does smash buying work too? I've been told that DCA is generally used to establish a liquidation point in the institutional world. I don't want to have a liquidation point 😏

Who the hell buys a coin called retardio?? Hahahaha. Wow

Where are the Ordinals, people?

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Your body needs cholesterol.

The cells produce it for the formation of your cell membranes and to make bile acids, vitamin D, and steroid hormones (cortisol, oestrogen, progesterone, aldosterone and testosterone).

Cholesterol is transported in your body by lipoproteins. These ‘transport molecules’ pick up, transport, and deliver cholesterol (as well as fat-soluble vitamins and triglycerides) wherever it is needed. Without high density lipoproteins (HDL), triglycerides can build up in your blood; without low density lipoproteins (LDL), cholesterol would not get transported to where it is needed.

So, if cholesterol is so needed, how did the myths in my image below arise?

In the 1950s, Dr Ancel Keys cherrypicked data from 22 countries to support his theory that eating fat and cholesterol increases the risk of heart attack. He called his report the Seven Countries Study. Yep, seven countries out of 22. He excluded data from any country that did not support his theory! Other researchers some years later identified that when all the data from all 22 countries were considered, there was no association, but by then the cholesterol-is-bad lie had been well and truly accepted, and we were all told to avoid butter, eggs and fatty meats.

In 2015, a scientific review showed:

-There is no evidence that high cholesterol causes heart disease.

-High cholesterol is protective against many illnesses.

-The higher your cholesterol, the less likely you are to die from any cause, and the lower your cholesterol, the more likely you are to die from any cause!

Whether it was due to this review or not, I am unsure, but in the same year, the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee Report stated: “available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol” and that cholesterol “is not a nutrient of concern for over-consumption.”

Did this make the headlines? No! Most in the medical community still need to catch up, but fortunately, more and more doctors are no longer pushing statins.

Need more info? Read The Great Cholesterol Myth by Jonny Bowden PhD and Stephen Sinatra MD.

References in comments.

X partners with Visa to enable “X Money”

The move is part of Elon Musk's larger plan to develop a 'super app' akin to WeChat.

X Money will likely launch in Q1 of 2025, according to CNBC.

Would you rather be ruled by a king that's efficient, or by a king that is wise?

Will you be buying this “dip” with us?

I haven't worn makeup in a decade in any public context. There was a bitcoin documentary that put some on me but I don't know if they aired it. Or maybe a brief moment. I don't know and don't care.

My husband often says I should wear makeup for special occasions. Which means he'd like to see it and I should practice more. I ignored this for years and he keeps reminding me, but this year I'm going to do better at it, for him. We have our 7-year anniversary coming up. I'm going to try to surprise him with it.

My argument previously was I can't be good at everything. If I'm going to run our main business then maybe it's fine if I'm not great at makeup. It's not that I don't have time, although that's a factor, but mainly I don't have mental bandwidth. I wear the same clothes, I don't wear makeup, I get the same haircut, and focus on finance and tech every day. When I'm alone for a season, separated by him due to travel, rather than figure out makeup I post too much on social media and write a 130k word science fiction novel manuscript (which in retrospective, he ends up really liking) to fill our time apart. So I'm like, "maybe makeup isn't me."

His argument, as a proper method to not insult his own wife, is that it would "be a shame to not ever dabble in make up", given how I could look in it.

Objectively it's a reasonable argument; there are plenty of iconic people that look totally different without makeup. His argument is that I should at least wear it sometimes. I've been meaning to give him that view for years but I keep putting it off. Years now.

But sometimes it's a character rather than a concept that brings us to an idea. Much like novels. It's about characters more-so than plot or worlds that wake you up to something.

So I see Kristi Noem at 53 with great makeup, looking amazing, getting sworn in as Secretary of Homeland Security.

All the politicians are thinking about her new position, but realistically myself and many other women are like, "fuck, that's my new 53 year old benchmark." She looks so good. Partially because she's attractive but also her makeup and hair are just so solid. I assume she'll be weak at the job but she'll look damn good doing it.

And so I think, "Well fuck, I hope I look half as good at 53 as she does. Maybe I can ignore this shit in my 30s but I have to figure it out by my 40s and 50s."

Anyway, that's my random vulnerable mental shit for Nostr.

The CrYpTo Renaissance has begun.

Politicians will always break your heart.

Oh jeez. It's worse than we thought.

I’ve had a real chip on my shoulder lately and been feeling pissed off about a lot of things (personally and otherwise).

And even in that, I thank God every day for bitcoin. Like, fuck the money part, I just am so grateful that there is something they cannot control, they cannot kill, they cannot stop. That even as captured, as played, and as controlled all of the dialog around it is; they cannot have my bitcoin, and they cannot stop me from transacting with whom I choose and they cannot break cryptography from the very functions that are its nature.

The crypto sycophant shit is disgusting and vile; and it’s also an essential component of Bitcoin’s development. Nothing provides a better smoke screen for how important bitcoin is than the crypto bros and their active destruction the entire financial system with their debased garbage, outright scams, and criminal conduct. When the smoke clears, and all of that garbage shows itself for just what it is; bitcoin will still be plugging along, block by block, bit by bit.

And even more, Bitcoin gives me a reason to have hope. Hope that even with as fucked up as everything is, no one can’t make more bitcoin, no one can stop the network, and no one will control it. That hope is the smallest of light in a world of utter darkness; and yet it is in the darkest of nights that such a light can shine the brightest.

I hate how (probably cia) coined term conspiracy theory, to take place of somebody doing good old fashioned critical thinking

Part of my fiat mine job is as a Lead on malware remediation, among other things. Yesterday, a work colleague enquired my assistance on a strange CAPTCHA impacting the visitors of a customer’s website. Turns out, it is one of the new phishing tactics being employed by bad actors looking to inject malware into unsuspecting targets. PSA: if a CAPTCHA asks you to copy/paste something into your Windows system’s run dialog, it is not a legitimate CAPTCHA request and you’re about to accidentally pwn your own machine with a malicious script. Stay vigilant!

GN.

Here's a random post to counter what we normally see in social media.

In addition to being filled with filters, social media is filled with retakes. People will take a picture multiple times and then only show the best one, which provides the idea that the picture they posted represents the baseline for how that setting looks, which is generally unrealistic. It's the best shot at the best time with the best intentions.

The other day I went to NYC, and went up to an office I normally go to when I'm there, which has great views of the city. This day had clearer than normal weather, and I thought, "I'll take a pic."

The first one was a dumpster fire. Sun in my face making for both squinting and unflattering lighting. Hair all frizzy from just coming in from the wind at 8am (took a pic while I literally still have my coat and backpack on). Crooked glasses as the cherry on top.

So I see the laughable result, go and fix my hair for like a minute, pick a different angle, and retake the pic. It's still not amazing of course, but it's way better than the first dumpster fire pic, and only like 3 minutes later.

Now imagine all the people that put makeup on or filters on, and how different their pics look from their reality.

Never compare your first drafts to other peoples' final drafts. It's always a mess out there.

2027? Damn.