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 Been doing intermittent fasting (eating window 9am-4pm) for a week now. This stuff just works. I sleep much better (however, also taking Magnesium Glycinate now), wake up much more refreshed, almost never feel hungry, brain fog almost completely gone.

#fasting #TRE #IM 
 I’ve known Fiatjaf for over 10 years, way longer than most people here, so I’ve seen both the... 
 Isn't he just stating a fact of life?

The network cannot survive if every realy saves everything forever. We would drown in spam and impossible bandwidth/storage costs. 
 Been drinking expensive Japanese green tea instead of coffee for a week now. It provides much better mental clarity, for much longer, with absolutely no crash at the end. Is also much faster to brew than coffee. Amazing. 
 Conspiracy theorists been right... again... 70 years before the mainstream...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/10/feds-poised-to-withdraw-longstanding-warnings-about-dietary-cholesterol/

#diet #cholesterol @KenDBerryMD 
 Having access to knowledge does not equal having wisdom. 
 The device might have access to a large body of knowledge, but it also has access to even more misinformation and disinformation and fake news. All of which are almost indistinguishable from "knowledge". 
 Hmm. I feel significantly better after the 24hr fast. See if this replicates next week...

#fasting 
 The future is already here, just doesn't have a good UX yet. 
 That's what PGP said since forever but the UX never happened... 
 how would the spooks be able to stop people building better UX for PGP? 
 Yeap. Not talking to doctors and dentists any more. They are indeed all full of shit. 
 Started a 24hr fast after dinner today...

#fasting #NOfoodSTR 
 Had very good night of sleep (thank you to my baby daughter for sleeping 10hrs straight 😍).

Not feeling hungry in the morning, but also feeling a bit weak during my morning walk. Chugging water with LMNT for breakfast now.

#fasting 
 Fast almost done. Chugged another LMNT water for lunch and even brewed a Sencha tea in the afternoon. Took a long nap in the afternoon as well (really feeling quite weak). After the nap I felt pretty good.

At 5pm now I can feel the hole in my stomach and am really looking forward to dinner. 
 Done with the fast. Damn, dinner was awesome 😵‍💫😬

#fasting

Will try again next Sunday. 
 Made my first proper Japanese green tea (this was Karigane).

Tastes incredible.
https://m.primal.net/LSHL.jpg 
 #tea #Japanese #kyusu #sencha #karigane 
 Who cares who Satoshi is.  Radagon is Marika! 
 LOL :) 
 Very cool:

World history timeline : the rise and fall of nations

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/11346/ 
 I've tried pretty much every form of milk over the years for my protein smoothies and eventually ... 
 it's irrelevant how much cholesterol your food contains. 

why not just use normal milk?? 
 Ever fuck up your coffee because you haven't had your coffee yet?

This morning while operating i... 
 My hand grinder has this plastic cup at the bottom that catches the ground coffee. Of course I use that same cup to pour in beans and measure their weight. Then I pour the beans from that cup into the hand grinder.....

...and then I sometimes forget to put that cup back at the bottom of the grinder and just start grinding... 🤦‍♂️ 
 Makes no sense to me. I see new people joining all the time and my feed is as busy as anyone could wish. 
 I had no idea that salmon farming is such a disgusting and destructive business:

https://youtu.be/Mfp-OAaIwdc 
 #politics #iran #anti-propaganda

Iran believes that there is a difference between men and women,... 
 are you an expert in Iranian and Muslim culture, or are you just trying to say something that sounds logical?

I am not an expert, but I am quite sure that the issue is far more complex than just "eh, we just don't want to protect our women" 
 - don't 
 Who wrote those books? Could they have been propaganda as well?

I agree with you that Western media coverage about anything NOT in the west (Russia, China, Middle East) is nothing but propaganda. 
 Nostr has lost 78% of the relays that were running a year ago.  Running tests. 
 And how much did number of total relays drop? 
 supplementing selenium with 2 brazil nuts a day 
 I heard that could be a dangerously high dosis. Maybe do some research and be careful. 
 This has to be the cheapest shot I’ve ever received. 

I’ve written hundreds of articles over... 
 Are you trolling or do you have zero self awareness? Your entire persona is built around stirring up drama. 
 I'm surprised that Wordpress is that big of a company. 
 Yesterday I helped someone in Lebanon to download and install a Bitcoin wallet. I was in the USA.... 
 How will they exchange it back into local currency in order to buy anything that they urgently need? 
 There have to be actual blue zones out there somewhere. How can we find them and study them? 
 If you consume any vegetable oils, you have to watch this:

https://youtu.be/Kb-VNW_WaVU?si=2-GrplL_bTvYxMs2 
 In the 1990s I used to write the HTML for my web site by hand.

