Your cholesterol number isn't where I'd look. Unless you have familial hypercholesterolaemia, a rare genetic condition, these are the tests that actually tell you how your metabolism is doing: Fasting insulin. It can creep up for 10+ years before your blood sugar moves, so it's the earliest warning sign. HbA1c and fasting glucose. These show your average blood sugar over about three months, and where it sits today. HOMA-IR. It's calculated from your fasting insulin and glucose, and it measures insulin resistance. Triglycerides and HDL, as a ratio. Divide your triglycerides by your HDL. A low ratio points to good insulin sensitivity. hs-CRP. This picks up low-grade inflammation. GGT and ALT. These are liver markers, and early clues to a fatty liver. Most of these never get ordered unless you ask. Ask.

I wrote this myself with no AI. I have 17 years working in the Finance industry. There are numerous studies in Behavioral psychology that point to why the banks want you to use a credit card, put all your bills on it, and pay it off in full every cycle so you don’t pay any interest and get the cash back or points. And it’s not because the banks or credit card companies like giving you free cash back or points or they just want to be nice. There is a real revenue incentive for the bank and it’s based on your behavioral psychology and science. The more you spend on a credit card the more interbank exchange fees that the issuing bank ( your credit card company) and the Aquiring bank ( the bank the merchant uses) pays for each transaction. Typically, it’s 2.5.% of the transaction for VISA and those funds are split between your credit card bank and the merchant’s bank and the merchant pays that fee that is split to those two banks. Now the studies I have read from articles in psychology today talk about when you use a debit card your brain lights up more with emotions like loss and pain then when you use a credit card because you are spending your own money and not the banks. This is why on average consumers using credit cards throughout the year spend about 28% more money then if they use a debit card throughout the year. I know what you are going to say “But… but I never carry a balance and never pay interest and get free stuff “ I already accounted for that, The math works like this: Get $600 a year In free points or cash back for putting alll my bills and expenses on credit card and never pay interest always paying off balance every month. But you didn’t realize that over the whole year you spent on average $3000-$4000 more with a credit card and the points and cash back hardly even account for the increased spending. I would rather stick to a debit card and invest the $3200 I am saving a year. Escape from the points/cash back trap because the banks love that your merchants and you are helping them profit billions.

This Claude prompt wipes your name, phone number and address off the internet. "Adopt the role of a privacy investigator who's helped hundreds of people disappear from data brokers, people-search sites and old accounts. I want my personal information off the internet. Work through it with me one step at a time, then give me: → every place my name, phone, email and address show up, with links → the opt-out page for each one, worst first → the old accounts I should close, and how to delete each one for good → a GDPR or CCPA deletion letter for every site with no opt-out button Don't submit, send or delete anything until I approve it. My name, city, email and old usernames: [YOUR DETAILS]"

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Once again, I bestow upon y’all… my late Grandpa‘s Terlingua Chili Recipe. He spent literally decades perfecting this recipe, it was his pride and joy. Follow the instructions to the letter. (then add beans)

You can be globally compassionate as a person and still feel that your society should have careful borders and that local cultures matter, and should be preserved if they're clearly doing well. These actually aren't in contradiction.

We are past warnings. Cities are burning. More will follow. This will come to the United States IMO. This is an attack on western societies and values. Yes, there are many root causes. Uncontrolled migration without assimilation. International funding of protest for violent purposes. Issues of affordability. Education. Housing shortages. Employment opportunities, etc. They started with issues but then are quickly hijacked by ultra-left radicals, islamist, the red-green alliance, opportunists, and those brainwashed by victimhood. Why? Lack of values, purpose, and identity. With eroded traditional sources of identity and purpose (family, nation, vocation, faith), huge groups fill the void by claiming victim status or becoming advocates for other designated supposed victims. Responsibility is externalized: the system - capitalism, democracy, natives, “the West,” or some oppressor always explains their personal or collective shortfalls. This produces victimhood culture, beliefs of shared grievance, and alliances with radicals who offer belonging through struggle rather than responsibility, competence, or reform. The leftists/Marxist, the Islamists, and those thirsting for purpose don’t want reforms. They want to destroy society. They want identity through victimhood and destruction. They take no responsibility for their own status, there is always an oppressor to blame, always someone else’s fight. So they burn what they won’t fix. Step one is law and order. Reinforce the police. Enforce the law. Arrest, track, and if applicable deport every single person who commits violence or crimes. These won’t be the last protests or cities to burn if "let's address their grievances," suicidal empathy, victimhood culture, political cowardliness continues.

