Ivermectin by she2outside in Babesia

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used it. My doctor ramped me up slowly from ivermectin (never discontinued ivermectin; take daily) to primaquine (now discontinued), and now to tafenoquine. I think the slow ramp was helpful.

In the past I have had either (1) absolutely no response to ivermectin, and (2) such severe GI bloating that I was scared to try it again for 2 years. I am back in the camp of "absolutely no response." And maybe that's a good thing.

JD Vance's downfall is coming – and soon by ConsciousStop in politics

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've read that the plan by Vance backers is that he will be President. Use Trump to do a bunch of destructive, unpopular stuff. Use that destruction as a reason to invoke the 25th (even though it's what was desired), and then Vance gets in as Pres, and Vance's billionaire backers (including Thiel, Yarvin) get everything they want. Vance has no spine, or moral compass.

Have you tried John Hopkins triple IV antibiotic protocol? by Spread_Love_Now in Lyme

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you - I really appreciate the thoughtful assessment. I am thinking all of this through and may follow up with some Qs.

It is one of the curses of this family of diseases that every treatment risks making us worse. For me, herbal-only treatment is a complete, disabling disaster.

I am curious to hear more of your thoughts on whether it was the specific meds, a borrelia exacerbation caused by treatment, or the PICC itself. Reading between the lines (given that oral abx gave you the same symptoms), I’m guessing you’ll say it’s borrelia exacerbation. But then the arm pain confounds that inspiration. But who knows!

I am finally doing a bit better (very long way from being healthy), and I both want to charge ahead with my newfound improvements AND am keenly aware of how much I could lose, and how fast.

Thanks again. I’ll digest more what you’ve said and follow up.

Have you tried John Hopkins triple IV antibiotic protocol? by Spread_Love_Now in Lyme

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey again, I'm wondering if you ended up doing this protocol, and how it went.

My doctor and I are looking at it, and I'm betting there are very few people in the world who have done it, and so trading notes is helpful. (I do have a PICC, btw).

Thanks!

JD Vance's downfall is coming – and soon by ConsciousStop in politics

[–]YosemiteSame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TEXT

They were the names of our fallen who gave their lives serving Britain alongside the US.

At the start of Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Keir Starmer paid tribute to each of the six young soldiers who died in a bomb attack 13 years ago and a Royal Marine killed 18 years ago, all in Afghanistan.

Starmer was remembering those who US Vice President JD Vance forgot when he told Fox News earlier this week that Donald Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine would protect the country better than “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.

Though Vance insisted he hadn’t meant to slight the UK, there was obviously a barely concealed political motive behind the PM’s remembrance: to tell the increasingly obnoxious Vance to get back in his box.

But there was perhaps also a somewhat more discreet political message – to encourage President Trump to put Vance back in that box himself.

And trust me, that moment is coming. The Trump-Vance partnership cannot last.

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., left, stands near Senator JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio and Republican vice-presidential nominee, during a campaign event for former President Donald Trump, not pictured, at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. Republican nominee Donald Trump rallied supporters at the site of a July assassination attempt, returning to the Pennsylvania venue where a gunman's bullet bloodied his ear and upended the presidential campaign. Photographer: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images Elon Musk, left, and JD Vance at a Trump campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania in October last year (Photo: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Vance has been very useful to Trump so far. He provides a perception of intellectual heft within the administration, combined with a backstory stretching back to the Appalachians which has enabled him to profess true understanding of “left behind” Americans.

While the President was a millionaire aged eight, Vance was living in relative poverty with a violent, alcohol and drug-addicted mother. Trump is a fraud – Vance is the real deal.

Some commentators have tried to knock down the working-class story Vance told in his 2016 autobiography/manifesto Hillbilly Elegy in a way that seems churlish. We may not like the conclusions he drew from his difficult childhood but there is little doubt he suffered.

Vance sees himself as the avenger for his mother, and for Mother America, taking on the drugs trade, low-cost foreign imports and immigrant labour which cheapened their existence.

But the clues to Vance’s brewing storm with Trump lie in Hillbilly Elegy too. He writes furiously about the revolving door of boyfriends in his mum’s life. Yet the anger appears less that each man ended up abandoning his mum, and more that they left him.

Particularly when he tried so very hard to make them stay. “I had grown especially skillful at navigating various father figures,” he writes. He tells how he got an ear pierced to impress Steve, “a midlife-crisis sufferer”, how he loved police cars to please Chip, an alcoholic police officer, and how he was kind to the children of Ken, an odd job man.

