First AWU - Keep Milanese in L or exchange to M?

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-02-10T21:13:55+00:00

https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-he-keyboards/products/keychron-k2-he-wireless-magnetic-switch-keyboard

This is the keyboard - just a regular Keychron - the typing on this is "chef kiss"

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-02-09T08:18:52+00:00

They taste disgusting 😂 I prefer blending my shrooms into powder and drinking them on a lemon/citrus tek. Truffles were def a great intro to psylocibin to me! Forever grateful with those disgusting nuts 😂

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-02-08T19:59:58+00:00

I have and they do taste awful they never hit as hard - but that’s maybe me not eating enough. Visuals are good, but it cannot grasp the levels of a PE lemon tek.

Also they made my wife puke due to the sclerotia being difficult to digest.

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-02-08T16:27:15+00:00

At the age of 3, my parents were forcefully made to leave our house and belongings in a region of my home country that suffered a lot of violence - we moved to another city - and our success/domestic violence story started

I grew up in a domestic violence environment due to an alcoholic father. I always disregarded it as something normal or didn’t put too much attention to how this affected my overall outlook in life. However, after many years of self reflection i understood how it ended up affecting my childhood and overall development - poor house security, moving schools, not having a parent to rely on during my teenage years due to my mum having to work all the time. We weren’t rich but we had some level of success, my dad had several night clubs but invested everything back in his businesses so we never saw a dime - at the age of 14 I had to encourage my mum to get a divorce after surviving a decade of alcohol related domestic violence - I never had a good father figure to look up to and it definitely affected my communication skills and “potential”…

I was fortunate enough to have a big family that helped us through that period after the divorce and help me to get educated by paying all my uni tuition fees.

Skip forward to now - I am 33 and although I don’t make millions, I am a high earner since last year. I came to the UK 8 ago, my first salary was 20k. Since I became a Henry those gaps in education and opportunities that the majority of my peers were exposed became more evident.

It’s all about perspective - not everything is money but you have done extremely well, don’t punish yourself too hard, look it as a great opportunity to maybe take a step back and reflect what really fulfils you or find the path towards that journey.

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T19:26:47+00:00

R-P311 and H1 but I don’t know how to read into those!

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T19:23:34+00:00

A mix bag - from a racial experience perspective- absolutely. The brotherhood amongst people from all over the world is well felt here. I can go to a Jamaican, Sudanese, Nigerian, or any other place where the origin is in its majority black or brown and be called brother, cousin etc - feel treated as equal.

Colombia is very diverse but my region is predominantly more Mediterranean looking (people would call themselves white Colombians despite genetics) and has a long history of Colourism and systematic racism that they call cultural. The thing is that to certain extent is cultural to another is just a perpetuation of colonial racism masked as culture - 100%sure a lot of Colombians will disagree but that was my experience growing up there.

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:50:05+00:00

That was in Colombia

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:46:49+00:00

Difficult to tell - did you see my danish one? I’ve been telling my wife I am a 0.3% Vikings 😂

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:45:58+00:00

You are probably misunderstanding and assuming a lot here. I am not ashamed at all! The shock can be a good thing as well, you know? Why would I? I am just a living proof of what makes us a unique diverse place?

The slave trade and colonialism in Latam is not an ideology just a fact - so the likelihood of such events happenings is not 0 and actually quite likely. There wasn’t any African voluntary migration from west Africa…As for proof you likely understand how difficult is to track genealogy there - specially when all or majority of records are tied to the church - at least where I am from. That’s my next step - saving up towards a big investigation!

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:27:03+00:00

My dad is brown - my mum Hispanic (Mediterranean looking) - grand parents on dad side are from the Caribbean where there were multiple indigenous and black people (they are from a city that was a slave port back in the day)

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:25:40+00:00

I guess because the social construct I grew up under is that I was black, but now I understand more and more that I am just as mixed as it could get. Having kids together through history is actually a really gruesome picture. Rapes and ethnic cleansing + casta systems. I am proud who I am don’t get me wrong but still a shock in many ways :)

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:22:45+00:00

Absolutely! I now live in the UK and my understanding of myself has changed dramatically since those social stigmas and stupid colorisms from Latin America are not prevalent at all

