Hero = yuusha

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Because rules of language are not laws and are under no obligation to be consistent and/or make sense.

How exactly does Apple/Google/Oracle’s stance on this matter?

Which would be perfectly fine and not just because I was (and still am) part of that fandom.

Exactly.

If you want to participate in society, you’ll do what’s good for society to the best of your ability.

As far as I’m concerned, if you’re keeping me fed and the drinks coming, you’re doing well as a host.

And hopefully afterwards you learnt that you keep producing sperm, right? So even if you had a bath that was hot enough to kill off your current batch, you’d have them replenished shortly after.

I can absolutely relate but bathing that often is bad for your skin. Might also affect your circulation in the long run. Mind you, daily showers aren’t exactly the best thing you can do either (exceptions apply).

Well duh, yes? For so many reasons, not the least being free food.

However, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago venue is available to rent by anyone, so while Trump merely hosted the party, the Humane Society is the organization that chose the theme.

This seems important.

It’s not about your phone but the way you access Lemmy. There’s a bunch of apps and web interfaces that all look different so it’s unfortunately difficult to tell you were to go without knowing what you’re using.

I can’t help with your problem but you seem to have marked your account as a bot account. Somewhere in your account setting (depends on what UI you use) there’s a checkmark for that. You probably want to uncheck it because some people have automatic filters for bot accounts.

Girl. The very first thing I said included “you want the swelling to go down”. You didn’t seem to mind. If you don’t want help, don’t ask for it.

Your nose is “stuffy” because the mucous membranes in your nose are swollen. A decongestant causes that swelling to go down.

That’s perfectly fine. It’s not even really proven that additional water intake does anything at all. However, it usually makes you feel better which is why doctors recommend it and you should kep doing it. It’s ultimately treating a symptom, the miserable feeling.

The term “cold medication” is basically short for “take these things if you experience the symptoms commonly associated with the common cold”. There’s a reason why the question whether humans have “found a cure for the common cold” is a science-fiction thing - we can’t “cure” it. But a cold is (in most cases) so very harmless that it’s just not worth the effort to do more than treat symptoms. Most bodies are able to deal with the underlying causes just fine on their own if you just take a couple of days of rest to let yours to its thing.

If someone is bleeding, it doesn’t matter if the bleeding is coming from a cut, a stab wound, or a hole made by a bullet. You stop the bleeding. THEN, afterwards, when the bleeding is stopped, you can think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about that (like sew up the wound, look for the bullet etc).

If someone has a stuffy nose, it doesn’t matter if the swelling is caused by a cold or the flu or allergies. You stop the swelling. THEN, afterwards, when the swelling is going down and the person can breathe again, you think about the underlying cause and whether you need to do anything about it (like antihistamines, antibiotics).

Do you see the parallel?

If someone is yelling for help because they’re bleeding out, do you first ask them whether they were cut or stabbed or shot and based on their response choose what to do? I’d hope you’d skip that part and simply stop the symptom, the bleeding.

I mean, how do you treat a cold? Anything you do is treating symptoms and waiting for your body to get rid of germs.