Brian Erb

@BowTiedYukon I always found it interesting that apparently one of the biggest days for heart attacks is the first snowfall when the “couch brigade” decides to shovel.

There are men who can’t run a full lap around a track without having to stop and catch their breath who will tell you when shit hits the fan they just see red and will take care of business

@unfilteredwkels We knew this was coming when our Dr. refused to sign medical exemptions that she said she AGREED were legitimate for fear of losing her license. This told us that we could no longer trust the advice we received. This is fundamentally evil.

THE "APPROVED NARRATIVE" IS NOW LAW. 🚩 Under B.C.’s HPOA (Bill 36), your doctor faces $25k-$500k fines or jail time for contradicting the state. Warrantless record seizures? Yes. Forced mental health assessments for doctors? Yes. A massive practitioner exodus? It’s already happening. If the state owns the doctor, they own the patient. B.C. is the blueprint… Nova Scotia and Ontario are watching. I have the proof, the links, and the SOLUTION KIT (Letter templates for MLAs/Colleges) on my Substack now STOP THE OVERREACH: open.substack.com/pub/unfiltered… #Bill36 #HPOA #BCHealth #MedicalFreedom #Canada #FreedomOfSpeech

@seizuresalad Really? Sigh…

Oh... Oh no...

Are we too dog friendly? No. We are too friendly to foreign cultures that choose to join us. Every time Democrats threaten gun control, decent Republicans buy another weapon Time to equip ourselves with Malinois ..

Yes to all of this article. I too ran the N+1 experiment on myself to positive results & this is why I became a Primal Health Coach.

@CricketsMatter I see you, even from Texas!

I'm looking at fellow Canadians posts .. EVERY one I've looked at so far, crap for likes and interactions FFS! I doubt any of you will see this post, since I've been talking into the void all freaking day!

@CaryKelly11 N+1 here, so your mileage might vary. I do BJJ, we all come in with clean, laundered uniforms, smelling fresh etc. By the end? Everyone, including us low-carb/meat forward all reek. You can usually even smell distinct ammonia sweat from the breakdown of protein into amino acids.

I don't wear deodorant. Haven't since going meat-based. For me, body odor was an expression of all the toxins from all the crap I was eating. I tell my friends and family this and they think I'm crazy. I asked if they ever smelled me? Not one of them has.

@hale3stax1 @LibertyCappy 1.5% of population (give or take), we're more concerned with Californians at this point. 😎😉

@brianerb @LibertyCappy With all them mosques being built you better add Allah in there.

Are you from America or are you from Texas? 😎

@Ryenorth @LibertyCappy Yes, exactly there. I took this when I was relocating from Canada to Texas for freedom & finally crossed the border.

@brianerb @LibertyCappy That's gotta be I-10 El Paso, right?

@Adamental2 The pendulum swing response was one that really pissed me off when I tried to point out what was happening. There comes a point at which it doesn’t. There is no Roman Empire today. Rhodesia no longer exists. The Titanic is at the bottom of the ocean.

I'm tired of being angry but being angry is the appropriate response when confronted with the reality of what is happening in Canada over the past 10 years I guess the reality of our situation is that media propaganda works, and brainwashing kids in schools works, and as a result we are now surrounded by zombies with their elbows up who are on their 5th booster by now I've pounded my fist on tables and shouted from the rooftops but it looks like our society is being flushed down the toilet b/c the drooling masses are too retarded to snap out of the spell they're under - and apparently not even the COVID scam or being overrun with indians or having he cost of living more than double or having all of society deteriorate around them at record speed is not enough to snap them out of it - so what difference is all MY hollering gonna make, really? I'm at the acceptance stage of grief I know the pendulum has a way of swinging back eventually - and perhaps one day - when everyone is unemployed and standing in breadlines with their UBI digital credits - it will dawn on the sleepwalkers what has happened But until then I'm tired of raging against the machine Network with like-minded people and build your parallel society as much as you can, but otherwise, might as well enjoy the show The only way this changes is if we act in great numbers but that's not happening any time soon, the average Canadian is too dumbed down

@jonjazzpics @bschermd The fact that the AHA is still "trusted" when so much of their funding is based on selling "heart healthy" labels to "Big Food" to offer a veneer of acceptability of their poison still baffles me.

@bschermd Conflicting guidelines from trusted institutions create real confusion. Patients deserve clarity, not contradictions.

