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Last that I heard, Raspberry Pi with VPN installed along with PiHole that you SSH/VNC (via iOS app) in to is your best option.

I take capsules, 2x/day. I take sulphoraphane 140 mg/day.

Jarrow and Thorne Research are reliable brands. But, Thorne Research tends to be way overpriced in my opinion. As you know, you never ever buy supplements off of Amazon or places that are not well heard of.

Jarrow: https://www.iherb.com/pr/jarrow-formulas-broccomax-120-delay...

Thorne Research: https://www.iherb.com/pr/thorne-research-crucera-sgs-60-caps...

I get Granagard from https://granalix.com.

I get the co-ultramicronized palmitoylethalinomide + Luteolin from http://epitech.it, but you have to use a package forwarding service to mail to US (they don’t ship to US, even though it is Italy based and 100% legal)

The rest I get from https://iHerb.com

As I said, I am not interested at all in nootropics or peptides. It is basically all antioxidants/natural neuroregenerative compound/omega fatty acids.

This has nothing to do with nootropics.

I have more than a few neurological issues. I have 3 medication induced movement disorders. I also have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system.

Anyways, the stuff I take is to ensure adequate nutrients for my brain. But the primary goal is for neuroregeneration over the long term.

This is fairly well known.

But generally, these tips are the way to go: https://www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_thuret_you_can_grow_new_b...

Anyways, I personally take:

1. nano encapsulated punicic acid (called Granagard), which crosses the blood brain barrier effectively (search "nano-pso" on Google Scholar)

2. sulforaphane/sulphoraphane (spelling depends on where you are located)

3. co-ultramicronized palmitoylethanolamide + luteolin

4. ubiquinol

5. methylated b vitamins (~50% of the population has a MTHFR variant that generally requires you to need methylated B vitamins, versus regular B vitamins)

6. high doses of gamma linolenic acid (I use evening primrose oil and Jarrow brand is trusted)

7. algae omega 3

Collecting potassium iodine is not going to save Americans, that’s for sure. The amount of preparation for the American people to survive would be next to extraordinary. Most people these days do not have what it takes, and certainly our government does not, either.

The thing is that even if the missile defense system works 100% successfully for a nuke approaching the United States, the electromagnetic pulse above is enough to disable all electronic devices in the US. Like the trajectory of the plume covers the vast majority of the US, no matter what direction the nuke comes from.

Yeah, your writing sounds eastern European, if you know what I mean (no offense).

You’re right about the American hospital, generally and for now. They have better resources, equipment, and are cleaner, among many other things. You have more rights in an American hospital (no bribe expected).

But, a country like the United States could learn from a country like Croatia and make the best out of its resources. The US could spend the same on healthcare without taking away resources from the general American populace (minus oligarchs) and allow people to be so much more healthier.

Thanks captain obvious, what you stated are public health issues. Also, money isn’t everything and unfortunately a lot of Americans use that as justification to keep playing a game that is going to kill them and/or their family member. Way too much is spent on administration of health care plans and nobody is getting good value for their money. We spend the most, and we get the worst outcomes overall of any developed country. Even things we used to excel at we are doing very poorly due to staffing, regulation, and other issues.

Honestly, the quality of care is not OK at all in the US. Just check out r/medicine and r/nursing. We are in for a whole lot of really terrible stuff.

Seriously, if someone in your immediate family gets sick and needs to be hospitalized, stay with them 24/7, even if it means sleeping on the floor. Nurses say they will do the same thing for their family members.

Anyways, I ended up spending 9 weeks in the hospital this summer. It started at a trauma hospital, where I stayed for 18 days. The first 90 hours (3.5 days) they did not even give me any long acting insulin, even though my body does not produce any insulin and I can not metabolize without long acting basal insulin. (I was never on an insulin drip either, and I was never on a high dependency unit where the insulin drip could occur.) My family had to beg and plead with them to give me basic diabetes care, including the long-acting insulin. (I was too, the whole entire time.)

The first week my blood sugars averaged overall around 400 mg/dL (22 mmol/L), and chief trauma resident and trauma fellow were explaining to trauma residents outside of my room when someone with type 1 diabetes is at risk of diabetic ketoacidosis. Such a basic matter.

Anyways the rest of the story is for another time.

There are amenable and non-amenable medical errors.

The above article is describing amenable medical errors. I don’t want to make assumptions about how your sister’s death would be classified.

However, I am so sorry for your loss, which is a tragedy. We need to do better, as this should not be happening.

The third leading cause of death in the United States is believed to be preventable medical errors.

Anyways, I have never been pregnant, but if you saw what happened to me medically this summer, you would be doing everything you could to be leaving the US. Anyways, I am a dual citizen. My other nationality is Croatian, but I don’t plan on living there.

Even Croatia, you know which went through a horrific war 30 years ago, has a better life expectancy than the US now. But even before the pandemic, they were very close to convergence with the US life expectancy. And Croatia only spends $1,100 on healthcare per citizen per year!!!

