Warning: This is an experiment log, I’m not advising you to start taking GLP-1s. I wish that there were more logs about people's experiences on peptides, so here's mine in case others find it helpful. I started Retatrutide in late May. I wasn’t overweight; I wanted more energy and focus....
I've regained about half of the weight that I lost so far; this weight has been fluctuating a lot recently though. I can see myself going back to the starting weight lol, especially if I only care about adding weight to my lifts (they all did go up after I went off retatrutide and started eating enough food). My HRV did end up increasing and RHR went down to pre-levels after four weeks.
Sorry to hear about the mold and I'm glad antidepressants worked for you! Anything that messes with hormones/brain seems to be ymmv given the long side effect sheets that the drug manufacturers publish alongside the drug. One of my friends on antidepressants phrased it as "antidepressants don't make you happy per se but you feel like there's a lower bound to the sadness," and others needed to experiment a bunch so they definitely work but it's unclear which one exactly sometimes
bioavailability of supplements is a long debate, and iirc there's no simple answer (ie. varies by vitamin and producer of said vitamin/mineral/nutrient)
so maybe they're only noticing vegans who don't take supplements (that contain b9).
This seems reasonable -- I think they have casually tested it among friends (they're in the berkeley rationalist circle iirc). But if someone is vegan and supplements correctly, they likely wouldn't guess that they're vegan to start with
On the unhealthy to be vegan point:
idk about "mitochondrial dysfunction" but I can easily clock vegans by the quality of their skin (w/ false positives from malnutrition/MTHFR issues, but few-no false negatives.)
Unrelatedly, shifting demand of meat into more humane meat creates stronger economic incentives for the companies to treat their animals well
As a girl, it absolutely makes a difference. I'm more likely to get approached if I'm wearing contacts + dress than if I was wearing glasses + jeans and t-shirt. The variance in how people treat you is strongest with strangers (because they have no other information about you to go off of; for example, I would think someone who has a hole in their shirt as more likely to be low-conscientiousness). I stand and sit somewhat non-optimally but I haven't been able to correct this reliably.
Your description of old waterbottles etc. signals that you're frugal, practical, and don't care much about optics, and you probably want a wife with those traits. Seems reasonable for you to keep doing what you're doing if you don't care about her putting a ton of effort into her appearance.
a lot of h1b folks are engineers, not researchers. and a lot of the O-1 requirements are academic/research-oriented, or at least it's marginally easier if you're a researcher
even if the $100k h1b fee change will be struck down by the court, opening the overton window on making legal immigration more uncertain is bad especially if the US wants researchers/academics, who are often very risk-averse.
also top people often have more options, so they are more likely to leave the US on the margin as well
I think there's some about of misinformation or wrong facts that you'll believe when you read enough things. Maybe twitter users who use it for news etc. end up with a higher % of incorrect views about the world, but I think anyone who reads the news regularly if only just from reputable sources (ie. print) will have weird beliefs
as a (nerdy) girl who just got on the dating apps in SF, im getting flooded with interest and im now stressed out by all the people i could meet. i got something like 15 hinge matches and 10 from feeld today, about 20% make it past my preliminary filter but that's still a lot of ppl to be talking to concurrently!
so many future filtering steps, this is just the start of the funnel; there are ppl im more excited to meet but oftentimes im ambivalent. it's getting to the point where im scheduling dates ~a week out and declining dates to go to house parties etc. to hangout with friends, bc for now friends > finding someone to date. what's the optimal filtering strategy to be doing here, how should you schedule ppl to exit the market as early as possible without hurting other's feelings unnecessarily (or filtering too aggressively and making false negatives)??
damn being homeschooled the whole way (we didn't do co-ops either) really meant that I didn't catch any of the typical diseases that kids get like scarlet fever and mono until grad school. Still haven't caught HFM or chicken-pox and I don't look forward to that. There might be some argument made for getting these diseases at a later stage in life creates more suffering because your time is more valuable + weird complications can occur the older you are. Anyways, just wanted to rant a bit; this isn't an argument against homeschooling.
Warning: This is an experiment log, I’m not advising you to start taking GLP-1s. I wish that there were more logs about people's experiences on peptides, so here's mine in case others find it helpful.
I started Retatrutide in late May. I wasn’t overweight; I wanted more energy and focus. My BMI was 20.3-20.5 so I could lose about 5-7% of body weight without falling into the underweight category; I wore size 2-6 in women’s clothing; I deadlifted and squatted 3x5 (3 sets of 5 reps) about 0.85x my bodyweight, and I could overhead press about 0.3x of it. I went with Retatrutide because some people said that it helped them with focus... (read 2884 more words →)
From experience, this correlates pretty well with being attuned to your partner, and being able to read subtle signals. And that's sexy. I also suspect being able to read others in such a way makes escalation easier