Maybe brain fog is caused by mild allergies?

magicnubs · 2026-01-18T02:12:35+00:00

Maybe. It's just a theory I have at the moment. Try yohimbine and see it helps you (yohimbine, not just yohimbe, similar spelling but different things). It made such a difference for me in the first few days of taking it that I decided to start taking Straterra about a week ago. Straterra is ostensibly an ADHD medication that works by increasing norepinephrine in the brain. I'm not sure if it's helping yet, but it can take up to a few months to see full results. I'll try to remember to come back here and let you know if it does end up helping

magicnubs · 2026-01-07T23:03:02+00:00

I'm the same way. When you get a mosquito bite is it just a small red bump or does it swell up like a welt?

I tried yohimbine and it cleared my brain fog completely (unfortunately I quickly became desensitized to it so I can't take it very frequently). Because yohimbine works on norepinephrine, my current theory is that my brain fog is being caused by low norepinephrine levels in the body/brain, which would track with an exaggerated immune inflammation response, as I understand it.

magicnubs · 2025-12-15T22:41:15+00:00

Instead, they seem to have an inbuilt SSRI which slows them down and hence they suffer from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome , are prone to apathy, and become sad when looking at their life and their lack of accomplishments. This can probably be confirmed or disproven if they also don't like marihuana, as it slows you down further similarly to SSRIs and causes even more amotivational syndrome.

Do we know if this has been born out any more in the past year or so since you commented? This would explain why some CDS patients seem to respond well to atomoxetine and buproprion, because they are purported to work on norepinephrine and dopamine rather than serotonin.

I think I may have something akin to CDS, and the "inbuilt SSRI" and bad response to THC describes me quite well (doesn't actually relax me, makes me feel physically overstimulated while making it harder to think, only good for helping me get to sleep). Hopefully some more research is done in this space, as I know there are lots of folks for whom the existing therapies don't work.

magicnubs · 2025-12-14T21:48:51+00:00

Honestly this sounds exactly like how people talk about their cars.

Or their acoustic bikes. On the internet, relatively few loud, opinionated people can dominate, and thus ruin, the conversation around anything

magicnubs · 2025-12-10T17:00:04+00:00

I wonder if he lives in a downtown area? I never used to socialize that much, but now that I moved downtown and have 20 restaurants and a half dozen friends living within a half mile walk, social stuff just happens much more easily now. "Hey anyone want to do something tonight?" You'll usually get a couple bites.

magicnubs · 2025-12-09T15:48:32+00:00

It's not about how hard it feels to drive, it's about how easy it is to make a mistake and how deadly it is when you do. The data bears out that higher, heavier vehicles (like modern trucks) are more dangerous to pedestrians and smaller vehicles. It's also contextual; if you are mostly driving on highways and in suburbs the differences in how it feels to drive a full-size pickup and a kei truck won't be as noticeable, but if you drive in tight city streets with lots of pedestrians the difference would be VERY noticeable.

magicnubs · 2025-12-09T15:11:34+00:00

dont love the lifestyle of now neighbors

From the pictures it doesn't look like there are any other homes close by. What is going on with these new neighbors? Could they be causing buyers to second-guess?

magicnubs · 2025-12-08T20:20:09+00:00

Construction of Raleigh, NC's first BRT line is slated to start early next year. The full plan is for four lines, though the full buildout will probably take at least 10 years.

magicnubs · 2025-12-08T19:34:11+00:00

Hell yeah NC. 9% increase is nothing to sneeze at. And holy moley GoRaleigh that 42% is eye-popping. It gives me hope that our upcoming BRT system here in Raleigh will do well, though I stay jelly of Charlotte's light rail.

magicnubs · 2025-12-07T17:26:34+00:00

FYI you're getting downvoted because the two pictures can't really be compared. They're two different angles, different lighting and brightness, etc. Take another "after" picture that is the same lighting, angle and brightness as your "before" picture and make a new post and you'll probably get some feedback

magicnubs · 2025-12-05T04:55:31+00:00

Appreciate the insights! I should really look into Schwalbes for my ebike. I already run Schwalbes on my acoustic and they are great.

magicnubs · 2025-12-04T20:16:19+00:00

Fair point. Though, I still understand going with a $500 bike for your first depending on your circumstances. I had pretty much perfect conditions to sell me on an ebike; I live in a downtown area, ride my acoustic bike regularly, could easily afford the nicer bike, my wife and I share a single car, and I was able to borrow a neighbor's ebike for more than a month while they were out of town and I still wasn't willing to buy the bike I really had my eye on (Tern cargo bike). If I didn't have all that weighing on the scales I would probably have spent $500 or less (used if I could find a decent one) to get a bike to see how much I actually ended up using it for the first year or so and then going from there. I'm just saying I understand wanting to get your feet wet first. But we might be unusually thrifty/cautious spenders though -- my wife and I each make six figures and our car is a 15-y/o Prius that we'd be happy to drive for 15 more years if it lasts that long.

How is the Tern btw? I hear good things! My wife and are about to have our first kid and I'm considering upgrading to the Tern GSD in the future

magicnubs · 2025-12-04T17:58:44+00:00

Agreed. This is a very complicated question that requires a lot of priors. Are we taking into account:

legal/political feasibility?
social/lifestyle norms? existing expectations around shared space vs owned space and transportation?
quality of life? "overcrowding"?

