Chip IV

FSU #Go noles! jedi master, Star Wars fan, & fly fishing expert.

[Tony Aubé @aubetony]

After a hellish week in a Paris Airbnb with no AC (100°F outside, 108°F+ inside), I started looking into why the French are so opposed to AC.
There's many reasons: bureaucracy, poverty, etc. But the main one is decades of environmental campaigns that convinced people AC is the devil.
The result? You can't escape the heat. Most buses, metro lines, and shopping malls have no AC.
This Monday, 850 schools are closing because classroom temperatures exceed 104°F.
In Nantes, they built a brand-new train station and a hospital without AC for environmental reasons. The station is now partially closed because it's become a "furnace" that endangers travelers. Hospitals are covering windows with emergency foil blankets to protect patients.
The French demonize air conditioning because it creates carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Never mind that France already has one of most carbon-free electricity in the world thanks to nuclear, or that it accounts for less than 1% of global emissions.
They also oppose AC because it "just displace the problem" by dumping heat into the street. Never mind that studies suggest even if an entire city were air-conditioned, the increase in outdoor temperature would be at most about 1°F.
Instead, people are willing to endure 104°F+ indoors to avoid a marginal increase outdoors.
This ideology kills more people than firearms in the United States.
Across Europe, between 50,000 and 70,000 people die from heat every year, mostly the elderly and the poor. Compare that to roughly 44,000 Americans killed by firearms.
For comparison, despite having a similar population, deserts, and more extreme temperatures, the United States has only about 2,500 heat-related deaths per year thanks to widespread AC.
That's what bothers me most. The moralizing posture completely detached from reality.
People feel morally superior for "not polluting." They criticize America and its guns while tolerating policies that kills even more people.
I share this anecdote because I know it's shocking to Americans. Here, schools or hospitals reaching 104°F would be unnaceptable.
The absurdity is immediately obvious to us because we're looking from the outside. We see the gap between moral intentions and real-world consequences.
But we're no different. In America, we have dozens of similar issues where we're just as irrational, and we've become blind to them because the solution isn't politically acceptable.
How do can we bring back logic and pragmatism in our societies ahead of irrational political ideological ?

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🚨 BREAKING: It was just confirmed that Obama Judge Judith Levy spared illegal alien Edys Díaz a harsh sentence after he R*PED and SODOMIZED a woman with cerebral palsy and cognitive delays - dragged her into an apartment building's laundry room.

He may be released in 2.5 YEARS.

This judge praised the monster for "family devotion and willingness to perform work that it claimed Americans find undesirable."

He was sentenced 3 years ago, but the judge is refusing to add on time to his sentence for immigration crimes.

UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!!

This judge shouldn't only be impeached but put on TRIAL!!

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

This cant be right can it?

A judge ruling not on merits but on potentials of outcomes?

I thought judges arent supposed to do that

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

The days of attorneys abusing and defrauding our immigration system are OVER.

@HSI_HQ has filed FIVE notices of intent to fine attorney Vinod Doddamani more than $250,000 for filing 64 fraudulent documents on behalf Indian nationals.

Our message to immigration attorneys is clear: if you engage in fraud, you will be held ACCOUNTABLE.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

I spent at least 15 years straight reporting from the battlefields of Iraq & Afghanistan for 60 Minutes & CBS News. Over that time I heard the same thing from countless men & women in uniform: “I came here so that we do not have to fight this war at home”. Now we see that the enemies of this country, both foreign & domestic, have successfully brought that war to our door. It looks different in different parts of the country & it does not account for all the decent people who want nothing but to raise their children in freedom & peace, just like the rest of us. But the globalists are determined to use their Islamist-leftist puppets to push us all into a clash of civilizations & we’ll be playing right into their evil hands.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

tap tap

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Muslims kidnapped the entire village of Baltimore, Ireland, and took every man, woman, child and baby to Algiers to be sold as slaves.

The men were put to work and castrated, the women were used as rape slaves.

[Chandler Langevin @ChandlerForPB]

They are going to get it wrong.

In 150 years this failure will be in high school textbooks in the lead up to the Civil War in the same way today they discuss Dred Scott.

It is what it is.

[Dean Turner @DeanTTraining]

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[Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt]

USAID is dead. It must stay dead. Western Civilization cannot survive while financing its own destruction.

USAID was tribute paid by American workers to the managerial class’s global ideological project. It was the piggybank of the left's NGO network.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

JUST IN: President Trump reveals his administration is working on NATIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY

This would be an absolutely HUGE step towards bringing back the true meaning of the Second Amendment

LFG! Keep pushing for this, POTUS!

