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119 sats \ 3 replies \ @Signal312 23 Dec \ on: The Riddle of Luigi Mangione mostly_harmless
I'm happy to be switching to Crowd Health (https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/) for the new year. Crowd Health is "not" health insurance - you have to sign all kinds of papers saying that you understand that - but it works similarly. I think the people who join in Crowd Health will be much healthier than the norm.
Also, they'll soon have a "metabolically healthy" group there - I think they call it the Carnivore Crowd. This means everyone has to a have a certain healthy level of weight, insulin resistance, etc. Since metabolic disease (cause by excess carbohydrates, obesity, etc) causes at least 80% of chronic disease in the US, I should be much better off with those people as my co-insurers.
Every time I deal with regular normie health insurance or health care is an absolute nightmare. It leaves me practically rabid with anger at the system.
Covid truly broke some people.
Does your friend think that his style of life is fine, or does he wish for something different? An older relative of mine is alone almost 24/7, every day of the week, and is very lonely.
The Nostr freaks were overall against it, while SN freaks were overall for it.
I wonder - are nostriches more anti-college because they're younger than the folks on Stacker News?
Any other theories about why this would be?
Regarding the homeschooling in France - I listen to the Once Bitten podcast. He's a British guy, and homeschools his (3 or 4) kids in France. Homeschooling is legal, but apparently the yearly exams are very onerous and arbitrary.
If anyone ever mentions anything about nutrition, I'm going to bring up Nina Teicholtz.
Her amazing book The Big Fat Surprise (This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz was what got me interested - first in eating lots more red meat, then going low-carb, and then carnivore.
Although she doesn't explicitly promote the carnivore diet, the evidence that she cites points in that direction.
Also she had an excellent article recently on her substack, about just how bad our nutritional guidelines are, and how the new 2025 version is even worse than the previous versions.
Here's a summary of the key points of the updated guidelines, all of which are terrible nutritionally:
- Reducing red and processed meats;
- Replacing poultry, meat, and eggs with peas, beans, and lentils as sources of protein;
- No limits on ultra-processed foods; and
- Continued caps on saturated fats, to be replaced by vegetable (seed) oils.
I think you're right. It's way more complex than I thought it was.
It looks like the code is in here, in the SendController.java file.
FYI I checked out the Sparrow telegram group. Other people have similar questions. Craig Raw (developer of Sparrow) had this to say:
When I go to the UTXO tab, and right-click on the specific UTXO (on one of the three) and click send , it does send just that UTXO.
Here's what that one looks like:
But even when I close and re-open the wallet, and create a new send transaction, it still shows the 3 input UTXOs, even in the "efficiency" optimization. And each of the 3 UTXOs have far more sats than the requested send amount.
Use a trusted open source tool (like Sparrow) for coordinating transactions. Verify the software (easy to do in Sparrow, under Tools > Verify Download). Run on an old laptop that's running nothing else but Sparrow.
Double check your address, before sending to it.
I can't think of anything else. Reusing your address is probably putting you at more risk, in terms of privacy.
I believed what you did, years ago. I believed that anybody who breathed a word of anything negative about vaccines was evil, or a lunatic.
Now after seeing all the mind-blowing crimes that occurred during covid, I've changed my mind. I realize that I was the dupe of propaganda, and that my anger against "vaccine deniers" was a feeling that was manufactured by mainstream media.
I believe that the whole vaccine machine is criminally corrupt. There may be a few useful vaccines out there, but as a whole, it's a pile of financially motivated lies.
Is it cheaper to just do everything in Aqua? I've been just using boltz, guess I missed the fact that it could all be done in Aqua.
Nina Teicholtz is amazing, I love her. A while back I wrote a stacker.news post on her book The Big Fat Surprise: This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz
Reading The Big Fat Surprise was the beginning of my carnivore journey. I started going carnivore after listening to an interview with her on The Bitcoin Standard podcast (https://saifedean.com/podcast/71-fiat-nutrition-with-nina-teicholz).
She doesn't specifically advocate a carnivore diet, but my experiment with just switching from what I did before (very limited meat, since it's "unhealthy") to just eating a LOT more meat were really successful. I had a lot more energy, and all kinds of health issues cleared up. So, I read more, and listened to more carnivore podcasts, and became convinced that it would be a good idea to do it more strictly.
It's been more than a year now, and I'm sticking with it for good! Health and mental improvements are continuing.
Two comments:
- On a trip to Japan once, I walked by a what looked like a middle school. In the playground, they had a neatly hung up set of...unicycles! I wish I had seen them actually being used, but the kids were inside. But, what a fun thing for kids to have available - and it sure wouldn't have happened in the US because of "safety".
- I've had occasion to interact with a number of Japanese teens, visiting the US for a "language exchange". It always shocked me, how bad their English was. It was mostly truly terrible, especially considering that they told me they'd studied English for long period of time - like 7 years, 10 years. How is that even possible?
Looks interesting, thanks. Can you tell me more about the use case - like how would you distinguish it from Sparrow?
One more hint - this would have been something that would have been widely shared on conservative, non-woke social media. Otherwise I wouldn't have seen it.
Maybe on something like Libs of Tik Toc, places like that.