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i haven't seen the lynch dune and don't know anything about the story
but i think i'll watch this and as colunga said the green knight
both look grand and stylized
just wanna get lost in a story on the big screen
wish it was flickering onto the screen from film stock with the noise you can hear when its quiet from the reel
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Methadone users may have better protection against Covid
Numbers of infections in people in treatment for heroin addiction far lower than expected
about 14 hours agoPatients in treatment for heroin addiction appear to be far more resilient to Covid-19 than initially believed, with researchers suggesting drugs such as methadone may protect against the disease.
At the start of the pandemic last year it had been assumed Covid would disproportionately impact drug addicts due primarily to their associated health problems.
However, according to new Irish research Covid rates have been much lower than expected among people receiving opiate agonist treatment (OAT), a therapy which uses methadone or similar drugs to treat opioid addiction.
Of the 565 attendees at the HSE’s National Drug Treatment Centre (NDTC) in inner-city Dublin, none displayed serious illnesses indicative of Covid and none died as a result of the disease throughout the first three waves of the pandemic.
Antibody tests were carried out on a subset of patients, comprising 103 people. Researchers found only two patients (1.9 per cent) had contracted Covid-19 despite several more patients reporting close contacts with a Covid sufferer. An “equivocal” Covid result was found in a third patient.
The prevalence of Covid in the general population in Dublin was almost double at 3.1 per cent, according to a separate study conducted in the previous month.
“The expectation that Covid-19 would spread rapidly through the OAT population did not materialise here or elsewhere,” the authors concluded.
The results of the study, which was carried out by researchers at the NDTC and published in the Irish Journal of Medical Science, tally with larger international studies.
“Despite an estimated 654,000 opioid users in Europe receiving OAT, most health professionals surveyed did not report cases,” the researchers said, while those that did reported them in very low numbers.
Another Dublin-based study of homeless drug-users also showed an “unexpectedly low incidence of Covid-19 and no deaths”, the authors said.
The NDTC study was carried out between July and October 2020, during which Ireland experienced two waves of the disease.
Medications
Researchers postulated that medications such methadone and buprenorphine, which are used as therapeutic substitutes for heroin, may have a “protective effect” against Covid.
The two patients who did test positive for Covid were on low dose of methadone at the time, and their symptoms quickly resolved.
The study said it is also possible the cohort had a low level of exposure to the disease. However, researchers added that NDTC patients were at a broadly similar risk compared to other Dubliners and “at a theoretically higher risk due to routine sharing of drug paraphernalia, cigarettes, and masks and personal challenges in maintaining social distancing”.
Public health measures such as providing hotel accommodation for homeless people could be responsible but they do “not fully explain” the low levels of Covid amongst people in treatment for heroin addiction.
Instead of Covid-19, the authors said the main risks to this group during the pandemic was “increased risk of drug overdose due to changes in service delivery and drug market changes”.
The study called for more research into the possible protective effects of opioid-substitution therapy.
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i remember dimentional
On 8/20/2018 at 10:19 PM, prdctvsm said:
tweet, tweet so do they
https://twitter.com/search?q=dimentional&src=typed_query&f=live
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11 hours ago, Silent Member said:
I'd say they look more like birds than anything.
32 minutes ago, Silent Member said:If you can't see the last shot in that video (0:55) is four out of focus birds (most likely some sort seagull) fighting over food I can't help you guys. You can even see their wings flapping. Spend more time outside?
18 minutes ago, Satans Little Helper said:The interesting thing about birds though, is they're essentially dinosaurs. Millions years older than our part of the tree of life. I'm 100% sure they're aliens without us even being aware!
6 minutes ago, very honest said:hm ok, maybe
but then why are ufos disguising themselves as birds?
On 8/20/2018 at 10:19 PM, prdctvsm said:
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3 minutes ago, Joyrex said:
One of my personal theories/musings is that UFOs (or UAP) are not 'ships' in the sense of having occupants, but what if the 'ships' themselves ARE the beings/organisms? It would explain why some are observed changing shape or some having non-metallic surfaces.
interesting theory, i hadn't thought of that before, nice one
4 minutes ago, Joyrex said:Another idea i've had is that they are not traditional vehicles that travel in space per se, but are actually intradimensional vehicles, which would explain how they can defy our physics and seemingly appear/disappear at will.
my friend and i thought of this as a possible theory as well
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18 hours ago, auxien said:
ok guess its my dyslexia, sat there reading it over and over finally got it, Ha:)
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IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY?
Candace Bushnell
AUTHOR OF SEX AND THE CITY
and.......
