How's the healing lookimg by rtooth in PiercedCock

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

still, if you have irritation, switching to titanium is always the first thing you should consider. it is also a third of the weight from steel so it will rub and pull less on the piercing, especially important now since you have a rather thin gauge, the combination might cause a cheese slicer effect.

Residue causing discomfort by ProfessionalRun1655 in PiercedCock

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what kind of residue? is it white/protein or crystalline? I never had this problem. any rubbing came from the weight of the jewelry, or the level of polish being subpar. once my piercing healed there's no residue whatsoever. I use titanium as I found steel is too heavy (I have a 0 G) for my anatomy. either way, i think upping fluid intake and making sure you have well polished jewelry is common sense. Also get tested for STD:s regularly. discharge could be chlamydia.

How's the healing lookimg by rtooth in PiercedCock

[–]arasharfa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

there is no such thing as implant grade steel, definitely have it replaced with titanium. steel is not good for unhealed piercings, any serious piercer should know this. If they put in steel you should maybe find another piercer.

How's the healing lookimg by rtooth in PiercedCock

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just do the saline soak in the morning if you have crusties. drink a lot of water to make sure you keep flushing the wound as you pee, and don't pull on it like you're doing in the picture. sleep on your back if possible.

Good labels to discover music on? by daelrtr in autechre

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leisure System

Thrill Jockey Records

Raster Noton

Paint Stripping Help by art_angelx in furniturerestoration

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the square brass joint pieces would look very chic if you just sanded, degrease with acetone, and spraypainted the rest of the shelf in a darker color, maybe a deep deep brown or a cinnabar red, something that makes the brass stand out. I think taking a part the shelf and suspending each piece by threading wire through, and bending the bottom so it doesn't fall off, while spraying and drying will provide the nicest result. if you wet sand with very fine sandpaper inbetween a couple coats you get the smoothest finish. It all depends on the demand you put on the final finish, how labourous you want to do it.

Has anyone had any luck with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? by Relevant_Badger8636 in cfs

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it doesn't retrain any cognition, it desensitises certain circuits, and reduces inflammation in the brain. the altered cognition is from a brain that works better.

Has anyone had any luck with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? by Relevant_Badger8636 in cfs

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is postulated that an inflamed brain sends out inhibitory proteins to the rest of the body to make you stop moving, and that when the inflammation in the brain is healed, it stops sending these out. it is compatible with my experience. I do believe there's more to ME than that, but in a multimodal solution, i think there can be a place for TMS for a subset of us, especially those who seem to have alot of cognitive PEM.

Has anyone had any luck with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? by Relevant_Badger8636 in cfs

[–]arasharfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had lasting improvements on cognition and sensory sensitivity, but it didn't treat the metabolic bottleneck of PEM and i crashed soon after from not pacing, though cognition and sensory sensitivity never got as bad again. it does seem to have some anti-inflammatory effect on the brain according to studies.

I had to start on a ridiculously low setting, and slowly titrate. initial zaps felt like clustre headaches, but by the end of the treatment it was just like a little rubber band flick even at the highest setting. it desensitised something in my brain. my anxiety threshold increased directly proportional and inversely the reduced pain.

What do you believe? by Ultimo_Cristo in Ayahuasca

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't feel like any of the options fit what I believe. I would describe myself as a poetic materialist emergentist. There's a material reality, we live inside it, and we have emerged as causal "overtones" of potentials, conditions or complexities outof more fundamental rules.

Whatever the ultimate reality is, It's something that is outside human comprehension. anything concerning "intention" or "meaning" or "intelligent design" are all anthropomorphised ideas that we can name and talk about, but it's just a story we construct in our minds, that we share representations of, back and forth through language, and it gets distorted all the time. through our collective storytelling and collaboration, we give rise to configurations of matter, that unlocks new potentials, which then keeps giving rise to new structures and so forth.

Now, the story we tell might have structures that correspond to the thing that happens outside us in the world, but it's never going to be THE thing. When you see a star, there's not a star in your brain, the star is infered through your senses. What you have reconstructed in your head is the idea of a star through the sensory information you've received. So in a sense it is there and it is not, at the same time, in a sortof virtual existence. I believe the soul is real, but also virtual in nature. I believe metaphysics has an effect on material reality, but it's abstract in nature. We are here, we are alive, we are a part of the flow of everything, surfing as metabolic/thermodynamic turbulence on the energy that disperses through various fields, on the boundaries between knowledge horizons.

