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Ahriman
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The closer you are to direct contact with the extremes of nature the more you need synthetics.
For comfortable, everyday living, it’s easy to switch to natural fabrics. But synthetics are superior for exposure in natural environments.
Economy shifts from exchange of goods and services to gambling, investing, allocation, speculation, ownership.
It’s already here. But there’s an uneven distribution among participants. The wealthy have always played this game. But now everyone else has to learn to play the same.
Keith Walkiewicz retweeted
Okay I thought of this. Everyone gets ubi and income stops being a source of hierarchy in society and instead it’s turns into how you invest your UBI dollars. You have to make bets. The income is static so it’s all about risk and return. Whoever does this be best climbs the hierarchy.
I’m in
I don't talk about the brand very much because I like to treat this account as a safe space to talk about oral health...
BUT, I have been working on a new product for the last year and a half... and it's ready.
We have a few tucked away to give away for our top creators but I begged @CalvinandNOBS to let me give some away to the X family.
What is it?
It's a microbiome balancer disguised as a breath mint. It looks and tastes like a breath mint but it's much more.
Why did I make it?
There is so much time for things to go wrong during the day between your morning and evening routine, and I found a cool way to make it an opportunity for things to go right.
Ok so what does it actually do though?
We call the formula FloraShift, and the name is very intentional.
So many of us are walking around with an imbalance. The same type that can make you have IBS, acid reflux, a yeast infection can also happen in the mouth. This presents as bad breath, gum disease, cavities. We're even finding oral bacteria implicated in cancer, dementia and heart attacks. Oral dysbiosis causes a LOT of problems.
Now, a mint won't solve that by itself but it *can* help nudge you in the right direction.
FloraShift a symphony of ingredients chosen with the goal of restoring balance... encouraging the commensal and symbiotic bacteria, while curbing harmful bacteria.
Not just thinking about what we can get rid of (like most products that just sterilize).
Thinking about what we actually want to thrive:
Xylitol: Starves cavity causing bacteria, stimulates saliva
Beta-cyclodextrin: Plant-starch that will trap odor but more importantly impacts bacterial communication (quorum-quenching activity), interfering with bacterial chemical signaling. That communication can coordinate behaviors like biofilm formation. Basically a signal jammer for the bad bacteria.
Magnesium citrate: Competition within the biofilm. Helping the bacteria we want hold their ground, and makes it harder for the pathogenic bacteria to hold on.
L-arginine: Put useful bacteria to work. Certain mouth bacteria use it to produce acid-neutralizing compounds. Research also shows effects on biofilm structure and competition between health-associated and cavity-associated bacteria.
Potassium bicarbonate: Buffer acid directly. A separate approach to acidity that doesn't depend on bacteria processing an ingredient first. It complements the bacterial route behind arginine.
Potassium nitrate: The oral/systemic connection. Provides nitrate that certain mouth bacteria convert into nitrite, part of a pathway your body uses to make nitric oxide. Nitrate is also being studied for its effects on oral microbial communities.
Zinc acetate: Odor chemistry and biofilm activity. Binds sulfur compounds involved in bad breath rather than just covering them up. Zinc also has laboratory evidence for antimicrobial and anti-biofilm activity.
Peppermint + spearmint oils: More than the mint taste. They bring the flavor and aroma, but also have laboratory research behind their antimicrobial and anti-biofilm effects.
So when I say FloraShift, I'm talking about the whole approach...What bacteria eat. How they communicate. How they compete. The biofilms they live in. The compounds they produce.
That's what we @nobsroutines wanted to account for when making this. Not just some generic probiotic and calling it a day.
Anyway, I have 20ish (maybe more) to give away. All I ask is that you comment with something that has helped your oral health, or even a problem you're currently struggling with. A share would be cool but not a requirement.
Keith Walkiewicz retweeted
The K shaped economy everyone talks about is deliberate. More industry in america would effectively distribute more power back to the people by dispersing influence and ownership of product broadly across the economy. Think of it through an ecological lens.
Palmer Luckey says analysts claiming it's too expensive to manufacture in the US are lying to protect megacorps
"I think I have a more realistic view than almost anybody. One of the problems with all these analysts that are telling you that it's going to cost $37,000 to build an American iPhone or $100,000 to buy an American computer."
"They're trying to prop up a status quo that the megacorporations want to keep going. They want to outsource everything. They want to hire cheaper non-American labor."
"They are willing to say and do anything to convince you that it can't be fixed, that it can't come back, that America is this helpless, neutered, post-relevant empire, and it is just not the case."
"How do I know that? Because I have to make stuff in America every day because I work in the defense industry. The stuff that Anduril makes every day is not actually that different from a computer. My drones are basically computers. They have memory, a GPU, a CPU, sensors, batteries, a rugged integration."
