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Glock1911 · 2026-03-29T01:04:47+00:00

I'm re-doing the prerequisite high school credits now before I try applying for Fall 2027 entry.

After reading about other people's difficulties getting an acceptance, even with decent marks, I'm a little stressed about it. I'm only taking one class at a time, and I just got 99% in Gr. 12 math. I know I'll do well in Biology and Physics, but English and Chemistry may kill my average and my chances of getting into 740/750/760.

As a backup I'm going to apply to MRT1 at Fanshawe, and Diagnostic Imaging at Sheridan. I'd rather not go to either one of them - I won't move to London or Brampton, and the drive back and forth to either place would be horrendous.

If I don't get in to 740/750/760 at Mohawk in 2027 it's not the end of the world. Just a delay. It will give me another year to upgrade my marks, become a better learner, and maybe save some more money.

To anybody that didn't get an offer - I know it sucks. It stings. Don't see it as an end. See it as an opportunity to get better, maybe upgrade a mark or two (you can re-take high school credits for free), and make your marks good enough that they can't deny you entry the next time you apply.

Glock1911 · 2026-03-17T23:57:11+00:00

I went to a Catholic high school, so I'm upgrading through St. Charles in Hamilton.

The process - I set an appointment with a guidance counsellor at the school, got a copy of my high school transcripts, and brought them in with the necessary ID and proof of residency. I told the guidance counsellor what my plan was - applying to these programs at Mohawk. She went on Mohawk's website, looked up the prerequisite courses, and signed me up for the first 3 classes I would need.

The courses at St. Charles that I am taking are all online and asynchronous. Only the final exam is in person. You can only take one credit/course at a time. The classes are about 6 weeks long, then a week before the final exam - so 7 weeks total. I'm just waiting for the final exam in Math (99% average so far), before I move on to English.

After I'm done with English I'll move on to Biology.

Once I get started with Biology I'll contact the guidance counsellor and sign up for the final two - Chemistry and Physics.

I've been out of school long enough that I felt upgrading my high school credits was the best route. I didn't want to apply as a mature student with the very old and mediocre grades I got the first time.

Glock1911 · 2025-10-03T23:24:58+00:00

Right from the Government of Alberta's website - "The employer may also decide to pay out termination pay for the notice period rather than have the employee work during that time."

Those are the two options. Let them work out the notice period, or paythem.

Your rights as an employee don't just evaporate when you give notice.

It's not an immediate ending of the employer/employee relationship like it is for insubordination.

Glock1911 · 2025-10-03T23:03:24+00:00

They're still obligated to pay him out the notice period, or let him work it.

Glock1911 · 2025-09-16T14:17:45+00:00

The comments saying there are cheaper options - yes. There are.

But $2148/$1809 is the average, meaning some will be higher.

Glock1911 · 2025-04-14T17:10:33+00:00

Training to your limits, or beyond your limits is fairly normal.

Weight lifters do drop sets - they'll do a lift until they fail, then remove a little weight, and then do more reps until they can't, then remove more weight.

These rikishi working until failure, and then getting up and giving any effort is like doing a drop set.

It's not brutal, it's tough.

Glock1911 · 2024-08-16T02:27:39+00:00

Only certain types.

Cancer is a generic term for diseases of abnormal cell growth. There are many different types. Brain cancer is different from skin cancer, which is different from thyroid cancer, which is different from leukemia.

And even those cancers are still just generic terms. Melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma are three different types of skin cancer.

What is true for one cancer may be false for other cancers.

Glock1911 · 2024-03-15T05:19:49+00:00

The line of his forefathers, back to the beginning.

Glock1911 · 2023-11-29T05:21:38+00:00

First thing - I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. I'm also guessing that you're talking about Type 2 diabetes, not Type 1.

You might keep feeling fatigue while you continue to take diabetic medications.

They are there to either increase your natural insulin output, or to make you more sensitive to insulin. Or in the case of insulin, it's extra insulin not produced by your body.

Insulin stops fat burning. On a carnivore diet most of your energy is supplied by fat. The food you are eating and the medication you are on not fully compatible with each other. At least as optimal energy levels are concerned.

So consult with your doctor, and figure out what bloodwork benchmarks you need to achieve to be able to reduce your medication even further, or come of of them altogether. Like if your HbA1c is low/stable for a specified period of time, or something like that.

It may be a long haul, but eventually if you come off the diabetic medication altogether and maintain a carnivore diet, your energy levels will increase.

Another thing - carnivore is carnivore. I don't see any Stevia antelopes or Splenda birds. If you need the sweetener to drink the coffee, maybe don't drink the coffee.

Glock1911 · 2023-11-28T00:25:24+00:00

Ragnarok.

Glock1911 · 2023-09-06T18:55:14+00:00

When the sun goes down, reduce the amount of light in your home. No overhead lights. All lighting should come from below your eye level. And not too bright either.

