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It's still a supported architecture in Gentoo. I expect it will limp along there for as long as there is viable kernel source (current or LTS) and at least one interested maintainer. So if you have an Itanium machine lying around, you can install a current Linux on it. As long as you're willing to follow a long set of instructions, anyway.

She may have done what you just did, and confused pseudoephedrine (which works) with phenylephrine (the one that doesn't). 😜

(In all fairness, they're both multisyllable weird Greekish words that have the same first letter and the same ending, and I've come close to mixing them up a couple of times myself.)

As a nurse (not nurse-practitioner) I don't think she has any power to prescribe. All she can do is offer over-the-counter meds and advise the person to see a doctor if she thinks that's warranted.

There was one amusing article which I seem unable to find again that suggested American cold sufferers should get their hands on pseudoephedrine by obtaining crystal meth (which is more widely available and more stably supplied) and running the reaction the FDA was so afraid of in reverse to get the decongestant. Maybe we should have tried doing that up here too. 🤔

Pretty sure liver damage isn't a side effect of phenylephrine—it's a side effect of Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol, which is often but not always included with it in combination cold medicines (some include ibuprofen instead, or no painkiller at all). Tylenol might have been present in what this nurse was buying, but it's also possible that it wasn't. Phenylephrine's main side effect is high blood pressure, I think—my father's forbidden from taking it for that reason.

We have no reason to believe the nurse's family were taking all of each package. Someone in the family could be pitching out half-empty boxes as "no longer needed", or just forgetting where they put the stuff and then discovering it's past its best-before date when they find it later.

Equally, they might have four kids and all of them plus the parents getting the same cold sequentially as they pass it from one to the other. 7 days per cold x 3 doses per day x 6 people = 126 pills. Two colds per year would then require 8 boxes of around 30 pills, but no one will have taken them for more than a week at a time, or more than two weeks in the year. That isn't chronic use.

As for buying it for relatives outside her own household, it isn't hard to sketch out a scenario: "Ugh, I'm (achoo!) dying here, sis—can you stop off on the way home from work and get me something for this? You're a nurse, so you'd know better than I do which ones work."

(Yeah, I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here—I have no more real information than you do. My point is that while the media may have cherry-picked their example, this person isn't necessarily lying or doing anything dangerous.)

I doubt she was buying for the same person eight times a year—more likely for a half-dozen people once or twice a year, which might include her kids, parents, siblings, or other people who are part of her family but not of her household. One person getting two colds a year is certainly not impossible, especially if they're living with school-aged children, who tend to bring home a sample or two of every virus circulating in the region. Plus, some people are more susceptible to this stuff than others.

My understanding is that it is somewhat effective in nasal sprays, but not in any format that passes through the digestive system. When the US government wanted to tighten controls on pseudoephedrine as part of the War On (Some) Drugs, the pharmaceutical companies needed a substitute to push on the public, so they picked something that worked if you ignored the administration route. And then didn't confine the idiocy to the US.

(Pseudoephedrine is both an effective nasal decongestent and a chemical precursor of home-brewed methamphetamine.)

Another older one would be Kyo Kara Maoh!, although it's a pseudo-reverse-harem in which the male protagonist ends up surrounded by a gang of bishounen (he ends up accidentally engaged to one of them, but even that's pretty mildly treated, and none of the others display jealousy or make passes).

I doubt an AI can do much worse at filtering out fake reviews than the humans have been doing already, so this news is . . . kinda neutral?

Japanese studios' relationship with piracy has never been the same as that of American studios. They almost never sue themselves, although their foreign subsidiaries and licensees may. So it's no surprise that Ghibli has never sued Amazon. A bit more surprising that Disney never has, assuming they still hold some licenses, but maybe they don't consider those movies an important enough part of their portfolio for proactive monitoring.

What we actually need is more variety in rendering engines. There were never that many, and two or three (Presto, Trident, and Spartan if you count it) have been killed off within the past ten years. All that's left are two lineages: Google's Blink and its barely-threre parent WebKit (in Apple's Safari), and Mozilla's Gecko and its barely-there child Goanna (in Pale Moon).

Unfortunately, the rendering engine is probably the largest single chunk of code in a browser, and writing a new one (or even forking an existing one) is non-trivial.

And here I was hoping they'd found one of the aircraft that have actually disappeared over BC (there have been a couple, plus one last known to have been heading southeastish over the Yukon that could plausibly have been in BC when it crashed).

The Conservatives would find something to whine about regardless. Listening to them is like listening to my cats playing with a jingly ball on a hardwood floor at 3:00AM: irritating and with zero information value. At least with the cats I can confiscate the ball.

Odd. Do you get anything from lemmy.world at all? Maybe your ISP is blocking the server?