Clearly, all Big Tech needs to do is to create some version of "Flock-powered" smart glasses and, all of a sudden, U.S. police will become Meta's biggest cheerleaders here.
It's a gift until it's a curse, and ADHD crashout/burnout is an absolute monster to overcome when it arrives.
And for any person who's tasked with any sort of responsibility, it WILL arrive at some point. It's not a question of if, only a question of how well you can prepare for its arrival.
At its core it has striking similarities with a freeze response, which is overcome by increasing heart rate (e.g. stimulants, exercise, temperature shock). Big overlap with CPTSD symptoms as well.
Not to "Well, Actually," but it was intended to be both. Tai Chi and its related arts (xingyi, tongbei, etc.) were formalized and taught by the old masters as expressions of the Tao. The base movements are derived from the basic elements of the Tao, and Taoist meditiation and internal medicinal practices (qigong) were as important as learning how to produce explosive force (fajin) from it.
Learning Tai Chi in the way that it was meant to be learned means cultivating not just your external body but also your spiritual self, mental wellness, and internal organs as well.
Many of the true old masters of Tai Chi fled to Taiwan during the Cultural Revolution.
So, if you want the best of both worlds (to learn Tai Chi AND avoid modern China's soft-power influence), sign up to a school that traces its roots back to Taiwan from that era.
The 19th century isn't THAT long ago. Master Sun Lutang, founder of one of the martial art branches of Tai Chi died in the 1930s (1). There are folks alive today, such as Grandmaster Lin Chih Young (2) who can claim a lineage to him that goes back only three generations, and there are others walking around who are only four or five generations removed. These lineages are unbroken and, although some of the ancient material has, indeed, truly been lost, much of the Wu Dang / Taoism-based martial arts are still preserved and can still be "transmitted" to anyone willing to find these teachers and put the time in.
Many of these 19th century masters cross-trained in all of the related arts from that era and proceeded to carry down these traditions to their students.
Therefore, the original movements can, indeed, still be found in the world, and you can still learn them. You just won't see any of these movements displayed in Hollywood (because they're not flashy enough for the big screen), or in an MMA ring (because they're not designed for sport fighting), or through any school or lineage that remains or currently exists in China post-Cultural Revolution (because all of the true practictioners fled to Taiwan and elsewhere).
But you're right in that it doesn't AT ALL look like the Tai Chi that most of the world practices today. Many of the movements and forms have kept the same names... but they are trained and performed VERY differently from what most people would recognize.
Full disclosure: I mentioned Grandmaster Lin specifically because I've met, witnessed, and learned from him directly having attended seminars that he's run in the past.
> For instance, testosterone therapy often carries risks. Supplementing the hormone signals the body to shut down production of its own supply, which can shrink the testicles and suppress sperm. Some researchers have even studied testosterone for its contraceptive effects.
> Moreover, because testosterone revs up oil glands and hair follicles – and partly converts them to estrogen – it can also bring about acne, balding and even some breast tissue growth.
You gotta love ironic consequences.
It turns out that all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.
Men who try to shortcut all that by taking extra T may find themselves enhancing the very physical traits that they're seeking to avoid.
> all you need to do to become stronger and more "manly" is to exercise, sleep well, and maintain a nutritious diet.
One also needs to be handy, humble, kind to and protective of the weak, trustworthy and able to keep your word, and not a coward, moral or otherwise. You know, have character.
I have “TDS” specifically because these all are lacking, so lacking it is as if by deliberate abdication, among those leading the new masculinity cult in America.
Nah. Just do dollar cost averaging. The market will drop but it will come back. It is impossible to predict how the market will move, unless you have insider knowledge or power to manipulate the markets.
> But it's definitely distasteful to write a book about a living individual without their consent (even though this does happen all the time; technically Wikipedia does this too).
I do wonder about what would happen if the LLM were to hallucinate negative facts about the person.
Like, if some asshat vibe-wrote a biography about me that claimed that I once kicked a sack full of puppies as a child, would I be able to sue the "author" for defamation? At least, would it even be worth it to pursue?
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