Extra expensive digital hifi cables.
I remember seeing a €180 hdmi cable at a shop.
PfFt. Amateur level stuff!
Try this on for size:
https://www.audioquest.com/products/dragon-48-hdmi-cable
And that’s not the limit, either.
I like this old one too, the cat destroyed the outer layer of an expensive audiophile power cable, revealing a garden hose below…
needless to say, the owner decided to look deeper.
What?! No! Why?!
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CBD products
Shh no talk.
You are right, let me grab my bugout bag and head west
Order some and see for yourself playaaàa
Order some CBD gummies, almost every company has samples if you pay shipping… don’t get the ones that have anything but CBD though if you want to understand my perspective. If it has delta 8 or delta 9 or THC a or whatever else that’s no the products I’m speaking on. A lot of companies will push it as a cure all
Who said the companies that I was referring to aren’t regulated WATERBOY? CBD sucks, delta 9 is better…IT QUENCHES THE THIRST!!! CBDDDD SUCKS, CBDDDD SUCKS, CBDDDD SUCKS
Also, CBD honestly needs the same warnings as Grapefruit since it works on the same metabolic pathways and can decrease effectiveness of certain drugs.
…like my cancer drugs.
If your drugs say to avoid grapefruit… You should probably consider skipping CBD as well.
Had a patient with a really bad reaction to a topical chemotherapy agent because he was moisturizing with CBD oil and wasn’t telling anyone about it. In trying to understand what was going on, it turns out that CBD specifically slows the metabolism of this particular chemotherapy, so it was building up in his skin.
Oi vey tell me about it.
I’ve gotten way more wary about the stuff I put in my body since I got on these cancer drugs.
Increased depression is actually a symptom of my cancer, and I had a lot of hallucinogenic mushroom caps I had stored away for a rainy day, and a friend suggested maybe that would help. Recent studies as well as our own personal experiences spoke to the idea that a good “trip” can help alleviate depression.
But my immediate reaction was… there’s basically been no studies done on the interactions between psilocybin and the drug I am taking. Literally, who the fuck knows what could happen? The reminder that I had them actually lead me to give them away because, fuck me, I’m not risking it.
Yeah, a lot of the chemicals in mushrooms tend to metabolize through the liver, and so do so many other drugs. Good job, taking care of yourself. Best of luck.
Thanks for the kind words. Cheers.
And pomegranate too, at least for my anti-rejection meds.
oh, that’s useful info…
this is the first thing that came to my mind too….
there is some medicinal value to it, but usually not what they claim it to be, and usually not in the form that it’s in….CBD does … something. It makes me sleepy. So at least for some people it can serve as a sleep aid.
Not to me though I just tried it out of curiosity, I have no desire to be even more sleepy
It gave me massive munchies and not much else.
That could be because it’s an unregulated product, and you were getting THC.
In this case I would doubt it, since it was sold in the Swedish market, where THC is illegal. It could however have been some bullshit of some other kind.
Is cbd regulated there, though? THC is illegal in the US, too, but since it comes from the same plant, and there’s no regulation and this study found 20% of cbd oil had THC innit
I’ve seen one of those fake bottles. It seemed too cheap to me so I looked up the ingredient dosage and it was near nothing. Real cbd oil is quite expensive.
Personally I can recommend cbd pills. It’s easy and you can dose it very precisely to your liking. In the nl you can get them over the counter, as is the case in many other places I imagine.
In a somewhat metaphorical but nonetheless very real sense - most politics is effectively snake oil.
There’s a set of people who exhibit a particular combination of mental illness and natural charisma, such that they feel an irrational urge to impose their wills on others, a lack of the necessary empathy to recognize the harm they do and the personal appeal necessary to convince others to let them do it.
There’s another set of people who feel an irrational sense of helplessness - who want to turn control of their lives and their decisions over to others, so they can just go along with a preordained set of values and beliefs and choices rather expending effort on, and taking the risk of, making their own.
And just as in any more standard “snake oil” dynamic, the first group, exclusively for its own benefit, preys upon the weakness and hope of the second. Just as in any other such dynamic, the people of the first group make promises they have no intention of keeping ultimately just so that they can benefit, and the people of the second group continue, irratiomally, to believe those promises, even as all of the available evidence demonstrates that the promises are empty.
Too cynical a take to be real.
The above happens sometimes, and is maybe more common among older entrenched politicians (that we have in spades right now with the aging out of one of the largest generations ever). But most of the time it’s real people with real beliefs who want to change things. Governments are usually set up to change slowly, if at all, so often little seems to happen, but those gears do grind slowly based on how they’re pushed.
So, your take is definitely a way to make it so the political class can continue to exploit people - you need more people upset and willing to change if you want to make a difference, not lots of powerless apathy.
