The problem with that is that protocols have a network effect.  I can't walk away and write my own protocol, nobody will use it.  We have to work together, as hard as it is sometimes.

And that is why I spent a week writing a custom JSON parser, even though the whole time I was thinking "if nostr was a binary protocol I wouldn't have to do this shit."  But I have to do this shit, I know I have to do this shit, and I do it anyways.

Then I see other people without a care in the world pissing on this and pissing on that, and it enrages me.  Sorry, I'm human.


Nostr is a giant shit show.  The fact that our software interoperates at all is a miracle and probably just a temporary anomaly. Given enough time, the relentless breaking changes being made to published NIPs will eventually break everything.

Linux succeeded because "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE". For nostr to succeed, changes must "NOT BREAK EXISTING IMPLEMENTATIONS". There shouldn't be any exceptions to that EVEN IF THE IMPLEMENTATION WAS NON-COMPLIANT.

Pay close attention to Linus right here:

  > Are you saying that pulseaudio is entering on some weird loop if the
  > returned value is not -EINVAL? That seems a bug at pulseaudio.

  Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

  It's a bug alright - in the kernel. How long have you been a
  maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel
  maintenance?

  If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the
  kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to
  understand?

Linus doesn't want to break pulseaudio EVEN THOUGH pulseaudio was doing the wrong thing.

It seems like every week I find a NIP that I've coded for has changed. This last week I think it happened three times already. Sometimes it's a small change and I quickly update my code. But I can't read all the PRs, and I'm afraid dozens of small changes have slipped past my notice. Gossip is probably now incompatible with multiple other implementations which happen to have implemented different versions of the same NIPs (some older, some newer).

Even if we didn't have any breaking changes, the simple fact that different software implements different optional NIPs itself presents to end users like broken software. Why does it work in Damus but not Amethyst? Why does it work in Amethyst but not Coracle? That is an even harder problem to solve.

But let's at least solve the easier problem and stop changing NIPs.  If you don't like a NIP make a new one, don't break the current one. Even if you think the current one sucks balls and should have never happened. Even if you think there aren't many implementations out there.


Yes, there is truth to this.  "I was hungry so I ate a slice of bread.  Now I am even hungrier!"


Yes I didn't make myself clear. I am referring only to Type 2.

Insulin resistance by your cells which are overfed while you still have more food for them is a core part of the pathology. I would have defined Type 2 like you did, based on insulin resistance, before I read the book I'm reading "Living without Diabetes", the COUNTERPOINT study and related work (counterpoint reflections, counterbalance), the DiRECT study, etc.

So the theory that seems to have borne out is called the "twin-cycles theory":

First of the twin cycles - the vicious cycle in the liver. An extra mouthful of food daily over a long period of time causes fat in the liver to build up. This makes the liver unable to respond properly to insulin. Blood glucose starts to creep up and this causes higher background levels of insulin. This insulin then oils the wheels for glucose to be turned into liver fat.

Second of the twin cycles - the vicious cycle in the pancreas. The normal fat export from the liver can deal with the high liver fat - until the safe storage depot under the skin is full. Then blood levels of fat rise. The pancreas is one of the tissues susceptible to the increased fat. Eventually, after several years, this causes the insulin producing cells to shut down. Over a short time, blood levels then rise.

Some people genetically have tissues that are more insulin resistant from birth. These people are more susceptible. But cellular insulin resistance is mainly a reaction to a state of being over-fed. It can change fairly quickly once you stop eating. Whereas the pancreatic switch into diabetes needs a more drastic dieting to overcome.

I am not a doctor, do not consider this to be medical advice.


Gossip uses ncryptsec keys. Amethyst does now too. So do some of fiatjaf's tools. You can now move your private key securely between these programs without exposing it.

nostr:nevent1qqsqxl6yddu8cp7kjwe04sms3t7hm66n598wlpnse0hkdzgdykf5pmgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qq24lu


I didn't watch the video but I have a personal story to relate.  Sometimes my lower back hurts because of sitting in a poor posture. Sleeping on a bed no matter how firm just makes it worse.  But sleeping on the carpeted floor fixes it and in the morning I'm magic again.  Yes, it hurts to sleep on a hard floor. But my back somehow needs that. I wouldn't do it if it didn't work, and I only do it when my back is hurting.


This is where it gets interesting. For a long time they thought the damage to your pancreas kills your beta cells.  They were looking for beta cells by their function - are they secreting insulin - and if they weren't they figured they had died.  The suprise was that it was reversable, that the cells were just hiding, undetectable because they weren't operating.

That is not to say you cannot damage your pancreas so badly that it becomes irreversable. That can happen. But most cases are reversable.

Anyhow, yes, I have not included the books worth of nuance. It was a nostr post. I tried to keep it poignant. And as I'm not a doctor nor a medical research, I'm not privy to the books worth of nuance. But I'm sure it exists, and then some.


I'm sure it's simplified. Reality is too complex to describe. I don't know about the deeper mechanisms and hormonal conditions.

I am painfully aware of the "powerful feedback mechanism."  I steadfastly stare it in the face and I'm gonna fucking win damn it 😆.  I think weight bearing exercise is a practical necessity for some people to keep the weight off.


Announcement of an Announcement

If all things go as planned, I will be making a nostr-related announcement within the week.


I see your problem immediately. It's not written in rust.


Eating a high carb and high sugar diet does not promote diabetes.

Eating a low carb diet does not reverse or prevent diabetes.

Shocking, I know. Here me out. The common and popular understanding about what is going on isn't quite right.

For the purposes of this discussion, I will define diabetes as an impairment to your ability to rapidly and effectively process blood glucose, should glucose happen to enter your blood stream.

You might have diabetes even if you eat a zero-carb diet. You wouldn't know. Because without eating sugars you can't tell if your body is good at processing those sugars. All the nasty symptoms and damage caused by diabetes will be absent while you don't eat sugars, which is great. But once you start eating sugars again you could find that your body cannot tolerate them.

Diabetes is caused by two things: (1) visceral fat that has invaded your pancreas, and (2) beta cells that are not very fat tolerant (this is genetically determined).  If your pancreatic beta cells are not very fat tolerant, and you have a tendency to store fat viscerally, then you will become diabetic at perhaps a low body weight, maybe even at 25 BMI. You drew the short straw. Some people have very tolerant beta cells and store fat subcutaneously and can get up to massive BMIs without becoming diabetic. Everybody has a personal body weight over which they will become diabetic that is mostly genetically determined and not known to be changeable.

What happens with diabetes is that as the pancreas becomes more and more fatty, the beta cells can't tolerate the fattyness of the environment and stop behaving like beta cells. They don't die, they are still there, but they cease operation.

The good news is that if you lose weight, those beta cells will resume operation and your diabetes will be cured.

So going back to my initial statements, it isn't about carbs or fat or protein in your food. It is about total energy consumption, total body weight. Becuase your body converts excess carbs into fat, and it converts excess protein into fat too. And if you eat in excess, eventually your pancreas will become too fatty for your beta cells.

People think sugars/carbs cause diabetes probably because diabetics can't tolerate sugars. But carbs only cause diabetes if you eat them to excess, causing you to become overweight and your pancreas to become fatty. You can do this to yourself by overeating protein too.

People think a low-carb diet cures diabetes, but this is only if that diet causes you to lose weight below your diabetic threshold. It also happens to mask diabetes since you aren't eating sugars so you really can't tell if your beta cells are working or not while you are on the diet.

This post was informed by research done at Newcastle University.


The low birth rate in 1st world nations is being "patched" via immigration.  If people don't make enough kids to maintain the Ponzi scheme, then new people have to be brought in.  Don't get me wrong: I don't believe in illegal immigration, I think the spys, terrorists, drug runners and rapists need to be weeded out which means there needs to be a process. But legal processed immigration probably needs to be very high to combat the low birth rate problem.

Also, there wouldn't be much of a Ponzi scheme if people stayed healthy and kept working right up until they died. That's the best personal advice anyways. People who don't retire live longer, and people who keep excercising live healthier right up until the end. They don't need younger people's taxes to support them. And having had their entire lives to amass wealth, people should be well off by the time they die, and if they aren't it's their own damn fault and I'm not going to cry about them.


No. I don't know the difference.


I resemble that remark


If you live in NZ, feel free to DM me and come visit my farm.


I love the SeedSigner. You pull ou tthe SD card after it boots.  Then you scan the seed, which is a QR code on a piece of paper (so you can't easily lose your seed).  When you disconnect power it forgets everything.

Only problem I've had is getting my computer's camera to focus on the QR code it presents.  Sometimes I have to fiddle around for several minutes to get it to focus and scan it.  Because it is so small, the camera wants to focus on things behind the seed signer.  It needs something like an 8x11 sheet of plastic that shrouds it so the camera can't see anything at any other distance.


That I dropped a bolt and can't find it in this long grass!


That throne was made for you.


Quote Posts?  complex?


How dumb does a protocol have to be for it to require you to force someone else to curate your feed?


Turn around little boy


It seems like the world keeps getting crazier and crazier, worse and worse. But if you look back 100, 200, 300 years, things were pretty crazy then too. So I have a theory on this. I think, on a per-domain basis, things do indeed degrade. But I think there are turning points where something has degraded very far and then it rapidly recovers. And because the turning point happens so fast, we don't pay as much attention to this. So we are much more aware of the thing degrading. In our minds things get worse and worse, but in reality there is something like a sawtooth wave where a thing slowly get worse for a long time and then suddenly gets better again. Examples I'm thinking of are things like universities, wokeness, corruption of science, leniency on crime, etc. I think some of this might be rapidly correcting.


But my follow list is becoming private. Many of my follows you cannot see (encrypted contents).

I'm not against this idea, I'm just poking holes because that's what I'm good at - finding problems.

But I like that it is a grassroots ground-up way of solving a problem that big companies were controlling us with.

I'm not sure trust is transitive. In many cases it certainly isn't. How do you solve that?  If A trusts B with a secret, and B trusts C with a secret, that doesn't mean A trusts C with a secret. In fact, that is how secrets get leaked all the damn time.  Or I follow Ben, and Ben likes the keto diet. But I *hate* the keto diet. My following of him says nothing about my view on his diet.