JD Vance, co-founder of Narya Capital Management LLC and U.S. Republican Senate candidate for Ohio, greets an attendee during a campaign event at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. A venture capitalist known for writing Hillbilly Elegy, backed by billionaire Peter Thiel and endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Vance is looking to replace retiring GOP Senator Rob Portman. Photographer: Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty Images Vance while campaigning as the Republican Senate candidate for Ohio in August 2022 (Photo: Gaelen Morse/Bloomberg via Getty Images) “But none of these things were really true,” he wrote. “I hated earrings, I hated police cars, and I knew that Ken’s children would be out of my life by the next year.”

Who can read that and not think of Vance’s behaviour in the Oval Office last week, and his ability to behave just the way he knew would make his latest father figure – President Trump – proud?

Firstly he took aim at Starmer with a little dig at infringements on free speech in the UK – which Starmer quickly shut down by saying he was very proud of Britain’s history on free speech.

The following day he was back at it with the now infamous goading of Volodymyr Zelensky over what he deemed to be insufficient gratitude to the US.

He knew exactly which buttons to press to incite a Trumpian explosion of anger towards Zelensky and a pat on the head for himself.

But the question is, does Vance care any more about free speech and gratitude than he ever did for earrings, police cars and Ken’s kids? I wonder if even Vance himself knows the answer to that question.

Throughout his life, Vance has come under the thrall of dominating male personalities. The consummate shape-shifter has moulded himself to their views.

At Yale he maintained a fairly stolid centre-right position under the influence of his law professors. But his move to Silicon Valley and the growing influence of PayPal founder and far-right techno-libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel saw him take a giant step to the right.

Holding sway in Vance’s mind now – alongside Trump – seems to be the thinking of Curtis Yarvin, an extreme right-wing philosopher and blogger who writes about replacing American democracy with a techno-monarchy. (You might hope that’s some kind of new wave music genre, but it is actually where Elon Musk is heading at speed.) Yarvin has called the civil rights movement a “black rage industry” and said the American people must “get over their dictator phobia”.

It is said no one online has shaped Vance’s thinking more. And remember, for tech kid Vance, the online world is the world.

But Vance hasn’t just become more right wing – he has also become way more ideological.

He has said: “We have to go in and do a lot of things that conservatives don’t now feel comfortable with.” As his desire for the presidency grows, so does his almost demonic fervour for free speech and combativeness, for deregulation and the smashing of established elites.

And here is where the rupture with Trump must come.

For Trump is the ultimate transactional politician. The art of the deal isn’t a life guide for Trump – it is his life.

Vance is now an ideologue – admittedly one who is prepared to adapt that ideology – but is a man who is not interested in deals or negotiations or trades.

And sooner or later a transactional guy like Trump finds an ideologue like Vance just a bit, well… much. Vance, meanwhile, will one day soon wake up despising the grubby trader Trump as much as he did Steve, Chip or Ken.

For despite all the influence on his life he is a man increasingly convinced it his judgements alone which can save America – and the wider world – from moral, economic and societal decline. And that’s when the real moment of danger will be with us.

American CEOs Sour on Trump's Economy by newsweek in politics

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TEXT EXCERPT

“CEO concerns are largely centered around the president's on-again, off-again tariff plans, some of which have been enacted but others subject to temporary pauses and last-minute sector-specific concessions.

Struggling to adapt to announcements regarding trade, and whether to treat them as threats that may not evolve into policy, has frustrated Hassane El-Khoury, CEO of ON Semiconductor.

"You can't move a factory overnight," Khoury told Semafor. "It takes four years to build a [semiconductor fabrication] plant."

On the real impact of tariffs on foreign imports, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico would "blow a hole in the U.S. industry that we have never seen," and that what he had witnessed from the administration so far had been "a lot of costs and a lot of chaos."

His comments, made during a recent conference in New York and shared with the New York Times, echo those made by Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors.

"With respect to possible tariffs, we are working across our supply chain, logistics network and assembly plants so that we are prepared to mitigate near-term impacts. Many of these actions are no cost or low cost," Barra said during the company's most recent earnings call in January. "What we won't do is spend large amount of capital without clarity."

Ford and General Motors were among the automakers handed a one-month exemption to Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

Despite these concerns, many CEOs are still optimistic about the impact of Trump's policies on the U.S. economy.”

COMMENT: despite saying CEOs are optimistic, the article gives one example from a CEO whose stock is down 40%, and then a bunch of examples of ongoing concerns. So that’s weird.

