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This is why men are dropping out of education and no longer participate in the labor force. Kindergarten never ends. I remember being completely sick of school by 9th grade despite earning straight As before. I thought to myself... Surely one day this ends and we become adults?

I was talking to a friend who grew up in Yugoslavia. He’s about ten years older than me and recently moved back to Serbia. What struck me about his recounting of the years just before the war began was the sense of banality, a kind of timelessness. Despite all the vitriol, it didn’t really feel like anything was going to happen right away. But what set off the Homeland War—the conflict between the new Croatian state and Yugoslavia—was a single bus attack. A group of Serb paramilitaries opened fire on Croatian police officers near Pakrac, killing several and wounding others. That moment lit the fuse. From there, everything erupted. The war turned brutal very quickly, with civilians swept into atrocities. Imagine being raped in your own bedroom, beheaded in front of your family in the garden. Grenades thrown through your window, your bones later collected and dropped into a village well. And when I see a young woman today mocking the death of someone she disagrees with, or speaking with ambivalence about an assassination, I can’t help but think she has no idea how fast things can change. She doesn’t know that violence, once unleashed, doesn’t stay contained. I feel sorry for her, and for people like her, because they don’t realize what may be coming. The truth is, it’s almost impossible to imagine. The shift happens too fast, the violence too unforgiving and traumatizing. The pain lasts generations. I see it even in my own family. My grandparents still pinch pennies, mistrust everyone, swear that people are out to rob them. That fear has been passed down, and it lingers. If Americans speak with such disdain for people they disagree with, they should be prepared to endure these traumas too, for themselves, and for their families, for decades to come.

> be me > 2017 > just a guy selling real olive oil online > warning everyone about seed oils > linoleic this, lipid peroxidation that > people think I’m insane > “you mean like… canola?? lol” > write threads, post studies, make memes > friends start ghosting me after I rant at dinner > keep going > slow trickle of weirdos start following > 2021 > biofuel industry collapses again > ex-biodiesel execs suddenly reappear > microinfluencers start parroting my takes > unoriginal memes, zero sourcing > see my exact charts reposted with compression artifacts > they’re going viral > weird startup bros start following me > dig through my timeline > one even DMs: > “bro we love your stuff, just doing some research 👀” > months later they launch a synthetic 'cultured' oil from lab yeast > claim it’s the solution to the seed oil problem > backed by VC money from biodiesel failures > then suddenly — beef tallow everywhere > TikTok girls deep frying Oreos in it > gym bros making skincare with it > nutritionists saying it “heals the mitochondria” > Whole Foods starts selling $29 jars of it next to ghee > mfw beef tallow absorbs more carotenoids, toxins, metals, pesticides > mfw no one read the 1992 oxidation tables > mfw normies are being interpolated in real time > I’m still selling real olive oil > pure, uncut, first-press truth > they’re out here selling rendered supermarket suet in dropper bottles > media eats it up > RFK quoting my lines on CNN, no attribution > Netflix doc features 3 TikTokers and some guy who invented "nose-to-tail mayo" > mfw they mined my account like it was a lithium deposit > mfw they ignored me once it became profitable > mfw the movement I started is now a funded parody > I was the root > they grew the tree > and then chopped me for mulch

This is my selo. This is my Empire.

The decline of the West started the moment we stopped making bear shows for kids. Bears were gentle stewards of moral value, teaching honesty, courage, and friendship. Now it is all sponges, pigs, and monsters and you wonder why everything feels hollow

I ended up reproducing with someone who didn't take the vaccine. Haters take the L

Apparently, one of Michelle Trachtenberg's favorite foods was spinach and cheese pasta. Very high in vitamin A. She died of liver disease

In a forsaken city at the edge of the world, a high-tech matriarchy battles for control of time itself, and Doctor Anastasia's daring gambit could redefine the course of womankind. Will her bold move succeed? Find out more in my new novel, "Babushka: Echoes of Immortality."