Google search indicates this might be related to a libssh fix to the Terrapin attack.


Do you use wireguard?


Furthermore, I don't want this data to be in any computer anywhere. I don't want the A.I. to know who I trust or how much I trust them.


This creates far too much data to manage. Nobody is going to rate all their friends across all kinds of domains.  IF that data existed it would be a great system, but creating and maintaining such data is not humanly possible.

I think we have to live in the real world and do simpler things like "how many of my friends follow this person?".


You mean... don't say things like this?:

"Buy gold. I recommend storing the gold bars at your house. You can't trust safe deposit boxes at banks."


Truth is I'm on a plant-based diet. I was just making fun of people who think eating meat, a "complete" protein, is somehow a perfect food.

As for nibbling humans....   well I never said I was a vegan!


"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain


nostr go up


I would first recommend that if a client is connecting to "thousands of relays" because you follow thousands of people and they are all on different relays, then that client should only download the events of one person per relay.  If John is on John's relay, only download John's notes from John's relay, not everybody elses, because otherwise you will get tons of duplicates.  And if your client remembers what time period it asked for last time, it can avoid asking for those same notes again next time.

However, It still is a lot of SSL connections to manage.  And I think that servers helping clients with the load are a good idea in general, without specifically recommending any architecture (because I'm entirely unsure).


Oh I see, they put the pot on the fire every night and just added whatever they could find into it.  It wasn't fermented peas.


I wonder if boiled peas acquire health benefits if allowed to sit out and get old, possibly ferment or something.

I wonder this because of the children's rhyme that references "peas porridge in the pot nine days old."


Oh yeah, LA Rams, Houston Oilers right?  And Washington Redskins.  I replied to myself with the rest of the current NFL teams.


OK I had to cheat and from the 32 NFL teams (NFC and AFC) here are the ones I should have remembered:

Buffalo Bills
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
New Orleans Saints
New York Giants
Philadelphia Eagles
New York Jets
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Pittsburg Steelers

The rest of them I do not recognize. These must be new, or weren't very big back in the day, or I'm just ignorant which is no suprise.

Arizona Cardinals
Baltimore Ravens
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
Detroit Lions
Houston Texans
Indianapolis Colts
Jacksonville Jaguars
Minnesota Vikings
Las Vegas Raiders (so they moved again, ok.)
Los Angeles Chargers
Washington Commanders
Tennessee Titans


In the spirit of superb owls, I'm going to list all the football (American gridiron) teams I can remember from the top of my head. Somebody correct me if these are not correct anymore. I have been gone for 20 years, and even when I was living in the U.S. I didn't pay that much attention. And by the way, who is playing in the super bowl?

San Francisco 49ers
Oakland (or Los Angeles?) Raiders
Seattle Seahawks
Dallas Cowboys
Kansas City Chiefs
New England Patriots
Green Bay Packers
Chicago Bears
Miami Dolphins
Atlanta Braves
Denver Broncos

That's not a very long list but I can't think of any more.


Ripe plums picked fresh from my tree -- taste bonanza!   Sweet, tart, floral and juicy!

#foodstr


What an ignorant fool.

Companies either have to deliver less or charge more, because Mr Biden here approved the borrowing of trillions of dollars, crushing the value of that dollar.  It was a predictable and inevitable outcome.

Also, Mr Biden, you promised us inflation reduction in that stupid "Inflation Reduction Act". Are you going to admit now that it didn't work and you were lying to us?


OMG the dollar is crashing


Hmm. Right foot or left foot?


I think I'll invite Merrick Garland


Oh, it is Silence of the Lambs. I would have expected it to be an image of Hannibal.


Which movie is this from? I need to watch it to learn how I can best lure food into my kitchen.


Forget low carb or even the carnivore diet. I'm taking the next step.

I'm not a cow. I'm not a sheep. Cow-flesh and sheep-flesh are not ideal foods for a human.  I'm going to eat only human flesh - nature's most perfect food, with a perfect balance of nutrients for humans.

Who wants to join me for dinner?


Bombs are so inefficient for this purpose. The germans were far more efficient with their gas chambers.


1983 I think.


I replaced the water pump on my tractor after months of waiting for parts and getting the wrong part and trying again.  It's an old tractor that is hard to find parts for.  Anyhow, finally, got the water pump replaced and tested, started it up, no leaks, things working well.  Pumped up the flat tyres, and drove it around the yard all excited.

Then I lowered the 3-point hitch and when I went to raise it it wouldn't come back up, and the hydraulic pump was making a bad scraping sound. The hitch would vibrate and come up slowly but it sounded really bad so I decided not to try to raise it.

If it isn't one thing, it's another.

(Did I plumb the coolant into the hydraulics? No, no, that's not possible)


Sorry for the lack of proper nostr urls.


Umm... maybe not?  I don't recall.


Oh... do you mean down from this time last year, or down as in "the system is down / offline / shut down"?


what?


That's a fair summary.


That would have been a good interview question.

But if I were a world leader, and some interviewer who didn't have any power to negotiate wanted me to lay down my terms for peace, I wouldn't do so unless I had already decided to be open about them. I would deflect or say something about history.

The truth is that most of international politics happens behind closed doors, and the public speculates and opines about things we don't really have a good understanding about.


A clutch of baby nostriches!


Putin is very long-winded and if Tucker interrupts with a question, Putin ignores it and continues where he left off. And he didn't say anything new or interesting.


It wasn't a speech. It was an interview. Tucker might have asked some interesting questions on other topics.... as it turns out I was pretty bored by it.


You are right it is not worth it. I will mute you then.


Nothing has changed. My opinion of Putin hasn't changed. My knowledge set hasn't changed. I'm bored.

I expected "but you did all this, I don't know why, but we have always tried to get along with you" and that is what he essentially said, in far too many words.


The interview was boring. No bombshells. Lots of "but you did this, not us, we are always trying to get along with you".

Keep your head down I guess


Something is very suspicious about Putin talking about ancient history and personal stories at the beginning of the Tucker Carlson interview. I wonder if he was buying time for something, maybe while they verified Tucker didn't have any tricks up his sleeve. Putin can't be too careful these days.


I think it is totally fine for people to hear from Hillary Clinton about what she thinks of Tucker Carlson and Putin. Totally fine. She has free speech. People can judge for themselves. I don't know why free speech advocates are bitching about it... but that bitching is free speech too.  It's great to see all this free speech happening.

The US intelligence agencies wrecked their own reputations over and over again. It is not a mystery why people don't trust them anymore and are curious about what Putin has to say. I think US intelligence agencies need to learn that lesson, learn that they can't deceive Americans, and work to earn back people's trust. America needs intelligence agencies that work for Americans, not for special interests. I still believe that is possible. But sadly I haven't seen any evidence yet that they are trying to earn back the trust of Americans. It is mystifying and disheartening. It may well be that America cannot be saved due to it's fundamental structure allowing special interests to control everything. If that is true, I expect continual decline until a third world war in which America loses. Be mentally prepared for that eventuality, and figure out what you are going to do about it to keep your family safe.


Looks like the hanging gardens of Babylon


MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

NOSTR CEO LIFTS INVITE CODE REQUIREMENT. NOSTR IS NOW OPEN TO EVERYONE!!

Spread this to the media far and wide!


SNL isn't as good as it used to be but I like this skit. You know how the URL goes.

watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk


This reminds me of my childhood. I was raised a vegetarian and didn't eat meat until I was 18 years old.  But I ate a lot of white bread and drank a lot of root beer and I started developing a stomach at only 11 years old.  Vegetarianism is not a weight-loss diet.


Readers added context:  The new interview hasn't been published yet.


I did. She did. We both did. 🥳🎉❤
This is the remix. 🎶 https://image.nostr.build/0e3602a16b55ca5a1b570debe3cd1ede07590e6f83c665ea51d8fb6490ca32f8.jpg


It is an experiment in jealousy


You did!


On the first order, or to the first degree, what you eat doesn't matter.  Being a healthy weight matters, which means eating only enough to maintain that healthy weight and not more.  If you are a healthy weight, you can eat anything you damn well please and achieve this first-order level of success.  And if a pure-meat diet gets you to a healthy weight wereas no other system worked for you, then an all-meat diet is a reasonable way for you to lose weight. Other than keto's effect on hunger, food choices are mostly irrelevant to weight loss. If you eat extra protein your body turns it into fat... it doesn't go onto your muscles. If you eat extra sugar your body turns that into fat too (but you already knew that).

But on the second order, or to the second degree, people at a healthy weight who chose to eat a significant amount of meat throughout their lives don't live as long as people at a healthy weight who eat little to no meat.  The healthy-weight people who live the longest are the pescatarians who are lacto-ovo-vegetarians except that they eat fish. They eat no red meat, no pork, no chicken, only sea-meats and generally only the fishes.

The difference occurs due to atherosclerosis. Meat (not just the saturated fat) and saturated fats (like coocnut oil) accelerate the development of atherosclerotic plaques.  This is why you will see very healthy weight body-builders on the carnavore diet kick the bucket at 57 from massive heart attacks, and why people like Ancel Keys and nutritionists that worked with him (Jeremiah Stamler, Henry Blackburn) live to 100.


Right


True


He's always got that Stepan Arkadyevich Oblonsky aristocratic tea-sipping attitude thing going on.  I want to see him pick his nose.


I thought the Osama bin Laden interview was enlightening.  So yes I support talking to terrorist.


I'd stick to Airbus for a while. Boeing seems pretty sketch. And articles with titles like "Why the FAA Still Can't Fix Boeing" aren't very reassuring.


Original (without the metal):  watch?v=cOw99QaHP8c

Now you can play metal guitar along with them at home!


I'm quite satisfied with my raise.

So was she.


Did you know that African hunter-gatherers get about half of their caloric intake from honey? Talk about sugar and high carbs!

My point is only to throw shade on the dumb argument that meat is healthy because it is our ancesteral food. Fruit and honey, LOTS Of honey, also were our ancesteral foods.

