Seconded. My GP wouldn’t prescribe Wellbutrin until everything else he could try had been tried, since dependence was so bad.

I can’t remember what it was that I was on, but it had me hallucinating music or not-quite-audible talk radio whenever there was silence. I was instructed to crash off it, not taper (I was at the minimum dose anyway) and after about a very apprehensive week, I spent three days in bed, drenched with flop sweats, consuming only water and vividly hallucinating throbbing searing-bright triangles with all my senses. It took more than three days to be “okay” but it was three days before I could consume anything but water, because it took a supreme effort of will to shuffle to the bathroom, fill and drain a glass, and take a leak because of the sensory overload inflicted upon me by withdrawal symptoms.

My mother is on something which I fucking hope ain’t scheduled, because if she doesn’t carry out a VERY careful and gentle taper, it will trigger a massive heart attack.

Drug cessation needs to be carried out under controlled circumstances for anything more interesting than Tylenol. I was going to use Advil as my example because that’s less toxic than Tylenol, but that has serious implications when combined with blood thinners or Aspirin, so no, even that has to be managed carefully too, in some subset of patients.

I've got an idea about that, too We've all heard a lot about high altitude balloons lately. Why not use them to float solar powered ozone generators at the appropriate altitude?

That would reveal technical capabilities of our secret-squirrel surveillance aircraft.

It's the US military. There's definitely a flowchart for these kinds of situations so people don't fuck up and make the wrong decision.

In the case of the new D&D movie, it's ultimately a heist film starring a wiseass character. Not unlike the appeal of Firefly, in that regard

For example, have you even been on a dungeon crawl and had to deal with the smoke from your torches? Or had any serious issue with light at all?

Hi. I'm that DM. I nearly had a total party kill because they went hog-wild with the fireballs inside a tiny cave, and at some point, I had them start making CON saves and Dungeoneering checks to see if they'd realize they'd depleted the available oxygen.

They were all at around -3 CON by the time anybody figured out what was going on, and fled the cave. As it turns out, dealing with a small army of undead with a choke point was also the right tactical move; once they did that, victory was essentially inevitable, if unhurried.

On the part of my party, they're all inclined to have multiple, redundant sources of illumination plus magic senses, so credit where that's due.

Honestly, if the movie is half as good as the trailer, I'll pay to see it in theatres n>2 times. Good fantasy movies are rare. Acceptable ones? Also rare.

For what it's worth, it's a matter of public record that Apple contributed at least half the engineer-hours required to develop USB-C. I strongly suspect that they incorporated extensive lessons learned from the Lightning connector.

Typically four, which doubled the number of USB-A ports on their machines. There were exceptions, 12" macbook, I'm looking at you, but for the most part there were more type C ports on an equivalent machine than A ports on earlier devices.

Can you share a model number?

Does PlaysForSure still play for sure? :P

1. My house has mains power. I don't need battery devices.

Your house has neutral wires in the switchbox? Most still don't.

I wish I still cared, but they missed the bus. I was planning a big Z-Wave buy, but then the Revolv hub, Wink hub, and the green one all went bankrupt or were acquihireshutdown. I've sacrificed functionality and compatibility for availability -- Amazon Echo devices support ZigBee and they aren't going out of business any time soon.

The thing that really infuriates me is that I came up with a thing I wanted to prototype via Z-Wave I called the "ZoomBox" -- a boombox that incorporated Z-Wave for volume control. When I discovered that the devkit was $50,000 at the time, I abandoned all hope of my cool maker project.

I'm okay with this.

You trigger an EPIRB, and they rescue you first, and worry about what it cost later.

" is it cheaper to build and launch X regular cruise missiles, or one hypersonic cruise missile?"

Depends on the target.