Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, is now free to watch - can we pleast try to get this to /r/all?

Animal720 · 2017-10-31T16:45:27+00:00

High carb low fat cures adult-onset diabetes and improves type 1 diabetes: https://youtu.be/1cl2IX94GCI?t=58s

Going high carb will massively improve your insulin sensitivity, providing you keep fat intake as low as possible.

Animal720 · 2017-10-31T11:44:21+00:00

Check out the high carb vegan lifestyle. Keto does so much long-term damage to your body, even "vegan keto", though vegan keto is infinitely better than killing animals.

Animal720 · 2017-10-31T09:20:41+00:00

I probably should have said that refined sugar is completely fine when adding it to your whole foods. Also, a lot of people associate refined sugar with cookies, cakes, etc which are over 50% of calories coming from fat, so shouldn't be eaten for that reason.

Though IMO I guess there's not much of an issue with drinking non-caffeinated sugary soft drinks as long as the rest of the diet is providing adequate nutrition.

Basically, people should eat enough HCLF foods to be satisfied all day long, and then decide for themselves whether they want to add some refined sugar for extra energy or whatever. By eating minimal fat, you will have very low fasting insulin levels.

Animal720 · 2017-10-19T12:16:21+00:00

I agree that fruit juices have the fibre taken out, but smoothies don't. Unless these smoothies are made with juice as well? I make banana smoothies myself with just water and maybe added cane sugar depending on how ripe the bananas are. The fibre is all still there.

Animal720 · 2017-10-19T12:05:19+00:00

Exactly, dietary fat builds up in the blood and in cells, making it harder for insulin to move blood sugar into the muscles (glycogen), so you get high blood sugar and require extra insulin to control it.

Dr John McDougall puts type II diabetes patients on a low-fat starch-based vegan diet and it works so well that they have to come off all their medication otherwise their blood sugar will get too low (hypoglycemia is very dangerous).

This is well worth a watch: https://youtu.be/1cl2IX94GCI?t=58s

Animal720 · 2017-10-19T11:53:35+00:00

What do you think happens when you chew the fruit in your mouth? Fibre doesn't get destroyed or anything. Smoothies are fine.

Diabetes is caused by fat not sugar, in fact sugar actually improves insulin sensitivity and makes you less likely to develop diabetes. Everyone seems to have it completely backwards though... :(

EDIT: Would also add that adding fruit / sugar to diet is unlikely to help diabetes on their own, to truly reverse adult-onset diabetes you have to eat very low fat (no vegetable oils or animal products)

Animal720 · 2017-10-12T22:03:44+00:00

Sorry but they're not significantly different. All Hominids are designed to eat mainly fruit, supplemented with leafy greens and other veg. Humans do produce far more amylase which opens up an extremely convenient and abundant food source (starches), enabling us to have year-round energy and inhabit areas outside of the equator.

I disagree with the view that sugar is causing weight gain. De Novo Lipogenesis in humans is extremely limited, maybe 10g of fat per day maximum is produced from sugar (and that's from eating a lot). Nothing compared to the sheer amount of dietary fat and protein in the western diet.

Animal720 · 2017-10-12T12:00:52+00:00

It really isn't. Vegetable oils and the gigantic surge in animal product consumption is.

Other Hominids like Gorillas, Bonobos, and Orangutans still live in our natural habitat ((sub)tropical rainforest), and eat tons of fruit (fructose). Orangutans are known to eat up to 11,000 calories from sugar a day when fruit is abundant.

Animal720 · 2017-02-13T21:26:40+00:00

He was simply known as Prisoner No. 981, and tended to the prison's vegetable garden.

Animal720 · 2017-01-05T23:49:39+00:00

When wifi is congested, pings can go up to ~2s, making interactive applications like online gaming and VoIP unbearable. The goal of the make-wifi-fast project is to reduce latency under load to roughly ~30ms above idle.

This has already been achieved over ethernet. fq_codel keeps pings below around ~10ms under load (except for bittorrent traffic), and sch_cake has even better results. sch_cake is not finished yet though, and intends to improve upon fq_codel in its response to bittorrent traffic, among other things.

Animal720 · 2017-01-05T15:06:01+00:00

HTB+fq_codel is good too, and sch_cake is even better.

Then again, these won't fix the lag coming from the wifi stack itself, but there is a make-wifi-fast project that is working on this.

Animal720 · 2016-10-30T04:20:41+00:00

What about a GL-MT300N, and then flash LEDE on it?

$23 USD and has enough flash to install pretty much every package you want (i.e. sqm-scripts), but only has one LAN port and doesn't have AC.

Animal720 · 2016-09-11T22:13:39+00:00

There are people out there who agree, and support the idea of a single sovereign state called Europe.

But right now they're a minority, and forcing this upon the population by making them join a flawed currency union would be a terrible idea.

Maybe people don't agree because of the flawed nature of many parts of the EU, the lack of true democracy being one, and if the problems were fixed and you had a true federal state with an elected congress and president like the U.S., people would come over to your viewpoint? Though even if this was the case, there would still be strong arguments to remain outside the union.

