People say "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

However, I think companies can and will create anxiety in a product to get you to buy something else, or something more expensive. This would fit with planned obsolescence. You need to update to Windows 11 because Windows 10 will not have support of updates. Fear the viruses!!!

Also, perhaps companies are purposely hiring incompetent people to head up products? So malicious incompetence?

I think the enshitification of tech is on purpose for various reasons. One of them being to create anxiety in people so they accept shittier solutions for all facets of life. Not just tech solutions.

A tech example of this is searches. They want you using AI. What is the end game goal of AI? Is it easier to hide bias?

Certainly see it everywhere too, but I truly think software is dumb because everyone sucks at it from the perspective of the user. Like look at Spotify. Basically endless resources to throw at any problem. They've delivered a basic music streaming service for well over a decade.

Shuffle button is broken, has been broken for almost a year. They just. can't. fix. the. fucking. button. because they're focused on bloated features that nobody asked for, like daily playlists that share mixture of paid promotional music, curated music and stuff you actually might like maybe, mostly so people can share the goofy AI-generated playlist names on Instagram

Bottom line, they're beholden to capital and capital sure as shit doesn't want them spending money on making a stable app that provides its most basic functions. They want new features, they want AI-driven, etc etc

that quote becoming popular I think has the highest death and hurt count in all of humanity's history

the other day I was browsing the Google now news articles cuz I'm curious what normie news is like

and there was this brilliant psychology article: https://personalbrandingblog.com/8-...

you know how pharma poisons the food so you have to go buy "symptom" medications (and then they blame everything on your genetics, nevermind that epigenetics is environmentally flipped and that's actually the mechanics they're citing... and also all the things they give people drugs for have nothing to do with genetics or epigenetics in the first place but I digrees)

anyway this article is a gaslight factory into how to make you as neurotic and non-functioning as a human being possible so you go pay therapists. specifically it's meant to give you neurotic narcissism, and narcissism cannot be cured. it's defined by its literal incurability. convenient. just like "genetics" is known to be incurable.

purposefully hiring incompetent people (and also making them): https://youtube.com/watch/...

different faction. it's probably China doing that part. bigger game

end game of AI... white house recently released a memorandum how theyre combining all the three letter agencies to head an AI taskforce that will be doing "safety" and make sure nobody makes weapons or something

it's basically saying they're gonna use AI to censor people because "what if you build weapons", but it'll be used for other means of course

when websites started on the internet in law we only had publishers. publishers are liable for what they publish. a new legal category was created for websites -- a platform. where the person running the website is not liable for the content posted on their website, they just have to comply with takedown requests

the reason this was done is because a website doesn't have enough manpower to moderate every single user's post and make sure the company can't be sued for what they're displaying. with AI, this will no longer be a "problem". so governmentally they will mandate AI censorship, which can read every user's post and understand them

I should write a book about the way I avoid all the traps set by companies.

90% of the time, it’s all about not buying or using the services that frustrates me. That’s why I removed most of my socials and only keep Signal as a way of messaging.

Also, instead of going through full complex unsubscribe flows, I block the payment on my bank account.

oh and the AI closest to the government is not ChatGPT but anthropic. whose AIs are FAR better. they understand implication and can figure out your intentions before you can even verbalize them

which is very useful when you're trying to solve a vague problem but for policing will enter thought crime era. they won't arrest you but they'll know you better than you know yourself and you'll be on a list not due to what you said but how you think about problems

historically USA departments, when they're regulated let's say the financial sector for fraud, those made softwares were actually used to commit the fraud

@jestdotty so I used to be part of a health company. The product actually worked and improved your health. The science guy who licensed the process key to the product talked about how with the right nutrition you can have DNA repair.

I later learned that DNA is a fractal shape in its structure. If there is a mistake in the fractal you can readily identify a disease. Being a fractal also means it has a self correcting error mechanism. Which nutrition can solve.

The company was doing very well. What was interesting at the time was Coca Cola execs were attending distributor meetings. It looked like they were intimidating the nutrition company execs. Eventually the company collapsed and I am not entirely sure why. All I know is I had permanent health improvements I cannot explain.

tldr Shit food companies do NOT want healthy options on the market.

