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  • The core problem isnt nation state actors. Could just be your local police department searching your phone with tools built by those nation-state actors. Cellebrite documentation gets leaked from time to time, and iOS is safe if it’s off and gos is safe with default settings, everything else is breakable.

    And that is local podunk cop who just takes a interest hooking up your phone to a cracking tool…

    Now every police contact becomes a opportunity to leak all of your digital life

    • traffic stops
    • DUI checkpoints
    • boarder crossings
    • witnessing a crime (phone is now evidence)
    • protests
    • contempt of cop, etc





  • Does gout come from consuming animal products? Hmm, I hadn’t heard that, before.

    Opposite actually - fructose intake, alcohol intake (same pathway as fructose in liver), advanced glycation end products (glucose intake) are the major drivers of gout.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821617-0.00004-8 Section 7.3 if you would like to know more (overwhelmingly so) - it’s available on the normal 🦜 sites.

    Basically the old connection that meat can drive uric acid a bit and uric acid is a component of gout isn’t actually helpful, during a active flare up avoiding meat can help reduce uric acid levels a tiny bit but it does nothing to address the systemic cause of the gout in the first place. i.e. Watermelons have a high water content but are not causal in drownings, but avoid eating watermelons while actively drowning… same thing












  • I have no data for this, so i’m just speculating wildly (and accepting this will be a unpopular conjecture):

    Lemmas - Things I have data for

    • Metabolic dysfunction is endemic in the population (96% westerners)
    • Metabolic dysfunction impacts hormones, especially sex hormones
    • Aromatase happens at elevated levels in metabolically compromised people
    • This can manifest as man-boobs, love-handles, chin hair, etc
    • Metabolic dysfunction is principally caused by diet.

    Speculation - Things I have no data for

    • There is probably some connection between sexuality and hormones
    • There is probably some connection between sexuality and life-long diets

    This means there might be a interesting correlation you could discover. However, I don’t think anyone would fund this type of research, or publish it - it would cause controversy needlessly.


    Seeing a population prefer vegetables doesn’t speak to cause and effect, it could be a cultural appreciation for being healthy and vegetables are mostly seen as healthy by most groups.