George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
The things you lean on / are things that don't last
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George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Rereading I now follow you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'll admit mild surprise at your very seemingly visceral hatred of academia (see "Nuke and pave.") This could be based on your own bitter experience, or on reading articles such as the one in the OP. I'm not sure. I personally doubt stats on how many academics are conservatives if we're relying on self-reports, for a variety of reasons. (I do not contest the assertion that at least in the US academia is largely ideologically captive to left-wing sensibilities--smugly so. This is one reason I doubt the self-reports. I don't think this is necessarily true worldwide.) I have to assume some hyperbole here, though I am aware that a lot of people who did not themselves attend university feel like we could just raze them all to the ground and so what. I have friends back home who I suspect think this. The law of unintended consequences seems to loom large in such a scenario.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
What constitutes 'real value ' and 'legitimate' research to you in this statement? Presumably not poetry or history.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'm not sure that's true based on researching your statement. I see information that it can increase cortisol and adrenalin in people who do not consume it regularly, but does not actually increase long-term fat storage. In fact what I'm reading says caffeine can temporarily increase metabolism and therefore increase fat burning. Of course I only drink coffee black, but the question was about caffeine. Mind you I've only briefly researched it, so you may have better information.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Exactly.
Actually my friend who lived in Mexico a while told me when I wanted something Mexican to order that. It's basically tacos with charcoal-grilled beef. Good if you get good ones. Which makes sense, hey.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
If the goal is reducing visceral fat, why the caffeine limitation? Everything else I get.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
You're welcome.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Now you're just teasing.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I am not sure what Childish Gambino meant, but there were many very very pretty girls in my audience. Not quite Olivia Rodrigo level but close. I was stricken by their educated, articulate English, but that's probably my Japan experience.
For me, a thoroughgoing attractive Japanese girl with typical Japanese behavior is well nigh unbeatable in terms of attractiveness. That's probably a product of time on task. And of course for me any woman is only as beautiful as much as she resembles my wife.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I went to the Philippines last week. I was invited to speak at a university function, and did. Positives: they paid for every damn thing, including the minibar. There are many many people who speak excellent English even in the most unlikely places. Negatives: wow, it is not Japan. Beggars, general dirtiness, garbage, slums (at least in parts of Manila, where I was only briefly.) Cheap shit everywhere. Rain and heat.
Contrary to numerous warnings from Japanese friends, I enjoyed all my meals. Lots of meats. At least two dead animals per meal, actually. (I love animals.) There was one Mexican place in Manila that had the most amazing Tacos al carbon I've had outside the US. A grungy place where i had to walk down the road to buy a beer, then bring it back to the Mexican place. The young guy behind the counter helpfully pried off the bottlecap (I had left my keys and keyfob with bottle opener in Japan.)
In the spirit of the thread, I'm fine. Recently had bloodwork done and my liver function is surprisingly normal, my kidneys, weak as they are, haven't deteriorated, and have in fact bounced back a bit. I still love my wife and my sons beyond measure. And at my job, the surgeons and dermatologists who work on my same floor have started acknowledging me in a quasi-friendly way. In Japan, the secret to human interaction when you yourself are not Japanese is: Be predictable.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I still worry about you. Call it my feminine side. Jungian, naturally.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I think I'd like to meet you in real life.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I had to look up lindy. It is a word I shall never use. I didn't know you were dating anyone other than seeing the lesbian sometimes. I hang my head in shame for not being up-to-date.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Not too get even more Ask George here, but I think possibly the routine of hanging out in bars with homosexual men is not the ideal environment to meet women. Now it may be true that you do not wish to meet women in bars--and if this is your viewpoint, you are probably not entirely unwise. But I suspect that, with your job, social hours are limited. Why not find spaces where you are at least more likely to run into a woman free of emotional baggage? (cough, choke, wait, hang on, let me get some water...) I mean a woman who might have less emotional baggage than the types who frequent gay bars in their attempts to get the hell away from straight men.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
You're heading full throttle into a lonely existence where you wondered where the years have gone.
What do you want? If you just want a relaxing time with nonjudgmental mildly drunken coevals, fine, but long-term I have serious doubts about that as a path toward fulfilment. Humans need a bit of drama and conflict. If you want a break from women, fine, but then you're not even doing that.
There's big writing on the wall here and that you clearly do not see it amazes and saddens me, not because of you but because it says something larger about human's incapacity for self awareness.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I'm confused, are there not leash laws where you are? Are dogs running around free the way they did in the 70s?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
The parent comment here is invisible to me.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Yeah see to me none of those are funny in any way.
George wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a dubious, sometimes unsavory sub called /r/watchescirclejerk.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I wonder if the facts play out that the myostatin inhibitors you're thinking of could increase lean muscle mass or volume but have nearly no effect on strength (nonfunctional hypertrophy) if people would still want to use them. This could also fuck up things like tendons due to increased load due to perceived badassery where there is none.
If no one could guess I am skeptical about trying to hack the body in these ways--not in principle but in our new era of bro science based on anecdata instead of empirical studies, clinical trials, and third thing goes here. People on this very board will doubt statins (which have had many, many studies done on their efficacy, have improved over the years, and, while not completely safe, are about as safe as any drug at the population level) yet embrace peptides from China with zero regulation or assurance that they contain what they are supposed to contain, based on a few good stories of people who've used them for almost a year, and wow.
I'm probably wrong. I sound as if I am dismissing OP and everyone in here, but I do not mean to do so. It is interesting though to see how people swallow whole perspectives that are based on flimsy evidence and anecdotes when it suits them or is in line with what they wish to believe, yet if a cause they abhor were to offer up the same type of data as proof they would scoff and call for a wrecking ball to universities. Or whatever.
(Full disclosure: Universities do seem to suck in their current iteration. I do not deny it. I am rather pointing out an inconsistency, and one that I would realize I am probably equally guilty of were I a bit more self-aware.)
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
I don't know most of the acronyms you're mentioning, but I applaud, at least, your quit reddit strategy. If you must go there, go to a sub that never has anything political or culture war (think /r/watchescirclejerk ) in it and only visit that. I quit reddit years ago and my life has only improved. Also log out from this site immediately if you're on a digital fast, because just by reading this you're breaking the fucking fast.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Obligatory comment that "Peptides" as a category characterizes an enormous group of varied substances, from insulin to calcitonin to parathyroid hormone, that have different qualities, benefits, and risks.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
1mo ago
Congratulations
I was thinking outside an Anglo or European context actually. I'm not surprised about the UK.
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