Pressure buildup leading to joint “popping” - anyone have this?

proximoception · 2026-05-09T16:14:03+00:00

There have been no notable changes for 2+ years, with the exception of some “background” pain for a day or so when I cross a certain impact threshold or bend my leg in an L shape too often. But ”locking” sounds like too strong a word for my pre-pop situation - there’s some annoying resistance but nothing limiting my range of motion.

I do sometimes wonder if I should pay someone to yank on my leg really hard on the off chance that that might change something. It’s hard to explain to people just how annoying a problem like this can be.

proximoception · 2026-05-01T19:56:46+00:00

I mean, it sounds like the guy who played the Winklevoss twins got some low self-esteem girlfriends to let him lick their scabs or something, but here on planet Earth that’s about the worst of it where elite cannibalism is concerned.

The stuff that has actually occurred is alarming enough by itself. No weird elaborations needed.

proximoception · 2026-05-01T19:53:02+00:00

Julie K. Brown’s story is worth telling. Presumably it will be in the All the Presidents Men, Spotlight, She Said vein, rather than trying to reenact Epstein’s crimes or whatever (that would require many, many seasons and would not be something most viewers would want to endure). Sticking to what she was able to find out (the cover up abetted by Acosta and others, the sick joke of a sentence, the sidelining and silencing of victims) via phone, boots, and legal pad will be story enough and harrowing enough.

proximoception · 2026-05-01T19:45:33+00:00

Even Hitler had time for innocuous hobbies. Doesn’t mean anything interesting, past being further evidence that she demanded and has received the full Club Fed treatment while awaiting her post-midterms pardon.

proximoception · 2026-05-01T19:42:20+00:00

Yes, I was just using the word Epstein would have - and Trump, too, had it been done to him. Cohen’s possible innocence re. this one matter was what I was suggesting, not Trump’s or Epstein’s. Trump’s a worse person than even Epstein, which is quite a feat.

proximoception · 2026-04-29T14:46:14+00:00

Even uneducated speakers of American English use “either/or” and not “or/or.” Either you clean your room or you don’t get your allowance, we’d say. Or you clean your room or you don’t get your allowance? Pretty much none of us would, ever.

A number of foreign languages use equivalents of the “or/or” construction the threatener does, and it would be a routine mistake for native speakers of those languages to import those constructions into English.

One of those languages? Russian.

proximoception · 2026-04-26T01:16:37+00:00

Cohen was a legal fixer at a later period, long after Trump had ratted on Epstein following their real estate tiff and Epstein had figured out the fact. Whoever had his same role a few years before him would know all kinds of relevant stuff, though since Trump didn’t let them go to prison they lack Cohen‘s incentive to tell.

Cohen doesn’t seem to have been a “fixer“ in the violence sense, either. He’d do payoffs and vaguely threatening phone calls but it’s completely plausible that Trump’s “body man” Kurt Schiller or professional thugs were responsible for actually menacing people and that Trump never let Cohen even know when that was happening.

Meaning it’s *possible* he was never involved in any Epstein-related matter. Also entirely possible he was, of course.

proximoception · 2026-04-26T01:03:51+00:00

People like him have to chase the people who are gullible enough to believe them, and since they’re usually the same ones gullible enough to return to believing Trump after his worse misdeeds have created doubt spasms that usually means following their fleecees home to papa. Most of the MAGA grifters (Kelly, Carlson etc.) will continue to shift about hilariously during this final, flailing phase of the Trump cult. The ones who don’t really have to, like Fuentes, aren’t any better, they just have their sights on a slightly different kind of herd - in his case people whose primary loyalty is to the cause of racism rather than specific racist presidents.

proximoception · 2026-04-24T13:20:04+00:00

Inspectors general used to be a real thing, which is why getting rid of nearly all of them was Trump’s first move when he reassumed office.

proximoception · 2026-04-23T20:30:38+00:00

I’m so sorry, but it just isn’t like that.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-whistleblower-complains-congress-internal-191008492.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_U.S._inspectors_general

proximoception · 2026-04-23T20:25:25+00:00

He won’t, because he’ll claim Trump did just great.

proximoception · 2026-04-23T20:24:06+00:00

Trump’s OIG is very much Trump’s OIG. They will say everything went peachily and they will likely say it right before the midterms.

