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    As a joke it’s perfect 😂 but also: please don’t actually do this—finishing antibiotics as prescribed (or calling your doc if you’re having side effects) is the real pro tip.

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    If you’re ever lost in a forest, and you want to be rescued, just start building a house. Someone will magically appear to ask if you have a building permit.

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      In telecoma version is take a fibre optic cable with you and burry it. A backhoe will promptly arrive to dig it up.

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      If you’re in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.

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      Put on a pair of headphones and start listening to something. Then set about to making shelter or building a fire or something. You’ll be rescued as soon as your hands are full because someone will come along to ask you the single most inane question of your life.

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      I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have bad enough vision that it causes them daily problems that they complain about regularly, but don’t want to wear glasses for vanity reasons.

      contacts exist, but y'know ...

      understandably many people don’t want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.

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        Saving for

        learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat

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          Honestly I wonder how many people tried both and agree that it’s kinda similar :D It’s the part where you train yourself to ignore your instinctual reluctance and reflexes to “touch” a part of your body that’s not supposed to be touched like that.

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            I would never have made the connection without reading your comment, but once I read it, I almost spat out my coffee.

            Something that especially resonates with my experience is that my optometrist advised practicing holding my eye open for contacts without trying to put anything near my eye, because even before I tried putting in the contacts, my upper lid kept trying to close , and that made it harder to hold my lids in the correct position.

            Man, this made me laugh. I feel like I’ve mentally saved away your original comment, because some day, there will be an opportunity to make this comparison to someone else who will find it as hilarious as I did.

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        learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.

        I’m 💀.

        I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.

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          Not a contact lense wearer myself, but I think there are also soft contact lenses which might not be as hard.

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            I think I tried the soft ones but I am not 100% sure? Basically, one eye was fine and the other would NOT go in.

            TL;DR: Would rather deepthroat.

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          I think one way to avoid the gag reflex is to “swallow” that cock. Like do the swallow motion but hold it mid-swallow (this trick works to make your Adam’s apple easier to shave, too, as it kinda recedes under your skin).

          Never put this theory to practice on a dick, but the gag reflex is about avoiding inhaling stuff, and we (usually) have no problem swallowing food.

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          When you practice with a dildo, pick one of moderate size that has an as-smooth-as-possible surface and that doesn’t have an overly big knob at the end. Don’t use dildos made from PVC or TPE, the material is porous and thus unsanitary, use silicone dildos instead (do clean those). And then I guess, try to relax, take it slow (really, really slow - for the beginning, try to put it in and just leave it there for a couple of seconds, instead of going straight to fucking your face) and don’t overdo it. Try to practice often for a short time, rather than rarely but for a long time.

          I found that it’s easier (less gag-inducing) if I put the dildo on a surface and move my head onto it from the top, rather than moving the dildo with my hand while being upright or lying down. Luckily, that’s a more realistic scenario for oral sex anyway!

          These worked for me, hope at least one of them work for you, too!

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          You can start practicing just with your fingers — I find it easiest with two. Put your fingers in your mouth as far back as you can without gagging, and leave them there for a few moments, breathing through your nose. It’s important that you don’t go so far as to make yourself gag — I’ve heard that this can actually strengthen your gag reflex, so go slowly.

          I found the breathing the most challenging part of it, so practicing with my fingers in this way helped a lot with that. Doing this every day made a huge difference after only a week or two. A big tip that I’d give is that you shouldn’t take a big breath in before trying to deep throat — in hindsight, that’s something that I would often do, and it made things harder. What actually got me started practicing this was that I saw someone who could go all the way down and basically hold a large cock in their throat for an extended time — far longer than one could do in one breath. That made me realise that I needed to focus on being able to calmly breathe through my nose at a regular rate.

          If you want to move to something larger, a softer jelly dildo can be useful to practice on, I’ve heard, but I found that practicing with fingers was sufficient.

          When you’re actually going down on someone, note whether their penis has a curve to it, as many does. When I had a partner who had an upwards curve, I found that I needed to approach it from the direction of their stomach (so either lounging on the bed beside them, or straddling their chest). A downward curve makes it much easier to approach from below, which is convenient if you’re kneeling and your partner is standing.

          I also found it useful to actively try to relax my throat muscles. It was hard for me to know what a relaxed throat felt like at first, which meant that I found exercises like this helpful. I also found that when I was being too ambitious when practicing with a partner, my throat muscles becamenless relaxed. That’s why I found it useful to practice with fingers: I had as much time as I needed to practice until things became automatic, rather than having to worry about putting on a titillating performance for a partner.

          An auxiliary tip that’s useful in general for blowjobs is that you can use your hands to sort of simulate deep throating by stimulating the base of the penis at the same rhythm as what your head is moving at. This also makes it easier to gradually working up to taking more of the penis in your throat, in your own time (the last thing most people want is to end up puking on their partner, after all)

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            Will say from experience that beyond the general yuck, and logistics of having to clean puke off your junk and the surroundings, getting puke on the head of your penis is not pleasant. The acidity of it stings/burns. Do not reccomend.

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      “OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear air moving. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”

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        I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.

