When I was first diagnosed with Hashimotos back in 2014 my Thyroid antibodies were over 800. After a year of strictly following the Autoimmune Protocol Diet I got those antibodies down to ~100.

The last time I had them checked was mid 2020 when stress levels were pretty high and they were back up to over 300.

I'm going to go get them tested again in a few weeks.... what can I do to see how low I can get them?!?! I'm already a fitness nut, so the only things I can think to do to try to get them low is increase my sleep quality and to not miss any of my daily meditations.

Ideas?

One of my dogs is a former street dog. He’s a scrawny, bright, mischievous little fellow. Once a week or so he needs to sneak out and go for a wander around the neighborhood doing as he pleases. He comes home covered twigs and trash, he gets beat up by the other street dogs, but he don’t care. He just keeps on doing as he pleases.

I get it dude. He’s my spirit animal lol

I’m a huge fan of testing on testnets. I’m team professional, not reckless.

But, testnet3 ...pretty much dead.

Did you know that the Lightning Terminal Daemon, litd, now works on Signet?

When spinning up a new litd node here is how you can set it to run on Signet, just add the below to your lit.conf file:

network=signet

pool-mode=disable

loop-mode=disable

autopilot.disable=true

I know, my zaps are broken. I'll fix it when I have time... like in 6 months lol

We tend to have the idea that if there is a 'bad guy' then the opposing team is the 'good guy', but it doesn't really work that way. Unfortunately, a lot of the time there are a variety of 'bad guys' competing with each-other.

I’ve spent the past ~2 years learning the hard way that there is a very big difference between principled people willing to stand up for what they believe in, and ungrounded radicals who find a sense of self only in rallying against the next thing.

These people can appear the same… for years. But they are very, very different.

Sure, but this would take some time as the things mentioned are very different with very different causes.

Random topic public service announcement: There are just a tragic amount of men in the world who have no idea how wanted they are.

For a variety for reasons, some biological w/ that whole pregnancy thing, and some social w/ all the slut shaming etc, women generally don't communicate it to men when they find them attractive.

This situation creates a generation of men who have no idea that they are wanted. Tragic.

Do you think the ends justify the means?

I've been on this planet over 4 decades now, and in my personal experience, when you try to justify the means with the ends it comes back to bite you in the ass 100% of the time. ...it might take a decade to do so, but the longer it takes, the worse the bite.

And to be fair, this storyline is a common one in human history. It's just that this is the first cycle where I'm aware of it.

And to be fair, this storyline is a common one in human history. It's just that this is the first cycle where I'm aware of it.

And this little story line that we are playing out now reveals who actually wanted freedom for the world and who was just waiting for their turn in power.

I don't think so. This narrative encourages having a very simplistic un-nuanced view of the world. In reality the world is very fucking complex.

It can be argued that the red pill mania was fueled by misandrist feminism.

And what fueled misandrist feminism? Well probably the legal and physical abuse of women that was going on for the past few thousand years.

Hate just brings more hate.

O please please don't become a bunch of boot lickers 🙏

Yup, it's a thing... that follows me around rooms.

ya it's broken right now, ugh.

I don’t often call out the extreme misandrist “feminists” of the world. That isn’t because I support them, I certainly don’t, it just because at this time and place in my life I’m rarely ever around them. The man haters don’t follow me around rooms to tell me exactly why men suck, but the red pill crew do follow me around rooms to tell me why women suck. Good times.

It is important to call out the ugly when you see it, but also to be careful about how you do it. Some of these hate peddlers are very deserving of some harsh language… Tate… the ladies of The View, etc. But they won’t see your words, who will see your words are people who aren’t pushing hate for personal gain but just people who are struggling.

A lot of men who consume red pill content are just confused young men scared about how to navigate a changing world. Most of the women consuming extremist feminists material are survivors of violent sexual assault. Putting these people down or mocking them won’t improve things.

It’s always a good idea to call out horrendous ideas when you see them. But if you mock people, or whole categories of people (men and women) instead of ideas, you are just throwing fuel on a dumpster fire.

Things can and do change. I try to encourage things to change is a healthy direction.

Did you know that I used to be quite the right winger? I once voted for Bush. ...One time I gave a speech supporting gender stereotypes 😬

I got indoctrinated in right wing rhetoric for a variety of reasons, but in large part as a reaction to the intensity of the left wing rhetoric at the University that I was attending. I lost the faith after the 2010 mid terms when “my team” had won and got some fiscal reforms, they came out and declared victory! I was elated ...then I crunched the numbers and realized that these sweeping changes were in fact barely any change at all. I was duped by my own team.

In Chicago ~2015-2018 I worked in some intensely left wing offices. The open hatred for white men specifically that I encountered there was wild. If I hadn’t already left the political circus, that environment would have made me a right wing extremist.

