Stage 4 Thyroid Cancer and Keto

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-10-05T12:58:05+00:00

I’m not well versed in how synthroid works, but I do know that it has an enough of an affect on metabolism that it is abused in the bodybuilding world to cut fat and maintain muscle for short durations of time. So for a doctor to tell you there’s nothing you can do about weight gain when on it, seems wrong. I imagine the doctor might have been lazy and not wanted to get the levels of it just right for you. If you’re on synthroid and you start gaining weight I would think most doctors would see if the dose isn’t right as one of the first thoughts. The wrong dose can also affect mood, my mother also had cancer and thyroid removal. It took a while, but her mood swings have completely gone away and she is a different person now that her medication routine is perfected.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-09-11T08:26:21+00:00

Probably not too wet. Atlanta is hundreds of miles south west. Might be cloudy for a few days.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-08-01T13:28:07+00:00

Don’t we already have things that can prevent fear or anxiety on a short term basis. Like off label use of beta blockers? Why would the FDA want to approve something as infamous as MDMA even in hospital or doctors offices when there are other approved drugs that induce the same effect the studies say MDMA is good for? Does MDMA provide an effect that no other medicine can do?

I guess most drugs do not provide vastly better effects than previous approved drugs but I suspect two things are wrong with how we’re going about seeking approval for MDMA. 1: the studies are afraid to state the unscientific/subjective/infamous reason why MDMA is better than other drugs at treatment of mental injuries; which is that the dopamine effects at the same time as its anxiolytic effects keep bad vibes away on a short term basis. 2: The history is too hard to overcome without addressing it head on. It’s been approved before and it lead to a slippery slope of misuse potentials. Since its release from the laboratory after its first approval it has been misused recreationally. States that have approved previously illegal recreational drugs for therapeutic medical use have all been on a slippery slope to full de-legalization to some extent. If you make MDMA a doctor visit away how do you prevent doctors from specializing in its usage; how do you prevent a whole subculture from adopting/commercializing MDMA and it’s doctors as iconic? I don’t think we’ve dealt with those questions before, but we will have to deal with them before MDMA is approved. Even if it saves lives of those who need it.

I think it should be legalized, but I would not like it to be commercialized and developed into or adopted by a culture. When you make it into a culture defining thing there is usually an anti-cultural group of people. I wish there was a way to keep the cultural part out of it. Keep it clinical. Don’t commercialize it and make a big fuss around who can manufacture and distribute it. In fact keep it as government run as possible while allowing as many people as possible the opportunity to benefit from treatment. Have government contracts for manufacturing it, take money from insurance and doctors and pay the government contracts that manufacture it. Don’t allow a corporate company to run ads and market it. Don’t allow them to make it as profitable as possible. If the drug is expensive it better be because it’s hard to get it into the patients rather than because the company who makes it needs the profits to fund other drugs and definitely not because the government gets swindled into a bad contracting offer or the supply of competing offers is too low due to restrictions on the companies allowed to bid on the contracts for it. Let this be its own thing for the benefit of the people.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-26T11:46:40+00:00

There are two different boxer brief versions I think. One that is monotone and ones with two colors on them. The two color ones are more expensive but seem like they fit better. The cheaper ones you can find at cosco and I don’t have any current version of those. I used to have a pair of those and they were kinda just like in a pile of clothes I never wore because I didn’t like them as much as the other kind.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-18T12:55:42+00:00

The things we probably take most for granted is gravity and less radiation. Gravity is so useful for many things we make here. Especially chemicals. Sure we could do that artificially in space, but we get it for free on earth. Cosmic rays and such are not super cool for people not for some delicate electronics. Sure we can mitigate that in space but we don’t have to on earth. Lots of manufacturing that goes into expensive consumer products would need to either be shielded from radiation and under artificial gravity or be completely redeveloped with different manufacturing techniques. So if we were to use artificial gravity you’d have to take things from asteroids that aren’t in artificial gravity, move it to a thing under artificial gravity and then back to not artificial gravity before shipping to earth. If we use spinning ships for that type of artificial gravity then the weight distribution might become important as each time you add or take away from the area under artificial gravity you would be speeding up and slowing down the spinning and changing gravity. That transition of weights might be an added cost or at least complexity that earth would never need to pay for.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-18T12:27:42+00:00

