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It's been five years since he passed. Sometimes I think of him and wonder what he would say about this or that. RIP. 

I did. Once I installed it on my phone, and found a lot of fun stuff. But after a few days I deleted the app. Too much of my time is sucked by IG, stupid video games, and YouTube, I did not want to add a new addiction. 

After ignoring TT for years, I am finally getting sucked in. At least the content is useful, unlike that on certain other pllatforms. Has anyone else found fun stuff on there?
(I'll link to the IG versions since that's what the forum software likes.) 
 

ʙᴏᴅʏ ʙʏ ᴍᴀʀᴋ™ (@bodybymark) • Instagram reel
WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 669K likes, 6,446 comments - bodybymark on October 8, 2024: "Asking fit cop 👮🏻‍♂️ what he does for his workouts. #nyc #nypd #workout #fitness".     Matt Newman (@mattloveshair) • Instagram reel
WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 9,425 likes, 151 comments - mattloveshair on January 21, 2025: "the secret sauce to the airwrap curls!! #hairtips #hairroutine #hairtutorial #hairofinstagram #beautytips...  

After ignoring TT for years, I am finally getting sucked in. At least the content is useful, unlike that on certain other pllatforms. Has anyone else found fun stuff on there?
(I'll link to the IG versions since that's what the forum software likes.) 
 

ʙᴏᴅʏ ʙʏ ᴍᴀʀᴋ™ (@bodybymark) • Instagram reel
WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 669K likes, 6,446 comments - bodybymark on October 8, 2024: "Asking fit cop 👮🏻‍♂️ what he does for his workouts. #nyc #nypd #workout #fitness".     Matt Newman (@mattloveshair) • Instagram reel
WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM 9,425 likes, 151 comments - mattloveshair on January 21, 2025: "the secret sauce to the airwrap curls!! #hairtips #hairroutine #hairtutorial #hairofinstagram #beautytips...  

He was a good friend of mine. One of my only friends I ever had............

It's been five years since he passed. Sometimes I think of him and wonder what he would say about this or that. RIP. 

I don’t know what to say. He was incredibly kind and, yes, an assertive alpha guy. RIP. I remember his love for boating. I still remember his reaction to the Boaty McBoatface story.
https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/boaty-mcboatface.112814/#post-1074536

It's been five years since he passed. Sometimes I think of him and wonder what he would say about this or that. RIP. 

Interesting. I took him to be pretty shrewd. 

GESUNDHEIT!

I'm watching the fireworks over Sydney Harbour Bridge (and the rest of the harbour), glass of a nice red in hand.
A happy and prosperous new year to all, may it bring everything you wished for yourselves and those dear to you.

These are Japanese dwarf flying squirrels.

This elephant thinks the man is in trouble, so she rushes in to rescue him.

It's been five years since he passed. Sometimes I think of him and wonder what he would say about this or that. RIP. 

https://www.companyofmen.org/topic/123093-longtime-forum-member-bigvalboy-has-died/
 

It's been five years since he passed. Sometimes I think of him and wonder what he would say about this or that. RIP. 

It seems ancient history to some, but for those of us who lived through the epidemic, we can never forget the suffering and anguish of our friends who didn't make it. Let's remember them today.

This test competes with the Grail, which has been around for a couple of years. Here is the NYT’s take on both. They are calibrated to minimize the rate of false alarma, which means they miss more actual disease too. As the article says, they are not yet good enough to compete with invasive screening like colonoscopies. 
I’d call these tests a diagnostic lottery ticket, similar to full body MRIs and CTs. You’re paying $700-$1000 for a tiny chance that the test will catch something. As the article says, the tests are best for firemen and other people who are high risk for specific diseases that these tests detect.

I had my new patient intake for Wegovy on Monday. It was a good appointment. The NP was thorough and I left with a script for Wegovy. I knew I needed a pre auth for my insurance but other colleagues with identical plans and fewer comorbidities had no issue, so I was guardedly optimistic it would be approved.
I receive a message from the weight clinic yesterday afternoon.
I was livid. I check out the app and see the
 
On closer examination of the visit notes, it’s clear my NP had spent an inordinate amount of time documenting this behavioral information that I shared for transparency’s sake but only included a subordinate clause about my lifetime of obesity and the myriad attempts and programs I have tried. Having read that, if that’s what submitted for the pre auth, no wonder it was denied. I could’ve predicted that based off the notes. The notes were not representative of most of the office visit. I was livid, as I said.
I call my insurance. I filed an appeal. I’m not hopeful because the NP’s as is are damning. I can’t believe she would submit that in that form if the hope was to get the pre auth approved.
I spent last night very demotivated, demoralized, and defeated. I initially had a sense of true hopelessness that made me think, “Why bother keeping on?” I got out of that…But it is yet another hurdle. And an unnecessary one. It’s the typical “did you try dieting and exercising?” trope.

I read this thing once about how the people most knowledgeable about nutrition are overweight people because we’ve been trying all our lives to make those rules work for us. But hey – we need to be enlightened so we realize we can restrict our calories and modify our lifestyle and that will solve everything right there. Simple as that! Eat less. Do more. What’s the issue?!
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