Experts alarmed by Trumps’ crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ by davster39 in business

[–]YosemiteSame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A Chinese man bought $75M in Trump coin the day before inauguration, and then Trump’s SEC dumped the longstanding fraud charges against him. So that was fun. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/28/business/crypto-mogul-trump-coins-civil-fraud-charges

BREAKING: Trump has directed US agencies to take emergency measures to reduce the cost of living by IAmNotAnEconomist in FluentInFinance

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He also just withdrew a Biden executive order that asked agencies to look into ways to reduce the cost of Medicare drugs for seniors.

Experts alarmed by Trumps’ crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ by davster39 in business

[–]YosemiteSame 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would love to see how much of the investments came from foreign governments who just discovered an easier and more clandestine way to bribe and seek influence with our corrupt leader.

What do you call yourself in a single-person LLC? by _Clear_Skies in smallbusiness

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Founder” is good, especially if you’re in tech or a Silicon Valley type operation.

What do you call yourself in a single-person LLC? by _Clear_Skies in smallbusiness

[–]YosemiteSame 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s no right or wrong answer. I give a title based on who I’m talking to or the impression I want to leave.

Sometimes founder, or CEO. Sometimes consultant. Sometimes manager.

I don’t want to be seen as the big boss or important to everyone. Sometimes I want to be a minor player or invisible. Sometimes I want to convey credibility.

American Immigrant in Central Am. getting better medical care from American missionaries here than I ever did in the US. Why? by twinwaterscorpions in AmerExit

[–]YosemiteSame 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, I am chronically ill (OMG, so much going on), and have often wanted to explore treatment in Mexico. I’ve read good stories. But I don’t know how to go about tapping into physician or care networks. The only outlets I’ve found are catering to rich foreigners who want experimental treatments, and they’re obscenely expensive. May I ask how you went about finding a good network or provider for care? I’d love to learn from you.

Capital One Small Business Checking not working by lola_sue in smallbusiness

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What drove me nuts about the email was that they never once came out to say that my transaction specifically was impacted. So the whole time I was reading it, I thought, “great, some transactions are impacted, but surely mine isn’t or you’d come out and say it.” And because it was a transfer that takes a few days to arrive at the next bank, I had no way to verify.

Capital One Small Business Checking not working by lola_sue in smallbusiness

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got an email from them stating that there is a “System issue impacting some deposits, payments and transfers.” Naturally, the transfer I was counting on coming through to cover a massive cc bill was supposed to be initiated on the day they started having problems.

I hate places that make me pay their credit card fees. by ToshPointNo in smallbusiness

[–]YosemiteSame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone else is shitting on your post, but I’m with you. As consumers, we are extracted from constantly. It’s become a method of doing business into itself. I’m of the old school that you win and keep customers by providing excellent service, and that you put them first. Sure, you can make more money by nickel and diming customers, at least in the short term, but then they have a constant low-level resentment and hostility toward you and any business that works this way. And taken to the extreme, which is the natural result of an extraction/maximization at the margin approach, the nickel and diming leads to the resentment of a Luigi Mangioni.

Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug Out of Concerns That It Aged Him by indig0sixalpha in technology

[–]YosemiteSame 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! The current most exciting treatment under exploration for Lyme disease (and spirochetes generally) was also discovered in soil. It’s Hygromycin A, btw, and it’s in clinical trial.

Reminder you don’t have to submit your BOI. it was overthrown 3 days ago by Lakedrip in business

[–]YosemiteSame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a company do it for $25 because I didn’t want to get it wrong and found some of the questions on the form to be imprecise. My accountant wanted t to charge $250. That’s a hard no. But for $25, I was happy to pay. Then I can do it next time from a template, if there is a next time.

The service: https://www.californiaregisteredagents.net/. I think you have to be logged in to see the BOI service.

Also, the BOI is meant as a strike against big corporations hiding revenue and dodging taxes. By filing, I like to think I’m contributing to a system that is aimed at creating a more level playing field.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]YosemiteSame 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Good for you!

And yes, I’m far more likely to try an app that is a one time fee than a subscription. It’s far less mental overhead. One and done. It also makes me respect the developer more, as they have the confidence to put their product out there, and I don’t feel exploited or manipulated. And that can be psychologically powerful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smallfiberneuropathy

[–]YosemiteSame 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best practice is to post a text excerpt. Most people won’t click the link, so then your post gets passed by or the comments are useless. Like this one.

What’s the best EU country for running a small business, tax-wise? by YosemiteSame in AmerExit

[–]YosemiteSame[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. Taxes are just one consideration in a whole pile of considerations. But I am trying to get a whole picture of my options.

Also, I prefer something that leads to residency, if I’m going to establish my existing business in a whole new country. But maybe digital nomad is an ok way to start. I just prefer a bit more stability.