It sounds kinda like you are asking how do I trust my own understanding of the world?

I tend to remember things by their relationship to each other & in my mind each peice of how I see the world needs to fit with every other peice. I don't like contradictions. Sometimes I have ideas that don't fit perfectly which I leave as place holders, or I have possibilities stacked in one area of interest, but for the most part everything has to logically fit together. In school, I never wanted to memorize all the formulas for the math test, so I would learn one or two & then just figure out how I could derive the others from the ones I already knew.

I have built houses & cars & I have designed & 3d printed all sorts of things to solve random problems, so I have a pretty good handle on how most things work based on first hand experience. Most things are just the same ideas applied over & over in slightly different ways to different areas of life.

When a good friend & I were building cars for a professional race team, the owner was concerned that we were young & so he hired an engineer to come & consult with us. But this guy, who had all the credentials, told us that a number of the very basic improvements we were working on wouldn't work. We did things our way & they worked just like we knew they would.

I was very aware from an early age that parents & teachers didn't always understand the situation when they came to stop a conflict or address a problem. Idk how anyone with a half decent awareness of the world would come to any other conclusion, because that's just reality. People who pay attention should understand that "authority figures" are just people & they are just as fallable as anyone else.

When I majored in economics with a focus on money & banking it was clear that macro & micro were contradictory. In trying to iron out the contradictions I studied MMT & found it to be more consistent, but it was also ethically insane & a bit like a castle in the sky. It was ultimately just totally disconnected from reality. Then I found the Chicago school & eventually the Austrians. The Austrians seemed to pretty much have everything worked out, but when I found Bitcoin (which fit perfectly in my mind) many of them were also wrong about that too. If I had at any time renonced or denied my own understanding in order to align myself with the larger group rather than stick to what logically fits then I would be a lot poorer.

When I developed gut issues, doing everything the doctor told me to do (which was supposedly accurate according to general consensus) made my problems significantly worse. So when the choice is between assuming they are all wrong & finding my own answers (as I have done before), or living in pain to maintain some broken idea of reality, it's really not that hard to choose. And because I looked, I found a whole bunch of doctors & people who had figured out how to solve their own problems too. Most of these people were all seperately aligned, & they had much more thorough & logical explanations than anyone else. And unlike the establishment recommendations, these people had ideas that actually worked.

So it's not that I have no trust in anything, maybe less than most people. But I recognize that the incentives which are shaping our current systems of authority are very broken. I recognize corruption for what it is & I build my own understanding of things by finding others who have done the same or by applying my own understanding & logic to a situation right by myself.

When it comes to nutrition all it really takes to understand what is natural for us, is knowing that prior to agriculture, 200+ mammal species were wiped out by human hunting practices. Wild fruit was nothing like modern fruit & would have only been available seasonally if at all. From just that we can pretty much conclude that meat had to be the primary form of sustenance. It's also worth noting that basically all cave paintings are of men hunting & probably represent early efforts to keep a record of who owes who what.

I would guess we started loosely growing things that would attract the animals we wanted to eat & then a lack of property rights over the animals probably produced tragedy of the commons like conditions in animal populations that forced us to start turning the grain into food for ourselves at times when meat was very scarce. And again, archeological records seem to show that eating grain had a detrimental impact on human health.

So when the "best verified science" doesn't match reality & the system that funds it is completely corrupt, it is pretty easy to discard. My life is infinitely better as a result of doing so both in terms of my health & my personal wealth. If you understand & believe in bitcoin, then you have already dismissed the work of nobel prize winning economists. You might as well let go of the other BS too.

The problem is that businesses can't pay taxes with Bitcoin. It's another hurdle in the tax paperwork, where you need to separate these two and calculate the value of Bitcoin in local currency at the time you accepted it. It's a mess, and I think the right approach is to accept it just as a currency for the people, by the people.

No regulation should be involved in this payment process.

The government should lick a pinky and stick it in their buttocks.

Bitcoin was created to avoid their corrupt, dirty, inhuman games, not to comply with them.

And yes they have all the tiols to make it harder to accept Bitcoin. That's why we shouldn't allowed them to regulating it in the first place.

god existence cannot be proven so god is fake then??