Vitamin A (retinol) accelerates stem cell turnover, giving a youthful appearance early on but depleting the body’s ability to regenerate over time. People who consume large amounts of vitamin A, especially through liver, carrots, and spinach, tend to show signs of aging much earlier than others in their age group. This is why many primal health influencers start to appear red, leathery and worn as they get older. Health Twitter operates on the same incentives as Big Pharma, though the products are different. If vitamin A toxicity were taken seriously, most of that ecosystem would fade due to the lack of material to promote or argue about. A healthy diet is straightforward: fruits like bananas and apples, legumes such as beans and lentils, basic grains like oats, some red meat, and vegetables that are light in color, including zucchini and cauliflower. It lacks novelty, and that’s exactly why influencers like Veronica wouldn’t be able to hold an audience.

I'm blocked, hence the screenshot, but if you're getting health advice from this girl, I'd be cautious. She's posting her own Ls. Excessive amounts of vitamin A and sugar create aldehydes that detox through your skin and cause eczema.

I hope one day an anthropologist studies this phenomenon, the emergence of the alternative health community on Twitter. It’s at once fascinating and bewildering. It all started around 2016 or 2017, when this sudden “awakening” seemed to sweep across the internet. People began talking about the food industry, pharmaceuticals, toxins, seed oils, all of it. But why then? Why not ten or twenty years earlier? Here’s the truth no one wants to admit: there was no great awakening. What happened was e-commerce became standardized. For the first time, you could deploy an app that processed payments through Stripe. Third-party logistics and fulfillment centers became plug-and-play. Around 2016, that entire backend infrastructure fell into place and right after that, you see an explosion of heterodox health ideas. Everything is downstream from supply chains. It’s not that people suddenly threw off their chains and rebelled against the modern world. People have been doing that forever. What changed was the ability to monetize it. The hyper-personalization of logistics meant anyone could now sell anything without renting warehouse space, signing shipping contracts, or managing inventory. Ten years ago, to start a business selling some “miracle” skin cream laced with copper or claiming to detox your liver, you needed capital, reputation, and real skin in the game. You needed warehouse space, batch shipments, carrier deals, and steady demand built over years. Now you can just make things up on the internet. If you’ve got the appetite for lying, a high enough ego, and a narcissistic streak, you can sell to the world. Instantly. There’s no ceiling. The entire “awakening” was a supply chain phenomenon. Nobody really woke up. They just realized how easy it had become to profit from the illusion of truth.

And once your IQ creeps past 130, you start to see the real split. Income is what you get when you work intelligently, but wealth is what happens when you simply avoid going bust for a long time. Then the real irony hits you: staying solvent through chaos depends on distributing your own wealth in ways that lower your volatility exposure. That often means supporting progressive taxation that helps fund basic research, donating to charity, or giving freely to your family. You actually want to insulate yourself from the blowback of scaling laws, the same ones that make murder rates more than double when a city doubles in size. This is what the 120 IQ crowd misses. Work does not equal money, and profits born of scale never belong to you alone.

Olive oil does not oxidize at smoke point. Olive oil does not oxidize at smoke point. Olive oil does not oxidize at smoke point.

There’s a famous quote by John Maynard Keynes that says, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. The same logic applies to health. Your liver can hide toxins longer than your skin will show it, which is why appearance is a terrible indicator of real wellness. A lot of these so-called ancestral health influencers are front-loading their youth by eating absurd amounts of retinoids, forcing rapid stem cell turnover. It looks great now, but the body only has so much regenerative capacity. By their 40s or 50s, they’ll look like burnt leather or a fruit roll-up, while Bryan Johnson will still be trending younger.

Methylene blue makes you "feel good" because it inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), leading to accumulation of aldehydes, particularly acetaldehyde, in the liver and bile. It interferes with normal hepatic metabolism and bile excretion pathways in the long run, meaning it will disrupt normal detoxification processes REGARDLESS of the dose. It's a long-term toxin amplifier with acute antioxidant properties. People just started taking this en masse, so it will take time to see the effects. Influencers will refer to the "thousands of studies" showing that MB is good for you, but these only exist for acute medical interventions. There is not a single longitudinal dietary study or randomized control trial to date. Research scientists themselves are skeptical about whether MB is safe for long-term ingestion, or else we'd have seen one such study funded in the 100 years that the substance has been used in a clinical setting to treat blood disorders. Also, it's bright blue. Not LINDY. Ancestor cry, etc.

