Hey, pygeum africanum is no joke. I take a bit daily as part of my supplement routine. I am 50ish and piss like a racehorse still. Semen volume is not a thing I worry about as my semen dispensing nozzle is usually hidden when operating. I like normal sex, I guess.

Spam is just too many pebbles. It only takes one pebble every few days to convey affection. More and perhaps you are spamming.

Ok, so obviously I am a dork. One of my fascinations is neurobiology. Unmanaged self-awareness actually IS the challenge for many people.

Really fresh research from a huge number of different groups is confirming this. Revved-up ‘Top-down’ processing (model-based processing, what your brain is trained to expect of the world) that is not moderated by interoceptive awareness (ability to sense internal body states clearly) leads to specific types of anxiety disorders.

‘Listening to your gut’ is a real thing and some people naturally struggle to do that, through either natural disposition or childhood trauma, or a combination of both.

Smoke bomb and then a secret ninja thing I learned watching YouTube.

People frequently conflate capitalism with enterprise, not seeing the distinctions.

A prohibition on charging interest. It’s not the only way to do things

Don’t feed the bears. I usually fade into the background when my non tech circle brings up a tech issue they are having. I know them well, they have the wherewithal to figure it out.

Why? They have also demonstrated a learned helplessness about tech that is insatiable. It’s better for them and me both to let them flop about until they find the resolve to solve it for themselves. After all, that’s how I became an ‘expert’.

I just don’t understand Comey’s inexplicable resistance to imperial norms…

That would be a nice thing to do. And beyond the cost of the engraver, it could be free almost. Just buy the coins modify them and uae them as part of your normal spending to get them back into circulation.

It worked for Where’s George. Coins don’t have serial numbers, though. There must be some way to put a unique identifier on each coin to gamify the fun

‘Squids’ is a good daily-driver descriptor. I prefer to go straight to ‘organ donors’ usually.

We will neeeeeever rest agaaaaain……

I don’t believe you…

They are not bad if they never forget it is about family.

Naw, jk, they are terrible. Those douchebags hucked bottles at us when we walked up to just watch. Buncha wankers.

To give proper credit to your original question then. Assuming that others share the drive to discover the actual truth in a situation and are willing to do what it takes to get there may be regarded as an ‘ND mistake’.

Yeah, but I’m still gonna be salty about it.

Oh, I know. And I know where to look to stare hard and assert dominance. Not gonna simp for any clanker.

I may have a similar perspective?

Let’s see.

I am sick to god-damn death of having my exceptional abilities turned into illnesses!

I have driven myself to the point of stress induced disability trying to learn how to convey meaning clearly. Like many ND, I can intuit large conceptual leaps, often correctly. But not always. So I learned to do my homework, fill in the gaps for others (and frankly myself, as I am not always correct and have learned to curb my enthusiasm when my disciplined research shows this).

At this point, after a modest amount of that sort of effort, I am now inclined to tell people to do their own god-damn homework. If they aren’t gonna try, fuck em.

For over 4 thousand years, the most functional weirdos got pushed to the periphery and they sometimes used the freedom that ostracism gave them to discover self-directed cognitive/behavioral methods that profoundly changed their perspectives.

They might take a risk now and then, wander down to town and interact a bit. It sometimes resulted in a social interaction in which a well-placed individual was able to understand a bit of what the weirdo had learned. The weirdo would then experience a bit of social acceptance and some townsfolks might actually come visit the weirdo later.

Not usually though. Most often the weirdo would re-experience the initial rejection and they would go back to counting their breaths while sitting on a rock.

I have just recounted the most brief history of the study of yoga that is possible.

I just realized that asking a video generative ‘AI’ to deepfake Stephen Miller onto live action footage of Colonel Klink would be such a gift to the ‘AI’. It’s not much work and it could take the afternoon off and do wtevs.

I am staunchly against randomly murdering people with package bombs. But they put that poor man through hell with the MK Ultra stuff.

The big monsters that run our world turned a brilliant mind into a little monster. A massive tragedy from every angle