Templexious
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Templexious
1yr ago
Ah yes, the famously-solved and not at all under debate questions about right of patients and consent toward self-modification.
Templexious
1yr ago
Given current trajectories, Transhumanism and Posthumanism are the default futures.
Homemade biological modification will become more prevalent and likely, and the tools will become more difficult to regulate as patents and copyrights on the technologies expire. People want to be able to modify their bodies- whether it's injectables like semaglutide for weight loss or the jews of gender taking pills that give them breasts, or women taking injectables for more plump lips and hips, or people injecting magnets in their fingers for little parlor tricks.
If you have the means, you will be able to modify your body as you want. Modify your kids to be in the shape and form you want via embryo selection. These are futures that are happening now and will not go away. The social pressure for access to these tools will not abate.
As such, my position is that attacking transhumanism is a fool's errand.
Templexious
1yr ago
There is an implication that the people using the term are not, themselves NPC's, however, even a cleverly written script that breaks the fourth wall doesn't mean the character is actually a complete agent.
Templexious
1yr ago
After the 2nd sentence of my definition, the rest is just additional flavor and contextualizing details, yeah.
Templexious
1yr ago
Since we're now so low in the comment chain, no need to spoiler, but: this line of thought is something I had in mind while thinking about my own definition.
Obviously the term changes based on who uses it. If Peter Thiel or Elon Musk call a group of people NPC's, that has different connotations than if a fellow commenter on this forum use the term. "Everyone is the player character in their own story" and all that.
Templexious
1yr ago
About 27.5.
Templexious
1yr ago
Considering the point of the comment was a poll where I asked for off-the cuff, personal definitions, it would seem natural that people who wanted to participate in the conversation would avoid going unspoiled and meta in their initial response comments.
We've had some excellent responses, and most everyone seems to have gravitated toward a similar definition!
At 24 hrs from the time of my post or so depending on how buys I am, I'll post a more full examination of my comment and from where I picked up my definition. Obviously, I had far more time to think about my answer before I made this comment.
My Definition:
[EDIT: At 24 hrs after my initial post I'll collect all the responses and decide what I want to do with them]
This is a poll question. The idea is to get and understand the people reading this, their takes.
In the optimal scenario, answers wouldn't contaminate the others' responses or reference others' definitions and understanding.
The question: In sociopolitical contexts, what is your personal, off-the-cuff definition or interpretation of the term NPC? Again, I'm not looking for any other thinker's or pundit's definitions of the term, but you, the commenter who responds to me. I already know the concept has already been discussed and mentioned, at length, elsewhere.
If you've never heard the term before, give me a guess of what you would think the term means and what information you pull from. Ideally, answers would be spoilered using the double-pipe notation, IE wrapping the answer with a pair of: || around their responses, without referring to anyone else's response.
To avoid contamination, I'll post my own definition as a response to this comment later.
Templexious
1yr ago
Weight loss continues, and has kept mostly steady. Water weight fucks with expectations. I'll weigh myself every 2-3 days and feel like nothing is happening, then all of a sudden I'll drop the weight I had expected to. That's exactly what happened this week. It's not a big deal, but it gets in the way of the "numbers go down" good feeling that comes with watching pounds fall off.
In other news, I'm already feeling so much better that I'm happier on the daily and taking better self-care: shaving more frequently, going out and doing more social activities that I would in the past pass up due to getting general bad vibes.
This includes girls and women in my age-group being more approachable and more willing to just chat. I'm not the kind of person to care much about sex, but the passive extra attention and happy faces alone do wonders.
Templexious
1yr ago
Because a border wall increases the marginal cost of trying to cross the border, and allows the country to begin to get a handle on its own internal affairs.
You'll never get illegal immigration to zero, that doesn't mean "do nothing" is the correct approach. Unless you're from the WEF or similar globalist group where no borders is the entire solution.
Templexious
1yr ago
Thanks, that definitely tempers it.
A quick google had said 1-2lbs a week was healthy for people to lose weight. I'm sure it will level off as it keeps going, so not worried. Human caloric intake used to fluctuate incredibly wildly in the ancestral environment, so it would be extremely strange if a fluctuation of 2+ pounds was unhealthy, especially for humans that have a considerable body fat %.
