dukeleto
9d ago
I mean defer to your pct, but that isn’t particularly high estrogen even if out of range. Your hypothesis that you are overweight is probably correct and that number will almost certainly fall if you get your body fat percentage down.
dukeleto
10d ago
I agree and I’ll note that Utah (a red state) has by far the most liberal laws about setting up your own pv systems without having to contract with your utility company (in contrast with states like California where a solar system can easily cost 20-30 k, largely driven by regulatory burden)
dukeleto
14d ago
I’m always nervous about ordering these things direct from China in case my package gets seized, so I end up overpaying from a compounding pharmacy.
dukeleto
25d ago
I don’t know enough about the guy to know if he is doing this for principled reasons, but this makes me confident that the war is going very badly and that the administration is either going to capitulate, or be forced to endure a long and costly affair. In either case it’s good for this individuals long term career to distance himself from the whole affair. Getting ahead and blaming Israel is also smart: if the conflict goes poorly blaming Israel is a political no brainer for any possible democrat and maybe even (with greater difficulty due to the evangelicals in the coalition) for a republican.
dukeleto
27d ago
I agree and also respect the Arabs for what they are trying to do. I view places like Dubai, similar to places like Las Vegas or phoenix, as a testament to the idea that you can really just decide to make someplace nice. Even with unlimited amounts of money that kind of infrastructure takes functional governance. It’s sad that in this age I don’t think the us could do as well. For instance do any communities in California besides San Diego have any kind of desalination capacity?
dukeleto
28d ago
If you size it there is a possibility that you will give it back. I suspect that if they just destroyed it Iran would retaliate by destroying gulf oil infrastructure, which the us certainly does not want…
dukeleto
1mo ago
The fact that the video was taken in Kuwait makes it highly likely that it was.
I agree with this take, nuclear proliferation is an extraordinary global risk and this really seems to be a low cost to way to prevent it.
https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Story-Secret-Nuclear-Trafficking/dp/1439183074
Is a fantastic book which illustrates some of these risks.
dukeleto
1mo ago
To say nothing of the fact that the KKK was most certainly a potent force, and they certainly did engage in bombings and other kinds of terrorism.
dukeleto
2mo ago
That’s a fair point, if you can become the cto for medium sized organization, you must be very smart (or at least very crafty!). It would have been more accurate to say that I was unimpressed with the level of technical knowledge displayed.
dukeleto
2mo ago
I enjoyed reading this, especially the part about your CTO. I am 4 years into my career (31 is still young right?), and I have met my organizations CTO exactly once and he came across as a complete moron, but he had a helper/fixer/(handler?), who actually had real technical competency of the sort I would expect from someone with a CTO job title.
dukeleto
2mo ago
That was an enjoyable read, and I will most likely end up doing the same thing.
I was personally very saddened to learn that the FDA is going to begin cracking down on compounding pharmacies offering products which mimic branded pharmaceutical products. (https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/after-hims-compounded-wegovy-pill-upset-fdas-makary-pledges-crackdown-mass-marketing-illegal) For this who are unaware compounding pharmacies have long offered tirzpeptide, semaglutide and other related compounds at substantial discounts over the branded products. I have personally used compounded tirzpeptide to get down to a healthy weight and am of the opinion that making glp-1s widely available would do more to improve Americans health than basically any other single intervention.
I sort of suspect the administration cut some sort of deal with the drug companies (having this announcement come right after the launch of trumprx is just too suspicious), although I don’t think it will go well for them given how many people have come to rely on obtaining medicine.
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
I don’t follow fed policy that closely but the cut right before the last presidential election just seemed ridiculous, if there is a strong (non political) reason for this I would be interested in hearing what it is.
It’s also very hard to look at someone like Lisa Cooks resume (her academic research as highlighted on Wikipedia mostly sounds like social justice bullshit), and conclude that she was put there for any reason other than political loyalty
The most salient difference is that I’m the us if you get tired of praying at the alter of DEI, there is in fact a political process, repeated every 2-4 years which enables you to select new leadership. Totalitarian states are so centralized that dramatic change can only really happens after the leader dies. What if China’s next leader is more like Mao?
It’s also my understanding that China doesn’t even permit free movement for most people (people can move but are not automatically entitled to receive public benefits), https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/china-theres-no-freedom-movement-even-between-country-and-city-2697/
dukeleto
3mo ago
Even if it where in the us interest to sell out(which this administration won’t, have you ever looked at any of Colby’s views?) Taiwan, that number is completely ridiculous. 500 billion, seriously? If the country really needed that kind of money it could get it easily.
dukeleto
4mo ago
The sad thing about that is that failing the class would have ultimately been doing the students a favor. Having to retake a class in college shouldn’t be the end of the world and the ones who did it a second time would have left well prepared.
dukeleto
5mo ago
I’m think that extending the shutdown any longer would have been extremely risky, since we were getting to the point where things actually would start breaking. The most obvious example here is air traffic control. If this had broken down during thanksgiving, wrecking everyone’s travel plans, the backlash would have been immense and contrary to current polling, I believe the democrats would have been largely blamed for it.
dukeleto
5mo ago
Reading the article implied the fence issue may have been more complicated. Essentially the article claimed that the property had been miss surveyed when the fence was built, so I think the fence issue might have been a part of another longstanding argument which resulted in some stupid and unnecessary violence.
I haven’t had any issues and it does include an actual prescription. It’s obviously sketchy in as much as you never actually see a doctor, but I’m assuming that the majority of telehealth firms work that way.
dukeleto
5mo ago
Completely agree with this. I use a website called telyrx (https://telyrx.com/), so that I can have some amoxicillin and tamiflu on hand, if paxlovid wasn’t so expensive it’s another one I would have ready to go.
dukeleto
6mo ago
I don’t know, I think the risks of global totalitarian government are way, way higher if China becomes the premier global power.
I’ll just go ahead and stake out the position which is that the US actually does respect the rights of its citizens more than basically any country in the world (maybe Switzerland or the Nordics are better?) and certainly more than china or any of their allies. In addition to that the us really does try and encourage its allies to democratize. Places like South Korea, are imperfect, but far better than what they were earlier in my lifetime. The whole experience in Iraq (reasonably), makes people suspicious of Americas ability to influence other countries in a positive way, but imo that should be viewed as more of an exception than a rule.
I also believe that the us national security / intelligence apparatus is mostly well intentioned / a good thing. Are they perfect, no, but it seems like they are pretty good at answering the elected president’s political appointees.
I’m sorry about your situation, I’m a very light sleeper as well and my new neighborhoods have shitty dogs that go and bark at absurd hours of the night. Since they absolutely refuse to do anything about I have just started wearing earplugs at night. It took a little getting used to, but I’m mostly adjusted to them now. Might be a good option for you if nothing else pans out.
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