@SimpTheotokos and honestly I don't feel much of a deep connection with US history beyond stuff where I knew/know someone who lived through it. Like WWII I feel pretty connected with since my grandfather saw heavy action in Europe. But the War of 1812? Might as well be Lord of the Rings to me.
It's a bit funny to read about stuff like the American Revolution or Civil War and think of that as a "we." That is indeed the same culture and civilizational continuum I am a part of today, but all of my direct ancestors were in Europe at that point. Most came after 1900.
@SimpTheotokos Mostly I feel like I'm reading it through foreign eyes because I've never been a part of that culture. I feel more of a connection when it's very specific stuff that's oddly close to family history, like, idk life for lutheran pastor families in rural hesse.
@beshearandydem I was using a similar topical for a while that had a few more ingredients. honestly I'm getting better results from oral. I think it was hard to get on my scalp (instead of hair) and hard to dose properly.
Estrogen seems to be fairly weak at promoting scalp hair growth on its own, but HRT+minoxidil is usually way way stronger than fin+min and I wonder why that is. I don't think it's just more extensive androgen suppression.
The part that's equally liberating and terrifying is that you don't really have to be anything in particular; there's no "true self" buried in all this. Instead it's something that's constantly being shaped and refined and interacting with the world around it.
It's both terrifying and exciting when you realize that after you peel back your memories, experiences, thoughts, emotions, dispositions, etc. there isn't really a "you" waiting there. You aren't a ghost piloting a meat robot. Turns out that "you" are just a pattern that arises.
Two of the scenes depicted on this are the Battle of Valmy and the Proclamation of the Republic that was made the following day in 1792. The Jacobin radicals who built the First Republic absolutely wouldn't be pearl clutching like some are
The way neoliberal economists were allowed to treat various poor countries' economies as their personal laboratories in the latter part of the 20th century was just insanely criminal.