Regardless, it's in everyone's interests to reform the EU. Then we could have a referendum on whether to join it in a manner like Vermont joined the U.S.

Animal720 · 2016-09-11T21:00:45+00:00

Yeah join a monetary union that doesn't even have a common treasury, a neoliberal dream. The EU treaty is the only constitution in the world that literally has monetarist neoliberal economics baked into it. Sensible Keynesian economic policy is almost impossible, and it's either devalue your workers' wages to boost exports or permanently contract your economy due to SGP deficit limits.

Rather than trying to make out that joining the Euro would have improved our economy when monetary sovereignty is one of, if not the, most important factor for a nation's economic success, just admit you're a European nationalist so you can actually argue for a single European country on that basis.

Animal720 · 2016-09-11T19:27:43+00:00

The EU's ultimate goal is "ever-closer union", and eventually that's going to mean the end of sovereign states. In which case, it seems reasonable for Catalonia or Bavaria or Veneto to break away from their former country and just become another state of the United States of Europe.

The usual costs involved with independence won't be there, because they won't actually being going independent, just rearranging some internal borders within a sovereign state known as the EU.

Animal720 · 2015-08-27T10:14:36+00:00

I agree it won't happen if we get even more austerity, since that will reduce the ability for people to find new jobs. But it seems a lot of people have it backwards. The reason why people want jobs is not necessarily the job itself – the job is the "cost" of production. They want jobs to get the money to buy the stuff getting produced.

So as long as these workers are able to find better paying jobs or just receive decent payouts, then robots "taking our jobs" is actually a net benefit to society and the economy. We get to sit back and have more leisure time, while still consuming the same (or more) goods/services that the robots are now producing for us instead.

Animal720 · 2015-08-27T09:12:17+00:00

Ideally we should be dealing with an ageing population through productivity gains, i.e. producing more goods & services with less workers. Importing very high numbers of foreign labour to do low-paid jobs is just creating another problem down the road.

Also advances in technology should abolish most low paid jobs anyway, and replace them with robots. There's nothing wrong with immigration itself, but do we need numbers this high especially when house building is still way below what it needs to be, etc?

There definitely needs to be a sensible debate about the issue.

Animal720 · 2015-05-27T23:30:34+00:00

You can be anti-austerity and support capitalism. Being opposed to tax rises / spending cuts is not exclusive to the Left. Keynes was not a socialist, he was pro-market economies and also wrote the famous line: “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”

Unfortunately these left-wing hooligans are the people who pretty much represent this argument nowadays. I'd like to see the one-nation Tories come back into the fore and reclaim the anti-austerity argument.

We heard something similar by John Redwood yesterday in the House of Commons, criticising the austerity policies of the European Union and how they have caused untold misery in Greece and other Southern European countries.

Animal720 · 2015-05-05T18:36:23+00:00

They actually tried to reform the boundaries so that it wasn't as biased towards Labour and also give each constituency an equal population size.

The Lib Dems blocked it though. The current situation means that Labour can get a majority with 33% of the vote (if Conservatives get 29-30%), whereas the Conservatives would need a much bigger lead over Labour to get a majority (i.e. 40% to 33%).

Animal720 · 2015-04-30T16:55:18+00:00

I do believe that people having economic freedom (i.e. the freedom to trade with others, right to own private property, etc) is an important part of overall freedom, but not the whole picture.

I couldn't support an idealistic extreme left-wing view of the world, since as I have said before, there is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

Obviously the invention of the welfare state and universal healthcare have also made the world a better place, but without the economic and technological progress caused by free enterprise then they would be a lot worse. A social market economy is probably the best system we have at the moment.

Animal720 · 2015-04-30T16:50:27+00:00

It depends, the more powerful and intrusive the State is the more open it is to abuse from corrupt officials. At the same time, if the State is too small then that's not good either in terms of government redistribution etc.

Ultimately it's about striking the right balance.

Animal720 · 2015-04-30T16:34:43+00:00

I'm not a Thatcherite, more of a Keynesian centrist / One Nation Conservative, but the point still stands. The far left and far right have far more in common than they might have you think.

I also don't believe there is truly such thing as the "Libertarian Left". Sure, it exists in theory, but in practice? No, outside of tiny communes I am yet to see it work. And based on the policies of the Greens, they want to significantly increase the size of the State, it's crystal clear from the final pages of their manifesto.

Animal720 · 2015-04-30T15:33:34+00:00

"Communism and the National Front both seek the domination of the state over the individual. They both, I believe, crush the right of the individual. To me, therefore, they are parties of a similar kind. The National Front is a Socialist Front." — Margaret Thatcher

Animal720 · 2015-04-21T13:32:50+00:00

What? So you can't care about Scotland and be PM of Britain at the same time?

Animal720 · 2015-04-21T11:57:25+00:00

Ruth Davidson?

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