Social media definitely. The whole internet probably.
Just about all the products sold on amazon.
I hate Amazon, but c’mon.
Most antidepressant usage. Many of those people do not have a chemical problem in their brain, they are just unhappy due to all the societal problems. You can’t treat social problems with a chemical.
Well that’s just not true. Look at alcohol or cigarettes as an example. In fact, these chemicals control populations so well that it pisses off governments to the point where the periodically outlaw the stuff. How do you think the drug trade survives? People literally treat their societal problems with chemicals all the time.
That doesn’t resolve the issue. It just numbs you to it for a while.
Your doctor hopefully isn’t prescribing booze or cigarettes.
Only COOL doctors prescribe booze and cigarettes. Like House.
House was prescribing viagra as heart medicine. 🤣
Hell yeah brother.
I mean, that’s not so far fetched.
Oh that’s me. I’m tired and bored so I’ll share my story.
I was “depressed” because of working an abusive toxic job and commuting 2 hours a day for dimes. While at the same time spending my free time in the doomerism of r/fvckcars
Filled out the doctor’s questionaire and was diagonised with anxiety, and depression. I even had the bottle of pills before the hour was even over.
Lost the job, and swapped my pass-time from pessimistic r/fvckcars to more optimistics YouTube/notjustbikes
No more depression, never needed those anti-depressants because it was never a proper chemical depression.
To many doctors just want to medicate the symptoms and never bother to consider the sickness underneath.
You can’t treat social problems with a chemical.
Trinitrotoluene?
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
There was no ‘Rich Dad’, it’s all made up snake-oil.
Most, if not all, of these books talking about how to get rich are how the authors get rich in the first place. While there may be some good advice in them, the real way to get rich is to sell others on the idea that they could be rich if they buy your products/services.
So for shits and giggles I looked at the introductory video for Clickbank or whatever it was called, the affiliate marketing corp
The gist of it is that to be successful, you wanna sell people health, wealth or… I forgot what the third was, but it’s probably beauty or sex lol
in a gold rush, sell shovels.
Finance courses promoted by various youtubers.
Folding Ideas video essay on this topic was brilliant https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=mjT91zP6Kkr9qHCD
Chiropractic anything. John Oliver covered it quite well.
What episode was that?
VPNs for internet access, at least the way they are advertised
I hate that these commercial providers are the first thing people think of when they hear “VPN” these days, rather than the actual main use case for a VPN (connecting to a remote network, like a work network, from another location).
They don’t give you complete privacy, no. On the other hand, if what you’re concerned about is your workplace seeing that you’re fucking off at work, or a Hollywood studio suing you for pirating a 20 year old television show that isn’t available to buy or stream, well, a VPN is just fine. In regards to piracy, it obfuscates a lot of your internet behavior from your ISP, so they aren’t able to easily track what you’re doing either.
If I was worried about gov’t level threats, Tails, Tor, and public, unsecured WiFi would be the only thing I’d be using.
What about airvpn ?
AirVPN are probably the best. They’re independent, more transparent than the other providers, and support port forwarding.
Vitamin and mineral supplements. You only need supplementation if you have a specific deficiency, and deficiencies are not extremely common. Most people who take supplements do not need them and are just peeing out all the extra things they’re putting in their bodies while shelling out ridiculous prices to “natural remedy” companies.
If you think you have a deficiency, explain why to a doctor. A blood test to know for sure is simple. A doctor will know what kind of supplementation would best serve you, and there may be an underlying reason that can be treated to fix it. Also eat some god damn vegetables you fat little piggy
- Except vitamin D, deficiency is very widespread
- And iron for most women
- And sometimes magnesium for sports (which we should all do)
I’m D deficient. I took D supplements for a long time; m D levels never significantly increased.
n=1, best study ever.
When you look at large-scale studies of OTC vitamins, you quickly realize that the absorption on most of them is very poor; they don’t really move the needle very much. In most cases, you will be better off if you address vitamin and micronutrient deficiencies through diet rather than attempting supplementation.
The same goes for pregnancy, where you essentially gain a deficiency because you’re building another person inside you.
Agreed, but just FYI, if you want minerals and vitamins, eat innards, more specifically liver.
If I don’t take magnesium, I’ll get cramps. While a lot of supplements are superfluous, I think you’re overgeneralising.
You may have a specific deficiency, but your story does not constitute data.
There have been many studies that have addressed this specific issue. Literally billions of dollars are wasted every year on these supplements. If you have a healthy diet, you are very unlikely to need supplementation.
This is the availability bias, because your experience is normal for you, you unconsciously think your experience is more normal than it is.
Laughs at your healthy diet. Like Cheetos for vitamin C and vitamin A comes from Applebee’s? God favorite fruit!