These past few years, being bombarded by the red pill mania, and all the encouragement of “dunking” on the “libtards”, etc, again if I hadn’t already left this circus… or studied economics 😆, I would be busy becoming a left wing radical.

Both the lefties and the righties justify their hatred. They use different terms, but the sentiment is always the same. ‘They deserve it’. ‘They had it coming’. Etc. Lately it’s been the righties claiming that mockery is a good and effective tool for change. It is not. This behavior always leads to blow back, usually in the form of radicalizing those on the opposing team.

The only way to improve this madness isn’t for your team to win. The only way to improve this situation is to get up and leave and circus, and to encourage as many as you can to do the same. If humanity doesn’t learn how to leave the political circus we will be caught in a perpetual cycle of alternating flavors of hatred.

I do care about Elon’s hand gestures as I keep an eye on the common sentiment in the world around me so that I know when a place has become dangerous and I need to leave it. (...perhaps a Jewish trait 🤷🏻‍♀️😕)

But what really fascinates me here, and keeps me posting about it, is watching how human tribalism and our tendencies to be swept up in the madness of crowds impacts our ability to see and interpret the world around us.

Watching the changing tides of sentiment, the changing “collective unconscious”, is both terrifying and absolutely mesmerizing.

...also the memes are hilarious!

Sometimes the good times will reveal your character just as much as the bad times.

Why we need more decentralized tech.

🤣 🤣

One of the most important skills for modern humans is understanding and having resistance to social manipulation.

Social media and our digital hyper-connectedness is powerful, I know it, you know it, government agencies know it, corporations know it.

It’s very important to know how it works so that you can develop a resistance to it. This rests on two often uncomfortable truths.

First: We need to accept that human’s are pack animals. Our survival depends on our having a place in a tribe. Your brain stem knows this, your nervous system knows this… you need to be sure that your prefrontal cortex knows this as well. We are wired to align with the group, that keeps us alive, and it also makes us vulnerable to manipulation and the madness of crowds.

Second: Language and the subtleties of language effect our subconscious beliefs. The language we use alters the lens that we see the world through. Like it or not, we need to pay very close attention to the subtleties of the words that we use and that others use. Via subtle language is how new norms are added to our “collective unconscious.”

With these two core pieces understood, we can create a plan for altering common culture. This happens on a long time line, at least 5-10 yrs. Here is how it works…

We have team A and team B, we want to alter the common culture to see team A as the enemy an see team B as the savior… human’s like simplicity… “good guy” vs “bad guy”, no nuance.

First we select a crappy thing that team A is legitimately doing. A way in which team A has indeed fumbled the ball. Then we call it out clearly, make it dramatic, create a sense of injustice and/or fear. And… here is the important part, when we talk about it we slip in subtle language that favors team B.

This works best if you can create little chat phrases again based of a core of truth but with subtleties snuck in. These spread fast. People use them for ingroup signaling, we pick them up quickly to show our belonging to the tribe.

Over time, if you can get people worked up but about the error that team A is making, most will be too distracted by the injustice/danger that they won’t notice the subtlety that you’ve slipped in and they will grow to accept that subtlety. Like the frog in the pot, you slowly turn the temperature up. You find another error, or even slight discrepancy in team A and work on that one, again slipping in more subtle assumptions.

Keep going for years and watch the collective unconscious change. If you can build enough momentum there is a tipping point where these new assumptions become common knowledge and others will blindly go along with them because their instinct to align with the group pushed them to not question too much.

Once you understand this, you can watch this play book in action. It is both fascinating and terrifying.

Hugs are necessary for human health.

Humans are pack animals, we can’t survive on our own. Your nervous system knows that. Hugs signal to your nervous system that you aren’t alone in the world. It allows your nervous system to relax… it literally turns off inflammation in your body.

When was the last time you hugged someone?

Are you concerned more with having, or with being?

Well, your values are apparently very different from mine.

If someone is not leading their own life, a tragedy has occurred.

Ya, and you can't see women as leaders.

We all should be leading ourselves.

Human progress depends on human cooperation.

https://freemansperspective.com/i-like-jordan-peterson-but-hes-wrong/

It's so weird to see my "anarchist" and "libertarian" friends become wannabe tyrants. Makes you wonder if they ever really had those values or if they were just mad that they weren't the ones in power and were waiting for their turn.

This red pill trend has been rough. It’s gotten to the point where it’s happened so many times in the past few years that I’m finding it difficult to let my guard down around men. I just keep waiting for them to launch into a lecture about how feeble my mind is and why I need to obey them.

It’s a very uneasy feeling chatting with someone while I’m just thinking “go on already, say the ugly thing so we can get this over with.” Sigh.