Yago | Impero

A while ago, I wrote a beginner-friendly intro to Peat's work and many people found it helpful. I still get messages about it regularly. Link is in my profile if you want to give it a read.

@kalospepgod Forgettable is a good way to put it. Definitely not rewatchable.

Watched Nolan's Odyssey. Some quick thoughts: - Unexpectedly for Nolan, the film has no memorable score. I left the cinema unable to remember a single melody. It's a shame, especially given that one of the earlier trailers featured a promising one. - Some of the harder-to-pull-off scenes were surprisingly good. I liked the disfigured Cyclops and found his screeches haunting. I particularly enjoyed how Circe transformed Odysseus' men into pigs. And not letting us hear the sirens was the right choice. - Odysseus killing the suitors was probably the most disappointing scene. The fighting felt clumsy, slow, cheap. Underwhelming after a 3h build up. - I couldn't care less about armors, columns, etc. being "unrealistic". The film has its own design language, as is to be expected. Agamemnon as a sort of giant stallion was an odd choice but it conveyed his power. The "grey-washing" also wasn't as bad as some say. - Casting was obviously biased and often ridiculous. I would have loved to see more grand, beautiful people, rejoicing in their strength. You never get the sense that anyone is a force of nature. Profoundly un-Homeric. - Nowhere is this clearer than in Odysseus, who is guilt-ridden and exhausted. There is no Homeric pride in him. No great hubris. He blames his trickery for unleashing 10 years of rage onto Troy and effectively suffers from PTSD. Yet another round of post-WWII Oppenheimer-y "what have I done"-ness. This is my biggest grievance. - You would think that given how they mention "Zeus' law" (xenia) every other minute, they would remind the viewer that the Trojans broke it at Sparta by taking Helen. Or that it doesn't really apply to a war setting. Or that the war itself was sanctioned by the gods. They never do. Overall, rather than trying to understand Homer on his own terms, the film asks Homer to conform to ours. In that sense, it is predictably disappointing. As a piece of entertainment, though, it is actually enjoyable.

@hmmmcurious What's your usual dosage? I've heard all kinds of ranges.

i love activated charcoal, man; one of the few supplements that actually do something! (for me 😊)

@photobiogenesis Appreciate your answer and all of your work. You're easily one of the best in the space.

@ProjectImpero As for BSO vs. isolated thymoquinone, it's not that the PUFA is a driver of benefit so much as that the whole essential oil fraction is better than just isolated thymoquinone Using high thymoquinone black cumin EO orally in olive oil as a carrier would be just fine in theory

There have always been people that fear antibacterial foods/herbs as being as bad as antibiotics but every single study or N=1 I've seen has shown the opposite We evolved eating flavonoids, quinones, and polyphenols while maintaining incredible gut diversity These compounds shift strain ratios but they often act more like prebiotics actually increasing diversity over time Same goes for skullcap, tree resins (myrrh, frankincense, mastic), and maybe even essential oils

@realKalos unc... still... got... it...

@0x49fa98 At some point we become the rate limiting factor in the conversation

@TakeThiamine @ThorTorrens How do they not realize man. It's unbelievable.

You're quoting Basic Toxicology 101, but completely failing Pharmacokinetics 401. Your entire 'millions of IU' defense assumes acute, single-dose poisoning. But Vitamin D3 isn't water-soluble; it’s a highly lipophilic secosteroid hormone. It doesn't wash out in your urine at the end of the day. It has a massive tissue half-life and bioaccumulates. When people drop 10,000 IU daily over months, they aren't taking an 'isolated microdose.' They are slowly packing their adipose tissue and liver, building a cumulative baseline. The mechanism that kills the rat isn’t a magic trick unique to rodents—it’s hypercalcemia leading to tissue calcification. When humans oversaturate their system through daily piling, they trigger the exact same biological cascade: stripping calcium from bones, dumping it into the bloodstream, and slowly calcifying their kidneys and arteries. Dose scaling matters, but time scaling is what you completely ignored. It’s a slow-burn mechanism, which is exactly why it’s so insidious.

@BowTiedPeater At the very least let it be @untimelysalts's!

@ProjectImpero Bro I tried to read the book it was impossible I’ll stick to podcasts

@TakeThiamine Are those Kruse's legs

@ArkRabboni Not sure I can help, but what has saved me a lot of time (and tokens) is using high quality sources that have done most of the heavy lifting already. The CIA World Factbook Archive's API has been invaluable: worldfactbookarchive.org/api

@ProjectImpero I’m also trying to build something like this around my niche but with a local model. Any advice?

In what little spare time I have lately, I'm building a World Literacy Anki deck w/ Claude. It pulls from the CIA Factbook, World Bank, IMF, etc. to make a learnable library of knowledge in geography, geopolitics, history, finance... (+ a mirrored Obsidian vault). It's great fun.

@ArkRabboni Opus 4.8 High

@ProjectImpero What model do you use

@javiurbistondo Nothing crazy, it's mostly about GDP per capita, main trading partners, main imports/exports, partnerships, things of this nature.

@ProjectImpero Sounds awesome, I just worry about what sorts of "facts" and economics knowledge World Bank and IMF provide... 😬

@Menatetronone_4 Gm Brazen

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I like this post because it reflects one core feature of leftism: namely, that the world should adapt to ME—and in particular to my shortcomings—lest it be branded as shameful.

@Menatetronone_4 You can tell you were hypoglycemic when writing this

Ever been so now blood sugar that milk tested sweet?

"Perfect valor is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world", said La Rochefoucauld.

@photobiogenesis @biohackingdad Most pregnant women I've met are terrified of raw food. Has it ever been a concern for you?

@biohackingdad Raw milk and oysters here too

N=1 but one of the biggest things I pushed with my wife throughout both her pregnancies was daily infrared light exposure from sunlight and IR therapy Infrared light exposure: - can reach several inches into the body including into the uterus - improves oxygen delivery to mitochondria - dilates blood vessels - increases endogenous antioxidants like glutathione - can support thyroid and steroid hormone levels In my wife's case she had no major complications, healthy blood pressure and glucose levels, and both babies born over the due date with an 8-9lb birthweight She also took magnesium almost every day, and took thiamine hcl, vitamin K1/K2, and a multivitamin intermittently Obviously there are several factors at play here but I think the infrared/sunlight had the most tangible ROI on sleep, stress, mood, and blood flow