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That is the shocking part.

Of course he’s just saying that. He’ll do whatever Trump wants and destroy the dollar in the process. While Powell’s term as Fed Chair is up in May, he still has a few years on his governorship, which is why Trump says he’ll fire him, and you can absolutely bet he will. Between Tariffs and the Iran War, Trump is killing the economy, and the only way to stave off a blood bath in the midterms is to juice the economy with low rates. It’s a matter of survival for Trump, so you can bet 100% that Powell will be gone. Whether by firing or stochastic terrorism that Trump enjoys stoking, Powell’s days as a fed governor are numbered.

I’m with you. I used to love being in on the bleeding edge of technology. Now it just disappoints me. Enshittifcation is the norm. Instead of “how can we make this game more fun,” it’s all about “how can we wring more profit out of this,” and gathering personal data for marketing is a favorite method. I never thought I’d become a Luddite, but here I am.

I think it’s more accurate to describe rapamycin as an an immunomodulator, and if you look at the data it paints a pretty compelling picture.

I will say that you don’t have to lie down and take it. Over the past few years I’ve been on a journey to restore and rejuvenate my body, and the results have been miraculous. I went from morbidly obese with metabolic syndrome, including uncontrolled high blood pressure, to literally the best physical condition of my life. 60 year old me could kick 30 year old me’s ass any day of the week. All of my health issues have been resolved, and all of my old man aches and pains have gone away. I did a deep dive on the state of the art of longevity science, which is reasonably summarized in Peter Attia’s book Outlive. (It’s a free audiobook on spotify premium.) I’ve basically optimized sleep, exercise, nutrition, supplements, and the use of prescription drugs, including the drug rapamycin. Rapamycin has extended lifespan of every organism it’s been tested in, including budding yeast, fruit flies, mice, rats, and non-human primates. While there are ethical and time considerations that make such placebo controlled lifespan studies in humans difficult, there is data to suggest that rapamycin has a similar therapeutic effect in humans. Joan Mannick’s 2014 study using Everolimus, a slightly tweaked analog of rapamycin, demonstrated that pulsed mTOR suppression in elderly humans greatly ameliorated immunosenescence, the decline in immune function during aging, and the ongoing trials of rapamycin with respect to ovarian aging have shown impressive effects. I’ve been on rapamycin for almost 3 years now, and while I can’t isolate its effects from my other interventions, I’m pretty much never sick and I’ve had significant grey hair reversal, which was unexpected. TLDR: there is a lot you can to mitigate the effects of aging and implement “graceful degradation” in your life.

I turn 60 in June. I’m doing this with my body.

Thanks for the insightful comment!

No, I’m afraid in this case he will 100% do it. See, Trump thinks that you can magically control the economy by lowering the Fed funds rate and quantitative easing (money printing), and has zero understanding of the complex interplay and limitations that the Fed deals with. Moreover, his policies are crushing the economy, and he has a midterm election to deal with in the fall, which will be the beginning of the end of his presidency if things continue as they are. In his mind, he gets rid of Powell, has his lackeys juice the economy with low rates and QE, there is a massive boom in the markets and along with his strategies rig the elections, the GOP gets the push it needs to prevail and the Trump presidency rolls on. The downside for anyone who cares to see it is that the dollar will be destroyed as the world’s reserve currency, the U.S. will suffer hyperinflation like prewar Germany, and the subsequent fix will require austerity measures that will lead to depression that will make the one in the 1930s look quaint (I’m calling it “The Greatest Depression”), worldwide economic output will be crushed, WWIII will come into full swing with the U.S. the weakest it’s been in my lifetime, and in all likelihood, China will rise to the top of the world order and the yuan will be the world’s reserve currency. Mark my word, we will see gold top $8K this year, and might reach as high as $20K. There is a reason I expanded my exposure to to the gold market and put everything I had left into a 2X gold ETF back in June of 2024 when it became clear to me that Trump would likely win a second term. We’re definitely living in interesting times.

From the song, from “the pinnacle of aesthetic and creative potential,” Rust in Peace.

This is a well recognized tactic of narcissists.

Bonus: Her name is Lucretia.

and prohibit administrations from uninviting a speaker based on their opposition to abortion or LGBTQ rights

Why only opposition to these issues? Are administrations free to prohibit speakers in support of these issues? How is this not governmental viewpoint suppression in violation of the constitutional protection of freedom of speech? This is insane.

I see the first one as a fair approximation of downward dog, which begs the question as to why we don’t refer to it as downward cat?

I used to have a kindle and it would periodically lock up and I’d have to do a hard reset and then re-download all my books. It was extremely frustrating. I finally got tired of it and ditched ti for a Kobo Clara. Whats nice about the Kobo is that it doesn’t have all the janky DRM bullshit, and it just works. You can load up books or pdfs from any source. So much happier now!

Pretending conjecture is the same thing as established facts does nothing more than inform the court that you suck at your job…

It does much more than that. It intentionally traumatizes those targeted and burdens them with fighting difficult legal battles. We no longer are a nation of laws, and that is the environment in which tyranny thrives.

“Oh wait,I didn’t think he’d hurt me! He was only supposed to hurt the people I hate.”

By doing something for exercise (e.g. walking) vs. doing nothing, you get around 80% of the benefit of an optimized exercise strategy. I agree 100% about healthspan being as important or more important than lifespan. When I was fat, I had a real wake-up call coming back from a family vacation. I was carrying my 2 carry-on bags up the jetway after exiting the plane, and I was out of breath. As I waited for my ex-wife and kids, they wheeled up a man probably a decade older than me in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank, and I saw my future in that instant. Having recovered my health and fitness has been life changing for me. Not only can I do all the things I used to enjoy when I was young, I hang out with a younger crowd and attract women half my age. My only regret is that it took me so long to begin to properly care for myself and develop the habits that keep me strong and healthy.

Aging lies at the intersection of genetics and environment, which means that 1) not everyone ages at the same rate, and 2) there are things that you can do to slow the rate of aging. The levers you have to pull include sleep, exercise, nutrition, supplements and drugs. I’m fortunate to have good genetics, with a couple of SNPs associated with longevity, and over the last 5 years or so have optimized the above factors to greatly improve my health and vitality. I turn 60 in June, I am in the best shape of my life, and most people assume I’m in my mid-40s and are shocked when they learn how old I really am. I feel like I’ve experienced something of a minor miracle, as I spent probably 20 years of my life morbidly obese and was in very poor health when I started. 60 year old me could kick 30 year old me’s ass any day of the week. If you want a specific blueprint of things you can do to move the needle on your lifespan and healthspan, Peter Attia’s book “Outlive” is very good. If you don’t want to give a narcissist that is in the Epstein files your money, the book is available for free as an audiobook on spotify, and I’m sure it can be found as an epub sailing the high seas.

Driving the news: A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday how he planned to bring oil prices down

“All I have to do is leave Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon,” Trump said, predicting prices would come “tumbling down.”

My god, what a fucking moron. Iran’s shutdown of the strait isn’t going to end if the U.S. leaves. They’re using it to boost oil prices, which directly benefits them. They’re setting up a toll system to profit from the shutdown. He’s smashed the hornets nest with a baseball bat, and thinks that if he stops hitting it, it will immediately return to the peaceful situation that was there before. High oil prices, and all of the economy-killing things that come with it, are here to stay for the foreseeable future.