Why does iodized salt have dextrose in it? #asknostr

Met with the rancher, shook his hand. Should have fresh beef in my freezer in 3-4 weeks. Thanked him for improving the soil by raising cattle instead of destroying it with crops.

Planning to go shake a rancher's hand, in an hour or so.

I'm not disputing that people lived in cold climates. That is simply not the same as jumping in an icy pool by choice, with the expectation of some health benefit.

Last I checked, cold wasn't for pain management, often the cold exposure hurts worse! If anything, it is to stop swelling - but swelling is a sign of the body immobilizing the area in an effort to protect it during healing, while it is bringing all of its other healing mechanisms to bear on the area. Applying cold would slow that while process down, actually retarding your own body's healing efforts.

You mention bathing - how much bathing was actually happening in cold waters? Hot baths in sweat lodges were more common around here (pacific northwest). Not sure how much bathing in water the Inuit do, probably not a lot. But this is where I am making guesses, and don't know the answers. For all I know the Inuit yelled "cannonball" and did polar bear challenge plunges all the time!

Roman baths were also heated, as I understand it. Very different climate there.

Everything I have come to understand about survival would point to avoiding 1) cold and 2) being in water whenever possible, just from a general sense of risk/reward.

I still don't hear any evidence of ancestral humans or any animal species practicing cold plunges for physio- or psycho- wellness.

If they are truly rights and not entitlements, then they can neither control or be controlled. You may choose to assert them or deny them, and others may attempt to influence you, but this is control of a right, just control of yourself asserting that right.

I've been questioning cold exposure on the basis of ancestral wisdom. Is there any evidence that ancient peoples had any kind of ceremony or practice where they would expose themselves to intense cold?

I think there is plenty of basis for heat - saunas, sweat lodges, etc. But cold would just be unnecessary risk of death or frostbite, right?

My general argument is that our physiology evolved to increase our chances of survival. Our ancestors were much more in tune with survival than we are today, and likely found the best practices to thrive in nature. In turn, our physiology also evolved to suit those practices. I don't restrict this to only humans either, where our general biology is largely shared with plenty of the animal kingdom. Not sure where cold exposure fits into this model. Even applying ice to pain should be questioned. When is the last time someone living outside of an icy biome applied cold to a muscle injury? Ever see an animal trying to cool off a sprained limb?

This is just part of my question everything mindset, especially anything that has changed over the last few hundred years. No particular attachment to this rabbit hole, just one I stick my nose in from time to time.

Interesting, as I see our current state at probably 7+ of the above, with movement toward all in some ways. And very few politicians taking meaningful stances against any of this.

Other failure mentioned was screens in the bedroom (kindle paperwhite doesn't count). Trying to avoid this, especially during sleeping hours. Was on nostr to send a gn message, spent 20 minutes scrolling. Fuck that. Maybe I take nostr off my phone, only have it on the desktop in the office. That would solve the problem. But then, what to do whilst shitting? No more shit posts.

GN.

Didn't poison, blahblahblah. Failing another metric rn, gotta go.

See, that's where this gets a little aggravating for me. Every time I try and poke the bear of virology (or immunology, for that matter), someone goes full retard on coronavirus. I'd rather just ignore that, and really look at the state of virology research/knowledge up to Ebola or SARS. I'd want to focus on influenza, perhaps. Or some other illness that has been (mis)characterized as a virus, but has been around for at least several decades. Maybe chicken pox. Which was then also shingles, and now monkey pox. But again, focus on it as chicken pox, and tell me what caused symptoms to seemingly pass from one child to the next.

I could be going at this too hard, but are there even any truly communicable diseases, aside from brain rot and stupidity?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the anti-virology argument. What I'm not getting is if there are not organisms that can infect a host and reproduce to create other organisms that can be passed from one host to another, in such a way that an organism, once passed in a way that permits it, can infect another host - then how do we explain a pattern of symptoms that appear to temporally coincide among individuals in close proximity? Maybe individual reactions to environmental stimuli - like we all smelled the same fart, just some smelled it later than others?