So maybe meat ain't that hot. Believing religiously that meat must be a perfect food is... just religion.


I think tropical rain forests have fruit year round. Mammals didn't evolve where I live. They evolved in tropical rainforest and later we moved to the savannahs and then to places that don't have year-round fruit.

But it is not my argument. It is a counterpoint to the paleo argument.


Yeah, I don't think these evolutionary arguments are good, because of multiple flaws such as the fact that evolution selects for reproduction not longevity.

But I've heard several centarians who, when interviewed about what they eat, were massive fruit lovers. Of course it is a selection bias.  But maybe something else that is in the fruit protects them from the cancer feeding effect of fructose.  I dunno.


I'm with you on that Sleepy.


All the parts of the plant except the fruit don't want to be eaten. And they are at war with us, creating toxins of various kinds, growing thorns, growing too tough to chew, doing whatever they can to protect themselves from being eaten.  But we are at war with them, developing enzymes to denature these toxins. And because we evolved fighting these toxins, turning away from them changes our environment for the worse... we are better off eating the non-fruit vegetables now even though they have these toxins in them.

Protein and fat didn't develop toxins, it developed teeth and claws. If you can get past those, the meat and fat are safe foods.


Brilliant!


true


Yes, I think I understood. I think I have the same view.

I find borders to be strange discontinuities, and my libertarianism is also global and extends to all humans.  I'm not a nationalist.  But in times of global war, there are practical necessities.


The United States has declared war 11 times:

War of 1812 against the United Kingdom
Mexican-American war against Mexico
Spanish-American war against Spain
World War I against Germany
World War I against Hungary
World War II against Japan
World War II against Germany
World War II against Italy
World War II against Bulgaria
World War II against Hungary
World War II against Romania

It has not been at war since World War II.  How wonderful!  What a peaceful country!


Yes sir, here is my permit:

+--------------------
|  I can do whatever I want
+-------


Putin and Xi have probably funneled half a million soldiers into America this way already. How is Biden going to look when the war starts and the enemy is already on our soil, spread out and dug in, sabotaging all the infrastructure?  Not very good I tell ya, not very good.


I support Tucker Carlson interviewing Vlad.  I want to hear it.

I know that Vlad is both a politician and ex-KGB and he will use disinformation and propaganda. But I'm a big boy now and I can judge things for myself mommy. Ok?


I hope so


I think fruit is available year round in tropical rainforests. We switched to more meat 2.5 million years ago when we moved away from where all the good fruit was.


23.5 hours after the last time you ate your one meal of the day.


I wonder what sort of TOS violations trigger their automated banning system.


People argue that meat is our ancestral food, that we evolved while eating meat (for at least 2.5 million years) and are accustomed to it, whereas bread is too new for us to be able to properly handle (only 10,000 years or so).

These same people fail to argue that fruit is our ancestral food (65 million years!) that mammals and angiosperms evolved this partnership where the plants produced fruit for us while we spread their seeds for them. And fruit is the primary component of chimpanzee and bonobo diets, our closest living relatives.

But because fruits contain fructose and in general carbohydrate, the people arguing for meat argue against fruit! Even though the evolutionary argument for fruit as the food we are most evolved to eat is FAR stronger.

So put that in your thinking cap and spin the propeller.


I don't know what you are talking about.  Pffft.  Misinformation!

#VoteBiden #GetVaxxed #SupportUkraine #SaveTheFBI #DefeatTrump #BowToYourCIAMasters #ImNotASpook


❤ horseradish. I grow horseradish. I couldn't stop growing it if I wanted to - it is a weed that never gives up.


Yes.

I don't have insulin resistance, my insulin response is wicked solid, and I don't consume much fructose (I love fat, sour and bitter, like a good German... sweet isn't my thing).  But yes, for many this is the pathway that gave them gout.  For me, I was eating lots of lamb -- I raise sheep so it's essentially free food for me.  Lots of lamb.  So for me, that was probably how I got gout.


Yes I cut out alcohol completely. As well as aspirin, yeast, spirulina, baby spinach, parsley, organ meats, and red meat (not that I was eating spirulina or yeast or even parsley which I absolutely hate). Plus my doctor put me on allopurinol. I am confident the monosodium urate crystals will melt away completely within in a few months, now that I know what causes them.


Argent - God Gave Rock and Roll to You (1973)

I just clipped the middle section because I think it's the best part.


True, good point.  I just quickly found a hit on google and linked it.

But I moved here in 2009 and the river looks the same to me now as it looked then. I was swimming in it in 2009.


My Hba1c has never been above 33 mmol/mol, which is low (healthy). I don't measure my blood sugar with a glucose tester because it has never been a problem. I burn fat just fine: I fast and lose weight rapidly while feeling fine, never weak or tired.


I appreciate your offering of your experience and this link.

But I've now read all about gout. I understand that the monosodium urate crystals built up over months to years, and it will take months to years (probably just a few months in my case) of keeping my blood urate low for them to all melt away.  I downloaded and organized many lists of foods with their purine content and sorted it by purines per 100g.  Besides purines, I'm aware alcohol and aspirin interfere with urate elimation so I'm avoiding those.  Plus my doctor put me on allopurinol.  I'm confident that I will cure my gout completely within a year, probably much sooner. And then I'll be able to have occasional meat again.

While a typical American diet eater would benefit from the lion diet, it wouldn't work for me because my kidney function isn't good enough. It would make my gout worse. I have to avoid high purine foods.

But I appreciate the intent.


Reduction of carbon-based bipeds


The push to control nitrogen emissions is strong in New Zealand too, not just the Netherlands.  I've heard multiple times that New Zealand has some of the most polluted rivers in the world.  Here's an article claiming that the river that runs through my city is "one of the most polluted in the Western world":  https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/3097651/Manawatu-River-among-worst-in-the-West  They say it measured 107 on a scale from 0 to 4.  Maybe that is downstream, because where I visit the river it is cold and clear, me and the dog swim in it without issue, I can see the bottom clearly, and the only sign of any pollution is that the rocks where the water gets shallow are covered in a green algae. It is no big deal to me (just don't slip!). I'm a recreational user of the river and I'm fine with it. I wonder who is complaining.

Here is that horribly polluted river: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/255/1525/1600/rocks%20and%20cliff%20blog.jpg

When I think of a polluted river, I think of things like this:
https://usercontent2.hubstatic.com/8761723.jpg
https://www.trbimg.com/img-57ce0d7d/turbine/sdut-new-river-pollution-wetlands-mexicali-environment-2014apr23
http://libertynewsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/epa-polluted-river.jpg
https://media1.fdncms.com/riverfronttimes/imager/u/slideshow/2585296/river_pollution.jpg

Ok now let's look at my local river again, the one that is "among the worst in the West":
https://digitalcollections.qut.edu.au/593/1/31_0019.jpg
https://ceda.nz/wp-content/themes/ceda/uploads/Manawat%C5%AB_River_DJI_0547May-13-2020-1-2048x1364.jpg
https://images.singletracks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Q1180489-orig-scaled.jpg

Now, do you think farmers should have their farms shut down in order to clean up my local river?  Anybody?

Luckily our current government isn't doing that.


I started keto about a week ago and immediately had an attack. That sent me digging and questioning my priors, and deciding it wasn't for me.

I started with a 36 hour fast and I was definitely in keto without the "flu" people complain about.  Then I ate keto only the next day, unfortunately by eating bacon and fatty lamb which set off the attack.

Technically keto is from a lack of carbs. A water fast puts you into keto. So it's not strictly incompatible with gout. But to practice it long-term you need to replace the carbs with something, and usually that is fat.  If it's a bottle of canola oil you won't get gout, but if it is fatty meat you might.  But there are other reasons not to go drinking canola oil.


One by one every element becomes evil.  Mercury, Polonium, Arsenic, Lead, ...  Carbon emissions, and now Nitrogen emissions.  Are there any good elements left?  Is Oxygen next?


It was me doing all the body shaming of myself, and explaining why I was stuck this way due to genetics.  People argued that point and I conceded.


Hmm. Good point.


I remember putting a battery on the F4 key and going to sleep, and waking up with max strength.  I also remember not being able to leave my starting city without being insta-killed.  After trying a lot of ways to make it out of the starting city alive and failing every time, I gave up and stopped playing UO.


Great. Then use a client like damus that only reads things from your relay set. It would be a huge rearchicture for gossip to do that, it's not just "disabling" a feature, it's rewriting huge amounts of code, because it never before sought events from your specified relays.


I say what I think here on nostr, even if I know it won't be popular.

And I love that people debate me, but still respect me, and that we can have different opinions and not become haters.

Due to comments I received a few weeks ago about being overweight, I was inspired to lose weight again. It is progressing fairly rapidly. Thanks for the support.

Most people suggested I do keto. I've chosen not to use keto for a number of reasons:

* The overwhelming amount of evidence towards a mediterranean diet from longevity, nutrition, and atherosclerosis research
* My recent development of gout which contraindicates purines
* My high blood lipids which contraindicate saturated fat

Losing weight is not my endpoint. Survival is. The mediterranean diet has more evidence that it confers longevity than any other diet.  And don't worry, dietery choices are not the major mechanism here - quantity/fasting/exercise are.  Quibbling over which food really is the smaller issue.

Clearly there are a lot of highly opinionated people who are skeptical of "mainstream" nutrition science. I'm not. But I hope you all recognize that I respect skepticism.

à une bonne santé


The biggest predictor is conscienciousness (a personality trait), and the second biggest predictor is income (higher income people live longer).

I'm not sure where relationships show up in the hierarchy. But I also have heard evidence that social relationships, being part of a community that supports you, that this makes a difference.

BTW: Optimism and a positive attitude are not causal, they are caused BY being healthy (the cause goes the other way).


They weren't wrong about the cause of atherosclerosis, they were just wrong about how to fix it.


I don't think I talked about private events. I was just talking about following someone's public twitter-like posts.

Finding posts by ID wasn't the case I was thinking of, but in that case if you don't have a relay hint, I go to the seen-on relay of the event referencing the ID, and then I look at the p-tagged people and search their write relays in case one of them wrote it.