@Demolishun ooooh DNA is a fractal? that is super cool

I didn't look into it deeply. recently been scouring all the woo-woo stuff, or energy healing, witchcraft, and that we are all one consciousness that is God and can change matter with our mind physics theory. years ago a guy passed by somewhere I was hanging and he asked me what I thought the universe was, and I said it was a fractal. he said that was godel's theory. no clue who Godel is. that's how the whole universe looks though. all the woo-woo people keep calling this same concept "holographic" -- every small piece has the whole in it, because it's self recurring

interesting DNA would be the same

@Demolishun but there's plenty of studies where they change the DNA of something via a substance. you know what REALLY pisses me off? vitamin A. necessary for the immune system, theoretically would deplete from COVID, is KNOWN for being anti inflammatory. you basically can't find it in the modern diet in any meaningful amounts. but it's also responsible for flipping a fuckton of genes. I've been eating liver all month and it's been great. what huge overlap with the COVID vaccine injury symptoms though -- unstoppable inflammation, basically AIDs, and latent genetic diseases being activated or made worse (poor Celine dione...). but NOBODY fucking mentions that vitamin A is a "well known anti inflammatory vitamin". how fucking EVIL is that. oh yeah it's also necessary for fucking NEUROGENESIS. Without which you can't consolidate memories and would get dementia, brain fog. motherfuckers are evil.

oh yeah people's teeth were falling out also. and the studies know vitamin a is necessary in bone density somehow but not how

my fucking teeth shattered. the dentist thinks I bit something too hard or maybe ate acidic foods. I don't even eat sugar. I've been brushing my teeth with more than just shit dentists know about also. my body just ceased repairing the small fractures teeth make all the time -- your teeth are alive. they get tiny fractures then correct them, over and over again. and that process was just stopped for me. hell I got hip pain also but thankfully nothing happened from that

it's truly fucked up

COVID activates inflammation pathways and to reduce inflammation your body uses more vitamin d and vitamin A to flip them off. so you just get rapid depleted. people on meat diet had better COVID outcomes so I thought it was protein related, I didn't consider vitamin A, and everyone always says it's dangerous anyway. such propaganda

@jestdotty this has vitamin A. Hard to read label online though:

https://costco.com/kirkland-signatu...

@jestdotty damn are you me? I've been trying to curb my usual migraine episode with vitamin A, D3 and magnesium.

No dice just yet, but I feel as though a weighted blanket has been removed from my brain. Way less stressed out than usual too. I thought it was the magnesium but this makes me wonder if the vitamin A is the chief catalyst

@Demolishun I've been eating liver. vitamins are weird, they seem to make me feel bad sometimes so probably they put sus things in there sometimes

liver is 1.50$ at the store, it's frozen so I just put it in the freezer. a pack is 100 grams and 100 grams has 700% of daily amounts of vitamin A. so I make it once a week, eat a third, and then have thirds leftovers for 2 days, and then start over again

though initially I ate liver every day and damn did I feel that every time for the first 2 weeks, but now the effect is far less notable though when I stop I degrade a bit. am so happy though ☺️

lethal dose of liver is x100 daily amount, but you can also get chronic vitamin a toxicity. so I can't really tell how much to dose and taking my time with it. evidently a symptom of having too much would be nausea, but I get that all the time due to various other reasons so lol

@spoiledgoods for migraines coq10. I had migraines once and it was cuz I was stressing myself out. really bad. nobody told me I could just fix it with coq10 though which I think is really fucked up. I just started saying no at work and working less and that fixed it

but when I got sick post COVID vaccine... one of the recommended things to fix you was coq10, and I was getting very mild migraines again from the stress of the whole thing. coq10 bottles themselves say they're for migraines... anyway, if I felt one coming on and popped coq10 it would prevent the whole thing. also if you have fatigue or something that stuff will make you feel like a million bucks. your body makes it naturally from exercise, in your muscles, but yeah if you're lazy why not

i've strangely not had migraines come back on either despite running out of coq10 pills like 2 years ago

thought I get tension headaches now. but uhhh. like anytime I take something that increases or decreases my level of inflammation I feel it in my skull, so that's what that is lol

I have other problems. I've been sick like 3 years and it overlaps with COVID vaccine injured people. COVID itself just made me feel like my body was waterboarding me with adrenaline for 3 days and then I never got it again... up until someone talked me into getting the vaccine (which numbed out my nerves for 24 hours) and then suddenly I caught COVID every year and started having nerve issues come back REALLY badly and permanently, not just 24 hours of me strangely sort of being numb but I couldn't even feel if I was washing dishes with steaming hot water kind of shit... and doctors are absolute assholes and their whole profession should be abolished btw

@jestdotty oh yeah I heard about that coenzyme. I'll be grabbing some for sure. I've been able to stave off this episode by getting my neck IMS needled, but I hate that it comes to that. Same thing last year. It's very unpleasant and I always end up sobbing uncontrollably a few minutes afterwards, which can be embarrassing ofc.

Stupid body, always keeping the score and shit

@spoiledgoods I genuinely feel bad for people for migraines. I have had bad headaches, but I just don't understand how bad a migraine is.

