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Thank you sir! Kind of don't want them to get old for people so I'm trying to think of ways to branch out. Anything else you're curious about that I'd be good to write about?

Never had it.

Price is not a great indication of quality in wine in many cases

How Fiat Thinking Warped the Wine Industry

In Europe, wine culture was built slowly over generations.

Time, not money, was the main ingredient.

You could not fake it. You could not rush it.

In the U.S., it was different.

By the time American wine started gaining recognition, the corporate mindset was already seeping in.

Short-term profit was not a side effect. It was the strategy.

The top tier of American wine still exists.

But everywhere below it, corners were cut.

Volume has mattered more than vineyard.

Brand has mattered more than bottle.

Massive corporations scaled up, standardized the product, and flooded the shelves, crowding out everyone else.

Not because they were evil.

Because the system rewarded short-term thinking over long-term value.

Now, the cracks are showing.

People are starting to ask why wine makes them feel so bad.

Some are giving up on it entirely.

Others are looking deeper and finding that lower-intervention, local wines are what they had been missing all along.

Wine, at its core, is a low time preference vehicle.

It seems to not want to be rushed, manipulated, or manufactured.

It seems to er towards expressing the land, the season, and the patience of the people behind it.

The roots of wine are still strong.

In Europe, they were never fully severed.

And in the U.S., we are finally starting to let them grow.

But we are a long way from home.

How Fiat Thinking Warped the Wine Industry

In Europe, wine culture was built slowly over generations.

Time, not money, was the main ingredient.

You could not fake it. You could not rush it.

In the U.S., it was different.

By the time American wine started gaining recognition, the corporate mindset was already seeping in.

Short-term profit was not a side effect. It was the strategy.

The top tier of American wine still exists.

But everywhere below it, corners were cut.

Volume has mattered more than vineyard.

Brand has mattered more than bottle.

Massive corporations scaled up, standardized the product, and flooded the shelves, crowding out everyone else.

Not because they were evil.

Because the system rewarded short-term thinking over long-term value.

Now, the cracks are showing.

People are starting to ask why wine makes them feel so bad.

Some are giving up on it entirely.

Others are looking deeper and finding that lower-intervention, local wines are what they had been missing all along.

Wine, at its core, is a low time preference vehicle.

It seems to not want to be rushed, manipulated, or manufactured.

It seems to er towards expressing the land, the season, and the patience of the people behind it.

The roots of wine are still strong.

In Europe, they were never fully severed.

And in the U.S., we are finally starting to let them grow.

But we are a long way from home.

Someone swiped my credit card credentials, attempted to charge something on line, my bank flagged it asked if it was me, when I said no, they cancelled my credit card and are snail mailing me a replacement.

This system has so many flaws and has not been improved in decades.

When the bankers are unemployed, they will have nobody to blame but themselves

Everyone goes on about how Spirit of Eden is a masterpiece, which of course it is, but I think this is possibly even better, depending on the prevailing mood.

What’s the most surprising thing about Bitcoin?

Not much to say from a health perspective then

I used to think alcohol was alcohol.

Beer...Wine. They both got me drunk.

Then I started paying attention.

To how beer left me foggy.

And how wine didn’t.

Here’s what I found 🍺🍷🧵

Wine and Beer Start From Different Foundations

Wine is made from fermented grapes.

Beer is made from fermented grains.

That difference really matters.

Grapes naturally contain compounds that survive fermentation and end up in your glass. These include polyphenols, which have been studied for their ability to reduce inflammation, support blood vessels, and protect cells from oxidative stress.

Beer starts with starch. After fermentation, most commercial beer is filtered, pasteurized, and standardized. That strips out nearly all of the byproducts that might offer anything beyond alcohol and empty calories.

Both wine and beer can include additives that aren't listed on the label. But with wines, more of the beneficial compounds tend to stay in. It is also easier to find low-intervention wines with few additives, and there is a stronger culture of traceability in wine. People care who grew the grapes, how they were grown, and where.

