What stretches did you do to help with your APT? I think I have it slightly and would like to work on it.

I would stretch my hip flexors by lying on my stomach and grabbing one leg at a time by the heel, and also go into a super-low squat position while holding on to something for support, letting the low back really stretch. Another one was lying on my stomach, arms above me somewhat wider than shoulder width, and twisting from one side to the other. I'm not sure which of these helped most but between them my APT disappeared.

Lexington Kentucky could be a good example of this, though I dont know if UK would be considered small.

At 30,000 students, UK is definitely not small.

Also, it’s a land grant university. Those are big, old, and typically have great endowments.

While ive only been a dev for a bit over a year at my current company we use JIRA and its been pretty easy to understand and work with. Issue comes in a tester and dev is assigned work is tracked through the issues ID and you just move the status through its lifecycle (progres, review, testing, done). Maybe theirs more cumbersome workflows at other companies but mine seems to keep it straightforward.

When I got into lifting I was told not to do static stretches like quad pulls or arm across chest ect but to work on dynamic stretches like leg swings and foam rolling just to get blood flowing to those areas and then to do static stretches after the lifting session if you really want to. The idea I was told was that stretching cold is just like pulling on a cold rubber band; its easier to snap.

Also, could asking men in computer science why they didn't choose an female dominated industry shed any light on the issue as well? Might shed some light on the issue from a different perspective but I think it would leave out some externalities that women face that men do not.

I hope programs like this work and continue to help out my fellow Kentuckians. Beyond coal, factory, or retail jobs the opportunities for work in eastern kentucky and appalachia in general is bleak.

Ive done DMT probably 10-15 times in my life so far but quit all recreational drugs ~3 years ago. My last trip being the most intense; me and a friend used a dabbing rig and poured about a gram of dmt onto the heated metal nail - for 20 minutes but what seemed like eternity I Observed the birth, life, and death of myself multiple times over until I finally came back down to the ‘real world’.

did you regret that last one? how much of a DMT trip can you actually remember?

In general it doesn't seem like memory is affected; the main difficulty is making sense of what you experienced.

This. I spent a solid year reflecting and trying to understand everything that happened during my first LSD experience. The whole thing simply transcends anything you have ever experienced.

When you “see” a strange loop involving your mind creating the physical world as you know it, and at the same time realizing the physical world enables your mind, it can take a long time to unpack. Sure when I’m here, we say that the mind is just a construct within he physical world, that just happens to be modeling the physical world. But that Doesn’t make it any less of a significant experience.

It was like seeing the concept of ying-yang (duality and mutual dependence) reflected onto mind-body problem, and everything else.

Oh great times when you get bored of all the analytical logic problems of the everyday world. :)

It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of what 'forms' of manufacturing are leaving the nation. Its pretty obvious that as trade agreements rise up and its more cost effective to move manufacturing to other countries with lower payed workers that the company would do that but my guess would be that higher(?) quality manufacturing still goes on stateside rather than in China or Mexico for fear of IP theft. So for things like high grade medical devices - MRI, CT scanners would still be manufactured here because of the knowledge and technology necessary to construct it.

I also think theirs a good Stephen Hawking quote I like to think of when people discuss how in a post scarcity world with full automation life will be a utopia and its something along the lines of "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed,"

I feel about the same. From the time I was 14 I was smoking pot nearly everyday until about 3 months ago when I decided to cut it out of my life completely. I really dont have an exact 'why' but I came home after work one day looked at a bowl that I had packed the previous night and decided to flush my weed down the toilet and throw all my paraphernalia and accessories (grinder, papers, wraps, bowls) down the trash chute.

I haven't missed it once honestly. Maybe I just came to a realization that I didn't enjoy it in the first place.

Edit: I'd like to add that around the same time I gave up/quit using all drugs (except a beer or two on the weekends) unless they were prescribed to me by my doctor. Even then I refused pain medication when I broke my hand because I think I have a tendency for substance abuse.

Surprisingly a noticeable chunk of the people in my bjj classes were software engineers. A lot higher percentage than in my boxing or muay thai classes.

I've noticed that too, especially in the gi compared to boxing. Lots more doctors / lawyers / engineers training in the gi. I think it's because we're all weak and need the grips to slow people down, haha. Well let me speak for myself, I'm weak and need the grips to slow people down.

Hah, could be a strength thing but most of the guys/gals Ive spoken with about it seem to join choose bjj over another martial art for the brain safety. Way less chance of a concussion in grappling than boxing, kickboxing or muay thai!

I prefer the Gi too, work on your monkey grip in no-gi if thats giving you problems though!