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@keithwalkiewicz Changed the way I think about many things, but I quit following him on Twitter during Covid. I should reread the books though.

For all the hate he gets on X, I think Talebs incerto series was very good

@ClownWorld Seriously, the last time I DID'NT lock my doors was 1975.

Remember to lock your car doors because the world is full of scumbags like this guy.

@catturd2 Not "Rescue", I meant "recovery"

@catturd2 Were the Italian tourists certified to go that deep and for cave diving? Did they know they were going that deep? Rescue diving at that depth would require an experienced technical diver and staged decompression stops, I would think.

This story is getting more ridiculous by the minute.

@SamaHoole Guess I better rethink going on the "18th Century British Sailor Diet".

"You'll get scurvy without fruit." The dreaded scurvy. The sailor's disease. The reason a five-year-old child apparently needs to eat eight servings of fruit a day according to a poster in a doctor's waiting room. Here is the thing nobody printing those posters wanted to mention. The vitamin C requirement on a carnivore diet collapses to a fraction of the official RDA, because the RDA was set against a diet groaning with refined carbohydrate, and glucose competes directly with vitamin C for cellular uptake. Same transporter. Same receptor. Glucose wins, every time, because there is more of it. Remove the glucose flood and the body suddenly needs vanishingly little vitamin C to do the same job. Nanograms, not milligrams. The amount that exists, quietly, in fresh muscle meat, in quantities that have kept Arctic populations alive through nine-month winters without a single orange in sight. Scurvy is a disease of sailors eating hardtack and salt cod for six months. It is not a disease of people eating beef. Big OJ would prefer you didn't know this.

@SamaHoole Aptly named.

In 1998, Frito-Lay released a snack chip that the low-fat era will, eventually, be remembered for above all others. It was called WOW! and it was fat-free. The fat had been replaced with a synthetic substitute called Olestra, a molecule too large for the human gut to absorb, which Procter & Gamble had spent twenty-five years and $300 million developing. The chips flew off the shelves. $400 million in sales in the first year alone. The brand was rolled out across Lay's, Doritos, Ruffles, and Tostitos. A market hungry for permission, given a permission slip in the form of a salty triangle. The FDA had approved the product on one condition. Every packet had to carry a warning label that read: "Olestra may cause abdominal cramping and loose stools." This was the polite phrasing. The internal trials had described the actual effect as "anal leakage." The body, unable to absorb the synthetic fat, was simply passing it through, sometimes with significant urgency, sometimes with a faint orange residue. The FDA received over twenty thousand consumer complaints. More than for any other food additive in its entire history combined. Jay Leno made a fake commercial for it on The Tonight Show. Robin Williams did a rapid-fire routine about the label on his 2002 Live on Broadway special. The phrase "anal leakage" became a 1990s cultural punchline that survived long after the chips themselves had been quietly withdrawn. Olestra remains banned in Canada and the European Union. It is still, in 2026, FDA-approved in the United States. But the chip itself is not the lesson. The lesson is this. A country had been so thoroughly trained to fear fat that a major manufacturer correctly calculated it would buy a product that visibly damaged the body, in real time, on the bathroom floor, as long as the front of the packet said the magic two words. Fat-free. Eat the bag. The country did.

@catturd2 But I wanted to see Elliot walk out of the bar in really baggy biker gear.

😂😂😂

@kevinvdahlgren I'm not a "tank guy" but that looks like an antique.

I filmed a tank driving down 82nd Ave. in Portland, Oregon

@greg16676935420 Icicles

I’m trying to settle a debate with a friend What are these called?

@KingOfVitamins Thanks!

Here’s a simple AI prompt you can use to get started: “Here are my latest bloodwork lab results, along with results from a year ago. I would like you to analyze it through a functional medicine perspective, identify and explain any potential issues, and provide actionable recommendations for improvement. Here is some background about me: [insert relevant background about you]”

If you aren’t getting bloodwork at least once a year and using AI to analyze the results against functional medicine benchmarks, you’re leaving an incredible health tool in the toolbox. Who’s doing this today?

@catturd2 Can she serve out her term in absentia?

Holy crap.

@SBakerMD Is that the Otto Wilde grill you were using years ago?

Share this with someone who is considering a carnivore diet!!

@PlanetOfMemes just to be clear, a heteronym is a type of homonym? Right?

English isn't that difficult to learn. Also English:

@2many2name @SBakerMD Maybe a collective term like "BRICS"? Though there are more than 5 BRICS countries now.

@SBakerMD Explain pls. Focus on uzbekistan. Just visiting and not seeing what you're seeing.

All the 7 countries that end in “stan” KAPUT Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan Afghanistan Pakistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

@MrAndyNgo From what I read in The Oregonian it sure sounds like he had a long history of mental illness that just wasn't delt with. I'll be interested to see what you report.

ICYMI: Shortly after May Day, a Portland, Ore. leftist man drove a car filled with pipe bombs into the private Multnomah Athletic Club. He blew himself up and caused massive damage to the building in the explosion. The private club is renowned for its members among Portland's elite. The deceased man has been named as Bruce Whitman, a former employee of the club. Portland Police say the bombing is being treated as an isolated incident, not domestic terrorism. ngocomment.com

@ngdpc1 Things were simpler when everyone had a Sears Catalog in the outhouse.

Went down the ingredients-in-toilet-paper rabbit hole today and probably should’ve avoided that one.

@ZubyMusic To be honest, confirmation bias.

What makes you believe a statistic?

@ngdpc1 Apparently, opossums are tick eating machines, we need more of them.

Ticks are a real problem man.

@MarinaMedvin As near as I can tell, the only thing "non-profit" really means is "doesn't-pay-taxes", otherwise it's business as usual for the people in charge. (Note: I am neither a lawyer nor an accountant)

Interesting. I just learned that more than half of the hospitals in the US are legally classified as “non-profits” and do not pay taxes. Despite the tax benefit, they don’t reveal their prices to patients. This happened to my friend after giving birth. She received a bill from the hospital for tens of thousands of dollars after delivering a healthy baby in the lobbby before ever making it into a hospital room bed! She was shocked when it arrived in the mail weeks later. This happens all across the country — patients get medical care and then weeks later are shocked by a wild bill. And none of this is transparent. Anyway, while I don’t believe the government can tell private businesses what to do, those who receive tax exemption should be subject to more government rules (as I’ve argued before; that’s part of the disincentivization of taking government benefits). Steve Forbes wrote an article this week arguing in favor of requiring all hospitals to be transparent about prices upfront to keep prices at more reasonable levels under a free marketplace theory. There’s a hearing tomorrow before the @WaysandMeansGOP on this issue. I agree that these issues should be explored @RepJasonSmith

@catturd2 This is why I would never let my wife be my "partner in crime"

When you watch enough of these police body cam arrest videos, you realize that 99% of these idiots wouldn’t get arrested if they could only keep their big mouths shut.