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  • Social media misinformation is driving men to NHS clinics in search of testosterone therapy they don’t need, adding pressure to already stretched waiting lists, doctors have said.

    So social media is driving men to go get an annual checkup where the doctor does a blood sample and tests for low-T?

    Well fuck, I get that every six months and it doesn’t seem to stress my doctor out at all. They also check my cholesterol and a bunch of other shit I don’t pretend to understand. I’m a special case though and have to go twice a year.

    edit: I guess I’m saying that the NHS is a bit underfunded if they can’t provide a blood test for everyone once a year.






  • heh, I just dug one of those out of the scrap bucket and epoxied it into a drain plug in my truck that I finished rounding out in spectacular fashion.

    I wasn’t the asshole who started rounding it, but I sure was the asshole that finished the job. Replacement with an actual hex head on it is sitting on the workbench. No more water trap woes if the cheap hex wrench stays glued in that fucked up part

    edit: it worked great. The plug had dielectric corrosion (steel plug in a mag/alum body) and at first I thought I just tightened it up too much but nope, I felt that rust break, saw the removal of material on the plug itself once it was all the way out, and I’m sure it’s in the secondary fuel filter now. Replaced with a brass plug that had a 19mm hex head on it so no more worries. Big wrench, little torque kinda thing - it’s the o-ring that makes the seal, not the torque.













  • Yeah DMZ game servers are a good idea. I’d image one with something immutable, get it all set up and then “have at ye!”. If someone pwns it you just yank the cord. Since they are identical you can have them both set up, someone owns it, you yank/replace and your friends just go right back to it.

    If I did something like this I wouldn’t even ssh into them, just have them in some dark corner with a small kb/m/monitor. Totally different subnet.