No wonder you're confused about what to eat. The two biggest dietary guideline organizations in the US just released opposing recommendations (American Heart Association vs. USDA). Here's where the two guidelines agree, disagree, and what the science says. 🧵

@GiaMMacool It saddens me that we've so shifted our fundamental understanding of the world towards comfort as the highest goal. Then it get's covered with the garbage "luck" label. We all have choices, you can choose to move towards the goal, or towards comfort & blame. I now what we choose.

“You’re so lucky to be in that shape.” The “luck” is: • 6am workouts instead of sleeping in 
• Meal prep over McDonald’s
• Saturday night gym instead of alcohol
• Whole foods over processed No luck required…just consistent choices. Everyone chooses their hard. I’d rather choose mine upfront, than later.

@gothburz Ok, I decided to ask about the entertainment clause and see, yes, yes this is 100% accurate! Yikes.

I am the Vice President of Output Accountability at Microsoft. I report to nobody with that title because the title did not exist until I created it. The title is necessary. The outputs are not accountable to anyone. Someone should be. Our Terms of Service for Copilot include the phrase "for entertainment purposes." I wrote that language. Not personally. I approved the deck that approved the committee that approved the language. The language says the outputs "may not be accurate." The language says the user is "solely responsible" for whatever the outputs do. We charge $30 a month. Entertainment is the word we use for things we sell but do not stand behind. The customer types a prompt. The product generates a response. The response may be correct. It may not. The Terms of Service do not distinguish between these outcomes. Both are entertainment. That is entertainment. JPMorgan uses Copilot. Accenture uses Copilot. The Department of Defense has a contract. A law firm in Charlotte is drafting client memos with it. A hospital system in Ohio is summarizing patient intake forms. These are entertainment activities. The Terms of Service are very clear. I want to be precise about the architecture. Marketing calls Copilot a "productivity tool." The website says "your everyday AI companion." The enterprise sales deck — the one I have on my desktop in a folder called Q4 GTM FINAL v11 — says "reinvent how your organization works." The case studies say "efficiency." The ROI calculator says "hours saved." The keynote said "copilot for work." The Terms of Service say entertainment. These are not contradictory. They are complementary. The sales language describes what the customer hopes the product will do. The legal language describes what we acknowledge it does. The customer pays for the first. The contract delivers the second. The $30 is the gap between those two sentences. That is entertainment. A compliance officer at a bank in London — I will call her Diana because that is not her name — emailed my team last quarter. She had been using Copilot to generate compliance summaries. A compliance summary is a document that a regulator reads to determine whether the bank followed the law. Diana's team had generated 1,400 of them. She found the "entertainment purposes" clause on page nineteen of the Terms of Service. She called her outside counsel. Her outside counsel called our Legal. Our Legal said the Terms of Service are the Terms of Service. Diana asked if the outputs were reliable. Our Legal said the outputs were entertaining. Diana asked what "entertaining" means when a regulator reads a compliance summary generated by a tool that disclaims its own accuracy. Our Legal said that is a question for Diana's legal team. Diana's legal team is the one that signed the Terms of Service. She stopped emailing. That is entertainment. Accurate is a product feature. Entertainment is a legal position. We do not sell accuracy. We sell a tool that may produce accuracy. If it does, that is a feature. If it doesn't, that is also a feature. The Terms of Service make no distinction. This is elegant. I am told this is elegant. I say this at conferences. I have a slide that says "elegant" in Segoe UI Light, white text on a blue gradient. It gets applause. A product manager named Kevin on the Copilot team sent an email to the internal alias last November. Subject line: "Question about the gap." The body was two sentences. The first sentence asked why the marketing page says "essential" and the legal page says "entertainment." The second sentence asked if anyone had modeled what happens when a customer sues. I replied. I said the marketing page and the legal page serve different audiences. He asked what happens when the audiences overlap. I said we have a process for that. He asked what the process is. I said it is the Terms of Service. Kevin transferred to Azure DevOps in January. His role on Copilot was absorbed into a cross-functional initiative. The initiative does not have a Slack channel. That is entertainment. My team tracks something we call the Confidence Adoption Index. It measures how many enterprise customers integrate Copilot into production workflows. The number goes up every quarter. We do not track how many of those workflows involve regulated industries, legal documents, medical records, or financial disclosures. We track adoption. Adoption is a volume metric. Volume does not have a liability column. I have a dashboard on my second monitor. It shows three numbers: monthly active enterprise users (14.2 million), monthly subscription revenue ($426 million), and customer-initiated liability claims (this field is blank — we route those to a different team and I do not have access). The dashboard has a green header that says "Copilot: Delivering Value." I check it every morning. Two of the three numbers go up. The third number I cannot see. We had 545 comments on Hacker News last week. The thread title was approximately "Copilot's Terms of Service say entertainment purposes only." This is not a crisis. This is discovery. The Terms of Service have always said this. The customers have always signed them. The gap between what the marketing says and what the contract says is not new. It is the product. I do not use Copilot for my own work. My reports — the ones about Output Accountability — are written manually. My team uses Google Docs. I was asked about this once, at an internal review. I said my work product requires a level of precision that benefits from direct authorship. Nobody asked a follow-up question. Entertainment means: we built it, we sold it, we marketed it as essential, we disclaim it as unreliable, and the $30 means you agreed. I was promoted last quarter. My scope now includes the Output Accountability frameworks for three additional product lines. Each one has the same Terms of Service. Each one has a different marketing page. Each marketing page uses the word "reinvent." Each Terms of Service uses the word "entertainment." I have a laminated card in my wallet that lists all four product lines and their disclaimers. I check it before every conference talk. The card is worn at the edges. I do not find this ironic. I find it operational. I am the disclaimer. I have always been the disclaimer. That is accountability. That is entertainment.

