Posts made by Ecstatic_Hamster

@DonkeyDude no it isn't a justification. It's a state of nature that things are scarce and that we all have to earn a living somehow.

@DonkeyDude said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

It is a natural law that we all must make a living.

It is as much of a natural law that the strong overcome the weak, and that an unorganized mass of people must be governed by an organized minority. Your position basically boils to "coercion I don't like is evil, coercion I do like is natural law".

everything is hard. Mises wrote Human Action and in the very first pages he shows that we always want to go from one state to a state of greater comfort and security, and this requires human action.

Coercion and compulsion come from government and private thugs. There is really no difference. Things being difficult and life requiring us to make a living is not coercion or compulsion. It is simply how things are.

Nothing comes to us easily. We aren't living in a land of make-believe where we can simply eat gingerbread from the nearest house.

@Creuset there are a number of studies on this, that involve the male being snipped. Vasectomy is an extreme case of not ejaculating.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1541187/
In a group of fifty-two vasectomized men, 1 year post-vasectomy, 73% showed sperm-agglutinating antibodies in the serum with titres of 8 to 1024 in the tray agglutination test, and 42% showed sperm-immobilizing antibodies with titres of 1 to 128 in a micro-immobilization test. 3 months post-operatively, about 75% of the men who were to develop antibodies within the year already possessed them. With sperm agglutinins there was a gradual increase in incidence in the period from 3 months to 1 year, with titres increasing up to the 9 month stage. At 1 year, 68% of the positive titres were 32 or higher. Although no increase in the incidence of sperm-immobilizing antibodies was seen beyond 6 months post-operatively, titres increased up to 1 year. A strong correlation was found between the titres of sperm-agglutinating and sperm-immobilizing antibodies, and all sera with an agglutination titre of at least 128 also showed sperm immobilization. Tail-to-tail agglutination was the most predominant type of agglutination observed. No correlation between the type of agglutination and the presence of sperm-immobilizing antibodies could be found. The total number of spermatozoa in a pre-vasectomy ejaculate (as a measure of antigen dose) could not be correlated with the incidence or titre of sperm-agglutinating or sperm-immobilizing antibodies.

These results are discussed in the context of possible interference with fertility if vasovasostomy is to be performed.

@Creuset said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Kvirion that isn't anyone else's business. My contribution to society is my business and nobody else's. There is no such thing as "society". There are ONLY individuals. Society is just another concept used to justify coercion and compulsion.

What's interesting with people that don't understand the use of methodological individualism in the fields of politics, law or economics, is that they will all tell you in unison that humans are social creatures as their only argument to justify the use of methodological holism and collectivism, like if methodological individualism would prevent them from forming groups or was denying that this is a need for most humans (which of course is a strawman of methodological individualism).

They don't even understand that methodological holism and collectivism are irrelevant in the field of politics, by assuming that society is a tangible and homogeneous thing that has a will/consciousness acting on individuals, and that individuals should submit themselves to this will/consciousness, without ever proving any of it of course. Their position is in fact a metaphysical subjective one, pretty similar to that of Hegel, Marx, Nationalism/fascism. Isn't it funny that all of the totalitarian ideas are collectivist and using methodological holism?

On the contrary, methodological individualism in these field is consistent and demonstrated, as with praxeology or Natural Law which are only concerned with individual behaviors and actions. Imagine in a legal context judging a society (full of innocent individuals) for a crime, and not the specific individuals that did the action/took the decision. That's exactly what collectivism and methodological holism leads to in these fields, and none of the collectivists understand why this doesn't make any sense.

And the beautiful thing is that methodological individualism doesn't even deny cybernetic loops and feedback that flow from collective emergence back to individuals, such as cultures, markets or memes. Only collectivism and methodological holism try to restrict individuality by saying that the group is more important than the individual, methodological individualism doesn't claim any of that.

In summary, methodological holism in these fields is simply a fallacy of composition.

I don't understand any of your points. Can you simplify?

@Mulloch94 it’s difficult to know because there are almost no studies done with partner sex in the lab. They all involve masturbation.

@Sophocles you are fortunate then!

A tiny light coating of flowers of sulphur over a fungal skin problem willl in my experience fix it pretty harmlessly. So topical is very good too.

