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nomad_nessie t1_j6aqg5y wrote

This seems like a discovery you keep to yourself. Oh I’ve discovered the pollution is not as big a deal as we previously thought! But if I tell people they may stop trying to clean/conserve the oceans.

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Splurch t1_j6aqaaw wrote

> Sure but copper and lead pipes are inferior to pex in basically every way. PVC is also great for a lot of non residential cases. Steel production is laughably more CO2 intensive. > > Plastic provides cleaner, safer water with fewer leaks and lower emissions. It also isn’t worth stealing like copper pipes and doesn’t have to be joined in a process that’s highly toxic.

Those things don't make them irreplaceable, it just means the replacements, or existing solutions before plastic, cost more. Just because it's irreplaceable in some use cases doesn't mean it's irreplaceable in all of them.

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Acid-Warped t1_j6ap3c4 wrote

Are you guys just choosing not to read "undisclosed on the product labels", it's not as easy as just choosing other products if you aren't being told what's in the products or that they're harmful

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dachsj t1_j6anhqm wrote

The only advice I can provide is: try as many masks /different set ups as you can.

I couldn't really handle the full face masks. I responded really well to nasal pillows. But I also found out I needed a head strap to keep my mouth from flapping open.

It was a lot of trial and error and after a year or so it's worth reassessing and seeing what's working and what isn't.

Make sure the pressure is tuned properly, that the humidity is set up for your environment, etc etc.

My sleep doc actually gave me low dose Ambien for the first couple of nights with my machine and again when I changed masks. It helped get over the sleep anxiety/hurdle of the new machine.

I can't sleep anywhere without it.

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eliteLord77 t1_j6anahz wrote

people need jobs, "freedom" sure as shinola ain't "free", and many workplaces are toxic. Products of many kinds are poisonous, and for some reason those poisons are often not advertised or printed on the label. the deathculture doesn't care about you, it just needs to extract your wealth.

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