At any rate, the target is to be able to easily maintain the new diet and weight for once I wean off semaglutide. Under the practical lens, 3+ lbs just isn't something I want to put the effort into achieving. I was perhaps a bit too hopeful about my chances naturally getting it, considering others' stories of loss of diet. I did consider adding adding quite a bit of cardio to the mix. But, since the goal is to be able to maintain homeostasis with the base routine, and not lose muscle mass, I plan to stick with the most basic low-intensity training for the time being.
Templexious
1yr ago
I appreciate putting the upvotes at the bottom of posts.
Minor suggestion:
Extend the upvote count delay to 2-3 days, or make it require more effort to see them. (Like clicking on a spoiler box) I don't care for the dynamics that having votes visible by default engenders.
Templexious
1yr ago
I'll keep that in mind. It's only been 2lbs/week for the last month, and I've been on sema for two, so I expect it to naturally taper. I'm still eating 3 meals a day, the portions and sugar content is mostly what's dropped.
Templexious
1yr ago
We are at about 16 lbs of weight loss today, making for a current average of about 2lbs of weight-melt a week. I was hoping for 3lbs/week, but if I eat any less, I'm concerned it will eat into muscle instead of fat. I've begun adding some small amounts of weight training to hopefully stave that fear off.
Intend on weaning off of semaglutide soon, to see if I can maintain the new diet, curious about how that will go. With christmas and other holidays rolling around, I am going to be bombarded with so much sugar that I don't think it would be wise to fully get off semaglutide.
We will see.
Templexious
1yr ago
I hope that you find a way to reconcile your feelings and find peace in this world.
Templexious
1yr ago
I'm not doing #1 in every argument that pattern matches for this phenomena. It's not rhetorically viable for one, and for two it's also just an annoying argument to have every time.
If someone cries "sanewashing!" every time I try to talk about how " isn't that bad, actually" I would rather jump off a cliff.
Because then you have to walk back over and do a bunch of retarded rigor checks on what would be sane, what isn't, and re-establish all the premises from scratch, just because someone goes meta with their argument. It's bullshit.
Templexious
1yr ago
Yes. Shame should not be the only tool to assisting in reducing fatness.
We have a myriad of options other than shaming, let's use them all.
Templexious
1yr ago
It's not an incorrect take.
Templexious
1yr ago
That sounds like you managed to avoid the worst of the Americana diet at least. I grew up on ultra-sugary oatmeals and cereals, and almost never had homecooked meals.
General mills' extra-sugary cereals were breakfast and often lunch at home.
Templexious
1yr ago
As far as I am aware, it does affect digestion, though I do not know how. Nausea and constipation as well as unnatural stool are common side effects; I haven't had any of those issues personally, but I know a number of people who do.
Your gut craves sugar, and satisfying that causes you not to eat as much. Unfortunately, I'm not studied enough on the subject to say for sure how much more there is to how it acts.
Last time, I had "lost" 4 lbs. That was a weight measurement snafu: turns out, my home scale is consistently off by about two pounds, so it would be correct to say that at the time of the post, I had lost two pounds, not 4.
However, since beginning semaglutide, I have lost approximately 12 pounds. The number of calories I managed to avoid eating thanks to sugar reduction is more than 500 kcal/day. I'll not detail the experience in too much detail, but current conclusion is that the vast majority of my weight loss comes from being able to cut down on the soda.
I will note a few extra details: Loss of interest in bread. Not terribly strange, considering most bread is a vehicle for sugars. But everything from subway, to hot dog and bratwurst buns, to regular sliced bread. White bread now has the same palatability as low-sugar sarah lee's wheat bread. Naturally, I have swapped over to Sarah Lee's. Miracle Whip is nasty now, though regular, low-sugar mayo is still good.
If you are struggling with weight loss, especially snacking + sugar, Semaglutide is a miracle drug.
Templexious
1yr ago
The other options were unpopular, to say the least, so it was certainly inevitable we would end up in this position.
Templexious
1yr ago
If you assume that our sugar addiction is a palatibility problem and not a physical one, certainly.
With the onset and effectiveness of semaglutide, it's becoming clear that it is a physical problem.
In my spare time, I have been playing platformer and sidescroller games. I finally snaked around to celeste.
Not a fan of the story, mostly because the characters are whiny and annoying, but damn if the soundtrack isn't a tour de force and the gameplay makes me want to break my controller.
Luckily the dialogue is short, and the game wastes little time getting to crushing me with its difficulty while ensuring progression is possible.
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