The above poster is just suggesting that Bill Gates not be a hypocrite with respect to consuming less.

He consumes way way way more than the average citizen.

I don’t even know why people listen to him.

Shouldn’t we be listening to actual climate scientists in the US government? And not some software CEO who has conflicts of interest? Why are we even platforming this dude and giving him any legitimacy?

Gates’ main house is actually 66,000 square feet.

He apparently has 6 total houses.

See: https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/bill-gates-house

Anyways, Gates is always preaching about “policy” (The Gates Foundation is about power and getting governments to fund their objectives, ultimately) but never actually sets a good individual example of how to live, like normal citizens.

I mean, it is not coincidental that he is preaching about global warming right after the Nord Stream pipeline was blown, which released an unprecedented amount of methane in to the atmosphere.

Perhaps Zuckerberg should be paid significantly less? Perhaps Facebook employees should fight back? Like protest or leak controversial information, especially since Facebook is in the data hoarding business?

But, stuff like this should make Facebook employees angry. Zuckerberg is not a person to envy.

Read this: https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/mark-zuckerberg-house

Also, a few years ago Zuckerberg spent like $27 million for his own personal security in a 365 day period, which is obviously obscene.

Clearly he is a paranoid dude and certainly he keeps to himself.

But, he is a hardcore oligarch, that’s for sure.

Personally, I just use brew to install SoX on Ubuntu.

brew is a really nice package installer that works with both MacOS and Linux.

The statistic is supposed to be Americans spend 12.5 hours in front of a screen per day on average.

Clearly it is the youth (< 30 years old) in America who get hurt the most from this.

Luckily, I have a print-related disability. So...

* I get access to 1,100,295 DRM-free books in several formats (including Word, EPUB, computer-narrated audio) via Bookshare.org [~$50/year]

* I get access to 40,000+ professionally narrated books via the National Library Service through the Library of Congress in the US [Free]

* I get access to 80,000+ volunteer narrated books via LearningAlly.org (formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic) [$135/year]

* I get access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including breaking news services, via the National Federation for the Blind NewsLine [Free]

* I get reciprocity with other countries' libraries for the print-disabled around the world, which is useful as I am learning new languages. [Usually Free]

This is nice because I also never have a need to go to websites that serve ads to me. Of course it's called uBlock Origin and using ProtonVPN with Anti-tracking + Ad-blocking features plus such as a Pi-Hole...but still...I have it good.

More info on print-related disabilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_disability

The best way to get access to all of these services is to get your doctor to sign the National Library Service application form: https://www.loc.gov/nls/enrollment-equipment/apply-for-nls-s...

You can crush the tablets with a mortar and pestle, which you can buy online. A mortar and pestle is very cheap and is basic lab equipment. Alternatively you can use a pill crusher which is available in pharmacies.

You can buy empty capsules (gelatin/vegan/flavored/etc.) online or at a local vitamin/supplement store. They are in standardized sizes like 0 or 00 or something similar.

You can fill the capsules with the crushed tablet material using something called a “pill machine” (search for it online). The pill machine that you buy needs to match the size of your capsules. So if you buy 0 sized capsules, you need to buy a capsule machine that uses size 0 capsules.

The issue is that the Dyson device aerosolizes exhaled breath, including virus particles, immediately, and at much higher pressure than HVAC.

As for the inflatable costumes incident there was contact tracing in effect in California when this happened. This was in a Californian hospital and no other incident like this happened before. This was due to the aerosolizing of the costume wearer’s COVID-19 infected breath.

It is not a stretch. This is why many hospitals require staff to wear an N95 (a hard shell mask—not a surgical mask—in order to prevent as little leakage as possible) underneath a PAPR. PAPRs (with the exception of the CleanSpace Halo if using a special adapter) do not have source control. (I personally use an Optrel e9000x PAPR with an N95 underneath for source control. If not able to use a PAPR such as on an airplane, I wear a valve-free P100 mask [MSA Advantage 900] over an authentic KF94 mask [see: https://behealthyusa.net/ for KF94]. Yes, I am immunocompromised...)

This Dyson device does not have source control, and yes, it is a super-spreader device.

There is proof that such devices are super spreading tools: hospital administrators wore a blow up costume in to a Kaiser Hospital ER and caused a huge COVID-19 outbreak.

This was when contact tracing was in effect in California.

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/kaiser-san-jose-outbre...

Comments on r/Medicine subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/kpjs8s/inflatable...

I'm glad these tools exist and do help people, though I do think the potential risks are downplayed in our society.

I have been dealing with severe akathisia from medications I took for severe depression.

I have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes. None of this is even remotely as bad as the akathisia.

There are people who are cancer survivors, combat veterans, rape survivors, who all say that akathisia by far takes the cake in terms of traumatic experiences.

Please if you are going to be taking psych meds of any type, get genetic testing done:

https://Genomind.com

It is covered 100% by original Medicare and/or Medicaid. So, it is not like it is some non-proven technology.

