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@deedydas Isn't it illegal for clinics to sell them without an FDA approval ?

I thought peptides were mostly an internet thing before I walked into a clinic in SF and they had them all laid out like a choose-your-own-adventure brochure

You spend $1000 token costs for Codex to /loop and get a refund The airlines spends $1000 token costs on Claude to /goal prevent a refund All for getting/denying a $500 refund But the US GDP rises by $2000 and helps us IPO OpenAI and Anthropic to $1T valuations.

Harvesting roses in Oman

Happy Father’s Day

@signulll "you can't beat the competition who is enjoying themselves"

i kind of respect ppl who party a lot cuz it seems like hard work. getting drunk all the time, going out late, coordinating plans, dressing up / putting on make up, moving between places, maybe dancing, constant small talk w strangers, keeping the energy up (possibly w drugs), then somehow doing it all over again the next night. all of this sounds awful as fuck to me. but the real effort required is absolutely undeniable. party ppl are many things, but they are set not phoning it in.

@github I'm sure the 5 people who have copilot max are losing their shit right now

Weekends are for building. Copilot Max users, check your account for an extra $200 in credits to power your next build in the GitHub Copilot app. Stand by for more offers for Pro and Pro+ users.

America’s evolution into a country that loses wars and wins soccer games is complete.

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated. His name is Qing Li. He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea. The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason. Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005. He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest. Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty. The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected. The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly. Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty. Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month. Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet. The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation. The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall. When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab. Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system. This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress. A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower. The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down. Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks. They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone. The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk. After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature. What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care. But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free. The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish. Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens. Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

the midjourney roadmap was public the whole time

@waitin4agi_ Dev patel

Signed a voice actor to lead the English dub for UTA yesterday. Reveal tomorrow, any guesses?

@engineers_feed Hey you forget the important part of acquiring the enriched uranium

A working nuclear bomb can be designed by three PhD level Physicists in about two years — and that experiment was done in the 60s with them having no specialised knowledge in nuclear physics. How quickly can this be done without special knowledge using modern AI tools?

@PremLeaguePanel Non chalant final boss

Vision to constantly find Mbappé’s runs + unbelievable weight of pass to unlock Senegal. Michael Olise is a special creator.

@nabeelqu It was barely live for 3 days with insane rate limits even for max. How did you use it soo much ?

Going back and rereading chats with Fable like its an old friend who suddenly died

@growing_daniel x.com/unusual_whales…

The US is basically perfect for hosting the World Cup except for nobody here really caring about it

@teej_dv Dario has already put a hit out on you guys.

Yo SF, we are in you

@peterrhague No, give it 2 more years

Has Civ VII been patched/discounted to the point of being worth buying yet?

@behl_akshit1803 Damnn. Where in hyd ??

Met a guy in Hyderabad who came back from the US and is building an F1 simulator business. Real racing seat, real steering wheel, and an incredibly immersive experience. People literally spend 4–5 hours playing non-stop. Not selling a game. Selling an addiction.

Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”

Julius Caesar knife block.

Family of BJP leaders enjoy beef abroad and your children create riots here in the name of mother cow.