Ok. I have 5% solution, but that means I need to be taking about 7x the amount I've been taking, when only 2x the amount made me feel unwell. I'm pretty leery to actually try that. Maybe now that I'm more used to the low dose, I will better tolerate a high dose. I'm definitely going to look into it further.
After looking into it, I also decided to give it a try. I would assume my mitochondria as being in relatively good shape after a couple years of low-carb eating. My energy levels were fine, I didn't have any brain fog, so no real reason to try it other than just general curiosity.
I started at what the bottle described as 20mg (8 drops). After 15 minutes, I didn't feel at all well. Flushed, maybe even feverish, a little itchy, and just generally ill. That went away after an hour or so, gradually. I think I did the same thing for a few days with similar results, before deciding to halve my dose. Even at 10mg, I still feel it, but it is only mildly unpleasant. I may halve it again.
I haven't noticed extra energy or mental clarity. I'm hoping that even at a low dose, I may get some of the positive cellular effects.
While I was at it, I also got an iodone supplement. Even living coastally, I figured a little extra wouldn't hurt since I no longer use iodized salt. For both of them, I will likely finish the bottle, then take 6 months to a year off before trying them again, if I then decide to bother.
Did you find you needed more than the label suggested, or less as I discovered? Also, have you seen anything about combining MB with DMSO? Just curious.
For the memories...
As a follow-up on my use of Replit, I did a lot with it today. I got rid of the .Net dependency first thing - but this is roughly when I did get quite annoyed. It gives you 10 "snapshots" for free as part of its trial use, but the agent determines where those snapshots are taken. So I started the day with 3 left. I made a query of the agent to do a thing. It did the thing, but took two snapshots to do it. So, 1 left. One more query - it gets about halfway through doing the thing, takes a snapshot, says it has more to do, and stops.
In trial mode, you can't roll back. I had the code from before I started the day, but really wanted those changes. Now fucking Replit has basically held me hostage - put in your credit card info or have this now unusable code. Fucking bastards. As you could have guessed, I paid for a month of service. Now I have 25 credits for something, but after working at it all day, and doing some debugging (making it fix code it got wrong) and fighting it over how to properly display icons (I won, after about 10 prompts), I probably used almost all of that.
In good news, I have a working app that will save me a ton of time and allow me to outsource a bunch of busy work to India. The app is friendly enough they can use it; powershell was not. In bad news, Replit has my CC info. I can think of 2-3 more apps to build...
And just like that, I prepare to encounter Florida Man is his native habitat!
Hotlanta, I am once again in you. Breifly, but always a pleasure.
If you aren't afraid to go hard.
I feel like one of the very few of my generation to still love this music.
Flying to Florida for a day (for work). On a stupid 737-900. Hope I don't die.
I also fucked up and took my young daughter to a movie she had no business going to. I thought (from the girl's first name as the title) that it was related to a princess story or folk tale or something. Like maybe an Into The Woods or something. Wrong. It was pretty violent, I think we walked out after 15-30 minutes. We've laughed about it since, it's just part of our story. She turns 21 this year, doing well in school, hopes to be a drama teacher.
I agree with you, different words may be more kind when dealing with death or trauma. The key to moving through those times is still some form of acceptance.
I believe a similar number can be derived by figuring out how much bitcoin would be needed to claim to be in the wealthiest 1% of world population. I think once accounting for lost coins, the number ended up being around .25 bitcoin. I made a point of securing at least that much for myself and each of my children as an early stacking goal.
That's the real magic to it - if it helps you by giving yourself a goal to work towards, then it might be priceless, regardless what the actual number is.
Or perhaps it is merely a failure to modify one's own expectations. If I fully expect and accept hardship as part of my present, it becomes nothing more than what is, to be experienced without false comparisons to what might otherwise be.
Today's hot takes:
Zapping is mainly 2 things - a circle jerk among popular npubs, and sat capture by these same accounts. This probably describes the wider V4V movement.
Assuming the implant is able to communicate externally, nothing. This may be the ultimate decision point that takes me off-grid into full self-sufficient homesteading. I may not survive that decision, but it would still be preferable to the alternative. In some ways, I hope this comes sooner than later, to increase my chances of survival. To get to this point, the implant would be required to continue in profitable and desireable work in society. I assume almost anything that would be implanted at this point would have some means of communication (even basic tracking like rfid), and that would be a no-go. I'm not spending time hopping between faraday cages for privacy.
I appreciate the artwork and your thoughts on the matter. It is definitely an interesting thought experiment, and the outcome is far from obvious. At one point I thought it might be a desireable genetic trait that we would naturally select for. Now I am doubtful it would ever be permitted to happen. The AI potential to effect it in a very different way (predictive analysis) is a new wrinkle, though, and just as unknowable and dangerous. I think it is much more likely, though.
I've read some sci-fi on this topic. From what I recall, yes, people in general were polite and peaceful.
But what about privacy? And how valuable would any tool or method be that would shield your thoughts or falsify them? Would this became dystopian in some way?
How would everything change if #telepathy was as common as eyesight? And might predictive #AI get so close to telepathy that the same changes happen, even without telepathy actually emerging as part of the human sensory array?
The irony of you dividing the world into groups according to their polical beliefs, then yelling at everyone and calling them lefties (clearly derogatory in intent, as you equate to cancer).
That said, collectivist politics do seem to attract the mentally infirm.
This may be by design. Who benefits? Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis. Problem Reaction Solution.
But do you believe he doesn't have recordings of the calls? Also he definitely distanced himself by stating he wasn't necessarily on those calls himself. Seemed just more of him saying what he would be expected to say, just enough to get the narrative accross without really accepting any responsibility.
I bring my elderly neighbors' trash cans to the curb every week. I still let them wheel the empties back after the truck comes, because they value their independence. I will never regret this.
https://m.primal.net/NcCq.webp
It seems that we are suppossed to believe that Zuck is now a hero, but I'm having problems with that paradigm. What about you??
After watching his Rogan interview, it was clear he was trying to steer the conversation to the Meta talking points and away from everything else. Even during the MMA conversations. When Joe tried to drill him a bit on the vaccine, he said that he believed it was still generally a good idea for most to get vaccinated. That tells me plenty about his depth of character. I ecpect to see lots more of this, populists appearing on shows like Rogan to try to repair their image or signal support for the current political tide. Zuck was easy to spot, others won't be. The damage to integrity and credibility has already been done. You know better than most how hard this is to overcome. Zuck didn't really try - didn't admit to being on the ctual calls, etc.