Mr. Satan

On a circumcised penis, it becomes dry an rougher, like the skin on your knuckle. It absolutely does reduce sensitivity.

Anecdotal evidence, I know, but I didn’t notice loss in sensitivity since my circumcision. Healing was a bit of a pain, but other than that I experience just as much pleasure as before.

How is that even an argument? “Oh, those nerve endings don’t matter cause it’s just like losing a leg, nbd.” What the fuck?

The point is: it’s a bit facetious to call nerve loss from removing a part of a body a loss of sensitivity. You got a piece of skin removed, of course it’s not sensitive, it’s gone. As for the skin under the foreskin, it didn’t got removed, why would it lose nerve endings?

From what I experienced, again anecdotal so not a study, I highly doubt loss of sensitivity argument. Just to be clear, I don’t think babies should get circumcised, but I wouldn’t use an argument I feel is weak to argue against it.

Good for you

Nerve endings in the foreskin are not that sensitive to sexual stimuli, I would consider that as much loss of sensitivity as amputating a leg is loss of sensitivity.

As a man that got circumcised in adulthood, I can’t confirm any loss of sensitivity.

In my twenties I’ve caught a fungus down there. It caused some scarring on the foreskin. Basically it got tighter, so much so that undoing (what’s the term??) it during erections was painful.

The doctor said I needed to be circumcised, so I got the surgery. Healing was not too bad and I can’t say it had any lasting impact (in sensitivity or otherwise).

EDIT:
I lie. There is a lasting impact — I can no longer wank without lubrication. With foreskin I had no need for it.

Straps keys to the belt loop on jeans

I AM THE KEY CHAIN NOW

Stationery. I always stop at stationary section at shops to look at pens, fountain pens, pencils, mechanical pencils, pencil holders notebooks.

Simple utility tools: axes, shovels, rakes, various types of knifes, crowbars, big wrenches. I have no use for these things, but love to stop and hold them whenever I’m in a hardware shop.

Making coffee. I have a manual grinder and one of those V60 ceramic filter holders for filter coffee. I enjoy everything: from weighing the beans, to grinding, to pouring water slowly over the grounds.

Crows. I’ve been carrying shelled peanuts with me and whenever I see them I toss some. It’s amusing watching them. Some recognize me, come close and expect peanuts in return.

but if you’re going to criticize them, please do it accurately

You should take your own advice.

They do know the meaning of words, but only in relation to other words.

That’s only one part to meaning and it’s the only one LLMs have. It’s facinating what this one part can do, but we don’t operate this way. LLM have no world model, no logic model to associate a word to. It doesn’t think, it’s still just and input - output machine.

It’s not a statistical thing like word frequency pattern.

Instead, they’re doing math on words in a several hundred-thousand dimensional array where placement on this grid indicates the meaning of the word

I’m sorry, how is this not statistics?
The training is by it’s very nature statistical. We give millions of text inputs with expected outputs and tune the model until they match. How is this anything but statistics??

It developed this array via training on terabytes of text, but it’s not storing a copy of that text, nor looking it up, nor copying anything from it

Yes and no? Yes - it’s not storing a copy of the training data in the text form. No - it most definetly can “memorize” text, if that’s not a copy I don’t know what is.
I could memorize foreign script text without understanding it and then I could recreate it. Did I make a copy? no. Can I make a copy? yes.

Dunno, neither me nor my SO notice it.

I do notice my body odor if I skip deodorant in the morning or do something more active physically. So I wouldn’t think I’m that nose blind.

I haven’t shaved my armpits in years now and it’s fine. Regular showers and deodorant is enough for me.

I do remember when I did shave that it seemed I sweated a lot more. Like the moisture would just drip down my side. Hair seemed to prevent that. My theory is that hair provides more surface area for evaporation, but I have only anecdotal evidence.

It’s the opposite for me. Hair seems to wick the moisture off the skin and deodorant persist longer for me.

When I shaved the sweat just kind of sat there without really evaporating and the deodorant just got sucked into the clothes more.