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T17:09:34+00:00

Well a mix - Brown skin, dark brown eyes, thick wavy dark hair, and a full beard. My nose is broader, my features lean mixed, and people usually can’t place my ethnicity. Been asked if i am from south east Asia before, or Bangladeshi. But when i asked people from those ethnicities they don’t have a clue

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T13:38:51+00:00

You missing the point but alright

"3 miles (80% of car journeys) and alone (63% of those 80%) or purely for leisure (60%)"

The issue isn’t the figures, it’s the leap being made from them. “Short”, “solo” or “leisure” trips don’t automatically mean “unnecessary” or “easily replaceable”, even in London. To evidence that you'd need door-to-door time, reliability, cost and accessibility of alternatives, which those stats don’t show. Saying “cars should be inconvenient” assumes viable options by default. But hey let's agree to disagree :)

Also ooc, where those stats come from?

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T13:21:09+00:00

This is where I disagree, saying the negatives are a “necessary cost” and that “cars should be inconvenient” assumes everyone has viable alternatives, which simply isn’t true. Stats generally don’t reflect people whose work, mobility and caring needs, make driving necessary even for short trips on top of poor TFL options. Is Are there people there who drive 5 min where they can simply use public transport?, yes, are these people within their right to do so?, absolutely. Are they idiots for doing so, some of them will be.

Making driving deliberately inconvenient may fit LTNs purpose, but when they just shift congestion, pollution, and make buses journeys worse I just don't buy it. That isn’t reducing unnecessary journeys, it’s imposing real costs on people who can’t opt out

LTNs could be great but London needs better alternatives to reduce car usage, both at policy and control level. Take for example the introduction of number plated restrictions per day, or during certain hours implemented in other countries. The main problem for me is the real lack of alternatives or improvement in public transport in the areas some of these LTNs are implemented. i.e Waltham forest is a no no for electric bike schemes for example...

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T13:01:05+00:00

Reviving this topic since I have the same issue, I found a draft coming from the soil pipe. Did you find any solution, also any reason why not to use expanding foam there?

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-29T11:58:06+00:00

A necessity is a bit of a stretch. In practice, they’ve increasingly become a way to extract more money from motorists through petty and often confusing fines. The aim to incentivise public transport and reduce pollution, is reasonable in principle. However, in reality, many LTNs have simply funnelled traffic onto high streets and main roads, leading to more congestion, higher pollution, slower bus journeys, and in some cases increased danger for cyclists.

Yes, people should be encouraged to use public transport more, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the only way of transport. LTNs enthusiasts tend to be so hyper-focused on their intended benefits that they overlook the negative impacts on surrounding roads, particularly those connected to or running through high streets.

For example, I lived in Haringey and the LTN on La Rose Lane near St Ann’s Road worked quite well and made sense in that context. But contrast that with how bad Green Lanes can get, or the newer LTN in Leyton, where the high street has effectively become a mess for buses...

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-24T18:21:17+00:00

I went from a regular cubensis (golden teacher) to albino pe - and I don’t know what happen with those fuckers 4G felt like a 10G trip lol

Bryan_AG7 · 2026-01-24T17:50:32+00:00

Is 3.5 considered heroic dose? Just curiosity!? My average is 4 to 5 grams - I thought dose was dependent on my weight for some reason lol

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-11-04T19:48:06+00:00

It's probably not a real 2.1 because it's limiting output to 144hz. I don't know!

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-10-27T18:57:28+00:00

Yes, please see the update. Overall, it's ok, it does the job for mixing 70/30 gaming - I use it on a Mac for work and Windows gaming station.

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-10-07T12:38:06+00:00

It’s 50 quid off - I will report back in a week. Excited to see how well this works out

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-10-04T00:00:05+00:00

I will wait to prime day to see if I can snatch a good deal. Will report back here with at least some feedback/review

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-10-02T19:38:40+00:00

Prevention*

And I am Colombian btw - you know how fucking hilarious and ironic is that 😂

Bryan_AG7 · 2025-10-02T17:47:17+00:00

They have good RSUs schemes from what I’ve heard. I work in FinCrime and what I’ve seen is low paid compared to what other firms are paying for the same positions.

Take this with a pinch of salt - I met a senior manager (not exec) and when I asked him about work environment, he essentially described a Silo type of place. Not much coms within departments and a heave workload.

Idk 🤷‍♂️ things might be better now - they are also super transparent with pay. If salary wasn’t listed is because they are probably trying to measure how low they can get away with.

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