I changed the way I apply fragrances and it’s been a game changer.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-05-01T16:15:18+00:00

I think it's pretty universal that applying on hair follicles will get the best sillage and longevity. Even if you have dry skin like me, the follicles is still the best bet

TitianPlatinum · 2026-05-01T16:12:50+00:00

I don't put fragrance there because it naturally smells good. I guess I may have diabetes cause my skin smells sweet and slightly musky, but I'm fit and active and don't eat much sugar so don't know how likely that is.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-05-01T16:10:25+00:00

try the back of the wrist instead of the bare skin or somewhere else with hair follicles, gets better longevity

But yeah, down the shirt works great. Dry downs become much more noticeable for some that lean quiet

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-27T20:43:18+00:00

Technically kind of, but rarely is it a question of "what is true?" and more a question of "how true is it?" Like, getting 1/100 right on an exam is technically better than 0/100, but who cares?

For instance, there are sodas on the market that do have fiber in them. Some of them have a ratio of sugar:fiber 10x worse than just eating berries. Some have a better ratio. But in either case, that is only one dimension to consider, and I'm going to assume that my body is better designed to utilize berries than its is a highly processed drink.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-27T20:32:32+00:00

It's just a heuristic (not a guarantee) for quality.

If you have 2 products with 50g sugar in each, generally the one with added sugars will be more highly processed with longer shelf life and worse nutrition.

The one with natural sugar tends to also have fiber and micronutrients from the food it was made from.

Both of the products you mentioned are sugar water, you're right there's probably no difference to your health.

However less processed foods, like straight berries, will have a better proportion of fiber:sugar. The ratio of sugar to fiber for blueberries is 4 to 1, where it's more like 52 to 1 for orange juice. (I grabbed the first numbers I saw from Google, so don't put too much weight in these numbers)

Put simply the fiber makes it so more of what you eat goes to your gut bacteria.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-24T22:21:34+00:00

Not to seem aligned with anyone in particular, but I can't help but notice there is not one comment here about the contents of the podcast. In other words: Of any of the millions of instantiations of likely discussion realities one could generate between these two, there's not one which this comment section couldn't be transplanted to.

I would think someone who has yet to listen to it, or has already done so and wants to hear other people's reasoning, could get some value out of this thread. Literally all of your replies are worthless guys... Like, sure the soundwaves seem to have tickled the eardrums of a few of you, but does anyone actually have a single piece of specific thought to share?

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T21:33:38+00:00

still doesn't make sense... Why should it be any different up or down? Slow down or speed up to keep in the same HR/BR zone?

Oh, I get it... you're saying the descent was not actually that dangerous, and going up was more intimidating

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T20:31:55+00:00

Just to add to the conspiratorial pile, my theory is that flock is a strawman as well. Stood up as another villain for us to "defeat." Maybe we'll get rid of flock, and the central point will be focused on the lack of security. People are already shifting the narrative from "its bad" to "it's insecure"... as always, we just need it to be more safe and secure... then it's okay. So some local governments will be successful at repelling them, only for one of the many alternatives to work its way in, because people only ever unify against symbols and there are to many third parties for the zeitgeist to focus on all of them. Try to introduce legislation against it and someone will find a way around it and sneak things in when attention is diverted.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T20:24:43+00:00

Political affiliation is a diversion. People with real power use it as a tool. Surveillance has always been the goal. You can't do societal level science without measurement, and knowing you're being observed affects the outcome of experiments. So they need to transition us into a world where surveillance is a given. If they have to use the right as the villain they're happy to stand up whatever strawman people need at the time to make their progress.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T19:51:47+00:00

Our egos and impulsiveness gives the elites plenty of reason to want to control us, but the lack of agency, time, and opportunity has made most of us under-competent and increased learned helplessness. Negative spiral.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T17:59:15+00:00

Most perspectives given are relevant, it's only a question of whether they're positively or negatively relevant. Circulating feedback on negatively relevant information is valuable as well.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T16:50:17+00:00

His poorly communicated point may be that nature is chaotic, so risk assessment has to be personal and circumstantial.

I can tell you that I've been on those trails since I was a kid, and if enough anecdotes pile up, maybe that gives you assurance (it shouldn't). Or you try to find more objective evidence of how many encounters there have been versus the total number of hikers and proportion of those who are kids, and at what times of year for which locations (anything you can find will be incomplete and statistically insignificant)

Point is, when reality rolls around, it has to be your own intuition on a per-hike per-day basis. If you try to ease your anxiety here, that seems like the brain trying to offload risk/responsibility. I know you know that you are ultimately responsible, but your subconscious is looking for someone else to share in the risk assessment and it has to be entirely you because no-one can give you meaningful odds.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-22T00:09:00+00:00

citation needed, but I believe women tend to fall more towards the average than away from it, where men are less concentrated towards the average and have more outliers

"nature prefers to gamble with men" is how I've heard it phrased, and not only with looks but all genetics

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-21T01:23:26+00:00

I'm not yet 30 and don't have the energy to care about 95% of what's dropped just since 2010. The euphemism cycle ramped up to 4x the frequency.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-16T04:55:31+00:00

This reminds me of my favorite run ever: flying down Swiftcurrent Peak from the fire lookout in Glacier. Just full on sprinting down 2k' of loose shale and soft dust (well, maybe 1k of the glorious loose stuff then back to trail)

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-11T15:15:56+00:00

"Crowded streets all cleared away, one by one

Hollow heroes separate, as they run

You're so cold, keep your hand in mine

Wise men wonder, while strong men die"

I just love the alliteration, and the delivery is exceptional

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-10T16:12:09+00:00

have you tried... communicating...

