I'm ON a recurring 12-mo plan, but you've sent me this SMS twice:

"Mint Mobile: 6GB reloaded through [10/04/26 | 11/03/26]. FYI, switching to a 12-mo plan saves $180/year. It's a commitmint worth making: mintmobile://plans?month=12&size=S"

Good advice, but I'm already following it. 😄

How 'bout you make the SMS you send more relevant/don't send irrelevant ones?

(try 2 ; hung on first post attempt; with page refresh)

It seems to me that imaging done with gadopiclenol and gadoquatrane is kind of tricky to read because the MRI response isn’t linear to the concentration. I asked Google AI if they’re both harder to read compared to previous generation agents. I'm curious if techs/MDs agree with the conclusions of the AI. It responded:

The high-relaxivity design of both gadoquatrane and gadopiclenol does not make them harder to read compared to previous generations; in fact, clinical trials show they are generally easier or identical to interpret.

Yet it's stated this:

The Hook Effect / T2* Quenching: At excessively high local concentrations, the agent begins drastically shortening T2 or T2* relaxation times instead of just T1. This causes the signal to "quench" or drop off, paradoxically making the image darker instead of brighter.

And the images seem harder to interpret to my (untrained!) eye. It also stated:

Better Lesion Contrast: Blinded clinical reader studies (such as the PICTURE trials for gadopiclenol and the QUANTI trials for gadoquatrane) uniformly demonstrate that radiologists score these agents as non-inferior or superior in terms of lesion enhancement, border delineation, and structural morphology compared to older agents. They provide crisp, bright visualization without creating artificial reading difficulties.

I don't understand how they can be blinded - isn't it necessary to know which kind of contrast has been used to read a contrast MRI properly? AI answers:

To the blinded radiologist, a lesion on a low-dose gadopiclenol scan simply looks identically bright and distinct to a standard-dose gadobutrol scan.

Do you agree with the conclusions of the AI? I’m skeptical but a layman. Also, sometimes the papers are biased. I want to get opinions from redditors.

(I'll post a link to the AI chat in a reply if you are curious to see everything in context. )

92% of the Iranian people hate their regime, per leaked Iran survey.

I didn't realize the regime was that deeply unpopular. Clearly I'm not understanding the extent of the suppression in the country, as the government overthrow hasn't already been successful.

(OP title exact web page title, w/o "Beni Sabti" - no editorializing)

[EDIT: Is REDDIT/China (via reddit) controlling the narrative? Why is the "best" post according to reddit one with a net -18 likes? (and deservedly so - 'Slim' mis-labels the author, born in Iran*, Sabti, as uninformed because he's Israeli. Slim hates everyone and everything Israeli.)

*and the article itself even notes this.

Some evidence of this hate from today's headines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/irgc-soldiers-gunned-down-in-street-clashes-in-iran/ ]

it sure seems to me to be monopolistic behavior that refuses to understand the request to “Search in Amazon app for beyond sausage”! If I’m not mistaken, Siri has no problem, searching in most apps. Like for example I can say navigate to destination XYZ in Google Maps and Siri will do that.

After a long (wild goose chase) process logging in, adding a ton of package details I get:

>We're sorry; UPS TradeAbility^(®) Landed Cost is not available at this time. Please try again later.

Looking for a UPS tool to calculate how much duty to charge/will be/should be charged on int'l shipment.

Possible alternative : maybe a merchant who has UPS Global Checkout set up? Other tool?

Is there still no place on Patreon that tracks all the comments you’ve ever left?

Crazy that they're forcing account merges and asking us:

Do you want to keep your past activity as a member?
If you choose to keep past activity (likes, comment, chats and DMs), it may indicate that you are or were a member.
You have 2 comments, likes, chats, and DMs across 0 memberships.

But we can't see what those comments, likes, chats, or DMs are!

It seems I'm being blocked from seeing any of them, until after the merge. WT?

This is a hypothetical question. I’m asking it because I think the answers could give useful insight to both researchers and our community about risk tolerance.
Imagine a treatment exists that has been thoroughly tested. It permanently cures MOGAD in X% of patients and is fatal in the remaining patients. There is no such treatment today, but real treatment decisions sometimes involve trade-offs that feel related to this kind of risk.
Assume the research is solid and we know the exact value of X.
How high would X need to be before you would take the treatment?

I have amazon prime and google speakers. There's no way to listen to npr news podcast ad-free/add it to my morning news on my google speaker w/o double-paying? 👎

I have it play as part of my morning news on my google speaker, and it keeps mentioning that I can listen to it ad-free with my Amazon Prime membership ... but it seems I can't, practically speaking. Workaround ideas?

I would totally buy frozen meat pizzas if they stopped putting nitrate preservatives in the meats. I used to get them all the time, but stopped for health reasons. Surely they sell it in sufficient volume that they can skip putting nitrates in frozen food? Or is there a regulatory issue that prevents them from doing so?

It’s pretty clear to me that there’s some interesting chemistry involving nitrates, including natural ones, and meats, creating carcinogens in the gut, being the main or at least a very significant contributor to cancer rates blamed on meat in general.

If you’re reading this : would this reformation influence your buying?

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I wonder if any of the Safeway/Albertsons/Cerberus folks who formulate Signature products follow this Subreddit.

I would totally buy their frozen meat pizzas if they stopped putting nitrate preservatives in the meats. I used to get them all the time, but stopped for health reasons. Surely they sell it in sufficient volume that they can skip putting nitrates in frozen food? Or is there a regulatory issue that prevents them from doing so?

It’s pretty clear to me that there’s some interesting chemistry involving nitrates, including natural ones, and meats, creating carcinogens in the gut, being the main or at least a very significant contributor to cancer rates blamed on meat in general.

If you’re reading this : would this reformation influence your buying?

Has anybody spelled $cience the way I did in the title before? Better?

Curious if anyone can directly dispute the (alleged) facts herein with evidence. Ad hominem attacks and gish gallop, not direct disputes will be an admission that you can’t.*

1. over 7% of the 10 million V-Safe users reported needing medical care after a Covid-19 vaccine, on average 2 to 3 times each, with over 70% of those medical encounters resulting in hospitalization, emergency room, or urgent care.

2. that in the clinical trial for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine there were 21 deaths in the vaccinated group and 17 deaths in the placebo group, meaning more in the vaccinated group, during the same time period and, I note, the placebo group had more people than the vaccinated group. (*For example, pointing out this isn’t statistically significant isn’t a factual dispute, and thus would be an admission that the facts are as alleged.)

I see it mentioned on the interwebs for Mint Mobile, but can't find it mentioned officially. (Visiting mailmymobile.net results in a weird redirect and then weird SSL errors.)

I tried sending a few test messages via the tmomail.net gateway and find that most messages don't get through. Understandably, the spam filtering is very aggressive...

I have a SIEVE rule that I triggers when I get an important email (e.g. from bank, family, etc.) and it's supposed notify me by sending a short message via an email-SMS gateway.