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Also, buy truckloads of hand sanitizer

I was just reading about nocturnal hyperglycemia waking people up during the night just the other day. So, it could be a blood sugar crash

Vernon Chatman before South Park was great! Not that he wasn’t great for SP.

Another that doesn’t meet the qualification is Wonder Showzen. So great!

The Heart She Holler was pretty good too

I had a tool in highschool that took the valve out of the stem I borrowed from my dads mechanic shop that I put to good use. If there’s a hell I’m probably headed there

Dude, you got to check out this obscure cartoon by the same creator. It’s called Futurama

Heck yeah to all these!

I had a black cat with green eyes I named Sifl. Got attitude from quite a few people about what TF was wrong with me for naming a cat after syphilis…

Hoops is a recent one that cracked my shit up, and I was bummed didn’t get another season of two

My friend had that happen when he smashed a spider with a bottle of beer once. I was sitting right beside him tripping balls on acid 🤯

265 is more bandwidth efficient than 264. If you put two video streams next to each other, 100% identical, running at the same bitrate, except one is H.264 and one is 265, 265 will look better.

265 can achieve the same visual fidelity as 264 at 20-40% lower bitrate, depending on a few factors. The trade off is you need more processing.

If either are looking pixilated, you’re getting ones with to much compression. I still try and get ones at around a gig or larger. Especially if you’re watching on a big screen. And like I said, if your hardware will run it without getting all laggy, 10 or 12 bit is good for rgb color depth

In this day and age of compression, you can get a very small file in good quality.

If your hardware will run it, MKV/265 is fantastic! Especially the 10 bit rips

Vinegar has always helped me. Malt vinegar, or Apple cider vinegar.

Trader Joes has a really yummy lemon ginger acv drink that’s one of my go to’s

Uhh, see the banana master JWBananas diagram below. Exactly what I’m talking about

You can cut the second to last banana a little lower, and leave the top of the stim attached to keep it hanging

Geddit still works for read only, so I use that occasionally to check on a handful of subreddits that will gain no traction here or elsewhere yet

I feel ya on the stevia. It kinda has a weird aftertaste depending on how well it’s blended. Lucky for me, I don’t have much of a sweet tooth aside from chocolate, which I can find sugar free must of the time.

I used to be all about Agave when it first became popular for cooking and baking, but I’ve read some unfortunate articles on it the last few years. Most brands are actually basically corn syrup, so you have to be careful when buying. And pure agave is fairly pricey.

As far as natural sweeteners that aren’t supposed to be as unhealthy, you could try monk fruit, date, allulose. Or sugar alcohols like xylitol or erythritol. I would still avoid these when fasting if you can.

The fasts I’ve done that really made me feel amazing after I was done were when I worked up to 5 to 7 days, which I only do every 6 months or so. First two days, I completely dry fast, as that is good for getting you to autophagy quick, and also helps clear out any internal parasites you might be harboring. Then I electrolyte/vitamin with only water the rest of the week.

When I first started, I would dirty fast, with only water, green or black tea, or straight black coffee. It took me a few tries to get past the third day, which is okay. It’s best to work up to it! I’ve been an evening only eater most of my adult life as well, so it was fairly easy for me to step up to a couple days.

Just start out with calorie restriction. Like I said, start at intermentent. Eat in a 8 hour period, and fast for 16. Work up to 20/4, OMAD, then step up to a 48. You can do it!

It’s just really good for your body to not constantly have to be breaking down food, so it can get a break, and clean up your body, and dead cells and whatnot.

And if you do indulge in sweets, it’s okay. I have periods where I have cheat weeks. But I am pretty much always at a 20 fast/4 eating a day 5 or 7 days a week, with a 48 hr thrown in when I’m feeling like it. And like I said, an extended fast twice a year. Work into it, and you’ll do fine

I avoid all artificial sweeteners aside from a few plant based ones like stevia.

Technically, no sugar very low/no carbs don’t break fast.

But drinks like g zero have ingredients like starches and artificial sweeteners, which if you research the keto diet, your body basically processes just like sugar. Both are bad for insulin levels, could stop ketosis, and may be bad for autophagy.

Which is why processed foods with starches are very unhealthy even when they brag about being sugar free.

Do you, but I personally avoid always, not just when I fast as I try to stay in ketosis even when not fasting

Any calories or sugar ends the fast and any autophagy benefits, so drinks like gatoraide aren’t good.

I get a powder blend from health food stores that I mix in water or green tea that’s sugar/calorie free. There are lots to chose from, but most have sugar. Stevia sweetened are okay, but may stimulate your appetite.

Cravings wear off fast. Especially if you are not dry fasting. It’s actually easiest after the second day or so if you are getting you electrolytes

Yes, came to say fasting. Start with intermittent. Work up to OMAD (one meal a day). Then push it further out to 48 hr. plus depending on your weight, with just water, vitamins, electrolytes.

Autophagy is an amazing benefit of it to look into as well. Kicks in hard around 48 hrs, depending on how much sugar and carbs you have to burn off. Which is also why a ketogenic diet is good when you aren’t fasting.

Green tea, coffee, tumeric are good at stimulating autophagy too, if you want to dirty fast

I use Mullvad, and I have learned a bunch of server locations to use that haven’t been blocked yet

I’m into Taoism, so I think of Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Chinese philosophy. I love their sense of humor, and humility. I often daydream of a different life, being raised a monk in the Himalayas. A place I like to imagine when mediating