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Aristox t1_j6cob6e wrote

The first signs of dehydration are not headaches and muscle cramps lol that's when you're already well into it. Your physical and mental performance will have already been reduced by the time you feel thirsty. If you're correctly hydrating you won't experience any symptoms whatsoever

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sacoPT t1_j6co3ir wrote

If you mean handegg the fields MAY be roughly the same since they’re synthetic but in real football the fields are not even the same size, let alone the ground itself. The grass is cut to different length, the substrate may be softer or harder, there may be large patches of grass missing… the list goes on and on.

Others have mentioned a long list of other factors that apply to any sport, but there’s also different lighting, and reference points that you acquired after playing in the same arena many times.

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Shellbyvillian t1_j6cnskp wrote

I kind of get what you’re saying - but there are lots of reasons OP could be having these symptoms. Why would you go to the ER when you can go to a 24hr pharmacy and buy a 40 dollar glucose meter before you waste hours and thousands of dollars?

I’m in Canada. It would be absolutely free for me to go to the ER. I would still do a quick sanity check before going for a reason like this.

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barbarastreisand t1_j6cnhk7 wrote

I also want to echo that you may want to consult with a doctor. Assuming you normally drink enough water and regularly, there's several medical reasons why this may be happening.

In my early 20s I started getting a similar experience - turned out my kidneys were slowly shutting down.

I don't want to alarm you though! It seems more likely you just never drink water on a regular basis. A similar analogy would be if you never ate on a schedule and only ate when your body felt starved and then you over-ate to compensate. Probably not the healthiest thing to do though.

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e-rekshun t1_j6cnbis wrote

Same here. I went nearly a year like that.

The reason I went for so long was I had JUST started a diuretic at the same time so I thought those were the effects of the diuretic and were "normal" and I had gone for a blood test right before starting the medication and my A1C was normal.

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sveinb t1_j6cn15f wrote

Excellent description. I’d maybe save quantum mechanics to last though, because many people have the same feeling of doubt about qm as op has about imaginary numbers. Let’s just say that periodic phenomena are much easier to describe using complex numbers. To give a sense of why that is you can say it’s because these need to shift energy back and forth between two different forms of energy, which is reflected in the two different kinds of numbers that make up a complex number - the real part and the imaginary part. A pendulum, for example, converts potential energy to kinetic energy and back again. Quantum mechanics is just one example of periodic phenomena.

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pmruiz4 t1_j6cm5cp wrote

Electrical engineer here, which is 90% dealing with imaginary numbers. On that comment on using pairs of real numbers instead of imaginary numbers:

My uncle had (and gave me) a very old book on electrical engineering that described all of the equations and theory without ever mentioning imaginary numbers - they used vectors instead, so they had to tap into vector calculations for even the most basic operations.

Needless to say I never really read it as it was borderline impossible to follow once you knew how easy it would be to do the same with imaginary numbers instead...

edit. typos...

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chadenright t1_j6clztl wrote

It's not unwitting. Tens of millions of Americans are fully cognizant of the fact that their politics will put them in an early grave, harm their kids, their parents and their spouse - and these Americans don't care so long as the politicians hurt the people those voters want them to hurt.

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mikeholczer t1_j6clvzl wrote

A lot of the reason is because you expect it to. I’ve seen cases were people have done blind taste tests of both un-aged alcohol, like vodka, and aged alcohol, like wine, and people generally can’t tell the difference unless they are told one is more expensive. If they are told one is more expensive they tend to like that one whether it actually was more expensive or not.

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ListlessLink t1_j6clnsx wrote

Ended up getting sent from work after boss (with diabetes) heard my comments about whats wrong. That cost about $2300 i didn't have.
With later refusals for tests I'm supposed to have a couple times a year, because they wanted it paid in advance since I was in collections.

This was with health insurance that I was paying per 600 a month to have (not use)

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oldmansalvatore t1_j6clkdi wrote

Any website or app's source code is split into parts that you can access on your computer or browser (aka the client), and other parts that only exist on another large computer that your computer talks to (aka the server).

The parts on your client browser usually only outline what the website should look like, and how your browser should talk to the server computer. The real data you would access, and any calculations or other complicated stuff on your website, is largely stored and done on the server using the source code on the server.

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BitOBear t1_j6clkbj wrote

Funny thing... If you have frequent bile-rich prior cleaning with KY Warming Jelly will neutralize the bile.

The first couple times are a completely different kind of burning (you'll get used to it) but it protects your delicate anatomy.

IBD is its own education.

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remarkablemayonaise t1_j6cla7f wrote

They have their own standards, just as many countries have their standards which aren't SI. Continental Europe is more likely to use cl not ml (UK) for capacity even if they're both metric and derived from SI.

While hectares may be used for modern land deeds there are dozens if not 100s of standards around the world for land area.

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