Will mass migration be the death of the West? It doesn't have to be, but we have to act now. In this documentary, we explain what is happening, who is behind it, and most importantly…what can be done. FULL DOCUMENTARY 👇

If you want to understand why France is burning, watch this documentary

As usual, people are looking for deep reasons, but I think there isn't any for the most part and the real explanation is much more boring. There is a very high level of general dissatisfaction in France at the moment, mostly due to anemic economic growth and inflation, especially with the price of gas. In addition, Macron has been in power for almost 10 years and is very unpopular, which only adds to general dissatisfaction. The high school protests, although they were already fizzling out, have provided motivation for the left by fueling the hope that it could ride out that wave to energize its own protests. So there was a fertile ground for protests, which are pretty common in France after summer. Still, while the protests were large, they were hardly impressive by French standards. What set them apart from traditional French social movements is how violent they were. Contrary to popular mythology, French protests are not generally violent. France has a very strong protest and strike culture, but the meme about how we riots all the time is overdone. Traditionally, protests are traditionally organized by unions, which coordinate with the authorities beforehand and have a security service that takes care of troublemakers during the protest. This is why the violence always starts toward the end of the protests, after the official demonstration has disbanded and people begin to scatter, because that's when it's harder for the police to control the situation. Protests have increasingly led to violence in recent years because they have become more spontaneous and are more often organized by people on social media, but also and relatedly because increasingly far-left groups and children of immigrants opportunistically join them to cause mayhem and loot. I keep seeing a lot of people who are depicting those kids as "Islamists" and ideologically motivated actors, but I think it's a complete misreading of the situation in my opinion. This isn't an "Islamist uprising" or whatever nonsense people are talking about. Their actions are opportunistic and driven by a nihilistic culture that is very similar to what you see in Black ghettos in the US, where anti-social behavior is totally normalized, with an added Islamic veneer due to their family background. This nihilism and their family background makes them susceptible to Islamist indoctrination, which is why terrorists were almost always delinquent before they turned to religion, but most of them aren't ideologues and those who are don't loot stores. As I explained before, the police often don't intervene because they are overwhelmed and they have instructions from the government not to, because politicians are terrified that if they do a kid will be killed and they will have full-blown race riots on their hands. So what they do instead is contain the violence geographically and arrest the most violent participants later at home, when the risk that the cops will kill one of them is low, using video/photo evidence. Eventually things will fizzle out, in part because the violence will discredit the movement and actually make it easier for the government to deal with it, but this tactic is very costly since we are effectively accepting that every now and then far-left activists and immigrant thugs will just burn and loot while the police watch. The problem from the government's point of view is that, if they use repression by telling the cops to break skulls, they will kill some of the kids and this will result in a massive backlash, leading to more protests and probably even more violence. I think we need to hand out serious prison time to protesters who are caught engaging in violence to deter this kind of shit, but the government has a very limited ability to do so, because justice is independent, courts are full of left-wing judges who refuse to do that, they are already overwhelmed with cases, prisons are full and we are broke. So there isn't one single explanation, it's just a combination of factors, including random stuff that nobody could predict. The context explains why something like that *can* happen, but it doesn't explain why it happens when it does. Again it's probably random for the most part. It would take years to solve the problem even if we started now, which we won't because our politics is completely broken, because it would require getting our budget in order, implementing reasonable economic policies, fixing our immigration and justice system, etc. We are cooked to be honest.

having tried my best to intuit the motives of the protesters in France today, I am struck by the fact that two of the most treasured pillars of the European postwar order are colliding: 1. unfettered immigration, especially from former colonies, justified by historical obligation and postcolonial guilt 2. protecting pensions and the elderly at all costs, even to the point of extreme fiscal strain now you have first and second generation immigrants, as well as young native french people, taking to the streets because the french state is hell-bent on extracting whatever it can and feeding it into the maw of boomer luxury communism. the younger generation is being asked to accept a deteriorating deal: pay more, receive less, and abandon the expectation of matching the living standard of their parents or grandparents. the young immigrant newcomers have even less incentive to accept any kind this bargain. they are not bought in to the french social contract. they have no common identity with the french boomers they are being asked to sustain. they resent the fact that the entire machinery of the state is designed to exploit the young to serve the old. the old do not care about the immigrants enough to trade away any of their entitlements for them. they have the advantage as they wield the franchise reliably and their share of the electorate is only growing, so they won't accept a decline in their own standard of living to fund a future they will never live to see. now these two groups are on a collision course. ironically, immigration was intended to ameliorate the worsening fiscal picture brought about by a demographic transition. but this did not happen. studies have repeatedly shown that immigrants do increase aggregate GDP (by simple brute force, by adding to population), but not the fiscal picture [1]. the most comprehensive paper using real-world data [2] segments immigrant types to France and finds non-EU immigrants to be persistently fiscally negative. EU immigrants by contrast are the most fiscally positive group, meaning that studies that consider immigrants as a whole are masking the negative impact of non-western immigrants (and Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia rank #1 and #2 and #4. Africa accounts for 50% of the 8 million immigrants living in France today.) immigration has not caused France's fiscal crisis. but it hasn't bettered the economic picture at all – it has deteriorated it somewhat – and it has created a combustible demographic that has little allegiance to the French nation. far from helping France deal with its aging workforce, immigration has added fiscal burden and created a permanent, non-assimilated disenfranchised underclass. the original justifications for immigration – labor scarcity, postcolonial obligation, and more recently workforce aging – have largely failed to manifest the promised results. the pro-immigrationist policy has been defended in Brussels as necessary to defend the welfare state, but it has expanded the population making claims on the state, without eliminating the need for fiscal adjustments. France now has an aging electorate aiming to preserve the benefits it was promised, mingled with a younger more diverse population that questions whether it will ever receive a similar deal. the young are vastly outmatched at the ballot box and so they take to the streets. the french establishment is now trying to preserve a tenuous status quo: unlimited intergenerational obligations alongside a neverending immigration regime that continually changes the composition of the society intended to honor those obligations. the immigration regime also actively worsens the fiscal picture while creating these cultural fractures and inculcating a society more prone to sectarian violence. the french state will have to renegotiate its social contract and disempower one of these groups. electoral gravity suggests that the old will continue to win until France finally reaches default and creditors renegotiate the welfare state for them. the major contenders in 27 take different approaches to this tradeoff: - the right in Le Pen looks to reduce immigration-related expenditure and focus public spending on French citizens, while resisting retirement age increases - Macron in the center aims to control immigration somewhat and reform pensions by raising retirement age - Melenchon's left, largely behind the protests this week, denies the tradeoff and aims to keep funding pensions and retirement at 60 while increasing immigration. as France has very little fiscal space it's unclear how this would be paid for whether the french social contract can be peacefully renegotiated remains to be seen. [1] For France, immigrants' net fiscal contribution averaged -0.85% of GDP over 2006-2018 when all public expenditure was allocated (and this includes ALL categories of immigrants including European, American and Asian) See: oecd.org/en/publications/int… [2] See table 4 (translated below) shs.cairn.info/revue-economi…