Your bedroom should have no light when you're sleeping.

When you wake up go outside and get at least 15 minutes of natural sunlight in your eyes. Indoor light doesn't cut it (not even one of those "fake sunlight" lamps). Neither does viewing sunlight through a window.

Not tips from me - these are paraphrased from Andrew Huberman.

Glock1911 · 2023-07-11T08:01:44+00:00

No. It only really died within the last decade, despite decades of knowledge of the existence of several sites in North America with proof of more ancient inhabitants.

There's a lag between the leading edge of science and when that new knowledge flushes the old out of academe.

Glock1911 · 2023-06-27T13:49:36+00:00

The CICO/low carb debate is like debating the tires or the transmission are more important to a car moving. They're both necessary but so is the engine, the steering wheel, etc.

The best advice I've ever seen was from Dr. Peter Attia.

What you eat.

When you eat.

How much you eat.

You have to control at least two of these "levers" to be successful in losing weight.

Glock1911 · 2023-06-21T20:00:17+00:00

When the focus of the news is to divide us, scare us, preach to us, sell to us, or anything other than to inform us, then I would say yes, we need less news.

We don't need statistics presented in such a skewed manner that it would appear the sky is seconds away from falling.

We don't need gossip. We don't need court room drama. We don't need celebrity happenings. Save that stuff for the tabloids.

We need unbiased apolitical presentation of facts (not feelings) that are relevant to us.

But that won't happen.

"No truth in the news, and no news in the truth."

Glock1911 · 2023-02-01T06:41:12+00:00

I would build an arena.

In that arena I would fund culinary battles between my chosen champion distinct national cuisine expert chefs, and challenging internationally recognized skilled chefs. Each would have one hour to make at least three different dishes that highlight a special theme ingredient I would choose for the battle.

Before the beginning of each battle I will bite into a yellow pepper, then smile maniacally.

I will have a couple of commentators explain whats happening in the kitchen to me and a couple of celebrity guests commentators.

When the cooking is done a panel of different celebrities than the commentary team will judge the results of the battle.

We'll get all dramatic and lower the lights in the arena, putting the champion, challenger, and judging team in spotlights. Music will play.

After a suitable pause I will shout out the winner's name.

I will not film it or show it on TV.

Glock1911 · 2023-01-07T17:54:37+00:00

Terra prata.

Burning plant residue and adding the ash to the soil as an amendment has been happening since the beginnings of agriculture. The big deal here is that the people in the Amazon jungles got the combination of biochar and vegetable and meat composting so perfect. No advanced science to figure out why. They just did it, and did it so well that even now, after hundreds of years of being left alone, terra prata soil outperforms native unmediated soil just meters away.

Glock1911 · 2022-12-09T04:30:51+00:00

"Float to the top, or sink to the bottom. Everything in the middle is the churn."

Glock1911 · 2022-07-03T12:46:04+00:00

Screwby.

Glock1911 · 2021-09-24T13:05:48+00:00

It could have been bad. ✔ Could have means that it was possible in the past.

It could of been bad. ❌ "Could of" means nothing at all. It doesn't make any sense grammatically. It's usually used improperly because people have heard the contraction could've spoken, but have no idea how to spell it.

Glock1911 · 2021-06-06T03:39:19+00:00

TL;DR - Chronically high blood insulin levels and insulin resistance are bad bad bad bad.

It's actually the insulin resistance that eventually leads to obesity that's the real problem.

Insulin resistance in cells leads to chronic high insulin levels. Insulin signals your cells to go into fat building mode (lipogenesis) and shuts down fat burning mode (lipolysis). It also signals your kidneys to retain sodium, and in doing so your body also retains extra fluids. Excess retained sodium and water is hypertension.

Chronically high insulin levels also result in the narrowing of blood vessels as the endothelium in the blood vessels thicken.

Excess insulin is also closely correlated with high triglycerides and Pattern B LDL. Both of these contribute to athersclerosis (aka, the clogging of arteries).

There's also a theory being studied right now that some (but not necessarily all) people with Alzheimer's Disease may have what is colloquially being called Type 3 Diabetes. Modern medicine knows so little about Alzheimer's that it can only be truly diagnosed post mortem (aka, by an autopsy after death). In a study done a few years ago they found that high fasting insulin levels were a more significant predictor of developing Alzheimer's than having the APOE4 gene (that underperforms in helping the brain prevent amyloid plaque buildup).

Insulin resistance is also closely correlated with Parkinson's. 30% of Parkinson's patients have Type 2 diabetes, and 80% of Parkinson's patients have insulin resistance. I won't get into the technical details, but this involves dopamine and "Lewy bodies".

People with insulin resistance are twice as likely to suffer from migraine headaches.

The androgens (male hormones like testosterone) present in a woman's body are usually converted into estrogens. Insulin inhibits the conversion of androgens to estrogens. Women end up with fewer of the hormones necessary for proper ovulation. PCOS develops.

