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FiddleHodlHomestead
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Violinist and teacher, building a homestead on raw land in between lessons and concerts. Fascinated by how we can develop resilience in our lives, in our families, in our communities. I'm excited about freedom tech and circular economies, and am deeply grateful for the devs and advocates who are helping build tools for a better future.

FWIW - Zanfel worked for me when I used it within the first few days.

I had brutal poison ivy on both forearms last summer - skin got leathery and I thought it was going to leave scars. I tried Zanfel and I think it helped some, but I was already at least a week into the rash by the time I used it.

In any case, it definitely helped the next time I started developing a reaction. I think it kept the rash to a minimum and it cleared up quickly.

I've been meaning to try android and graphene OS. Bear with me because this might be a silly question: is it possible to fool around with it and get comfortable before moving my phone number over to it? (I.e. if it's not connected to a phone number right away, can I still experiment with apps?)

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This.

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GM, Nostr!

On the menu for lunch today are pork chops from our 1/2 pig purchased from a local farm

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Awesome episode!

You'll learn a ton of practical stuff that you can put to use immediately and also deepen your understanding of soil health. Highly recommend

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I've been meaning to look into the sudden ban on incandescent bulbs. Because it's totally insane that a president writes an Exec Order and then - poof! - no more incandescent bulbs. I assumed it was because of some industry lobby for LEDs.

Actually, I agree; it's not that something is automatically good because our ancestors did it; it's that our bodies are tuned to the biological expectations of our species. I have no doubt that there are changes we can make that will extend our health and lifespan. And I also agree that we shouldn't necessarily their lifestyle (or whatever we assume their lifestyle was). I would just argue that a good starting point is the environment that our physiology expects. We can then build (or take away) from there, but we should do so cautiously, and modern science has a nasty habit of reducing an entire spectrum of the environment (i.e. sunlight) to one or two measurable factors (vitamin D, for instance) and coming to ridiculous conclusions.

In any case - are we doing better now? our brains have shrunk over the last few thousand years, and I'm not so sure about lifespan. Early agriculturalists seemed to have lived relatively short (and diseased) lives, but the hunter gatherers before them may have lived quite a lot longer, especially if you factor out the early vulnerable years (i.e. taking the average of lifespan from adolescence or adulthood rather than from infancy) and the dangers of their environment. I suspect that if we took our current humans - with our 80yo-ish life span - and put them in the wild, we would go extinct.

That's it for me on this exchange. Best to you!

If our ancestors spent hours in the sun, that means - by definition - that sunlight is basic to our physiology. We're descended from the folks who thrived outside. The ones who didn't thrive outside are not our ancestors.

That we don't understand all the ways in which sunlight is basic to our physiology is a separate issue, but our current limited understanding certainly doesn't mean that our ancestral exposure to the sun is toxic ,and recent history is littered with examples of how "science has now concluded" is an early stage of what turns out to be terrible medical advice (DDT, smoking, lobotomies, innumerable pharma products, saturated fats... it's a long list).

Obv you get to decide what healthy skin means for you, and how much sunlight you think you need. Go for it 😉

I'm not trying to convince you about what to do; just pushing back on your general statements on what's healthy.

I have no idea what's going on here today, but I love you guys 💜