Cheetos are orange and everyone knows orange has Vitamin C!
And an Applebees a day keeps the doctor away!
If you think you have a deficiency, explain why to a doctor. A blood test to know for sure is simple. A doctor will know what kind of supplementation would best serve you, and there may be an underlying reason that can be treated to fix it.
I didn’t say “no one should take supplements ever,” I said most people who take supplements are doing so unnecessarily, and you should do so under the supervision of a physician.
What about that protein powder? my brother is mad into it.
Unless you’re vegan, you’re probably already getting more protein than you need.
Protein is needed for building muscles but most meatheads in the USA just eat all the protein and don’t do enough of the exercise.
Only about 24% of people in the US aren’t “overweight” to “obese.”
Literally almost nobody needs this fucking protein because almost fuck-nobody is exercising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States
For the following statistics, “adult” is defined as age 20 and over. The overweight + obese percentages for the overall US population are higher reaching 39.4% in 1997, 44.5% in 2004, 56.6% in 2007, 63.8% (adults) and 17% (children) in 2008,in 2010 65.7% of American adults and 17% of American children are overweight or obese, and 63% of teenage girls become overweight by age 11. In 2013 the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that 57.6% of all American citizens were overweight or obese. The organization estimated that 3/4 of the American population would likely be overweight or obese by 2020. According to research done by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, it is estimated that around 40% of Americans are considered obese, and 18% are considered severely obese as of 2019. Severe obesity is defined as a BMI over 35 in the study. Their projections say that about half of the US population (48.9%) will be considered obese and nearly 1 in 4 (24.2%) will be considered severely obese by 2030.
What many US citizens need is portion control and regular exercise.
Seems like you just have an axe to grind about fat people. Protein is not the deciding factor in weight gain, calories are, so I don’t know why you think a link to the wiki page about obesity would be convincing that protein powder is snake oil.
Even when you coincide that it is relevant you dismiss with little justification. Also BMI is not a great metric for individuals, many that have a lot of muscle are measured as overweight because there is a lot more to bodies that height and mass.
Can you justify why protein powder is snake oil in line with the other things in the thread? I will grant that most people have more than enough protein in a regular diet, but stats about obesity says literally nothing about if powder can help your workouts give the results you’re hoping for.
My point was that people who are likely obese are busy trying to suck down protein shakes when they probably already have enough protein. Like I said, if you’re in the USA and not explicitly vegan, you probably already get enough protein from your daily diet to build muscle.
When less than 25% of the country is a healthy weight, people don’t need to build muscle, they need to lose weight.
I am fucking fat myself, maybe that’s why I feel so strongly about this. America has a massive obesity problem and it’s tied to our eating habits (especially overly processed foods… like protein shakes) and we’re not going to find out way out of it by buying protein shakes.
The protein supplement industry alone is currently a $6.57 billion industry. Are you really going to tell me the only people buying them are that sliver of people with healthy weights?
If you’re overweight and want to lose weight, you don’t need a protein supplement. Yes, it’s more complicated than calories in/calories out but the reality is and has been 1. portion sizes in USA are out of control, 2. the vast majority of the country have weight issues not muscle issues, and 3. Excess protein doesn’t help you lose weight.
The less than 25% of the country that has a normal weight is not the source of the $6.57 billion dollar market cap of the protein supplement industry.
But sure, it’s not that fatasses are focusing on the wrong fucking things, like protein. The vast majority of Americans like to think they would pump iron but most fucking don’t and the evidence is that over 75% of us are overweight, obese, and morbidly obese.
Gyms would cease to function if all the people who paid for them actually tried to use them.
Finally, the men who suck these down are trying to look like men who suck down tons of steroids. Those results are not achievable with protein and exercise alone, thus making protein a snake oil to cover for steroid abuse. Steroid abuse is real and hiding behind this “you just need more protein” bullshit is a farce. The number of men who claimed to be gaining insane muscles while only “exercising and eating healthy” to only have it come out that they abuse the fuck out of steroids is too damn high.
See: Elon Musk’s distended gut and man-boobs from sucking down steroids but not actually putting in the work of lifting. Joe Rogan’s distended stomach is looking pretty rough these days, too.
You seem quite invested so I have a question. I have learned that protein fills more and therefore reduces appetite. Won’t a protein shake be a relatively healthy option which reduces snacking and overeating of less healthy meals? This has also anecdotally been my experience but I haven’t done it very much.
I’ve had the opposite experience myself. Protein shakes keep me full for about as long as water. Protein rich whole foods are much more satiating for the same quantity of protein.
While I’m going to ignore your clear issues regarding other people’s weight, there’s 258 million people, if a quarter of them spend $100 a year on “protein shakes” there’s your 6.5 billion, and now that number seems low.
