Just saw an interesting art history take that the area around God is meant to look like a brain 🧠 the artist’s way of saying creation is in the mind or possibly that god is a creation of the mind. Art historians talk out of their ass a lot so take it with a grain of salt.
Another reason to get moving increased muscle mass is associated with improved survival rates in cancer patients. Being fit before an adverse health event can improve recovery time and outcomes.
Being well groomed is like a woman’s armor in the world. Men will definitely notice if you let things slide for too long. Also the longer you let like shaving or exfoliating slide the longer it will take the next time you do it. Regular maintenance keeps it easier. Even guys who like a low maintenance lady sometimes don’t realize the high-maintenance to be low-maintenance reality.
Men also garner more respect when they look put together. Men are also feeling the pressure of unrealistic beauty ideals and we’re seeing a sharp increase in eating and over exercise disorders. Being well groomed is very different than succumbing to unrealistic beauty standards in my opinion.
Beauty habits and grooming routines change across generations. In the Middle Ages women would pluck their hairline back because high foreheads were in fashion. My grandmother’s generation typically washed their hair once a week, at the salon where they would get a roller set. In the 1990’s thin, plucked eyebrows were in fashion. Somewhere in the 2000’s full eyebrows became the trend.
An everything shower involves shampooing and conditioning your hair, shaving most of your damn body, exfoliating every bit, washing your body and face. You either use in-shower lotion or put lotion on basically every inch after you shower. At this point you then need a rest to recover from the workout that is an everything shower and allow all the lotion you’ve just applied time to soak in, before you can begin the task that is styling your hair. If you went to all the trouble of an everything shower, there’s probably an event that requires your nails and makeup be done as well.
This is why women pay for waxes, body scrubs, etc. The ghost of everything showers haunts us. Excuse me an everything shower is calling. I’ll probably also just scrub the tub and tile while I’m in there. 🤷🏼♀️
Being well groomed is like a woman’s armor in the world. Men will definitely notice if you let things slide for too long. Also the longer you let like shaving or exfoliating slide the longer it will take the next time you do it. Regular maintenance keeps it easier. Even guys who like a low maintenance lady sometimes don’t realize the high-maintenance to be low-maintenance reality.
We need to learn that not everything has a right and wrong sometimes it’s just a difference of opinion. Some arguments should be discussions where we learn where the other person is coming from.
Brainwaves can be measured with an EEG. That’s how they can diagnose seizures because sharp spikes or disruptions in brainwaves are seen. There are different frequencies of brain waves. When people have been studied meditating depending on their practice level they go into more relaxed brainwave states. I believe Alpha brainwaves are typically seen in meditation, while advanced practitioners exhibit Theta. Delta brainwaves are seen in deep dreamless sleep. Look up some of the studies on it. I think you’ll find it interesting.
Based on what I know about the brain. I think we currently know about as much about the brain as the entirety of space. Also kind of cool how it’s the one organ that studies itself. https://image.nostr.build/3ffaf698ee1a1b645bd30495892f1df1605650f570afe37cf9feaf63fd04b8b1.jpg
Yep. The brain and heart both have electrical impulses. Brain death is when the brain consistently has no electrical impulses but the body is being kept alive by machines.
Then we have advances like deep brain stimulation that have given some people their lives back from debilitating symptoms. Biomedical engineering is a strange beast and you have to question the ethics of something at every turn. What I know of the Neuralink project, I’m not a fan.
Oh I totally geek out on biomedical engineering and related fields. One of the things I’m absolutely fascinated by is how little is known or understood about how cerebrospinal fluid works. There just haven’t been good ways to study it in action. We know it’s essential. A lot of information is missing about exactly why or how it works.
Medical ethicists frequently work at hospitals to help define guidelines of care or help vet how a clinical study is designed or how informed consent forms are worded. They don’t really stand in the way of advances.
