Oxidative Stress
Edible plants suffer from oxidative stress from UV light just like humans. The polyphenols they create to protect themselves we take advantage of when we eat them.
What Are Polyphenols?
Autophagy
I’m wondering whether a 48-hour fast once a month, forever, would keep you safe from all the major diseases. My reasoning is that all the major diseases — heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. — start with oxidative stress that damages cell DNA with a free radical searching for missing electrons. The 48-hour fast would induce a very intense autophagy that would pretty much put a halt to oxidative stress and any chronic inflammation. The fast would also strengthen one’s immune cells.
Mind Travel
Put yourself into solitude. No outside distraction, no TV, no Internet, no phone. Just you and some time away from everything.
Close your eyes. Find some place in your mind that is familiar to you, where you have been and are completely aware of.
Mentally, just move around in that space for 15 minutes or longer. Enjoy the trip and don’t rush back.
You’ve just experienced “mind travel” — a kind of meditation that frees you form any distress/anxiety/negativity about the present. A nice escape.
Minnesota
Need to double down and clean out all the fraud and criminal illegal immigrants as well.
But Minnesota is just the beginning — then Washington, Oregon, Calif, Maine, New York.
Thinking
Do you think or just repeat?
Happiness
Learn to dance with life.
Tariffs
Trade Act of 1974 (Section 301)
Allows tariffs to respond to unfair trade practices.
I asked an AI website whether the prez has the authority to impose tariffs under the Constitution. It said this belonged to Congress, but Congress can delegate this right to the prez, and it did that in 1974 to respond to “unfair trade practices”. This is what Trump has been claiming all along.
Criticism and Social Media
Everyone like to be praised. But does praise have any real value. It is just reinforcing your current behavior. And if that behavior is counter productive, then the reinforcement is actually a negative thing.
Everyone, on the other hand, dislikes criticism. But criticism may actually have real value because it may be pointing in a direction where if you take the implied change in behavior seriously and act on it, that may lead to a very positive outcome.
On social media, you see this disparity all the time. People love the likes and the positive comments, but bristle at any critical comments. Their reaction to critical comments can and often are extremely emotional.
Yet where is the value when comparing praise to criticism? The thoughtful response to criticism isn’t emotion but rational consideration. Does the criticism actually have any merit, and if so, what should I do about it?
But you don’t get this on social media. Just emotional responses. No rationality. So, on balance, the responses in social media have very limited real value, and don’t lead to any productive change in behavior.
Appeal of Socialism
Wages are not keeping up with inflation. So more and more people are not making it. Thus the rise in socialism as the answer. But that answer is pure self-deception. Socialist politicians are offering free everything to people who can’t pay their bills. You see why socialism is happening, particularly in blue cities. But it will not end well — only get worse in those locations.
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