"The only difference between an Anduril attack drone and a laptop is a keyboard and a screen. That is not that hard to figure out, especially for a guy like me who started Oculus and comes from the consumer electronics space."
"We're not going to let people lie about what America can and can't do anymore. We're just going to do it."
Euros are weak
As a Dutch person let me tell you it's way worse than it seems.
The AVERAGE stress related absence is 250+ days. The AVERAGE burnout related absence is 300+ days.
While on sick-leave, you can return to work for just 4 weeks and the 2 year period **resets**.
Your employer is forced to assist you in this. They have to pay for doctors, experts, and so on. If they don't, you get an extra year's wages.
While on sick-leave, you can work a second job. As long as this is outside business hours of the first job, or the work is different, your first employer still pays you 70%.
Here's another cool one: you can go on holiday during sick-leave. The employer can force you to use your vacation days for that, but then they have to pay you 100% of your wages rather than 70% during that period.
Simple solution: you just work with contractors right? No, because a contractor can just claim employee status after getting sick. Many such cases.
All of this is obviously broken. If you say this you're met with half-baked "worker's rights" arguments, as you can see in this comment section.
Okay I thought of this. Everyone gets ubi and income stops being a source of hierarchy in society and instead it’s turns into how you invest your UBI dollars. You have to make bets. The income is static so it’s all about risk and return. Whoever does this be best climbs the hierarchy.
I need to get in touch with Elon Musk.
I have to ask him if AI and robots will make saving money for the future unnecessary.
Does anyone know him? Can you pass along the message?
Mechanotransduction
Mechanical pressure on shin bones extended mouse lifespan by 80 days (+9.4%).
That’s the human equivalent of 7–9 yrs.
Bone pressure triggers PIEZO1 sensors to broadcast anti-aging signals to the brain, liver, and immune system.
If this translates to humans, my dunk training is flooding my entire body with anti-aging juice.
Bryan Johnson finally catching on
Mechanotransduction is something we'll all start hearing more about very soon, if you haven't already.
It’s the process by which mechanical stimuli is translated into biological signals that influence cellular function.
What this means is that our physical inputs affect cellular activity, immune function, mental health, metabolic function, and state of our nervous system.
A basic example of mechanotransduction is when a mechanical force is repeatedly applied to tendons, it will stimulate them to grow & strengthen. Nothing ground breaking here. You see this in rock climbers whose tendons thicken due to the repeated tension placed on them.
But it goes even deeper than this.
Mechanical stimuli can affect tissue regeneration in your organs as well as how your bodily systems function. For example, the signaling, metabolism, motility/migration, and gene expression of T cells is influenced by mechanical inputs to the extracellular matrix. Meaning the internal and external mechanical loads put on our bodies will modulate our immune function and more.
Our bodies are comprised of a viscoelastic tensegrity network. This network extends from the musculoskeletal level of analysis down to the level of the extracellular matrix.
How you are able to move (or not move) will send signals to your cells impacting and influencing the quality of your phenotypical expression.
Movement within your tissues is key because it induces intracellular signaling that directs immune function, gene expression, and chemical response. If your tissues are inflamed, calcified, and carry too much tension & stiffness it will signal or limit the motility of immune response cells (T-Cells), motor neurons, oxygen carrying red blood cells, and chemical/hormonal responses.
Looking back up the chain, at the level of movement we can consciously control. There is a manner of movement that we can embody that will best signal the appropriate and most biologically efficient responses all the way down at the level of the extracellular matrix.
The ideal is moving our bodies in a way where forces/tensions are aligned along the fascial lines to allow the greatest simultaneous linkage of mechanical force in the body. When our body is "linked-up" with coherent, aligned fascial tensegrity network the signal being communicated from the mechanical stimuli will be most efficiently translated down to the level of your cells at the genetic level.
Why is this significant?
It is significant because it tells us that we need aligned movement throughout the body to function at our highest capacity and send the right signals at the cellular level.
One, its not enough just to move around randomly, we need proper structure of movement in accordance with the body's natural tensegrity network so that the communication pathways are strong.
Two, we cannot afford to act as is we are plants: passively absorbing food, supplements, drugs, the earth, and the sun to comprehensively signal all of the proper, healthy functions of the human body. We need aligned movement as major part of the equation.
Maybe that was the gambit. Pandemic to usher in a technology that wouldn’t have been adopted quickly. Kill millions to reduce cancer deaths in the future.
It’s morally awful, but progress takes any route it chooses.
Progress is not moral. Theil’s thesis that maybe evil and effective is preferable to good and inept.
#BREAKING: World’s first cancer vaccine cuts tumor recurrence by 42% in Moderna’s phase 3 trial.