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I am not doing the pills, just the foam (rogaine). You don’t have to take them for life, I plan on using it for a year more.

@Bobby_2021 You are the type to get eaten by the starved lion for thinking you can help. A communist dictatorship will break you. Kim Jong Un doesn't need your sympathy.

Assuming you are guy for this answer, sorry if wrong. The higher your T levels, the more you will crave it. When I was younger I tried the no fap BS and all that, but it is just unsustainable. Most ppl who demonize porn have some repressed sexuality to have to address (like I did). Nothing wrong with it. Different people have different kinks/cravings. As with everything, there are definitely both high and low quality sources. Don't overdo it and you will be fine.

There are definitely levels to it. There's fast food sex and there's some minblowing shit that will make you touch other dimensions - mnot even kidding. Finding a right partner is necessary for the latter.

Change the pictures. Not that deep.

Yah, that's normal. I am a powerlifter, squatting 405 lbs/180 kg for reps and I still find overhead squats hard. My problem is I have low mobility in my shoulder from all the benching, so I can't get proper form. Idk if it's similar for you, but my tip is to work on that mobility. Standing shoulder press helps for strength.

First learn a valuable skill and then find a way to maximally automate it. All the passive income bros are parasites imo.

Ditto. All the commie liberals need to go live in China or NK to understand what it really means. Tired of idealizations.

Been using minox for my beard for like 13 months. No changes in libido or dick function lol. You are fine, stick with it.

3 days ago (10/18) I wrote the following in my journal: Quote Start: The following fuzzy picture has emerged in my head - 'universality' - the phenomenon of macroscropic structure, independent of microscopic structure, is what sits at the root of the [[Chaos, Entropy, Order]] paradigm. The understanding that mathematical disorder is impossible is what has lead to the search for such underlying structures. I see these glimpses emerging in entirely disparate fields of mathematics, physics and statistics that nonetheless share bridges between each other. Some of those bridges are: - [[Statistical Mechanics]] - conformal field theories as the limit of many stochastic models (brownian, Ising, SLE) - use of string-theoretic language as well -[[S. Smirnov]], [[W. Werner]], [[H. Duminil-Copin]] - [[Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III - the conformal structure is determined]] - KPZ universality and Tracy-Widom/ GOE/GUE - - [[An exact solution for the KPZ equation with flat initial conditions]] - [[The One-Dimensional KPZ Equation - an Exact Solution and its Universality]] - [[ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LENGTH OF THE LONGEST INCREASING SUBSEQUENCE OF RANDOM PERMUTATIONS]]] - KPZ regularity structures and TQFTs - [[Martin Hairer]] - RMT universality [[Eugene WIgner]]" - [[Representation Theory]] modular forms and algebraic groups (particularly proven for the monster group, but also known for other sporadic groups) - use of string-theoretic and CFT language as well - [[Richard Borcherds]] - Langlands progam - conjectured bijection between automorphic forms and Galois representations through the universality of zeta/ l-functions -[[Robert Langlands]] - [[Number theory]] - Riemann zeta hypothesis universality Quote end The following is today's Quanta article (10/21), describing Roger-Ramanujan identities, establishing a very deep relationship between partitions. You will see the applications matching word for word the fields that I intuitively connected in my notes. This was the missing link. At moments like these the only way I can describe it is that the Universe is talking to me.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/10/17/hopes-for-religious-harmony-come-to-life-in-the-muslim-vatican

Yah, nah, that UK answer is BS. Canada and NZ sure. But still, point is “chose your major” is an exception, not the rule.

Like what? UK you can’t, Germany you can’t, Netherlands, Switzerland and France as well. Every country my peers have went to is like that.

Xaos =Chaos = Croc Eros = Entropy = Love Gaia = Truth = Order

@Ayham College, especially for technical fields, is hard. I have always been a straight A student, but that I still work 10-12 h days. So bite the bullet and study what you want, otherwise you will suffer. Even if you take a gap year. It’s time to grow up and make your own decisions.

Only the US does the “choose your major” thing. Which is why I came to study here. Best decision ever.

This was really impressive. Musk definitely needed this. California is trying to revoke his FAA licenses due to the tweets.

Power rests on a lie. But when you are powerless, survival is much harder. Certain people have to rise to the occasion. Conscious leadership is possible.

Arrogance is a psychological reaction to insecurity as means of over-compensating. Close-mindedness is related to cognitive bias - an epistemic filter/deadlock that discards opposing information and cherry picks that which is in support. It is often one appears with the other, for arrogance is a very “effective” way of finding an excuse to not examine something deeper - the mind after all has to work overtime for keeping its bias.

Exactly.

Striving for “ultimate happiness” is IMO overrated. For me it is precisely the growth/ work of becoming someone that makes me fulfilled. It is also deeper, because even in the shittiest of days, I still feel I am doing the right thing. I tried being content with existence as is for almost a year. Too much resistance. I realized I have a lot of karma to burn through. Good thing is, bliss is always there to be found if you want to come back to it. So don’t feel bad at all for wanting to explore consciousness.

Credit is simply an epistemic ground point - a source, a citation. When communicating new ideas, setting the correct context of the work that has been done and the unique contribution is of the utmost importance. Otherwise, it loses significant amount of meaning. In some absolute sense you are right that nothing “belongs” to anyone. But citations are in fact important because they are the only thing that distinguishes sophisticated knowledge from make-belief woo-woo. The current epistemological erosion due to social media is prime example. Misinformation flourishes in media that doesn’t do fact checking (a form of epistemic grounding/citation), so I would argued the singularity would be accelerated from higher not lower quality in citation, especially if we want to prevent rank collapse and the dead internet hypothesis becoming true.

If it were someone else, I agree, but OP is known to make these types of posts coming from exactly a bigoted pov. There was a thread he started saying he wanted to kill all religious people. You can still find it. Hence, I chose a stronger tone. I have not taken offence, I just hope this teaches you to not be so quick with your assumptions. It is precisely what perpetuates the stereotypes and prevents dialogue.

You can encrypt .md files for Obsidian/github and they will remain encrypted even after being pushed.

Same. That bob is exceptionally masculine, I have to say.