You can develop akathisia spontaneously, too, so even if you are on psych meds now, you need to get tested.

More info from Croatian news sources here (English):

Remnants of Aerial Bomb Found in Drone That Crashed in Zagreb

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/61114-remnants-o...

“He said that it was a Soviet-made unmanned aerial vehicle, but that it was still unclear whether it had come from the Russian or Ukrainian side.

"We will be able to say what its purpose was only after an analysis. This type of bomb was used by aircraft," he added.”

First, I am sorry that you went through that.

Near death experiences do not happen to everyone who dies and is resuscitated. Supposedly, according to Wikipedia [1], it only happens to 10-20% of people. If someone is critically ill, it happens to 17% of those people.

But, it does happen to some people who go in to cardiac arrest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience

You are not being realistic here.

Not all cases are detected. Unfortunately, rare mutations are missed by panels used in the United States.

This person, who has no Jewish ancestry whatsoever, has a Jewish husband. They got tested for Tay-Sachs using a standard panel in the United States. Their rare mutation for Tay-Sachs got missed and their child had it. :-(

See: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dragon-mothers-and-grieving-p...

"Rapp was shocked. During her pregnancy she had been tested twice for Tay-Sachs, and both times the test came back negative. She later learned that a standard Tay-Sachs screening covers only the nine most common mutations. Rapp, who is not Jewish, and her husband, who is, were carriers of a rare mutation. To put this in perspective, fewer than 20 children in the United States are born each year with Tay-Sachs to parents who, like Rapp, tested negative and thought they could cross that worry off their lists."

They did everything right.

As I said before, there are also other cases where parents are NOT Jewish at all, and end up having a kid with Tay-Sachs.

Not all parents have the resources to do these genetic tests, and insurance, in the generally speaking, does not cover such testing for genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs in the United States.

Here is some information from the major Tay-Sachs organization in the United States (https://www.ntsad.org/index.php/insurance):

"Despite position statements from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) stating it is a basic standard of care to screen persons of French-Canadian, Louisiana-Cajun and Ashkenazi Jewish descent for Tay-Sachs, some may have issues with getting coverage for carrier screening. NTSAD can help you appeal for coverage and at the same time educate the healthcare industry about the importance of genetic testing prior to conception.

If you are having problems with insurance covering your carrier test, please contact the office at (617) 277-4463 or info@ntsad.org for assistance with the appeal. We will need your name, address and plan number. The office will provide a letter of support to your insurance company as well as educational materials to present to their medical review team.

It is important to note that while the appeal process and potential out-of-pocket cost of genetic testing may seem daunting, it is a drop in the bucket compared to caring for a child affected by Tay-Sachs, Canavan or another allied disease."

Dude, there are people who have children with Tay-Sachs, who are NOT ethnically Jewish at all. 1 in 250 people in the general population is a carrier for Tay-Sachs.

Also, literally everyone is a carrier of mutations for extremely devastating diseases. You just do not know which ones.

This is from a US government website covering Tay-Sachs (https://www.genome.gov/Genetic-Disorders/Tay-Sachs-Disease):

“While anyone can be a carrier of Tay-Sachs, the incidence of the disease is significantly higher among people of eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish descent. Approximately one in every 27 Jews in the United States is a carrier of the Tay-Sachs disease gene. Non-Jewish French Canadians living near the St. Lawrence River and in the Cajun community of Louisiana also have a higher incidence of Tay-Sachs. For the general population, about one in 250 people are carriers.”

Taxes.

See this webpage from this official European Union website. Click/press on “Retired Person Abroad” (https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/taxes/double-taxa...)

“If you have retired to another EU country and spend more than 6 months a year there, that country may consider you a tax-resident. If so, you may have to pay tax to that country on your total worldwide income - including pensions you receive from other EU countries.

Exception: public sector pensions are usually taxed only in the country of the administration that employed you.”

But yeah, the above website is called Your Europe, and it is extremely useful for such information.

What unit of measurement is TCID50/ML? Just curious

Nvidia has better AI/ML features.

Thank you for pointing this out. I kept out these differences on purpose, because it culturally divides us.

I am well aware of them: Croatian is not my native language. But, I learned it and I am conversational in the Shtokavian (Štokavian) dialect. I am Štokavski. This is the standard dialect of Croatian, in Croatia.

My family however were Čakavski. They spoke the Chakavian (Čakavian) dialect. They are from the islands of Croatia. Unfortunately, it is a dying dialect of Croatian that is Venetian in origin. It is not mutually intelligible with Štokavian, but everyone in Croatia seems fond of it.

Yep, Serbo-Croatian (technically Bosnian-Montenegrian-Croatian-Serbian) "K" for "koronavirus". The only difference between languages is Latin versus Cyrillic.

Croatia, for example has its official coronavirus webpage as https://koronavirus.hr

With Google's reach, it can be reasonable to expect that the "Unions Suck" project extended to the American populace as a whole. We just do not know how far it went.