The food pyramid was not mainstream nutrition science.  It was USDA propaganda.  The USDA represents the commercial farming industry, not the eating customers.


One of the reasons they don't give people CAC tests generally unless their risk is super high, at least in most countries, is because they might get a score of zero and then think they are safe and go on ignoring their doctor's advice.  Studies showed that if you are low risk for other reasons, CAC 0 subjects have low chance of events.  If you are high risk by other measures, CAC 0 subjects still have a high risk of cardiac events in the near term.  So the whole CAC scoring thing is discredited as not adding any additional value beyond the other biomarkers. Bayes Theorem applies here. If pretest risk was high, a score of 0 does not mean you have low chance of a heart event - it simply doesn't supercede the priors.  Anyhow that's what this study says: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.767665

Also, lots of research that ApoB levels are strongly positively associated with atherosclerosis progression. A lot of keto people (not all of them) have high LDLs which are representative (but not a perfect measure) of ApoB (which they unfortunately rarely test directly). Huge amounts of study and research went into determining this, that it was ApoB coorelated, not triglyceride or blood sugar coorelated (for example).  They might be wrong, but to overturn that would need a lot of evidence of something else.


Nutrition should not be guided by religion. This is very correct. I doubt studies that come out of Loma-Linda University for that very reason, even though they have been vetted by the industry.

Eating like your ancestors is a good starting point. That will optimize your chances of reproduction. Evolution doesn't select for longevity which is a very different endpoint.

I've seen enough of Dr Ken D Berry, Family Physician. He is not a nutrition researcher, he is a YouTuber. He is good at speaking and convincing people of things. He doesn't know what he's talking about and is far too sure of it. He rejects epidemiology for good sounding reasons, but doesn't explain the much worse problems of the studies he chooses to accept.  The idea that meat must be good because we evolved eating meat (our ancestral food) sounds almost unassailably correct... but there are ways to assail that theory.  Evolution selects for reproduction not longevity.  And also our ancestors might have eaten huge amounts of vegetables and fruits that didn't fossilize, we don't know they ate a lot of meat.  And also higher meat diets might be perfectly healty as long as you are skin and bones and near starving like an Amazon hunter or an African tribal person.  Do you see how eating a lot of meat isn't obviously healthy, how that theory could be wrong?  But the biggest reason to disbelieve it is the mountains of research on humans done over the last 80 years that show it's not true.


Replace "mostly meat" with "mostly fruit and leaves."

Here is the history as I understand it.

65 million years ago, mammals and angiosperms evolved together out of obscurity.  Angiosperms (flowering and fruiting plants) developed fruits taylored for mammals. We got food, and they got us to spread their seeds.  Fruits were the dominant food of mammals, who also ate leaves and other things.

Primates developed fire and started cooking some food even before humans were humans.

Chimps eat figs, fruit, nuts, seeds, blossoms, leaves, insects, honey, eggs, palm wine, medicinal plants, milk (infants), and up to 6% of their diet is meat.

Bonobos eat  fruit, nuts, shoots, stems, pith, leaves, roots, flowers, and tubers, occasional mushrooms, invertibrates (termites, worms and grubs), and sometimes flying squirrels, duiker and bats.

Humans are equally related to those two primates, as we diverged from their common ancestor. Our diet was similar to that. A small amount of meat.

Humans started eating more meat than our primate relatives about 2.5 million years ago. We know this because our jaw got smaller, our intestines got shorter, our brain got bigger, and humans spread to areas that didn't have enough plant foods to sustain us so we had to eat meat.

Fossil records have records of bones of animals, and we know the kinds of animals we ate. But vegetables and fruits don't fossilize very well so we don't have good evidence of what plants we ate. We also don't have good evidence of how much of our diet was plant versus meat.  But it must have been more than 6% calories from meat like chimps or else we wouldn't have evolved those changes.

Eventually we penned in animals and started farming them. At that time, our exercise diminished and our meat consumption went up since now animals were easy to come by. We got sicker.  We also started farming grains and ate more bread, and got sicker. People tend to only point out the bread part, but all three things happened: less exercise, more meat, and more bread, all around the same time. Fabulous for growth and reproduction, but not good for longevity.

Anyhow, the research shows a high meat diet leads to heart disease. Might be related to some modern aberration, some way we cook it, might even be the way we harvest peppercorns (I'm just trying to show how it could be something nobody is even considering yet)... who knows?  I'm not coming to conclusions via theorizing because the dataset is too complex for that.


Which topic? You want to know the studies that determined what the best diet is? There are lots of them, and each one spawned lots and lots of papers.

Framingham Heart Study
Nurses Health Study
Honolulu Heart Study (of Japanese men in Hawaii compared to Japanese men in Japan)
Adventist Health Study (California SDAs)
Physician's Health Study
Health Profesionals follow-up study
Iowa Women's Healty Study
EPIC study

The problem with nutrition science is you can't do RCTs.  RCTs are the gold standard where they are applicable, but you cannot completely control many people's lives for long durations of time.  So we have to choose between either
1) Small, short-duration studies with biomarkers as endpoints done as RCTs,
2) Meta-analyses of (1), which cost nothing and there are many terrible ones, or
3) Large, long-duration, epidemiological cohort studies that use all-cause mortality as an endpoint.

The above are all in category 3. The downside is these can't be sure what the people in each cohort actually ate. But they use lots of statistical techniques to do the best they can. The problem with those in category 1 is they don't have near enough statistical power for long-term health effects of food, and also that biomarkers are not good endpoints because we aren't nearly as certain as to what biomarkers actually indicate. So nothing is perfect, but I believe category 3 is better.


Much of what you say has merit and basis in science. Correcting blood sugar issues, high carb poor quality diets, these make a big difference. Fasting starves cancer. This is all correct.

But diabetes progresses on a high fat low carb diet. The pancreas continues to deteriorate, even though the symptoms are masked because you stopped using it (for insulin at least...it has multiple roles).  I suggest looking into research by Roy Taylor, or read his popular book "Life Without Diabetes".  And then talk with a doctor who has your medical records and can give advice taylored to you.


That sounds logical. But it's not what the science shows.

I've been far too convinced by logical arguments like "we evolved eating meat, we must be optimized for it".  For a long time, that one had me. Very logical. Very intuitive. But it's fallacious in a few ways, and worse yet the studies show otherwise. Very much so.


I'm not familiar with these studies, but I suspect you are misinformed. I'm happy to read them if you have links.

The largest, longest, best designed research shows vegans living longer and heavy meat eaters having high levels of atherosclerosis.

It is not an argument, I'm not logically deducing anything. It is the results of the biggest and best studies.

Even the nutritional researchers tend to live to 100 or more, probably because they follow the results of what they study. Ancel Keys lived to 100, Dame Harriette Chick to 102, Dr John Sharffenberg is 99 or 100 now, whereas Atkins died in his 70s, Pennington (who Atkins based his diet on) died at 56, Charles Poliquin died at 57, etc.  There are lots of long-lived vegetarians, seventh day adventists, Okinawans, nutrition researchers, etc.  The studies on longevity show what they eat, and it's usually close to vegan. But the best predictor is actually conscionciousness, then income level (diet seems to follow from both of those -- conscientious enough to actually rigorously do the right diet, and rich enough to afford all those fresh fruits and vegetables).


I should take back my statement "gossip will never...".  It might support client proxies one day.  But I don't plan to.  I don't think gossip benefits from that architecture.

If Alex Jones posts on nostr.alexjones.example.com and advertises this in his relay list, gossip will go direct to the source to get his posts.  It won't go to eden.nostr.land in the hopes that eden.nostr.land syndicates Alex Jones. It will use Alex Jones' own digitally signed document that claims he posts on nostr.alexjones.example.com because that is direct, that is trusted, and Gossip has no reason to do anything less.

But other clients on phones, due to battery life concerns or similar concerns, might use a client proxy, or trust some syndication service. There are plenty of architectures people can dream up, and there are plenty of services people are drooling to offer to you ... for the right price.


If you want to test a particular relay, mark it as your write relay and your posts will write to it.  Or mark it as your read relay and fetches of various types of content will come from it.  If you want to follow someone that doesn't profess to use the relay you are testing, gossip will never go to the relay you are testing which doesn't carry their content because they don't post it there.  Why would it?  Clients go to where the user says they put their stuff, in order to get that user's stuff, and only for the purpose of getting that user's stuff.  For other purposes clients are configurable (or should be).

If you want to force a client to go to a particular relay anyways and ignore the user's kind 10002 relay list, perhaps because your relay is actually a proxy, then great, fine. But most clients didn't code for that. Nobody submitted a NIP PR for that. There are clients that do this though. All the clients that don't support NIP-65.


I am an open-minded skeptic and I challenge what I think I know, rather than try to confirm it.  But that doesn't mean I disagree with the 'establishment' or 'mainstream' on lots of things. Only on a few things. Only where the evidence leads me.

In particular, I agree with mainstream nutrition science. And I know far more about it than I let on (even though I don't practice it). I've followed it since the 70s and have too many books.  I was raised a vegetarian by an SDA mother who preached the Ellen White "health message" to us kids growing up.  I remember the science even then showing SDAs living something like 9 years longer than everybody else. My great grandmother (an SDA) lived to 99.  I'm a member of the CR society and used to post on that newsgroup for years.  I let myself lapse in the last 15 years and let myself be convinced by passing fads, articles, and meta-analyses that meat is good for you and that keto is good for you (and I ended up with a property that had sheep on it so I learnt to farm sheep) and I sorta thought the mainstream view had moved past low-fat diets on to low-carb ones.  But I dug into it today and... nope. I was just fooled by what has become popular online.

You keto diet people are going to die of heart attacks in your 50s and 60s. You will seem healthy right up until the end. Fit, lean body mass, top form. Then pop, you're dead. The science was in 50 years ago and is only more certain now.  Don't be fooled by supplement salesmen or beef industry lobbyists. If you want a social media influencer, listen to nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 .  Veganism is very close to the most healthy diet and he'll probably live past 100. I will still tease him about it though. Fucker... trying to outlive us... how dare he!


