OliverSaks

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-Lots of guys here in NYC, maybe a camera emoji in name or a name like “zoom lens”

-Usually an Instagram attached with examples

That’s been a source for some of my photos

With some regularity,

doesn’t bother me

(but I try to come prepared)

Kimpton Palomar is a place I’ve enjoyed staying - nice location, reasonable price (HotelsTonight app usually how I book this property)

@Gar1eth

https://calcsd.netlify.com/

Soft tape measurer / piece of string and a ruler = we want details !

Most bears are Bottoms?!

What!?! Where are you getting this info?

Can he also top? Most bears are bottoms or at least they hire guys willing and capable to top them.

 

You should recommend him for a new career!

 

All guys with 7" also say it's thick, but in your case considering how honest you've been with us about your life, I truly believe you have a thick tallywacker.

Putting more and more restraints on your biz could result in less and less biz for you, as people can move along to people without those requirements.

I don’t think you have a 9-5 job, so I’m curious as to why you are always complaining about being so hung up on answering messages. Isn’t this biz your full time gig? Shouldn’t it make sense that you have to spend time on it, even a good deal that does not eventually fruit?

If you ever want to hire a screener of calls/texts, let me know. I’d do it just for the experience of seeing the world through your eyes, no compensation required. Maybe you really DO get a disproportionate share of bullshit

Yes, a couple of times.

Yes, basically a lifelong history of depression and ten years of adulthood trying several meds and combos

In the last year, I’ve been treated two times and will have another in October. Tried it after lots of research and worsening suicidal depression - never used recreationally prior to my medical use (I’m a psychonaut) but I can get why it is abused

Basically no side effects, no loss of libido nor difficulty orgasmin’

Expensive and not always easy to find practitioner

Happy to discuss over text/PM

Belittling messages and insults = sociopathic behavior ?

Mocha’s skin is remarkably thin for this biz

@Mocha did a valuable service to the community warning others about the guy’s sociopathic behavior.

Do you catch more flies with honey...?

What is an intersex person?

You can go to a barbershop and pay someone’s fee, but it does seem like you’d pay a little extra to have them come to your house, no?

My boss doesn’t pay me to drive to work.

 

I don’t see why I should pay others to do the same.

 

My boss does pay me to fly all over the world....that’s different.

79.99$ Recurring (autopay) monthly gold

vs.

99.99$ one month of gold membership

I've never had any problems with credit cards on Rentmen, but I think neither my CashApp nor Venmo debit cards worked, the problem being that the charge comes through as foreign since they're not based here in the US.

 

So what's this recurring discount?

Within a city, I’ve started to ask for, at least, half of the Lyft-uber/caltrain/travel time (if considerable) - we’re both putting something up, it doesn’t add too much usually to my rate, and it just seems reasonable enough.

I include it in my initial rates message.

Looking to get the recurring discount and my credit card is no longer being accepted.

Which brand of credit card do you use to pay for an ad?

Pic 2 is not adding value imo, showcase your smile more, have someone take some candid shots of you (find someone on Grindr if you don’t have a friend who takes solid pics)

Not much about your ad stands out really - it hits on the standard buzz words, but I don’t feel like it says a lot about who you are / what your personality is like. If you’re in a particularly crowded market (LA), you’ve gotta find a way to stand out from the tons of other ads. I think a little personal interview video could be a good place to start in addition to some candid shots.

If you would like some other hints, message me / send me a text, my ad is linked on my profile

GL!

Love this show, finishing Season 2 soon

Not a common practice in the m4m world - so infrequent it can easily be avoided by just finding another provider who doesn’t request one

California weight lifting champion ?? (iirc)

Damn..I just looked up his pics as a young man. He was a straight up hottie.

Sadly no personal connection...

Admiration, as someone who studied neuroscience as my undergrad degree

Also a huge crush on him, all the way from his bodybuilding days until the last years of his life

Is there a personal connection, @OliverSaks, or was your homage based strictly on admiration? Just curious

Using an anecdote to shred the science... is not good science

I think @PapaTony is a bit off on his percentage number, but his thesis still holds that lifestyle is the major contributor to CvD

So much for whoever said genetics was only 5% of your cardiac risk! What great genes to have. I would never be so bold...

know how much water it takes raising beef and pigs?

a majority of soy in this country (and also that grown in the Amazon) is grown TO FEED ANIMALS, especially cattle - not only do you require water for growing the feed crops, the animals take tons of water themselves

??‍♂️...

Also, you eat fruits and veggies, in addition to your insatiable thirst for animal carcasses so you are - by definition - an omnivore

I am a total and complete carnivore. I eat primarily chicken and beef but on occasion add pork, lamb or turkey. It will be a VERY cold day in hell when I start or even try eating vegetable substitutes for meat. An interesting aside to this ever increasing emphasis on growing vegetables to produce meat substitutes is that it is placing a huge burden on the world's water supply. Countries like Pakistan and India are already facing major water shortages and crisis within the next decade.

I love fresh vegetables, of all types, and eat them with my various meats daily. I don’t eat much fruit as I’m not a sweet fan. The only medication I take daily is a small dose of Lipitor for a slightly elevated cholesterol and Naproxen for arthritis. I over salt all of my food but my blood pressure is perfect without medication.

My father died at 81 eating anything he wanted and smoking two packs of cigarettes a day plus drinking daily a six-pack of beer and a pint of bourbon – not all that bad. His parents, however lived to be 94 (mother) and 96 (father). My mother died at 91, in her sleep) and ate generally a well-balanced diet.

Frankly I don’t give a damn that some believe that cows farting methane is harming the environment. My idea of a perfect death is having a fatal heart attack at 95 or 96 with a blood rare steak in one hand and a good glass of red wine in the other. I will be 79 next month.

An homage.

It sounds like you can just say something like “I appreciate your input, but I’m not looking to change careers at this time”

I also don’t think that there is this binary that you’re speaking of where you’ll automatically have to be “an employee” because you’re no longer escorting. Lots of people are their own bosses and don’t have a traditional cog-in-the-wheel type of job

I find that the people in my life who know what I do are generally pretty supportive because they’ve seen how unhappy I was in the grind of my original career choice and how much better I am now. If there are friends or clients or otherwise who you tend to vent to a lot about the negatives, it might be natural for them to suggest another path.

I get suggestions about leaving the biz from time to time, but it doesn’t really bother me because I know what my life and my peace of mind was like before, and I don’t think it really needs much explaining.

The cholesterol listed on the impossible whopper on the BK website comes from the mayo, which vegans have them leave out.

There are no plant sources of cholesterol afaik

Meat and dairy are heavily subsidized, which I think is why they cost less - Big Meat / Big Dairy lobbies are strong.

thermodynamically, it just doesn’t make sense that eating food we feed to animals could be more expensive than eating the meat from the animals

The price of plant-based meat replacements will continue to go down as big meat suppliers like Tyson are getting into the game to cash in on this new trend. I don’t think it is a fad, as young people are faced with the realities of the environmental destruction caused by factory farming. This is a part of the future that I look forward to :-)

Beyond > Impossible, imo, but I’m with @FreshFluff in preferring legume / nutty types of burgers - sunflower beet burgers at a raw restaurant near me are top notch