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            I don’t think so? I know people here love Linux. That’s great. I just have to assume those folks aren’t gamers/power users, because why would I pick an OS that doesn’t support those things? It’s crazy to me. It feels like the people at Linux are trying to lock me out of my own computer, which I own! And I can’t imagine someone’s little hobby coding project is very secure!? Correct me if I’m wrong! I just don’t get it.

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              Oh OK, you’re not trolling.

              You must be joking!

              (I’ve got a MIRV correction missile fueling up in my silo now, ready to launch in case you’re not. That’s why I’m asking for so much confirmation, 'cause those things are expensive!)

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          Man… I get it. I’ve changed at least five windows machines to Linux in the past. This past fall, I was switch my HP spectre to Linux and bricked the fucking thing.

          All of the security windows shit meant a bunch of bios changes, then out of nowhere it wouldnt charge the battery.

          No idea how to fix it now that the battery and/or laptop won’t recognize the power plugged into any of the usbc ports. Ive tried different chargers, different outlets, and leaving it plugged in for 24 hours, but no life at all. No power means I cant restore to default bios, and Linux wouldnt install because once I was done fucking with the security, i didnt have enough battery to complete the install.

          It’s fucking embarrassing.

          I then gave up and upgraded to a gaming laptop with a 5070ti, but I’d love to resurrect that old one if anybody has any tips.

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            Resetting the BIOS involves removing the internal CR2032 battery. Not a charged (main) battery.

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      I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?

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        Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questionable browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.

        Edit: questional -> questionable

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    Course lengths for antibiotics isn’t well studied. From this article:

    In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.

    We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.

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      What the fuck. They told me that antibiotic resistant bacteria was caused by taking too little antibiotics. Who can I trust now???

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        Over, under, and misuse have resulted in adaptations by bacteria. Which is to say, life evolves. Its too bad, and there is still a role for antibiotics in our world, but we have to trim our use of it.

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        Realistically, most of the antibiotic resistance issues actually arise from antibiotic usage in farm animals. Turns out you get better and fatter growth if you microdose animals with antibiotics. Plus there’s the added benefit that you don’t need to care as much about animal hygiene or illnesses if they’re just always on antibiotics. Of course, that’s the perfect circumstance for promoting antibiotic resistance. And at the current massive scale of animal farming, antibiotic resistance spreads quickly.

        But, you know, that’s an acceptable cost when you consider all the shareholder value that you create by having slightly fatter animals.

        Funny thing is, antibiotic resistance is an energetically costly adaptation, and studies show that as long as you drop antibiotic usage below a certain amount, evolution would actually favor deleting antibiotic resistance genes. In other words, if we stopped using antibiotics on farm animals, a large amount of antibiotic resistance would just evaporate basically overnight. Then realize that that would never happen with our current governments

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      That is interesting. But a consideration for the doctor, not the layperson. Everyday people should still take the full course prescribed and hope their physician has prescribed the right dose.

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        You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.

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    This is exactly the same as saying to a software developer: “I was going to ask you to write me some software to do this, but I’ll just get AI to do it instead”

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      No, because we wont be compelled to answer…
      Good for ya if you solved one of your problem with AI.
      Good luck tho.

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      Its because there might be a few bacteria left if you dont eat all the antibiotics

      And those survivors might evolve and get resistant to antibiotics

      Better to kill them all, leaving no survivors

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        Let’s not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.

        We’re already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.

        https://www.who.int/news/item/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resistance-to-common-antibiotics-worldwide

        If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you’ll understand why that sucks so much as it does.

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        That was the theory and how it works in a petri dish, however that’s not how it works in the body.

        Antibiotic treatment doesn’t have to kill all of the bacteria. It needs to kill enough so the immune system can catch up and finish the job.

        There been evidence for more than 50 years that overly long antibiotic treatments cause resistance to build up faster. That’s why they have limits on the first place.

        So there’s a balance between too few days, and to many.

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    Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense

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    Just apply some casual emotional manipulation by suggesting self harm and watch the other person trying to ensure you don’t harm yourself.

    Is exactly what “Jessica Fletcher” is suggesting. Please don’t…

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      That not self harm… Stopping anti biotics early can inrease the chance of creating antibiotic resistant bacteria which affect everyone on earth.

      You completely missed the point of why a pharmacist would care about this and attributed malice where there is none.

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        What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?

        Otherwise I’m not sure why you’re trying to argue with me that one should fulfill their treatment plan. I already agree.

        I’m not attributing malice. I’m calling it for what it is. Emotional manipulation, intentional or not is beyond the point.

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          What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?

          No, I didn’t. Understanding why that is the case is the key to understanding this post.

          You specifically said that it was threatening self-harm. That is not true.

          You are now trying to move the goalposts. I will accept that as you understanding that what you said was not correct.

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            If you are promoting antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body, is that not self harm? I sure think it is.

            Not all self harm is cutting, starving, or suicide.

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              The reason why a pharmacists would care is more the fact that once the resistant bacteria gets out of your body and into the world it reduces the effectiveness of antibiotics for every human.

              The push to get people to finish their courses of antibiotics is done to keep antibiotics effective for everyone.

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                Yeah. So we agree that she’s threatening self harm (minimum) to solicit a response from someone. Emotional manipulation.

                I’m glad we managed to argue our way to what we already concluded from the start.

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    And the infectiologist and the microbiologist will then scold the pharmacist and here you go, you started a bar fight.