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hourislate··on ‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics
Another interesting Peptide.

There is evidence of BPC 157 can help heal IBS, etc.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333585/

It has other healing properties related to ligament injuries.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21030672/

Another study on its benefits regarding blood vessels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23782145/

An article from Ben Greenfield

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/article/supplements-article...

A source for anyone interested.

https://infiniwell.com/products/bpc-157

hourislate··on Evergrande teeters on edge of default as $148M payment falls due
I think the bigger implication here is that Evergrande may roll over and cause a shit tsunami.
hourislate··on Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021
"The only explanation for this valuation is that"

There is an abundance of cheap money courtesy of the FED that is finding it's way into the market. It isn't Joe6pack buying Rivian.

"Rivian managed to build a car that people actually want."

Didn't FORD do this with the F150? I don't know of one contractor that is going to buy a Rivian. Most drive beat up F250's/RAM 2500/etc.

"I think Rivians high valuation just shows that they managed to nail a market segment that Tesla floundered."

>as of Sept. 30, it had roughly 48,390 orders for its truck and S.U.V. in the United States and Canada from customers who each had paid a refundable deposit of $1,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/rivian-ipo.html

Here are Fords numbers.

https://fordauthority.com/fmc/ford-motor-company-sales-numbe...

So far this year approx 500k F150's and that's during a chip shortage.

Anyway, I hope they're successful but there is a lot of future growth and profit priced in and time will tell.

hourislate··on Used car market gets even more bizarre
Stop buying shitty GM's. I learned my lesson back in in the late 90's when I couldn't keep a GMC Sonoma running long enough to sell it (was like 3 years old). In 2000 I became part of the Toyota family (worked for FORD at the time) and never bought anything else since.

The 2 Toyota and 1 Lexus we own are between 14-11 years old and look and run like they came off the assembly line yesterday (all 3 were bought used). I figure I am still good for another 5 years minimum on all of them.

hourislate··on October had the biggest U.S. inflation surge in more than 30 years
That's just it, the guy on the skateboard who pays a buck more a day for his Chipotle and SBUX isn't going to notice shit. The guy who feeds his family of 4 (vehicle, cloths, energy, taxes, life) is feeling it.
hourislate··on US court blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for companies
This isn't about your or anyone else's health and welfare, it's about conforming and obeying.

You should just pour fuel on the fire and start reporting people for sneezing and coughing. Help the madness completely overwhelm the system and exhaust its resources.

Become ungovernable.

hourislate··on California bans the sale of all small off-road internal combustion engines
Theater for the masses, none of it matters....
hourislate··on US court blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for companies
I'm vaccinated but don't understand why it's so important to force everyone to get vaccinated. Why the fuck would you even care if someone doesn't want the shot? Even the vaccinated can still catch Covid and spread it around (from other Vaccinated people).

What's with this administration, its become some kind of Clown World Totalitarian regime no better than Stalin or Hitlers where people will be punished if they don't obey.

Just saying...

hourislate··on An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins
In Toronto you could get $1800 a month for that or sell it for $600k.
hourislate··on Likely Drone Attack on U.S. Power Grid Revealed in New Intelligence Report
Thankfully it was just a drone with a copper wire and not a tree limb like in 2003. Those terrorist trees are what the FBI and DHS should be looking out for.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2003-blackout-fiv...

I believe this is probably the start of trying to make drones illegal for all but our protectors. Can't have any kind of flight tech in the hands of the plebs.

hourislate··on Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (2019)
My experience with AF was different. After years of doing all kinds of Fasts (2-12 day, dry fasts, OMAD, 16-8 etc), I experimented with AF. For approximately 3-4 months I did AF with a 1800 Kcal refeed (1 meal). What I experienced was a lot of muscle loss and a messed up metabolism, always starving and feeling like complete shit. It took me about 8 months to fix.

