The healthiest breakfast cereal is not cereal. It's meat and eggs.

It can be exactly as convenient - I pre-cook mini egg-frittatas and beef patties, and microwave them for breakfast.

Before I became carnivore, I had been breakfasting on what a lot of people consider the healthiest breakfast - steel cut oats, with lots of fruits, nuts, and seeds (chia, flax, etc). I'd been eating that for decades.

What happened then, is that I learned about just how bad the evidence is for the health benefits of whole grains, fiber, fruits, nuts, seeds etc. I read this book - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz.

After that I slowly, over the course of a month or so, went carnivore. The book doesn't advocate carnivore, necessarily, but it opened my mind to it.

I still remember the day I tossed pre-made steel cooked oats into the garbage. I'd kept them around for a couple weeks, thinking that I'd like to alternate eggs and oats. Then I decided on the carnivore option. The reason I went full carnivore is because I felt so much better and more energetic, eating much more meat, and fewer plant products.

But my point is...I'd been eating what most people would consider a really healthy diet. That breakfast steel cut oats was characteristic of what I ate in general - very much following the food guidelines.

Long term consumption of massive amounts of carbs is just a bad idea. Homo sapiens have been primarily meat eaters for almost our entire evolutionary existence. Eating grains is just the blink of an eye, evolutionarily.

Here's a graphic from Dr. Kevin Stock - I think he goes by Carnivore Dentist.

In the city where I used to live, there was a perfectly adequate small library. They shut the place down for more than a year to do a huge remodel - didn't even make it bigger, just a bit more updated. I though it was completely unnecessary.

But they had just gotten a big library bond, and had to use it. What better way to use it than to close the library down for a year and rebuild it, right?

Yeah I completely believe that my playing would improve tremendously from trying to transcribe something like this. But I think it would be a pretty big project.

Actually I once took online ukulele lessons from someone who was into this style of music, and has transcribed a lot of songs. I'll bet that I could pay him to walk me through how to do this, OR also just do it for me...

I'm not sophisticated enough to understand which of these tools would do this for me...is there a particular one you're thinking of?

Interesting. Got any links?

If you do that, tell us all about it, I'm sure people would love to hear the stories!

And what do you mean by "disposable sailboat"?

Here's a thought.

If you absolutely must have snacks for the kids, make it a rule that...they must make them. Or at least help A LOT with the making of them, and the cleanup.

Otherwise you run a very strong risk of your kids becoming as unhealthy as many of the kids you see in the US. And this is a growing trend in the whole world.

Having the kids MAKE their treats slows down the treat consumption a lot, teaches them skills, and teaches them that they need to work for things.

I read it (mostly skimmed).

Interesting point. I like the "less bitcoiny". That list of 12/24 words, once people know about it more, will be pretty obvious.

Sounds like you might be interested in the SeedSigner open source hardware wallet. I love the ethos, and their telegram group is really high quality.

Maybe your next project will be a full-size cardboard playhouse something like the below. My dad made me something like it (not quite so fancy), I still remember it well. Appliance boxes can be gotten for free.

Looks interesting.

You spelled Trvia instead of Trivia.

There's a lot of commentary on ZeroHedge about the whole DEI aspect of it.

For instance: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-targets-dei-hiring-practices-after-deadly-crash-near-reagan-national-airport

How about a regular dance class together?

Interesting

Not that I'm saying this funding is a bad thing, I think about 90% of nutritional research at this point is funded by giant food corporations.

Nutrition studies are mostly very low quality. Nina Teicholtz has a new article out: US Dietary Guidelines: Science is "Subpar," Cannot be Replicated: New paper finds systematic reviews to be of “critically low quality"

If you can't access the above link, here's an unpaywalled version: https://archive.vn/XhXvg

I recommend the book The Big Fat Surprise, by Nina Teicholtz. It's an amazing journey through our nutritional guidelines, how the "science" going into them was a giant tarball of special interests and poorly done research.

I wrote a more involved review of The Big Far Surprise here: #320715

That book really took the scales off my eyes. I no longer believed the standard narrative (low-fat, fruit, vegetables, and fiber is good, meat, eggs, butter, saturated fat is bad). I started reading and listening to carnivore authors, and am now carnivore. Best thing I've ever done for my health.

The same thing happened very noticeably at the very beginning of Covid Craziness. Everyone was baking bread, and you couldn't get yeast and sometimes even flour - except maybe the very expensive boutique or gourmet version, the version that sold for 5 times as much as the plain vanilla version.

From around 12 USD (pretty recently) for a 60 pack of eggs at Walmart, to 21.97 USD right now.

Ugh. And I eat a LOT of eggs, as a carnivore.

Also, some places now (Costco) will ONLY have the WAY more expensive free-range eggs. The other ones are always sold out.