I'm up North and I can't deal. I've seen pictures of the thick pollen on your vehicles.

How do you manage the allergy attacks?

My friend in Bangalore is going through a tough time, keeps coughing all day when outside. Any good suggestions for masks?

I apologize for the intrusion, but I feel you guys would know more about this than anyone else.

So, I have 3 gallons of acacia tree pollen that I plan on using as a soil amendment.

I understand that it is rich in all sorts of vitamins and a few minerals. However, I could not find much info on using pollen as a soil additive.

Do you have any thoughts/reactions/advice on this?

I cannot seem to find a good source on the nutrient content of pollen. All I come up with is health food websites trying to sell bee pollen (which I understand is a harmful practice to collect).

Do pollen's nutrient contents vary drastically based on their source?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I have no problems with green grass of any kind. I can roll around in it no problem. However, once it's gone to seed and/or dead/dry, I am very allergic with immediate sneezing, nose dripping, itchy watery eyes; as a child I sometimes got huge egg sized hives from playing in the grass when it was very dry. I am also very allergic to hay. Since I only react to dead grasses I don't think it can be related to pollen, can it? I don't tend to react on high pollen days. I had some allergy tests done (blood work) and did test as moderately allergic to rye grass, but also to some kinds of mold. What am I allergic to?

I live in an apt with carpet(I am considering buying a house with hardwood floors, but right now that is not an option), so for now, I have ordered a HEPA filter and am planning on cleaning my apartment 2 times a week. I have a latex mattress and hypoallergenic pillows, bedding, etc. Any other products you think can help ? Thanks in advance.

I checked the pinned “Is ____ a MLM” thread and I did not see it.

Recently, I’ve had lots of friends jump on and promote it on the social media.

Here is the kicker, its sounds super MLM-y:

“Have 12 people apply to be an influencer under you and have them purchase event tickets through your custom link to earn free VIP tickets and custom experiences!”

Any thoughts?

Last spring, I graduated high school. We weren’t planning any big parties or anything—partly because of the whole germ thing, partly because we were never that into big parties in the first place. When I say “we”, I mean me and my two best friends, Mia and Cooper. We weren’t nerds…or if we were, we were the socially-acceptable type of nerds that had a lot of friends at school and rarely got picked on. We went with the flow, and that did sometimes include us going to games or parties, though usually we’d target smaller hangouts with people we could tolerate for a few hours.

Most of the time, though, it was just the three of us, and as we got closer and closer to graduation, our little circle of three seemed to involuntarily contract more and more, almost like a clenching fist. Mia was going to college in Nevada, I was staying here, and Cooper…well, he wasn’t sure yet, but the odds of him staying in-state for school were getting slim.

There was an unspoken tension between the three of us. A secret dread that said you better spend time together while you can, because come the fall, you’ll be all alone. It was silly, of course. We could still talk and visit, and we’d make new friends to keep us company while the three of us were apart. We all knew that rationally, but as the time ran down, I became acutely aware of how large my fear of losing them was. How powerful.

So we didn’t go to parties, no. But we found excuses to do stuff all the time. Not just hang out, watch t.v., play games and bullshit, but actually do activities. It had started right after Christmas, and by May we had found an impressive variety of shit to do. Parks—state, national, and amusement. Fairs—both the carny type and the medieval type. We had gone camping, hiking, fishing and swimming. There was video of me rollerblading down a hill (though Mia missed when I wiped out at the bottom) and photos of us petting goats at the world’s smallest petting zoo two counties over. It was literally just an old woman with three goats in her yard, but she’d posted an invitation on the internet to all visitors that were well-behaved and brought some food for her goats out of a voluminous list of things her babies would eat.

There had even been a brief flirtation with trying to find a haunted house earlier in the spring, but they weren’t as easy to find as movies led you to believe, and we were all more than a little nervous about getting caught trespassing at some abandoned hou

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4/20 Contest

In honor of 4/20, NightOwl is celebrating with a contest.

