Saturday, February 28, 2026

DR. TIM GOYETCHE: Fasting for Autophagy? Eugenol from Hot Water Clove Bud Extract Induces and Amplifies Autophagic Action without the need for fasting, but can also be used to supercharge autophagy during fasting.

SAMA HOOLE: The New World wasn't a political idea to the average emigrant. It was a place where you could eat like a lord without owing a lord anything.

These were not people who had decided, in a detached philosophical way, that liberty was preferable to tyranny.

These were people who were hungry. Specifically for meat. Who had heard from sailors and merchants and adventurers that there was a place across the water where the game belonged to no one, where the forests had no keeper, where you could shoot a deer because you wanted to eat it and face no consequence beyond the satisfaction of having eaten it. --Sama Hoole

"They came for religious freedom." Right. Yes. Some of them. Partly. Read the actual letters they sent back home. Not the ones that got turned into school textbooks. The ones written in the first winter, by people who'd survived the crossing and were now looking at a landscape so alien and so abundant that they didn't have the vocabulary for it. They wrote about the meat. Passenger pigeon flocks so vast that early settlers described the sky turning dark at midday. Not briefly. For three days. One flock. Continuous. The sound compared to thunder that refused to stop. Estimated population: three to five billion birds. A single hunter in a single afternoon could kill five hundred. No licence. No lord. No penalty. Just birds, endlessly, for the taking. Deer walking into camp. Salmon running so thick in the Pacific Northwest rivers that witnesses said the water appeared to boil. Bison herds that took four hours to cross a ford. Oysters the size of dinner plates, piled in reefs along the Atlantic coast that you could harvest by reaching over the side of a boat. Now understand what these people had come from. England under the Forest Laws. Norman law. The forests, a third of England, legally defined as the king's personal hunting ground: where killing a deer carried the death penalty, and maiming one carried blinding and castration. Where a peasant could live on the edge of a wood teeming with game and starve legally while watching the lord's gamekeeper patrol past. The Enclosure Acts were already beginning. Common land, the land that ordinary people had grazed animals on for generations, being fenced off and handed to private landlords one parliamentary act at a time. Six million acres would go this way eventually, and with it went the pig in the back garden, the cow on the common, the ability to keep yourself in protein without paying someone's rent for the privilege. In the meantime: pottage. Bread. Turnips when you were lucky. A bit of lard if the week had gone well. Meat on feast days if the harvest hadn't failed and the price hadn't climbed and your teeth were still functional enough to manage it. These were not people who had decided, in a detached philosophical way, that liberty was preferable to tyranny. These were people who were hungry. Specifically for meat. Who had heard from sailors and merchants and adventurers that there was a place across the water where the game belonged to no one, where the forests had no keeper, where you could shoot a deer because you wanted to eat it and face no consequence beyond the satisfaction of having eaten it. The New World wasn't a political idea to the average emigrant. It was a place where you could eat like a lord without owing a lord anything. They crossed an ocean for a steak that didn't require someone else's permission. And they ate it.

And not one of them, in all the letters, ever suggested they'd made the wrong call. 

ANDREW BRANCA: It's pure IQ and it's whatever you want to call it, it's hustle, it's drive, it's being clever, it's being aggressive.

Aaron Clarey [online] with Andrew Branca.

The worst people to take advice from about success, happiness, love are the average Americans because they are miserable, fat, poor, and stupid . . .

And they can't figure it out. There's another facet to this.  It's more than just pure IQ, right.  It's pure IQ and it's whatever you want to call it, it's hustle, it's drive, it's being clever, it's being aggressive.  Because when I did consulting work, like one of the first companies, boutique consulting companies I ever worked for, they did a pharmaceutical company consulting research and development consulting.  I don't have a science degree in anything, but it turns out consulting is mostly storytelling.  It's not that much different than law.  You're mostly telling stories to people that they want to pay you to tell them, you know, you tell them what they want to hear, of course.  But I was working with this company, they held dozens of scientific conferences every year, thousands, tens of thousands of people would come to these conferences, and the internet was just coming on board; it was the 90s.  And so all their marketing was still, like they would send postcards; they would mail physical postcards out to people about the next conference. And somehow I finagled access into the back end of their database system and they had started collecting email, this new thing email addresses.  But they had very  few.  They had a few hundred out of hundreds of thousands of accounts.  But I'm looking at these emails and I'm like, "You know, Pfizer.  We got like 20,000 people at Pfizer.  We have hardly any emails, but the emails we all have are . . . they're all the same syntax, they're all first initial, last name @Pfizer.com."  I said, you know what, I bet I can fill in all these blank fields, and apply that . . . so I did that, and then I started sending, you know, doing internet polling, and we made a shitload of money because . . . also, I was running these surveys and then publishing signed expert reports, thought-leader reports based on these surveys.  And there's no one else at this 200 person company who would have thought of that stupid . . . . now, it's probably against the law today to do that, so I don't recommend anyone doing that.  There's probably, you know, internet laws against it, but at the time the internet was the Wild West.  So it was just a clever trick I discerned that made us a ton of money.  At the same time, we had people in our consulting firm who were PhDs in biology, in chemistry, in engineering, and they were supposed to be doing consulting work.  They were supposed to be doing storytelling for us.  They couldn't do it.  They couldn't do it.  They would physically shake standing in front of a client and trying to make a pitch for their expertise.  And I observed that these people with PhDs had a high degree of expertise in a very very narrow silo, in a very narrow sense, and whatever that was they were really great at it.  No question about it.  But the moment you try to move them outside their comfort zone, they collapsed.  They utterly collapsed.  They just couldn't do what I considered the simplest thing in the world, which is to tell a story to compel people to give you money. But they had a high IQ there's no question about about it, but they had some other disability that would not allow them to be more broadly successful.

Friday, February 27, 2026

ANDY NGO: "Trans activists encourage one another to kill transphobes." Julia Egler's mother paid for it with her life

Andy Ngo explains,

A 17-year-old trans person (Julia Egler) accused of the murder of her mother & mother's boyfriend in Palm Bay, FL in 2024 told investigators her mom misgendered her & didn't support her being trans. Trans activists encourage one another to kill transphobes.