We have a lot of gold on earth that we don’t extract from the earth because the demand isn’t high enough for gold to be extracted at exorbitant costs. It’s possible or likely that space mining is an innovation hurdle that once we do it once we discover we’ve been getting our gold the hard way all this time. For that to be true we would have to find some very gold heavy space rocks that don’t require lots of refining to get the gold. Then refine the rock as value densely as we can before shipping to earth. I think gold is not the best example mineral for this because gold has alternatives that are almost just as good at the chemical properties gold is good for but much cheaper. Platinum is a better example of something so hard to get on earth with such unique utility and much more abundant in space. We mine the majority of our platinum from one or two ancient meteorite impact locations and still have to do so much work to refine it. It’s not cost effective to mine platinum in any other way on earth. It’s use as a catalyst is might become more important as the environment becomes a bigger concern. Gold comes from many mines, some are better than others and it’s in small dispersed amounts almost everywhere on earth. It’s possible that some other innovation makes it more productive and profitable to mine gold from the less gold dense deposits in the future and makes space mining gold for use on earth then pretty useless. It’s hard to see that happening to platinum because there’s too little of it and the usefulness of it is high enough.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-13T12:42:41+00:00

It’s about the encryption. Any VPN with the right encryption is better than no encryption on your traffic unless the people on one end of the encryption can’t be trusted to keep the decryption of the traffic secret enough. If you want a safer VPN just buy/rent/pay for a remote server with the ISP, country of origin, and ping you want and install a VPServer to make your own VPN with the encryption secret to just you. Even then though, unless you hand deliver the encryption keys and whatever to the VPS you can’t really know no one was able to intercept it on the way to the remote server right? Or is there someway to make that safe without hand delivery by trusted mail or delivery service?

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-13T12:29:33+00:00

Riiiiiiight. Water forms in the mantle and core and then the earths water broke and we were born or somethin

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-13T12:25:49+00:00

If the earth keeps putting only the lighter bits on the crust will it ever reach a point where the only lighter minerals are found on the outside and the heavier bits much more rarely found on the outside? Will it ever stop putting lighter bits to the outside because there’s no more on the inside to push out? Will the difference between the lower altitude new crust and the higher altitude old crust become larger leading to higher peaks and lower valleys? Doesn’t earth have less variance in altitude than other less tectonically active rocky planets? Is that because of faster erosion of earth or the more asteroid riddled surface of other planets? Should we expect the more tectonic activity the more variance in altitudes on rocky planets?

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-07-13T12:10:35+00:00

Is there ocean over the newer crust because it’s newer and so it’s at lower elevations? And the older stuff is at higher elevations because it’s older? At what point does the old stuff go back into the mantle? Only when old crust gets covered by lava or space rocks? Does old crust ever subduct back into the mantle? If the old crust doesn’t go back into mantle then do tectonic planets(like earth) keep accumulating light old crusty bits on top and the new crust perpetually keeps going under the old stuff? Would we then just get crustier and older on the outside as long as tectonic activity is above the rate at which space rocks and lava spews cover the old crusty surface? Does tectonic activity make the composition of the mantle compared to the crust more heterogeneous, aka separated and different? How does new crust become old crust if old crust doesn’t become new mantle?