@spoiledgoods you could also try something called nigella sativa. it says it cures everything but death. they think the mechanism by which it can solve every problem under the sun is because it's a strong antioxidant like coq10 is (I suspect it might be other things but that's neither here or there)

but one of the interesting things it comes advertised for is for brain issues. it's possible the reason I stopped having migraines has more to do with me having taken that. it speeds up healing and sort of ages you backwards, but I remember one study claimed it helped mental issues like sayyyy, bipolar. was a whole list of like 12, I don't remember particularly. bipolar being a very tricky dysregulation in brain chemistry that is often medicated with lithium regularly (which doesn't cure it, but nigella sativa seems to) and I suspect migraines are also caused by a very tricky dysregulation in brain chemistry

@Demolishun yeah, me too dawg. when I meet someone who has chronic migraines there is ALWAYS this camaraderie that immediately forms, like we both served in WW2 in different battalions or something.

idk how I made it to 30 honestly. I joined a cluster headache support group back in like 2007 when I was just a young adolescent and most of the people I interacted with in there are now dead via suicide, assisted or otherwise. That's all modern medicine has to offer other than opioids, which usually yield a similar result

bruh

mine were not so bad

I only had 2 bad ones. thankfully I get auras before they come on so I can try to calm myself and take it easy to minimize how bad they're gonna be

but yeah Jesus fuck I wanted to kill myself

it was like an ice pick was going through my skull

I smoked so much weed and it did absolutely fucking nothing. and I had the really good street stuff that the withdrawal for which was you writhing on the kitchen floor for hours/days

I couldn't even pass out. if I'm in pain I can always pass out. it was just fucking atrocious

seriously though buy coq10. if it's anything like the two really bad migraines I had you would cry with joy. at least I hope it'll work on you how it did on me. shit's not fun. I'm stoic as hell, I can handle and tune out pain easy. there was absolutely nothing I could do for that migraine. fucking nothing. blitzed to fuck on weed didn't even decrease the pain by 1%. I couldnt tune it out. fucking nothing. youre in hell and thats fucking that

@jestdotty Always down to try something. You gotta be open minded with this kind of thing as you well know, plus a lot of these things bring great secondary benefits

I would like to know what my neck muscles are holding onto. Every time I get them to TRULY release using IMS, I sob uncontrollably. Obviously I'm holding onto something huge.

I likely have Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hard to diagnose but I'm a prime candidate). I went thru therapy for years, every kind of snake oil you can imagine, chiros, physios, botox, etc, uncovered repressed memories, all that shit, and still. the fucking migraines.

Almost 20 years later they're just as bad and just as debilitating. I spent my late teens and 20s getting fucked up, basically trying to kill myself indirectly with substances and now I just wanna know why. It's fine if I can't fix it, I just wanna know why it happens.

I'll probably die mostly ignorant though

@spoiledgoods what I don't get is that the brain has no nerves right? So what exactly is hurting in a migraine? Just the skin and muscle of the head?

@jestdotty Oh yeah. They're no joke. I've had thousands of those headaches, I had one last night at 3am. It was like an 8/10 but still. I usually just pace around and alternate between pulling my hair out and pressing my own skull like a vice. A few weeks ago I was having around 7 of them per 24 hours (that includes at night of course, you think we sleeping in this bitch???)

I dislocated my shoulder last winter and I'd take that over the headaches any damn day. At least I'd go into shock and pass out from that. Plus it kinda hurt less if I'm being honest.

What blows my mind is how they still manage to hurt so bad even after all this time. You'd think I'd have gotten used to it somehow, or my CNS would be like "chill, there's nothing actually wrong here" but no. Takes my breath away every time.

@spoiledgoods and you don't have to take the coq10 all the time. if you feel one coming on or starting you can pop it and it'll reduce or remove the pain entirely in 20 to 60 minutes. just keep the bottle in the fridge for what if

but you can also take it cuz it can help other health issues like fatigue

I think I just got the migraines because I was pushing myself too hard and I just learned to have limits to how much I push myself. so if that works that would be the best. but you'd have to sus out what stresses you out in that way and what doesn't. having coq10 around as backup would allow you to experiment without having to fear the brunt of those headaches, because if you mess up and ok'ed some stresser you have a backup plan

@spoiledgoods so my wife gets these. Not sure how bad though. Yours sound terrible. I will be so pissed if some company has suppressed a cure to sell headache medicine. They do this by getting cures tied up in clinical trials. People are not allowed to speak about them during this time. Can be 5 to 10 years or more.

I wonder how many people have studied them. It seems like even a partial solution would be huge QOL improvements in people.

