fortysixandtwo

Veritas, non auctoritas facit legem

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

You can’t be a hero and cry about losing/it’s not fair at the same time. Life has always required that you choose.

Work harder, rise above, find a way to win OR give up, complain and blame others.

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@NiennasPupil @MedievalScholar This one was way better than I thought it would be… Excellent movie

[Ella Frei @EllaFrei17]

My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey
@xx_xyathletics

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

After today’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of Monsanto I will officially be introducing legislation stripping pesticide companies of any liability protections for the harm their products cause the American people. These companies purposefully omit labeling information knowing their products cause cancer and other health problems. It is time they are held accountable. Enough is enough.

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@PaulAnleitner You have to be an absolute NPC to sit and spend time on this

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@JiujitsuOtter Uriah Faber vs Nicky Ryan

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Open borders, "homelessness," trans, DEI, and other issues appear to have nothing in common, but they do. Each undermines a core pillar of civilization (i.e., law & order, child protection, meritocracy) in the name of compassion. Put them together & you have the end of the West.

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@realDianaWest Vague thought-terminating cliche

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@JiujitsuOtter Training under artificial lighting

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

Why is the Postmaster General of the United States receiving massive bonuses while Americans aren't getting their mail?

If this doesn't change, he needs to resign

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The era of the cynical "deconstruct the hero" story is dying.

It's tired, worn out, and—worst of all— poison to the soul.

Anyone in Hollywood looking for what will move the needle in culture over the next 10 years, here's your template:

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

I’m glad the MLB admitted they were wrong for targeting Christian players

Turns out they didn’t want to testify in front of my committee

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

You've probably asked yourself this question at some point: "How do I know that my life is meaningful?"

What's so interesting about that question is that there is not one answer to it, because there are actually different forms of meaning-making.

James Fowler (a theologian and psychologist) mapped this through a series of many interviews with hundreds of people by asking them questions like the one above.

What's fascinating about that is how you answer that question reflects your own form of meaning-making...

Let's say you had ten different people.

They could all answer the question (What makes life meaningful to me?) in rather different ways, by pointing to different degrees of embrace, or of scale.

So one person might answer: Well, I've got a new car and it's so good, I love driving it. I get up every day, I make money, I'm getting by, I'm going to the top, and nothing's going to stop me.

And that can be experienced very much as a sense of meaning.

But what you'll notice is...what about other people? How does that sense of meaning relate to relationships, family, the world, the state of things? That's revealing about a pattern of meaning-making.

Another person could say: What's meaningful to me is my relationships. Life would be really meaningless if I didn't have my family, my friends, my husband or my wife. Being part of my community. That's what's meaningful to me.

You can see there's a wider sense going on there, a broader embrace.

And then you might ask the tenth person, and they'll say: I think I am part of a cosmic, miraculous dance of evolving complexity that's been unfolding over billions of years. And I am that. I wake up every day to try to move the ball forward, toward a universal sense of well-being and flourishing for all of humanity.

And again, that's a very different way of identifying meaning.

So the question isn't "How do I know that my life is meaningful?" because a lot of people are going to answer it in different ways…the real question is: How do we understand all of those in relation to each other?

Is there a pattern that connects them?

Is there perhaps an understanding of a meta-pattern whereby moving in a particular direction (in your own way of finding meaning) is itself actually fundamentally meaningful?...

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@DrJohnVervaeke The pattern could be choosing a specific timeframe to optimize for.

Some people focus on short-term, others long-term.

Progress towards the focus is seen as meaningful, and everything else is seen as meaningless.

[☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆 @DrJackKruse]

A consideration before using CPAP:

Try using Mastic gum for two weeks before you ever use the machine. If it works you can avoid the machine. Many use mouthguards but these are static treatments. The Mastic gum is a dynamic therapy that I always recommend before machine use.
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[no.mind @the_no_mind]

You are probably drinking too much water.

Dr. Laszlo Boros strongly warns against drinking water habitually or in large quantities without the natural cue of thirst.

This directly contradicts much of the conventional hydration advice that encourages people to drink three liters of water per day, a gallon per day, or hit a predetermined hydration target.

He considers environmental water one of the sneakiest sources of deuterium because it enters the body directly.

Unlike food, it arrives without carbon.

It absorbs into tissues and mixes directly with your cytoplasmic water.

This matters because the body is already designed to produce its own deuterium-depleted water.

Every day.

As mitochondria combine protons with oxygen, they create metabolic water inside the mitochondrial matrix.

According to Dr. Laszlo Boros — Hungarian medical biochemist, retired professor at UCLA School of Medicine, author of 100+ peer-reviewed papers and one of the world's leading deuterium researchers — this is the most important water in the body.

And the amount of metabolic water you produce depends heavily on the fuel you burn.