What I surmised is that with AF you don't enter a true fasted state but a gray zone, so it's more like starvation than fasting where a multi day fast (48 hours or more) seems to get you into a state that is muscle sparing.

hourislate··on Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued by Up to 91%: Moody’s
Interest rates will not be over 5 % in our lifetime (50 years plus). Average home price in TO will be well over 2-3 million in the next decade. BoC understands that any meaningful rise will cause economic calamity that will leave everyone naked and hungry in the streets and a collapse of the financial system.

Just saying...

hourislate··on Canadian Real Estate Prices Are Overvalued by Up to 91%: Moody’s
In 1990 the house next door (Bloor West Village, Toronto) sold for 500k. A year later it was worth somewhere between 250-275k. It took all the way to 2005 for it to sell again for 500k. It sold again a few months ago (after a shitty reno) for almost 2 million, It almost doubled in value from what I can recall over the last 2 years. The new owner is a holding company based out of Vancouver. It is sitting empty from what I can tell with the odd visitor every few of weeks.

I have seen Condo's double in price over a period of about 6-8 months Between Oct 2019 to about May/June of 2020) and then go up another 50% after that. House prices are going up over $1k a week and even land that has a road allowance but no road or utilities in Northern Ontario (Muskoka) has gone up over 100 % in the first few months of 2020.

My guess is Toronto real estate will easily double over the next 5 years. The Federal Government and BoC will never be able to raise interest rates meaningfully without collapsing the entire economy. Young Canadians will have nothing but the yoke of debt around their necks and live hand to mouth.

hourislate··on Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
A couple of possibilities...

I know they said they weren't hacked but they were hacked.

or

They are completely inept and have no disaster recovery plan in place, etc.

hourislate··on Drilling in Yellowstone Could Save America
From the article

>In 2014 the U.S. Geological Survey modeled the likely ash distribution from a Yellowstone super-eruption. They found that the ash radius would reach New York, with as much as 3½ inches of ash falling as far east as Lincoln, Neb. Cropland across the U.S. and Canada would be destroyed, and the release into the atmosphere of sulfate aerosols would create a global “volcanic winter” lasting generations.

>Fortunately, the JPL also points to a potential solution—horizontal drilling for geothermal energy extraction—that would siphon off excess energy, producing enough electricity to power as many as 20 million homes for a few thousand years at only 10 cents a kilowatt-hour. That’s less than Texans paid for electricity in 2019. Considering that the energy in the Yellowstone caldera is carbon-free, you have to wonder why we aren’t already doing it.

So to save the park, the US Government is willing to destroy the entire country/continent.

Clown world.....

hourislate··on U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
When the government constantly erodes the value of the dollar, what can anyone expect? Money flows into the physical assets (capital preservation). Gold use to be the go to to protect wealth but it couldn't be leveraged to earn anything more than whatever the market said it was worth, housing on the other hand can be rented/leased earning a monthly return (especially with super low interest rates). Just go and try and buy some land 200-300 miles outside of civilization, where it use to costs 10k for a 100 acres, now it's 500k. Anyway, the US has a far way to go before this becomes a problem, other countries like Canada, UK, etc are complete fucked. The average young person is making 50k and a house is 1.5 - 2 million.
hourislate··on Turning stem cells into human eggs
Because the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I can see many ways this spirals into something different.
hourislate··on Latest US military hypersonic test fails
I'm surprised that the Military would share all the details of their test with CNN and the pubic. You would think they would keep such tests and missile development secret. Perhaps this is some new policy of sharing testing results openly with China and Russia while at the same time heaping praise on their (China / Russia) progress and development of missiles that could annihilate the USA?
hourislate··on Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
Yeah, that was what I was referring to. Trump was correct, Russia will fuck the Euro Poors like it is doing now.

Biden who has dementia has no plan and basically gave Putin the green light.

hourislate··on Coal Prices Rising Exponentially
Who would of thought? Didn't some US Administration hint at this, that Russia would leverage the pipe to fuck Europe? Unfortunately the current US Administration actually gave Putin the green light to fuck the Euro poors, sad.....

