Update: ~$600 in parts and supplies, and 13 Hours total yesterday -the car is back in action! Here’s what work I (plus my stellar wife) did:

Flushed Coolant✅

Replaced the inlet cooling hose✅

Replaced the oil filter housing (in engine)✅

Replaced spark plugs✅

Fresh gaskets ✅

Replaced fuel pressure sensor✅

Replaced and soldered a new O2 sensor✅

Oil change ✅

Digitally reset the transmission system✅

Only piece of work I didn’t do was replacing the gaskets on the engine head.

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Guns Germs & Steal is a decent read. Reading about & studying health stuff. Spending a lot of time browsing health groups & forums around dietary advice & other things. Paying attention to gardening & permaculture stuff. The same patterns are everywhere. The names for "diseases" people get are mostly just bullshit that someone made up. There are a handful of things that happen when people get sick. There are a handful of things that happen when plants get sick. The root causes have more to do with some sort of damage or deficiency that makes the infection possible.

For example, it seems pretty clear that Polio was the result of lead arsenic pesticide poisoning which permeated the gut lining & damaged lots of body tissue near the intestines, the most important tissue being the spinal cord. Damage to the spinal cord in the gut region makes them unable to walk. When something passes through gut tissue (creates leaky gut conditions) it can shuttle in all sorts of pathogens that are almost always present & would otherwise be harmless. So the problem isn't the pathogen it's the substance that granted the pathogen access to parts of you where they can do harm. But blaming the pathogen allows pesticide companies to escape liability & pharama corps to sell a new treatment.

The symptoms we get when sick are rarely characteristic of any one sort of infection. Our bodily systems respond in a similar & rather general fashion to all sorts of things.

And we do adapt & coevolve with diseases. That's why it's dangerous to make contact with remote tribes. People of european descent all have ancestors who lived in close quarters with their livestock for many centuries. We now carry around all sorts of things that would have been dangerous to people at some time in the past.

Evolution is definitely not random mutation, it's a sophisticated epigenetic dance of adaptation & sexual selection.

The world around us is the body of God. To study it & learn how it works is to get closer to God.

We are made *IN* his image. It's delusion & ignorance that separate us from reality.

#grownostr using an extra garden bed to start planting mulberry trees. I’ll probably try to sell these in the winter as bare root.

Not too many people want to be planting in Texas right now.

My mulberry has been growing extremely fast, great tree.

BREAKING: China loading up on #Gold

Looks like the new customary 80th birthday present needs to be a loaded revolver.

Good luck voting this cancer out:

#irredeemable

Take on all the fixed interest debt you can possibly serve

The dollar is not going away anytime soon. Just the trillions of debt that have to be paid in dollars will keep the demand for dollars high for a very long time