lithocarpus

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by lithocarpus 11mo ago
Really? All this time the chemtrail people I know have been talking about weather control, I hadn't heard of mind control being part of it. My take has been yeah I know cloud seeding and solar geoenhineering is real, ergo some amount o
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Same way people choose what to listen to in other kinds of media most likely. I am constantly asking people who I admire or respect where they get their news/information from because I'm trying to find better ways since the genera
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
It's been a lot of things but the gist was to get out of the office and city and computer and be mostly outdoors in nature and learn all the practical skills and other things like music. Ironically I've ended up on the computer a
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
I'm close with a number of people living a relatively hard working life producing food and I've not seen this at all personally, no. It can be very rough but for these people at least it is very fulfilling and the idea of going
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
This trend and direction has been going a long time and it's becoming increasingly obvious. It is ridiculous and insane. Go for your plan B. I followed my similar plan B eight years ago, wild journey but well worth it. There are a lot
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Parent isn't saying "totally unmoderated" he's saying the client chooses the algorithm/filters. That means there can be a bunch of algorithms/filters out there to choose from (any tech savvy person could make t
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
If facebook made it possible to write your own ranking algorithm for what you see, there would be a huge variety of different algorithms you could choose from. 99.9% of end users don't have to write their own they just have to choose
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
If their intentions are really different their thinking is probably different.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Not proof, but logic: Without machinery to do the work of processing food, it has to done by hand or not at all, which leads to a lot more jaw work. Especially if you're eating a lot of animals where you'll be eating off of bones
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Birds can carry insects or their eggs all over the place too.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
It's an interesting idea to use it topically. There are all kinds of things that can be absorbed through the skin and used by the body. I don't have any knowledge of this specific mechanism and it may be completely impossible fo
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
I agree. That's why I said "most common" for "most people".
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Saturated fat is not processed food and is not unhealthy. It is the most common kind of natural fat in the human diet for most people through most of history.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
What's wrong with eggs btw? The only thing I can easily find is that they have saturated fat - but it takes 4.5 eggs to have as much saturated fat as 1tbsp of butter. Aside from 1 year of strict vegan diet, I've eaten an average o
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Ok. I wouldn't necessarily call it poison, but would say it's qualitatively a new kind of food that was never eaten until the last ~150 years and is a likely contributor to chronic disease. You called potato chips junk food but s
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Regarding the reduction in mm Hg due to sodium - my argument is that the kind of impact on blood pressure can be qualitatively different. In the same way that increased salt intake causes increased water retention, and thus increased weight
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
I think now is a little golden age for LLMs usefulness before they are further enshittified by people's agendas and profit motives. Not that they aren't already to a degree but I expect it will get a lot worse fast.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
So do you think the whole understanding of oxidative stress, antioxidants, etc is all crank panic vibes? I thought that that was pretty widely accepted. I realize that the idea that some oils oxidize easier than others and have less antio
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
> What’s the evidence for this? Exactly what I paraphrased from the study - they chose three biomarkers that correlate with CVD - A increased 19%, B decreased 9%, C stayed the same. If they had chosen some other biomarker D instead of A
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
I agree with you there, that the healthiness of different foods is complex and a binary category of "ultra processed" is not sufficient for understanding it. In the case of potato chips though, I specifically disagree that they ar
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Thanks - I'd not seen DASH-sodium but only the DASH study whose samples it's based on. Having read the study now: DASH-sodium barely indicates anything about sodium independently. It looks at three biomarkers which _correlate_ wi
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
We're talking about what makes ultra processed foods unhealthy - the process used to make each ingredient is exactly what is relevant.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
My two sentences above are simple and verifiable with any reasonable definition of "whole food" or "natural food". Do you know how canola oil is made?
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
I'm open to being wrong but if it's not the oil or the frying, what is it that makes potato chips junk food?
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Except you can buy soybean oil, bleached refined wheat flour, and refined sugar at the store. That's all you need to have ultra processed food. The really weird ingredients are probably also bad but are not necessary for something to
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Industrial processes involving chemicals that humans weren't capable of until very recently is one way to start looking at it. It's not to say one couldn't use large scale machinery to make real healthy food in my general tho
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
The oil used is itself ultra processed and is not a natural food or whole food. It's a lipid isolated from the original food by a series of industrial processes.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Actual studies that isolate salt consumption as a variable and show worse outcomes from more salt would be a start. Every study I've looked into that purported to show salt was a problem did not isolate salt, and the most likely reaso
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Yes. Look into the process used to make soybean oil vs the process used to make butter.
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by lithocarpus 1y ago
Soybean or canola oil is not a basic ingredient.

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