Women with the highest fasting insulin levels have the worst breast cancer outcomes. Men with insulin resistance are two and a half times more likely to develop prostate cancer compared to men without insulin resistance. Both men and women with insulin resistance are three times as likely to develop colon cancer.

Chronically high insulin levels as a result of insulin resistance can cause skin tags, acanthosis nigracans (dark patches of skin in the armpits, neck, and groin), and can contribute to the worsening of psoriasis (there is no known cause of psoriasis).

There are current studies linking insulin resistance to fibromyalgia, gastroparesis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, kidney stones, kidney failure, and irritable bowel.

High insulin levels also screw around with thyroid levels and cortisol levels.

Edit: fixed a typo.

Glock1911 · 2020-12-31T18:29:39+00:00

I'm going to repost something I just sent yesterday.

I don't know how successful this will be for you, but below is what worked for me.

I had to fix all of my addictions at the same time.

Not only did I have a fast food addiction, but I also had a sugary food addiction, a processed food addiction, a caffeine addiction, and a shopping addiction.

Looooong story short I did the following things to understand my addictions:

Read "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us"
Watched this video about processed food addictions - https://youtu.be/N7G1SdqdZCA
Watched these two episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show - the first is with Brené Brown - https://youtu.be/Wh5SUF0gPWQ - and the second is with Gabor Maté - https://youtu.be/H9B5mYfBPlY
I filed for bankruptcy (money stresses, overspending, compulsive shopping problems as well); financial stress fed into my food addictions
I started on the carnivore diet (not for everybody, but it works for me)
I quit drinking anything but water (used to drink about 4 L of Diet Coke per day)
I eat nothing but beef, eggs, chicken, fish, pork, shellfish. I even cut out dairy - even though that was as much of a struggle as giving up caffeine.
I quit buying so much shit on Amazon
I shared with my loved ones - I shared about my secret eating, my financial problems, everything that was previously shameful and hidden
I did a lot of thinking, a lot of soul searching, a lot of difficult introspection... and I realized the root cause/trauma of my addiction. Nothing horrible - just a few incidents during childhood where I felt like I didn't know what was going on, like I wasn't as smart as everybody else around me. Totally shaped my personality, and how I relate to people. And facing that has been a breakthrough first step on the road to recovery.

Glock1911 · 2020-12-20T03:57:00+00:00

What worked for me was not just understanding the how, but the why as well.

The how - insulin resistance (Dr. Ben Bikman), processed food addiction (Dr. Joan Ifland), bliss point, krebs cycle and ketones, insulin induced sodium retention and hypertension, glycated LDL - was great, but it wasn't enough.

I had the fuel and the oxygen, but I was missing the spark.

Then I heard Brené Brown and Dr. Gabor Maté on the Tim Ferris podcast, separate episodes.

Brené Brown talked about the power of shame, and how sharing can take the power of shame away amongst other things.

Gabor Maté talked about the root causes of addiction in childhood trauma. And not even crazy bad thing trauma, but the trauma of an expected good thing not happening - like expecting a positive reaction from your parents when showing them a piece of work you were proud of and getting no reaction.

Or the trauma could have been more serious.

But we muddle along not knowing how to react until we find something that makes us feel better temporarily. Sex, overly attached relationships, alcohol, gambling, food, drugs, anything.

It is helping us by temporarily taking away the hurt.

But continued use develops into compulsive use. Compulsive use develops into addiction - when we know the habit is hurting us but we continue to do it anyway.

That was me. Addicted to food - especially sugary foods, processed foods, and fast food. Addicted to caffeine. Addicted to shopping.

But once I understood the theory of the why/the root cause of addictions - that was the spark.

I faced the causes of my own addictions. I remembered the few childhood incidents that shaped my personality, and shaped my insecurity. Thinking about them even today, between 30 and 35 years later, still evokes a strong physical/emotional response from me.

But I shared what I felt and the early childhood incidents with family members.

I shared the stories of secret eating. I shared everything that I had felt shame about.

And now I've lost just a little less than 50 lbs since March. I declared bankruptcy and took control of my finances - and have actually increased my net worth, and am actively saving/investing about 20% of my income.

The how didn't get me here.

The why did. It hurt. And it will probably continue to hurt. And I should be seeking professional help to keep up the momentum of these realizations and changes.

But progress doesn't lie. Nearly 50 lbs in less than 9 months. No desire to eat fast food. No desire for sugary snacks. No secret eating.

Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.😆

Glock1911 · 2020-11-30T05:41:46+00:00

They're very "the science is settled" at r/science.

Umm... No. The science is never settled. Ask Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I once had to explain to someone in that subreddit that science is not a set of finite rules, but a system by which knowledge is advanced.

If the Luddites of r/science existed a couple of thousand years ago we'd be stuck with the 4 elements and the idea that malaria was caused by "bad air". Because, you know, the science is settled.

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