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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Doctor: "I'd cut back on the butter. Saturated fat is solid at room temperature, and that's what it does in your arteries."

Patient: "What temperature are my arteries?"

Doctor: "37."

Patient: "What's butter at 37?"

Doctor: "...Melted."

Patient: "And beef dripping? Lard?"

Doctor: "Soft. On their way."

Patient: "So what's actually solid in an artery?"

Doctor: "Plaque. Cholesterol, calcium, dead white cells."

Patient: "Why are the white cells dead?"

Doctor: "They go in to mop up damaged cholesterol particles, get overloaded, and die there."

Patient: "Damaged how?"

Doctor: "Oxidised. Gone rancid, if you like."

Patient: "Does butter go rancid?"

Doctor: "Not easily. It's stable."

Patient: "What does?"

Doctor: "Polyunsaturated fat. The vegetable oils. They're fragile."

Patient: "Sunflower. Rapeseed. The ones on the healthy-eating sheet you gave me."

Doctor: "They're liquid at room temperature. That's the point of them."

Patient: "So is petrol. The thing you're frightened of melts before it gets in, and the thing you recommend is the one that rots in there."

Doctor: "That's a simplification."

Patient: "It was your simplification. You started with the room."

Doctor: "..."

Patient: "What else is solid at room temperature? Bone. Teeth. Do I want to cut down on those?"

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The farmer put a trail camera on the field shelter to catch a fox, and what it caught was a rota.

A horse cannot sleep properly standing up. He can doze on his feet for hours, with the leg locked, and he does, but the deep sleep, the kind with dreams in it, only comes lying flat, and a horse will not lie flat unless something he trusts is on its feet nearby. It is why a lone horse goes short of sleep and gets strange, and why a herd takes it in turns, one down and one up, all night, without anybody arranging it.

Hector slept on his feet for two years in that field before he lay down at all. The donkey was in the shelter every night of those two years, standing in the dry corner he chose on the first afternoon, and the farmer had assumed that was the whole arrangement.

The camera fires on movement. 11 nights of it, stamped to the minute.

00.40. Hector lies down. Flat out, on his side, in the mouth of the shelter with his legs stretched into the yard. Nelson is in his corner, upright, ears out.

01.25. Hector gets up. Shakes. Walks 6 feet to the doorway and stands in it, square, facing the lane.

01.31. Nelson goes down. Chest to the straw, legs folded, chin resting on the ground, which is as far down as a donkey mostly goes, and his eyes shut, and his ears, which have not been still in four years, finally stop.

02.50. Nelson up. Hector, who has not moved from the doorway, walks back in and lies down flat.

And so on. Night after night. A seventeen-hand horse who stood guard over nothing for seventeen years and was never once relieved, standing the watch over a sleeping donkey, and being stood down by that donkey an hour later, every hour until light.

The fox came on night 6. It walked across the frame at 03.12 and Nelson, who was on, turned his head, and the fox left the frame considerably faster than it had entered it.

Hector slept through that. He was off duty.

The farmer has eleven nights on a memory card and has watched all of them. He has not put the camera back out, on the grounds that he now knows what happens in that shelter after dark, and it is nobody's business but theirs.

Nobody told either of them to do it. A horse takes his turn because a horse always has, in every herd there has ever been. A donkey does not keep watch for anybody.

He keeps it for one.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Six Tim Hortons restaurants in Eastern Ontario have gone bankrupt. According to Blacklock’s, their operators blame changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

If your business depends on cheap labour to survive, you need a different business model.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine.

Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

This means that when that tree was alive, the climate there had to be warmer than today.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

It’s takes over 22 hours to get from Toronto to Sydney, Australia.

Canadian beef is raised down the road.

Yet Canadian steaks are 250% more than Australia’s.

And the Liberals think we can afford this “buy Canadian” strategy?

SLOGANS DO NOT MAKE FOOD AFFORDABLE.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop was ruled by West Oxfordshire District Council to be incompatible with its countryside location. The countryside location is a farm.

Those are close to their own words. The nature, scale and siting of the operation was found to be unsustainable and incompatible with its countryside location within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The building at the centre of it was a lambing shed. Built for lambs. In a field. Next to other fields, which contain sheep, which is what the shed was for.

The council's other findings, over three years of this:

- A farm shop may not sell food grown more than sixteen miles away.
- A lambing shed may not become a restaurant.
- A car park for the people who come anyway was refused.
- Six weeks was judged ample to put the barn back the way it was.

Sixteen miles. Meanwhile the supermarket eleven miles down the road sells Peruvian asparagus, Kenyan beans and Brazilian beef, and no council has ever drawn a circle round it.

And consider what the Cotswolds actually are. Stone walls, stone barns, cropped green hills. It looks the way it looks because for a thousand years men kept animals on that ground and built things out of the rock underneath it. The beauty under protection here was manufactured, slowly, by farming. Every wall in the view was put there by somebody doing precisely what the council has now determined is out of keeping.

They are not protecting the countryside from industry. They are protecting a picture of the countryside from the countryside.

The shed offended nobody while it held sheep.

It became an eyesore the day somebody put a till in it.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Rob Carrick, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, supports the idea of opening government-owned grocery stores on the premise that “we’ve tried everything else and it didn’t work.”

Well, have we?

Interprovincial trade barriers are still there. Supply management is still there. The industrial carbon tax is still there. Our poor logistics are still there. Retail price distortions are still there. The overwhelming red tape is still there.

Tried everything? Not quite. https://t.co/bs3wS3dAbo

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Helen Andrews just said what a lot of people have been noticing but won’t say out loud:

Wokeness isn’t really about ideology.
It’s feminization.