[John Reese - Person of Interest @Rickisback_ON_X]

SCOTUS already ruled that judges like Sparkle Sooknanan cannot issue Nationwide Injunctions, but she did it anyway, on a case that had not even developed yet into ripeness. They should just ignore her ruling since it violated SCOTUS precedent.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!

The man with more than 60 PREVIOUS CHARGES who TERRORIZED innocent drivers by FIRING HIS GUN AT RANDOM CARS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT in Charlotte, NC...

...WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON 4 DAYS BEFORE AFTER HIS CHARGES WERE DROPPED AND HE WAS OUT ON PAROLE!!!!!!

WHAT ARE WE DOING?!!!!!!!

ARE YOU GOING TO WAKE UP NORTH CAROLINA?!!!!!!

HOW LONG MUST THIS GO ON?!!!!!

STOP LETTING VIOLENT CRIMINALS OUT OF JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: More than $150,000 has been raised in just over 24 hours for Dasha, the Texas woman who was doxxed, fired from her job, and subjected to death threats after confronting two Muslim women at a grocery store.

The women allegedly instigated the encounter and began filming. Dasha responded:
“This is not a Muslim country, this is a Christian country. You need to leave. You worship a terrorist who is a warlord, a pedophile, and Islam is a terrorist organization. You're not welcome here. You need to go back to your Islamic country where you came from.”

Whose side are you on?

[Modern McCarthyist @McCarthyist2]

The shooter was a tankie, the cop was named Mohamed and his female cop partner killed a Jewish rabbi bystander…

Even the author of Camp of the Saints wouldn’t be able to come up with a better encapsulation of the endpoint of leftism.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Correct

[9th Life @_9th_Life_]

Reta to Tirz: Maintenance Phase Update (Week 2)

13 days into running low dose tirzepatide, transitioning off the Reta Experiment and into a maintenance phase.

(To start, as always, all of this information is for educational/research purposes only, not medical advice, just my n=1 experience.)

The reasoning for the switch:

I'm done chasing fat loss, don’t want to get too skinny. I hit my number and I'm holding around 178, so I no longer need reta's glucagon arm doing work for me. That glucagon agonism is a big part of what makes reta so strong for a cut, but it also tends to push resting heart rate up, and my RHR has been sitting higher than I'd like. Moving to a pure GLP-1/GIP agonist like tirz may take that pressure off, in theory. On top of that, tirz has a far deeper pool of human data behind it and a cleaner, better characterized profile.

Current protocol:

- Tirzepatide: once weekly
- 3mg week 1, 2mg week 2
- Keeping the dose minimal, this phase is about holding weight, not pushing loss

Observations so far:

- Weight is maintaining. 178 in the AM, right where I ended the cut. That's the whole point of this phase. Want to maintain this through the summer and start a lean bulk in the tail end.
- Food noise suppression is still very much there, arguably stronger than it was on reta. The difference is - I've lost that "full twice as fast" mechanical effect reta gave me. Appetite is quiet, but actual fullness comes on at a more normal pace once I start eating
- I'm noticeably more tired after meals than I was on reta. The energy dip once I've eaten is real. Not sure what the mechanism is here, maybe because I am eating a bit more? But something I noticed.
- Energy is stable overall but I think MOTS-c is helping.
- Slightly more nausea than reta gave me, but GI overall is mild and manageable, nothing close to a problem
- RHR is still low 70s. Coming off reta's glucagon should help here, but it hasn't dropped much yet, so at this point I think the residual is stress driven more than the GLP-1. That and I need to actually do the cardio I've been neglecting

Being transparent about the variables:

This transition is recent enough that the reta may still be playing an effect. Its half-life is around 6 days, but half-life is when half the drug is gone, not all of it. Full washout runs 4 to 5 half-lives, so closer to a month. I was also on reta for months, so it built up to a steady-state reservoir that's still clearing. Two weeks out, I can't cleanly separate every effect yet.

I'm also mitochondria maxxing with SS-31 and MOTS-c, which has its own energy effect as well.

On top of that I'm reverse dieting calories back up toward maintenance TDEE, which moves energy, fullness, and post-meal feel around on its own.

Overall, in my opinion and observations, tirz is doing the maintenance job well.

Weight is stable, food noise manageable, making reverse dieting much easier than the past. The post-meal tiredness and the RHR are the two things I'm keeping an eye on.

Physique pics below, judge for yourself. I'll keep lab ratting and reporting back.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

I hope these poor children didn’t starve once USAID was cut.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?