Apparently, one of Michelle Trachtenberg's favorite foods was spinach and cheese pasta. Very high in vitamin A. She died of liver disease

This is why men are dropping out of education and no longer participate in the labor force. Kindergarten never ends. I remember being completely sick of school by 9th grade despite earning straight As before. I thought to myself... Surely one day this ends and we become adults?

Why do Americans insist that anything other than car-centric urban planning is communism?

I was talking to a friend who grew up in Yugoslavia. He’s about ten years older than me and recently moved back to Serbia. What struck me about his recounting of the years just before the war began was the sense of banality, a kind of timelessness. Despite all the vitriol, it didn’t really feel like anything was going to happen right away. But what set off the Homeland War—the conflict between the new Croatian state and Yugoslavia—was a single bus attack. A group of Serb paramilitaries opened fire on Croatian police officers near Pakrac, killing several and wounding others. That moment lit the fuse. From there, everything erupted. The war turned brutal very quickly, with civilians swept into atrocities. Imagine being raped in your own bedroom, beheaded in front of your family in the garden. Grenades thrown through your window, your bones later collected and dropped into a village well. And when I see a young woman today mocking the death of someone she disagrees with, or speaking with ambivalence about an assassination, I can’t help but think she has no idea how fast things can change. She doesn’t know that violence, once unleashed, doesn’t stay contained. I feel sorry for her, and for people like her, because they don’t realize what may be coming. The truth is, it’s almost impossible to imagine. The shift happens too fast, the violence too unforgiving and traumatizing. The pain lasts generations. I see it even in my own family. My grandparents still pinch pennies, mistrust everyone, swear that people are out to rob them. That fear has been passed down, and it lingers. If Americans speak with such disdain for people they disagree with, they should be prepared to endure these traumas too, for themselves, and for their families, for decades to come.

> be me > 2017 > just a guy selling real olive oil online > warning everyone about seed oils > linoleic this, lipid peroxidation that > people think I’m insane > “you mean like… canola?? lol” > write threads, post studies, make memes > friends start ghosting me after I rant at dinner > keep going > slow trickle of weirdos start following > 2021 > biofuel industry collapses again > ex-biodiesel execs suddenly reappear > microinfluencers start parroting my takes > unoriginal memes, zero sourcing > see my exact charts reposted with compression artifacts > they’re going viral > weird startup bros start following me > dig through my timeline > one even DMs: > “bro we love your stuff, just doing some research 👀” > months later they launch a synthetic 'cultured' oil from lab yeast > claim it’s the solution to the seed oil problem > backed by VC money from biodiesel failures > then suddenly — beef tallow everywhere > TikTok girls deep frying Oreos in it > gym bros making skincare with it > nutritionists saying it “heals the mitochondria” > Whole Foods starts selling $29 jars of it next to ghee > mfw beef tallow absorbs more carotenoids, toxins, metals, pesticides > mfw no one read the 1992 oxidation tables > mfw normies are being interpolated in real time > I’m still selling real olive oil > pure, uncut, first-press truth > they’re out here selling rendered supermarket suet in dropper bottles > media eats it up > RFK quoting my lines on CNN, no attribution > Netflix doc features 3 TikTokers and some guy who invented "nose-to-tail mayo" > mfw they mined my account like it was a lithium deposit > mfw they ignored me once it became profitable > mfw the movement I started is now a funded parody > I was the root > they grew the tree > and then chopped me for mulch

In a forsaken city at the edge of the world, a high-tech matriarchy battles for control of time itself, and Doctor Anastasia's daring gambit could redefine the course of womankind. Will her bold move succeed? Find out more in my new novel, "Babushka: Echoes of Immortality."