Guess how many Owl Pellets are in this jar? *check photo album below*

The top three guesses closest number of Owl Pellets win a pack of seeds from NightOwl.

Make sure to smoke the competition by getting your entry in first - duplicate guesses will not be accepted make sure your number hasn't been entered.

How to enter:

1. One entry/guess per User; duplicate guesses will not be accepted.
2. MUST be a member of /r/nightowlseeds.
3. Mod decisions are final; dubious entries will not be accepted.

This contest runs from April 20, 2021 to April 25, 2021. The winner will be announced by April 30, 2021.

Easter Contest

The Easter Contest was a huge success - a big THANK YOU to all participants. Daz & Team were so impressed by the originality and creativity of our Community.

As a token of appreciation, NightOwl would like to present all participants with a complimentary Sticker pack. Keep an eye out for a message on reddit from me /u/BlueJayin**.**

The Easter Contest winners will be announced soon. Thank you for your patience!

Merch Drop on 4/20

Link to store, no need for premium this is a general public release.

*REFRESH THE PAGE IF YOU SEE NOTHING IN THE NIGHTOWL STORE, MAY HAVE TO DO IT MULTIPLE TIMES*

Celebrate 4/20 all year in NighOwl swag! A new maroon-colored Legacy Owl T-shirt and other merch will be available on April 20, 2021. *check photo album below*

The Merch Drop will also include some leftovers from Halloween for sale. Great time to snag a pack for the outdoor growing season. If something you wanted isn't there, I suggest checking one of the banks below they may have it and some have a promo ATM.

Seedopoly piece with every item ordered. *US ONLY*

Five plant stakes per pack, two new stickers in this drop "Cosmic Owl" and "Collage Owl".

Merch:

• Bleached Maroon Legacy Logo T-Shirt *New*
• Blacked Out Hoodie *New*
• Bleached Black Original Logo T-Shirt *New*
• Blacked Out Script Logo T-Shirt
• Blacked Out Owl T-Shirt

Leftovers:

• Owl Pellets
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  • 65-85 Days
  • 10+ feminized seeds
  • Take a dive into th

Creationists think that the human body is God's magnum opus, meanwhile, we know of many stupid flaws in it, many of which aren't present in other animals. Here are a few, the presence of which suggests that we came to be from a series of blind mutations instead of from a divine creator.

Reproduction

Boy do women get the short end of the stick on this one.

• Babies' heads are too big to be born naturally: Before the advent of safe c-section methods, giving birth was a death defying ordeal because the head of the baby would sometimes be too big to fit through the pelvic bone and/or the birth canal, leading to babies getting stuck and killing both the mother and the baby. I was one of those babies, and had I not been born in modern times, it's likely that both me and my mother would be dead. Most other mammals? Giving birth is both safer and less excruciating, because their babies are smaller compared to the mother. Female hyenas might have it worse though with their pseudo-penis, which is a long, very narrow birth canal that extends quite a ways out of the body. It looks kind of like a penis and is about the same diameter as the actual penis of a male hyena. Not fun when you're giving birth, a successful first birth necessarily involves tearing it.

• Actually, all human babies are technically premature: Compared to other mammals, we are born much less developed and much less ready to survive the outside world, partly because of the previous issue. Compared to animals that can start running with their herd minutes after birth, we're pathetic.

• Ectopic pregnancies: This is when the embryo implants in the Fallopian tube, or in extreme cases, outside the reproductive tract on the intestines or the abdominal wall. It can cause severe bleeding, organ damage, or in the case of the Fallopian tube, can cause it to rupture. It's 100% fatal for the fetus and nearly as fatal for the mother unless an abortion is carried out (and yet, some Christians want to ban abortion for this reason too and just condemn the mother to death for "God's" screw up).

• Testicles are outside of the body: This is because they need to be cooler than body temperature, so at least there's a reason, but it still doesn't exclude it from being a stupid design. Yeah, let's just put one of the most sensitive parts of the male body on the outside, in harm's way. Oh, and if it ruptures, you die without immediate medical treatment.

