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What is this narrative about Americans needing their guns to protect themselves from oppressive government, when in 1934 they gave up all their gold without a fight? The fight is for your mind, if they win that, you are your worst enemy.

It's official. nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg9rg869l7t43ats5gdsqrqh6njn5wjf0jpe0unvpekkredvllr6nqwfmhjz is a central banker in disguise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMFrpUFcNM

The main obstacle to Bitcoin adoption is the Central Banking bamboozle. #Bitcoin

are you drinking tap water? you are the city's bitch. is there anything you use that the society provides? you are society's bitch.

life is not binary, there are pros and cons to everything. not taking this into account while communicating is what harms progress of protocols like bitcoin and nostr.

Has anyone figured out the best/canonical algorithm for keeping the signed in state between a web application and a nostr application in sync?

My web app sometimes needs to authenticate actions on it's backend, and sometimes needs to authenticate nostr events.

#asknostr

Replying to Avatar Juraj

These were talks, I don't think they're published yet.

As for the back to nature and adaptation, this is basically paleo (neolithic being the first change of the environment). Not anything new or innovative, we've been doing it for years.

The problem is that that's not the only thing that Kruse is saying. He has various explanations of how things work and they're quite opposite to what paleo people are doing. Many are protecting against UV light. The forest environment does not have UV, inuits wore clothes to protect, even wooden "glasses".

Another problem is that evolution does have different goals than me. Evolutionary pressure (adaptation) is for you to procreate and raise children to procreate. There's a bit of fitness requirement to be vital grandparent, but then the best for the genes is to die suddenly and stop consuming resources. You can see that in DNA damage, telomere length, lifetime of the heart, etc. Most of modern biohacking is to extent healthspan beyond what we are evolutionarily adapted for. Over 40, things start to break down slowly, you already had children, the genes are spread and good for another procreation and you are supposed to help and then leave.

My goals are very different to what my evolutionary adaptation leads to. Definitely after 50 you can do much better than just wait until you die.

Another problem is that the paleo environment does not exist. Even us writing on Nostr is a very different environment than nature. Even Jack goes to an airplane to give a talk. So back to nature needs to consider what to do in contemporary environments. Another thing is that if we know what the adaptation is, we can introduce it in a different and maybe more intensive way (nir panel for example, cryotherapy, HBOC, ...)

So it's often sloppy thinking, the explanations going beyond the basics don't make sense, even evolutionary sense and pure paleo strategies lead to different outcomes than what people strive for.

What is more sloppy thinking is pretending you are pure first principles and then talk about quantum effects and still pretend you are coming from first principles. No, starting from first principles and then diverting to unproven theories how things work is not axiomatic. And when people ask questions or want proof, starting yelling "centralized medicine" will win him some likes on Twitter, but most people rightfully dismiss him as a bit mad.

I think there is a distinction to be made between "paleo" and "mitochondriac". Dr. Kruse is one of the leading thinkers in the latter category and I think calling his arguments "paleo" and then attacking those is unfair. They are not paleo and based on your reply, no offense, but I see that you misunderstand his arguments greatly.

His arguments are focused more on mammalian evolution (rather than human DNA), caused by rapid changes in the environment, not random mutations over long timelines. 65 million years ago, the POMC protein allowed us to survive the KT event. The mammals that were hiding from Dinosaurs underground, were now exposed to the sun (after few years) and that caused a lot of changes in the ways their genes expressed and we, Humans are the result.

The basic thesis: The light environment is the most important. Mammals are able to use light to replicate photosynthesis inside them, thus creating glucose and insulin, thus not needing as much food (check POMC cleavage products). That's what allowed those mammals to survive and thrive in this new predator-free world. We now changed our light environment so dramatically and so quickly, that our biology can't keep up. Blue light raises blood sugar and insulin without any sugar intake. Diabetes is an evolutionary response to the amount of blue light we are receiving. This is why chemistry (food, supplements) is not as important as light, water, magnetism.

RE: UV light in the forest.

I don't know how much evolutionary time we spent in forests vs. savannas but I would bet much, much more in savannas exposed to sun most of the time. The other variable is temperature, see next point.

RE: Inuits

Yes, this is actually part of Kruse's argument. Light and temperature are inversely correlated, the less light you have the more you should expose yourself to cold. I'm pretty sure an African man would be cold in Alaska in the exact same clothes his Inuit friend is wearing. In other words, the Inuit is cold adapted, his mitochondria work differently.

RE: Evolutionary goals arguments

I don't dispute these. But I'm not sure whether they are germane to what we are discussing here.

RE: paleo environment vs. technology

Kruse is not against technology, he is against technology abuse. He is saying, don't abuse technology, and if you use it, make sure you counter the damage by spending time in nature, grounding, exposing yourself to sunlight, drinking clean water, etc. Or, yes I agree, if you want to go further, you can start biohacking with lamps, grounding sheets, etc. However, Sun is TINA!

RE: sloppy thinking

I don't quite get this. I thought physics is first principles and quantum effects are part of physics. We know they work, our computers are based on them.

Overall, I think you have almost an emotional response, maybe you are used to understanding things right away, since you are a very bright person. However, his thesis are stretching the limits of what we are able to understand in more than one area of science. That might be the reason his arguments sound like a word salad to you. I am taking the time and studying for more than 2 years now what he has to say and I find it more and more fascinating.

If you are open minded and humble enough to give it a go, I suggest this podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dzpuyYNN1yHNgiiGVfFBO?si=d2ad5b605f9e48dd

He builds up the thesis from basics in a non-argumentative way.

Have a great day :-)

The thesis is actually very simple and as first principled as possible:

1. All life on earth always lived in close proximity to it's environment.

2. As humans separate themselves from their environment, which is very rapidly in the last hundred years, they disrupt their bodies natural processes, their cells loose energy, which results in disease.

3. Therefore, if you want to heal, spend more time in nature.

What's to be proven about that? It can't get any clearer ... Biohacks, and red light therapy specifically, is just trying to replicate nature's environment so that you can keep living separated from nature, yet not suffer as much.

BTW, if you think you can improve your health/vitality long term with chemically based biohacks, you are playing with fire.

Would you please share the "people that understand" biology? I would be super interested to read what they are saying.

Hey nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqgx6kmrqvhzrnwd6lv9s78l45rrgyuauuhqetxjptzkk5uy9rag8kc9vcpvp I finally realized where the crux of this problem is. What you perceive as arrogance (and sure, Kruse can be obnoxious at times) is he telling you: "I don't have to measure this, nor do I need studies to prove this. This is derived from first principles, from physics. What I am telling you is axiomatically true. Quantum, AMO physics gives rise to chemistry. So without you getting your physics right (light, water, magnetism) the chemistry won't work even though you have all the chemical ingredients present."

Anyway, you recently mentioned you bought a red light and you liked it :-)

You can just do things!

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The thing you most want is found where you least want to look 🤯

He is trying to solve a problem that is actually a symptom of a problem. Where did the British go wrong so that they have to deal with people killing other people with knives and swords on such a scale that they have to ban knives and swords? 🤡🌍