As I said of any community which not only has self-inmolaters, but proudly supports them, they’re itching to engage in “justified genocide” themselves. Here is Aaron Bushnell on Reddit:
High blood sugar and being limber. Moment 463
A sociopolitical community that not only self-immolates, but proudly embraces the self-immolaters, is ready to finish the genocidal job that Hamas started.
Beware the side embracing self-immolation. Moment 462
Aaron Bushnell WAS morally outraged. That is undeniable.
He is part of a massive irrational worldwide anti-Semitic moral panic that erupted and was energized by the wake of the 10/7 massacre, NOT by the Israeli subsequent response.
A mass hysteria whose members are willing to suicide by fire are not far from finishing the job Hamas aims to do.
THEM: Israel is culpable for—
ME: Hamas.
THEM:
ME: *Hamas* is culpable for whatever bullshit you were about to say.
— signs of mass hysteria —
Self-suffocation
Self-mutilation
Self-immolation
Covid
Trans
Free Palestine
Most people imagine that the most nightmarish governments are authoritarian ones where the state endeavors to monitor your every move, threatens to fine, arrest, or even execute you for resisting.
But there is a much worse hell on Earth, one where the government doesn’t even attempt to monitor you or bother to threaten you with penalties or physical coercion because nearly every civilian is loudly and proudly berating and demeaning anyone showing insufficient zeal for the righteous movement.
No sharp tips or bullets needed. But coercion it is, yet infinitely easier for the masses to convince themselves that they have engaged in no coercion, and that freedom still reigns.
This is why the great horror of totalitarianism can be so invisible to so many.
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A PERSONAL EUREKA MOMENT ON SUGARS AND BEING LIMBER
Over the last four or five years I have acquired pain in my knees, inner hip joint, ankles, and more generally am much slower to heal than I used to be. I could barely jog any longer, and many CrossFit movements — and real life movements — were becoming excruciating.
Independently I noticed I was having the standard signs of high blood sugar in spite of being on a low carb diet anyhow. I am in my 50s, and it makes sense that my insulin production ain’t what it used to be.
At first I didn’t connect the two, but after a few months of noticing the high sugar signs it occurred to me that perhaps they’re related.
I hypothesized that even mild chronic excess sugars can lead to less efficient capillary circulation.
And, I reasoned, the first parts of the body to experience trouble with poor circulation should be the least perfused parts.
That in fact was the case for me: all my pains were in my tendons. Not joints per se, not muscles, not nerves. All from tendons, which are inherently poorly perfused.
So, at Christmas I decided to do an experiment.
I drastically cut my carbs & fruits almost entirely (like, to one strawberry per day). And even my usual meals were split and eaten in two parts separated by several hours, the idea being that it’s not about the total sugars per day, but about keeping them at all times within what my pancreas can accommodate.
Within even two weeks the pain in my tendons was at 30% of what it had been.
Now, two months in, the pains are almost entirely gone. I am now the lithe and limber athlete I used to be. I had begun to feel old due to the pain, despite being very in shape. The “release” from what I initially took to be “getting older” has been exhilarating!
And it should only improve, because I suspect these injured tendons are still in the months-long process of healing.
I’m a scientist, not a medical doctor, so perhaps this is all now well appreciated in medicine. (Supposing my hypothesis is right at all!)
But I do not think it is well appreciated among us laymen the extent to which sugars and carbs over time deteriorate us. It first hits your low-perfused spots, but later everywhere. And that includes your heart, your organs, your genitalia and sex life, and of course your brain.
[An added advantage is that I lost ten pounds, and, for example, my six pack kinda sorta is beginning to show (although it’s at best a two pack).
I also found that changing one’s diet for athletic mobility was so much more motivating than for aesthetics.]
The world went so crazy in 2020 that I had to put together a movie on the many obvious — and sometimes complex and subtle — reasons for why uncovered human faces are important.
— Face Masks, the Movie, with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Mark Changizi —
The medical world treated Covid — which is mild! — like the fucking plague, refusing to treat Covid patients until the entire kitchen sink of useless PPE was in place:
“If a patient with suspected covid- 19 is in cardiac arrest they should be given cardiac compressions and be ventilated only if they are in the emergency department and the person attending them is wearing aerosol generating procedures (AGP) PPE. That means wearing an FFP3 mask, full gown with long sleeves, gloves, and eye protection.
The advice rests on the premise that performing cardiac compressions risks virus particles being released into the air that could infect staff.
In an email to staff, Nick Crombie, associate medical director and trauma anaesthetist at the trust, acknowledged that there was unease about the new policy. But he said that the covid-19 pandemic was a major situation that required action that would be unthinkable in different circumstances.
"Every patient we see could potentially not only harm us but, remotely, our families. In this situation, we are the front line and we have to get into the mindset of putting our own safety first. We HAVE to be safe," he wrote. "This is not about lack of PPE or money." “
Seven hours after posting Science Moment 461 on @YouTube, where I have 5100 subscribers, I have 8 views, 0 likes. 0.16% of my subscribers have seen it.
Meanwhile, over the same time at TikTok I have 8 likes among 100 subscribers.
For those wanting to know about my actual research — and not just my desperate & censored attempts to bring logic, rationality and respect for civil liberties to the gen pop — find it at changizi dot com
[That’s my grand unifying theory of illusions table on my back.]
Almost to 100 subscribers at TikTok. Find me there.
I get many more likes than at censorial YouTube where I have 5100 subscribers.
And my videos embedded here in still-censorial Twitter get almost no impressions or likes in spite of 50,000 followers.
What’s more important? Being well-intentioned, or respecting civil liberties? Moment 461
On June 1, 2021, Moment 90 of my Science Moment series dropped, and it was about how free speech goes WAY beyond the First Amendment.
At the time, it was clear that although the Feds had a hand in censoring us, the entire culture was pushing for Big Tech to censor anti-lockdown narratives.
Free speech might as well be dead if we have an intolerant culture demanding that private companies censor everyone.
Here I made the case against Big Tech social media censoring us EVEN IF they’re working independently of the State.
The Argument Against Big Tech Censorship AND Vaccine Passports.