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Arjen
@Arjen

πŸš€ Projects
- Nostr Epoxy
- Nostr CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Tollgate

Avid through-hiker, over 3500km of the Pacific Crest Trail hiked and counting πŸ₯Ύ.

- 🚌 Vanlifer, self-converted van
- πŸ” I'm exploring deep into the food pyramid
- 🌍 Used to blog a bit: https://blackrivertales.com
- πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’» DevOps/backend
- I hate ads and leafblowers

Relays (4)
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine/ – write
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – write
  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write

Recent Notes

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I think the consequences will show over the long term. I don't think people get unhealthy because they're overweight. I think they get overweight because they're unhealthy.

Meaning, you can take away the symptom. But you're not fixing the root cause (i think we agree on that).

What the exact outcomes will be I can't tell... But when you take a shitty diet that still contains too few nutrients, and then give people something so that they eat less of it, but still the same crap food. You end up with someone more malnourished than they already were, further amplifying the shortage of necessary nutrients.

I'm sure they'll sell another pill for issues arising from that cycle.

To the last part of your question, I see rumors people struggle with severe gut issues (indigestion) and depressive/suicidal ideation within months after taking it. It's hard to quantify this stuff as truthful sources of this kind of data are scarce unfortunately.
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Many doctors get paid directly or otherwise incentivised to push the drug. It's the same playbook as Oxycodon used.

I recommend watching the Netflix documentary on it named 'Painkiller'.
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It comes out of nowhere hailed as the holy grail to solve a big issue with no personal effort required.

The side-effects are deeply worrying but seem to be brushed off so easily by media because people "deserve this drug".

I'm baffled by the speed at which people (that i know personally) suddenly get it prescribed. That's not a natural pace of development.
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I'm curious, did you already adress 'rollovers' to the next channel before the current one is drained, to ensure continuity?

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You're absolutely right!

I worked for a while on trying to get GitHub actions over nostr. Turned into more general compute (even better) which I want to layer GH Actions on top of.

@nevent1qvz...
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Some of 'our' old habits will carry over to nostr for a while, but this article will not be shown to other people just because I'd be tempted to click on it.

That only happens (organically) were I to reshare or zap it. Those actions will depend on my perceived value of the content. Which, if it's slop, will be zero and then the virality ends there.

I think titles and thumbnails like this do not help one succeed long term on Nostr.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article so this is no judgement of the article contents.