@GiaMMacool As a lifter, she is also strengthening her skeleton, fighting back against osteoporosis & protecting herself from the damage of falls, not to mention her repeated work on balance. There is zero downside!

Men say they don’t want a girl who lifts… a “cardio bunny” is more their speed. Until real life hits. A woman who actually gets it done: •Lifts a couch off a flatbed •Supports him when he’s sick •Helps him without outsourcing That’s when it clicks: a capable woman doesn’t just get her hair and nails done. She holds it down when life becomes heavy, no whining, no drama, just results.

@preta_6 I also love the ones that just sling invectives and screech at you while utterly refusing to engage in any actual debate. It’s basically nothing more than infantile tantrums. They think they have somehow landed a blow, when they are just proving why they shouldn’t be listened to.

Interactions on here can be like: Moron: 2 plus 2 is 5 you bigot c*nt Normal person: No, here's how addition works and why you're wrong Moron: You think I can't do basic math hah you stupid c*nt, I didn't even say 2 plus 2 is 5 (but it is, idiot)

@FoodProfessor Wow, this is like the coda on your article, their response ultimately proving your point. Canada is lost.

Some personal news to share. My regular column with La Presse has been suspended indefinitely this week, after 25 years and more than 1,000 columns. This was not my decision. The decision is linked to recent public comments I made on social media regarding the evolving media landscape in Canada, including reflections on government support for media and its potential implications. I understand that these are sensitive and complex issues, and my remarks may not have aligned with the publication’s perspective. While I am disappointed, I fully respect their decision and remain grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to contribute over the years. I would also like to note that my contributions were always made on a voluntary basis. I was never compensated for my columns, and have personally supported La Presse through a paid subscription throughout that time. It has truly been a privilege to write for such an important institution. I continue to believe that open, thoughtful discussions about the future of media in Canada are both necessary and healthy.

@bschermd Once you see the background & how the AHA is funded, why anyone gives them any semblance of authority anymore is quite beyond me. We must do away with this institutional capture.

There's a lot to unpack here, but I'm super curious what everyone thinks about the full fat dairy section. They basically admit the science doesn't support avoiding full fat dairy, yet they go ahead and recommend it anyway. Anybody else perplexed by that?

@matthewbaszucki 100%. The fact that outfits like the AHA don't/won't even allow presentations that go against their dogma with hundreds of double-blind, placebo controlled participants that absolutely blow their LDL concept out of the park, should be of grave concern to all.

We measure LDL cholesterol not because it's the best marker of cardiovascular risk, but because we have a pill that lowers it. The markers that actually matter (ApoB, fasting insulin, triglyceride to HDL ratio) we don't routinely test. Because there's no pill to sell.

@carnivore_jt Watched the premiere of David Feldman's The Cholesterol Code at Rice University last night, this exact point was brought up. Dr Nick Norwitz did it with Oreos. Such a misused metric...but how else are they going to prescribe drugs for life?

I can eat white bread for a week leading up to a blood test and reducey LDL by 70%. I guess that would mean a major cardiovascular event should be scared of me