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GM nostr.

Moving between different accounting models. I had been very focused on visualizing everything through the fiat paradigm of assets, liabilities, and cash flow. I did budgeting, again in the standard fiat sense, taking my monthly fiat mine income, deducting my monthly expenses from it, and based decisions on whatever was left over each month.

Now I'm rethinking this. I'm looking at total net worth, total savings, ratio of savings to net worth, total expendable, total monthly liability, and months of runway, all in bitcoin terms. As long as I have x months of runway (let's say 6) as expendable wealth, I can save everything else. I'm able to extend that runway as well as savings through additional debt. You might notice that monthly income isn't represented. This is because it isn't assumed until realized. I could probably factor it in to my runway estimates as a forecast if I wanted to.

This approach is based off lots of ideas I've taken from Mark Moss, Michael Saylor, and others. I am completely divorcing myself from living paycheck to paycheck, and ramping up to take full advantage of this fiat debasement cycle.

Gn nostr. Exiting fiat.

Careful, I am not meaning to validate or invalidate any existential belief, only the power structures built around that belief. ;)

You initially presented this as changing what is taught. There is another argument that belief itself cannot be taught or learned.

All of this only opens up with an appreciation of philosophy, rather than religion.

But I know I take an extreme anti-religion stance. That stance is based on my beliefs, most of which are supported by my philosophy.

Would this be the difference betwen being taught to think for one's self (verify) vs being taught to believe those in power (trust)?

Well, as they say, don't trust, verify!

Good evening nostr.

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Good evening, nostr.

When I hear someone say something that I disagree with, I can move on without any outrage. That person's take is just information to me, not a personal attack. Even when they may intend it to be a personal attack, it is still information, and only serves to inform me of their position.

No need for outrage; let's save that for abuses of power by the state and its agents.

Gm nostr. It's a weekend. Best be enjoying it, I suppose.

gn nostr. Might be truck shopping tomorrow. maybe get something from this century.

Replying to Avatar Dissident Sound

studies have found that the things people are afraid of ( terrorism, sharks etc. ) and things people actually die from ( obesity, car crashes ) are basically the opposite. people are afraid of things that statistically have almost zero chance of killing them, and not afraid of things that statistically are quite likely to kill them.

and likewise you have an irrational fear of "unsafe" diets when really the only thing unsafe in your case, well, more like suicidal really, is NOT dieting.

but i understand how you got to that world view - it is to large extent the fault of the media who tries to convince people that Anorexia is dangerous but Body Positivity though and Healthy at Any Size ... that is GENOCIDAL PROPAGANDA ( so you know )

reality is very small number of people die from anorexia and very large number of people die from obesity. it's the same as how children are several orders of magnitude more likely to be injured by Covid Vaccine than by Covid itself yet the media was still pushing Covid vaccine for children ... even as Children kept dying and getting paralyzed and the media knew the vaccine doesn't even work.

but that's how the media rolls. if you listen to them you will be very sick and probably dead.

simply put unless you are on an idiotic diet like Vegan or Carnivore or you only eat ultra-processed foods it is almost impossible to be malnourished. your fear of being malnourished is blown way out of proportion while you are nowhere near as afraid of staying morbidly obese as you should be.

all diets aim to accomplish the same thing - reduce calorie intake - but no diet can admit this because then it wouldn't be "magical" anymore and instead just be a retarded way to count calories. every diet comes up with its own secret formula for reducing calorie intake, so for example you can have:

- low fat

- low carb

- vegan

- carnivore

- paleo

and on and on but in the end all diets are - is arbitrary restrictions on what you can eat that result in you eating less overall ... that's how diets work PERIOD. all the rationalizations that go with them are TOTAL BULLSHIT which is why there is an infinite number of diets out there - because it ultimately doesn't matter what the rationalization is - you just need restriction.

well what if you didn't want to be an idiot and wanted to restrict your food intake without lying to yourself about it ? well you could count calories. you could fast. you could have your stomach surgically stapled. or you can stuff yourself with fiber until you can't eat any more.

counting calories is the best but hardest option, and very few people have it in them to make it work.

eating a bunch of Fiber One cereal with Whey Protein for breakfast is basically ZERO EFFORT and you feel stuffed for several hours without having consumed much in the way of calories, thus losing weight.

