A good mindset to have is that basically everyone is trying to scam you
- Financial world is full of scams
- Real Estate is full of scams
- Almost all dentists and “doctors” are just scammers who want money
- Farmers are scammers who secretly use pesticides, insecticides, etc (Even raw milk farmers secretly freeze the milk or put it in plastic to save money)
- Your employer is scamming you by stealing your youth
- EVEN YOUR KIDS essentially just want your money when you die
So once you understand that everyone is out to get your money or time by scamming you
You realize that:
1) There are very few people who actually care, or are worth listening to
2) You are mostly on your own
Cold plunging is a fad
Carbs are not bad for you
Fasting is overrated
Fish oil pills are toxic
Sunscreen is worse for you than the sun
Peptides are unecessary
Protein bars are slop
Birth control pills are poison
You don't need to wear underwear
Coffee is a superfood
Vegetables are for goats
God is real
How many people did I just piss off?
US Patent 6,506,148
"Nervous System Manipulation by Electromagnetic Fields from Monitors"
Granted 2003.
It describes pulsing a screen's brightness by less than 2%, small enough that you can't consciously see it happening.
At around 0.5Hz that pulse makes you drowsy.
At around 2.4Hz your eyelids start to droop.
The patent even says it can be sent to your monitor remotely, over the internet, without you knowing.
Your screen is already pulsing right now. Invisibly. For a dumber reason than any patent.
Drop the brightness below 100%
and most backlights don't dim smoothly.
They strobe the LEDs on and off, hundreds to thousands of times a second, because a strobing driver circuit is cheaper to build than a smooth one.
Nobody printed that on the box.
Same blind spot as the patent. Except this one isn't buried in a filing from 2003.
It's running on your desk right now and the company that sold it to you never said a word.
TAP ZAP fixes this
Eight people sealed themselves in a glass dome to prove humanity could feed itself on plants, and spent two years starving in front of the world's press.
Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. Three acres of Arizona desert under sealed glass, eight crew, door shut on 26 September 1991, nothing in or out for two years. The farm inside was worked intensively and by any agronomic measure it was superb, out-producing the most efficient smallholder farming on earth by a wide margin.
It produced 83 per cent of what they needed.
Which left Roy Walford, the crew doctor, in a sealed box with seven hungry colleagues and his own life's work. Walford was a UCLA pathologist who had spent thirty years arguing that severe calorie restriction extends lifespan. He had doubled it in mice. And here was reality handing him his own hypothesis with the door welded shut.
So he called it a health programme.
The menu became vegetables, half a glass of goat's milk a day, and meat or fish about once a week. The men lost close to a fifth of their body weight, the women about a tenth. And the markers Walford cared about behaved impeccably: blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides all down at least twenty per cent, into ranges any doctor would frame. He published it in PNAS in 1992.
The bloodwork was magnificent. The people were falling apart.
Jane Poynter wrote the book afterwards. Fatigue, depression, mental fog, and a preoccupation with food that ate the entire interior life of the crew. They stole from each other. They split into two factions that stopped speaking. The ecological research the building had been constructed for was largely abandoned by people who no longer had the headroom for anything past the next meal. The ants and cockroaches, by contrast, were thriving.
The air was leaving too. Oxygen started at 20.9 per cent and kept dropping and nobody knew where it was going. Columbia eventually worked it out: the concrete was quietly eating it. So oxygen had to be pumped in from outside, which is an interesting result for a sealed world.
Walford's verdict on the mutiny is the whole thing in one sentence. He said afterwards that any other physician aboard would have panicked and declared they were starving, but that he knew they were on a programme of health enhancement.
He knew. Seven other people, visibly wasting, were simply mistaken.
He came out in 1993, developed ALS, blamed the conditions inside, and died in 2004 aged 79 after years on 1,600 calories a day in pursuit of a longer life. The mice got double. He did not make it to average for an American professor.
Every argument you have heard this decade was already in that building. Grow it locally. Take the animals out. Eat less. Watch the numbers improve.
Eight of the most motivated humans alive, handed three acres of the best-managed farmland on the planet and no meat, could not feed themselves.
The press reported the fighting as a personality clash.
Americans declared their independence from a parasitic foreign nation in 1776 but exactly 250 years later we're in the same place we were then. It's time for Americans to stand up & declare their independence again, but this time it's from the evil in their own government. Washington DC is inflitrated with British Fabians and WEF socialists with deep links to Bolshevik Revolution. I declare my Independence from their tyranny.
Americans: grinding making $300k a year, can't afford to buy a home, eats uber eats every meal, on 4 meds
Europeans: making $40k a year, owns his home, 2 hour lunches, glyphosate free food, walks everywhere, takes all summer off, dies happy at 91
something went seriously wrong