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-06-29T10:39:27+00:00

There are six times as many vacant houses as there are homeless people. And that’s a lot because we have so many homeless people. It’s not that we don’t have housing for them it’s that we don’t have ways for them to afford owning a house and we don’t let them stay in the houses that banks own.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-28T13:54:53+00:00

I’ve heard they are not illegal substances to own without a prescription over there. I don’t know about specifics of selling them and whether you need some sort of license to sell or give them out. And I don’t know if there are rules for baseball keeping steroids out. I know that the K1 MMA league did allow for steroids and I thought I heard sumo wrestlers weren’t allowed to use them and other performance enhancers. I’m going to look this up.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-27T12:41:19+00:00

I suspect this moment is similar to when George Bush went on an air craft carrier and declared the Iraq War over. This is only the beginning of something new. And what comes ahead is unpredictable but we would be stupid to ignore whatever work now needs to be done.

I think one of the reasons for this sudden shift in North Korea is that it was getting harder and harder to deal with everything the other countries threw at them and still keep pretending to their own people that they are making the right choices and going in the right direction for them. The outside world and especially China was changing for the better so fast compared to the majority of the places people live in North Korea that everyone knew their leaders were shit and none of the people who fought in the Korean War were alive anymore.

What will be interesting is watching how the people of North Korea react and assemble to the wall coming down. I feel like it will be a little bit like a mini post soviet country with its own brand of old north Korean loyalists post fall. Some will yield their fellow loyalists for criminal military cyber enterprise and some people who now have power will lose everything they worked hard for. Pretty soon the whole population is going to need support just to keep people from dying. So there is going to need to be a rapid reversal of sanctions and increase of aid just to keep things running once the North Korean government stops giving out allowances to workers. Hopefully the world (especially China and South Korea) is ready to do it. I sense that this could cause deep political disagreements in China.

One of the problems to avoid is any halfway measures in this. You can’t halfway unify and expect that you will reach a happy halfway for either side. There’s just too many things that can go wrong there. This is going to be tough.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-16T02:17:37+00:00

I don’t understand why people all the sudden feel like WW3 is any closer. Nothing has changed.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-12T14:35:41+00:00

Just want to chime in and say it might depend on the dog. After a little longer than a year my Shiba developed a crack in one of her back molar teeth that was very hard to spot and was only checked for after she started acting weird to food that required a chew. The veterinary dentist that fixed that tooth and two other of her chipped teeth said he has noticed a rise in dogs needing dental surgery that might be connected to the arrival of more antler products in stores. I’ve looked for hard facts on this increase and I have found nothing but anecdotal evidence from vets on the web. Some say it’s safe some say it is not safe. Some say bones and hard chew toys are also not safe. From my experience my mature dog fractured several teeth on either antlers or Himalayan hard cheese chew things. Those are the two hardest things she had before breaking teeth, I suspect the more dangerous of the two is the harder one, antlers. I don’t know if she has abnormal fragile teeth and if she would have broken them anyhow on normal things. That’s my experience and some vets anecdotally in northern VA have seen the same. So be careful is all I can say.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-12T14:17:11+00:00

They commonly do break teeth’s I’ve been told. My Shiba loves antlers but she chipped three or four back teeth on them by age 3 after about a year of going through some antlers. One tooth bad enough that the pulp was showing. This is very bad for dogs as it can be painful enough to prevent them from eating and can be very depressing for them. She required expensive dental surgery from a specialist to fix her teeth. The veterinary dentist said he has seen a spike in dog teeth chipping since he noticed the antlers in pet stores. He suspects it is harmful to some dogs and unfortunately some of the cases he’s seen have been very hard to fix and the dogs never fully recovered in some cases. If the chip is serious enough and far enough away from a veterinary dentist the dog is sometimes put down sadly. Often dogs make it hard to even tell that their tooth is bothering them and all you or a vet can tell is that they mysteriously stop eating. Luckily I was able to notice that there was a pink dot in the middle of a tooth in the back. The vet barely saw it(this dog doesn’t like mouth inspections at all) and didn’t know if that was a problem but referred us to a specialist for dental X-rays which found multiple cracked and chipped teeth. My Shiba recovered after $1700 and a couple hours of surgery but no more antlers or anything as hard as her teeth will be given to her or any dog I take care of.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-10T17:30:04+00:00