I'm glad Andrew Sullivan can admit that he was wrong about Trump, that Trump isn't a fascist dictator seeking power, but only a narcissist seeking glory (my summary, not his).  Unfortunately many of the remaining things that Andrew believes about Trump are in my opinion also just as wrong as the fascist belief was.
And unfortunately Andrew doesn't give sources for his claims, or make accurate quotes, he gives you his intepretation of that Trump meant, which is always an extremely distorted one.  Still sad.


I'd like to add that even though nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj sold his soul to the devil, in an unprecidented maneuver (I believe it is a long story) he was able to reclaim half of it, a move never before matched.  It might have something to do with having nine lives, I'm not entirely sure. In any case, I'm glad semisoul is still with us.


I hope you know @mieku that I'm just joking around with you. I can see you were frustrated and I thought I'd have a little fun. I take zero offense at your outburst, and I thought it was kind of funny.

If I understood what the problem actually was I might be able to make a suggestion.


Turned some vegans into sushi? Good on ya. That's what they deserve.


I'm not even taking you seriously yet. I don't understand why you can't test your relay, it doesn't seem related, but probably because I'm a numbskull. Maybe I need to grow a brain first. Also my arse hurts, can you please stop fucking it?


I'm sorry


Galt's gulch isn't a secluded mountain valley in Colorado.  It's bitcoin.

Oh, and BTW I don't have any bitcoin. I lost my keys in a tragic boating accident.


I hope you have a permit and have paid the levy 🤣     /jk

This is very cool, isn't it?  I love it.


Gossip changes on the master branch:

af515f98..258cdcc1 (2024-Jan-11..2024-Feb-03)

* Spam Safe: new setting "Avoid spam from unsafe relays" under content. If on, replies from unknown people will only b\
e fetched from relays marked as safe.
* Nostr Connect server: gossip can now serve as a Nostr Connect (NIP-46) server
* [Load More] is now implemented for the inbox feed
* Advertise relays are now automatically determined
* Advertise now happens 10 relays at a time to not overload things
* Relay "low quality" indicators
* Relay list choices now also have "configured" and "hidden"
* freedom: allow setting an empty password
* freedom: wizard no longer forcing a minimum number of relays
* security: NIP-44 post audit changes have been applied (algorithm has changed)
* privacy: do not automatically show images in DMs
* command: delete_spam_by_content
* fix: QR rendering of encrypted notes now uses the decrypted content
* fix: Spam filtering now applies to GiftWrap contents too
* fix: Multiple event deletion improvements/fixes
* fix: clear some ui sensitive fields that were not being cleared
* fix: when relays change, their subscriptions are handled better
* fix: update your own person-relay scores when editing read/write bits of a relay
* fix: strategy for finding ancestors
* fix: race condition in relay usage switches
* refactor: identity rewrite (prep for nip46 client work)
* refactor: settings cleanup

All of these will be in the 0.10 release.  Further plans for that release still include (but we probably won't get to all of these):

* Pending action alerts
* AUTH user confirmation (code is on 'auth' branch, UI is still too annoying)
* search at relay
* nip46 nostr connect as a client
* nip46 nostr connect server to require approvals
* sending giftwrap DMs
* bookmarks
* reposting events that didn't post the first time


Yeah, there is a lot of state enterprise in New Zealand.


You are making my point for me. Thanks.


They can be caused by HSV-1 or cytomegalovirus or vericella zoster. But most aphthous ulcers don't shed any virus, and the literature is quick to point to traumatic injury to the oral mucosa.  But in my case I can (rarely) feel them coming on before they break the surface, so injury to the oral mucosa is not the cause.  Maybe mine are viral, maybe they could determine that. They run in my family.


Diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG)


That's a good list.


unless there is a Chinese section.... there could be. Who knows.


Your sarcasm has scored a 🎯 bullseye.  Level up!


I often hear people in the West deride China as communist and a much worse place than America. I'd like to understand why. The term "socialist" or "communist" is not detailed enough to explain why, so give more details.

Free markets, private property ownership, and the profit motive are very powerful, distributed things that make a country rich. China has adopted all of them. They say it is "glorious to get rich" and there are wealthy business owners making a killing.

What appears to be different is that China has the CCP which acts as a top-down authority that can pretty much do whatever it wants. So people have economic freedom as long as they don't piss off the CCP.

But America's executive has sovereign immunity. The Executive branch can violate all kinds of laws and you cannot sue them for it. They can ignore the Supreme Court (and have). And they have all the ultimate power. So just like in China, you have economic freedom as long as you don't piss off Joe Biden.

So to me the difference is only in the specifics. China controls speech a lot more (which I very much don't like), but the US is trying hard to catch up. China still tries to do "think big" projects that most Western countries already learnt should be market driven, not government driven.

What did I miss? I must have missed something important.


Yes, It starves them of the air they need.


It will be painful to not be paid for a month or so, but farmers over there should go on strike. People will have a real think once there is no more fresh fruit, vegetables and meat.

nostr:nevent1qqsvzlvv9fyfxayema8y2hh2k845zsevj05y0whex07jek27p33s08gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshstn0g5r


I bothered to read the article. Now I understand they didn't rotate all their passwords after the hack.


Are these servers (OKTA?) Storing unhashed passwords? Or did they tap the software or something? And why are people still reusing passwords between different systems? That is so 1990s.


If you are invited, does that mean you can publish to the relay? Read from the relay? I haven't added it to my relays because I wasn't sure what it is, but maybe I should.


Or maybe fiatjaf, hiding his identity, used the name of someone he can trust who doesn't mind being public.


I would go so far as to say that god is undefinable and therefore questions of his existence are meaningless.

If anybody dains to define god and claim that such a god exists, given any typical definition, I would believe it about as much as I believe that every dog turns itself inside out on a daily basis. Like, maybe they do. I've never watched a dog for 24 hours straight.  But I have no reason to believe it. No evidence, no logical inferrence, nothing.

Belief in God is delusional. But it is a social delusion, and thus persistent. It is also deeply rooted, and not shakable via argumentation. So I don't bother to argue the position. I was raised as a Christian and gave it up as I matured, so I know what it is like to have a strongly held belief, and I don't think less of believers.


I guess I gotta pay my dues


Every comment you have made in this thread is a comment I relate to and could easily have said myself.  All the replies make me think "what the hell?"  I'm sorry you are here defending yourself and everyone is against you.  I agree with you BTC_P2P.


Ok, we just bonded.  I fucking love Weissbier!  Erdinger, Weihenstephaner, Paulaner, the Germans sure do know how to quench their thirst.

I'm not drinking now though because of the gout.


That is old-school right there


That is the perfect environment for bitcoin. Trust not needed.

Wait, who said that? When did I become a bitcoiner?!  NO! 😱


you beat me to that comment.


Who owns njump.me and why is an apparent domain registrar emailing me with a renewal notice?

For privacy, you don't have to answer that question in public you can send me a DM. Or you can just ignore it, like I'm going to do with the renewal notice.


Tape is amazing. I love these simple effective hacks with tape.

Tape cured my plantar fasciitis: took all the tension off the ligaments and let them heal. This website heelspurs.com (which doesn't come up in search engines I had to remember it) is where I learned about it.


Thanks. I guess I would have to ask my dentist anyway. Good to know something like that exists.


Yes one nostril is usually open, but not always.   So tape my mouth shut?  Leave the corners open?  Can I get some more detail without buying the book?

They sure do seem like a virus that gets triggered. But I don't think anybody has found a virus, so I'm keeping an open mind. In any case, breathing through my mouth at night seems to trigger them.


Do you know what that mouthwash is called?


I don't suffer from dandruff, and I have no medical credentials. But something happened to my dog which got me to thinking.

A while back my dog developed a sebacious cyst on her back. Easily movable under the skin, either a sebacious cyst or a lipoma, I wasn't worried about it. One day the cyst was broken and the gunk and blood hardened into a scab over the wound, but the scab contained a lot of her hair matted together.  I figured this happens to dogs in nature and it will get better on it's own.  It didn't.  As the hair kept growing, the hardened area pulled away from the wound which re-oozed, and the scab got bigger.  Eventually it was a fairly large scale.  I tried cutting it off but it was hard to cut and remove and I only got part way through it.  It kept growing and oozing.

Then one day I noticed all of her skin along her spine, from her head to her tail, was covered in rough flakes... keratin like flakes of skin.  And now I was worried. Did she develop some kind of skin cancer?  I took her to the vet, who didn't even really look at her skin (she seemed afraid of catching something) but thought I should consider putting her down.  But she also gave me chlorhexadine and said to wash the scab with it (mixed with water) and try to dissolve it away, and just keep coming back washing more and more until it was gone.  I did that and the scab dissolved away.  I also combed all these large keratin flakes out of her wet hair (I washed her whole back), and quite a lot of loose hair came with them, and all the flakes came out, and now her skin felt normal again.  The would healed properly this time and the flakes didn't return.

So here is my hypothesis:  Dandruff is an adaptive protection mechanism meant to separate matted-up-scabs from the wound they are attached to.

When I look online I can't find this hypothesis anywhere. All the pages offer help on curing dandruff, none of them explain why it happens, what it's purpose is. This reminds me of Chesterton's fence: don't take down a fence if you don't understand why it was put up in the first place.  If this is the purpose of dandruff, then human dandruff is probably just an aberration of the mechanism and curing it is probably fine. But it might help enlighten the specific conditions that trigger the genetic pathway.

I'm probably wrong. But that is how science goes. Observe. Take a guess.... not being a scientist or vet with access to lots of dogs to experiment on I can't take this one any further.


Social media took the monopoly on information out of their hands and democratized it.  Now information is free.  And Mr Graham isn't happy that he's lost his ability to control the population via deception.  But he keeps on trying by telling extreme stories, while also, as you say, also calling for genocide and WW3.


Mouth ulcers. I hate them.

