Aidan Fitzgerald Murphy
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Starship launch next week!
SpaceX@SpaceX
Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…
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@theprasad_ This is the essence of Ekhart Tolles book, The Power of Now. Highly recommend.
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@sama Interesting, I've never come accross the goblin in the machine.
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@bryan_johnson Bryan could you help us understand the best way to implememt building/ dev/ work blocks and how many hours of productive work is possible. I'm using the 90 monute work block with 10 minute breaks. Thanks.
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Loved this morning.
Included a nap in today's routine.
May start napping more.
> asleep before 9 pm
> up at 5 am
> 8h sleep, no wake events
> work 2 hrs with fresh mind
> 50 min strength
> 12 min HIIT (30 sec sprints, 1 min recovery)
> 10 min flexibility
> 43 min, 200°F dry sauna
> hit core body temp 102.8°F / 39.4°C
> breakfast + work
> 1 hr nap
Sauna at 200°F for 43 min is intense, coupled with exercise, induces strong sleepiness. I was lights out for that 1hr nap. Woke up feeling it was 10/10 quality sleep.
The nap is a longevity therapy: supporting growth hormone release, glymphatic clearance, muscle protein synthesis, and cognitive consolidation.
I'd been skipping it because once the morning protocol ends, I'm dialed in as a builder. But I may be a better builder and rejuvenation athlete if naps are part of the daily routine. Especially on high exertion days.

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@Emp4thchan The feet that sank one thousand ships.
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@ronsterd89 english mustard,
or diced onion or red onion,
or ham
or rashers
or tobasco sauce
or tomatoe
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@bryan_johnson right boys, haul them back in.
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but this is bullshit.
The 1939 paper referenced is a study conducted on institutionalized men with documented depression, measuring a urinary testosterone byproduct, not serum levels, and without a control group. There hasn't been a replication in the last 85 years. The claim of a "nearly 200% testosterone increase" has been laundered through wellness influencers into apparent scientific consensus. The original data cannot support that assertion.
There is more legitimate science linking UV exposure and testosterone production. A 2021 Cell Reports study elegantly described how UVB light activates a "skin-to-brain-to-gonad" signaling pathway that stimulates testosterone production. Large population datasets do show testosterone peaks in summer months. This mechanism works through GENERAL skin exposure anywhere on the body. There is no identified pathway by which scrotal skin has any unique hormonal advantage over your chest, back, or arms.
The are risks too. Scrotal tissue requires temperatures 2–4°F below core body temperature for normal function. Localized heat disrupts sperm production and, with chronic exposure, causes documented testicular inflammation and scarring. Scrotal skin is thin, making UV-induced skin damage a legitimate concern.
"Scrotal tanning" has no high quality evidence behind it as a testosterone strategy. If UV-mediated hormonal support is the goal, moderate sun exposure to large skin surfaces with standard precautions, combined with optimizing your vitamin D levels, is where the actual evidence points. The scrotum offers no added benefit and real risks.
Magnus Vigsø@MagnusVigso
Sunning your balls increases your testosterone by 200% I’m not even kidding, lookup influence of ultraviolet irradiation upon excretion of sex hormones in the male, endocrinology, volume 25, issue 1, 1 july 1939, pages 7-12 Go out and soak up some of that vitamin D
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Falcon flies every few days.
You can see launches in person from Florida or California.
SpaceX@SpaceX
Liftoff!
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The Octopus eye is trash compared to the human eye, and I'm tired of people treating the nerve arrangement like it's some brilliant innovation over ours.
Time for another biology rant
Dion Almaer@dalmaer
Funny how “God” worked it out for the octopus but not humans. Huh.
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@MikhailaFuller All the best Mikhaila to you and your family.
At least ye know the cause now.
Your dad would be proud of you and the amazing resilience you have shown in this situation.
"Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine." (we live in one another’s shelter.)
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We figured out that dad has a psych med induced neurological injury, and has been suffering from akathisia. It’s been 6 years since any psych medications. Last summer his symptoms started, after a flare up likely induced by mold (CIRS) and stress. It was complicated by pneumonia and associated sepsis a month later. It’s been horrible. Neurological injuries from psych meds are far more common than people know. I made this video to explain what they are and what akathisia is because they’re not talked about enough, they’re misdiagnosed, nearly impossible to treat, and hidden by the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t plan on making another update about my dad, it stresses my family out, and myself, and there’s nothing more to say about it until things get better. I will be jumping up and down about psych med injury awareness from now on as it’s impacted my health as well, and is devastating. Prayers are appreciated still.
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@Meta_Trav @MikhailaFuller A person describes real personal suffering and you choose to answer it with ugliness, insinuation, slander and a baseless accusation.
It is a deeply indecent thing to do.
You should be ashamed of your words.
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I don't believe a word of this. Something happened, it puts him in a bad light. This is just cover for it.
"We figured out"... you or the doctors? Did some google searches? ChatGPT'ed it?
"Don't plan on making another update... stresses the family out."
Disturbing on so many levels. Munchausen by proxy.
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10 squats beats a 30 min walk.
For blood sugar control after a meal, doing 10 squats every 45 minutes outperforms a dedicated 30 min walk by 14%.
The mechanism: your quadriceps and glutes are the largest glucose sponge in your body. Activating them repeatedly clears more glucose than one sustained effort.
The 30 min walk isn't wrong, it's just not as effective.

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@EssentialMastry A function of the cost of land and material.
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