DaveZale

canaries in a botmine!

Thanks for the nice writing and examples. In one way or another, much of the AI is geared for addiction. The Big Money is in addictions, those are the ultimate customers. Your essay reads a little like a good old print book, "Love and Addiction" - and the author of that suggested that his hope was that we get over ALL of our addictions.

But wait! Zuckerberg has 15 AI friends to help cure you of your obsession for solitude and independence /s

But seriously, the market values of these companies is trillions of dollars. Hijacking our attention spans means big money for them. You're correct, they won't change, and most of us won't. Nobody has time for existential pain when they're busy working through notifications and proprietary to-do lists.

no paywall https://phys.org/news/2025-11-refined-breast-reveals.html

looking forward to some seal cheese in the future

maybe just the probiotic microbes, which beneficially alter the gut microbiome?

Wouldn't it be cool if a .org could be established and funded by older wealthier folks that directly provides mortgages to the young, without the greedy bankers involved? Sometimes when I was earning free crypto on coinbase in exchange for learning about new coin offerings, I sensed the foundations for new, very low cost, "zero trust" systems for finance that would not involve the current high-profit monopolist bankster systems. Maybe it's just a question of when. What reason is there for a gap of 3% or more between a certificate of deposit, and what is charged in interest to a new home buyer? It's a staggering difference, hidden in plain sight, that keeps the young in debt to the mortgage banking induustry.

A figure floated around a decade or two ago: 75% of wealth was in the hands of the age 55+ crowd. That makes sense for the reasons you mentioned.

It all changes hands within a few decades though. Nobody lives forever.

brave

My experience over a few decades and several home ownerships is that debt plays an outsized role. You are paying a bank first with your mortgage payment, and that csn be 80-90% of your housing cost, which is partially defrayed by a tax writeoff. And the banks basically have a license to print money. We are all working for the banks to some extent. Could this change in the future? You bet it could... but we have to make it happen.

banality of hypocrisy?

Galantamine has similar effects to nictonine without the nervousness, and lasts hours longer. It is nootropic, cognition enhancing with few side effects. It's a natural product, so here in the US, it falls into the dietary supplement category. Sharpened memory and attention span, and enhanced dreaming for many.

Have you tried galantamine? It's abig hit for the "lucid dreaming" crowd. Sometimes also sold formulated with theanine (brand name lucidamine) and OTC

there are blockers for webcrawlers. A few dozen were supplied by my neocities.org account, but I had to uncomment them

what category of "evil online business ploy" do you have in mind? I see dozens of them daily with even brief, casual browsing. Also known as "monetization" ;-)

But it's not just online that I find these ploys. In fact, thanks to donating to the wrong non-profit, it's frightfully simple to end up with a stack of snail mail in the mailbox daily, often with free gifts to entice donations. I can't seem to find a simple, free way to turn it off.

the culprit is toxoplasma. A third or so of US citizens have it in their brains.

Eerie parallels to tobacco smoking just a few decades ago. It's a public health problem but those in charge of the bureaucracy at the highest levels choose to obsess over rare vaccine side effects and the use of tylenol during circumcission? It's a mad mad mad mad world (great film, which is overdue for a cyber age remake)

We had Molycorp 15 years ago being run by a Canadian magnet company. It could have worked out, but the engineers were clueless about process scale up and sourcing the acids required for refining, which, they said, were being consumed by the fracking boom. In any case, the Mountain Pass site has a lot of light rare earths, but little of the heavy rare earths. The heavier rare earths come comingled with a lot of radioactivity. So the business ideally involves removal of the desired heavy rare earths, then disposing of the radioactive tailings back to where they came from. No doubt we have plenty of the heavier rare earths in tailing piles from the nuclear arms build up over many decades. It's a matter of good long term management.

great diy website! bookmarked

I still click on my lolli app every day to get up to a few dozen free satoshis every day.

More rewards are available with some purchases, or by testing or downloading games there. No time for that lately but I'll circle back eventually. The downside is the large time gap between earnings and earnings availability. They kinda trap users into "keep coming back"

PQQ is another "maybe" vitamin. It participates oxidation and reduction and is found in trace amounts in whiskey (it leaches from the charred oak) and other foods, and often formulated together with coQ10.

PQQ was almost declared a vitamin a decade or two ago.

If you have the pure crystals, drop just a tiny one into a glass of water and watch it dissolve as it sinks. Beautiful show! Also, you'll see it changes color with pH.

okay, true for him

Also, he'll have all the money, so of course, we won't need any. He'll supply us all with daily food rations and multicultural sex bots to keep us happy? And free ketamine!

This remind me of Vonnegut's story about how future humans evolve to have smaller brains. It's nice creative writing. Ummm... it is creative writing, right?

Okay, I'll bite. So why did he demand a potential one trillion dollar pay package?

This is not sarcasm. It is a sincere question.

"Despite decades of research, TB remains a disease of inequality and thrives in the context of poverty and weakened health systems."

A disease of inequality? No. It was a huge problem in Western societies. We invented a treatment to cure it. Same as with leprosy and many other diseases. So how does one rationalize this statement? Better technology sometimes means better health and more wealth.

Do you think it would help if us humans switched from fish oil supplements to algae oil? Of course those fish are used for protein meal for other purposes, including aquacultural feed and more, but maybe it's a small step in the right direction?

The term "supplement" has been stretched too far, agreed. It is up to the consumer to do the research, but how many consumers have the background to do it? "Third party testing" is supposedly done by some manufacturers, but not by all. But the side effects and interactions of some pharma products should raise eyebrows too.

Nice HN humor thanks!

Let's not forget the mysterious but very real placebo effect though! Most of the supplement industry ($50 billion in the US annually dome say) - which you could look at as a waste of money, or a relatively safe and inexpensive way to feel better.

Of course the WH is said to have a Dr Feelgood on its staff, and those items are clearly not placebos, but maybe we are seeing the side effects play out on the world stage ;-)

In light of allthe talk about ultraprocessed food dangers, and the mention of junk food consumption early in the course of this adventure, is it possible that diet played a role here?

Frequent physical exercise and a high-protein, high fiber diet can do wonders.

I worked in big pharma for over 7 years, and can tell you that it is known internally that the antidepressants and placebo have very similar efficacy. Which is a whole different very fascinating topic. Of course some of them, like the tricyclics, can be great for getting a good night's sleep which is also great for mental health

thanks, did not see that. This may be the source material. Seems like a "UHP is the new smoking" moment just like "excess sitting without breaks" was the "new smoking" several years ago.