Usually they show up when I've been breathing through my mouth all night because my nose is clogged.  Possible prevention: nasal spray at bedtime and a decongestant.  Maybe my new CPAP will keep me humidified (I didn't wear it with a clogged nose, it felt too much like I couldn't breathe).  Officially nobody mentions this as a cause... sources mention damage, hormones, genetics, SLS in toothpaste, a billion other things, but the obvious cause in my case (almost every time) is dry mouth from night-breathing by mouth. Why is this never listed as a cause? Am I really that unique?


TIL about sun dogs.
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-did-i-see-two-suns

Pliny the Elder comments on them:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D31


Nothing better than direct sunshine to cure that jock itch


Extending the protocol in an undocumented way, getting a large user base, and then blaming other clients who didn't support the undocumented thing so people turn away from those clients.... is how Microsoft crushed it's competition. It is called "embrace, extend, extinguish".

But in this case it was not intentional. Early nostr needed to explore new things. These kind-3 contents have been around for a very long time, it wasn't added in an attempt to make our clients fail. So I'm ok with maintaining the contents as they are.

Gossip has another bug though where these new mute expirations are getting clobbered and I need to rework a huge part of the stack to fix it. I'm in process on that one.


Do you mean the recommend relays of the 'p' tags, or the (undocumented) relay list in the contents? I presume the second.

Gossip presumes any relay in the contents is both a read and write relay of the user.  When regenerating this event, gossip preserves the contents but never edits it.  So if a user changes their relays on gossip, it does not affect the content of this event, only their 10002 event.


Stop skipping leg day!


Bay rum. I just got a haircut from an old-tyme barber and I'm ready to dance.


Good points. I think it is far easier to make the argument that porn has been bad for women because they have less the power to control men via their lust.

And maybe that is why so many women now seek power and control ('manipulative') and seem so unfeminine, rather than being what we think of as the traditional wife, because they lost the power and control (via a man's lust) that they naturally had since forever, but they are still seeking it because evolution drives them to.

Maybe that's a "win" for men, that we can't be so easily manipulated. But I think it's a further step towards an unnatural and unfulfilling life.


Not if it was Benjamin Netanyahu


Porn makes men sated and lose interest in persuing real women. Porn changes a man's perception of how hot of a girl he can catch to such a high level that he is dissatisfied with the "fine things laid upon his table" and he only wants the one's he can't get. Porn leads to MGTOW, to fewer marraiges, to fewer births. Now you decide for yourself is that better, worse, or neither?


I blend three sources equal parts:  Kenya "FAQ", Guatamala "Santa Rosa", and Colombia "Huila El Desarollo".  I roast them medium to about City (first crack, dry not oily, but starting to get dark).  It isn't very high in caffeine (based on the beans and the roast) but I just drink more to make up for it.


Ah. Well then I probably couldn't change your mind.

My ex-neighbor (I moved, he didn't) blames me for his caffeine addiction. I roast my own coffee and the smell he thought was so great he wanted to try some.... mixed with a bit of hot cocoa.  A few months later he's holding a coffee and I say "wait, you don't drink coffee" and he blames me!  Says I got him addicted.


I could change your mind. By caffeinating it.


My post was just a snarky shitpost. Don't take it too seriously.

But yes, of course, I am totally against any such war.


This whole thread was accidental! Or more correctly, my posts are just snarky shitposts for entertainment value.

My original post put "on both sides" as a throwback to Charlottesville. I thought it was too subtle so I expanded upon it.


Mossad will just have to find another way


I expect as much.

There are a lot of very fine people. On both sides.


I agree with you there. That is why I'm anti-war. But if it does happen, here's hoping for the best.


If the US goes to war with Iran, I hope a lot of evil people die

on both sides.


I haven't been able to successfully build an AppImage yet.  I could use help.


This article is shocking.  The EU is monsterous.


What about self-custody? People want self custody. I want self custody! How am I going to stop other people from doing the same?

The Interent has about two billion websites and browsers somehow manage.


No computer needs more than 640k of memory.


Just send a copy of the giftwrap to yourself.


Plenty of things can be improved


Has anyone else noticed how on-🔥 nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 has been lately? Every few days he puts a new thing out.


Say hello to my little friend


I think your selection bias theory makes sense.

Humans had to evolve to be both nurturing and caring, but also cold and ruthless. We needed to be nurturing and caring of our helpless young, but cold and ruthless towards animals that we needed to kill for food.  Where other people lie on that spectrum can be all over the map. On one side you have what right-wingers call "bleeding-heart liberals" who love every human and often love animals too. I admit I'm pretty close to that pole, but I kill animals for meat and with a lot of effort and reason I can get myself to see a group of people as an enemy (but with people, it is hard to not care about them).  Then you get nationalist Republicans who only care about their nation. At the extreme you have religious-pseudoracial supremicists with zero concern for anyone outside of their tribe, and who even have a penchant for screwing each other over and being proud of it.

I think a good balance is being kind to anyone willing to be kind back, treat every stranger like family and they will treat you the same most of the time. If you discover that was a mistake, recategorize them into the untrustworthy camp and avoid them (without trying to make them an enemy). Play tit for tat but with random forgiveness... the game theory shows that without random forgiveness you end up in a never-ending tit-for-tat defect battle like what Israel and Palestine are doing. If either side doesnt practice forgiveness from time to time it will never work.


It is difficult to debug seeing only the logs on your side.  Looks like it is timing out for 5 seconds and trying again.  The only timeout that is 5 seconds by default is during advertising relay lists, and it is not supposed to be trying again (it doesn't try again in my testing).  This code was added around after January 12th. Timeouts are configurable so some user may have set a different timeout down to 5 seconds.

I'm not sure how bostr is supposed to work. If it is acting as multiple relays, then gossip will connect to each of those logical relays, and this isn't a loop. I can't determine that because I don't know what bostr is.

The "GET /" is where it is trying to fetch your NIP-11 to see what features it can use.

I have never seen this behavior (apparent infinite loop with 5 second delay) on my side.  I see relays go into "the penalty box" for 30 seconds or 60 seconds before being retried, and they get retried over and over but with this nice wait first.


Many if not most Zionists are psychopaths.

That is not a slur nor an exaggeration it is an accurate description.

Psychopathy is not a diagnosis, it is a term used to describe antisocial personality disorder, which means they "go against society, rules, and other behaviors that are more commonplace" have a "lack of empathy and remorse" and "inability to distinguish right from wrong" exhibit "behavior that conflicts with social norms", they "manipulate and/or hurt others" and have a "disregard for safety and responsibility".  I got all these quotes from this page on psychopathy: https://www.healthline.com/health/psychopath#signs  Other common signs are a "tendency to lie often", "manipulating and hurting others", "expressing anger and arrogance on a regular basis".

What is disconcerting is that a large fraction of Israelis exhibit almost all of the symptoms of psychopathy (ASPD).

I think this is why there is so much anti-semitism.

The existence of so much psychopathy working together as a unifed force puts us all in danger.

I'm going to stop short of suggesting what we should do about it.


I don't know. Do dogs?

It might be that the studies have been done on humans showing that we don't need one, but nobody funded such studies on dogs so for safety they have this washout period that they probably don't need.  But I am just speculating.


Very similar in NZ. Vets are expensive but straightforward.


I can lose weight, I don't need advice for that part. But if I go below about 90kg then I get hunger (hollow stomach rumbles and amygdala interruptions of my concentration) which is difficult to tolerate with while programming a computer. I can't live well with that constant hunger. Being fit is nearly intolerable. It isn't a problem of getting there, it is a problem of being there.

People have suggested that a carnivore diet or ketogenic diet prevents the hunger, but my body can't handle it right now. People have suggested that regular exercise fixes this too, and that is at least somewhat true, so I need to work out precisely how I'm going to do that given some situational hurdles.  But it only helps to a limited degree, so there is a minimum weight that I can sustain without suffering and again I'm estimating that to be about 90kg.

And my original point with this thread is that some people's bodies fight hard to maintain a certain minimum weight, and it's a genetic thing, and going below that is kind of like holding your breath... you can do it, but you'll give in eventually.


I just had another gout attack.

Nope, I'm done with this. No more carnivore shit. My body cannot hack it.

I've been skipping days. I didn't eat from Sunday dinner to Tuesday breaskfast.  On Wednesday I only ate dinner and it was a ketogenic dinner. On Thursday I had bacon, lamb beans, salads.  Then this morning I was fasting again whe the gout attack hit.  Undoubtedly from the meat I ate yesterday.

Most people should try carnivore but it is simply not for me. At least not in my current condition. I will have to lose weight the hard way.


If you are giving your dog an NSAID or prednisone and you want to switch to different one, there is a wash-out period of up to 2 weeks to make sure the first drug is gone before the second drug starts.

There is no wash-out period in humans.

Do we care more about our dogs than drug companies care about us?


I stand with Texas too.

But some clarity is important. The supreme court said that, for example in the event of someone drowning, the Federal border patrol can cut the razor wire and Texas must not interfere with their activities patroling the border and saving drowning people.  They didn't say Texas couln't put up more razorwire or replace the cut razor wire after the federal border patrol have finished resucing the drowning guy.

So I think there won't be any further escalation. Instead there will be a lot more razor wire, people will be fired up and elect this guy again.  But probably no civil war, and no fighting between Texas national guard and Federal agents.

I would welcome some event that would culminate in a mostly peaceful divorce because I think that would be better for all states involved, and maybe this can be turned into such an event, but not unless the federal border patrol also want it to.... and I think it is against Biden's interest for a divorce (the Federal goverment seeks to preserve the Union just as Abraham Lincoln did) so I predict it won't escalate.


It doesn't. But it's fun thinking through how to make both stories true... like I just found a secret decoder ring in my cereal.


It might have been CircleMUD now that I do some research. I remember beastly fido, the janitor, Midgaard, shireiffs, colored stones that if you picked up they negatively impacted your max health or max carrying capacity (they didn't explicitly say they were cursed). Grouping with people for the first time in my life and going into high level places where I would easily die if I were alone.

In 1992 me and 3 other students tried to build a graphical MUD we called Iliad in our professors parallel language called SR for college credit as an advanced special projects class. We never achieved anything playable. I remember Ultima Underworld was released during that time and we were drooling over it.