You can find good beer and bad wine.

But at the baseline, wine has more going for it.

Blood Sugar and the Crash

Most people chalk up how they feel after drinking to “just a hangover.”

But part of that foggy, sluggish feeling is driven by blood sugar swings.

Wine, especially dry red wine, has virtually no residual sugar. During fermentation, yeast consumes the natural grape sugars. A standard glass of dry red often contains less than 1 gram of sugar.

Beer, on the other hand, contains maltose and residual starch, both of which break down quickly into glucose. This gives it a higher glycemic load, especially when consumed without food or in large quantities. Blood sugar spikes, insulin rises, and then comes the crash.

Alcohol itself makes this worse.

It inhibits gluconeogenesis, which is your liver’s ability to produce glucose when blood sugar runs low. That makes it harder for your body to recover once blood sugar drops.

This is why beer often leaves you drained and cloudy, even after just a couple.

Wine avoids about as much of that as possible. Less sugar spike. Less crash.

Antioxidants and Inflammation

Red wine contains polyphenols like resveratrol, quercetin, and anthocyanins.

These compounds have been studied for their role in reducing inflammation and protecting blood vessels.

Beer contains some antioxidants from hops and barley, but at much lower levels.

The process of filtration and pasteurization removes most of what might help.

If you’re going to drink, wine actually gives your body something to work with.

Hormonal Effects

Beer contains hops, and hops contain a compound called 8-prenylnaringenin.

It’s a powerful phytoestrogen, meaning it acts like estrogen in the body.

In high enough quantities, it can start shifting hormone levels.

Chronic beer consumption has been linked to lower testosterone, reduced libido, and, in some cases, increased body fat in areas like the manboob.

Wine doesn’t contain estrogenic compounds like this.

Some of the polyphenols in red wine may even slow down how fast your body breaks down testosterone. One lab study found a reduction in testosterone clearance by up to 70 percent.

Beer increases estrogen.

Wine slows testosterone loss.

Transparency and Sourcing

Neither beer nor wine is required to list all ingredients or additives on the label.

That means you're often drinking blind unless you know the producer.

With wine, it's usually easier to trace the origin.

There’s a stronger culture around knowing who grew the grapes and how the wine was made.

Beer doesn’t have that same emphasis on sourcing.

It’s possible, but less common.

If you want to drink better, ask questions and buy from people who can answer them.

Not all alcohol is created equal.

Beer gives you sugar spikes, estrogenic compounds, and fewer nutrients.

Wine gives you antioxidants, lower sugar, and for guys, a possible hormonal edge.

I’m not saying wine is a health drink.

But switching from beer to wine might actually make you feel better.

I’ve noticed it myself. I rarely drink beer anymore.

Curious if anyone else has had the same experience.

people keep telling me that damus is way too complicated. it has to be so simple a toddler can use it or else noone will use it.

your app has keys? too hard.

your app doesn't have unique usernames? too hard.

basically everyone is retarded

⚡️🤫 I HAVE A SECRET - You probably have no idea how much effort I’m putting in. Beyond the time and energy I spend on Nostr, English isn’t even my native language — I actually started learning just 3 months ago. My only vocabulary came from games like CS, WoW, or PoE: words like “backup,” “rush B,” “smoke,” “flash,” “dungeon,” “item,” “stash,” “wisdom,” etc.

So really, thank you — I’ve learned more with you all in 3 months than in 15 years of public school. I’m feeling more and more comfortable with the language thanks to this community 🫂.

the greatest psyop in america may be the normalization of male circumcision

60% of newborn boys in the us are circumcised

it is a difficult topic because no parent wants to admit they made the wrong decision but that number should be zero

Invited to the maiden voyage of the MSC World cruise ship by a good friend in YPO.

The engineering, size and facilities of this class of ships today is insane.