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The Gun debate on X is on again and before anyone jumps into a debate I suggest that they read : John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government” from 1689. This book became the intellectual bedrock of modern liberal democracy, constitutionalism, and revolution and the biggest influence on the founders when they wrote the 2nd amendment and the Bill of Rights. Remember, American citizens are born the right to bear arms. The 2nd amendment is there to restrict the government from infringing on that natural right given by God. This is the essence of the 2nd ammendment and all of the Bill of Rights. Government does not grant you rights because WE THE PEOPLE created the government and politicians only have power through the consent of the governed . Before Locke, political authority was widely viewed as descending from God directly to monarchs (the Divine Right of Kings), leaving subjects with no inherent rights except those the sovereign deigned to grant. Locke completely inverted this paradigm. 1. The Natural Right of Self-Preservation For Locke, the primary law of nature is that self-preservation is a supreme duty. Because individuals in the state of nature retain the right to defend their lives, liberties, and property from violent aggression, they cannot morally surrender that right of defense to a government when they form a civil society. Jefferson and the Founding generation viewed an armed citizenry as the physical manifestation of this natural right. A government that disarms its citizens denies them the fundamental, God-given means of self-defense, effectively reducing them to subjects rather than free citizens.

Civil rights lawyer Jonathan Gross took a job at Trump’s DOJ hoping to stop the weaponization of government. What he saw once he got there was shocking. 0:00 Gross's Journey From Rabbi to DOJ Lawyer 5:35 Gross's Mission to Stop the Weaponization of the DOJ 17:28 Gross's Lawsuit Against Attorney General Todd Blanche 25:51 The Revolving Door of DOJ Weaponization 31:30 The NPR Hit Piece on Gross 33:41 The Moment Trump's DOJ Shut Down Gross's Fight for J6 Justice 39:56 Why Isn't Trump Helping the People Prosecuted for Covid "Crimes"? 43:12 The Corrupt Lawyers Selling Presidential Pardons 40:59 The Anti-White Agenda Within the DOJ 1:01:43 Has Anyone in Power Taken Gross's Side? 1:07:02 Gross's Conversations With Harmeet Dhillon 1:18:06 Does Anyone in Washington Feel Empathy for These People? 1:22:35 What's Trump's Motive in Protecting Corruption? 1:23:33 What Do We Know About the Terror Watchlist? 1:33:34 Gross's Separation from DOJ 1:38:22 Why Is the Trump Administration Defending This?

Coming riots and violence, breakup of California, Giant Tsunami's on both coasts, Plague worse than Covid. x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwVWb…

Tucker Carlson: “I’m starting to think that maybe this is by design”

Today Charlie Kirk would have celebrated his 33rd b-day with family & friends. How do you "count it all joy" when the love of your life was brutally murdered for the whole world to see?

SNL took a barbershop, three men with personal problems, and some questionable life advice and turned them into a comedy sketch. But the cleverest part of “Uneek Kutz Barbershop” isn’t just the jokes. It’s how the entire idea is constructed. Here’s how it works.

Don’t rake your leaves. It’s a modern day PSYOP to get you to waste your time and resources just to make your environment worse. Let me explain…