Pencilnoob

"the poor dopamine seeker, I fear his long-standing obsessions have affected him"

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As these companies become larger and larger, they start behaving more and more like Soviet central planners.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. We've become a centralized economy through weak monopoly enforcement.

Combine that with everyone $500k poorer because the billionaires acquired it. A recipe for depressed, anxious, angry, feed-addicted rats in a cage.

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The last six months I've been lifting 3-4x a week, about an hour each time. I was hitting a wall in March-April with a 4x6 program, so I switched to Wendler 531 in June. So far it's a lot easier! My squat days had become a huge stressor, but not with this program!

I want to eat right and see how far I can get by New Years. I would love to beat 850lb combined lifts by then, but we'll see.

Life goal would be to squat 3 plates and deadlift 4. That would be so cool

I'm 5'6", 150lb, early forties. Lifting off and on since first reading Starting Strength in 2015. This year I've been back on. Rotate between running, lifting, and long distance hiking. Current lifts are

• deadlift - 130kg/286lb
• bench - 86kg/191lb
• squat - 113kg/249lb

nothing impressive, but I'm pleased. I can run a ten miler, ruck 25lb for 20 miles, crank out 50 pullups in 10 minutes, and generally have a good time. I figure that's not bad for middle age. I want to keep up with this indefinitely so no crazy pressure to push too hard.

In 2020 my deadlift was at 350lb - hoping to get back to that by the end of the year.

a sleep paralysis demon looking spooky in the shadows at the end of the bed, in the style of an old Renaissance painting, like a Raphael portrait, a person frozen in the bed looking terrifed and unable to move eyes wide

I'm reading the Way of Kings right now for the first time. It's so good, I just got to the part with

and I'm so hyped to see how it ends. I am listening to the audiobook and read that first sentence and just heard Michael Kramer in my head before I recognized it was even from the series! Brandon just writes a certain way

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Good points. So roughly 10% chance of needing to get glasses or surgery again, which gets higher the worse your vision is to start.

There's a lot of folks in the comments who are pretty cavalier about the safety, yet the CEO who produces Lasik machines refuses to get the procedure and just wears glasses.

Obviously there's a lot of folks happy with it.

However, many people end up needing glasses within ten years. "Relating to the legal requirements in Germany, sufficient visual acuity was found in 76.7 % of the LASIK group, in 73.9 % of the Ortho-K users and in 85.7 % of the reference group (72.7 % in the adult group, 100 % in the juvenile group)." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23508754/

"Nearly 5% of subjects were dissatisfied with their vision after Lasik... eyes feeling irritated (50%), glare (43%), halos (41%), and [trouble] seeing in dim light (35.2%)." Source: Mamalis N. Laser vision correction among physicians: "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014 Mar;40(3):343-4.

"Lasik Suicide" is a real thing, most of the folks who have been affected don't take the time to say much about the excruciating pain, they just commit suicide.

https://www.lasikcomplications.com/suicide.htm

Definitely think very carefully, your eyes are something you can't fix if you get this surgery. For some people enough nerves are damaged to cause persistent pain that doesn't go away.

I almost got the surgery a few years ago, if it worked 100% of the time I would have taken the risk. But vision is so important that I didn't want to take the risk. Several of my family members did get it and still have dry eyes and halos ten years later, and two now need glasses again anyway.