i only do this in place of breakfast because if i replaced every meal with this then i would indeed be malnourished. i use this specifically for breakfast because in the morning my body is low on dietary protein and i want to use the fastest digesting kind ( whey ).

by contrast at night i use the slowest digesting protein ( beef ) to have sustained release as i sleep.

there is no magic in the end. all the supposed "science" behind diets like Keto is just marketing bullshit.

you ultimately either have to use will power, count calories, fast or find foods that are filling despite being low calorie - and that's exactly what Fiber One Cereal with Whey Protein is.

i have been dieting for 30 years and i don't know anything with a higher ratio of satiety to calories than that.

sugar has the lowest ratio of satiety to calories ( it causes binge eating ). protein has the highest satiety to calories of macros that have actual calories. and fiber of course simply has no calories at all so the ratio of satiety to calories is infinite.

i have tried using Metamucil in the past and it's a great way to blow out not just your asshole but the entire intestine and colon and i DO NOT RECOMMEND IT to anybody.

by contrast Fiber One cereal is somehow almost like a luxury experience on the toilet - it's smooth and velvety in texture compared to Metamucil that is too horrific to describe.

for this reason i don't care how much Fiber One costs - it's worth it IMO.

but all this is besides the point. the main point i want you to take home is to stop worrying about "nourishing" yourself and start worrying about losing weight ASAP.

you think you have other health problems but chances are they are all indirectly caused by your weight.

you must address the root cause first by losing weight.

nothing else is nearly as important.

I appreciate your sentiments and explanation. I've come to many of the same conclusions over the past few years, although I have found that by not ingesting sugar and staying as low-carb as possible, I don't have the need to ingest a filler such as fiber, and the satiety I get from meat is enough to get me through to the next meal, which is often the next day.

You seem quick to ridicule carnivore diets, while apparently agreeing with much of the reasoning behind them. I'm not sure where that is coming from, possibly the cultism of its adherents?

I've already lost about half of the weight I was needing to lose to acheive a BMI of 26, where I believe I will start to see the changes I am looking for. I doubt I would see those changes at a higher BMI. My current BMI is 37. My end goal is actually 24.

I would challenge that sugar addiction is the primary cause of premature death and misery in our later years. This includes complications of obesity, as well as heart disease, cancer, and dementia.

Having put my nicotine addiction to rest for now, and hopefully for good, I am now focused on my sugar addiction. Thank you for further validating my conviction.

Replying to Avatar Dissident Sound

so this morbidly obese person here believes that he isn't eating enough and must eat more to "nourish" his tub of lard he calls "body"

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fat people flat out refuse to believe that they should eat less. they will only accept a diet that promises them results by eating MORE of something.

more meat in the case of our subject here.

same as how religious people refuse to listen to any explanation of reality that doesn't involve them going to heaven after they die.

people who have no capacity for coming into contact with reality do not have rights and aren't people at all.

they should simply be turned into soap.

Ok, I think this captures enough of what you've commented. Must be a touchy subject for you. I never said nourish. I also didn't say anything about eating more or less.

I am morbidly obese. It is one of several goals to correct this, but secondary to other health factors. Adding fiber to my diet, or whey protein, do not seem to me to be a way of safely doing so. I also don't think eating "more" is a great idea.

So, as I asked politely, how do adding fiber and whey protein fuel and replenish your body while allowing for safe weight loss?

This doesn't make sense to me - it seems you are basically eating something with close to zero nutritional benefit, just (I assume) to feel full and trick your body into starving itself to lose weight? If losing weight is your goal, fine - but how does this plan properly fuel and replenish the body, and how does it improve upon eating ruminant animal meat?

Gm nostr. Gettin it.

GE nostr. Velocity. I think that is how I would describe life right now. Not necessarily fast or slow, just everything seems to have a sense of velocity.

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Television started this normalization of disrespect, but social media took it to a personal level, where one could put into practice what they had learned from television.

Gn nostr.

I had a notion last night (sort of a dream, I guess) about starting a courier service. I worked as a courier when I was younger. I don't even know if courier services still exist! Anyway, I doubt it will happen, but just in case it does, I mentioned it here - just me timestamping my ideas.

Gm nostr. Last day away from the fiat mine.

Gn nostr.

I have a feeling (maybe an intuition) that my life will greatly accelerate over the next few months. I'm not entirely sure I am as prepared for this as I would like, but I'm also not worried, more excited for what my path will reveal. Yes, these are interesting times.