There are some newer studies since then that are backing up this one. I ran across this one about a couple months ago and bookmarked it and then searched for others as well. One goes back 10 years ago so I was pretty much shocked because I've been looking into this (Schizophrenia) for quite a long time and somehow never came across this.
I've been taking magnesium ("Calm" brand), zinc, potassium, and D, at night after dinner and just before I go to bed and that's really helped quiet down the tinnitus for me. For me, it's stress that triggers it and it can get vicious loud.
I turned 65 this year. I've been using weed for over 50 years now. I have never had any serious health issues at all. My hips are started to tell me I'm getting old but otherwise I'm still doing pretty good.
It's not for everyone but it has certainly been good for me.
I'm surrounded by anti-vaxxers in the rural county I live in. 78% of them have been infected with covid at least once (same 78% voted for Trump here in 2020), and that crud is currently reinfecting folks here now.
A neighbor told me last week everyone in his family were infected a few weeks ago. His 80 year old father ended up in the ICU for a week because he couldn't breath. They had to call a ambulance because of that. He told me was bedridden for week sicker than he's ever been.
A result of the anti-covid vaccine is parents here have decided to not get their children vaxxed for anything now. Our schools are basically a breeding ground for spreading crud now.
I live in rural area of the Ozarks where there are a lot of ticks. Treating shoes and clothes with permethrin is the most effective way to keep them off you.
And doing "tick checks" when you come inside your home is a habit here. Getting them off you fast is the best way to keep from getting lyme disease.
And either burning off or grinding up and piling up all the leaves to make compost this time of year is the best way to get them out of your yard.
I learned this the hard way. Here's a video of how bad they can get here and one of my first attempts at trying to get rid of them. It didn't really work very well:
I have never seen anything like that up here in New England. That towel has more ticks on it than I've seen in my life, and we're not exactly a low-Lyme area.
I did end up nuking the yard with pesticide that year.
Since then I've ground up the leaves this time of year and pile them up to compost them. In spring and summer I bag grass clippings and stuff those into the pile of composting leaves and it's amazing how hot those clippings get. Hot enough to roast any ticks in there for sure. So for the past few years we've had almost no ticks at all during the warm season. And I haven't had to use any pesticides.
And possums! When I learned 1) how utterly harmless possums are and 2) how voraciously they love to eat ticks, they became my favorite backyard visitors.
If you find a possum in your yard, leave ‘em be and count yourself lucky.
We have possums here too, and they occasionally come up to our front porch to eat our dogs food.
We also have a lot of deer here and they carry ticks that get huge on them, so they're spreading them around wherever they go. We're surrounded on 3 sides by Army Corp land that's forest and filled with critters that spread them around.
Yeah we've had quite a few chickens over the years, but we also have a lot of raccoons and fox and coyotes other chicken eating predators here. Just a couple years ago I was cleaning our coop and heard the chickens squawking like crazy and I ran outside to see what was causing the commotion and there was a Golden Eagle that had one of our chickens in it claws trying to fly off.
I'd never seen a Golden Eagle before and it is by far the biggest bird I've ever seen. They're huge! I yelled at it and waved my arms (trying to look big) and it finally let go and flew off.
Seconded. I grew up in southwest Missouri. When we came in from the woods or fields, the question was how many ticks you’d have to pull off you. It was guaranteed you’d have at least a couple.
I’m glad Lyme disease wasn’t as pervasive when I was a kid. At 2+ tick bites a day, every day, all summer, we couldn’t have beat those odds.
Well you for sure know what's it like here. We live on a ridge above a horseshoe bend on Bull Shoals lake and are surrounded hundreds of acres of public land that's forested.
I'm not surprised by this. The boys I knew that lived in Beverley Hills back in the `70s were most all arrogant assholes and so were their fathers. Their mothers were always very nice to me though and so were their daughters.
I planted a Pawpaw about 20 years ago. Can't say it's doing great but it's not dead yet. Takes like 20 years for them to start producing fruit. Last year one of my daughters told me it had a single fruit on it, and then told me she'd ate it, so I've still not seen a Pawpaw on it
Pollination is a whole adventure -- they're naturally pollinated by flies not bees, so you either need to hang a few dead animals in your tree or you need to figure out hand pollinating. There are some good resources at Kentucky State, and I've found the researcher there very friendly and approachable if you need some advice on it. Shoot her an email.
He'll be paying $1.7B on the sale in taxes federally. It looks like by moving from Washington State he's not paying those $0.6B to the state, though. If I'm understanding that article correctly.
As long as equity returns are higher than interest rates buy borrow die is effective. When youre a billionaire its not an effective way to not pay taxes ever, but its still extremely effective for delaying them. You get $26 million stepped up on death completely untaxed so buy borrow dying that much always makes sense.
