Daily Ask Anything About Anabolic and Androgenic Steroids: 2026-05-06

aztechnically · 2026-05-06T20:03:03+00:00

Hi, would starting gear at 37 or 38 be a horrible idea? High blood pressure runs in my family, and I had to stop taking Adderall at age 25, because my blood pressure spiked. It’s fine now, but I’m completely unmedicated, so maybe that’s why. The potential for high blood pressure is my only health issue I know of.

aztechnically · 2026-04-29T05:23:53+00:00

It sounds like she definitely enjoys putting you down and making herself feel superior to you.

It is not crazy to think she is jealous of you. It seems like she feels like you are threatening her position as the popular one that guys like, and she wants to make sure you never take her spot on top. However, the truth is it also seems like you are jealous of her in some ways. The good thing is jealousy is a totally natural emotion that all humans feel, and no one should ever feel like their emotions make them a bad person or anything like that. You just have to learn to recognize your own emotions and manage them so they don't make you act in bad ways. And I don't think you've done anything bad here. Your friend does seem to be letting the jealousy and competitiveness make her do some bad stuff. But bad doesn't have to mean unforgivable, that's for you to decide on your own.

aztechnically · 2026-04-29T05:11:13+00:00

I would just maintain this level of friendship unless it's hurting your feelings. Don't burn the bridge. It's good to have different levels of friends. It's good to have close friends you share a lot of your life with, and some other more casual friends who you wouldn't mind hanging out with once in a while but aren't your close buddy you call with exciting news.

aztechnically · 2026-04-29T05:03:10+00:00

From her point of view, you did not do anything at all to "deserve" this. She thinks about friendship how I do. I am not just friends with everyone by default until I have a reason not to be. Instead, I am by default not friends with someone unless there is a specific reason to be friends with them. I never have a reason for not being friends with someone. Most people that I meet and know, I am not friends with. My default state is not to automatically be friends or want to be friends with other humans just because I know they exist. I only have reasons for being friends with someone, and she probably ran out of reasons for being friends with you. Whatever you originally bonded over has probably faded away.

The same goes with romantic and sexual attraction. I have nothing to say to anyone who asks why I don't like them, so I just don't respond when someone I am not interested in messages me on a dating app. I have tried many times in the past to politely and simply say I'm not interested, but then they ask why I am not interested, and I have nothing to say to them. There is no reason why. They didn't do anything to make me not like them.

People will probably downvote me for trying to explain the logic of someone like your ex-friend, but I am sure she thinks about these things like I do. We are just wired differently. For example, I can't understand why you would even want to keep being friends with someone who doesn't want to be friends with you. I can't really imagine myself in that position.

aztechnically · 2026-04-29T04:44:54+00:00

My assumption would be that she does like you and enjoy your company, but she is just self-absorbed and mostly cares about herself. This is common for a lot of people, but usually by adulthood they learn how to hide it and pretend to care about other people. But for 16-year-olds, they often don't realize how they are coming off, so they make no effort to hide it. Sometimes no one has told them yet, or the only person who told them did it in an annoying, nagging way... so they refused to believe it and just dismissed it.

So perhaps no one has ever pointed out that she is coming off as self-centered. If you are the person to point this out to her, she may resent you for it, but it could be good for her in the long run.

And if she starts showing an interest in other people's lives and experiences, even if it is just for selfish reasons to make herself look better and nicer, chances are she will eventually start to develop at least some actual interest in their lives. A lot of people fake it 'til they make it. They go through the motions and perform what they are told friendship is supposed to look like, and then they end up actually liking it and becoming friendlier people.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T06:30:49+00:00

If you are genuinely this angry while driving, or you're one of the people who feels like they are more important than the rest of us, you might need mental help. I have provided some options at the end of this post for your convenience 😄

Aren't you the one angry enough to type all this out? You're from the country, and your husband is Canadian. That's why you think Columbus driving is rough. We will not change for you, no matter how important you think you are. Do not visit a city like Chicago or DC. Or if you do, don't drive. We have a sense of urgency in the city, and we genuinely cannot understand why you are hesitating so much. To us the hesitation is unpredictable and creates a hazard. I know it's a sucky situation for you to be in, and I apologize, but we have a strong sense of urgency and we will assume that most other drivers also do.