I still do, because I've yet to f... 
 I don't know any professional web developer who uses a WYSIWIG editor. Writing proper HTML and CSS is the norm. 
 I tried going without coffee today. A few hours in and just couldn't get passed the feeling of my... 
 Start the detox with last cup on a Friday morning, then survive the weekend and substitute with green tea in the morning. By Monday you should be able to survive on just water.

And yeah... coffee is the devil. I have "quit coffee" 15 times already... 
 An element of "ritual" is part of every addiction. If you have the same morning routine every day and coffee is part of it, it is almost impossible to quit, because you are basically following a string of "triggers" that lead you to coffee.

If your mornings are chaotic and different, then it is totally possible to skip all the triggers, get out and get going and not miss coffee at all.

My dad is a heavy smoker. There are tons of triggers at his house that make him want to smoke. But when he visits my in Singapore, ALL these triggers are gone (and smoking is basically illegal almost everywhere anyways), so he has no issues whatsoever to go cold turkey and all of a sudden be a non-smoker for three weeks. 
 Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me.

I won’t say it’s unusa... 
 Really the lack of any algo entirely solves the problem.

If you can't game the algo, when you try to be a loud mouthed influencer, people will just unfollow you.

With an algo, you will keep fishing low IQ morons as followers and somehow think that you are on to something. 
 I installed the app because you posted about it recently. And then somehow Youtube recommended me this, which seems relevant:

https://youtu.be/illApgaLgGA?si=XID7bgLN0DjRSJZP 
 Looks incredible. Everytime I see pics like this I just want to leave Singapore for good. 
 Just realized I can't even reply anymore to many people I've known and followed on Twitter/X for ... 
 It's useful to keep as a watch only account. Still interesting to see what NPCs are being fed by the algo.

No need to engage with anyone or anything. Doomscroll the timeline for 10 minutes a day on the toilet. Makes one appreciate the pureness and positive vibes on Nostr so much more. 
 My grandma, born 1935, has never used a computer, tablet or smartphone. She doesn't have an email address.

She reads books and magazines all day long, solves crossword puzzles and watches TV. 
 Watched Band of Thieves this weekend (which was pretty good), and was struck by a just slightly m... 
 Yeah? Well, you know, that's just like your own opinion, man.

https://youtu.be/gU2ZgaQ_H-Y?si=lobB-QMGxZqbUiLh

;) 
 if I have been running the version through the community app store, how can I make the switch to the version in the official app store? 
 I'm not seeing it in my Umbrel app store. Am I missing something? 
 Any parents here who can recommend beautiful Chinese children's books (with big illustrations and little text)?

#parenting #Chinese #books #bilingual 
 Everybody hopes for some simple trick that will make all their problems go away.  Avoiding gluten... 
 Keto/Carbivore will absolutely work for almost all people and cure hundreds of ailments within months. 
 Did they gain it back in muscle mass? 

Or because they stopped doing keto?

If you keep doing keto and don't cheat all the time (that's what most people do, though), you will stay lean and healthy as hell. 
 The entire colon cancer thing is a myth. There are no studies that actually correctly identify "red meat eaters". Anyone who eats a beef burger BUT ALSO the fries, chicken nuggets and coke gets into the red meat eater cohort. Anyone who ears salami - highly processed food - ON A BREAD, with orange juice or granola for breakfast -> red meat eater.

There are no proper large scale studies that followed a large group of keto or carnivore eaters. All that "conventional wisdom" that people are parroting stems from 70 years of bogus science. It's all worthless epidemiological studies.

Humans are carnivores. Our digestive system is most similar to that of wolves. Our natural food is red meat - it's literally stated in the bible: Eat meat from animals that have hooves and graze, but not pigs. They knew something thousands of years ago.

What is far more likely is that red meat is our original food, and by adding carbs and seed oils, we throw a wrench into the system that makes things go haywire.

It will take decades for enough studies to come out (impossible to fund these, since big pharma has zero interest in a population of healthy carnivore eaters) to show this. 
 Finally found Kindle DRM removal instructions that actually seem to work on MacOS... 

https://www.ebook-converter.com/254-how-to-remove-kindle-drm-updat.htm 
 Press the zap button more often. 
 Post valuable content more often, and we have a deal. 
 Par for the course, brought to you by the people who also brought you cookie popups on every fucking website on the internet. 
 Incredible video about how to learn any language:

https://youtu.be/illApgaLgGA?si=af0YdspeuBwze5xe

I MIGHT try to learn Chinese, but this is already giving me A TON of ideas about how to teach my daughter English and German.

#parenting #homeschooling #languages #learning 
 Hardware is the next frontier for open source. 
 What is taking us so long? 
 If I’m around normal people for too long, I feel existential estranged and start to get really ... 
 Hanging out with other bitcoiners, or with NPCs but engaging in a narrow shared hobby (like boardgames or streetball) really is the only way to stay sane.

Luckily, the tribe of bitcoiners is constantly growing. 
 well now this has joined all the stupid stuff in my own meme folder :) 
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 Carnivore diet fixes all of this ;)