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
3d ago
MRIs and ultrasound are both imaging techniques that have pros and cons but don't use radiation (one of the pros). This reads as if it will have the functionality of a CT scan (3D, multiple images) without ionizing radiation. Pretty impressive if it works as described. Endoscopy is basically a "high tech camera" but is invasive and time-consuming. This sounds like getting in and out of water. Interested to see where this goes.
Times have changed. Growing up my dad did no work around the house on Sunday and forbade us from it, unless it was something dire requiring immediate address. Many stores were closed Sundays, and you certainly couldn't buy alcohol (even in our college town). We did regularly go out for Sunday lunch to some restaurant or other, and oddly nothing was ever said about the workers who made our meals and fed us.
Today everything operates as usual on Sundays in the same town, my parents are dead, and I'm not sure what churchgoers do or where they eat. Timeline wise this would have been the 70s/80s.
Back in the day my main was a Night Elf Druid, and I can still hear in my head the ambient music, which was best for Night Elves out of all the factions. Shadowglen -> Teldrassil-> Darnassus -> Ashenvale. Who could forget Moonfall? I mean despite it being parodied in South Park. I was never one of those players who put on death metal or whatever as the music; I always kept the game music, which set the mood. Horde music sucked, except maybe the Undead, which was dark, but eventually repetitive. The music in Stormwind and surrounding was way over-the-top "We are the pure ones" herald horns and brass. I'm sure all of it was done by one guy on a synthesizer but it was all very impressive. Dun Morogh in particular I liked.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Don't forget rake in lots of cash.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
Were these different than the juggies?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
6d ago
I'm going to approach your question with a hypothetical. Let's say you can increase your wrist size moderately, with minimal affect on the rest of your body (remember there is nothing you can eat regularly/consume/inject that has zero downstream effects beyond the one thing you want it to do). Then what?
In reading your post--and I may be wrong here--it seems you're Steve Rogers looking to be Captain America, and fast. Why the frantic urgency?
There's a reason you see warnings that you should only proceed with xyz under supervision of a doctor. The body is a set of interrelated systems. If you have, say, kidney issues, increasing protein is not a great idea. And you may need reminding that acromegaly is a pathology, not just an interesting condition.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
10d ago
Hang around a while, here I mean, and you could probably get loads of respondents.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
12d ago
I've made my share of foolish choices, but I like to think one reason was that there was no one waving a red flag at me telling me not to make them. Consider me your waving red flag.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
13d ago
I wonder if we are all really gluttons for our own doom. Or if it's just you.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
14d ago
All maggots are technically flesh-eating. Just screw worms don't wait for the dying part. To answer, I'm living several thousand miles away.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
I see. Not how I had read your post. Thanks for the clarification.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
I can't imagine how people who actually bust their asses in physical labor and make less than me feel!
Here's how they feel: Integrity is its own reward, as is chastity. Hope those girls know how to save; their half-life is short. Also they better be exceptionally fine at fellating for those fees.
Someday this will all be written about. The courtesans of old Japan (花魁) had many ranks, all the way down to what today might be called lot lizards at truck stops. And all the way up to women rivalling (if perhaps not equalling) the geiko, who were technically not prostitutes but could play your emotions like a shamisen.
These gals in Silicon valley are carving out their own crass niche, if in what seems a disorganized fashion, which will ultimately probably be their undoing. Then again who knows. Anyway I feel like sausage and eggs for breakfast.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
While these type of self-reported surveys may be reliable in the statistical sense (eg people will respond the same way no matter how many times they're asked) in validity terms I wouldn't expect much (eg I wouldn't expect to learn what it is you may be hoping to learn, whether and to what degree folks are cheating cheaters) even with the stated clause that responses are anonymized. For all the same reasons as Aella's "research."
I would be at least mildly surprised if we didn't have at least one or two trolls dropping giant infidelity bombs to set ripples going. People aren't honest or particularly good at self-reflection, and often even when they are, aren't truthful.