Clown world....

hourislate··on Canadians can’t travel to Canada without a smartphone
You don't need a phone but you need some physical proof (print out) that you tested negative and have physical proof you were vaccinated. The Canadian Border Services will still treat you like shit regardless.

The real stupidity of it all is if you're driving from somewhere far like Florida you have to leave before you get any results or you won't make the border in time (72 hours). Getting the test results can take 24-48 hours so that leaves you an insane drive if you wait to get the results. Not well thought out.

It's all stupid, People are ushering in a prison world, who really gives a fuck if your vaccinated or not (I'm vaccinated). I traveled into the Soviet Union in the late 70's, it was easier then to cross into Eastern Europe than it is to cross the Canadian/USA border today. Complete clown world.

Most Canadians are fucked anyway since the US doesn't recognize Astra and those folks can't travel to the US. Then you have the folks who are vaccinated with both Pfizer and Moderna and that is not recognized either.

hourislate··on Intermittent fasting in mice improves long-term memory retention
A 24 hour fast for a mouse is like a 2 week fast for a human. Hard to say that this would result in the same outcome for humans. I've also read that lab mice are nothing like normal mice.
hourislate··on Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Is
Cost of raw materials? What raw materials are we importing to build factories?

As for consumer goods, the Chinese didn't raise their prices, they ate the cost of that tariff. The price increases we are seeing are almost entirely related to shipping costs. Manufacturers who have long term contracts or their own leased vessels (Walmart), are still able to deliver and keep prices in check.

hourislate··on How does the economy work? A new Fed paper suggests nobody really knows
What I find amazing is that people can make careers (Economists and Meteorologists) out of guessing and being wrong most of the time. Anyone with a real job would get fired within the first month if they had the same record of performance.
hourislate··on Coinbase Breach Notification
>(not because of Coinbase's fault)

From the Coinbase statement

>the third party took advantage of a flaw in Coinbase’s SMS Account Recovery process

Your speculation and conjecture dismisses you from any and all future discussions on this matter. You have demonstrated that your are unfit to comment.

hourislate··on Biden Supports Proposal to Tax Unrealized Gains
Theater for the masses while they institute new ways to come after the little guy. Spend more than $600 dollars in a transaction and it's reported to the IRS (at least that is what they wanted and proposed). Then being the clever bastards they are agreed to change it to 10k cumulative a year thinking it's enough to hide the fact that it's the same thing. So if you have anything more than 10k a year of transactions in you bank account, the entire ledger of activities will be sent the IRS.

Shit rolls down hill, billionaires don't pay taxes.

hourislate··on Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok
I am under the impression you are not familiar with the HAN culture? It doesn't allow for sharing or 2nd place, it's a winner take all and destroy everyone else. The China of today is determined to rule the world and I mean the entire world.
hourislate··on Cox expects Sept. sales volume to fall to lowest since Great Recession
https://archive.ph/og7gm
hourislate··on What is causing the astronomical increase in rents in San Diego?
Most likely a shortage of housing and inflation. When Real Estate prices increase, rent prices increase. I suspect it will continue and accelerate as Government spending and the flood of new money will drive capital into hard assets.
hourislate··on Limits on Toilet Paper and Cleaning Supplies Are Back at Costco
It's not just toilet paper and cleaning supplies. Our Costco here in DFW constantly runs out of all kinds of items. There have been times where they ran out of lettuce for weeks and about a month ago their entire produce section was down to like a skid or two of odds and ends. No lamb for weeks, other staples disappearing for a time and then reappearing only to disappear again. I've found that they carry less variety and more of the same product on the shelves. It's really weird what's happening, Aldi is even worse and Walmart is hit and miss. Nothing is normal anymore and it seems to be getting worse. Gas today was $2.69 at Costco...unbelievable... I had to ask if someone started another War in the ME or something.
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