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    For your sins of axis-cropping, you shall be redeemed by reciting the periodic table thrice.

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      He’s one of the smartest youtubers I routinely watch. And yeah, crazy high testosterone, although you might never guess. I generally would assume someone with that much testosterone would have some facial hair.

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        im guessing he also has some degree of androgen insensitivity. having crazy high testosterone youd expect large muscles, lots of facial hair, male pattern baldness, a low voice, but hes not that big, has at least thin facial hair that he shaves, a full head of hair, and a relatively high voice. idk if any version of androgen insensitivity is associated with very high testosterone levels but i wouldn’t be surprised.

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        That’s not how testosterone works. It’s not fuel, it’s just a signal. Everyone’s neutral baseline is calibrated differently depending on developmental events mainly in the womb. It’s not about how much absolute testosterone you have in a snapshot, it’s about how much higher or lower you are than your own personal baseline. Your body will tend to maintain near your baseline, which might be much higher or lower than someone else’s baseline, while “meaning” the same thing.

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          Yes! Free oestrogen is not actually a particularly good thing if you’re not on antiandrogens and pointless if you are. E-maxxing is sadly money down the drain.

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            Might not have the hair for too long. Though you might. Depends on the tolerance for testosterone. Just know that high testosterone and baldness are highly correlated

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              You could also have a high tolerance for DHT, which is the metabolite of testosterone associated with hair loss.

              In general though I think a lot of people focus very hard on the specific hormones, and typically they’ll do what they say on the tin in standard doses. But there are a lot of edge cases. Higher or lower sensitivities, general proclivities, etc.

              Before transitioning most people would’ve suspected I had very high T. I had a deep voice at a young age, built muscle fast, full beard as a teenager, the whole shebang minus baldness (but I transitioned young so that could just be time). But nope, my levels were average. I also responded fairly strongly to estrogen.

              What’s far more important than your numbers is if you’re getting healthy and acceptable effects from your hormone levels. There’s no need to mess with your levels unless there’s need to mess with your levels.

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              Iirc, keeping or losing your hair as a guy has to do with DHT receptors in your hair follicles. T doesn’t make your hair fall out, but DHT does, and your body produces more DHT as you get older (hence why finastride works as a hair loss inhibitor - it blocks DHT from the receptors in your hair). But only the hair on the top of your head is sensitive to this, with sensitivity higher in some places than others. Hence, some guys bald on the crown first, while some have a receding hairline first, and some never bald at all.

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        How do you know what his testosterone levels is?

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      I came to say this! OG madlad.

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    styropyro

    He has some mystery condition where his testosterone is super high… He’s very smart, but maybe not quite there.

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      Tbh if you told me there’s a STEM youtuber with worryingly high levels of testosterone, Styropyro would be my first guess

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      That’s literally who I thought about and I’m so glad someone mentioned it. He’s a freakishly smart dude.

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        He’s posted very little on it. Last we heard they didn’t find any cancers or anything and he wasn’t really suffering from it. He had some strange symptoms and it it just came up in tests that didn’t like up with what he was there for. But it was really really high.

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          Well, as long as it isn’t negatively affecting him I guess. But I assume that he’ll have to somewhat regularly monitor it with bloodwork checkups

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            Yeah, we have to assume he’s in good hands. No good to assume anything else

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        IIRC that’s why most labs require multiple samples but IANAMD.

        Transient elevation is possible without long term aberrant effects, though the result will have to be explained to future doctors and insurance underwriters who will want to know if it was due to poorly-managed / self-administered HRT or an unchecked gonadal growth. If neither of those things, and no other symptoms present, it’s treated as normal.

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      The guy who killed a dude to accomplish no changes in the system he opposed and then went to prison for life?

      Nah, I think he’d be on the other side of the chart.

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        Damn, poor little baby sure is jealous that Luigi got the entire US talking about the evils of private health insurance for weeks if not months and took down a mass-murderer.

        What a little cockweasel you are.

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          Yeah totes wish I was getting locked up and watching the company I hated was hiring a new profit-focused CEO to continue its rollout of AI-powered claim review denying claims in record high amounts.

          Sooo jelly

          /s

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            Hey, man, Luigi was fighting for you too; maybe with proper dental care, for example, you could finally have those boot polish stains removed from your teeth.

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              You’re not opposing any boots yourself, shoeshine. You’re doing fuck all to help anyone.

