Might be wise to not accept the offer of the installer to partition the device in this case. That’s self–evident to anyone who lived through losing data, not so for beginners.

AFAIK, you have to apply nicotine quite frequently to achieve a steady state and avoid withdrawal – every 30–45 minutes. 10–20 years ago, every single smoker I asked smoked > 20 cigarettes. Today, almost all admit to only 10–15, which is pharmacologically too infrequent and triggers multiple withdrawal–relaps cycles every day, worsening the nicotine addiction.

To handle drugs which are so addictive, you need a stable steady state, not fluctuating pladma levels. If you want to lower your dose, you cannot lower the frequency, you have to lower the dose of each application.

If vapers would vape every 30–45 min ≈ 20/day, they would stabilize their nicotine level, which would enable them to reduce the dose of nicotine over time.

They would look super cool? They do look super cool!

Not the person you responded to, but no.

As long as the US does not fix it’s broken two party system and reconciles it’s divided society it cannot be trusted.

What makes you think the stock market crashing is not his aim?

I don’t know about “normal people”. Among the psychiatric patients I met, most people with addiction, most people with psychosis and most people with personality disorders (other than borderline) deny suicidal ideas altogether. People suffering from depression usually admit to having had suicidal ideas at some time during there life, but even among them there are quite a lot denying to have had any ever. And a quite lot of traumatized people suffer from mostly ego–dystone intrusive suicidal thoughts.

So I wager that it’s not “normal” to have suicidal thoughts, unless you’re depressed, borderline or traumatized. (Though arguably, it might be getting “normal” to get depressed in today’s living conditions…)

And yes, every human gets sad every now and then, if they have a reason to be sad – but why should anyone get suicidal thoughts just because they are sad? AFAIK sadness is not linked to suicidal ideas, unless the sadness us a symptom of depression. It’s almost impossible to find reliable data on the relation of non–depressive situative sadness and suicidal thoughts with a cursory search, though.

Self harm is even stranger, I’ve seen self harm only with borderline and trauma. But that’s just my experience.

Devaluating the dollar might be the goal, not a side effect: A Users Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System

I’ve got a Mexican coworker. She was terrified when she returned after her first sickday, fearing a profound scoulding by our consultant. She did get one - when she turned up sick a couple of weeks later :)

Nope, rich people and companies do not pay German social security. It’s all funded by compulsory insurance for everyone except the rich.

Try 1848.

Nope, that’s not what communists mean, when communists talk about communism. What you describe is the dictatorship of the proletariat, not communism aka the time when all means of production are owned communally, everyone enjoys working according to their ability and lovingly shares all goods according to their needs.

Of course, if you use the term “communism” to refer to the political movement that tries to achieve communism through revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, you’re 100 % right.

Having dog handlers pay for the dogs they need for work is totally in line with having teachers pay for teaching tools.

Like - Obamacare is evil, the Affordable Care Act good?

Different providers have different spamfilters, different rules regarding html mails, attachment file size, use of tls, policies regarding exspired certificates, and might have different log in procedures, so yes, if there are problems the question which providers are involved.

Snake liver oil would be more powerful.

So - a modem?

Napoleon? Hitler?

Main problem with it is lack of certification, which prevents it’s use ironically in Germany, the country of origin. I would have loved to use it. If you live in a less–regulated health system, I wish you success!

Data migration will be a huge problem – medical management system companies tend to lock their customers into their system by preventing data migration.

I just didn’t bother with migration. I used an autohotkey script to print all patient charts of the old system into pdf files – unconvenient but failsave – and built the new data base from scratch.

https://www.gnumed.de/documentation/

WeL, it’s Uncle Sam himself.