While the obesity part is kind of a digression, I think they were pretty clear: protein powder is a waste if you have a typical American diet and are not exercising, which is apparently most Americans. While protein powder on its own isn’t snake oil, it effectively is for most people.
Is your brother also mad into lifting weights? If not, they have no need for protein powder
yes.
Protein powder is a calorically dense food supplement, not a vitamin or mineral supplement
Gaining significant muscle mass and strength through heavy lifting requires adequate protein intake. It is extremely challenging to build the muscle needed to squat two or three times your body weight without dramatically increasing your protein consumption. Attempting to lift heavy weights without the proper nutritional support can lead to extended recovery times, increased injury risk, and wasted effort.
Whey protein powder can be a cost-effective and high-quality source of protein for those engaged in strength training. For individuals who lift weights regularly, protein powder can be an integral part of their training program and is not simply a gimmick. The notion that protein supplements are “snake oil” because the average person may not need them is flawed logic. The same could be said for weight training equipment, which would also be considered unnecessary for the general population, despite their benefits for those who strength train consistently.
The key is matching your nutritional intake, including protein consumption, to your training goals and needs. Dismissing helpful protein powder as snake oil simply because they may not benefit everyone is an oversimplification. The appropriate use of protein powder can be an important part of an effective strength training regimen for those who lift heavy weights.
I’d like to note in my top level comment I was referring to medically unnecessary vitamin and mineral supplementation. Protein powder is food and is not part of that. It’s 100% necessary for serious lifters, but it’s definitely also overused by people who are not serious lifters.
Isn’t there a limit of how much protein your body can absorb in a meal and the rest just gets metabolized/excreted.
200g of spinach sounds like a very reasonable amount for a single meal. I don’t see the problem here.
Spinach has a lot more than just vitamin k, and so does everything else you eat. It would do you some good to actually record what you eat on an average day and take a look at their total nutritional content. A varied diet consisting of mostly whole foods will almost guarantee that you meet your daily needs. If your particular diet doesn’t, this exercise would reveal where the holes are. I’m willing to bet it’s a lot easier to patch up then you think.
Also, it seems that you only need 25g of spinach to reach your daily needs. That’s a ridiculously tiny amount of spinach. Considering that vitamin K is fat-soluble and can be stored, a single 200g meal of spinach will satisfy your vitamin k needs for over a week.
Sources: USDA says spinach has 483µg of vitamin K per 100g spinach. Health Canada recommends 120µg of vitamin K per day for an adult male. FDA also uses 120µg for the purposes of nutrition labels.
Thanks for the tip I might definitely do that. That being said vitamin k and spinach are just examples, I can’t recall exactly what it was. But I do know I’ve looked it up many times over the years, and every time came to the conclusion that I should ignore whatever the values said, because it made no sense at all. Like who knows perhaps it was kale or sum.
Are you finding yourself deficient in vitamin K based on some symptom you’re experiencing? Vitamin K is in soybeans, cashews, broccoli, chicken, grapes, blueberries, and a bunch of oils, including soybean, olive, and canola oils, and the list goes on and on. Vitamin K deficiency in adults is extremely rare.
Like every other vitamin and mineral, eating average healthy (and even lots of unhealthy) foods will meet your RDA.
If you want a rabbit hole to go down, look into how RDIs/RDAs are arrived at…
The News on TV. Misinformation, disinformation and propaganda.
I’m shocked that no one has said Essential Oils yet.
They are just allergic reactions waiting to happen.
Tea tree oil was the only one I think to actually have merit, but I imagine we’ve been able to reproduce the beneficial part of in a lab. (with minimal risk of triggering allergies)
They are essential!
They smell nice, if you put them in those burner thing, they have that going to them.
Some are toxic to animals so always check before burning them around your pets
Some also do have specific use cases where they work really well, like Tea Tree Oil for acne and nail fungus or Peppermint oil for nausea. Most of them don’t do anything though.
Clove oil is a decent anti-mildew agent. I have used it in a past apartment, and use it on my boat to knock out the mildew scent.
Eucalyptus is good for clearing your nose as well.
See I think they smell awful, and feels like they rip the oxygen out of the air.
You might be using too much, do you dilute it with water?
I think it’s straight up a me thing, I find most perfume overpowering etc, Have def been around all forms of oil diffusers etc, always to the same result, I wish I enjoyed them, everyone seems to like them so much.
Wait, are essential oils supposed to be anything more than fragrances you stick in a humidifier thing?
Essential oils were invented in the East. As an Indian, I can tell you we use them as scent by rubbing it usually near the ear/neck. Today I got to know these weird western women mix it in foods and eat it.
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Essential oils are natural fragrants better than chemical deodorants.
Most of them.
Ok, Sarah Palin.