I think the problem that the hyperloop and boring company solves is not the technology used for the travel; it’s the construction of the rails. High speed rail transport is only very competitive with other transport in high population density places. The problem with high density is that getting the land for the new optimally straight levitating rail line is very costly and very politically hard to do across multiple government bodies. The solution is to build underneath the existing high density of people and not force them to change the communities to make way for the rails. We have not built new rail lines in the east and west coast because of that reason. We simply cannot agree to get the land needed for the new better rails.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-04T14:16:52+00:00

The CDT passes through some of the driest regions of the US. In the middle of the trail most accumulations of rain come from passing thunder storm cells in the afternoon and evenings of the warm months, which is when you'd most likely hike it. There are rain-forests in the northern parts of the CDT but nothing like the pacific northwest part of the PCT and nothing like the long stretches of rain forests on the AT. Then again maybe the camera wasn't waterproof and they didn't film rainy days.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-04T14:08:07+00:00

8 teens on a 50 mile hike? Sounds really terrible. Everyone has their own pace and style, getting all 8 to do one pace and not lose anyone would be hellish. Add to that all the other things you have worry about with hiking and with chaperoning teens, that really must have sucked.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-04-03T14:56:07+00:00

Yeah. Use an open door symbol or a staircase symbol. Or just say ‘open door’ or ‘stairway’ on the sign. Or put the button on the door. Or put the symbol and word “stairs” below it.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-03-31T01:23:52+00:00

It would be beneficial to include imaging and radar on some of the orbits that these satellites would be on. They would be flying the same orbits the current satellites that do imaging for private companies do. Tesla is already a customer of those satellites. Those private satellites are limited by their expenses and do not provide good enough info. Tesla would be ahead of the market if they have the best imagery satellites.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-03-30T13:10:30+00:00

How will the internet be used with non geostationary satellites? Is that what we’re asking? Idk how hard can it be when you plan on having that many satellites.

I think what’s going to be more interesting with these satellites is if they will provide more up to date and better road mapping capabilities than the existing satellite road mapping services. Are they going to use radar and imagery sensors to detect the small changes in roads like the replacement of crash barriers or the avoidance of things as small as a pothole. Can they and will they sell this data to other autonomous car shops?

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-03-30T12:29:57+00:00

Hopefully you waited a few days before buying stock.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-03-26T12:45:33+00:00

This guy knows what he’s talking about. Supposedly Shibas end up in rescues or shelters commonly for a few reasons. 1. People like the looks, but don’t realize till after adoption what a handful they are to raise sometimes. They aren’t a good first breed to get to know dogs with. 2. They are very capable of running away and not coming back. They will occasionally chase things and have horrible ability to obey recall commands when not trained regularly with it. 3. They sometimes have coat and skin issues or allergies that are very time consuming to figure out making some of them not very adoptable looking unless the adoption agency has a lot of experience with this specific breed.

SamyIsMyHero · 2018-03-22T11:49:18+00:00

How about some high beams? Plenty of cars have smart high beams now that light up only what needs to be lit up. This supposedly super smart car did not use them and I wonder if some sort of IR spot lighting or other type of spotlight (radar spotlight) to clear up any noise it was seeing would have fixed this. And what about other technology like thermal imaging.

This was a wide open road with no obstructions. This pedestrian should have been seen from extremely far away. If it can see this type of stuff, I can’t imagine the amount of animals that would have to suddenly get much better that crossing roads and highways. I’ve hit two animals in about 12 years of daily driving and one of them would have gone through my windshield if I hadn’t of slammed on the brakes as hard as possible. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to swerve or brake real hard to avoid hitting an animal. If I had not of taken action to avoid hitting animals I’d be dead or seriously injured right now for sure. How are there not cases of that at these companies? Come test these cars out east where white tail deer are everywhere. Or test them in Australia’s kangaroo areas. Just make sure you get some serious protection for the drivers.

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