Vitamin A (retinol) accelerates stem cell turnover, giving a youthful appearance early on but depleting the body’s ability to regenerate over time. People who consume large amounts of vitamin A, especially through liver, carrots, and spinach, tend to show signs of aging much earlier than others in their age group. This is why many primal health influencers start to appear red, leathery and worn as they get older. Health Twitter operates on the same incentives as Big Pharma, though the products are different. If vitamin A toxicity were taken seriously, most of that ecosystem would fade due to the lack of material to promote or argue about. A healthy diet is straightforward: fruits like bananas and apples, legumes such as beans and lentils, basic grains like oats, some red meat, and vegetables that are light in color, including zucchini and cauliflower. It lacks novelty, and that’s exactly why influencers like Veronica wouldn’t be able to hold an audience.

This is my selo. This is my Empire.

Methylene blue makes you "feel good" because it inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), leading to accumulation of aldehydes, particularly acetaldehyde, in the liver and bile. It interferes with normal hepatic metabolism and bile excretion pathways in the long run, meaning it will disrupt normal detoxification processes REGARDLESS of the dose. It's a long-term toxin amplifier with acute antioxidant properties. People just started taking this en masse, so it will take time to see the effects. Influencers will refer to the "thousands of studies" showing that MB is good for you, but these only exist for acute medical interventions. There is not a single longitudinal dietary study or randomized control trial to date. Research scientists themselves are skeptical about whether MB is safe for long-term ingestion, or else we'd have seen one such study funded in the 100 years that the substance has been used in a clinical setting to treat blood disorders. Also, it's bright blue. Not LINDY. Ancestor cry, etc.

I ended up reproducing with someone who didn't take the vaccine. Haters take the L

I now have elevated serum iron and high transferrin saturation (58.4%), indicating iron overload. My serum ferritin is 228 µg/L. Throw away your cast-iron pans. It’s funny how certain health trends blow up on social media, to the point where you’re praised for wrecking yourself. Look at the carnivore community. Piles of red meat, everything cooked in cast iron. A recipe for long-term liver damage and increased cancer risk.

The decline of the West started the moment we stopped making bear shows for kids. Bears were gentle stewards of moral value, teaching honesty, courage, and friendship. Now it is all sponges, pigs, and monsters and you wonder why everything feels hollow

I'm blocked, hence the screenshot, but if you're getting health advice from this girl, I'd be cautious. She's posting her own Ls. Excessive amounts of vitamin A and sugar create aldehydes that detox through your skin and cause eczema.

I hope one day an anthropologist studies this phenomenon, the emergence of the alternative health community on Twitter. It’s at once fascinating and bewildering. It all started around 2016 or 2017, when this sudden “awakening” seemed to sweep across the internet. People began talking about the food industry, pharmaceuticals, toxins, seed oils, all of it. But why then? Why not ten or twenty years earlier? Here’s the truth no one wants to admit: there was no great awakening. What happened was e-commerce became standardized. For the first time, you could deploy an app that processed payments through Stripe. Third-party logistics and fulfillment centers became plug-and-play. Around 2016, that entire backend infrastructure fell into place and right after that, you see an explosion of heterodox health ideas. Everything is downstream from supply chains. It’s not that people suddenly threw off their chains and rebelled against the modern world. People have been doing that forever. What changed was the ability to monetize it. The hyper-personalization of logistics meant anyone could now sell anything without renting warehouse space, signing shipping contracts, or managing inventory. Ten years ago, to start a business selling some “miracle” skin cream laced with copper or claiming to detox your liver, you needed capital, reputation, and real skin in the game. You needed warehouse space, batch shipments, carrier deals, and steady demand built over years. Now you can just make things up on the internet. If you’ve got the appetite for lying, a high enough ego, and a narcissistic streak, you can sell to the world. Instantly. There’s no ceiling. The entire “awakening” was a supply chain phenomenon. Nobody really woke up. They just realized how easy it had become to profit from the illusion of truth.

To me, this is just a signal that the Primal Health, Ray Peat, and seed oil-"disrespecting" cultists are on their way out, and a new meta-narrative is on its way in. I’m doubling down on this signal. Vitamin A toxicity, toxic bile theory and cowboy diet will be the most talked-about health trend by 2026, Chinese Year of the Horse.

I cannot believe myself.