Roflsaurus

The good stuff I write is probably not unique. The unique stuff I write is probably not good. Oh well, so it goes!?

We’ve come a long way

Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t understand how anything works.

There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.

@cremieuxrecueil Hey there, I just subscribed to you and I was curious what your thoughts were on whether it makes sense to target an LDL below 70 for primary prevention in a 40 year old guy who is “low risk” for ASCVD? Is there good data looking at aggressive LDL lowering in this population?

I've updated my paper on the health impacts of seed oils with causal analyses! I found lots of family data in the NHANES, so used family fixed-effects. I found that... Serum linoleic acid was associated with BETTER health, even within families!

I sat with my 95-year-old grandma before she died last year, and she said a line to me I keep thinking on, "It goes incredibly fast. Faster than you think. And no matter what I say, you probably won't understand, honey. Until you're in my chair.”

And they said we'd never have a woman president

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”

This reminds me of something really brutal: no child truly knows their parents’ lives. We only know their lives as parents.

James Clear: The ability to bounce back quickly is a key skill in life.

Having zero health problems is a luxury most people don’t realize is a luxury.

Coffee and improved cognition, reduced dementia >130,000 people followed 37 years Benefit seen only with caffeinated coffee or tea and most pronounced ~2 cups/day @JAMA_current ☕️☕️jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem. There's no good reason you should have to experience it. Link below.

@cremieuxrecueil Many children get rashes of various kinds when they are sick. Many parents give their kids lots of different OTC meds when they are sick. This causes parents to often misattribute rashes to the medicine itself. Many doctors don’t take the time to explain this to parents…

I lived for 3/4 of my life thinking I had an allergy to two specific medications Turns out, I was misdiagnosed! I did challenges and nothing happened. I had zero allergic response Apparently this is the case for most medication allergies. The vast majority are incorrect!

A healthy person has a thousand wishes. A sick person has only one.

I'm 37. Instead of regretting that I can't wake up age 18 again, I pretend to myself that I'm 90 and I've woken up age 37 again, and that I get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.

@shakoistsLog What do you think was the “special sauce”?

IMO the WoW classic map creation was a human achievement on par with the seven Wonders of the World.

James Sexton, divorce attorney who's seen it all, drops a raw truth bomb: Our entire society is engineered to distract you from the one fact that would shatter the consumer machine—if you truly internalized that you're going to die, you'd stop buying most of the meaningless shit they're selling. He proposes a radical reset: Mandatory 1–2 years of hospice volunteering at 18. Why? Because spending time with the dying strips everything bare. They don't talk about their bank accounts, status, or possessions. They talk about: - The people they loved - The connections they made - The beautiful (and painful) experiences All the "important" drama in your day evaporates the moment you walk out of that room. Sexton shares his mom's final cancer surgery—20 minutes in, doctors closed her up: cancer everywhere, nothing more to do. In that instant, every other worry in his life got turned down to zero volume. All that mattered was time left to love her, to make sure she knew. Reminder: There is a finite number of times you'll kiss your wife, hug your kids, call your parents. You don't know the number. You'll only realize it after you've passed it. That finitude is what makes every moment sacred. Living forever would be a curse. Right now, the people you love are alive—right now. Kiss them as many times as you want. That is the greatest thing in the world. Powerful, uncomfortable, beautiful perspective. Keep death in your line of sight—it's the ultimate clarity filter.

@BenjaminiteMD @pegobry_en What’s your current theory for how consciousness emerged? Any particular philosophical explanations that you find most plausible?

@pegobry_en That's conceivable. That process creating phenomenal consciousness isn't.

"This happened because random things bumped into each other a lot"

The two most destructive misunderstandings of wealth are probably that there’s a fixed sum and that it arises primarily from natural resources

Pretty good.