u/Agreeable-Pea4327

pretty much, trying to get into the ramen game

the two brands I arrived at were maruchan

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MIK4GCS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

and nissin

https://www.amazon.com/Nissin-Top-Ramen-Chicken-24/dp/B006MBTC50

now, initially in my head, I was thinking, "one of these is $8, obviously the better choice, since they're both ramen, plus, this nissin stuff doesn't come in the hellish styrofoam packaging that will give me god only knows what microplastic contamination, click buy"

but turns out, I was completely wrong! There's something about the nissin ramen that really just does not make me feel good after eating it.

So, my question is, what the heck is the difference between these two ramens? They both are ramen, they're both made of same grain, even when I don't use any of the seasoning, the effect of eating them is completely different!?

If the provider does EASE type cuts and fully separates the midline maxillary suture before expansion begins, would FME/MARPE differ in their vertical drop?

In my head, the intuitive physics would say they'd probably drop the same, but this field seems to always flips my intuition on its head, so ya, just curious if this has been discussed or studied somewhere

Just for context, I have small pharyngeal airway and would like to limit vertical drop so as not to incur further tongue collpase while still gaining the benefit of nasal breathing benefits for my uars

thanks :) !!!

If the whispered one is able to become a god through belief, then does that mean the other deities all became gods through similar belief rituals, or is the whispered one kinda not actually a god or something?

Idk, I'm trying to understand the distinction better

Also, follow up question, does anyone know if he brings delilah back, or if he was just lieing his ass off in order to ascend?

This probably gets asked a lot, sorry, but for the summer, does anyone know of some group fitness activities in the area? I'd like to improve my cardio with some added group motivation

Thanks!

Hey all, does anyone know of some good periodontists for SFOT. The only one I'm familiar with is Dr. Mandelaris, but he's quite far away for me.

I am watching a cattle youtuber, and it occurred to me that it seems like cattle have a lot of fly protection mechanisms except for bulls and their testicles.

The ones that have bald scrotum really seem to just be hanging their balls like a meal on a platter for flies

Outside of farms, how did bulls naturally prevent and protect their testicles? I don't see them really doing much from the videos the youtuber makes

There must've been some evolutionary process that occurred, but I'm not really seeing it

In the episode where walt uses fulminated mercury to get back his stolen money from tuco by blowing up his hideout, there is a security camera that tuco looks through to see walter at the front door and let him in

when the DEA hit tuco's hideout, how did they not find walter on the security camera that watched the front door?

I was thinking about the hallucination model that jiang discusses and how it relates back to his first game theory videos. He talks about game theory, and also discusses power as a artifact of control over one's attention, but I'm not sure if he points out which literature artifacts he derived that point of view from, or if he ever points it out in any of his videos.

The reason I ask is because I think it's a correct point of view, but I think there may be one layer below control of attention leading to power which is that attention is just looking at something with a focus on it in the present to the future moment right after the present moment. In other words, another way to define power would be to say "power is the function of knowing what will come next after the present moment", whereas the attention model that jiang presents states "power is the function of defining what will come next after the present moment"

In other words, the former model states that a person in the right place at the right time has power, they don't have to twist anyone's arms for that power, they just were at the right place at the right time.

This is important, because it implies that you just have to be good at identifying what path is needed to be the right person at the right time for attention to be in your favor, which is a super set of having to take explicit actions in order to define a particular time/place

I realize this nuance is pretty pedantic, but I reckon Jiang probably derived and refined his attention model from somewhere, but I'm not sure where it was derived from, or if he discusses that in any subsequent or older videos

Anyone else get the feeling that claude (as in the claude from claude.ai website) feels like it's running on ultra low effort when responding by just kissing ass or being extremely pedantic/overly confident, like "i said a lot of words, therefore I am correct!"