@spoiledgoods nigella sativa straightened out my spine, I have some weird spine problems maybe, like I seem to store stress in my neck / shoulders and that place cns get tense as a result. I tried the weird energy healing stuff for that but it doesn't really work for it because there's just too much in it. trauma my ass but a licensed trauma guy taught me the energy stuff. it can temporarily help but whatever tenseness I have is limitless there

anyway I'd try nigella sativa as a cure, not a "aspirin" like I'm advocating for coq10

if it's bad literally no reason not to try coq10. has other benefits yes. like it gives you energy like you just exercised without you having to exercise

why it happens? I have a theory actually. because I couldn't pass out I think it has to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

it's literally like someone cranked consciousness to max

@spoiledgoods yeah you can't ignore it. you'll never get used to the pain. I think the pain comes before the systems to block it out. so you can never get used to it. you can never control it. it's just hacked you. it's primordial, before you have control

@Demolishun coq10. literally they never told me coq10.

I tried 50mg bottles and then eventually took the 250mg one. the higher doses were better

I was pretty pissed when I found out. wasn't even looking for it.

but my stuff is nowhere near as bad as @spoiledgoods 's. you got nothing to lose. seriously. any pharmacy will have coq10 on the shelf. go out there and buy a bottle and eat it. if it works it would be life-changing.

when that stuff happened to me I was like "nope" and totally changed my life around. so I was never cursed by constant issues of this. and stop listening to doctors. they're literally no better than snake oil salesmen. unfortunately these days if you want to fix something you have to be your own doctor. the existing ones have perverse incentives and also their education only teaches them how to sell pharmaceuticals. and they'll gaslight you if you try to piece anything together (they're gaslit), so don't buy them saying that nonsense either. check it yourself

@Demolishun I don't think the lack of understanding is malicious as much as it is just a very nebulous thing, and the people actually trying to figure it out are just regular (desperate) people. Since it's not immediately life-threatening, there is little desire to research (among other reasons)

@jestdotty thank you, I'll be giving both a try (:

Did you discover these things trying to deal with post-covid vaccine issues too?

@spoiledgoods yeah I bought like 300+ substances from herbal stores and just ate them. basically tried everything. I was in a really bad shape

(basically bought everything until I found stores with thousands of substances and somewhat knew some health stuff and tried to be more directed about it)

brain areas that cause migraines: https://sciencedirect.com/science/...

I think it's the ARAS misfiring somehow

I can't seem to find anyone who just observed the whole system during a migraine and idk if I care enough to really solve the mystery. but my gut feeling is ARAS dysregulation

@jestdotty would those abnormalities not have surfaced in an EEG though?

@spoiledgoods yeah i'd think. that's what I wanted to see

my mom had epilepsy later in life (brought on by stress), and that shows up as abnormal brainwaves. she didn't have migraines. but interestingly there's such a thing as an "epileptic personality" historically, so I should be having them probably also

@Demolishun

The brain itself is like a giant cluster of nerves.

While it is true it has no pain receptors (the ones that register burns, bruises, and such), doesn't mean the brain can't wrongfully interpret or generate other signals that register as intense pain.

Also, regarding vitamins, unless you are diagnosed with a certain deficit, extra vitamins can have two outcomes...

B, C, E and other water-soluble vitamins will only make your urine very expensive, as their excess will go right down the drain.

A, D, K and other fat-soluble ones are dangerous, as they will be stored non stop in your body fat, which can, slowly but surely, build up to a toxic shock.

@CoreFusionX I take just daily vitamins. Whatever the recommended is. I also take daily b vitamins because it made my carpal tunnel disappear.

I have metabolism issues. being in a winter climate very dangerous. if I take b vitamins and iodine I don't have self-heating issues for about 2-6 hours so

also vitamin d highly recommended for northern climates. been on that a while. actually I've probably been severely vitamin d deficient all my life. during COVID if you had bad vitamin d levels you died (made the virus racist, cuz black people due to their skin have less vitamin d), but also if you ate it or vitamin c (general antiviral) your outcomes were monumentally better. vitamin d is necessary to reduce inflammation and overactive immune systems, seems to correlate to people developing allergies and autoimmune conditions

also my skin used to be translucent. on like my chest. I did suntan as much as possible due to being sick, but I didn't tan there. taking vitamin d seems like my skin is white now instead of see-through, and the purple circles around my eyes also lessened monumentally lol

... there was also some bad stuff

not all vitamins are made the same though

like folate in vitamin pills can actually be toxic because your body has to process it. if your body doesn't it will take up the places b9 is supposed to be but it won't work so you'll give yourself a b9 deficiency by taking b9 pills

also B12 comes in several forms. cyanide form is not well digested, but also when your body gets that B12 out you get cyanide. it's in small amounts but that's still stupid. they sell this version because it has a very stable shelf life
now methyl B12 on the other hand is amazing... you don't digest it but consume it sublingually, and it has a very good acceptance rate by your body, and instead of cyanide you get methyl which is like one of the most amazing substances for your body that autists literally eat blue paint to get it (methyl blue) and cure the oddest ailments in themselves

speaking of, if you eat cereal or bread they put toxic vitamins in them. California wants to "fortify" tortillas with b9 now 😡