That's not alchemy. Alchemy was changing elements, specifically not-gold metals into gold, not just molecules.
You can turn copper + zinc into brass, but the atoms of copper and zinc still exist within brass. You can't turn a copper atom into a zinc atom.
You can mix gold atoms with something else to make a gold alloy, you can't change gold atoms into something else or vice versa.
Nope, I work in STEM but not IT nor software.
I'm a serial hobbyist and actively pursue projects outside the scope of my job and education background.
Yes, mostly learned through endurance sports and multi-day backpacking trips that make it easier to sense during normal activity days. Hunger for sugars and salts is very different from hunger for protein.
I also know bodies are dirty liars. No amount of craving means my body needs another ice cream sandwich.
We don't inhale a single element and exhale another. We inhale air, a mixture of gas compounds and exhale another mixture after our bodies use and rearrange some of it. By mole fraction (i.e., by quantity of molecules), dry air contains 78.08% nitrogen (N2), 20.95% oxygen (O2), 0.93% argon (Ar), 0.03% carbon dioxide (CO2), and small amounts of other trace gases.
We do not inhale pure oxygen atoms, O, and turn them into carbon dioxide molecules, CO2.
The base element, O, is highly reactive and isn't even in the mix we breathe. The air we breathe contains O2, two oxygen atoms bonded together. O2 is used by our bodies to break down ATP for energy, recombining and resulting in CO2 and other byproducts. Those O atoms that made up O2 are still there, now just bonded into CO2 molecules.
Biology and chemistry, not alchemy. Compounds changing, not elements.
Unless you want to define alchemy erroneously and way more broadly. In which case every time I take a shit, I'm an alchemist because I'm taking food molecules, pulling some things out of them, and discarding the changed output.
I've seen VA support of CBT in several avenues. I wonder if it's just the visibility I happen to have to it or if they really do use it as their preferred treatment type.
I guess that's basic grade school Health class stuff where I'm from and I don't consider it "first aid training". So I expect someone to have paid attention in school when they talked about life critical things? Radio, internet, school, TV, so many things blast FAST at the public.
Which still falls under "not a reckless dumbass and not an asshole".
Nope. But I would get to know how they feel about me discretely explaining jokes they miss so that they can enjoy them too.
(pssssst, there is an implication of sexy times choking)
I don't know how to answer "exotic". "Exotic" can easily slip into xenophobic territory.
Maybe I answer with a restaurant from a specific culture that I had never been exposed to before? In which case, Himalayan/Tibetan/Nepalese. I could eat momos every day. But I say that about every savory-wrapped-in-dough thing. Dumplings, empanadas, bierocks, meat pies, xian bing, piroshki, is there a culture that doesn't have some variation of that? And it's always good. If ever there is need for a flag to represent Humanity, it should be of a savory pie.
Well, I would certainly expect any adult human, not just one I'm in a relationship with, to call for medical aid if they see someone having a stroke. That's basically what first aid for a stroke is; get medical help. I don't think that requires any special training, just not being an asshole.
So expanding upon relationship expectations then: don't be a reckless dumbass and don't be an asshole.
Do you know the difference between an atom and a molecule? I can't tell if you're just trolling at this point.