It's really pissing me off

I'm at the point where I want to just find a git library that does deep research and run claude code on it, so I can avoid using the chat claude for anything at all (speaking of which, does anyone know a good lib that does it and uses the claude code subscription? I found a couple, but they were kinda meh)

I simultaneously understand that all of the infrastructure going into AI has a lot of room for growth and will most likely suck up pretty much all industries while also increasing productivity for anything with a moat against the hyperscalers

At the same time

I can't deny the following:

a lot of people will lose their jobs very quickly (much more quickly than previous industrial revolutions)

US is no longer looked at like a stable partner/investment due to its governmental instability

wars are breaking out, and will likely only grow as people recognize the US as a paper tiger

massive wealth inequality leading to higher taxes and government instabilities

and leading off of that wealth inequality, at least for 2026-2028, I can't imagine we'll have a one party government anymore, which means there will be a lot more fear of less money printing (albeit, once 2028 hits, we may go back to single party again, and a lot higher likelihood of money printing to deal with any stock declines)

rising rates

global bond market, while most likely to be bailed out if anything goes awry, still volatile

trade war / supply chain / energy volatility

while AI will lead to productivity boom, the current incarnation is being utilized in the current corporate american environment in a perverted way to maintain the corporate hierarchy status quo rather than actually change it from the ground up, and that only newer startup companies are thinking in a truly "agentic" sense from the ground up. Thus, these "perverted" incumbents are more or less doomed to be eaten alive by non-public companies. Truly creative destruction in effect. Adobe being a prime example.

aside from spacex (ridiculous valuation) and openai, none of these startups are going public

I don't see how the "covid money printing" money didn't already work itself into the current market, so I don't see how there's some residual flow from that, but maybe I'm wrong. If I'm not mistaken people/companies took out the loans, and are still paying off the loans while already having dumped the money in the market

So, it genuinely feels like you'd have to be crazy to continue to put money into the market at this point. How the hell are ya'll keeping your sanity? Where's the money coming from that just is the firehose that will push stock market much higher despite all these adverse conditions?

To be clear, I'm not interested in hearing the response of the "set it and forget it" 401k squad. I know you exist, you don't have to comment to remind me lol. I'm not denying the value of your strategy by making this disclaimer btw, it's just not who I'm looking for wisdom from here.

I feel like for the first time in my life, the alternative of TIPs or something like that actually makes sense. However, there must be some diversification angle I'm missing here.

In the video "Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes" Jiang says that civilizations that are based on city states ultimately lead to corruption and death by bureaucracy, and then he mentioned that the indus river valley was the only exception and he would talk about that later in the video, but he never returns to the topic.

I'm actually quite curious if there is a way to avoid bureaucracy, because that would be cool to know about as I decide where to live for my life.

Idk where I heard it, I think on youtube, but I'm running into a similar problem with Dr. Mannuele's staff and them being pretty darn inflexible on sharing details about what the initial recorded consultation includes. Can anyone please help me understand whether the two questions in the title are included in the recorded consultation.

Concretely:

1. If he mentions if FME would fit in your palette, or if it is too narrow and requires some other type of marpe? (or generally which kind of marpe he recommends)

2. If he mentions the amount of expansion he estimates he'd be able to achieve with your case?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't appreciate being left in the dark on paying money for a consult and not knowing what I'll actually get, and then knowingly being upsold on a follow up consultation where I'll actually be able to talk about the tiny number of questions that I'm actually interested in discussing (in the title). I've heard mannuele's great, so not sure why he thought it would be a good business strategy. Frost's practice (another prominent ortho in the US west coast) literally just does free videos for patients and take's questions you're interested in. I suggested the possibility of just having these two questions answered in the recording and I could just pay the same amount as the live q&a, and I'm currently getting ignored, so idk whether that's negotiation tactics or something, but not a great first impression nonetheless. Also, for context, I've already consulted with other orthos on this, plus watched his videos online, so other questions have already been answered.

I'd greatly appreciate some wisdom if anyone worked with his practice previously. Thanks all

I don't want to end up in the news as someone who died from having too much glue chemicals or something like that 😨

but I would like to use props that are attached to my skin frequently for streaming. Is there a particular theatrical glue that is designed for this purpose? I will be using magnetic forces as well, so I'd like to find a glue that has a strong hold