Hyperreality

And anyone who disagrees is a bitch whore or beta cuck soyboy. /s

I'll check it out.

Weight lifting and bodyweight exercises.

I have a cheap bench press and do a limited amount of exercises once or twice a week. It's boring and repetitive.

But all those little bits add up.

Even though I'm often severely depressed, I have managed to keep going. I stop for a week or two, but then I restart. And I am reminded of that when I look in a mirror or I catch someone 'mirin. Even now when I'm getting older. I'll have a better body at 50 than I did at 20. I don't look like the terminator, but I look better than most guys my age.

I have a couple of degrees, but I'm less proud of those. I sometimes regret going to uni, many people have a degree, being able to study is often a result of luck (parents, money), and it is something young you did. My body is something I have accomplished over years and years of repeated (if small) effort.

Germany allows max 0.2% THC. Ie. might as well have no THC at all.

Realistically, I think CBD oil sold in much of Europe is a scam because of similar regulation.

You're better off buying actual weed, but adjusting the dose, than wasting your money on what they sell in health shops here.

IRC you can't even buy CBD oil with a significant amount of THC in Germany.

Honestly, if you live near the border with NL or know someone, you're better off smoking a joint or making some brownies, or buying actual cannabis oil with THC from time to time. It'll make you high if you take too much, but IME does actually work unlike CBD alone which has little scientific evidence of working.

Sure, drugs bad. But honestly, weed is far less dangerous than alcohol. IME also tends to wear off after max 4 hours even if you smoked far too much, unlike alcohol where you can be slightly drunk the next day, not notice, and end up driving drunk. Ibuprofen really isn't great used longterm. Neither is paracetamol. Be careful about interactions with other medication though.

Buy some actual cannabis oil, make some brownies, experiment how much is needed to get you high. Take a little less than that.

And hope Germany fully legalizes soon. Even if you never use weed, if some people smoke a joint rather than drink, it'll result in less vomit and fighting.

You're getting a lot of answers from Americans. Be aware that CBD oil sold in Germany (Dm, Rossmann, etc.) almost certainly doesn't contain significant levels of THC.

The evidence doesn't seem to suggest CBD alone is effective in pain management:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/cbd-for-chronic-pain-the-science-doesnt-match-the-marketing-2020092321003

Cannabis oil that contains THC is almost certainly a different matter.

An entire generation has grown up not expecting privacy. It's their normal.

Sorry, no. Think it was something on NHK I watched several years ago.

IRC there's a museum in Paris which proudly shows all the inventions made by the French. It's worth a visit, simply because you'll likely have been taught plenty of them were American inventions. If you're a Brit, you'll have been taught many of those same inventions were British.

Jingoism and claiming inventions go hand in hand.

So if you visit a French museum and exhibit on the internet, they'd likey focus on Rémi Després, who was cited by Kahn and Cerf in their paper which IRC proposed the concept of TCP/IP. If you visit a British museum, they'll spend more time discussing Tim Berners-Lee and the world wide web. A Russian museum might mention Sary Shagan, who helped develop computer networks in the 1950s or they might mention OGAS a 1960s plan for a nationwide computer network.

It's the same for things like radio, the telephone, mobile telephones or television. Depending on who you ask, the country that invented it changes.

The reality is often more nuanced and complicated.

I was watching a documentary about this. White guy who's been living in Japan for decades goes to dying villages, talks with the locals in Japanese, they complain about no one wanting to live in villages, declining house prices, no one to do the necessary jobs. He mentions it'd be nice to live in a village.

The look of fear. You wouldn't understand the culture, we have a certain way of doing things, ... yadayada.

It's good that he's been able to find help, it's good that he's advocating for more help. But let's be real. For most of us in the here and now, we're better off hiding it.

Being honest about mental illness is a great way to get fired or never work again. Especially if you can't afford or don't have access to help.

If anyone has tips for disguising long gaps on a cv, that would be genuinely helpful.

If you're Zuckerberg, there's a non-zero chance you help anyone fight a lawsuit against Twitter.

However, there is a very good reason not to do it. Legal proceedings against Musk, might distract him from running twitter into the ground.

This quote is annoyingly relevant to this day:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”