On 1/9/2020 at 4:16 PM, diatoms said:I saw a shop called
Wax in the City
while in Dublin on tuesday
went in and it was two Brazilian owners
confirmed it was a play on
Sex in the City
I said I agree with you but now it's changed to
Sex and the City
told them about the changes to the flag and christ statue
and they flipped out a little
called me a time traveler:)
South America/Brazil memories
are changing as well
I've asked all the Brazilians I've worked with and met in Dublin
about what they remember about the Brazilian flag
what color are the letters of the motto
"ORDEM E PROGRESSO"
I remember black letters
so do most Brazilians
or blue letters
but the letters have always been the color green
which no one has said yet
all are shocked at this change
and changes to
christ the redeemer statue
not one Brazilian or their relatives or friends
remember
christ with a exposed six pack chest
carved heart
diamond shaped stigmata
and looking down at the people
not straight ahead
Everyone that I talk to
even stopping in travel agents
can't believe the location of South America now
everyone points to B
I've probably talked to over 200 Brazilians over the past couple of years
not one remembers the current flag, christ change or location of south america
I agree with their memories:)
But most important
What is it You
Remember?
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But could Jesus walk under the water's surface
Tiny Australian aquatic beetle captured walking upside down on water surface
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1 hour ago, zero said:
I'm really becoming less and less a fan of big cities. back when I was in my 20's, I thought living in a big city was cool. walking to bars on busy sidewalks, taking the subway, hopping in taxis...it all seemed so fun. I could care less about that any more. now I dream of one day living in a small town USA. there are so many great old little towns scattered throughout this country with "great bones." but the vast majority of them are flowing with run down, vacant, neglected old historic brick buildings. my utopian pipe dream is that these quaint little places will one day be re-populated by a diverse group of people vacating the cities, as they too are sick of the traffic, housing costs, rich d-bags in sports cars. but I know the reality is that all these little small towns are dead zones, currently packed with orange man supporters, bigoted wasps, who think they've been slighted by the foreigners.
live in the country with some space to chill
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16 hours ago, hello spiral said:
got some feedback from the date I went on last weekend
1 hour ago, hello spiral said:I got a second date with her on the basis that I told her a sharted this morning. No lie.
you proved to her you really do give a shite
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fermi national accelerator laboratory
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4 minutes ago, dingformung said:
Let's do it! Quantum heal me
DM me
i'm working on myself before i can:)
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2 hours ago, drillkicker said:
Sorry to start all this shit and then leave. I ended up going to a 4th of July rave underneath I-95 and channeled all of my negative energy into awesome dance moves. It was one of the coolest nights of my life. I got drunk beyond belief and made out with some girl in a public swimming pool. It's still pretty hazy.
Edit: by "public" I mean that we found a gap in the fence lol
1 hour ago, diatoms said:attending a rave, dancing & connecting with others
depression be gone:)
20 minutes ago, dingformung said:If you want to meet me IRL, I can clean off some of your negative energies & you can clean off a lot more of mine. Just DM me, I know how to transform energy like a snake that ate a monkey
Just trust me, I have done it many times
quantum healing
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attending a rave, dancing & connecting with others
depression be gone:)
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kinda like a nesting doll
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Foreword
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star. But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many - perhaps most - of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven - or hell. How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars. Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality. Increasing numbers, however, are asking: “Why have such meetings not occurred already, since we ourselves are about to venture into space?” Why not, indeed? Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question. But please remember this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
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talk of simulations
BetheLightthatradiatesunconditionalLoveForgiveHealandhaveFun:)
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On 7/3/2021 at 9:03 AM, prdctvsm said:
so/so
i ended up watching this and really liked some of the acting and the look of the film, thanks:)
here's a cleaner print to watch
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On 6/29/2021 at 9:27 AM, iococoi said:
i keep enjoying this
letting my imagination go free every five seconds, thanks:)
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2 hours ago, dingformung said:
m o r p
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On 3/24/2021 at 10:39 AM, diatoms said:eus-
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45 minutes ago, dingformung said:
morph
On 3/24/2021 at 10:39 AM, diatoms said:eus
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On 6/29/2021 at 2:11 PM, logboy said:
just a little prick
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2 hours ago, perunamuusi said:
I have them all (tusticles) in 320kb mp3 or wav somewhere
wav would be awesome please
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thought i would've at least had an iq of 420
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Climate Emails Stoke Debate
in General Banter
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orange alert for ireland first time ever for heat
over 30 celsius for the week in some places
20 degrees at night which is wild