GemStone was a commercial MUD that I played with the zMUD client (I think, could be confusing this with Achaea). It had a cool experience absorption mechanic. You absorbed experience slower than you received it, and if your short-term experience buffer filled up it overflowed and was wasted. So you had incentive to do things other than fighting. You could be injured (lose an eye, an arm, etc) and need a healer or by from a food vendor a special herbal remedy, it wouldn't just recover on it's own.


I saw him at the greek and same thing, the crowd was absolutely going off. Incredible experience.


I'm a bass player. I tried to play his stuff.. .Jerry was a Racecar Driver, My Name is Mud, Wynona's Big Brown Beaver... fucking hard to play that shit. My renditions sounded horrible.  And he just bounces around and makes it look totally easy.


SPECULATION: The US might be putitng out disinformation about today's clash with the Houthis. Or they might not. I don't know the truth.  But the Yemeni story and the US story are quite different.

Here is how the US story could be technically true but disinformation, and the Yemeni story also true. The Houthis claim they directly struck a US warship.

There were two US warships and two commercial vessels. The commercial vessels turned back.

Here is what CENTCOM claims (I interject my commentary):

CENTCOM: "Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists fired three anti-ship ballistic missiles"

ME: True, but maybe they also fired another missile you are not talking about.

CENTCOM: "...from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the US-flagged, owned, and operated container ship M/V Maersk Detroit, transiting the Gulf of Aden. One missile impacted in the sea. The two other missiles were successfully engaged and shot down by the USS Gravely."

ME: Fine, what about the fourth missile?

CENTCOM: There were no reported injuries or damage to the ship"

ME:  Ok so you are saying one of your ships, the USS Gravely was not struck. What about the other ship?


Fuck! Get him on nostr!


Me neither. I had no idea. I have big issues with google, but incompetence wasn't one of them. The world is changing.


I'm guessing these kinds of things are being built somewhere. First commerically but eventually in open source.

I've always been interested in the game mechanics side of things. Like having a 'recognition' skill and that floating name over people's heads might be wrong if you don't recognize them... or if they run off screen and come back you don't even realize it is the same person, and a disguise skill.  Or an amulet that records and reports murders and auto-updates your guilds standing against other guilds. Shit like that. I'm barely getting started. I have 129 git repos of private game development stuff.


Now that we have AI, the most expensive part of building an MMORPG will be done by AI.  So instead of having 3 developers and 20 artists, there will be 3 developers and 2 AI operators.


Not memorable enough for me to say. I think I remember it, but nothing about it stood out to me as a feature I liked.


I've played about 18 MMOs. Never found my ideal one, always hoped the next one would be it.  But I intentionally avoided WoW because based on player feedback I knew it wasn't the kind of game I was looking for.

The ones I liked the best were Eve Online (no other game has been able to replicate the complex and deep PvP this game has) and Vanguard Saga of Heroes (just because I found great friends there)

I played these:  DikuMUD, GemStone IV, Achaea, Ultima Online, EverQuest, Eve Online, EverQuest II, Guild Wars, Lord of the Rings Online, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Darkfall, Mortal Online, Rift, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Black Desert Online, Elder Scrolls Online, Crowfall, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen (in alpha)

I've heard good things about Dark Age of Camelot and Runescape and I kinda wish I had played them.  Maybe I will.


I stand with Texas


Nothing he says carries any meaning anymore. It is now all just wind.

Don't misunderstand me. I am against hate speech legislation. But out of Elon Musk's mouth after the things he has recently said and done?


Hypocrite Hypocrite Hypocrite

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1749949420815405140


well I have no idea


I have never laughed harder:

https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1749642263360061661

I gotta feeling that the emergencies act will be used again.


Care to share the formula? I know it will be ad-hoc.  I haven't coded any WoT yet so it would help me think about it.


I agree relay hints are useful (even if they might not be correct after a lot of time passes).

Do you search the write relays of people in the p tags (one of them wrote the ancestor)?  It is a lot of relays to search but one of those p-tagged people must have written the ancestor event.


The gossip client hasn't implemented chat, and it's not on the roadmap for the next release.  But I think it is something I want to do, so I'll take advice on what the interface and UX ought to be like.


Man, now that you mention it.  I'm gonna lose my bold prediction, aren't I?


I dunno about Flynn. Kari Lake seemed ok.


Yes that was my bold move, leaving Joe Biden off the list. Wild prediction that it won't be Joe, right?


I MAY define MUST and you SHOULD heed the definition or I SHALL object!


It's a legally allowed strategy. Both camps use legal strategies that are morally questionable. I think the open primary thing is probably a bad idea.

But it kinda signals pretty hard that they don't believe Joe Biden can win doesn't it?  I'm glad they have given up on Joe.


Could be.


Yes and Trump said he already knows who his pick is going to be, so it can't be Vivek or Tucker.  But I wanted a long list to make the post funnier.


I boldly predict that Trump's running mate will be one of the following people (in no particular order):

Elise Stefanik
Robert F Kennedy Jr
Kari Lake
Nikki Haley
Tulsi Gabbard
JD Vance
Kristi Noem
Lindsey Graham
Henry McMaster
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Ben Carson
Tucker Carlson
Vivek Ramaswamy
Ron Desantis
Doug Burgum
Tim Scott
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Alex Jones
Ron Paul
Rand Paul
General Douglas A McGregor
General Michael Flynn
Candice Owens
Joe Rogan
Elon Musk

if you've read this far, in other words: I have no idea


"And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
- Mark 3:24-25

Therefore.... let's not fork nostr.
Therefore.... try to get along with and work with people on the other side of the political divide.
Therefore.... keep arguing amongst yourselves until disagreements are resolved.


You should drink some water after that. I bet it will taste amazing.


Wise


worce-ster-shire


That is a reasonable optional way to do it. I'll leave this up to nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk and nostr:npub1hlq93jdtkfg29a8s7fqzzzh82q3pkc20rxucwt4geh6e56wk3y2qxdz5wg .  They handle the UI/UX stuff.


Or we could use neurolink to take control of Elon Musk and turn him into a public utility.


I'll take your word for it that he is a great guy. Everybody should be reading my denigration of Wil for what it is - the pointing out of a common human flaw, not an attack on a person I do not know.

If I feel like denigrating someone, I'm gonna. Based on that blog post, he deserved it. I don't know him from Adam except from Star Trek so that why I made the reference. The fact is that anybody who cannot accept that the world has all kinds of people in it, and wants to magically disappear all the people they hate, hasn't grown up. It's a widespread problem.


Gossip client doesn't even have a way to see global relay posts.  Apparently I missed out on shower girl, 🍆-pic day, and lots of other things.

Now that users can mark relays as 'spam safe' (trusted to moderate content - I should probably rename it) I may add in a global feed for those relays.


Most people don't care about privacy. Edward Snowden and others have been trying to convince people that they should care. And events where good people suddenly become seen by society as bad people have worried a lot of us, so more people care now.... the excuse "I don't need privacy, I'm not doing anything wrong" doesn't apply to that last case.  Whoever you vote for you will have enemies, and you should want protection from them.

I've already commented on IP address privacy - I don't think it should be handled in-protocol. I believe using the web stack puts both privacy and security at risk which is why the client I develop (gossip) runs on the desktop without a web stack.  I've tried to include a lot of settings to allow people who care about privacy to maintain their privacy. You can disable rendering media inline automatically. You can disabling fetching of avatars, of media, of checking NIP-05, of fetching metadata. You can run in offline mode.  You can include a ["client","gossip"] tag if you want, or can turn that off. You can include a user-agent string if you want, or turn that off.  Oh, and your private key is stored encrypted under a password and zeroed (along with passwords) before memory is released.

I intend to give users more control over connecting to and authenticating to relays via whitelisting (slated for 0.10).

I intend to implement NIP-46 in both directions, which will help a lot with key management, especially as other nostr clients and services begin to support it.

As for moderation, gossip allows you to write a script to filter posts using any code you can dream up. We also just added code to not load posts from people you don't follow unless they are on relays you designate as 'spam safe'.

So I think we are on track, and these issues are all being addressed. But there is plenty of work to keep on doing.


Are you talking about IP addresses?

IP address privacy is solved. Use a VPN or use Tor... tails... or qubes. Depending on your threat model.

To do IP you need an address, and that IP address necessarily gets signalled to your IP peer.  And if you don't do IP you are not on the Internet.

Nostr clients shouldn't be trying to control every protocol layer.  Let the IP layer software handle the IP layer and nostr runs on top of that.


Glad to meet you and yes, please share what you find.


You own and control your account, so you cannot be globally banned, and you cannot lose your followers.

Developed in the open with a large choice of software to choose from.

Fully distributed with no central anything - no central software, no central servers, no website, no seeds, nothing.


The reason he left Twitter is because they *didn't* kick off Alex Jones yet. I'm not sure he's ready to accept a world that contains people he doesn't like. Little Wesley Crusher still has some growing up to do.

That being said, I'd be happy for him to join us.


Looks like New Zealand needs more false information in order to compete. I'll try to pick up some of the slack:

Were you aware that we have flying crickets the size of elephants? Sometimes they stop traffic.


I've gotten cloudfare challenges when using Tor, and I'm not a bot, so their "advanced data analysis" onion services are not quite working. But I'm glad they are at least trying to allow humans through Tor.


I opened an issue on github for this, but having just investigated this today, the bug I thought was causing this was fixed in early November before 0.9.0

https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip/issues/624

I have not seen this behavior myself and since I cannot reproduce it I can't debug it.


I was prompted to make this post based a post on X.com by the local news media about David Seymour pushing for equal rights for everybody, versus Maori leaders pushing for the government to uphold the Treaty of Watangi.

The level of consequence of the apartheid is rather trivial compared to South Africa or Israel/Palestine.

But technically it exists. And I thought that would be a shock to many non-New Zealanders, so I made the statement.

Here is what is going on, which I define as apartheid:

1. There are two classes of people defined by law
2. The laws give one of these classes more rights and/or privileges than the other class
3. The classes are divided along racial lines
4. The group with more rights by law is the minority group

So the Maori supremacists insist that the Treaty of Waitangi, being a treaty between two different people, means that they are different from the NZ Crown and that the Maori and the Crown are in partnership together ruling this country.