              Just like Luigi: impotent rage incapable of bringing about change.

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                You’re doing fuck all to help anyone.

                No one said I was, you illiterate fuck. That’s why I don’t shit on people who are.

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                I dunno, that one CEO surely didn’t think Mangione’s alleged rage was very impotent, and all the other CEOs that got scared didn’t think so, either. Unfortunately the American people let Luigi down, though

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                  Scared? UHC aren’t acting scared, that’s for sure, they’re ramping up automation to deny more claims.

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                I sorta hear where you’re coming from but I think for most people, someone getting out there and shooting someone is a million times more ballsy and proactive than we’ll ever be. Agreed that it was misguided/naive though. I think it’s hard to know what will actually bring about the much needed change.

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          No, actually, I can’t think of any successful revolutions that have? Generally, the death or incarceration of a figurehead harms the movement dramatically.

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            Wow look, ahistoric nonsense proven wrong by even the most cursory look at world history. How embarrassing.

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                That’s not hard. Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, José Mujica, Kim Dae-jung. I lived in Czechia under Havel and it was certainly the greatest moment in history I will ever experience. It still gives me hope for humanity.

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                  Nelson Mandela died in 2013, though he is a good choice for being imprisoned for 27 years it is difficult to say that it in any way helped his cause since Apartheid lasted from the 1940s to 1994. He got a lot more done after being released in 1990 I tell you that much. It also didn’t hurt to have people like POTUS Bill Clinton on his side.

                  Havel was cool but being the first and final president of Czechoslovakia isn’t all that "revolutionary ".

                  Jose Mujica again a revolutionary in his youth and a normal politician in his later years.

                  Kim Dae-Jung…

                  Do you dudes have no idea what a successful revolution is? Because it isn’t slow legislative reform. That’s kind of the crux of the issue, all of these men had the sense to do what Luigi did not: pursue peaceful political reform and increase civillian engagement in democratic politics.

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                MLK, Nelson Mandela, Helen of Troy, the American revolution, the IRA, the entire history of Europe, the suffragettes, stonewall, Rosa parks, countless hunger strikers in prison, conscientious objectors throughout recorded history, Malcolm x, anyone persecuted under Jim crow, Rosa Luxembourg, Nadia Rumad. Off the top of my head.

                You really asked if there are people from successful political movements who have been killed, had people make an attempt on their life, or were put in prison.

                edit - cleaning up typos

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                  MLK Jr died in 1968, long after the civil rights act was signed into law.

                  George Washington did not die in the Revolution, idk where you heard that.

                  Helena as in the daughter of Zues? Okay pal.

                  The “suffragettes” generally refers to the WSPU which failed and disbanded in 1914 several years before some few women were allowed to vote in 1918 due to the efforts of different groups and more broadly in 1928.

                  How the fuck do you claim the entire IRA died but also accomplished a successful revolution?

                  The entirety of Europe? You think the entirety of Europe is currently dead?!

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        As opposed to people who are being thrown in prison for wearing a black shirt?

        Your argument has the consistency of a sieve in reality.

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          ???

          In what reality are those two things opposed?

          You’re saying if Luigi hadn’t killed Brian that people in black shirts would be under arrest?

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        I like people who weren’t captured imprisoned

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        P.S. put up or shut up, if the world needs more Bernies like you say than step the fuck up or get out of the fucking way.

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          People like Luigi Cultists are the ones in the way. They don’t want Bernies. They don’t want people participating in “the system”. They want violence.

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              If you believe it is organic you can find over 115 of them right up there. Luigi Cultists, who reject the reality of his impact and substitute their own.

              Though, given how hard it is to get that much engagement on a post much less a comment, it most certainly is not organic.

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                Okay sooo… what does your OP have to do with Senator Bernie Sanders again? It’s not like it’s impossible to support multiple paths of action, that’s pretty par for the course in political movements. You shitting on one for not having immediate success just strikes as hypocritical and, ironically, not useful to the movement.

                But those bots, oof yeah. big-luigi at it again siccing dozens of phoney Lemmy downvotes on poor, uh, you. If it wasn’t for them then I and everyone else would probably agree with you.

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                  If you become a Luigi Mangione you can never become a Bernie Sanders. Mutual exclusivity. Even if you become a political icon it will always be clear that you prefer the path of violence over all other action.