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What testosterone really does is when your status is being challenged, testosterone makes you do whatever you need to do to maintain status. You can have an economic game where people get status by making generous offers and give people testosterone and they become more generous in the game. In other words, if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.

Testosterone doesn't make you aggressive

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I don't think Christmas was as much about gift giving in Dickens time. I think it was more a time that your family gets to be together. He even alludes to this with Bob Crachit's daughter having to slave away at work and only getting to see family on Christmas. They don't really do gifts in the story, they just have a small meal together. It isn't until Scrooge changes his mindset that gifts start being much of a thing in the story.

Dickens was always focused on the poverty and suffering of the industrial age. I think he would object to our sense today of Christmas being so focused on gifts and not on time with family and friends

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I don't know of any comprehensive source but there are a few basic things you that I do.

  1. Ensure sudo is on the system so that root account is not used.
  2. Get a secure browser that with add ons to protect against malicious sites (https everywhere, JavaScript blockers, etc...)
  3. Download software from trusted repositories and verify with GPG keys or hashes. Be wary on installing anything using a shell script with super user access.
  4. Use keys instead of passwords for ssh if you are going to use ssh.
  5. Password tools like Vaultwarden and KeePass can help secure passwords.
  6. You can encrypt your hard drive with LUKS before you install Linux with many distros.
  7. Flatpak (Docker as well) can allow you to run applications with limited access to your system much like phone apps on Android. This can be more secure but comes with larger app sizes and limits what you can do with the app sometimes (e.g. browsers not being able to upload files because they don't have full filesystem access)
  8. If you want a firewall on your workstation (not needed much anymore with hardware firewalls from routers), UFW makes it easy
  9. If you want to check for viruses use ClamAV (ClamTK for a GUI app).