• The prostate: It's nestled under the bladder and wraps

I first used Modafnil back in 2015. At first it worked like a dream. On 50mg to 100mg I was able to work "in the zone" and more productive than at almost any previous time in my life. Other than a little anxiety and giddiness it seemed to work just as well as adderall without the strung-out feeling or the crash.

However it eventually stopped working so well and I had these downsides:

• I seemed to develop tolerance to the positive effects very quickly. This tolerance seemed to be long lasting with minimal improvement even after breaks of several days.

• All the side effects I listed below I DID NOT seem to develop tolerance too and actually seemed to get worse. These were worse when I took higher doses as well

• Increasingly frequent runny nose and or feelings of having allergies

• Sore, itchy throat

• That feeling you get where you're just starting to come down with a flu

• Anxiety at higher doses even if the cognitive enhancement wasn't increased

• Said side effects play into my hypochondria and I start freaking out that I need to discontinue because they might hint at the "severe" side effects people talk about so much

Anyways, like I said it worked so great when it did work I'm giving it another try with a recent order of Modalert from India. Any advice anyone has? Should I try armodafinil instead? Does armodafinil cause less of the histamine related side effects? Should I only try when my pollen allergies are at a minimum? Should I take it with Claritin? Will things maybe improve this time since the break has been so long? Any advice you guys can give me is much appreciated!

Has anyone developed a disease or medical issue after living in Japan that they had never experienced back in their home country?

After about 2 years of living in Tokyo, I started getting hives (蕁麻疹) which ended up being chronic and have now been going on for about 3 years. I take medicine daily which helps temporarily, but after becoming concerned about this lasting indefinitely I decided to go to a specialist about it and got a blood test done as well. The thing is, it's really hard to determine what exactly causes hives from case to case, since there are so many possibilities (even with blood test results). So, I have simply been instructed to continue taking medicine daily until the symptoms start to let off.

I can't help from wondering if this is something I would have developed regardless back in my home country (maybe just onset from age), or if it is something to do with living Japan/Tokyo. I could imagine it being the huge difference in climate, the pollen issue that Tokyo has, or maybe even something dietary since my diet here is drastically different from what it was before. I brought up these thoughts with the doctor, but they said there was no way to really be sure so I should simply keep taking medicine since it is helping.

If anyone has developed chronic hives, any other skin issues, or any medical issue here that they found out was related specifically to some aspect about living in Japan, please share. Thank you.

Edit: Thank you so much everyone for your comments. A lot of really useful information to work with, and if nothing else it's very insightful to hear about all these different experiences. I wish all of us a quick and smooth recovery!

I'm stunned to say the least, but I can't believe we're back ladies and gentlemen. This is OVO Sound Radio Sound 42. This is the official game thread. I will be updating as the time ticks down.. you've all been here before.

I want to thank you for letting me be your host tonight.

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As the night winds down I want to thank the Admins and Mods from /r/Drizzy and the Drake Discord. Couldn't have done it without them. You all have been amazing. I'll be here until we end.

Info on the new OVO Sound Radio 42.

"The vision of multi-platinum recording artist and OVO Sound Co-founder Drake. A radio experience reflecting his interests in music and culture from all walks of life. Expect boundary-pushing hip hop and R&B alongside global vibes from the Caribbean, Latin America, The U.K. and beyond. The channel's flagship show is OVO Sound Radio a weekly, "musical art gallery" hosted and curated by OVO Co-Founder Oliver El-Khatib." - Thanks /u/ppratik96

It is Thursday, March 4th, 2021.

Tonight's giving me 2016 vibes.. thing's seem.. alright.

EPISODE START TIME: 10:30 Eastern Standard Time, 9:30 Central

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Weather & Pollen

• It Is currently -7 C or 20 F in Toronto, Canada, bit humid with a relatively low wind speed of 23 km/h

• Pollen count seems to be high at a whopping 7. You're lucky you're sitting here with us tonight, tuning in. Better stay at home.

