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Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by gumby »

modulated wrote: post #34
gumby wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the way be very careful with the injection of novocaine etc into fingers. The proper application of a ring block is tricky, and if you get it wrong (which is easy to do) you can end up with necrosis -> loss of the digit. It's due to the cramped anatomy of the digits; other regions (apart from the head) are much easier. All that being said I've long been interested in trying this.

Injections of local anaesthetics into end arteries like fingers are only dangerous if the formulation contains a vasoconstrictor (adrenalin/epinephrine) in addition to the anaesthetic agent.

Which almost all injectable will as it's a potentiator and improves locality of effect.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by honkycat »

zrobotics wrote: post #36
honkycat wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Body modding has been around for thousands of years in various cultures. It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. What is wrong with wanting to look different? What makes you so great that you can judge people?

What about the parent was judgemental? I've had friends that were into body nodding, and they very proudly described themselves as wierd. That is one of the big draws, the unusual factor. Reading the parent, I see no reason to accuse them of being judgemental.

> inexplicably embed metal objects into their face

> just to feel different.

Saying someone does something "just to feel different" is extremely condescending. It's like saying "just for attention" which is not the reason people do everything.

It is implying people who choose to do body modification are vain and childish.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by honkycat »

majewsky wrote: post #61
honkycat wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Body modding has been around for thousands of years in various cultures. It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. What is wrong with wanting to look different? What makes you so great that you can judge people?

> It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. Interesting syntactical ambiguity here: It's just (something weird) humans enjoy doing. It's just something (weird humans) enjoy doing.

As a guy with a bunch of tattoos, I'm fine with saying it's both! :p

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by harimau777 »

beaconstudios wrote: post #97
nkrisc wrote: post #96

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I always thought "bio-hacking" was a pretty grandiose term for shoving a magnet under your skin. As far as I'm concerned, "bio-hacking" occurs every day as doctors prescribe medicine or repair and enhance broken bodies.

I think "hacking" is used here in a very similar way to "punk" - anything that's done without the approval of authority in an individual, anarchistic fashion. So implants are a very rudimental form of biohacking, but I think that's related to how relatively immature the field is. The real question is how it could scale to practically useful "hacks" if you need an operating theatre and access to trained surgeons. Pers…

A little off topic, but: My understanding was that all of the things claimed to be nootropics (other than stimulants, drugs, and medicines) didn't have any evidence that they actually work?

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by MnMWiz »

otherme123 wrote: post #79
rurounijones wrote: post #43

Instead of large magnets wouldn't it make more sense to have lots of little ones? I am thinking something like magnetic tattoo ink. It would remove the touch/blockiness issues and be touching many more nerves.

Your immune system would try to collect and excrete all of them. This happens to tattoos. Soon your magnets would be allocated in your lymph nodes.

Would that be such a bad thing, assuming the magnets aren't toxic? Full body EM detection possibly.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by beaconstudios »

harimau777 wrote: post #104
beaconstudios wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think "hacking" is used here in a very similar way to "punk" - anything that's done without the approval of authority in an individual, anarchistic fashion. So implants are a very rudimental form of biohacking, but I think that's related to how relatively immature the field is. The real question is how it could scale to practically useful "hacks" if you need an operating theatre and access to trained surgeons. Pers…

A little off topic, but: My understanding was that all of the things claimed to be nootropics (other than stimulants, drugs, and medicines) didn't have any evidence that they actually work?

That depends on what those things are. As far as I'm aware, all nootropics are medicinal drugs. Except noopept which is specifically designed as a nootropic, but that works too.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by macleodan »

jstanley wrote: post #46
Hextinium wrote: post #35

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Cody took down that video and a lot of his other ones when YouTube got really trigger happy about flagging explosive context or anything vaguely not advertising friendly due to King of Random. That was one of the videos he took down but he did mention it in others. I cant find the video where he talked about the video takedowns sadly.

It's sad that YouTube has got to the point where people feel the need to self-censor totally inoffensive videos. We desperately need something better than YouTube.

PeerTube is a decentralised alternative which uses ActivityPub and can federate with Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by anitil »

Hextinium wrote: post #35
anitil wrote: post #26

Cody's Lab did this as well. He ended up removing it, though I believe a small fragment was left behind. Struggling to find the videos, best I could do was : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ylHmM2zLNQfaCIDYKKG...

Cody took down that video and a lot of his other ones when YouTube got really trigger happy about flagging explosive context or anything vaguely not advertising friendly due to King of Random. That was one of the videos he took down but he did mention it in others. I cant find the video where he talked about the video takedowns sadly.

Oh thanks, that explains it!

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by MiddleEndian »

majewsky wrote: post #61
honkycat wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Body modding has been around for thousands of years in various cultures. It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. What is wrong with wanting to look different? What makes you so great that you can judge people?

> It's just something weird humans enjoy doing. Interesting syntactical ambiguity here: It's just (something weird) humans enjoy doing. It's just something (weird humans) enjoy doing.

This is why I think languages could use a monosyllabic sound for open paren and close paren. The closest we have are like "um." You could say something like:

It's just, uh, something weird, um, humans enjoy doing.

Re: I have magnets implanted in my hands

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Post by cypherpunks01 »

craftyguy wrote: post #99
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #9

Can I just buy a magnetic ring somewhere, giving all the same benefits but without the downsides of surgery? Still sense EM fields but without pain, infection risk, can still get MRIs etc.

That question is addressed in the article.

That answer was added sometime after it hit HN - see wayback machine.
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