Bleeding heart liberals who see Maori having worse life outcomes push for laws similar to affirmative action to give Maori people more and more funded services that are not available to non-Maori people.

David Seymour (the leader of the ACT party), part-Maori himself, believes like I do that the result of the treaty was to combine two different people into a single group, and that subsequent to it's signing New Zealand was one country with all it's people having equal rights, and he wants to remove the racism from the laws.

I often also made the point that programs offered to Maori people because statistically Maori suffer more in that domain (let's use stop-smoking program as an example) would be better targetted at people who need to stop smoking if they targetted anybody with a smoking problem, rather than using race as a proxy to determine who might have a smoking problem.


In case you don't see X.com adverts, this was a pretty good one (at least I hadn't seen this before)

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New Zealand is an apartheid state.


Well I have never done a ketogenic diet. So I guess that means I wasn't sticking to the "dietary regime consistently enough."  But I'm considering doing it and gout was a concern.  I'm gonna try it anyways, and yes I'm fasting into it (but not that long).  If I get this dreaded "flu" I'll come to you for advice.


Ok. Fasting tomorrow. Then finishing my veg (capsicums, eggplant, string beans, cherries, bananas, tomatoes, potatoes) so they don't go to waste (onions will keep). Then I'm transitioning to a diet of:  Eggs, Bacon, Lamb, Sauerkraut and Garlic.  I'll go on that one for a while and see what happens.  I'm putting in the eggs because they don't have purines like the meat does. Hopefully my body will produce fewer purines so the extra dietary ones won't matter as much, but I want the eggs to be sure.


I remember reading a top-10 ways to fight cancer list, and one of them was to eat plenty of alliums. No other food was mentioned. So I did some digging and while lots of vegetables have some protective effect, alliums were more strongly coorelated with anti-cancer than any other food by a country mile.

I haven't looked recently, I just remembered that.  Maybe sauteed onions develop sugars.  But I wouldn't want to remove them from my diet.

Actually I just poked around a bit and garlic is best, then leeks, then onions. Cruciferous/Brassica veg comes next. Most other vegetables don't have a strong effect against cancer.  In vitro, garlic completely stops the growth of breast, brain, lung, pancreas, prostate and stomach cancer cells.  In epidemiological studies, "alliums" as a group came out far ahead of the rest and I wish I could find that graph but I can't find it right now.


Just lucky I think.

Some mosquito bites don't cause welts.  The ones around my house don't.  Maybe I'm used to them.

I went to a friend's BBQ and his mosquitos caused me horrible ichy welts for days.


I should get a standing desk.

If I hadn't recently had a gout attack (diagnosed recently) I'd go all carnivore. Maybe I can eat more fat and eggs. I'd really prefer to have sauerkraut and onions in there too for fiber and vitamins and such. I'm thinking about it.


When I picked the thistle out of my leg... oh, that's a bee... the stinger somehow came out.  I might even have squeezed the venom into me because I thought it was a prickly leaf of some kind before I noticed it was a bee.

10 minutes it in was really "stinging", but right now I can't even feel where it was.


The only person that calls me "obese" is me. Doctors and pharmacists correct me saying "nah, you're not obese. You're overweight."  But according to the charts, a BMI of 31 is obese.  So I use the technical term. I don't care much about inferences about what it means.  The fact is that I'm carrying 25kg of adipose tissue weight beyond what would be healthy, a bunch of it on my belly. And I have metabolic syndrome so it is of significance.  But yes your BMI comments I concur with.

I think my metabolic syndrome is related to my weight, but the causation isn't strictly weight-causes-syndrome. Losing weight doesn't really fix it. I still had hypertension and high cholesterol at 78kg (although now I think that the hypertension was caused by sleep apnea which I recently discovered I have, and the high cholesterol runs in my family).

It would be nice if someone figured out "you react poorly to foods X Y and Z and they are causing gut inflammation and liver inflammation. Avoid those foods" and then I could do that and all my problems would go away. I do have gut inflammation - IBS.  But after a lifetime of searching for magic food choice solutions I never found any. I'll keep trying though.

But ok.  Bread, pasta, lentils. Got it.

Shit I should just do an elimination diet again. The tricky thing is you can add something and think there is no reaction, but there was it just was too subtle to notice.

I used to make sourdough bread but it made me far too hungry and I'd overeat that wonderful fresh bread. I'd rather go without the bread entirely I think. I agree with you on bran. Everybody used to sieve out the bran until revernd Sylvester Graham (of Graham cracker fame) insisted it was healthy. But without the sourdough process, bran is horrible for you. I always sieved out the bran and soured the dough.

I think food quality and choice affects inflammatory processes. But it doesn't affect body weight. At least I can make my body weight go up by eating junk food, but I can't make it go down by tweaking my current diet.  And my point about this is that even if I force it down through any mechanism, I will be annoyingly hungry, which is not a nice way to live. And so I have learned to accept being overweight, while continuing to focus on a healthy lifestyle to try to forstall cancers and heart disease.


Thanks for the expert advice. What happens if I don't have Benadryl or tobacco and don't do anything? It will just be uncomfortable, right? I can hack it.


Well in my fight with this bee, it died so I won.


I just got stung by a bee


What I really want to know is... are you hungry all the time?  I can lose weight with effort, but it makes me really hungry in a way that I can't live like that.


I don't eat sweet things. But I do eat bread, and some potatoes. I could cut those out. But from experience it won't matter much.

I'll try the chewing thing I guess.  And I'm due for a fast again.

I'm sure if all the food was removed from my house I would be hungry but have no choice, so the weight would come off. I could probably do that too. But then I couldn't program gossip very effectively -  my amygdala would interrupt me every few minutes, begging me to go eat something.


Boy, I don't care about privacy a bit do I?


I like fasting. I usually fast for 1 day (and the night before and after). It's easier than dieting. It really helps drain the liver of glycogen. I consider it imperative given my conditions.

I may have sleep apnea, hypertension, dyslipidemia obesity and gout (the classical metabolic syndrome)... but I'm not at all hyperglycemic. My hlab1c readings have always been stellar.

20 years ago a doctor tried to scare me, told me I was tipping into diabetes and I needed to follow his extreme diet plan or I would become diabetic and not be able to reverse course.  I followed his plan for a while.  Anyhow here I am 20 years later, I still have low blood sugars, I'm not diabetic nor hyperglycemic.

So the theory that insulin management or blood sugar control will solve all the cases of obesity, or all the cases of metabolic syndrome, cannot be correct. It might be true in some or even many cases, but there is something else going on in my case.

But yes, I like fasting. I find it pretty easy actually.


I have gout. I can't eat that much meat. I know it works and I would if I could.  I suppose I could eat just eggs, milk and cheese.  Hrmmmm.


true


I live alone. I do all my own shopping, I work from home. So... my food choices are entirely mine.  I don't buy snacks. I don't buy cakes. I don't buy soft drinks. My doctor is impressed with what I eat.  I eat cabbage salads, sauteed onions, capsicum, eggplant with boiled potatoes on a bed of rocket leaves. I eat pickled onions, sauerkraut, canned sardines with mustard. I eat lamb. I eat some wholegrain breat but not much. I eat pasta with tomato sauce. I eat dried fruit, banana yogurt smoothies. I eat canned beans, lentils, and peas. I roast, grind, press and drink coffee with a little skim milk. I eat cottage cheese, sometimes I eat roast chicken.

I maintain a 12 acre farm, which always needs work. I work an hour or two a day on it, but honestly I spend most of my time on the computer.

Which food am I addicted to (besides coffee) that makes me hungry and sick?  Which lifestyle habits did I get wrong (the computer? yeah probably).

I'm 105 kg with a BMI of 31.


I have no faith in public health either. Almost all of science has been corrupted. Besides the woke nonsense, drug companies pay to buy the research that sells their drug, and journals don't publish negative results. It's a giant clusterfuck that only has the form of the real science that came before it.  I won't take any drug that came to market after about 1995.

I know several people who got real fat and came back down again. But they don't have genetic obesity, it was a situation (usually depression) that they resolved and then the fat came back off.  But hell, I hope nothing I said make you think you can't win. Keep on winning. I'm impressed and I'm probably wrong. I just say what I think and usually people correct me.


In this corner.... Privacy!
In this corner.... Free Speech!

FIGHT!


ouch


I have a couple more points to make about obesity.

First, we know that if we eat less and exercise more we will lose weight. So it seems like you can blame people for making bad choices or not trying hard enough.

But we also know that we can consciously stop breathing. But few people have the willpower to hold their breath until they pass out. I used to spearfish, and every spear fisherman worth his salt has passed out underwater at least once (you don't drown, your throat latches shut, you splay out with an arched back, and your buddy pushes you to the surface where you wake up and ask "did I get the fish?"... and only idiots spearfish without a buddy).  With practice, you can indeed hold your breath to the point of passing out, but it is difficult and takes practice.

Keeping the weight off is also difficult, and over a much longer term period of time (your entire life, no matter what else is going on) it is difficult to maintain weight via willpower.  In fact studies show that it is pretty much impossible to do it longterm with willpower.

The other thing I'd like to direct your attention to is not a thing, but a person. Mandy Sellars (look her up). Mandy has huge legs and a very skinny torso. She is eating far too much food for her 17 stone legs, but far too little food for her emaciated body from the waist up. Given the exact same diet, it is making part of her very fat, but another part of her very skinny. What if your whole body was made of her greedy leg tissue? Would it be your fault that you were fat and yet still hungry all the time?

Finally, as I mentioned in some replies, even if you are going to fail, it is worth trying to lose weight. Small weight loss, repeated yoyoing, it is all better than nothing. We all lose in the end anyways.


In some domains this works. I shouldn't have been so hasty in my response.

You will get a somewhat better outcome if you keep on trying even though you know you will fail or eventually gain the weight back, versus giving up and not even trying. So I keep trying. And I'm ok with myself as long as I keep trying.

Telling myself I'm an aerobics instructor would work, but it would have side effects that I don't want.