Today's Episode

• Scary Hours 2

Hi, I posted here in early February seeking help because my previously non-allergic son developed an itchy red rash and hives all over the day after we got a new cat. It continued on for days and eventually he went to the ER because his lip swelled up and he had a bad reaction to Benadryl.

On the advice received here, we gave the cat back to the shelter at least until we could get allergy testing. The rash subsided about 10 days after it started, a few days after we returned the cat.

Allergy testing showed that he had no reaction to cat dander or cat fur, but she agreed with the dermatologist that it was definitely a blood reaction, not a contact reaction. Extensive testing turned up no allergies outside of normal pollen/mold reactions. She thought he must have eaten something or somehow ingested something he was allergic to and the cat was not related. But I was racking my brain because it was too much of a coincidence that the day after we got her, this happened.

I kept thinking, what could be related to the cat that wasn't the cat herself? Then I had a brainwave. The adoption agency put Revolution flea and tick treatment on her the morning we got her. I didn't expect anything when I googled "human allergy to Revolution" but the first result said Reactions such as hives, itching and skin redness have been reported in humans in rare instances. That's every symptom he had.

The Pfizer website had an adverse reaction line for humans, so I called it and the nurse I spoke to said she gets at least one call a month from someone who had the same reaction. So I wouldn't call it rare considering for every one call there's probably 5 or more people who don't call. She explained it's made to absorb quickly through the skin and enter the bloodstream then stay there for about 30 days to prevent fleas and ticks. So when someone is allergic and pets an animal who has been freshly treated with it, it absorbs into their skin and causes the kind of widespread rash/hives that we saw. Since the dose is for a small cat, and he's a large teenage boy, it only lasted about 10 days in his system.

We got the cat back, treat her with Frontline same as we have always used on our dogs, and there has not been a single problem. So I wanted to come back and share this story in case anyone else experiences something like this and thinks they are allergic to their pet!

The funeral director was asking us what we think Mum should wear in her casket.

Mum always loved to wear sarongs (fabric wraps that go around the torso and drape downward a bit like a long skirt would), so my uncle suggested that she wear a sarong in there.

The funeral director looked a bit confused, as did some of our family members, to which my uncle added:

"What's sarong with that?"

I started laughing like an idiot. He was proud of it too. The funeral director was rather shocked. We assured her, and our more proper relatives, that Mum would've absolutely loved the joke (which is very true).

His delivery was perfect. I'll never forget the risk he took. We sometimes recall the moment as a way help cushion the blows of the grieving process.

--Edit-- I appreciate the condolences. I'm doing well and the worst is behind me and my family. But thanks :)

--Edit-- Massive thanks for all the awards and kind words. And the puns! Love 'em.

People quite commonly confuse privacy with secrecy.

There are only 3 types of online privacy

1. Social Privacy - Basic privacy from people on social media, friends of friends, relatives and stalkers. This is the easiest and lowest amount of privacy. Just scrap metadata from pics, dont use same pics on two social media accounts and keep your account private.

2. Organisational Privacy - Keeping your data safe from Google, Facebook or Microsoft and other privacy invasive companies. Quite difficult and you can easily slip-up and make mistakes. Remove Google, delete facebook, instagram, whatsapp. Use a privacy based browser and add a few add-ons, change some flags, etc. Install Pi-hole and Nextcloud. Disable Telemetry and google-based applications on all your devices (even better if you flash a privacy based rom/os). Reverse Search all images you posted on social media and get them removed if you find them on third party sites. Search personal information about yourself on search engines and get it (if found) deleted. Use a internet alias (keep it the same for most accounts) instead of your real name when signing up for any accounts (discord, reddit,etc) online.

If you still need to use google for university or workplace related stuff (google slides, google drive) then make a new account and disable all history settings, ad personalisation and other data collection settings. Use a seperate browser (waterfox, brave, edge) install a few add-ons and only use google on that browser.

