Jordan, this will make COVID, 2007, 2000, and 1987 look like a week at the beach.

No one should be wishing for what this administration has done to our country. 250 years of civil liberties and freedoms, gone. This will take 5-15 years to play out and it will be extremely costly in many ways including lives lost. You may not like the outcome.

Most people cannot leave and will be trapped here to watch the descent into the abyss and journey to whatever is next.

One thing is certain, the Great Peace is ending. From here we either fight someone else, ourselves, or both.

Not that type of transition. Honestly, you won't understand, but I welcome your attempt. It's a totally unbelievable but true story.

It's just unsettling to see our country ending and not know what is ahead for my loved ones.

I call it like I see it, and I see things pretty clearly. I find it interesting that people still can't see the textbook application of how to create an authoritarian state. It really says a lot about the level of ignorance in our citizens.

You want to know why JD Vance says the professors are the enemies? Because they are smart. The fascist lies don't work on smarter people.

JD Vance is echoing Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot.

"The Professors are the enemies."

You guys know this is textbook fascism, right? The country is over. The Fourth Turning has begun, and this time the UNITED STATES is ground zero. Not Europe, not Asia. We are blowing ourselves up.

It's weird to see all this change right as you confront your mortality.

Lol. There is no rational reason to feel upset at being circumcised. If you are saying irrational people sometimes kill themselves, that seems normal.

CFPB is a vital agency.

Without it, companies have free reign to cheat consumers. How hard is that to understand?

https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-has-been-gutted/

Don't be so pessimistic. There is still time. The Fourth Turning is just beginning.

GM Nostr

Stock Market is closed.

Bitcoin trades 24x7

I never thought I'd live to say my country is Fascist.

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You need a lightning address for zaps.

GN Nostr

I'll try to choose another weird thing that has led me to here and write about it, tomorrow.

You might wonder what's going on in my life due to all of this? Nothing. We pretty much just pretend it's not there as best we can. I prefer it that way. Just keep pushing.

Invictus

I called the Cleveland Clinic today and got that process started. 4-6 months.

I actually went a couple years ago. I knew what I had, but the symptoms didn't result in any findings and I wasn't in bad enough shape for anyone to care. Sure, I reported a crazy history but nothing is bad enough right now, was basically the outcome.

I've been taking life a few days at a time for a long, long time.

BTW: I'm logging all this for science and because it's actually very fascinating to have lived through. I've made it seem normal most of the time, but the overall story is fascinating. I think it helps to find your own life fascinating even it's not your best case scenario. I found 3 decades by putting myself through this. That seems like science worth examining.

I think I'm addicted, Nostr.

Overall, I'm very fortunate, despite the fact my system has been essentially consuming itself for 30 years.

Here are the highly unlikely things allowing me to be alive:

1) Finding an article, while in a mental institution for not being able to sleep or think without drinking a lot of water, with a treatment (with severe side effects) for my condition

2)Just enough organic and cellular biology to kinda follow all the really cool science that ensued as Candidias fought a crippled immune system by integrating itself into my cells

3)Smart enough to try to duplicate the treatment using diet coke (yes, I know that sounds stupid, if I could change reality it would be a much cooler way)

4) Figured out a drug to help

5) Always stayed in shape exercising

6) The right job that let's me excel

7) The right wife that does everything right and keeps me going to my limits.

I've been through a lot of weirdness, over the years. If you summed it all up, it's.. well, a lot. But, NO WHINING! 😉

Legs are real stiff and just ache all over. It's a cool trick the candidiasis does. See, it attacks the cells early on but by going inside the cells. This apoptotifies the cells. Later, they get exposed to sugars and that reactivates the neatly wrapped (in the cell lining) fungus and it consumes the cell. But the rate is controlled, effectively by the Candidias as it controls sugar levels, pH and more.

I'm not exactly sure, but I think we're in that consuming stage. Sure sounds like it from the way my legs feel.

The irony.

I won a Bitaxe on X, recently.

It's about to ship.

I'll have to teach my son how to use it. He's a freshman CS major.

The Nostr protocol implementations are still clunky, but I feel about it like I did the first time I read about bitcoin except this time I'm less afraid of regulation.

If you don't road trip, the #EV6 is awesome. We are so behind China on public charging, though.

GM Nostr

Lying here in bed, about to get up. I feel normal, almost.

It's a nice part of my day. I tell Google good morning, and it tells me the Bitcoin price, turns on lights, and reads me the news.

Then I realize my country has become fascist and take just a little solace that I won't have to be here to see the worst of it.

Welcome! You are a hero.

I have my own centralized battle.

Invictus

Welcome, Ross!

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How has the science for my condition redacted?

First, realize it's an iatrogenic condition, that means caused by treatment. Then realize the eventual outcome is what I'm going through. Plus, it changes physiology in some good ways short-term. So, I'm guessing "they" didn't want people to know about the treatment.

Well, conveniently, the iatrogenic condition doesn't show up on tests due to its novelty. So, who's to know who has it anyway?

The writer of the original article commented that the condition was being reclassified under acute polyendocrine auto-immune with candidiasis, since it shared so many similar features in the end. However, the pathology is wholly different and the science is known, documented, and fascinating. It was a lengthy writeup and the author likely had first-hand experienced, which would mean more modern experiments which would likely be accounted for by what the author said in another part where they said the treatment had been considered for the super soldier program during the Cold War.

Once it was reclassified, no one needed to know from where the old type originated.

Quitting time and I'm still sitting here writing SQL.

After 30 years as a data architect, I'm not bad.

Worked half a day, so far. My mind is clear.

The pain above my knee was bad this morning, yet now, 5 his later it is dramatically less and I have new pain in that calf.

I have a hard time describing pain intensity to people because I'm so used to so many types.

This type hurts but it's broad not sharp.