Sauna. Daily sauna use for a month will make you feel much more comfortable in the heat and humidity.
I use the sauna for 20m at 85c daily, and it makes living in the tropics a breeze. Adapting your body to heat management has huge benefits
meet the general scientific consensus?
sees a lot of conflicting nutrition and medical info
You can’t have one without the other. Nutritional research is severely lacking in the literature. any of the cited studies that make the vast bulk of the scientific flotilla are just observational epidemiology… Which is very noisy.
I’ve done a bunch of reading, a massive amount really, and the only thing everyone agrees about is processed foods are bad… Except not all processed foods (the ones that further some other agenda)
Pick your flavor of opinion and people can suggest good creators in that vertical.
Personally - After all my reading I’ve settled on keto/carnivore, but to say there isn’t consensus is a understatement. There are many people who make their diet their identify and feel personally attacked if you eat differently than them. The best thing I can say for keto is their evidence is consistent, lines up across domains, and individuals following it see immediate improvements in their health metrics
I can recommend the low carb down under YouTube channel for medical lectures on the keto, very clear about the quality and limitations of their evidence.
A great way to see this now is region specific pricing in online stores:
Believe it or not: ublock origin
You can still use the command line policy overrides to use manifest v2 add-ons
I’ll eat whatever cut the butcher has on sale! Every meal a surprise!
It’s automated testing to see if they can force you to login.
My VPN (mullvad) lets me use socks5 proxies for any exit node, so when I hit this I just change my freetube proxy number and it works. Annoying
It would be nice to integrate a list of socks5 proxies into freetube and have it auto rotate
I’ve always been on the fringes, as a child even, hard science fiction with nobody to discuss with. Making your own decisions based on the best data, changing my mind on data, but not consensus, this were the early memories in my life. The great hard core scifi authors echo this message over and over, really hammer it in.
While these may not be losing causes, they are not mainstream… and in relaxed wisdom of years I realize not being mainstream doesn’t mean wrong, but nobody is incentivized to push them. All we know of human history is what survived in writings scattered around, lucky enough to survive the ravages of time… being the crazy guy who writes everything down, makes copies of all their books, has two libraries in different locations… wasn’t a popular choice I’m sure, but it was the choice that survived.
Open Source - This is intensely popular, not by sales, but by what survives and gets used for decades. The perfect algorithm locked in a dusty cabinet doesn’t advance humanity long term, imperfect open source that echos forward because its open and free does… This is why i think the permissive licenses are for software that will have the biggest impact.
Ketogenic - Very unpopular, fringe and rejected by traditional consensus, but the benefits are actually there.
Lemmy - It’s not a losing cause, its just got low marketing… its the only way for open communication to last into the future. If it ain’t federated it might as well be written in the sand.
Money by itself is nothing, it’s an idea. It’s a shared idea that makes it useful. Just like gold, most people don’t have a good use for gold, but because people think it’s rare, enough people will trade for it.
I recommend reading the book - debt the first 5,000 years. It has lots of good perspective on the concept of money, trade, debt, the manifestation of transactional relationships
Again, money by itself does not make you happy, it can be traded for food, shelter, security, health, which are often associated with happiness. So the application of money can create an environment for happiness, but that’s not because of money, that’s because of the people at the end of the money transaction
Consider any of the previous examples of hyperinflation, people have tremendous amounts of money, but it’s not useful to them at all. So money is not everything