A lot of things led me here - dealing with the effects of not having a gall bladder, as well as lactose sensitivity, then post-COVID symptoms of not being able to handle cheese at all without paying for it almost immediately (within 5-15 minutes I was in the bathroom). I've always been interested in diets, and have explored various edits, like not eating any cheese, or not eating meat, or tracking everything I ate and trying to be under 1800 calories a day, sometimes below 1200. I didn't try all the diets out there, never thought Atkins or South Beach or eating grapefruits was going to be the right path. I ndidn't think replacing foods with food substitutes was a good idea either.
I'd read The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard, and heard what fake foods were about. I'd read lots of notes about seed oils. I actually haven't eaten at McDonalds since I was about 14 and learned that McDonalds had partnered with DuPont Chemical to develop edible plastics. I won't even drink a soda purchased from there. Personal ideological boycott
But when I started reading into carnivore options, a lot of it made sense and pulled together things I already knew. I read about half of The Bear's ridiculously huge monster thread on some old forum. It became apparent that although they may have some limited benefits, vegetables weren't necessary. Most of the stuff people eat vegetables for is to counteract the rest of their diet, including other vegetables. Sugars aren't necessary, but they are highly addictive. The idea of the caveman or paleo diet was interesting too, but those (as well as keto) all seemed to waver around things like fruits, nuts, and vegetables - and nobody stays on them for long, because they end up succumbing to sugar cravings that they bring on themselves through fructose.
Then there was taking a dive into history, how people ate over time. You don't have to look at mummified feces of proto-humans to make some basic observations. People ate meat first, and supplemented with seasonal vegetation as a last resort, or possibly as a treat. Fruit didn't stay ripe long enough to be a serious food source, and vegetables would rot once harvested. Meat was the renewable. Sugar was available in the form of honey (and cane in certain areas), but there was some serious risk involved in going after honey. Even a couple hundred years ago, people ate far less sweets, and most things didn't have sugars added. Now everything has sugar, corn syrup, or some kind of artificial sweetener. Grains are also fairly recently destroyed. And we've made all foods available all year around, everywhere, so we're eating the worst things all the time, instead of enjoying something less healthy as an occasional treat. We're filling up on glop instead of healthy protein, and as a result, we look the part.
I am not a "food is just fuel for the engine" type. I do believe in enjoying food, but enjoyment still needs to be secondary to utility. First I need to stay on the right side of the lawn, because otherwise the occasional treat becomes meaningless.
Going back to where this started, I actually wasn't really calling you out on vegetables. I was thinking more about the protein and nutritional density of chicken vs. beef. Chicken (and other birds) should be a fairly low percentage of your meat intake. Lack of fats is also a problem with chicken, and the goals of carnivore is actually more about eating enough fat. People who eat lots of chicken struggle with this, and not getting enough fat means they don't have the energy and don't lose the weight (whichever goal they are after), and they say it doesn't work. Same problem with keto/paleo/caveman. At least you have bacon fat in there. Chicken and turkey are not really good substitutes for red meat. Sure enough, your next meal was also a chicken dish. As I said, keto has a lot to learn; it isn't just keeping that carb number down. It is keeping the fats high, the proteins filling, and the other stuff off your plate, unless you want to continually fight sugar. Plants are still valuable, they are medicinal. I don't eat plants just like I don't eat aspirin, but sometimes they can help. They can also provide spice or flavor, although I think meat tastes fine without a lot of spice or extra flavors. Most of what we add to meat these days are sugar-spiked additions that do more to appease our sugar addiction than anything else.
You asked about bloodwork. YES! check yourself. But don't take the dr's interpretations too seriously. you SHOULD have high cholesterol. You should NOT have any high sugar numbers. I had full bloodwork done about a month in, and I was no longer pre-diabetic. I have been borderline most of my life. Same goes for whatever the indicator is for fatty liver disease - that is improving as well, although it was never more than borderline for me. Whatever the Drs point out, listen, then do some of your own research before taking any drugs. You don't want to be on statins or diuretics. The Dr will probably want you to go on a statin because of the cholesterol, but don't, do your research on this first, and determine if you believe that having high cholesterol is really a health risk if you are handling your insulin levels properly. I don't, and refuse to actually take the statin, regardless of what the good doc wants.
I'm probably getting more blood tests in a month or two, and I'm very curious about those results. You can also check your piss for ketones and such, but I don't see this as being all that helpful. If you're in carnivore ketosis, you'll be burning those ketones, not dumping them.
Gn nostriches 🌝
No moon for me, because clouds. How rude.
my node is equal to my purposes. that is all that matters to me.
Nope. I think a big difference is that I am not worried about lightning services. lnd might be dropping out all over the place, but I wouldn't notice, unless it also drops electrs. I think lnd is technically supposed to be running on it, but there's no channels, zero balance in the ln wallet, no need for it to actually do anything.
So I had RTL installed on there. Opened it up, it says it can't connect to LND server, so chances are, LND is down. Sparrow is connecting to my private electrum server just fine, so that appears to be working, and balances are current. I even have an electrum wallet with some random small balances in it, and that shows up fine in Sparrow.
So, good enough for me. I don't need to run lnd on my node for anything I'm doing right now. If I did, maybe I would choose something better than an rpi.
Not very often. maybe seen it drop twice in the last year. I have my mempool in a browser window on a monitor that I use for that, music player, sometimes bitcoin chart, but not much else, so I might notice if it was down. But I might not, if it recovers gracefully. I think it may have failed to recover once in the last year, and needed me to reboot it, or at least recovered after I rebooted it. So, stable enough for my purposes. It's there if I need to make a transaction with my Sparrow wallet. I can watch Tick Tock Next Block, one my favorite shows. Good deal.