3. Governmental Privacy (Secrecy) - This like nearly impossible since the vast resources the government possesses. most of the entry and exit nodes of Tor are monitiored (no this is not automated and you can be only tracked if they manually tally through ISP records and entry and exit timings and even that takes months and months and this only done for major criminals). And if a government agency asks for your data with a warrant, all of it will be provided without your knowlegde.

But there are a lot of ways to avoid government surveillance. First always do payments in cash (cash is extremely hard to trace unless it has been just withdrawn from the bank: new notes). Second never give out your real name easily to people you have just met. Always use the phrases "People call me Bill" or "My friends call me Bill" etc to keep your identity safe while not making it obvious. If someone still presses about your name just say "I dont like my name". Always use a VPN before using torrent

Because 10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too..

Edit: thank you for awards, I have never gotten one before. I apologize that this is a repost, I did see it on TikTok and thought that it was cute and wanted to share. In the future I will check the sub for similar content before I post anything.

I would have a daughter

Hi everyone,

I had PRK 2.5 months ago (on March 1st 2021). I was -2.75 on my right eye and -1.75 on my left eye.

My left eye has healed properly but my right eye has haze which has been described as mini haze by an ophthalmologist or minor haze by another surgeon (yes I’ve seen two other professionals as my surgeon is a great one but doesn’t update me on the situation, he doesn’t speak much).

You have to know 3 weeks after surgery, a pollen went into my eye and I didn’t realise it. It stayed about 3 days inside (I didn’t feel it) and my surgeon had to remove it and a film that had developed on the cornea. One specialist said haze was related to the surgery and not to the pollen that stayed in my eye.

My surgeon and both specialists I have seen told me the cornea has the shape it should have and in that sense the surgery worked (10/10 right eye and 12/10 left eye). However I have the symptoms of corneal haze, mainly a slight blur that tends to evolve with steroids, unfocused vision in the right eye and pain as well.

I have an appointements every month now with my surgeon. It is worrying me. Should I remain confident?

Public service announcement: it has been determined that the global public should cease (seek to reduce) mouth breathing (a real behavioral pandemic.)

This behavior modification may have reduced the worlds "covid caused deaths" in half, and if everyone changed their behavior immediately, revocation of the Emergency Use Authorizations on all associated corona vaccinations (due to their long term uncertainties / unknowns) is possible, perhaps even recommended.

The natural defense of mucosa (and the nasal/sinus cavities in general) is known to be highly effective at mitigating external pathogens. This nasal-only feature is built into every human being, crafted / "randomly"-developed over hundreds of thousands of years, battle and time tested.

Nose breathing is a whole lot more natural & healthier. In general it is how we were built to breathe in nourishing air from the outside. This is the case with minor exceptions such as extreme exertion (where instinct typically takes over as one gasps for air.) Even under moderate exertion, it is advised/healthier/advantageous to maintain a slow cadence of nose breaths.

No it's not perfect (is anything?) but it would have helped. A lot, in my understanding. The magnitude might be incredibly difficult to measure for various reasons; one of which is that there is a void of research where healthy individuals are directly challenged with live unattenuated SARSCOV2, I suppose due to "ethical reasons". If anyone knows of any such research (ex: comparing viral challenge via nose insufflation -> sinus -> lung, compared to mouth -> lung path) please post it.

So, how much, do you all think it could have helped?

As an extension to the above, I have a critical shower thought that if one is exposed to SARSCOV2, but ONLY through nose insufflation/inhalation, they have a much better chance at developing immunity with no or reduced symptoms (asymptomatic or nominal). Ones body receives the message (capsid with RNA instructions) and deals with it more promptly / adequately. Surely, that person still needs an effective immune system (healthy diet / exercise)

Thoughts on any of the above?

Any questions about mouth / nose breathing? Any mouth breathers reading that havent thought or researched on the mechanics of it at all? I'd be more than happy to discuss any related threads.

Edit:

In summary (from https://www.healthline.com/health/nose-breathing#differences) nose breathing will (primar