The above is my opinion of course so who cares, but decades of indecipherable noise in survey research suggests I am not simply cynical.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
16d ago
I was of the mind top-level posts were solicited, that we wanted more top-level posts. I presume people don't do standalone posts because it puts you out there. Like standing up and dinging your fork on the wine glass, as opposed to just commenting at length on some esoteric point like Uncle Fred during the meal, which would be the comments in the usual Weekday Whatever threads. That the mods are "bemused" by top-level attempts is interesting to me. Why would that be?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
17d ago
She is Exhibit A in how no one is safe in a purity spiral.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
20d ago
I find it this whole conversation interesting. It wasn't long ago that people online were linking Chris Rock's video How not to get your ass kicked by the police and sagely nodding that black men simply reacted foolishly to policemen, who were lawfully going about their jobs. Various examples were used as illustrations, including the notorious pepper spray incident. The lesson was, don't be an idiot and you have nothing to fear from law enforcement.
In this thread you have presumably right-leaning posters now suggesting that the police departments have some systemic bias against whites (due presumably to political pressure, a sea change in departmental ethos, or similar). I'm not commenting on this specific case or any of the ones mentioned, simply pointing out an odd irony.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
23d ago
Are we talking like Apu stereotyped or an educated Indian professor or a street vendor in New Delhi who speaks certain phrases?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
25d ago
My decades collide. You're correct of course. Charles Dance always brings it. I do remember Last Action Hero but don't believe I ever saw it.
Since you started this, I'll suggest Nomads (1986). Same year as Well before Independence Day (which I've never seen but will now, thanks, @erwgv3g34 .
Roger Ebert, whose reviews I enjoyed reading usually, absolutely hated it. It has a poor rating on IMDB.
I thought it was fantastic. John McTiernan director, before Die Hard put him on the map. Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down. I don't know why I like it so much. The soundtrack seems very dated (a lot of Ted Nugent guitar). And the plot at some point just becomes twisted into a confusing pretzel. I don't care. It was a great movie experience for my teenage self (though is saw it on television a year or two after it was released.) The most distracting thing was Brosnan putting on a French accent, but once you get passed that (if you can) it's a great weird ride.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
25d ago
Well, are you going to keep us in suspense which you ticked?
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
26d ago
using GPT to summarize
Do people here do this? That would be disappointing.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
27d ago
Run.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
28d ago
Can I just insert this is one of the most respectful back-and-forths between ppl disagreeing that I've read in a while here between you and @PokerPirate. And about a field I know nothing about (Statistics I know, but not Machine Learning). A lesson to us all.
George_E_Hale
insufferable blowhard
28d ago
Pitt was immensely famous already from several films, including Se7en five years prior. You may be right about Statham.
I know you'll be annoyed to read this.
Back, say, as little as three years ago, I might have read this short, evocative metaphor placed among longer sentences and thought it was an interesting image. Now--and I am not entirely sure why--it reminds me of LLM output. Which is not to say I'm pointing a finger at you. Rather, this is what flags (to me) writing as LLM these days. Something about it. Like the calibration "write with style and a touch of wry humor." I think that perhaps for some of us, if we are to write in the age of LLMs but distinguish our own writing from output, we are going to have to purposely start not writing like they do. I'd feel happier if you said this actually was an LLM tweak to your own original passage.
To your point: For about a decade due to circumstances somewhat outside my control I hung out socially almost completely with either gay men or lesbians or what we used to call fag hags (as far as I know this is a term coined by gay men.) I saw all types, I was youngish and a pretty boy, and I was often plied with booze and told, as you say you've been told, that I was really a bit gay myself, wasn't I?
I wasn't. Nor was I ever curious enough to test the waters, as it were. But it was a gay gay gay gay world, and mostly not pretty. I'm not even going to go into it. You know what I'm talking about. I would take issue with your comment in another reply actually, that straight men don't engage constantly in illicit sex because they can't. Yes, some would, and I know them. I wouldn't, could have (perhaps even still could) and haven't, and even for those who might say "yes you have" I'd counter not nearly to the same degree as the gay dudes I've known who have had triple or more digit partners. There's something else going on. I could be wrong of course.
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