OK, that was all from memory. Fact-checking it with Wikipedia (ymmv) today, there was a single released from Hello Rockview, "History of a Boring Town", in 1998. And there is a direct mention of college radio in the Wikipedia article as well: "The band spawned a minor college radio hit with "History of a Boring Town"" - well, that was done by handing out tons of free singles to college radio DJs.
Still, that was some pretty fucking accurate memory for 25 years in the past, for some band I wasn't even into.
Yes. RaspiBlitz, but really just running as a bitcoin node. I have electrs on there too, and mempool. and if it dies, I don't care. I can bring up all of that quickly enough elsewhere (on rpi or something else) to meet my needs. I don't custody lightning, but I also don't keep any material amounts of currency in lightning.
In front of the stage, mostly. Not planning on giving too many details about my prior employers, thanks.
Consider fitness. What makes a person fit. An early question that should be asked is what the environment demands, because fitness implies that one "fits" into a specific environment. Someone who is fit for polar regions will not resemble someone who is fit for equatorial regions. Most of the queues we pick up on as attractive can be linked back to our fitness, and the attributes that made us fit in a natural setting. I guess it's no surprise that there are people out there that are attracted to people that best resemble potatoes. They are fit to the environment of their sofa.
And always, when in doubt, titties.
If you say so. GM! I haven't had any fiber that I'm aware of in months. Haven't had a problem. Maybe it's because I'm also not ingesting the toxins.
The point is not to get into ketosis, at least not for me. Yes, in a general sense you want to be burning fat instead of carbs, and if you're strictly carnivore you will be in ketosis most or all of the time.
My point is to eliminate unnecessary things from my diet. greens, onions/garlic, aren't necessary for me. I've proven this for myself in the short term, and have heard enough anecdotal evidence to believe it should hold true for the much longer term. Is it the worst things ever to eat something green? Nope. I still sometimes use garlic and onion for seasoning, and sometimes I ingest them incidentally - but that is far different from eating full portions of them, and any toxins they do introduce are pretty quickly eliminated.
I actually look at it like most people regard desserts. We all know desserts aren't good for us, but we still indulge occasionally. In my world, same goes for EVERYTHING that isn't meat or dairy. If I really want to eat something like collard greens, then it should be as satisfying to me as fudge, cheesecake, or ice cream. And I should be aware that I am eating it for pleasure, not nutrition.
I've made this kind of exception for ceviche, chicken salad, banana bread, and cheesecake, as one-time events, not regular occurrences.
I'm just under no obligation to eat anything I don't actually want to eat, and I understand that everything I eat has consequences, even meat. Meat helps me stay on this side of the lawn each day. The rest of it really doesn't, unless I'm in some extreme situation where meat isn't available for a couple weeks. So what consequences do I choose?
The pork tenderloin leftover I ate for breakfast, cooked in lots of garlic and onion, basil, cilantro, carrots, lemon pepper, but served/stored without them, may speak for me.
And then I heard this today. https://tidal.com/browse/track/14626929
Well?
I did security (in front of the stage/pit) for a Goldfinger / Long Beach Dub All-Stars show. Goldfinger was way better, although they got second billing. Still fun. Sublime didn't survive Bradley, and the best thing to come out of that scene was probably Bargain Music.
GN #nostr 🌜
Today's thoughts have mainly been around engagement and its relationship to fun and enjoyment.
I'm thinking engagement is the key to finding fun. It may also be the key to finding (or transcending) meaning.
But, like fun and meaning, it cannot be the goal, but rather just part of the journey.
This does explain why I find fun in manual labor.
My counselor said that depression really first became a thing in the mid 1700s, and mostly among those who no longer had to labor daily to survive, thanks to wealth or machinery. We agree that doesn't seem coincidental.
Many more thoughts on this I am sure, but engagement is feeling like it might be up there with self-esteem in importance to our psyche, and might even solve many self-esteem issues.
This was in California, although entirely possible they were out of Gainesville. That actually rings true, and some areas of Florida had an interesting ska scene. I was assuming SoCal because their sound is pretty similar to what was coming out of there at the time, but that also explains why I didn't see them live. I've been to far more live shows than I can count, have live sound engineering experience as a sometimes paying hobby. And I grew up as a gutterpunk. (With a heathy interest in industrial music as well)
I don't know if I'd want to see them live now. NOFX released something s few years ago that was just dark, like suicides. Yeah, some thing are best left to memories of youthful prime.
Of course! Who wouldn't?
Fun fact - I got a free single, may have been on tape, even, probably in 1998 from them, because they were trying hard to get radio play (and publicity) on the college radio station I worked at.
Listened to it a few times, didn't think it was that great. Just another OC pop ska band, I think (may have been SD). But heard a few tracks a month or two ago on Tidal, and their music has actually kind of held up, granted, with some nostalgia. Still prefer Goldfinger, the Skeletones, DFL, Vandals, Offspring, and NOFX. But LTJ has a special place, thanks to a free single.
I feel like keto has so much to learn. But hey, it's a start.
I think people may want an argument or debate (point/counterpoint) rather than a discussion or idea-share.
Also, in a world of cucks, almost any stance can be seen as heroic.
I know for myself, I tend to just post notes about whatever is taking up space in my mind, rather than trying to ask questions about it.
Either that, or shitpost. But my shitposting is not effective because it isn't memes, more sardonic irony, thanks to my disagreeable nature.
But yes, the landscape in which we are acting is certainly having an effect on our actions. Adapt or fail.