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If you have unlimited bandwidth and you use a vpn to protect yourself from content exposure at the router level I think it’s a great way to make tracking and ip censorship irrelevant. You can always throttle it too to avoid huge data use. #openwifi

I wish. Is broadcasting an open wifi channel with a vpn for public use a good start?

It’s also possible to make biodiesel from any animal or vegetable lipid base with a few cheap and readily accessible ingredients in a dystopian scenario. I don’t usually promote products, and I am not a dealer, I have no stake in the company, but if you haven’t looked at Amsoil I recommend it. The oil originated in aerospace and is vastly superior, and I have vetted it for double change intervals with independent lab oil analysis, change the filters at the normal interval of course. Regarding diesels, the mechanical injection diesels are the best, no automobile with a diesel made in the last twenty years is free of electronics though, so it’s a swap it in yourself deal. Hatz and Deutz both make mechanical air cooled diesels suitable for automotive applications, not cheap but insanely reliable.

I think it can help soften the blow from childhood abuse memories too. If the Feds would just legalize it the universities and government national laboratories could begin meaningful research into specific parts of the chemical entourage marijuana is. I think there is huge potential.

I find that aspect of cannabis to be a relief, intellectual proficiency is increasingly a terrible burden.

An onion address might be fine, I don’t see Tailscale as being effective for public node access just private remote access, and proprietary requires trust. Onion it is! Thank you.

Indeed. I noticed you assist in node setup. I’d like to run a public relay for Nostr in an Ubuntu VM. Is Umbrel the way to go or?

I agree with everything you said here, I recently read Sapiens by Harari, a historian. The book inspired a lot of random learning by introducing concepts previously alien to my thought paths, I always appreciate a little disruptive learning. I was taught that human evolution was sequential, but evidence points to concurrent human species competing for dominance, homo sapiens eventually besting all others for a variety of reasons, Harari postulates that shared fiction was likely the strongest factor in this success. I think it is one of the reasons “we” are so susceptible to correlated psychological manipulation, the limiting factor was distribution, leaflets etc, but in the modern world everyone has the ministry of truth in their pocket. Scary times.

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I am almost certain that it was the combination of sugar and artificial sweeteners. I was eating some 70% chocolate that probably had maltodextrin in it, and that is the stuff that causaes the problem. Either that, or a lot of sugar plus sucralose and/or acesulfame K.

The problem was way way worse with maltodextrin, Marks and Spencer's brand chips, even the "plain" salt and pepper have maltodextrin in them, and one pack of that stuff and I am in pain for a week.

I didn't just test it once, I tested it twice, because I am stupid. Second time around was the "unflavored" salt and pepper. Two weeks that I was hardly functional.

This time hasn't been so bad, which tells me either the dose of maltodextrin was too low, or it was the combination of Acesulfame K/Sucralose and a shit-ton of sugar combined. The problem wore off within 24 hours this time.

I'm not putting off the dentist visit for fun, I don't have the money to deal with it right now.

I'm just avoiding all artificial sweeteners preemptively now, and reading anything else closely to make sure they haven't put this vile garbage in.

Maltodextrin is the worst artifical sweetener there is. It makes me piss brown instantly, and now it absolutely is fingered for causing a long lasting tweak on my exposed dental nerves.

The dentist who said to leave that half broken lower right wisdom tooth in was sure there was nothing amiss with the whole tooth, that remained, and I wish I'd insisted on getting it out at that time when I had the chance, but on the other hand, I now know without question that artificial sweeteners have effects on nerves that nobody talks about.

I'm getting them all out as soon as I can, I want this anyway, as my lower jaw is crowded anyway, and it will greatly help my smile to have some more room down there.

I have extremely robust teeth, abnormally robust. In 40 years, the last 20 of which involved drinking a lot of acidic, sugary energy drinks, and still out of that only two cavities ever formed, and this wisdom tooth is just a freak, half of it died, the other half is fine.

Once the wisdom teeth are out of my mouth I'm sure that my dental issues are going to go away completely, as I have been religiously brushing and more recently added flossing and a non-alcohol containing mouthwash to my regime, and the only other problem I have at the moment is I think my brush is too hard and it's hurting my gums.

It’s good to hear that it’s lower pallet. Less risk that way, but still important. The sugar caused flaring makes me think there is a bacterial culture isolated from your immune response and exposed to the flora in your mouth, along with what you’re eating and drinking. Proteins don’t feed bacteria and yeasts, but sugars and starches do, maltose in particular, it could be ordinarily beneficial anaerobic bacteria like lactobacillus in the wrong place.

Having been through an audit, I’m convinced that there is no real way to accommodate the tax system while being fair to yourself. Essentially, if you file your taxes every year (assuming US) claiming that information that has been tattled to the IRS for another party’s benefit, eg. 1099 misc, 1099 B etc, you really can just wait for the audit that likely will never come, let them do all the work, pay the bill, and say oooops, golly gee, I’m just an idiot who didn’t know better. Unless you’re making millions you are very unlikely to make it on the radar. As an option, make a business out of some hobby you spend a lot of money on. File a schedule C, show a loss for 3-5 years fold the company rinse and repeat. It’s a shame, but W2 people pay the vast majority of income tax, while there are thousands of loopholes for the wealthy and businesses. No real surprise there I guess, those who have the gold make the rules.

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I so need to get to a dental surgeon. I'm sick to death of this wisdom tooth.

I also don't know what it is I'm eating that tweaks it out.

First suspect that is off the menu is artificial sweeteners of any kind. I already know that maltodextrin tweaks the bejesus out of it, but there seems to be other things too, not so severe.

I also can't tell if it might not be something to do with super sugary chocolate (pure chocolate is fine, but I suspect very strongly sugar), or sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, chemically extracted olive oil, fried potatoes. Not sure either if it might not be something to do with natural or added monosodium glutemate. I used to get tooth pain from my chipped teeth years ago from certain kinds of drip filtered coffee too. Citric acid is definitely under suspicion.

Part of the thing is that I daily use potassium nitrate containing toothpaste to numb the dental nerves that cause this problem, and in spite of this, I'm getting an escalating problem again.

I also suspect sugars in general because certain things do this thing, I don't have a clue what it is exactly, but it seems like transdermal absorption that goes into the area around my jaw and causes this twitchng and swelling and pain, and I have this intermittent sense of swelling around my left ear as well, which seems to be tied to the thing in the jaw.

Things that don't seem to have any impact on this:

- milk

- beef

- cream

- butter

- peas

- stout beer

I'm just gonna continue to avoid anything that involves sugars or seed oils, I strongly suspect both are involved.

The sunflower and pumpkin seeds are in my diet to augment my Thiamine intake but they may be contributing to this problem since they are among the things whose introduction correlates to the increasing pain.

Get to a dentist ASAP. It sounds like a tooth root infection to me, and especially in the upper pallet, if the cyst ruptures into a blood vessel it can cause blood poisoning in the brain and death. It’s nothing to mess around with.

My wife and I both contracted a respiratory illness at the same time. We’ve spent the last few days in bed, binge watching shows, fever ridden, wool blankets on, wool blankets off, waking in a pool of sweat when the fever breaks. It would seem that this circumstance would not be a pleasant memory, but it is. Sometimes the most unlikely circumstances can lead to quality time with each other, forces out of our control eliminating all expectations and tasks; with the noise limited, the signals that keep us going fundamentally become so clear.