Approximately 100 grams of fat generate around 110 grams of metabolic water.

100 grams of carbohydrates produce only around 55 grams.

Nearly half as much.

Fat produces substantially more metabolic water per unit of food consumed.

This is one reason Boros spends so much time discussing fat metabolism and follows a carnivore ketogenic diet himself.

Excessive water intake creates a different problem.

According to Boros, drinking too much water — especially without salt — lowers blood osmolarity, which causes the brain to swell.

The pituitary gland sits inside a tight bony compartment at the base of the skull called the sella turcica.

When the brain swells from excess water, it physically compresses the pituitary gland inside this rigid bone.

That can shut down its ability to release crucial hormones.

Because the pituitary regulates sex hormones, fertility hormones, and thyroid-stimulating hormones, overdrinking can disrupt the entire endocrine system and contribute to chronic conditions like infertility and autoimmune thyroid issues.

The most critical hormone affected is antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also called vasopressin.

ADH normally signals the kidneys to reabsorb and preserve the body's own deuterium-depleted metabolic water.

Without ADH, your body cannot hold onto its clean water.

Boros points out that if you drink a liter of water in 30 minutes, you will simply pee it right back out.

Because people constantly suppress ADH by forcing themselves to drink water, Boros notes that the average American has an ADH level of about 0.6, compared to a normal level of 1.0.

In his view, the general population has essentially given itself a water-wasting disease called diabetes insipidus.

Diabetes insipidus is a condition where the body cannot properly balance fluid levels, leading to excessive production of large volumes of urine and intense thirst.

The downstream consequence is not just water loss.

The suppression of these metabolic regulators can contribute to the buildup of visceral and subcutaneous fat.

To show how dangerous overriding thirst can become, Boros gives an extreme example.

A mother in New Jersey took her kids on a mountain walk and drank approximately 1.5 liters of water in 15 minutes.

The rapid water influx caused severe brain swelling.

By the time she drove back to her garage, she fell into a coma and died.

Extreme case.

But the principle is clear.

More water is not always better.

Now, the natural objection arises:

"What about the studies showing performance drops before thirst kicks in? You can't rely on thirst — it lags behind the actual need."

Boros addresses this directly.

His argument:

Those studies were almost certainly run on subjects whose ADH system was already suppressed from years of chronic overdrinking.

If you have spent years forcing yourself to drink 3-4 liters a day whether thirsty or not, you have gradually damaged your hypothalamic cells' ability to produce ADH.

It takes approximately six months of gradually reducing water intake to restore ADH production to normal levels.

A subject with suppressed ADH entering a dehydration study will show impaired performance before thirst — not because thirst lags, but because their thirst signal itself is broken.

They lost the ability to produce sufficient ADH — the key hormone in the hypothalamic system that drives both water retention and thirst signaling.

Prime the subjects correctly — gradually restore their ADH production before the study begins — and Boros argues you would see a completely different result.

The studies are not wrong.

They are measuring the wrong population.

Boros does not see a reason to drink water when you are not thirsty.

Thirst is the signal.

It tells you when to drink.

It also tells you when to stop.

His argument is not that people should restrict water.

His argument is that people should stop overriding the signals that evolved to regulate it.

This is an important distinction.

Boros is not saying: Don't drink water.

He is saying: Drink when thirsty. Drink enough. Then stop.

Even Dr. Gabor Somlyai's deuterium-depleted water protocols in his book "Deuterium Depletion" recommend around 1.5–2 liters per day.

Not a gallon per day.

Not constant hydration.

This is the researcher who has followed 2,649 cancer patients over 32 years and whose company sells deuterium-depleted water.

If anyone had an incentive to recommend drinking more of it, it would be him.

Yet his protocols still recommend around 1.5–2 liters per day.

Thirst is a precise physiological signal.

Just like hunger.

Like sleepiness.

You don't go to sleep just because a bed is in the room.

The body already knows when it needs water.

The problem begins when we stop listening.

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@PaulAnleitner @glenscrivener Some are true and some are not

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@MusingsInSilico @acdmma_ Hahahaha!!!

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

The easiest way to tackle this is by stating the argument is a bit of semantics. But let me try. Faith in Christ produces genuine desire to complete works which serve as evidence to others. Faith without works is dead, as true faith produces this, but ultimately faith alone is what is necessary, because the genuine faith is the gift of God that justifies us. Once you have faith, whether you have time or not to produce works doesn't matter, because the new heart desires so and if given time will produce. The thief on the cross had no time for works, but he is in paradise this very day. I find this irrefutable. Works do not justify us, because the work was already done on the cross.

[fortysixandtwo @sherobbedmyboot]

@AmmousMD @helios_brah The electromagnetic and artificial light grid