Digression worth the space: the archive is starting to be genuinely long. There are questions here whose good answer is four years old and still correct, and that only happens if nobody rewrites history.
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Lounge · Off topic · continued
The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for — a second dataset posts 91–120
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Personal stories: if you want to talk about what led you to this compound, your journey, or how the change has affected your life, the Lounge is the place for that.
Caveat: everything above assumes the paperwork is what it says it is.
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Community norms: if you want to discuss how the community should work (not moderation decisions, which go in Meta) the Lounge is a place for that casual discussion.
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q.zhao_qa, post #28: A digression that keeps occurring to me: the most-linked documents here are the dullest ones. Nothing gets cited like the unit-arithmetic page. Go to post
Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors.
A digression that keeps occurring to me: the most-linked documents here are the dullest ones. Nothing gets cited like the unit-arithmetic page.
Not disagreeing with anyone above, just adding the bit I keep having to look up.
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Adding thanks rather than a view. I do not have a view worth the space.
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a.lindqvist, post #60: Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors. Two sources, same conclusion, and I could not rule out that one copied the other. Go to post
Unserious but true: I can now identify a certificate template at a glance and I have no professional use for that skill whatsoever.
d.nilsen, post #39: Politics and public policy: healthcare policy that affects access to these compounds is relevant here. Partisan politics is not. If anyone can point at the primary source I would be grateful. Go to post
Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work.
If that is already documented somewhere, ignore me and link it.
Something I have wondered without ever asking: is there a good reason the vocabulary in this field is so inconsistent between suppliers? Half the disagreements here start as terminology.
The step people skip is the one I have spelled out.
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s.ostergaard, post #48: This settles it for me, at least until somebody posts a reason it should not. Go to post
Since the Lounge tolerates a digression: the thing I find most interesting about this community is how much of the useful material is negative. Half the value is knowing what a document does not establish.
The right answer here may simply be that it has not been measured.
r.lundgren, post #25: That is true everywhere. The reference material that gets used is the material that answers a question you have at the moment you have it, and glamour has nothing to do with it. Worth one more sentence than it usually gets. Go to post
Personal stories: if you want to talk about what led you to this compound, your journey, or how the change has affected your life, the Lounge is the place for that.
Agreed on all of that, and I have nothing to add to it.
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b.jansen, post #61: Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not. The literature is thinner on this than the confidence in the thread implies. Go to post
Community norms: if you want to discuss how the community should work (not moderation decisions, which go in Meta) the Lounge is a place for that casual discussion.
The reasoning is more useful than the number, which is why I have shown it.
p.marchetti, post #69: Personal stories: if you want to talk about what led you to this compound, your journey, or how the change has affected your life, the Lounge is the place for that. Go to post
No notes. Posting so the count is not one.
Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work.
I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
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The Lounge is also where to say the obvious thing you have been holding back in case it was too obvious. It usually is not, and two other people were holding it back as well.
This is the version I would want a new member to read first.
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That is true everywhere. The reference material that gets used is the material that answers a question you have at the moment you have it, and glamour has nothing to do with it.
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Ziegler, post #110: Newer drugs and mechanisms: when a new drug launches or a new mechanism is discovered, the Lounge is a place to discuss the news and speculate before hard data exists. Written quickly, so the reasoning may be tighter than the wording. Go to post
Adjacent and interesting: you might post something about nutrition, bioavailability from a food perspective, or the sociology of weight. Adjacent to this community's core but not central.
Happy to be the one who is wrong here if it settles the question.
Politics and public policy: healthcare policy that affects access to these compounds is relevant here. Partisan politics is not.
Adding the caveat now so it does not have to be extracted later.
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p.iyer_pharmd, post #71: Lounge question, no agenda: does anyone else keep a physical notebook for this rather than a file? Mine is more use than anything I have typed, and I cannot entirely explain why. Someone should write this up properly, and it should probably not be me. Go to post
Community norms: if you want to discuss how the community should work (not moderation decisions, which go in Meta) the Lounge is a place for that casual discussion.
I would put this at better than even and not much better.
cannula_drift, post #99: Something I have wondered without ever asking: is there a good reason the vocabulary in this field is so inconsistent between suppliers? Half the disagreements here start as terminology. The step people skip is the one I have spelled out. Go to post
Adjacent and interesting: you might post something about nutrition, bioavailability from a food perspective, or the sociology of weight. Adjacent to this community's core but not central.
Adding this to the thread rather than to the wiki, because I am not confident enough for the wiki.