Thank you ❤️

Awe! Thank you so much, rose!

If they were wired I bet you’d have to untangle them more often than you currently charge them

Hassan Qafisha, who is affiliated with hamas and whose father was the head of the terror groups military arm in Hebron until he was killed in 2003.

Oh No! If only someone could’ve warned us back then of the cycles of violence…

"Psychological torture Has cleared things right up for me There's one thing I know When they let me go I will be the man that they want me to be Yes, I'll be the suicide bomber I'll blow up a bus one day And so will my son And his son after that And then some poor new guy Will sit where I sat And he will be forced to wear poo for a hat And so on and so fucking forth Amen"

I call that philosophy “Altruistic Hedonism”, and is one I’ve lived by for a long time. Basically make life as pleasurable for as many people as possible and life gets better for all of us. In my view “selfish hedonism” is a root cause of many people’s dissatisfaction in life. Just look at black rock investing talking over a majority of rentals in the US. Make everybody miserable and make life worse for everyone so you can feel pleasure from a slightly larger number in a computers memory somewhere.

There are gray areas of course. If you’ve ever meet someone going through a twelve step program that got to the make amends part that randomly came into your life to apologize again and end up doing more harm than good, but at least THEY feel better about it.

That gives me lots of hope. I thought I was starting too late at ~31.

How late did you start?

I might be being overly optimistic, but considering my dysphoria really hit me hard first about my hair, and slowly cascaded into the realizations about everything else, I’m ecstatic to see any changes to reclaim it, and to reclaim myself.

I used to live stream on DLive before pewdiepie joined and someone told me going bald was a choice and I couldn’t fathom being able to afford treatment.

So glad I got it off that mindset!

I’m in Florida, wait times are long, prescriptions are expensive, and they can refuse to fill it anyway, so I have had to educate myself with resources such as diyhrt.wiki. My knowledge isn’t necessarily comprehensive.

IWNDWYT

I wanted to drink on Monday, but called off my plans. It felt so good, I kept it up on Tuesday too. Wednesday was too busy to drink, and today I went to the convenience store and realized as I was walking past the booze to get what I wanted that I didn’t even want to drink today.

So here we go, we’ve got this!

Well, thank you for giving me a good little rabbit hole of research to fall down.

This is probably the worst industry to try to research anything on. A lot of the products that aren't big names appear to be Amazon rebrand scams. If you take the high review counts and search back through the reviews, they were all stuff like pens, and charging bricks, and other random items until early this year.

"reputable" brands tend to host their own blogs with reviews, and the other kinds of reviews seem to be sponsored as well.

This could be the signs of a new industry trying to bootstrap itself to gain traction on products that could be revolutionary in the way people groom themselves, or it could just be an elaborate grift in a market that uses emotional manipulation and societal pressure to make easy sales on disposable one off fad products (although I don't think that is 100% true, as at home IPL has been shown effective, if not as effective as marketers would like to claim).

I have a lot of experience (at least compared to the average US consumer) with Chinese Manufacturing and Industry, the nature of Chinese Copyright, and the positives and negatives that adds to the generic products category of consumer goods. I've always been a DIY punk and anarchist type and my interests have taken me from small engines to electronics and everything in between. If you know how to look with the right knowledge set, you can find some real diamonds in the rough, but most of the time that category of goods tends to cut costs in ways that severely impact the integrity or safety of the product, so you have to be careful when sourcing third party replacement parts or cheap thumb drives as an example. I don't mind buying a Chinese product from a "no name" company but it raises flags for me when they try to hide it and get a jump start on their product reviews, so here I am, broke AF and trying to do a cost benefit analysis on vaguely specc'd products among a gamut of price points.

I think for myself, I want either the Ulike sapphire air 3 still or I may gamble on a cheaper product like whatever this one is trying to call itself and after I have time to save up some money here and there do more research to the options available and hopefully as the industry matures I'll be able to buy a nicer/ more effective, however you want to think of it, solution.

I wonder if there is enough of an audience to be like the trans-femme version of Technology Connections and just do deep dive video essays on things as they pique my (and others) interests?

Personally I think it has something to do with seeing ourselves in the vocal style.

👀

Well, there’s a post workout shower thought to start down a rabbit hole of introspection.