It stormed into NASCAR, the NFL, and Wall Street — the last places you’d expect — and the pattern was unmistakable: women are far more likely to shut down speakers they disagree with, while men say “I disagree, but let him speak.”

She argues wokeness is female group dynamics hardwired into institutions, replacing open debate with social enforcement and emotional harmony.

Why it matters: We’re trading sharp truth-seeking and real argument for conflict-avoidance and speech policing. That quiet shift is reshaping how every institution actually works.

This one landed because I’ve watched the exact change happen in places I’ve worked and hung out — more tone-policing, less willingness to clash over ideas. Not about blaming women, just seeing the pattern clearly.

Do you think wokeness is more about feminization of institutional culture than pure ideology — or is that framing off base?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1900: The egg is described in nutrition texts as nature's most complete food. Doctors recommend it for invalids, infants, and the elderly. A growing child is given one or two a day. A working man eats four for breakfast.

1950: The egg is implicated in a hypothesis about cholesterol and heart disease. The hypothesis is unproven. The egg is told it must wait.

1968: The American Heart Association issues an official recommendation to limit egg consumption to three per week. The recommendation is based on a single observational study and the personal opinion of Ancel Keys.

1973: The first egg-substitute product is launched. It is composed of egg whites with added preservatives, gums, and synthetic colour. It is sold as the heart-healthy alternative to the egg, which has been on the human breakfast table for ten thousand years.

1980 to 2010: The British and American populations consume billions of fewer eggs per year than they did in 1950. Cardiovascular disease continues to rise. Obesity rises sharply. Type 2 diabetes triples.

2015: The United States Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, after reviewing the entirety of the available evidence, removes the recommendation to limit dietary cholesterol. The egg is, the committee states, no longer a nutrient of concern.

2025: The egg is back in fashion. The egg is on the breakfast menu of the trendy restaurant. The egg is in the protein-focused cookbook. The egg is in the influencer's morning routine.

During the fifty-five years the egg was banned, the egg did not change.

The egg has been the egg the entire time.

The advice has changed. The egg has not.

The advice was wrong. Nobody has apologised.

The grandmothers who kept feeding their grandchildren eggs through the entire 1980s, against the explicit advice of every health authority in the Western world, were correct.

The grandmothers should be on the committee.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

I am old enough to remember the old Canada where the Minister responsible would resign--and real journalists would keep hounding the Prime Minister until the Minister resigned. Orange juice comes to mind.

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

Carney did NOT create a sovereign wealth fund.

Carney announced a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund.

The government is more than $1 trillion in debt.

Carney will borrow $25 billion more. Dump it into a fund. Then gamble your money on risky corporate handouts.

[Buffy 🕯🕯- BuffySu58183737 on GETTR @BuffySu58183737]

In case you’re against provinces in the West separating, note that New Brunswick has a population under 900k has 10 senate seats while BC and Alberta have populations over 5M and have 6 senate seats.
The West is being systematically railroaded.

[Monday Q Info @acaseofthegolf1]

Ive heard from multiple sources that a bombshell announcement on LIVs future is imminent.

We don't give out gambling advice but If your’re a prediction market type person I would bet the under of whatever they have posted.

[TruthSeeker01011 @TruthSeek01011]

We are soooooo cooked in Canada, the NDP held their degenerate Olympics meeting in Winnipeg yesterday.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

We should have spent more on green energy, say the media. No, we shouldn't have. The $2 trillion we spent did nothing to prevent the energy crisis and may even have caused it.

[A/B Tecky @Welly17Welly]

@OdessaOrlewicz Melanie explains it perfectly, and if we don’t change course immediately, society as we knew it will cease to exist..

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's talk about the fat.

Not the lean bit. The fat. The white seam running through a rib-eye that you've been told to cut off, trim away, render out, discard. The fat that gets removed before the nutrition label is calculated so the numbers look better. The fat that every chef from Escoffier to your nan's Sunday roast knew was the point.

That fat is oleic acid: the same fat in olive oil, which has a Mediterranean diet named after it and a documentary about it and a very successful PR campaign that has been running since approximately 1990.

That fat is stearic acid: which is neutral on LDL cholesterol, raises HDL, and is so non-threatening that even the most nervous cardiologist struggles to find fault with it.

That fat is the carrier for vitamins A, D, E, and K: the fat-soluble vitamins, which are called fat-soluble because they require fat to be absorbed, which means eating the lean version of the meat and wondering why you feel nothing is a metabolic irony of the highest order.

The fat is not the problem.

The fat was never the problem.

The fat is, in fact, quite significantly the point.

Stop cutting it off.

[The Buck You Will @TheBuckYouWill]

🚨PLEASE KEEP RE-POSTING THIS STORY🚨

How come the GREEN SLUSH FUND story just went away?

@S_Guilbeault, the ultimate climate grifter, DOESN'T get a free pass, has embezzled millions & shouldn't have been re-elected...

...HE NEEDS TO GO TO FEDERAL PRISON, NOT HIDE ON THE LIBERAL BACK BENCH.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Every Canadian should read this twice:

🇨🇦 Canada ranks —
🥇 1st in uranium
🥇 1st in potash
🥈 2nd in nickel
🥉 3rd in oil
🏅 5th in gold
💧 1st in freshwater

Countries start wars for LESS than this.

And somehow we are told we’re too poor to cut taxes, too broke to build homes, too weak to compete, too small to matter.

It took historic levels of incompetence and ideological sabotage to bury a country this blessed.

Imagine where Canada would be if we were actually allowed to win.

#cdnpoli #Canada #Future #Resources #Economy #Energy #Mining #Prosperity