I second the idea of thinking more about the harm of giving things away. People treat things with much more respect if they have to pay for it.

A side-benefit from eating carnivore - seed oils are off the menu. I eat a lot of butter, beef fat, and some lard.

Is Trump compromised? Do they have something on him, an Epstein style revelation? I know he was on the island.

He was, previously, strong on "no new wars". I didn't expect this.

I guess my expectations for politicians should never be above zero.

Interesting that they're using the word "hoarding". That word was also used a lot when vilifying those who held gold in the 1930's.

There's not enough of us by a long shot. But I would like to try out mesh networks though...

Whenever talking about nutrition, I always recommend the book The Big Fat Surprise, by Nina Teicholtz. It's an amazing read, I couldn't put it down. Here's my post on it -#320715.

The subtitle is - Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. I had never been seriously exposed to the ideas she talks about in the book, and it was a revelation. It's why I went carnivore. (Though after I went carnivore, I discovered a huge and growing carnivore oriented subculture, huge amounts of youtube channels, blogs, books, etc. )

I used to fast regularly. It was really tough, but I would do a 2 or 3 day fast, maybe twice a year, because I thought it was really healthy. I'd read so much about the benefits of fasting.

I experienced some reductions in inflammation (like...my eyes got very clear and white). And some other benefits.

But now, since carnivore (about 18 months almost 100% animal based foods only), I'm not bothering with the fasting. I experienced such positive benefits from adopting the carnivore diet that I don't feel like fasting would be beneficial. And for me, anyway, fasting was always really hard, and I did NOT experience the energy boost that some people do.

Here's some of my previous carnivore posts on Stacker News:

2025-05: Carnivore Classic by Dr. Anthony Chaffee - 'Plants are trying to kill you!' 2025-04: Carnivore hack: how to buy meat without spending a fortune 2025-04: Rendering beef tallow, from beef fat trimmings - yum 2025-04: The most common question I get asked as a Carnivore has been answered 2025-03: I was unknowingly almost vegetarian, before going carnivore 2025-02: Is sugar the new smoking? 2025-02: I would continue with Carnivore even if I got only this ONE benefit 2025-02: Weird, oddball health improvements I've experienced on the Carnivore diet 2024-10: There's currently a propaganda campaign against low-carb diets 2024-07: Carnivore quotes in classical literature 2024-04: Carnivore diet - looks like it fixed this nighttime disorder for me 2024-04: Carnivore diet - believe it or not, it healed this oddball disorder for me 2024-04: Can a keto/carnivore diet heal issues like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar? 2024-04: Eating Carnivore on a short trip - tips and tricks 2024-01: Latest steps in my carnivore path 2024-01: Carnivore achievements unlocked 2024-01: Taking a temporary break from mostly-carnivore diet during holidays 2023-12: Sugar and Alzheimers 2023-12: Kinda-carnivore diet is leading to WAY more energy 2024-12: Question for carnivores/carnivore-curious folks 2023-12: I'm transitioning ... to a more MEAT centric diet 2023-11: This book is blowing my mind - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz

I was in Europe recently. Almost every conversation you have with people, something comes up about climate crisis. Also it's pretty much on every front page of the newspaper.

For instance, I was doing some long distance biking, and it's hot, and the friendly guy I encountered and was talking to must have just read an article because he brought up a "climate crisis" talking point.

Apparently before 2000, occasions where there were 3 days in a row where the nighttime temperature doesn't go below 20 C were very rare. Now, he says, they happen a lot more.

And I'm thinking...that seems like a stretch. How did "they" happen to come up with that particular metric - not going below 20 C at night for 3 nights in a row? Seems kind of random. They probably ran a bunch of numbers till they found something that fit the "crisis" narrative.

People are defensive about this crisis, too. I was talking to a lady recently (French) whose daughter was getting a degree in "environmental science" or something like that. I said something that I thought was pretty mild, like "Oh, a lot of kids are getting that kind of degree". And she got a little huffy, and said, "Well, we really need them!"

Did you read this (A take on the Israel/Iran war)[#1008346]?

Seems like there's a very good argument to be made that Iran is NOT a threat.

Probably a lot of it depends on the type of knowledge (I'd like to learn more about the details, of what they're learning).

However, I think in general, ESPECIALLY for anything entrepreneurial, self-taught can be best. Why? Because ideally you're actually trying different things out in the real world. And these types of experiments, interacting with the real world, are worth a lot.

No problem. I'm actually surprised that it's taken that long, because like I said - aluminum is actually something that's worth it to recycle.

When you say tin cans - do you mean aluminum drink cans? Or do you mean the cans that, for instance, tuna fish or canned vegetables come in?

For aluminum, that's been valuable to recycle for a long time now. As a matter of fact, I remember taking long walks along the road with the family as a kid, we could collect aluminum cans, crush them, and then when we had a bagful, take them to the metal scrap shop to sell.

THAT was true recycling. Most of what is called recycling today seems like an awful waste or resources.

I use the open source tool Notepad++ for most of my editing. And then there's a compare plug-in tool that I use - I think it's just called Compare. It's fine, and I'm used to it, so I stick with it.

Yeah that 23% multisig is very suspect.

Wait a minute...Japanese are really good at investing? I thought so many Japanese just stick their money in bank accounts?

So much for future business operations in the country...

Ah, okay. I created a fund, here it is - https://coinos.io/fund/dc5fbc7f-047c-4171-acc4-d860382f47f1. Feel free to add or withdraw.

I wonder what the use case for this is? I thought it would be a shared wallet, with trusted people. But I'm not seeing how you limit to just trusted people...

I'm looking for how to start a fund myself, is it in the UI somewhere?

I go to https://coinos.io/fund, and click "pay fund", and get an error: Error Something went wrong Invalid currency symbol

And imagine all the ones that we don't know about...

I can't read it either.