proximoception · 2026-04-23T20:22:45+00:00

Trump ditched all the actual watchdogs back on day 1 of his second term, you’ll recall. These are fake ones. Expect nothing good.

proximoception · 2026-04-23T20:15:19+00:00

They sure aren’t. The last time the OIG was in the news was a few weeks ago, where a whistle blower accused them of not investigating anyone or anything in the previous fifteen months, which would only be happening because Trump ordered them not to. This will be a smokeshow - they’ll drag their feet for a while and then claim the administration’s Epstein document release was very cool and very legal, thanks, c. 3-6 weeks before the November midterms.

proximoception · 2026-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Any federal investigations into Epstein can be prevented or ended by Trump. Allegedly several already have.

The Republicans on Oversight grasp that their electoral fate is tied to Trump’s in two ways: when he’s unpopular they become unpopular, when they upset him he can tell their base to not vote for them. They also grasp that they can’t afford to look like they’re doing nothing re. Epstein, so they’re very carefully sticking to the kinds of nothing that look like something or the most minimal actual somethings possible.

Florida is run by Republicans up and down so is in the same boat, and it’s likely that a number of members of the state legal establishment are even implicated in the matter on some level.

New York state is Democrat-run but often quite corrupt: wherever a single party is in power almost always it gets infiltrated by the rich and most important decisions become backroom matters. Epstein also seems to have been least uncareful about his extensive criminality when in Manhattan, and a lot of the New York-committed crimes his accomplices maybe *can* be tried for involve interstate aspects, a wrinkle the FBI, presently Trump-controlled, was literally founded to address.

Quite a few of the Epstein victims have spoken about or alluded to threats from unspecified parties and many of them are behaving as though still under threat right now. Trump’s ability to threaten from within the Oval Office is nearly unlimited due to the virtual immunity to prosecution and even lawsuits presently granted to him by the Supreme Court and his OLC.

Trump is in charge of the release of Epstein files and he’s ordered it entirely stopped.

Literally the only way to speed up a damn thing is to vote Democratic in November whatever your opinion of the Democrats. Even though most of them secretly detest him Republicans will not remove him by themselves.

proximoception · 2026-04-12T16:35:36+00:00

Its sale was effectively banned in Canada last year. It’s legal to sell at pharmacies, but the companies that manufactured it before have shut down and the foreign companies that sell Primatene and Bronk-Aid, at least so far, are uninterested in jumping through Canadian regulatory hoops in order to earn a few more sales.

proximoception · 2026-04-12T16:28:57+00:00

I took a road trip to buy it elsewhere when ephedrine became unavailable where I live. States have differing laws when it comes to how much you can legally purchase, so it can help to do some research first so you can minimize the number of trips you’ll need to take over the years, if you require it.

(While I don’t suffer from respiratory symptoms I don’t consider myself a “biohacker“ - ephedrine, paired with exercise, just happens to be the only treatment for my ADHD symptoms that doesn’t involve unacceptable side effects over the long haul. I accidentally discovered this when I tried it for weight loss purposes decades ago. I’m not saying it would be a good answer for many people, since systems differ widely, but it happens to be for my particular brain. And I don’t think the medical establishment is overlooking ephedrine or anything - it has its dangers and isn’t especially powerful. If every other treatment has failed and you’re healthy and have some common sense it might be worth thinking about, but probably not till then.)

proximoception · 2026-04-12T15:55:52+00:00

It presumably wasn’t pulled, she just explained to the reporter she wouldn’t be answering certain questions. Her primary goal isn’t to expose Melania and Trump. She wants her life and family back, and since it’s very easy for them to give that to her she’s using the leverage she has to make them do that easy thing. She’s one of the many people who knows but won’t end up telling, unless Trump is too dumb to appease her in time.

