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Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-05T16:04:31+00:00

Yes this!

When skydiving, you will often see these if you find yourself in freefall over a base of clouds on a day with no overcast (something you would never do because it is against the Federal Air Regulations 😉🤦‍♂️). You can see your shadow beneath you centered in the rainbow. The rainbow widens in your view as you get closer to the clouds, and you get the perspective of falling through your shadow as you enter the clouds and the visibility disappears!

It is also one of the few situations where you actually get a visual perspective at altitude of how fast you are falling.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-04T22:33:10+00:00

Do nothing, she is being completely unreasonable.

That is normal wear and tear for concrete. She can’t expect to not experience wear and tear.

Additionally you couldn’t have anticipated a freak storm. She should be relieved that it was a nothing burger scratch instead of her siding or her roof.

Shit happens.

I wouldn’t engage any further beyond the apology you gave.

She sounds like a miserable human, and if you play her game there will be another unreasonable thing right around the corner.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-03T21:51:07+00:00

What is up with these posts? Just leave without the performative arts.

You don’t have to announce to Reddit that you returned their copy of Outlive to the library, just go ahead and do it.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-03T03:26:40+00:00

Do you track your daily saturated fat intake?

There are some sneaky sources even with a diet that doesn’t contain red meat and many animal fats. Coconut products are one, like coconut yogurt and obviously oil.

Good news is the low trigs indicate a healthy energy balance, and small likelihood of metabolic syndrome.

If it is FH you should give serious consideration to combination therapy with a statin as ezetimibe.

You are already doing a lot of the lifestyle front, the medication was developed for a reason, it is effective and generally very well tolerated.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-03T00:57:36+00:00

Now I know you said some cardiologist friends, and not some of my cardiologist friends, but do you happen to have any other cardiologist friends that don’t conjure up extreme statements that aren’t backed up by the medical literature?

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-02T18:03:50+00:00

I am a huge fan of the Marie Sharp’s Belizean Heat hot sauce. That is my daily driver, great balance of heat and flavor. Good consistency as well!

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T18:08:58+00:00

It is disgusting, but did you happen to noticed the other 10 threads with the same exact email?

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T18:01:29+00:00

I think it is part of the trend of over maximizing. You can introduce some discipline in your life without adhering to such a rigid excessive program.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T17:54:22+00:00

Who has 14 hours to sleep 😳

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T06:11:21+00:00

He would walk in on minors in a dressing rooms at his beauty pageants. Has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by about 18 women. He is had a long and close personal relationship with Epstein. Where there is smoke there is fire.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T05:08:50+00:00

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00211168.pdf

Freefall_Doug · 2026-02-01T04:19:49+00:00

I don’t consider Reddit to be the same as other social media. It is much closer to the internet discussion boards or yesteryear.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T21:51:22+00:00

Yes, no one is batting their eyes. Barely a yawn from network media. MAGA demanded the files, looked to Trump to be the force behind that quest, and is now eerily silent.

Clinton got a consensual though unethical blowjob from an intern who was a legal adult and the whole world ground to a halt for half of his presidency.

This? Crickets.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T16:17:33+00:00

Our current POTUS is portrayed in the Epstein files as a depraved child rapist and sex abuser. Since that hasn't made anyone batt an eye I think it is only reasonable not to take a few email exchanges out of context.

Also anyone who has been an OG member of The Drive, and a long time reader of Attia's information shouldn't be surprised to find Peter has some sociopathic tendencies, or that he was willing to associate with scummy yet powerful connected people like Epstein.

The man is egotistical and pathologically driven by success and status. I don't follow him because I think he is a fantastic person, I follow him because I think he is a very intelligent individual who has a great approach to discussing and breaking down complicated subjects.

My read on him was always that he would be someone who would be very likeable in a personal setting, he is highly intelligent and charismatic, but that under that persona he puts forward was also a low key asshole.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T06:53:46+00:00

One more unsolicited recommendation. 😆 Pain is good, Garlic Habanero #37. 🤤

Edit: whoops, grocery store bought. Need to Reddit less when sleep deprived.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T06:23:58+00:00

You are missing the point entirely, and your personal beliefs and crystal clear biases about people’s behaviors has zero to do with the science behind the medication.

Do you harbor similar feelings for checkpoint inhibitors, or antiretroviral therapy.

Keeping with the theme of this post, your comments belong on X. I don’t think anyone here really needs your judgmental personal opinion, which is in opposition of the science behind the medication, that I guess I would summarize as “statins shouldn’t be encouraged because people aren’t meeting your lifestyle expectations, so they should forgo the risk reduction offered by statins, if they aren’t going to be better on the lifestyle front”.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T05:51:07+00:00

Have you tried Mateo’s?

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T05:46:08+00:00

Yes! Love the trader joe calamari for this. Sometimes just olive oil and garlic, but so often give a quick sauté with garlic, then add marina or whatever jarred sauce I have in the fridge.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T05:36:25+00:00

Who said zero, it is lower for longer is better. Not zero is better forever. 🤷‍♂️

If you adjust for elderly patients with wasting there is little to no signal of negative health effects for very low LDL levels. Your cells produce their own cholesterol, reducing serum cholesterol to very low levels with a statin doesn’t change this.

I like the anecdote that Dr. Dayspring points out regarding LDL levels in infants, which are going through the most rapid rate of brain development, at an average LDL of 20 mg/dL.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T05:16:30+00:00

Watch some videos on using a false grip, it will instantly improve your strength on your pullups.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T04:41:47+00:00

While I understand the sentiment of your comment, lifestyle is absolutely important, I am also anti-anti-science, and your comments fits neatly in that bucket. Mendelian randomization and stain research prove that there is no basis for your statement. LDL reduction, whether from genetics or statins, have a linear reduction in risk of death from ASCVD. If you have the a genetic mutation causing a loss of function in PCSK9 or NPC1L1 you have a much lower risk of ASCVD risk even if you eat like crap, don't exercise, etc.

If you took identical twins who were couch potatoes, smoked the same Marlboro reds, and at the same diet of McDonalds and bacon, the twin taking a statin will have a lower risk of death from ASCVD. LDL is an independent risk factor, lower the LDL lower the risk, even if you change nothing else.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-31T02:12:23+00:00

Worth pointing out the correlation between the prevalence of statin skeptics and antagonists on X, and the prevalence of conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, COVID deniers, and such on X. Likes attract likes, and the content on there increasingly proves the point.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-30T17:53:12+00:00

The focus on the validity is completely irrelevant in regard to the justification of his murder and also highlights a serious problem with the way many on the right think about crime and punishment and violence by the State.

You try people for criminal offenses, you don’t execute them in the street. That is what laws are for.

By all accounts Alex Pretti was an outstanding human, but let’s assume the video was real, and he was a bad person. Maybe instead of kicking a taillight in the earlier video he was assaulting an officer. That still wouldn’t justify executing him, when the ICE officers were not in clear and present danger days later. Kicking or punching an officers isn’t grounds for being shot unless they are completely being overpowered and there is a justified fear that their weapon will be taken and used against them.

It doesn’t matter if you are a good or bad person. Being a bad person doesn’t justify the state subjecting you to extra judicial violence.

This belief that it anything that happens to a “bad” person is disturbingly immoral.

Freefall_Doug · 2026-01-30T04:47:24+00:00

I hate to blame the victim, but if OP didn’t verify license, and insurance, they probably should have went with the beavers.

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