Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
11hr ago
Keep in mind that I'm only going off of second-hand forum posting, but from what I've read, people whom have been taking GLP-1 agonists have had to, for whatever reason, stop taking them for a month or so - and when they got back on, they noticed they started loosing more weight compared to before.
Plus, it's also what my brother did, so, again. Small data point, not sure if it's a trend. If I manage to get over my current plateau once I get back on semaglutide, I'll probably be letting people know about it.
As for sluggishness, I've never had that issue. If anything, I had more energy than ever on SG - whereas my brother reported having a big boost of energy on Cangrilitide, and I never experienced such. Go figure.
Grant_us_eyes
11hr ago
Online supplier.
As I mentioned in my post, my brother would know more - the only other peptide I've taken is the BPC-157 / TB-500 blend for healing purposes, and oh boy does it work.
If you have any persistent/long term injuries and you don't mind site injections, I'd give that a shot.
Grant_us_eyes
11hr ago
I've not had problems building up muscle while tasking said peptides, but I will admit with a caveat that I'm exercising every day by this point, except for saturdays - roughly walking 9 to 10 miles a week and training in karate tuesday/thursday.
My brother walks more - and he does a several hour workout every sunday, and he's had no issue building up muscle to the point I've actively noticed.
I'm not sure where the chestnut of 'you can't build muscle while on peptides' began. Either that, or I and my brother are just freaks of nature. Take your pick.
Grant_us_eyes
17hr ago
I've never been shy about being an advocate for peptides. It's ironic, however, that despite me having to gently cajole and harrass and nag my brother to try them given all the benefits I've gotten, once he started using them he fully went head-first down that rabbit hole. While I've been content to gently climb down that rock face, he skipped all the steps inbetween and went straight for cliff-diving into the waters below.
During his research, he noted not only alternatives to Semaglutide in terms of hunger suppressants, but also what could be best termed as 'rest months', where taking a month or two off of Semaglutide would help to reset it's effectiveness as well as encourage further weight loss.
A few months back, he decided to do just that; eschewing his normal Semaglutide, he instead opted for a two-month dosage of Cagrilintide, which operates in suppressing hunger in a different manner than Semaglutide. Cagrilintide isn't a GLP-1 agonist; instead, it works by mimicking the hormone amylin. What this means is that, in theory, someone whom isn't afraid of taking peptides can let thier body rest from taking an GLP-1 agonist, while still getting similar results.
Once back on Semaglutide, the end results spoke for themselves. Before taking Cagrilintide, he had hit a rough plateau of a weight around 195 to 198 - now, his lowest recorded weight is around 186, and it shows very much in terms of his overall body shape. Why this is so remarkable is because he started taking Semaglutide when he was 245, and in high school, his weight was 215 - a barrier he was never able to get past via dieting. He has, quite literally, never been at this weight in his entire adult life.
Yay for peptides.
Naturally, being on Semaglutide longer than him, I decided to do similar, having been stuck at my expected weight plateau.
Speaking now from experience, Cagrilintide is very much a different beast than Semaglutide. I described semagltuide in the past as a sort of suppressor between I and the hunger - present, yet not overwhelming and easily ignore. Cagrilintide, however, killed the sense of hunger entirely, so much so I became just a tad worried about my food intake. Also of note, where people have described being on Semaglutide and not being able to stomach as much alcohol anymore, something that I was never afflicted by, being on Cagrilintide meant things I could drink without issue now damn near put me flat on my ass, which was quite the experience!
While taking Cagrilintide proved effective by atleast keeping my weight even-keel, I could also tell that I had less energy than when I was on Semaglutide, though it wasn't a dramatic shift. Sadly, roughly one month in, another side-effect arose - bruising at the injection site. Apparently, I'm one of the small number where that can arise, though I find it interesting that it took roughly a month before such symptoms arose.
So. Cagrilintide was out; I had planned for an initial 8-week regime, now cut down to 5. So I've been roughly 2 weeks free of any peptide, and what I find remarkable is that the changes I noted from after taking Semaglutide has persisted. Hunger is much easier to manage, water still retards hunger(this was never the case before taking Semaglutide), food intake is much slower even when I'm hungry, and skipping meals without any dramatic side effect is now possible should I feel the need to do so.
I am not a medical doctor in any way, shape, or form. Not even close; my college degrees dealt with numbers, not the flesh. So any postulation on my part is pure theory and supposition.