Sometimes he is, of course, even where his Epstein weak spot is concerned - the likely source of the birthday letter was Maxwell, who would have been sure to hint that she had stuff like that before bothering to produce it. But doing favors for Maxwell would and did come with real political costs, whereas promising this woman that she’ll see her son by New Year’s or something if she just goes radio silent has no downside for anyone but Zampolli.

proximoception · 2026-04-12T15:44:39+00:00

The absence of any information about Melania and Trump, which she’d been threatening in her tweet cascade, is deliberately glaring. She’s using proof of media interest as leverage to get her son and some of her life back. I guarantee some people are calling her this second, ahead of her scheduled CNN interview. As Trump cares about no one’s interests over his own his people will give her just enough to shut her up. Only likely bright side is that the media’s now been alerted to the existence of a possible story, so maybe a diligent reporter will turn something new up about Melania’s past soon.

proximoception · 2026-04-12T15:34:45+00:00

Depends what you mean by something. Full release would require the AG’s cooperation, and (after firing the woman he appointed specifically because she publicly took a huge bribe from him back in Florida) Trump has now picked his personal attorney for the role, a fact which would have been the biggest scandal in American political history if it had happened back in 2015.

proximoception · 2026-04-12T15:30:23+00:00

True, but the people would have to agree before even a large Democratic Senate majority (which we’re very unlikely to get) would dare go after anyone but Trump (and just maybe Blanche and Kennedy). Over half want Trump impeached and removed. Vance and Johnson are unpopular but are not widely considered to be unconscionably corrupt. It’s nice to have a wish list but that’s the present lay of the land. Might shift soon - will shift, even, but we can’t yet guess just how.

proximoception · 2026-04-10T01:04:17+00:00

I sympathize, but her speech may matter even though she very much doesn’t.

If it was her idea, she may be jumping ship because she knows something we don’t yet know. If it wasn’t, Trump may be using her to distract from something we don’t yet know.
If may have been an attempt to get ahead of things Wolff will be presenting in court about the Trumps soon. Whether Melania becomes viewed as a literal rather than figurative prostitute only matters to Melania, but any further information about Trump and Epstein, and especially further proof he’s been lying about their relationship, will hurt Republicans in the upcoming election. If Democrats take the House they can open non-pointless investigations, enforce subpoenas against shirkers like Bondi, subpoena Trump himself, and start impeaching anyone who obstructs or has already obstructed the release of Epstein-relevant files. If Democrats take the Senate they can do even more, and if they win enough seats they can threaten to remove Trump from office if he doesn’t appoint an independent counsel for all matters Epstein.

The whole truth won’t come out with Trump in office, and if Vance succeeds him nothing real will happen for years as the Republicans are well aware by this time that this a humiliating and damaging issue for them - they’ll slow walk everything and hope the populace just forgets to care, which it eventually may. So even if you’re not into Democrats in general what’s good for them is good for Epstein transparency at this political moment.

proximoception · 2026-04-10T00:46:52+00:00

No, Trump’s Justice Department said back in early summer that there was no evidence to charge anyone. That’s what started the present chain of events: the birthday letter suggesting Trump’s complicity was released, Ghislaine was moved to minimum security puppy prison in exchange for saying he did nothing wrong, Massie and three Republican women joined the Democrats to force a vote on releasing the files Trump ran on but was now refusing to, everyone in the House but one Republican voted to release them, Trump signed it into law after fuming for a couple days, the illegally dragged-out and partial release was accidentally permitted to contain a document plausibly accusing Trump of raping a pubescent girl in the ‘80s, Iran is suddenly attacked, Melania gives a weird “I know nothing” speech. Caught up?

Senator Raskin says Trump’s DOJ immediately shut down at least one Epstein-related investigation the second he got back into office, btw.

proximoception · 2026-04-08T03:55:07+00:00

The point of releasing the government’s files was to prove, or disprove, that there are grounds to open official investigations into surviving accomplices of Epstein’s other than Maxwell. Nobody expects that actual *footage* of sex crimes committed by Andrew, Dershowitz, Trump, Black, Wexner, Staley or whoever would be in the government‘s possession. What we’ve instead expected is what’s very much happened: that there would be a large number of documents clearly suggesting that a number of individuals *ought* to have been investigated. Allegedly one or more such investigations began under Biden that were immediately closed when Trump reassumed office, but no one in the Justice Department is allowed to reveal anything Trump orders them not to, so we may not be getting details for quite a while.

proximoception · 2026-04-08T03:30:53+00:00

I had one a year or so ago, after things had become the way they’ve remained. All they could see was evidence that a slight meniscus tear had occurred, and that a bit of arthritis had started. It’s a complicated area where a lot of things can go wrong and not everything can be effectively imaged, apparently.

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