@Mulloch94 if you don’t ejaculate once a week or so, sperm will resorb into the body, which requires deployment essentially of anti bodies, the garbage collection system of the body. It isn’t healthy. But ejaculating daily or whatever is a great way to leak out masculine sexual power and lose it.

The best use of CO2 is training your body to increase the levels it is accustomed to internally. This can fix over 200 health issues and lead to a longer life. Nothing like it. Endogenous CO2, baby!

See Buteyko method.

I confess I didn’t yet read the Substack. But I recovered from life threatening lifetime asthma through using Buteyko method. I became a coach and helped thousands of people over the years. It is quite easy really. But it does require a bit of work and I never found any solution in pills, or herbs, or food.

Ideally lots and lots of sex and not that many ejaculations. A disciplined ejaculation schedule of sorts. But lots of sex.

@Lamarck even magnesium causes me to feel worse.

@happyhanneke they last about a year. The rubber feet or something else breaks. I have a backup and when one breaks I throw it away and use the backup and re-order. I think they are amazing for the price.

I find lately that I feel much better without taking any vitamins other than K2 MK4 and D3.

Thiamine makes me feel worse.

I've bought 5 or 6 of these. They break. But they're decent.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011J88S8M/

Smart Weigh 50g x 0.001 Grams, Premium High Precision Digital Milligram Scale, Includes Tweezers, Calibration Weights,Three Weighing Pans and Case

And if you want a really good scale, this is what I have for commercial operations https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09J88VFBY

U.S. Solid 110 x 0.0001g Analytical Balance - Density and Dynamic Weighing, 0.1 mg Lab Balance Digital Precision Scale

In a libertarian world, numerous sources issue money and this is a market function. Think BTC and XMR as competitive crypto. Easy peasy. We used to have a competitive market in money, in the form of bank notes that people could accept at par or at a discount depending upon the issuer.

Scarce resources aren’t “allocated.” They are owned by someone. Everything is owned by someone.

For the death tax, everything is owned by someone. That person can designate others to own his assets, in event of death. Taking from him is the same as stealing from his family and beneficiaries.

The primary tenet of libertarianism, in the anarcho capitalism interpretation, is the non aggression principle. This says that you should have complete freedom to do whatever you want, so long as you don’t hurt (aggress against) someone else.

I have noticed that Libertarian principles are built into how we think, into our brains. We have a built in sense of fairness, of “you give me something, I give you something”, of reciprocity.

That is the idea of choice, of voluntary actions and voluntary exchanges. Aggression is the opposite. It is coercing or compelling someone to do something they do not want to do.

One big question people always bring up is the question of “public goods.” Of why not pollute the rivers with your factory pollution, which is a form of aggression, since you don’t own them, and there is no reason not to commit aggression by polluting someone else’s rivers or streams.

The answer is that in a libertarian world, someone owns everything. So if you want to pollute a river, you are polluting “my” river, and you need to work something out with me, that is, compensate me so I’m okay with your pollution.

The non aggression principle is core. But so is the idea of ownership and specifically owning what you create or extract out of the world. I’ll talk about that next time.

@TheSir the liver does not lose weight. This is utter nonsense.

https://meridian.allenpress.com/aplm/article/146/12/1486/479611/Updating-Normal-Organ-Weights-Using-a-Large

I'm starting this thread to explain libertarian beliefs. I do not want people to carp on me, troll me, or personally attack me. Any questions are welcome, but I have no intention of arguing with people. This is for education.

There are two ways of doing anything.

One is by choice.

The other is by force.

The #1 premise of libertarian belief, is that doing things by choice is superior to being forced to do it.

Government works by coercion and compulsion. The free market works by each party, the buyer and seller, feeling they are better off BY CHOICE in exchanging money for services or products, selling products and services in exchange for money.

In a market transaction, the buyer is better off because he bought the thing. The seller is better off because he sold the thing.

And it's all voluntary.

Say you are in a free market and need to buy schooling for your child. You find a school who offers the best service and price and quality that you can afford.

But in a coercive compulsive system, there is a monopoly of government schools that are forced on the customer. People are robbed via taxes and the government imposes monopoly schools on them, so they have no choice.

I'll get into non aggression next.

@metabolicmilk No I don't like DMSO. I have had amazing results with this. Dr. Peat demonstrated how the tocopherols and T work like a time release thing and give you good absorption over many hours.