So, I've written all of this - in a fucking thread about a fucking idiot at that - I think because I just "know that feel" when it comes to hair loss, and it always seems there's such shitty information, or a lack-thereof about it when it comes to men. Well, women too - women's hair loss is a huge, tricky issue too. But all in all, something like finasteride is worth a try if you're comfortable with it - I've had absolutely no side effects, and again, this is coming from someone who's a certified head-case. Plus, forget me, tons of men take Finasteride. And a hair transplant is an option for many people, too. They're also pricey, though, mind you.

One last thing I'd point out is that men's hair loss is seeing a sort of...well, companies like "Hims" are trying to sell things like minoxidil and Finasteride with hip, minimalistic, monochrome packaging, trying to get guys to realize that hair loss isn't such a big deal anymore, trying to capitalize on/create a shift in consciousness about it. And I think this is mostly a good thing. But you could be in that tiny percentage of people who have things like an autoimmune disease that essentially is scarring your scalp over, heh heh (I know it's not like I have something life threatening, but ya know, it sucks). So, in general, I would recommend seeing a dermatologist before taking any medication.

Alright. Don't know if anyone will see this. I don't know what I'm doing anymore, I'm going to sleep.

Edit: Woah, my first gold - thank you stranger!

Oh, I'd be happy to help! My cat went through several different types of treatment but until now, none of them worked out. But IBS seems to be a blanket diagnosis that covers several different ailments that a cat may have, as far as I'm aware, so one of the treatments that I tried for Einstein that didn't work for him may work for you.

Right now what is working is steroids. It started off as an injection from the vet but now he is using the pill form, Prednisolone. I also have him on this food supplement for his weight loss.

The first things my vet wanted to rule out is any parasite or infection so he had a few doses of antiparasitics and a treatment of antibiotics for a few weeks, but antibiotics themselves can cause diarrhea so it was combined with canned pumpkin (yeh, weird right? my vet swears by it for helping hardening soft stool. just canned pumpkin itself, not pie mix) and probiotics. I think the probiotics actually helped a lot at the time, but he also seemed to have gained a resistance to their effects after a while as well. I used Culturelle probiotics, half of a capsule in his food once a day. They are human probiotics and you can get them at walmart but the vet said they are safe for cats.

Next we tested to see if he had a food allergy, which is a common cause of IBS in cats. He was on a boiled chicken and rice diet for two weeks, then because it's possible that chicken would be what he's allergic to we switched that with beef and potatoes. That pretty much ruled out food allergies as a concern.

I've also tried a few over-the-counter medications that didn't help for my cat personally, but have good reviews so may help with yours. Here's some I tried at different times: 1, 2, 3, 4, there's a cat version, which is what I used, but I can't find it on the site. It's the same brand and product but it's for cats instead of dogs.

At some point the vet also gave him a fecal exam, just to make sure it's not parasites I guess. But it's not parasites so that turned up nothing. He has had blood tests to rule out hyperthyroidism, liver disease, or feline leukemia virus. None of them are the cause either.

My vet said the next step after steroids, if they didn't work, is a CT scan because cancer can be a cause of chronic and treatment resistant diarrhea in cats as well. I think that's everything we've done so far, this is over the course of years. Some of the treatments worked for a week or two but then stopped working, btw. It's been really tricky with my Einstein, but I'm happy with his results since starting the steroid treatments.

Your old boss was right and if you're interested in reading about this topic more I would highly recommend reading The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. There's a lot of fascinating info in this book about psychopaths and how they operate and there is a section that talks about the fact that there is a higher rate of psychopaths among CEO's compared to the general public. Unfortunately, in business it does tend to be beneficial to only care about yourself and what you can gain and to not have any qualms about screwing people over to benefit yourself and the company.

How tall do you need? I got them from here on Amazon and they're great.

I'm 5'9" and got S/M and they fit me fine. If you're taller than that, M/L would probably fit you unless you're like 6'5" (they're pretty stretchy.)

This is a bit harder to deal with in entirety, but that's one of the reasons that reducing plastic where you can is so important. If dog poop bags are the only plastic you're wasting, that's still better than using 20 bags a week at a grocery store.


Anyways there are a few alternatives. First, biodegradable is a gotcha word. A lot of "biodegradable" products are only biodegradable if they're disposed of in commercial facilities that use a special process to break them down. Many of them would still take decades to break down outside of one of these facilities. Some things are completely compostable rather than biodegradable, like thin paper.


You use this to pick up poop and throw it directly into a trashcan or toilet and then you can rinse it off. Really not ideal at all, but if it doesn't bother you, it's a perfectly fine way to get rid of the plastic poo bags.

There are very high calorie drinks like this That are made specifically for weight gain. They aren’t going to make you gain 10 lbs over night but they’re 1/4 of the recommended daily calorie intake for the average person. If they don’t know they’re drinking them they could definitely lead to weight gain.

amazon... i’ll edit in a link but i love those shoes lmao

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shoes!!!

shoes 2!!!!!!

I let this slide when my wife and I lived in a small apartment but once we moved into a house I had to explain to her that all she was doing was pushing the dirt around and not actually cleaning the floor.

As a joke I got her a mop that's kind of like a giant fidget spinner for women. She actually loves it and uses it now. The floors are finally clean again LOL.

bf is a total mosquito magnet, even worse than I am. we don't want to use deet if possible. the best bug repellent we've found is skin so soft by avon.
we tried another highly rated one with picardin, cakked fisherman's friend, and it does NOTHING!
skin so soft bug repellent does work. make sure you put on enough! if you need sunscreen too, it's best to apply sunscreen first, let it absorb, then put bug repellent on top of it,

Wow that's a great one mate! A fine specimen indeed. If you need help identifying the breeds of shopping carts you find in the wild, I suggest this book -- https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Shopping-Carts-Eastern-America/dp/0810955202

Sure, what engine are you trying to use it with? I use this exact tuner for my 04 Duramax

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001T8J4YK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_d6E7Cb8RW0X78

search around for one that would work best for you though. I just watched a bunch of YouTube videos and asked friends lol.

Do the people over at /r/coffee like the full-auto bean machines?

Because I got a Delonghi machine for about $400 a while back, on sale, and I now drink excellent coffee for about $0.05 if I'm careful where I buy my beans.

I'm not terribly into slow, artisan coffee-making, I just like to drink a lot of (preferably good) coffee, without going broke.