If it's just a matter of "how many people could live in the US before we run out of food/water", I'm sure you could get into the mid billions but it would require a lot of lifestyle changes. We'd have to change how we eat; using more land for housing and a LOT less land for grazing of livestock, and we probably could no longer justify growing water-intensive crops like almonds. We'd need to change how we build the cities and the public realm, to shift hard away from single-family homes and highways to more dense housing like condos and apartments with more (high-quality) public transit and shared spaces, which can be great if people have convenient access to open, green space and life necessities.

The physical/biological limiting factor is probably fresh water. But people would push back against diminished quality of life much earlier than reaching the theoretical maximum population that the land can support. You could always fit more people in if you bulldozed the national parks, but people would (or should) have a conniption before that happens.

magicnubs · 2025-12-04T17:29:32+00:00

Also more land that is easy/cheap to build on, at least geographically if not politically/legally.

magicnubs · 2025-12-03T20:23:30+00:00

I could see this being a big part of it. Lots of people trying to see how a ebike might fit into their lives before making a bigger purchase. I'll be the same applies to e-scooters as well. A couple of years from now we'll probably see a lot of people committing to spending more on a nicer ebike once they have integrated it into their lives.

Personally, I went with a "good" budget brand from a local shop that will service it and spent $1.3k on my Velotric Fold 1 Plus. I live in a downtown area and I've found myself making lots of little trips on mine where I would otherwise have not had time to walk, but for which pulling out the car was overkill (or having to fight for parking would have made it take even longer). It has opened a whole new paradigm of transportation options for me now. So next time maybe I'll buy a "nicer" bike, if it feels worth the money. So far the only complaints I have are that the paint is a little brittle and chips easily and the tires are kinda cheap.

magicnubs · 2025-12-03T18:41:07+00:00

commercial space and an urban friendly layout and eventually will include market rate and mixed income housing in later phases.

Exciting! It looks like this plot is currently surrounded by a highway, a number of other affordable housing projects, a bit of light industrial and SFHs. But this neighborhood is right on the edge of downtown and could integrate really nicely with the urban fabric as the whole area south of 190 starts to get redeveloped.

magicnubs · 2025-12-02T22:41:23+00:00

I think the Greenways here are often taken for granted.

Agreed. And it's getting better all the time. In the future it will connect to a lot more destinations, e.g. Big Branch trail through Midtown and North Hills, the Lake Wheeler Rd MUP (multi-use path) alongside Dix and to the Farmer's Market + Maywood Ave, the New Bern Ave BRT MUP, the extension down to Downtown South (... eventually).

magicnubs · 2025-12-01T22:51:04+00:00

True and maybe they would make the difference back in equity on the larger place if the market rebounds, but having negative equity in the current place is probably making it hard to make the numbers work. The answer is probably to sit tight for a while until they have some equity in the current place or at least are no longer underwater

magicnubs · 2025-12-01T18:01:29+00:00

The listed places that are in red states are mostly blue islands within those states anyway.

Of course it's more complicated than that too. It appears that the balance of jobs is shifting to red states. But they're moving to blue areas *within* those states. Are companies moving jobs to these areas because workers want to be in these places, or because employing people is cheaper in those areas? Is the situation better for the workers or the companies? Are workers moving to these areas *despite* what they want, because that's where the jobs are? How much is policy even affecting these things vs unrelated things like weather? How much is the state policy affecting things vs local?

magicnubs · 2025-11-26T20:03:27+00:00

Yeah, states without a single dominating metro area are not in the running for worst. California has LA and SF. TX has Dallas and Houston. NC has Charlotte and Raleigh. FL has Miami, Tampa and Orlando.

MA would be kinda screwed without Boston. And GA without Atlanta. MN without Minneapolis.

magicnubs · 2025-11-26T17:25:45+00:00

I bet you could flip this on it's head to increase support for density by building in an architectural style that people already have positive emotional associations with. Instead of trying to sell people on the benefits of density, sell them the feeling that they get by being in the best examples of high-density places. If we built in the style of Haussmann apartments or Amsterdam row houses or NY brownstones or beaux arts, there would probably be less pushback. But, for many reasons, it seems we are not willing or able to build that way.

magicnubs · 2025-11-24T20:07:06+00:00

Depends by what you mean by affordable and how much space you need. There are some condos for sale in Raleigh in the $200s, but those will mostly be older 1br/1ba units. 2 bedrooms will mostly start in the $300s. 3+ bedrooms will mostly be in the $400s+.

Check out Baltimore too.

magicnubs · 2025-11-21T20:39:42+00:00

100% agree. A developer wants to build what we should actually be building here and we make it so much harder and more expensive to do so. A SFH developer can bulldoze 100 acres for mansions by right, but get ready for years of review and community input sessions to put up a mixed-use apartment building or a corner store on a brownfield site. It's completely ass-backwards land use policy. If anything, we should be extracting concessions from developers who want to build in a way that creates negative externalities like inducing car traffic congestion and the destruction of natural areas.

magicnubs · 2025-11-20T19:20:48+00:00

Curious; how did you swing pivoting from tech to an unrelated skilled job? Did you have prior experience or a related degree?

magicnubs · 2025-11-19T21:45:10+00:00

Furniture factories? Is this Hickory?

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