But.
I'm begining to suspect that the right stack of peptides for people can have longer-term beneficial alterations than what's going on with the surface, that they can actually shift, change, alter, augment, and repair the body in unexpected ways, some beneifical, some not. I don't ever expect to stop taking Semaglutide - again, I like the benefits it gives above and beyond the weight loss - but there is an iota of reassurance that, should a black swan event occur and I'm no longer able to source peptides that I won't be out too much of a loss.
Naturally, I could be wrong. I only have a single data point - me - and testing long term effects of peptide injections would require me to stop taking said injections for much longer, whereas I plan to resume Semaglutide in roughly 2 weeks or so.
Here's hoping I can get out of peptides what my brother got. Heh.
(TLDR: If you're still on the fence about taking peptides, just do it.)
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Sorry to disappoint(?), but I'm already well down that hole with a shovel and yelling back up at you.
Grant_us_eyes
3d ago
Thing is, the absolute core of 'geek feminism' was directing young men not to do this. The single biggest complaint of geek women was getting swarmed by men b/c the gender ratios of geek subcultures were so skewed and therefore the 'advice' they repeated more than anything was:
One of the few moment's I've ever had of existential horror was when I saw someone arguing that this habit from women in such spaces wasn't to police men's behavior but to brag to other women they were receiving attention from men.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
The only real complaint I have with Rogue Trader is that if you have any idea of how the universe functions, you're basically going to be so goddamn hardline in worshipping the Emperor, purging the mutant and killing the heretic you will give your Inquisitor conniptions fits because you're more hardline than he is and it drives him nuts.
...which, admittedly, I take great delight in, so maybe I'm a little bit biased. Xeno artifact whispering in my head? Into the energy reactor it goes. Demon-infestes super computer? Arengta, be a dear and please bathe this foul artifice with plasma. Chaos-corrupted nobles on my planet? Fire. All the fire.
I will never forgive Games Workshop for denying us a romance route with the Sisters of Battle, though.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Every single-person-owned diner/restraunt I've been too(and at one point, the area I was in had alot and they were all good) pretty much run on margins and prayers and potential free-labor from family members.
It's both sad and frustrating for someone who always enjoys those sorts of places.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
Your comment kicked off a near day-long scrounging through my local files and online search in order to find the actual goddamn source of my mental recall. This is coming in late, but as I have suffered, so you must suffer with me.
The core of 'The Dark Forest Theory' has been around much longer than Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy. They just gave it a fancy name.
Charles Pelligrino in 'The Killing Star' was postulating such scenarios as far back as 1995, and I doubt he was the first;
The great silence (i.e. absence of SETI signals from alien civilizations) is perhaps the strongest indicator of all that high relativistic velocities are attainable and that everybody out there knows it.
The sobering truth is that relativistic civilizations are a potential nightmare to anyone living within range of them. The problem is that objects traveling at an appreciable fraction of light speed are never where you see them when you see them (i.e., light-speed lag). Relativistic rockets, if their owners turn out to be less than benevolent, are both totally unstoppable and totally destructive. A starship weighing in at 1,500 tons (approximately the weight of a fully fueled space shuttle sitting on the launchpad) impacting an earthlike planet at "only" 30 percent of lightspeed will release 1.5 million megatons of energy -- an explosive force equivalent to 150 times today's global nuclear arsenal...
I'm not going to talk about ideas. I'm going to talk about reality. It will probably not be good for us ever to build and fire up an antimatter engine. According to Powell, given the proper detecting devices, a Valkyrie engine burn could be seen out to a radius of several light-years and may draw us into a game we'd rather not play, a game in which, if we appear to be even the vaguest threat to another civilization and if the resources are available to eliminate us, then it is logical to do so.
The game plan is, in its simplest terms, the relativistic inverse to the golden rule: "Do unto the other fellow as he would do unto you and do it first."...
And, later on, as he puts it;
We ask that you try just one more thought experiment. Imagine yourself taking a stroll through Manhattan, somewhere north of 68th street, deep inside Central Park, late at night. It would be nice to meet someone friendly, but you know that the park is dangerous at night. That's when the monsters come out. There's always a strong undercurrent of drug dealings, muggings, and occasional homicides.
It is not easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. They dress alike, and the weapons are concealed. The only difference is intent, and you can't read minds.
Stay in the dark long enough and you may hear an occasional distance shriek or blunder across a body.
