if you want more sourness maybe try adding some powdered citric acid or malic acid, whatever you can find at a grocery store. It’ll be in the spice aisle.

i mean the whole point of energy drinks is that they have a stupid amount of caffeine

you seem to be talking about supplements, not vitamins. Fruit is decidedly not expensive unless you live on the mcmurdo antarctic research station.

OP is definitely hilariously exaggerating it, but it certainly can’t hurt to make sure your body has all the nutrients it needs, and placebo shouldn’t be discounted.

In my experience and from my good but not professional knowledge, the most objectively beneficial thing is just to stay well hydrated and eat something. You need that to feel good even if you’re not sick, and when you’re fighting an infection your body is going to be diverting energy to things like fever rather than the stomach, so easy to digest is very important.

And what’s something that has lots of vitamins and minerals and easy to digest calories while also being filled with water? Fruit! (noodles are also a good option, easy to digest plus there’s broth so you get more water)
Then add on the fact that e.g. citrus just viscerally feels fresh and like it should help with illness, and you have a very convincing reason to get a bag of mandarins to snack on while you’re sick.

It won’t cure a cold overnight, but it might well bring enough relief that it’s not a full week of wanting to die, and if it has absolutely no effect then oh no you ate a bunch of healthy stuff how terrible.

One thing i haven’t really seen brought up is that all of these symptoms are severe symptoms that the body has to resort to when less extreme measures aren’t enough.

I’ve noticed many times where i only got slightly sick, like a slight fever for not even an entire day, or i just suddenly feel lethargic and the next day i’m back to normal.
And when i do get severely sick, i make sure to take it extremely easy and keep myself hydrated and fed with something easily digestible along with just doing very very gentle exercise (like, stuff an old person would do at rehab). Since i started being this careful when i get sick it’s gotten WAY less miserable.
Like, instead of a week of just sleeping as much as possible because i have 0 energy and everything is pain; it’s 1-2 weeks that starts with the symptoms ramping up over a day or two, being uncomfortable but able to do things, then needing a few painkillers to be functional for 1-2 days, and then it goes in reverse until the sickness has petered back out.

why is that sad?

why would you be supposed to cut your hair in any specific way? are you in the army or something?

haven’t cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.

i mean if you can’t give an estimate, don’t give an estimate. otherwise you’re just lying to the user and making things harder for them.

just show how much of the data has been processed and let the user make of that what they wish.

you kidding? he’d do a whole rant on how design should be intuitive and you absolutely shouldn’t need to read the manual for something as basic as this

probably pull out a whole international standard on button design

except wages and welfare, of course

“hey why are people not buying as many things these days?”

time to wife the gym and divorce the hit lawyer

people always say this but at worst “a few” means like 50, which is a damn fucking sight better than every other platform which is ONE provider

and you can us other providers or even run your own email setup, you’ll just run into problems, which is again a damn fucking sight better than other platforms where the option doesn’t even exist at all.

most business owners seem to be maybe good at actually doing the job, but just barely scraping by in terms of running the business…

it’s like how anyone with experience says you should never open a restaurant, then you look at how restaurants are run and yeah no shit it doesn’t work when people don’t realize you have to 1) make food people want to buy, 2) make food that people can afford to buy, and 3) keep your business to a scale where you can actually make a profit.
Like my god, stop opening big restaurants, just run a food truck or something and accept that you’re not getting michelin stars.

almost, you’d also take the actual water you’re given a legal monopoly on and bottle it to sell to other countries!

i want games to come with a collection of comments from the code, so we can appreciate the work devs put in

“this works for some reason, i do not know why, i do not want to know why” -Nguyen Mikkelsen
“i pray god forgives me for this horrible hack” - Jörgen Olsson

stop stop i’m already hard

if you answer a phonecall while driving, get distracted, and kill a child in the process, would you just be fine with that? act like you drove over a beetle and just go on with your day?

casually admitting to breaking the law

so why precisely are you using a free lemmy instance? shouldn’t you be selfhosting that?