GN nostr.

This is probably repetitive, but I didn't poison myself with sugars today. I did finish the last of the cold brew. I did stick to no more than two k-pods of coffee.

The goal right now is to just have one pod of coffee in the AM, no more caffeine throughout the day, except for maybe iced tea (unsweetened of course) if I'm dining out, or a gas station coffee occasionally.

I had gotten to this level of caffeine avoidance before I quit smoking. It's been over a month, time to get back there again. To tell you where I was at before, easily 8+ kpods (in 12 oz pours) throughout the day, plus whatever other caffeine I could find.

Yes, I could still sleep at night, but no way was that good for me. I think I'd like to no longer have a daily caffeine event, but still would like to enjoy an espresso occasionally.

Not sure if that is reality, though. It definitely isn't with nicotine. Probably not with heroin either.

So, we'll see. Right now it is more important for me to focus on keeping the sugar poisoning to an absolute minimum while staying off nicotine. And that is happening. One damn day at a time.

Also, we have the two-burner model, and use it for pressure canning, although not as much anymore, since the wife got an electric canner. I still prefer the old-style pressure canner though. Small kitchen, electric range, easier to spread out and do the canning outside over a gas burner.

Crab. We've always called these crab cookers, because they are useful for bringing huge pots of water to boil if you want to cook all your freshly caught crabs at once.

Thanks for this. I was missing the part about it taking up 0.5 degrees. I had already estimated 15 degrees per hour.

Not sure I ever realized how fast it moves. Moving its complete area every 2 minutes? That is pretty close to observable motion, definitely faster than grass growing or paint drying!

ok #asknostr - how long does it take for the moon to be fully above the horizon? moonrise is when it first appears on the horizon, as I understand it, but I want to know how long after moonrise the entire moon (whatever portion of it may be visible or not) is above the horizon. #grownostr

Simple is rarely easy, right? Neither is important stuff. Give me the hard stuff, makes for interesting times. Certainly these are interesting times.

Grocery stores can be easy (except for the day-old pastry rack) because I can just nerd out on meat prices, trying to buy all my beef under $7/lb. But I understand. Like the day I found corn syrup in my ground pork, I think it was.

Also I no longer really buy grocery store pork products because I don't want to be taking "vaccines" that were dosed into the pigs, apparently there is no need to label whether or not "mRNA therapy" was administered to the hogs.

GN.

I didn't poison myself with sugar today. I drank more cold brew coffee than I should, and ate more cheese than I should.

I bought some iodized sea salt from WalMart. I looked at the label more closely today, one if its ingredients is dextrose. What the actual fuck? Why are they adding sugar to salt? Fuck this world, seriously. Outraged. I should just rage quit everything NOW!

Into the bin with that nonsense. But also, why does my mother-in-law (who lives under my roof) just leave most of a crumb cake with some magic cookies in the space where there wasn't crumb cake sitting out in the kitchen where I have to see it and walk by it every time I want to get a drink? Maybe I'll go buy some meth and just cut out a nice line and put it on the bathroom counter, in case anyone wants to dig up histories of poisoning one's self. For fuck's sake.

I threw that crumb cake in the bin too, after the rest of the people in this house had eaten everything in the middle of the pan except for the crumbs and the edges. They got their poison for the day. I can't stop 'em, and I won't join 'em.

Shit is still rough, maybe less rough than yesterday, maybe the same and I'm one more day used to it.

Apparently the wisdom of the day is patience, so I will let it blow by. Whatever happens probably would happen anyway.

I might get a peek at a big harvest moon shortly; not entirely sure if was full tonight or last night, but either way, should be pretty big if the clouds cooperate.

Cheers nostr. 🌕🎉

I'd love to do this more, but it seems people always want me to do stuff. And also, I also want to get stuff done (so I can practice stillness afterward).

I still have my moments, though. I do tend to be a frustratingly patient person (frustrating to others who wonder why I'm not doing stuff for them, or on their perceived timeline.)