I will say that you don’t have to lie down and take it. Over the past few years I’ve been on a journey to restore and rejuvenate my body, and the results have been miraculous. I went from morbidly obese with metabolic syndrome, including uncontrolled high blood pressure, to literally the best physical condition of my life. 60 year old me could kick 30 year old me’s ass any day of the week. All of my health issues have been resolved, and all of my old man aches and pains have gone away. I did a deep dive on the state of the art of longevity science, which is reasonably summarized in Peter Attia’s book Outlive. (It’s a free audiobook on spotify premium.) I’ve basically optimized sleep, exercise, nutrition, supplements, and the use of prescription drugs, including the drug rapamycin. Rapamycin has extended lifespan of every organism it’s been tested in, including budding yeast, fruit flies, mice, rats, and non-human primates. While there are ethical and time considerations that make such placebo controlled lifespan studies in humans difficult, there is data to suggest that rapamycin has a similar therapeutic effect in humans. Joan Mannick’s 2014 study using Everolimus, a slightly tweaked analog of rapamycin, demonstrated that pulsed mTOR suppression in elderly humans greatly ameliorated immunosenescence, the decline in immune function during aging, and the ongoing trials of rapamycin with respect to ovarian aging have shown impressive effects. I’ve been on rapamycin for almost 3 years now, and while I can’t isolate its effects from my other interventions, I’m pretty much never sick and I’ve had significant grey hair reversal, which was unexpected. TLDR: there is a lot you can to mitigate the effects of aging and implement “graceful degradation” in your life.

I turn 60 in June. I’m doing this with my body.

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Every accusation is a confession.

Thanks for the insightful comment!

I have a weird sense of humor, and I have to say, the author of this comic has an even weirder sense of humor than me. I love it!

Mine runs a little warm too, but I have hotspot on 100% of the time, as I use it as my wifi source. Battery life is still very good.

I haven’t noticed a thing on my Pixel 9 Pro running GrapheneOS.

They do. However, the drugs your pet needs may not be off patent, and thus you have to buy branded.

Been running GrapheneOS for years now. Started with a Pixel 3, then moved to a Pixel 6 Pro, and now have it on a Pixel 9 Pro. It is ridiculously easy to install and use, and is regularly updated. I love it!

ALPRs are just one small part of the surveillance state, and even if you were to trust the state with absolute surveillance, it is virtually impossible to prevent bad actors with government employment from abusing the technology to stalk and harass people. There are plenty of documented cases of police and others with access to these tool using them to harm people like ex-wives, etc. I personally have been subjected to a long-term (multi-year) campaign of stalking and harassment by people with access to state-owned surveillance technologies, with the goal being to drive me to suicide, and I know I am not the only one. It was a complete nightmare.

He does it for the attention, as he knows it will get press coverage. Narcissists crave attention.

Jesus, I thought for sure this one was fake. Nope.

No, I’m afraid in this case he will 100% do it. See, Trump thinks that you can magically control the economy by lowering the Fed funds rate and quantitative easing (money printing), and has zero understanding of the complex interplay and limitations that the Fed deals with. Moreover, his policies are crushing the economy, and he has a midterm election to deal with in the fall, which will be the beginning of the end of his presidency if things continue as they are. In his mind, he gets rid of Powell, has his lackeys juice the economy with low rates and QE, there is a massive boom in the markets and along with his strategies rig the elections, the GOP gets the push it needs to prevail and the Trump presidency rolls on. The downside for anyone who cares to see it is that the dollar will be destroyed as the world’s reserve currency, the U.S. will suffer hyperinflation like prewar Germany, and the subsequent fix will require austerity measures that will lead to depression that will make the one in the 1930s look quaint (I’m calling it “The Greatest Depression”), worldwide economic output will be crushed, WWIII will come into full swing with the U.S. the weakest it’s been in my lifetime, and in all likelihood, China will rise to the top of the world order and the yuan will be the world’s reserve currency. Mark my word, we will see gold top $8K this year, and might reach as high as $20K. There is a reason I expanded my exposure to to the gold market and put everything I had left into a 2X gold ETF back in June of 2024 when it became clear to me that Trump would likely win a second term. We’re definitely living in interesting times.

From the song, from “the pinnacle of aesthetic and creative potential,” Rust in Peace.

Expect a lot more things like this to come out in all industries as the economy worsens. A thriving economy can hide a lot of financially problematic issues, in the same way a high tide can hide the rocks. As the economic tide recedes, all the ugly things below are revealed. This specific example involves the collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

“We are all domestic terrorists.”

-Official CPAC slogan

The “Yo Dawg” meme would also be a good choice for this issue.

This is a well recognized tactic of narcissists.