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  • Thank you. That’s so interesting.

    I love unexpectedly learning random things. It’s what I miss about young reddit, people like Unidan just popping into threads and dropping knowledge unapologetically.

    Couple of weeks ago I had some swelling in my leg accompanied by pain and standard procedure there is "rule out deep vein thromboses (clot in big leg veins) with a vascular study (sonogram), first and foremost.

    First off…a male nurse escorted me to the sonographer in a transport chair (no chance of me walking all that way with the leg pain I was having). We shared an elevator with the UPS guy, who asked the nurse how he liked his sneakers (well known high-end walking sneaker brand)

    I realized then and there that I’m sitting adjacent to the greatest source of candid reviews on mens walking shoes: elevator small talk between a male nurse and a male UPS driver.

    I may have to buy myself a pair for myself after that conversation. The nurse was raving about them.

    But I digress. The sonographer was the real hero of this story. She was awesome. Despite the pain and my social anxiety, I was exceptionally chatty that day, and asked a few questions, and learned all about the leg-pump effect, and that she could see on her display when I was holding my breath because it would slow down the velocity of the blood in my veins.

    Like, I had never thought about either but they make total sense. Veins don’t have their own propulsion…most of the velocity they get is from “skeletal muscle pumps”…i.e. with the legs, as you walk or shift around while standing, it helps to pump the blood back up through the veins.

    All of a sudden I understood so many things. Why DVT happens. Why “sitting is the new smoking” (we also didn’t have nearly as many office jobs when everyone smoked). How compression socks work. Why sometimes, especially when sick, I get a head rush when I stand up after sitting for a while.

    Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost to find out no clot, pre-existing varicose veins made it difficult for the initial doctor to differentiate between that and swelling, and that the pain was sudden onset sciatica, which I suspected all along (but never had it before so I was uncertain).


  • You can’t just say it would be rude in one region without elaborating.

    Now my curiosity is piqued and I don’t even know how to get a brief answer without engaging an LLM or spending hours learning about regional discrepancies in Indian culture…a subject I had very little interest in, just a few minutes ago.

    My ADHD brain has got blue balls, man.




  • My neighbors daughter’s name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.

    Her mom swears she wasn’t named after Arya Stark. She’s half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don’t want to press to much about her husband…but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.

    She’s got an older brother whose name sounds like a very famous musician, who was named in a very popular (Western) song around the time he was born, too. But spelled different.

    Like, I’m sure these are culturally common names from their Indian side (or not, idk, I honestly don’t know a lot of Indians). But the coincidences are too real.




  • I think an underlying personality disorder is a prerequisite, sure.

    But does that mean that even somewhat self-made billionaires did not always start with good intentions?

    I think the Steves…Jobs and Woz…are a good pair to look at for the kind of example in talking about. They had equal opportunities. In an alternate universe, Jobs could have ended up like Woz. Or Woz could have ended up like Jobs.

    There’s an underlying catalyst that gets triggered and fed and allowed to grow. It starts as an untreated personality disorder…you mix that with money/power and a circle of yes-men and that’s a recipe for disaster.




  • Think less illness and more…idk…corruption of the mind?

    Like we all know power corrupts people. But absolute power, extreme wealth? There’s gotta be an underlying spiral of mental health that allows these people to continue to function, and left unchecked leads to…well, extreme, unimaginable corruption.

    I find it hard to believe a bunch of pedophiles became the richest and most powerful people in the world. I find it much easier to believe a bunch of the richest and most powerful people in the world became pedophiles.

    Like, when all the other forbidden fruit are easy to get (and were all fucking awesome), and you don’t see others as people at all…there’s the most forbidden fruit.

    All I’m really saying is, statistically, the odds of so many billionaires being pedophiles is very low…unless either closeted/repressed pedophilia is way more common than we think, or it can develop out of an array of personality disorders that can be amplified (and, importantly, enabled) by extreme wealth/power.

    Psychologically, this is very interesting.











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    Ehhh…it breaks the half-plus-7 rule (I’d call 37 ‘late 30s’)…but it beats 20s. I’m only forty and I can barely relate to my 20-something BILs. I couldn’t imagine dating someone in their 20s, and not just because I’m happily married. The culture gap is so real. I could relate to X so much more than Z.

    Still…even mid-30s doesn’t give much time to plant the seed before you have to worry about the first frost. You gotta sow while the soil is warm. Having your own kid is great and all but maybe look for a divorcee/widow with a toddler…