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I have had irritating to debilitating hand eczema for the past 5-6 years or so. Had in other spots as a kid but it cleared and had been free for 25 years until this. I’ve tried a lot of creams and gloves and they help to keep under control but it won’t go away.

Anyways, I just went on a three day trip to an indoor waterpark. I probably spent a combined nine hours submerged in chlorinated pee water. I thought this was gonna be a total nightmare for my hand, eczema and dryness. I brought all the creams and gloves and stuff to make sure that I got it under control quickly after getting out of the water. All I did was basically rinse my hands and then apply the cream and stuff, but I figured I would have bad flareups and be having to manage it. What actually happened was my eczema almost disappeared. My hands felt normal for the first time in years, and it looked like they would’ve fully recovered given another 3 to 5 days or so. But now I’m back home and immediately my symptoms have resurfaced. Especially after giving my kids a bath. I’m almost certain now that it’s something in my water we live on well water and I just tested it and it’s a bit acidic and has some sulfate. It seems that anytime I use this water on my hands. They immediately start to dry up and the skin feels tight and the rash starts to kind of swell a bit.

So I guess my PSA is make sure that source of your eczema isn’t something in your own home like maybe the water or something to do with the air quality or potentially something else. Personally, I’m looking into getting an extremely expensive whole home water, filtration, and treatment sort of system. But yeah, it really opened my eyes when going to a chlorinated waterpark for hours a day actually helped the problem.

Tldr: If you can, get out of your house for a few days and see if your symptoms improve. At least for me, the trigger is something at home, specifically(most likely) our water.

Good luck everyone, eczema really sucks.

Currently there’s zero consequence for booting an innocent faithful, especially early in the game. The only downside is players feel bad. But otherwise it benefits all players remaining. Booting a traitor early also has little to no upside, so that’s another discussion.

To punish booting faithfuls, they could give the faithful who got wrongfully banished something like 5k that comes permanently out of the prize pot. This number could rise as time goes on, potentially as high as 30-50k late game to discourage screwing someone for a larger share of the pot. It would have to be equal to or less than they stand to gain by remaining in the game so that players don’t intentionally get voted out.

Just some food for thought.

I’m sure this is asked all the time but what are the latest most slept on cards in everyone’s mind? Personally I think the Brooklet Hill card from hidden fates is way underrated. It’s essentially a magikarp card with an awesome artwork. PSA 10 pop is high but not insane, around 1300, which is somewhat low for modern. Anyone else agree?

The tech on this thing is so cool. It’s a great product from what I can see. But it could be elevated significantly just by offering a fully flat version. I get that it would occupy more drawer space. It’s worth it. The ease of cleaning, but most importantly the ability to just put a pot anywhere and not worry about it tipping, would be way worth the tradeoff imo. It would also open the possibility of a proper bridge type of functionality which would also be a nice addon.

Lastly, since I’m throwing out suggestions it would also be great if there was one 11 inch element just for even heating of oversized cookware. 9 is good for almost everything but one oversized burner would be great.

Thanks for reading.

So my wife and I switched to stainless around a year and a half ago after wanting to minimize our use of non-stick cookware. It's been great and we're still learning how to best use stainless pans. I really focused on eggs in specific lately and how to avoid them sticking. Most tutorials swear that you need to heat the pan until water beads before adding oil and potentially some butter to avoid sticking. But what I've noticed recently is it seems to be more about just using some butter than getting water to bead. As long as I add a decent amount of butter, even at quite low temps where water will not come close to beading, eggs basically don't stick at all. I believe it's the lecithin in the butter from what I've read. Conversely, if I do go to leidenfrost temps, but just use avocado oil, my eggs stick a bit. Not a lot, but they don't glide like they do with pure butter.

So my observations are that basically the temp doesn't matter as much as just using butter or something with lecithin in it. Anyone else have any input? Is leidenfrost kinda made up?