My personal opinion there are some medical providers who get so lost in the mechanics of the body and disease process that they forget they’re treating a human being. Medical ethicists and even more front line social workers and patient advocates are needed to keep things in perspective. Care teams are essential in modern medicine.
Ethicists aren’t deciding what is or isn’t an advance. They’re trying to work to make sure clinical practice and medical studies are humane. They’re like the philosophers of the medical community.
Similar fields. They’re like the philosophy students in college who didn’t want to work at a sandwich shop after graduation. At the end of the day they’re most likely to be paid/employed by hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. Probably much like other jobs you get bright eyed optimists and others who will be “yes men” for a paycheck.
Short answer: yes.
A few accounts posted comments along the lines that women should post pseudonymously to avoid harassment.
Advising people to use pseudonyms to maintain privacy on the internet only works if you manage to never let slip a personal detail. Every personal detail makes it easier to connect a nym to your real world identity.
Facebook actually thought at one point requiring first and last names would help prevent harassment because the harasser couldn’t hide behind a fake identity.
I think it’s a cultural problem without an easy solution. Online harassment is an issue for all.
Reread my comment. There are female trolls too. Why the assumption that when we talk about inappropriate social behavior you’re assuming we’re only talking about men?
The ability to self moderate is something I like about Nostr. It takes a bit more work particularly at the outset but I find it rewarding. Having more advanced tools to self moderate will be helpful particularly as the protocol grows.
I personally don’t feed trolls. I mute liberally. I wish I could block a list of people from even seeing my posts. Privacy settings have been helpful with having a better experience as a woman on the internet.
Maybe the possibility of having a personal private invitation only relay and having the ability when posting a note to either publish only to your private relay or broadcast to all relays you use? Spitballing here.
Hmmm you would need a way to communicate which notes are from the private relay and shouldn’t be reposted. Then have to trust those you invite not to re-note. Communicating privately might just continue to be the easier way.
I’ve been the blonde nanny in the Silicon Valley carpool line. Some of those schools are so incredible I’d like to go back to school. But the below video has me questioning if where you raise your kids has a big impact on how you parent? We know that social circles have a big impact on personal choices. So it makes sense that parenting choices would be influenced by the parents in your circle with similar aged children. Any parents want to weigh in?
https://youtube.com/shorts/H3FNrDiiMC8?si=WQ-m5Y2h2VNp7gK7
For many it’s weird to be put on a pedestal. When others put you on a pedestal, some take it upon themselves to try to knock you down. You may have seen the love but obviously she was feeling the hate. I think it’s a rarity of those I’m familiar with on Nostr for them to actually want to be anything more than a pleb among plebs.
I see people who are pissed off but it’s rarely translating into any action beyond a social media post. Those I see posting tend to be closer to the extremes while more people are in the middle and just getting alienated. Alienate people and the apathy grows.
I don’t think the baby needs to be thrown out with the bath water. I do see plenty that needs changing. I think we’d live in a very different society if more people just gave a damn.
I agree. I’m just not seeing many at that point yet. I think most underestimate the huge leaps that have to happen to go from feeling defeated and apathetic to having any emotion about the situation to that driving someone to make actual changes. I see more people feeling defeated and apathetic, hoping someone else can come deal with the problems they don’t have the energy to focus on.
It was frequent and she seemed to swat off the haters and trolls like a pro. I can see where the effort wouldn’t seem worth the reward after a while. I personally loved Roya’s presence on Nostr and will miss it.
Most of all I want people to do what they need to do to live their best lives. Roya shouldn’t have been subjected to the abuse and trolling that she was. I wish I had come to her defense more often and checked in with her more. She seemed like a master of batting away haters and trolls. I tend to deal with them by subscribing to the notion of “Don’t feed the trolls.” But sometimes a group needs to tell someone their behavior is inappropriate and kindly fuck off.
At the end of the day protecting one’s peace is so important. Nostr isn’t worth sacrificing a healthy, peaceful state of mind. Roya doesn’t owe us her presence or attention.
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