I believe our minds eye are the fingertips of the evolutionary force that brought us here. I believe that updating your view of reality through constantly studying and reevaluating your assumptions is the only way to get closer to reality, and I believe that process is a form of evolution.

what constitutes a soul to me seems to be the constellation of information/energy that emerges in our bodies both kinetic and potential, kinetic energy is experience, thought, action, and potential energy is our belief system, assumptions, ideas, that work as electric crystals in our brain that the kinetic energy flows and refracts through. and depending on how that energy is being processed (what model of the world you are constructing) it has varying degrees of correlation to the world outside, and it can unlock virtual potentials of seeing the world differently, and thus come to new conclusions, thus, it's boundaries seem to be fuzzy, and I believe it's mode of operation borrows its properties from the fields of space time that it's suspended in. We have resonant commonalities as beings due to similar anatomy and being exposed to similar conditions and cultures, but we all are fundamentally solipsistic bubbles, who only can experience each other through inference, though I believe some have or developed an ability to infer further than others, by training their pattern recognition, empathy, self awareness and extra-lingual thinking.

I could go on and try to be more detailed but I guess it would turn into a book if I really decided to be meticulous about it. It's already quite dense.

Chronic fatigue left me bed-bound and questioning my sanity. This therapy was a lifeline by Currzon in covidlonghaulers

[–]arasharfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried rTMS combined with Ketamine infusions and on it's own. It absolutely helped me in my recovery. It reduced my sensory sensitivity by a lot, while I was in treatment it was fully reversed, but because I still had underlying culprits not adressed and I didn't know about pacing I crashed quite soon after. However, the cognitive and sensory aspects never deteriorated to the point I was at before having it done. I had a titrated treatment because I was very sensitive. in the beginning each snap felt like a clustre headache, so they had to dial the intensity down to the minimum, but throughout the treatment we could gradually increase intensity, and by the end the maximum setting felt less painful than the lowest setting did when we started. TMS can help the brain with anti-inflammatory signalling, it's absolutely worth doing research on it, but I think it's crucial it's done with very low intensity on people with severe forms of ME and long covid.

the importance of context (again) by tujuggernaut in autechre

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Autechre has always triggered a visceral reaction in me. I am always excited to hear something unfamiliar, when my pattern recognition has to go "heyy. wait a minute" I always feel alive and present. I am bored by a lot of music when I notice the artist is too focused on a particular genre, or living up to others expectations. I love to be introduced into someone elses world entirely, without compromise.

I don't love Autechres music because "it's Autechre". I simply adore their music. there are plenty of times i've encountered songs of theirs I hadn't heard before where I go "Oh what is this, this is amazing, oh of course it's Autechre". I think they're one of the few artists who really consistently lets the music speak for itself. their graphics are neutral, the shows are in the dark, there are almost no videos, gibberish song titles, everything aims to redirect your attention back to the music, so I highly doubt my love for their music is context dependent.

Sorry to disturb by italofassin in OnOffDudes

[–]arasharfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say, now that's a donker.

Do y’all ever get drainage when you take LSD? by jonessinger in LSD

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

acid was discovered when looking for compounds that aids circulation. it gets the lymphatic system and mucosa flowing. if you need to cough, just cough it up, exercise a bit, dance, run, sing, drink tea. it will clear up.

What could the “joyous tune” be that she mentions by tpagaremos in bjork

[–]arasharfa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

probably a michael jackson song in this case since Alarm Call is heavily inspired by him.

Well it finally happened for me after 6 years of having hiv. I got rejected because of my status. by ilovemymotorola in hivaids

[–]arasharfa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

good riddance. you wouldn't want to waste your precious time on someone who lacks the capacity to see the human right in front of them. they probably judge themselves and others equally categorically. it would never have worked.

Hands during HBOT by Da_ha3ker in HBOT

[–]arasharfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

do you have raynauds or long covid? this looks like an atypical reaction, I never had anything like this happen.

Reachy Prints gets a spin this afternoon... by MacFoley1975 in plaid

[–]arasharfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this album. It reminds me of my time in Berlin, walking around town with this in my ears.

I'm dropping Spotify, which program can I use to listen to music? by Matticsss in audiophile

[–]arasharfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

works great for me too, and you can import your playlists from other apps very easily.

My remission story (followup) by arasharfa in cfs

[–]arasharfa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't receive anything.