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I’ve done it.

After years of biohacking and tweaking, I have become… optimal.

Body fat percentage, optimal. Triglycerides, optimal. Dietary fiber, weekly activity levels, resting heart rate, 365-day meditation app streak, all optimal.

Now I can spend the next one hundred years staying optimal until I die.

I go for a long hike on a moonlit mountain trail, watching my step counter the entire way.

I feel the morning sun warm my face, and rush inside to use my sun lamp, which stimulates vitamin D production without skin damage.

I sit motionless on the floor of an empty room, enjoying the perfect harmony between my omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

Last week, I was offered a new job—creative, frightening, and meaningful. The challenge of a lifetime. I turned it down because it lacked the optimal combination of ten thousand daily steps, adequate income, and zero stress that I enjoy as deputy floor manager at the Sanderson Cardboard Box Depository.

I have not eaten cake since my sixth birthday. My lifestyle factors predict I will live at least 120 optimal, cake-free years.

Long time without a blog post, but I have been active on social media. I had an issue on the website with posting new article and I fixed it this afternoon (oh, the joy of self hosting... -_-`). Anyway:

I'm still penciling on the next episode of Pepper&Carrot, and this week, I did my daily warm-up before working on the pages with the sketches you'll find here under.

Here is a cleaned compilation of them (credits in image descriptions). These are all mascots of Free/Libre and open-source web services interoperable using the activityPub protocol (eg.Peetrube/Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma/PixelFed/Funkwhale), the global name of the network resulting of the interaction of all these apps is named the Fediverse.

Sources will be uploaded later here.

This past month has been consumed with the fact that there’s something in the sky! By now, you know a lot about the Chinese balloon and its fate. The U.S. sent F-22 fighter jets with F-15s and others in support, to blow it out of the sky with a Sidewinder missile. It’s a good thing […]

The post Not Just The China Balloon, the US Has A History of Hysteria appeared first on MintPress News.

Note: this is an unedited draft chapter section from my inflation manuscript. I am not too happy with this, but perhaps getting savaged on the internet might give me some additional things to add. This section follows more detailed discussions of equities and residential real estate.

We will now conclude this chapter with some general comments on the relationship between inflation and the overall financial markets. What we see is that there are some areas of direct linkage between inflation (as measured by a consumer price index) and some financial assets, other assets have a more complex relationship. As a result, making generalisations is difficult – equity prices are not going to move the same way as the prices of cheesy snacks at your local convenience store.…

How often do you proclaim ‘Thank God it’s Friday!’ after a gruelling week at work? For those of us whose lives are structured into five-day work weeks, weekends are our chance to rest, pursue hobbies and leisure, and spend time with friends and family. We’ve never known anything else.   But the weekend is a relatively […]

At this dangerous moment, with threats of nuclear conflict looming, we need a vigorous debate about U.S. policy toward Russia and Ukraine.

The post The Disturbing Groupthink Over the War in Ukraine appeared first on The Intercept.

EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT

Jean’s son Diego shows his schoolwork in the Dominican Republic.

Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed first-hand a city in free fall.

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Dispatch #1
Dispatch #2
Dispatch #3

Don’t make people take their shoes off when boarding your yacht. You should not be using teak without providing boat shoes anyway.

You don’t have to go to all of your friends’ galas. Just be sure to send a check for the cost of your plate if your RSVP is a no.

Always split the bill evenly. However, if you’re on a potential investor’s megayacht and stop for dinner, you should at least offer to pay.

When talking to someone about a celebrity, let’s say your dear friend Madonna, always assume they know who you’re talking about and use their nickname. It’s insulting to refer to her as Madonna when you all call her Maddie. It implies that you think your conversation partner doesn’t know Madonna intimately.

Only wake up your waitstaff if there’s an actual emergency. And no, wanting a little bowl of ice cream is not a true emergency.

Not everyone should wink. Talk to your surgeon about an eye shape that would work better if your lid winks in an upsetting way.

Whoever’s PJ you ride on gets first dibs on rooms in the villa. No exceptions.

I arrive outside the Amazon warehouse in Coventry around 6AM on a chilly Tuesday morning. It might be cold, but I’m feeling the warmth of the picket line. It was even colder last month when Amazon workers in Coventry made history by engaging in the UK’s first formal Amazon strike. This time the atmosphere is […]