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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 2h \ on: DeepSeek: A Deep Dive Politics_And_Law
I use DeepSeek over the others (via ppq.ai, pay per query via lightning, pretty cool!). It's lots cheaper. It seems to be about the same quality.
A rigorous study of 100 people, using hard tests, as as good of a gold standard you can get. The studies "proving" that high LDL causes heart disease are not rigorous.
Also - very important point here - this study was not funded by big pharma or government (sometimes one and the same)!
Instead, it was self-funded, by a guy who went on a keto diet, felt really great afterwards but was told by his doctor that he'd die because his LDL cholesterol was so high, and decided to investigate.
Here's the group that did it - https://citizensciencefoundation.org/.
And maybe not even a commonality. There's lot of evidence, even before this study, that higher LDL, especially in the elderly, has an INVERSE association with mortality.
I think the only commonality that exists may be that...statins, one of their most profitable drugs, will reliably lower LDL. That's why they push this high-LDL/heart disease story.
I think we're not nearly cynical enough on the cholesterol/statin/heart disease story.
Lots of honesty here, with all the couch and youtube!
Here's what I want to be my go-to leisure activity:
(not that I never do these, but they take planning)
- pickleball
- hiking
- socializing
- creating something (writing, etc)
- reading
- ukulele
- biking
My actual go-to leisure activity:
- substack
- youtube
This isn't my writing, rather it's from Tom Woods today, one of my favorite podcasters. I pasted the whole thing below. He's promoting a libertarian oriented debate on the tariffs (see the end).
Here's my favorite extract:
I get that we all want to believe there's a grand strategy at work. I want the guy to succeed.
But he says he can't tolerate any trade deficit at all. Even Pat Buchanan never said that.
If that's what he's holding out for, we are in for not the "reindustrialization of America" but a prolonged, self-inflicted impoverishment that will punish rich and poor alike.
I just recorded the debate on the Trump tariffs that will run on the Tom Woods Show on Wednesday. You will find it interesting.
The pro side was represented by John Carney, my friend of 30 years, who heads up financial and business news for Breitbart. Before that, he was with the Wall Street Journal, a corporate attorney before that, and in 1995-96 he was research director for the Buchanan for president campaign.
The con side was represented by Gene Epstein, director of the Soho Forum and formerly economics and book review editor at Barron's, former senior economist at the New York Stock Exchange, and many other things.
Now here's something I dashed out on X today:
Even now I'm being told: "Watch this 23-minute video. It will explain Trump's tariff strategy."
I get that we all want to believe there's a grand strategy at work. I want the guy to succeed.
But he says he can't tolerate any trade deficit at all. Even Pat Buchanan never said that.
If that's what he's holding out for, we are in for not the "reindustrialization of America" but a prolonged, self-inflicted impoverishment that will punish rich and poor alike.
If he abandons this impossible (and undesirable) "no trade deficits with any country" scheme and declares victory, people will say: Woods, you were wrong! It worked out fine!
But it will have worked out fine in spite of the original rationale.
Everyone supporting the policy pits it as smart, savvy MAGA people who care about the working class against soulless globalists who sold out America.
I have nothing but contempt for the globalists whom MAGA rightly despises.
But not everyone who opposes the policy belongs to that camp, and the reason I oppose the policy is that it will hurt the working class.
"Look, we saved 100,000 jobs in steel!" We'll start hearing claims like that. But when we lose 800,000 jobs in industries that use steel as an input (because prices WILL go up domestically; that's the point of a tariff), nobody will understand where they went.
What are the drawbacks of the tariff policy? You'll know you're dealing with a serious opponent if he has the honesty to admit that some exist. These are taxes, after all, and sales taxes don't enrich people.
If instead you're told, "It only hurts the stock market, and that's not the economy," then you are speaking to an Elizabeth Warren clone and not a serious person.
Back to the point: if you're going to tell me that Trump's goal is zero tariffs, you are neglecting that (a) he obviously likes tariffs and has repeatedly made that clear; and (b) this is absolutely not what he is saying. He has told several countries the opposite.
John disputes much of this. He says: there is a plan, and it is reasonable.
Second, he concedes that it's not reasonable for Trump to demand no trade deficits with any country whatsoever. But he insists this is a case of Trump making a huge ask and later making a deal.
Third, he says Trump is genuinely trying to reduce trade barriers, including non-tariff barriers. John appears on TV quite often with Larry Kudlow, Trump's friend, and Kudlow absolutely insists that this is Trump's position.
Fourth, John makes the case that the numbers given for each country, which are not actually tariff rates but reflections of the U.S. trade deficit with those countries, are, despite the scoffing of the pundit class, in fact a reasonable proxy for tariff and non-tariff trade barriers erected by each country.
We're all doing our best to piece together what's going on here, and I feel sure that this debate will help clarify things for you. Expect it on Wednesday, and in the meantime be sure to subscribe to the Tom Woods Show (it's available on every platform, but here's Spotify just as an example):
Tom Woods
I wonder what it is IN the cola that does that.
Surely you could do something similar without having to spend money on that poison...
I wonder if you could turn off the network/phones at home, but then if 3-7 days is a little too long - just go to the local library, and use a computer there for emergencies.
22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 7 Apr \ parent \ on: Digital detox today - a report alter_native
Definitely getting outside is great for the mind.
I remember a long time ago, I had a thorny technical problem at work, that I hadn't been able to figure out.
I took a break, walked over to a big window that had a bit of a landscape view, and boom...I figured it out. That incident always impressed me, with the power of a break from your work, and looking out over something.
I think looking out over a landscape calms your brain. That's maybe why hiking up a hill and getting a view feels good. It lets the defensive part of your brain relax a little bit, because you can see a broad landscape, and there's no enemies.
For a while, for me, it wasn't working for WSJ articles. Now it appears to be working again. No idea why.
Sometimes I now listen to music, while doing those mindless chores. Depending on the type of music, I can still have my own thoughts.
Glad it resonated! Just yesterday I was thinking about starting a podcast while I was doing a chore that I don't like (lifting weights), even though I'm supposed to be not doing podcasts now.
The justification was that it's a chore that I find hard to do, and listening to something would make it easier. Also I'd be listening to the podcast on a separate device, that isn't all set up with my favorite podcasts, etc.
But I came to my senses. That slippery slope effect is real. Best to just make a "bright line".
Maybe contact some of the ones that HAVE been approved, and ask?
https://www.orangepillapp.com/ - they have a bunch of social links at the bottom of the page.
Yakihonne has a twitter account.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.vn/DpRSl
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 5 Apr \ parent \ on: How to share substack article? alter_native
Nice! Here's a test
Vaccine injury.
Edward Dowd on Twitter has tons of details on this topic, specifically the disability numbers.
I didn't donate blood anymore. Post covid, my trust in the medical system is negative, on a scale of 1 to 10.
I think the AVERAGE person in the medical system (definitely not all of them) are actively making people's health worse, by the standard medical treatments that they use for the major "lifestyle" diseases.
I'm not cooperating in any way.