E.g. the Gorgo-6 scale has the intervals S2 (septimal major second), d4 (Barbados third), N4 (undevicesimal wide fourth), s6 (septimal sixth), s7 (septimal minor seventh).
Well, that is one action people could take. Agree that you should stop waiting and start a plan and start taking steps to make something happen. If it doesn't work, at least you tried.
From this policy briefing on an Amendment to UK's Online Safety Bill:
"The Amendment inserts a criminal liability into Section 11 of the Bill. ...
There is no clear and precise definition on the face of the Bill of what that content harmful to children is. ...
Without any definition, the tech companies do not know what it is that they are being held liable for. A criminal liability would be set for crimes yet to be defined, based on the actions of others."
This is a terrible policy paper made up of pipe dreams. It is impossible to clearly delineate content "harmful to children." Maybe that can be broadly applied to violence and guns, but that's still a broad definition.
(1) A UK provider of a regulated user-to-user service must operate the service
using systems and processes which secure (so far as possible) that the provider
reports all detected and unreported CSEA content present on the service to the
NCA.
(2) A non-UK provider of a regulated user-to-user service must operate the service using systems and processes which secure (so far as possible) that the provider reports all detected and unreported UK-linked CSEA content present on the service to the NCA (and does not report to the NCA CSEA content which is not
UK-linked).
...
60 Regulations about reports to the NCA
(1) The Secretary of State must make regulations in connection with the reports
that are to be made to the NCA (including by non-UK providers) as required
by section 59.
...
62 Offence in relation to CSEA reporting
A person commits an offence if, in purported compliance with a requirement
under section 59—
(a) the person provides information that is false in a material respect, and
(b) at the time the person provides it, the person knows that it is false in a
material respect or is reckless as to whether it is false in a material
respect.
A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—
...
(d) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding
two years or a fine (or both)."
Unintended consequences of the UK Online Safety Bill mean a trio of surveillance, prior restraint of speech, and restriction on access to online content and services.
This Bill vastly increases online surveillance of British people without any judicial or administrative oversight. It will institute a de facto “general monitoring” and proactive scanning. This means all users’ posts, public and private, every day, all the time.
Aside: after 3 months of a keto - no/low carbs,sugars - diet I've lost ~10% body weight.
Avocado smoothie with MCT oil, chia seed, hemp, cocoa, collagen powders breakfast at 9am. Egg, cheese, leafy green vegetable lunch. Meat/fish and veg dinner at 6pm. Blueberries and cream with 85% dark chocolate dessert.
In some cases the problem is a lot more of sugar, soda, and overall bad food. Drink a lot of water, eat two meals a day, and make those meals more with chicken and meats, less of carbs, and far less sugar.
Completely agree with your assessment of the problem, but I suspect the US diet is already much too meat and animal products based, and encouraging people to lose weight by eating more meat is both bad for the environment and probably not great for their health.
> The standard american diet (SAD) is characterized by high amounts of processed foods, refined carbohydrates and added sugars, refined fats, high fat dairy products and red meat.
The problem isnt too meat and animal products it is the whole thing. Litterally any diet choice that deviates from the SAD has positve value.
I agree with "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." but the thing to do more of is to rip the whole diet up and start again.
I agree with this one; keto works wonders. It's not for everyone, but it is worth a try. Combine it with intermittent fasting it will develop good benefits for the body.
Keto increases your risk of kidney stones. Not recommended for anybody concerned about that. Not to mention blueberries, chocolate, and spinach are considered very high risk for people who form oxalate kidney stones.
I'm far from a doctor, so I'd say do a lot of research and start a conversation about it with your primary care physician. Being male (especially mid-twenties or older) and having family history increases your risk. I don't know if there's any way to calculate one's specific risk, but you can do things like have a 24-hour urinalysis, ultrasounds, MRIs to see if you have any kidney stones right now. Then, whether or not there's anything you can do about them is another topic to research.
In my research, there doesn't seem to be a solid, universal consensus on much. However, I've seen these points get a lot of support:
- kidney stone formation scales inversely with hydration. Less water, higher risk of stones. More water, less risk. I can't say how much you have to drink or where it tapers off, but my doctor prescribed me "buckets" of water, so that's a starting point.
- there are various kinds of kidney stones. One type is formed by oxalates, which is a chemical only found in plants. There's zero oxalates in meat or animal products, and the highest concentrations around in things like spinach, beets, chocolate, nuts.
- Being a carnivore isn't necessarily a cure. Meat changes your urine composition because of uric acid (iirc), which can increase your risk of kidney stones.
- Depending on the type of stone formed, any protein can increase risk (I forget what kind this one is)
- Calcium can bind with oxalate in the body and prevent the oxalates from binding to themselves and your kidney, which is what forms kidney stones. So ensuring that you get enough calcium daily, and especially eating calcium with high oxalate foods, may reduce risk
- Various other things may help. Citric acid may change your urine composition in a way that helps prevent stone formation. For example, apparently drinking beer and wine reduces stone risk by 33% according to some sources.