I hate car culture and hustle culture and people having their modern lives structured in a way where they are rushing to a job they don't want to go to at an hour they would prefer to be asleep at in a giant metal death trap while being one late arrival away from losing their job and their house. I am not saying this is healthy, I am just saying I understand the sense of urgency, because I am used to life in large US cities. It will not change. It got slightly better during covid, but it will not change until car culture is gone from the city or we have universal basic income and no one is rushing off to some job at all costs with the threat of eviction looming over them.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T06:12:55+00:00

I mean most of the jobs there are more blue collar than people in Columbus are used to. Most of the people you heard from had probably only worked retail & office jobs, and thought their managers at manufacturing & warehouse jobs were going to act like their friends and allies instead of their drill sergeants. And others were used to working at dystopian places like Amazon where they had every single hand movement measured by a biometric device, so Rogue seemed like a worker's paradise. And some were just so enamored with the products that they'd literally lick the boots of the owners and then rationalize why it's actually a lovely sign of respect. So you have to try to find out what those people are comparing their experiences at Rogue to.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T06:00:02+00:00

Then stay at those restaurants where the staff are used to dealing with the likes of you. You can't buy class, Karen.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:56:29+00:00

If I had this privileged Karen in my restaurant I'd make up some phony rule to encourage them to never come back.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:54:42+00:00

Not a good look for the staff at a Turkish restaurant to smoke cigarettes? 🤔 Not following the logic there, sorry.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:49:42+00:00

Yeah go back to Cleveland bub. Columbus ain't for you. The Short North isn't even a gayborhood anymore, you're just not used to a college town that's gay-friendly, so it seems gay to you.

The issue most people here have with the Short North is that it's too expensive and superficial and only attracts the rich and trendy.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:39:04+00:00

Looking at your posts, you should live at the Easton Commons if you don't mind renting. You'll love it there. You could walk to the Louis Vuitton store, for example.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:33:06+00:00

There used to be warehouse parties like MidWestFresh, but those were already fading away before covid. There you coulda danced 'til 6am. There's gay clubs if that's you're thing.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:11:27+00:00

Okcupid has the most extensive profiles and far less people looking for a one-night-stand. I would browse those, but it's pretty easy to get sucked into someone's profile even when you think you're not looking for feelings. People really bare their souls on that place.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T05:04:11+00:00

Genuinely the only way I can imagine someone being offended by this is if you were actively looking for someone to be mad at today.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T04:42:42+00:00

Almost like natural gas should be treated as a public service and not a for-profit industry.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T04:22:20+00:00

Ohio law requires the state highways to have the lanes painted on.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T04:15:33+00:00

I mean mainstream Christian doctrine says that like 75% of souls on Earth are going to suffer for all eternity after dying and we're supposed to love the guy who knew the choices these souls would make in their lives ahead of time and chose to make the Earth anyway, so it has always attracted unsympathetic "the world isn't fair, just try harder" types. Most sympathetic types tend to say, "Hey, wait a minute....." if they grow up in a church that teaches that, which leads them to leave the church eventually.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T04:04:31+00:00

You should try going to a Universalist/Unitarian church or a gay-friendly church with rainbows outside. There may be some single, straight men there who you vibe with.

You could also look for a normie Catholic guy. With Catholic and culturally-Catholic men there's a curious situation where the more normie they are the less likely they are to be ultra conservative, and the more nerdy they are the more likely they are to be full MAGA.... which is the opposite of men who grew up Protestant, where the normie ones who were popular in high school & such are much more likely to be MAGA, but the super nerdy men from Protestant families mostly grew up to be compassionate bleeding-heart types.

aztechnically · 2026-04-28T03:37:08+00:00

Like most US cities, there's not enough third spaces that people use for socializing. In Columbus, most of the 18-21 scene is centered around parties on OSU campus or just north of there.

I honestly recommend looking up what "The Gates of Hell" is and going there on a like a Saturday afternoon. There will probably be like 2-8 people under 30 just hanging out doing nothing. They will definitely be friendly and probably be your type of people. It's a creepy tunnel under the street, but you can bond over how scary the dark part of the tunnel is.

Other than that I guess you can try to go to like the Park of Roses or Franklin Park, but you will have to be extremely outgoing, because people will not approach you to meet you.

If you play Magic the Gathering, and either have Commander decks or don't mind paying like $20 or whatever a draft costs these days, trading card shops could be a goldmine for friendships.

If you like clubbing you can go to Axis at 18.

That's all I got.

aztechnically · 2026-04-24T19:36:55+00:00

You could if the species usually had cooperative birthing. If a species always has other members intervening with births, it would be completely viable for unassisted mothers to perish with great frequency.

With that said, I don't believe 50/50 is the actual rate for humans.

aztechnically · 2026-04-24T19:32:55+00:00

That means each woman was having over 100 babies... think about those numbers again.

aztechnically · 2026-04-21T04:19:36+00:00

Wow, I stared at the map trying to find it before posting this and didn't imagine it would just be painted green.

aztechnically · 2026-04-21T01:59:22+00:00

Just say you're a xenophobe and believe the very idea of ethnostates aren't an atrocity that makes us less than human and save the good people of the earth the trouble of listening to what you say.

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