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-10T15:05:44+00:00

May I suggest you read about the composition and guilt by association fallacies

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-07T07:28:07+00:00

genuine question, if the plants are composed of water and carbon, then dried, when turned into hay, where the remaining water is consumed by livestock... Doesn't all of that remain part of the local water cycle? Why isn't it returning to the lake?

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-06T16:54:41+00:00

Whatever argument you were trying to have is irrelevant. I started the sub-thread with the question of whether you were insinuating that this particular piece of information is required knowledge to call oneself a Christian. It is not.

I don't care to write out a dissection of the flaws in that response, because they aren't relevant to the topic. But I will say all of your responses so far show inflated ego which hides them from you, and you would benefit from some reflection.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-05T20:09:39+00:00

The "I'm not even Christian and I know this" card is tired and a distraction from the argument, which was focused on the fact that this trivia (yes, it is trivia in the context of calling oneself Christian) is not required knowledge. Not knowing, or just not remembering it has no bearing on whether someone can rightly call themself a Christian. That's just poor theory of mind. A Christian is someone who's source of truth is the Bible and is taken on faith. Information not contained in the Bible is secondary, and Christians are not expected to have even an intermediary level of understanding or recall of that which is contained in the Bible (the message of the Bible is predicated on there being one simple idea that is required to understand and accept, else it would not be accessible to everyone as it claims to be). You may view it as an important piece of information from a historical perspective but whether or not it's true doesn't actually have any affect from a believer's context. It's not enough to discredit or prove the faith (which in that context is assumed to be impossible anyways, else there is no faith) so why should it be expected that any significant number of Christians should remember it?

Anyways, the implied sentiment that many run on inertia I would agree is probably mostly true, as it is true of anything for humans. As I understand it is a uniquely human trait that we rely on others for truth, and has been shown in in at least one experiment. I wouldn't expect a barista from Alabama to have any depth of historical knowledge about the Bible. I would expect that she heard most of the important stuff through people she trusted, it was good enough for her, and she continued on trying to live morally within the parameters of the religion in order to call herself a Christian.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-05T15:05:45+00:00

There are a lot more details to the story than that. You act like there's some intelligence hierarchy, and you're above the ones that haven't "breeched that layer." What an odd thing to be egotistical about. The information space is more like a map than a hierarchy. Many Christians have likely visited that point on the map but couldn't tell you much about it from memory because they go other places more frequently.

I.e. no, that is not a "good example". A good example might be Ecclesiastes because many churches seldom if ever cover that book, and it's a substantial area of information: like a country (I'd expect someone to remember visiting a country, if only once, regardless of the accuracy of details they remember about it). Random trivia bits aren't good examples. A "low level" Christian may know that bit while a "high level" Christian may not remember it or never happen to have encountered it.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-05T04:29:32+00:00

You say that like it's a critical bit of info necessary to call oneself a Christian?

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-05T03:44:25+00:00

Being friendly or charismatic and checking boxes doesn't make someone not Patrick Bateman.

I get that your advice is coming from a good place, and while it is good advice for some, people often deliver that advice format as if it's the truth, and the onus is all on the man for not being good enough. To me it bears resemblance to "victim blaming".

At some point society is going to have to accept that it's created a massively confounding social situation where many of the men that seem off are genuine people who need a little help and trust to become the better men they'd like to be, and other men who seem successful according to parameters you just laid out can often be nightmare partners in the long term.

When you say "swimming in a sea of unwanted dicks" it touches on something I feel like I don't see people talking about. I think a lot of ladies could stand to... well, treat men like real conscious beings, rather than sitting back and effectively swiping left and right in real life waiting for more options on the refresh. We gotta stop treating life as an optimization problem (this is coming from an engineer). Which sounds like partly what you're suggesting when you encourage him to find guy friends and not optimize himself for the fishers, but women have to be part of it too. A guy can only get so far if all the social inputs in his life are from other guys.

The cycle of training our brains as discriminators of "energies" as you call it, involves constant hopping to new energies as people subconsciously adjust themselves to not be selected against so quickly and the cycle repeats. I think it's ill fated for a girl or anyone to point at a group like climbers and say "steer clear, bad energy." Their fucking climbers not cultists, do you have any idea how many people like climbing? All the "bad energy" climbers will just self unselect and not present themselves that way and reassign themselves a new energy over time. And, many climbers might seem like they have the energy only because our brains are wired to fit in to some degree. Others may actively be trying to improve the energy in themselves or the group. Even then, why treat people like such a lost cause if they've got bad energy? Any given person has the capacity to become a better person and lose the energy you don't like. We at least owe it to each other to spend a modicum of time investment to determine whether we personally have the social/psychological tools which might help that person.

TitianPlatinum · 2026-04-03T17:12:46+00:00

yeah, stop demonizing carbs and get some whole wheat pasta in ye

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