Frankly, a lot of this comes down to your comfort. Kidney stones are very likely my absolute worst fear in life for personal reasons, so I've gone to considerable lengths to do whatever I can to feel informed and minimize my perceived risk. A friend of mine has an elderly relative who often gets kidney stones, but apparently would rather deal with that than change their diet/lifestyle. So don't take this info dump as a reason to panic, but instead gauge your concern/interest and if you think it's worth looking into, again, do your own research and talk to your doctor.
If you have a medical or academic source for that, I'd love to read it. I did research and could only find this tea mentioned on no-name websites. The closest I could find was this article about dandelion tea from Livestrong, but even that has no sources and mentions 'purported' benefits rather than giving any evidence
I’ve been doing a light keto diet and the energy gains are significant when I stick to it. Eggs with coconut oil in the AM with bacon (not daily), protein + leafy green salad with homemade EVOO dressing for lunch, and meat/fish plus 2 veggies for dinner. Nuts and cheese if I need to snack.
When I stick to it I am not tired in the afternoon. Lost 13 pounds and saved 20 points off my glucose levels. Cholesterol is a little higher but that’s going to happen with a higher fat diet.
I followed a keto die for ~2 years. I lost a lot of weight and generally felt good. The moment I reintroduced carbs though, it all came rushing back with interest. So I only agree with this if you think you can keep it up forever. Another thing to note is my ability to perform high intensity exercise was severely limited. Moderate exercise was fine, but heavy lifting, sprinting, crossfit etc... was really difficult on keto.
For lunch I will eat Prosciutto or another cured meat thats high fat with a cheese. Otherwise it’s meat on top of a salad with homemade Red Wine Vinaigrette. EVOO whipped with Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper and dried herbs to taste.
Breakfast is a decent quality egg (orange yolks) plus a generous portion of coconut oil.
Don't mean this as insult, but this can't make sense: "prosciutto or another cured meat"
Am I crazy or are you just substituting something (i.e. a carb) with something else (cured meat) that comes with a different set of problems?
I'm remain perplexed by keto diets. Yes, stabilizing glucose levels and removing spikes/crashes is important, but some of the alternatives don't make a ton of sense.
This is the problem with trying to get healthy - no matter what you do, somebody somewhere will insist that you're wasting your time because you do this other unhealthy thing. The most important thing I learned about trying to eat/live healthy, a long time ago, is never tell anybody else what you're doing to improve your health.
I've lost a fair amount of weight over the last year and what I've noticed is that a lot of it comes down to finding the details that work for you. To this end, I find it really useful to hear what other people are doing. It gives me ideas and especially things to look for when troubleshooting, but there is no silver bullet.
How else do you get energy? I need fat if I’m replacing carbs. It’s either coming from the EVOO in my dressing or fat in some kind of dried meat. I also dont think nitrates are as bad as some people make it out to be. Same with salt. Eating cured meats twice a week isn’t hurting anyone.
Too much protein will lead to more body fat (glucose) via gluconeogenesis. Carbs will spike your glucose and lead to more snacking and tiredness in the afternoon. Bodies should be burning fat for energy.
Edit: Just checked and the Coppa I have doesn’t even contain nitrates. The entire package is 85g and last me 2.5 meals. Prosciutto di Parma doesn’t even contain nitrates.
Fair enough. The way I thought through this was simply that you’d focus on the most basic version of the food: uncured pork (like tenderloin), chicken, beef, and some specialized variations like organs meats.
“Light” Keto, I don’t think full Keto is something you should do long term. You can still get your body to produce ketones without doing the full Keto style diet.
I’m almost done reading The Fatburn Fix by Dr. Catherine Shanahan.
Yeah, cured meat everyday is also quite bad. Especially if you are getting a considerable portion of your calories from it (leafy greens have very few calories).
Cool, I like the split keyboard feature.
I've not really thought about a license tbh, I'll look into which one would be best and add a note about that. I don't really mind what anyone does with it so maybe MIT would be the one.
Cool. Great to meet you virtually, btw. Your web audio synth is awesome. Adding the oscilloscope made me appreciate how your different patches generate their unique sounds. And I added a few preset patches I liked too.
Because of the mapping of the typing keyboard to musical notes. F would represent E# which doesn't exist on a piano. H should work though.
I found a pic that explains the keyboard layout better than I could:
You can define interval structure as a sequence of large L, small s, and optionally medium M steps.
For example, the Major diatonic scale, a 7 note scale from 12 EDO, in Ls notation is:
A 6 note scale (Gorgo-6) in 16 EDO is: You can then explore frequency ratios beyond those available in 12 EDO, see this Lua file: https://github.com/robmckinnon/pitfalls/blob/main/lib/ratios...E.g. the Gorgo-6 scale has the intervals S2 (septimal major second), d4 (Barbados third), N4 (undevicesimal wide fourth), s6 (septimal sixth), s7 (septimal minor seventh).
And chords based on those ratios, see Lua file: https://github.com/robmckinnon/pitfalls/blob/main/lib/chords...
The above links are Lua code files for a monome norns library for exploring microtonal tuning: https://llllllll.co/t/pitfalls/37795