How do you survive the night? The last thing you want to do is shout, "I'm here!" The next to last thing you want to do is reply to someone who shouts, "I'm a friend!"
What you would like to do is find a policeman, or get out of the park. But you don't want to make noise or move towards a light where you might be spotted, and it is difficult to find either a policeman or your way out without making yourself known. Your safest option is to hunker down and wait for daylight, then safely walk out.
There are, of course, a few obvious differences between Central Park and the universe.
There is no policeman.
There is no way out.
And the night never ends.
Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
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Grant_us_eyes
5d ago
I read a short story a long time ago that imagined robotic AI consumers that are specifically programmed to consume the goods produced by the AI factories. As in, literally programmed to want to buy new clothes, they drive cars that they upgrade every few years, they 'watch' the latest movies and they work a 'job' that gives them the credits needed to 'purchase' all this stuff.
Isn't this basically the current big fear in regards to online advertising in a nutshell? That it's all one massive economic bubble being driven by bots, as opposed to actual humans?
Life mimics fiction, indeed.
Grant_us_eyes
7d ago
The best comparison I've found for space development/settlement isn't settling Antarctica, but climbing Mount Everest.
You're spending a horrible amount of money and a good chunk of time simply to exist in a place that is trying it's damndest to kill you. As in, there is a non-zero chance you will just keel over dead suddenly, without warning, even with all the precaution put in place to adapt you to the environment.
And yet, people still do it.
Grant_us_eyes
8d ago
I don't see why. I'm not sure if you could rate his shows as 'insanely popular', but No Reservations ran for 9 season and 147 episodes, and it's spiritual successor, Parts Unknown, ran for twelve seasons and 104 episodes.
I don't know how that compares in the great scheme of things, but when you consider the two combined ran almost solid from 2005 to 2018, that's probably a longer career than some talk show hosts, nevermind all the other stuff he did. Hell, that's edging close to shows like Top Gear, and that show almost conquered the world.
Grant_us_eyes
9d ago
I admit it's been a long time since I cracked open Valheim, but can't you just make a new world and move your existing character over to it? I seem to recall doing that a number of times to help friends take down some of the bosses.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
A HK Mark 23.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
I honestly wouldn't know. I'm still stuck in the 'become Big Boss' stage of Bannerlord where I'm basically running around with a huge mercenary army, grinding up charm, stewardship, and trade so to support said army and clan.
This basically lets me wade into battles when my vassal-state goes to war, tearing through most groups without issue, unless the AI decides to do a fucky-whucky and all of a sudden I'm facing down a horde of 500+ NPCs swarming me out of the blue. And even then...
The above lets me recoup any losses either from troops the enemy AI has captured, or the enemies I've captured and slowly converted over. Donating over prisoners I don't want nets me influence that then turns into alot of cash via mercenary contract.
Once I get trade up to max for that lovely, lovely cap perk, I'll either vassalize and start buying up all the things or start my own kingdom and do the exact same thing.
...say what you want about Bannerlord, but good lord does it have alot of stuff to do. One of the things I stumbled across in my research pointed out that you want to get your dynasty started early, cause your main guy can die of old age, and you want good offspring to take over when that happens.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, likely.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
Israel didn't just pop out of the ether post-1945. Zionism as a political movement was active and working as early as the late 19th century, and the Jewish presence in Israel was prevalent enough that they were calling for a national boycott of Germany in the 1930s. So it's not as if they walked into all of this blind.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Playing way too much goddamn Bannerlord inbetween going through the latest version of Voices of the Void.
Bannerlord is annoying in that you can get 13 million denars in to your first playthrough only to realize that your character really isn't optimized to play the way you'd enjoy playing, so you go back and start over from scratch.
I do find it amusing that you can basically play a social monster in a game that is basically about people smacking each other in combat and it works.
Also, I find it hilarious that after pursuing the wife I targeted in-game(tracking down moving NPCs is a goddamn nightmare in this game) and successfully woo-ing her, that she's currently giving me lots and lots of kids to secure my future dynasty.
I wouldn't know, personally; my experience involved healing an old knee injury(not debilitating, just worrying) and alleviating back/muscle pain for several hours after a series of very questionable decisions and learning that I've been training completely wrong for a very long time and I need to fix all my stuff.
As long as you know how to reconstitute peptides and know a good source, it's so cheap you might as well roll the bones and see what happens.
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