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My experiences at auto shops has been mediocre to bad.
My main strategy is only buying cars that are either #1 or #2 in reliability. So, mostly Toyota. That's served me very well over the years.
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I'm being urged to serve on the HOA board. I've done this before (in a different neighborhood) and it was no fun.
You're right, the incentives are all wrong. How do you improve this?
I was thinking about writing that post as well. Because that's something that comes up all the time, when I tell people about carnivore, "But what about vitamin C?".
These accounts are much older, usually from way before 1920, while there were still tribes that were eating their traditional foods.
Another factor that comes into play is apparently that the kidneys become much more efficient at retaining sodium. You don't excrete as much, if you're not taking in very much.
And...why should sweat be salty? Presumably, for people that don't add any salt to their food, I'm guessing that their sweat would be less salty. Maybe not even salty at all.
He spent years and years living with them, living mostly as they did. If I remember right, it was more than 10 years, total.
Also here's what AI says about other arctic explorers who had the same viewpoint on salt as Stefansson.
(Yes, I know AI can lie, so this may be AI hallucinations. And if you really want me to, I will go find their books and dig for extracts about the salt issue.)
You're looking for other early ethnographers, explorers, or accounts from the Arctic that corroborated Stefansson's observations regarding the Indigenous peoples' (primarily Inuit/Eskimo) lack of desire for salt. Multiple individuals reported similar findings, which strengthened the argument that salt craving was not universal.
Here are a few prominent figures and accounts:
Frederick Schwatka (1880s): An American explorer who led several expeditions into the Arctic (including a search for the Franklin Expedition remains). Schwatka lived among the Inuit for extended periods and adopted many of their survival techniques. He observed their diet and noted their indifference to salt, similar to Stefansson's later accounts.
Franz Boas (late 19th - early 20th century): Often considered the "Father of American Anthropology," Boas conducted extensive ethnographic work among the Baffinland (Central) Inuit. While his primary focus was broader cultural anthropology, his detailed accounts of their daily life, including diet, implicitly supported the idea of a salt-free traditional diet and a lack of specific craving for it. His work provided comprehensive documentation of their indigenous practices before significant Western influence.
Knud Rasmussen (early 20th century): A Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist, Rasmussen conducted numerous expeditions and spent years living with various Inuit groups across the Arctic (Greenland, Arctic Canada). His ethnographic works, such as "Across Arctic America" (1927), contain detailed descriptions of Inuit diet and customs. He frequently recounted instances where Inuit found Western foods (including those heavily salted) unpalatable or rejected salt when offered, reinforcing the idea that their palates were not adapted to it.
Diamond Jenness (early 20th century): A Canadian anthropologist who spent significant time with the Copper Inuit (western Arctic Canada) as part of the Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918). His meticulous studies of their culture and subsistence included observations on their dietary practices, which naturally indicated a diet without external salt supplementation and no apparent desire for it.
Adolphus W. Greely (1881-1884): While primarily known for his ill-fated Arctic expedition, Greely's journals and subsequent writings briefly touched upon the diet of the local Inuit he encountered. He also described their simple, meat-based diet and the lack of salt in their provisions, often remarking on how well they seemed to thrive without it.
I was thinking about this in the context of salt licks for deer as well. I'm not sure I have an answer to that.
And here's the AI answer about "is salt critical" -Salt (sodium chloride) is absolutely critical to the human diet. You cannot do without it.
But delving further - yes, sodium chloride is essential, you will die without it. However, populations that ate lots mostly meat and fish were fine, so those items have enough salt for people to thrive.
The answer clearly needs to be that humans do not need added salt, because many early populations did NOT have a source of salt, other than meat and fish.
What's interesting to me is that AI immediately jumps to the standard answer. It wouldn't come up with something from an old book from the 1920's.
Armpit...what an odd place!
Years ago I bumped my upper thigh against a the bottom of a table, that had a rough spot with splinters. And a big splinter stuck in my thigh.
I was able to get much of the splinter out, but a chunk of it stayed in there for months, until it worked it's way out.
Yes, as someone interested in the history of money (probably all of us are!) I've really enjoyed some of the articles on https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/.
Thanks for the pointer to these older items.
Yes, I really needed to completely block Youtube via hosts. Though it's true that you DO sometimes actually really need to watch a youtube video. That's why I have my crappy old laptop available as well. It's there, but it's definitely not smooth experience.
I'm not good about asking myself whether watching a video is really a good use of my time. It's the impulse of the moment, it's just a click away, and it just happens.
That's why I have the "default" setting of no internet, and internet actually turning off every hour. I have to manually go and turn it on, and that little action (hopefully) will make me think more carefully.
It's all about adding friction...
What's shocking to me is how, still (especially among the older crowd that identify as conservative) Israel is still completely, 100%, the underdog hero.
And any skepticism of Israel is immediately antisemitic.
I had 3 individuals come up to me a couple months back, when allegations were first made that Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk. These were people that I know, conservative, and either Jewish or married to Jewish people. They all said, "isn't it crazy how much antisemitism there is now?".
I thought it was strange at the time, but then I realized - it was probably a letter from the ADL that they all got, telling them to ask people this question.
Because I got a letter not long after that from Prager University, along the same lines. Before the Charlie Kirk assassination, I had no idea that Prager University was mostly funded by, and probably founded by, pro-Israel groups.