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If the scratches are invisible to the naked eye, then there is nothing that can be done on the manufacturing line, there is going to be too much random variation to fix that. The option would have to be getting rid of any plastic altogether in the design room, which likely would shorten the length of product shelf life to an unacceptable degree for these products.

I figured, but I was also curious so I looked into it lol

Given the make up of motor oil, and that it is not a carbide, I would think it would be considered organic.

The only thing they learn from our critiques is to bastardize and emulate our language.

I'm not too familiar with the combat sports scene, but it wouldn't surprise me if something similar is going on. That said, those guys tend to be a whole other level of insane, so it wouldn't surprise me if they aren't necessarily doing PEDs, especially since technique is such a huge portion of what is going on there. But on the other other hand, even stuff like caffeine before a match could be considered a PED, and fighters do love their little advantages and then covering it up with talk of 'superior genetics'.

I mean the same thing exists for me and workout influencers, since I enjoy working out and keeping limber, and they usually have some decent tips. Again, not all of them are going to be on them, but it is a much larger number than you'd expect. The ones you have to be suspect of are the ones that are constantly breaking their PRs and could be in contention for WR categories, but never seem to actually want to compete, or ones that repeatedly go through aggressive weight-gain/loss regimes. Guys who are slimmer and tend to just stay the same weight over long periods of time, while improving their techniques and flexibility are less sus. But it's the extreme ones that gain the most attention. Even then it's mostly a supplements or training regime scam at the end of the day. I know I will never look like them without PEDs but I know that I feel better when I try, move, do things and eat healthier.

Idk, I think the better thing to do is just to tune as much of it out as possible and just ask yourself, 'Am I having fun? Do I enjoy this, even if the implications are bad?' and if you don't then find something where PEDs will never be as important as just time spent and technique, like dancing, music or other forms of art (including research and writing).

These are great insights! Thanks!

Yeah, as Russia didn't intervene, there were a lot of people who thought they should try to stay as independent oblasts, and not connect themselves up with Russia. Pre-intervention the civil war was still occuring though.

I think it's mostly due to the stigmatization of needle drugs as somehow being worse for you overall than orally or nasally administered drugs, even though they all can kill you pretty easily if you take the wrong dosage. My point is more that given what athletes especially professional athletes out themselves through on a regular basis, needles aren't really considered to be a big deal in the clique.

See, and this is where you can have an actually constructive criticism of Stalin, as he was a big believer in pushing the national sovereignty of ethnic peoples because he was an ethnic Georgian, despite no one fighting longer or harder against forces of reaction. It was a blind spot in his theory that was created by his own personal experience under Russian chauvinism, but it was also supported by Lenin's theories of political maneuvering and it was these kinds of ideas that bound him closer to Stalin than Trotsky, who was much more inclined towards Luxembourg's ideas.

But it does lead us to ask, if the Bolsheviks didn't give up their claim to inherit the Russian empire, would Rosa have just decried them as another imperialist? I only say this because much of her theories appear to simply be monday morning quarterbacking to Bolshevik ideas that actually got to be implemented, after all, today we could just as easily point towards the Balkans as a proof that not giving people their own national identities eventually leads to another kind of destruction and reactionary uprising, where the proletariat are easily pitted against each other by the ethnic bourgeois under 'freedom from communist tyranny'. I think the national/ethnic question is an incredibly difficult question to answer, and it will take more than simply pitting 20th century revolutionaries against each other.

I am convinced that most star basketball players are on PEDs (LeBron especially sweats and acts like he is on anabolics, but it could just be because he is old) at least that help them ignore pain, because injuries in star basketball players used to be related to chronic knee and ankle pain which would force them to sit out for multiple minutes, but not generally devastating ligament injuries. I think it also can lead to side effects like distracted thinking, which is why Hallie would just essentially mentally drop out of games every now and then, though that could just be him playing through pain too.

The context for the Donbas existed long before Putin ever mentioned it. If anything, Putin did more deflection after they got Crimea and said that the Donbas regions didn't want to defect despite the fact that the Donbas regions were very very interested in going the way of Crimea.

The lie is more that Putin wanted to go to war and is very interested in a conflict with the West. This is clearly not the case, if Putin had wanted war with Ukraine he would have pushed for it immediately after Crimea and taken the Donbas regions while the Ukrianian government was in the middle of a coup and disorganized. The fact is that Ukrianian Nazis and Nazism had been developing under Putin's nose the entire time and he did nothing, it was only when the Russian military convinced him that not only was an attack on the Donbas imminent, that it could continue to roll into Russian territory if it succeeded, and that they could counter it with minimal force and expense that Putin ok'd the war, which is how this whole mess is now bogged down.

But idk what you would expect from a nation who literally threw away their reason for existing, sold themselves to the highest bidder, and when that didn't get them universal acceptance into the international capitalist cult, which is something that any amateur Marxist scholar could have told them would happen, try to make up another reason for having rejected the ideology that made their nation relevant on the international stage. At this point my only prognosis is that Russia is a cursed land and Russians a cursed people, to emulate Western lies and practices but not understand that you have to actually be stupid enough to believe the lie you are telling for it to work effectively.

What I mean is that they clearly aren't doing much to actually hide the fact that they don't really care about the samples. Having equipment and testing supplies is not that sophisticated if you aren't bothering with a large public media charade. Hell, I have never even tested positive for THC byproducts on a job screening despite being an avid smoker for the majority of my adult life. People just don't really care as much as they used to about this stuff. It's all very clearly a ruse for rubes and insurance companies.

Not only are they probably aware that many people are doing it, they likely aren't paid enough to care, and if someone wants to slip them more money for something higher risk, why should they care?

Intravenous steroids is not a 'hardcore thing' it is the fundamental basis of pretty much all of amateur and professional body building culture, and much of top-ranked college and highschool athletics. It's basically ecstacy for athletes. Not everyone is on it, but if you are in the scene long enough you will know where to get it if you do want it. Most professional athletic organizations literally have steroid cocktails that they administer to their star players in the event they are injured. It's one of the reasons why ligament and tendon injuries are so prevalent in today's athletes, their muscular development is not in sync with their connective tissue development, which leads to devastating injuries. They are more sophisticated about it than they were before, you will rarely see huge hulking athletes way outside the statistical zones, but they will ride just into the freak athlete territory to be noticed. As well PEDs don't automatically make you a good athlete, you still need to train diligently, especially at a young age, to be really good at the thing you are doing, which is why most players don't really care if you are on them. It's pretty ingrained into athletic culture at this point. It's always 'not everything is as it seems'.