The spam/scammers are wasting their time on nostr.

There’s a home builder in Japan that does prefab housing. It’s interesting how they managed to position their brand as the premium option.

They prefabricate the entire house in a factory in sections and deliver to a site and assemble in 1-3 days. I think the section framing is steel and they assemble like legos into bigger sections. So for example if you wanted a bathroom that might be 1 section, a small bedroom might be 2.

The houses do look quite nice, but nothing like you’d find in the states. But they do have a certain style to them where you can tell this brand apart if you pay attention.

Again, you demonstrate that your concern is more about having an opinion approved by some authority.

You have presented no data. What you have done is present biased conclusions drawn from corrupt "studies" funded by major corporations that make money selling unhealthy garbage with high profit margins & then selling treatments for the ailments their unhealthy garbage creates. If you look into the funding of those studies you will find major conflicts of interest. If you look into the handling of the data there is almost always some calculated effort to group things in a way that will hide the actual changes. Like saying total meat consumption has risen while ignoring that beef & fatty meat consumption has actually fallen.

If you were actually interested in science you would address any of my arguments about nutritional bioavailablity & anthropological evidence of health.

If you were intellectually honest or mentally curious AT ALL you would recognize that for me (and the others I have mentioned) to have improved our health & become lean & strong by doing the very thing that govts & health "authorities" claim is the MOST damaging way to live (eating large amounts of red meat & saturated fat with lots of salt every day) there MUST be something wrong with the dominant health & nutrition narratives. But you show no curiousity or honesty at all. You make repeated appeals to authority & "consensus."

I am not attacking you. There are people in positions of power who have been lying to everyone for many decades because it makes them money to do so. So people who take your posititon either benefit from perpetuating the lies or they are ignorant of reality. That's not an attack it is just the truth.

And idk what you look like, but if you are overweight which is the statistical norm now, while I (with very little effort) am a muscular 170lbs at 6'1" & my blood pressure is ~100/60 eating red meat with salt & 200+ grams of animal fat every day for 7+ years, wouldn't that be some indication that maybe you should rethink your position?

In human archeological records the advent of agriculture results in everyone being a foot shorter & their teeth falling out. Hunting tribes prior to agriculture were tall & healthy with dense bones & they kept all their teeth. For ~2mil years we hunted and largely avoided plants except maybe in the making of savs & medicines. In just the last couple of generations natives in parts of Australia & Africa who had still been living as hunters have been introduced to western foods & they were completely transformed from everyone being lean & healthy & strong well into their 80s, to fat & diabetic, & addicted to processed grains & softdrinks.

Again, farmers today fatten livestock by feeding them the same grains that are fattening us & making us sick.

Again, the bioavailable nutritional value of meat is far higher than plant products. I would encourage you to read the info graphic I made (tho you may have to zoom in a bit).

Shawn Baker & Kelly Hogan (from the bottom of the graphic) are good sources of info. Dr Chaffee has some great video content, Steak & Butter Gal has some great videos. Jordan Peterson's daughter cured severe rheumatoid arthritis with a diet of only red meat & water. Sugar feeds cancers because cancer (and most other serious illnesses) are the result of metabolic problems. Fat & cholesterol are needed to heal & repair cells & metabolic issues. Doctors & hospitals that are telling people to eat or feeding them sugary & veg oil filled garbage are just killing people.

You can believe whatever you want to believe, I really don't care. Your comments thus far suggest that you care more about aligning yourself with some authority or with what the herd believes (which is why I basically told you to have fun/fuck off). I think those are particularly bad heuristics for making important decisions. It is impossible to be exceptional while trying to align yourself with the average moron or the people herding them around.

"Independent Thought Alarm!"

the conspiracies are right again!

Idk, did you learn anything?

You didn't share a single thing that isn't basically the first result in the most shallow of investigations when it comes to nutrition & health propaganda.

Idk, did you learn anything?

You didn't share a single thing that isn't basically the first result in the most shallow of investigations when it comes to nutrition & health propaganda.

When you get into an argument. Is the participant of the argument the winner because: