🤔 so... If we lose the illegal war on Iran... **_then_** can we get rid of Trump?

"Endoplasmic reticulum" is my current favorite thing. Anyone remember the first Sim City game? The little text when loading a map sometimes said "reticulating splines" and I never knew what that meant but thought it was awesome anyways. So in my bio quest, I've returned to an earlier chapter. 28 and 29 gave a very zoomed out view of the evolution of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, but I needed to return to basics, since on the first pass, my eyes were kinda glazed over. So I'm reading about endoplasmic reticulum and the ribosomes embedded on it, and how proteins get sent to the Golgi Apparatus... And here I find a philosophical problem. Over the past several years, my philosophy has roughly developed along the lines of, "the map is not the territory." This is so useful... And can be applied to almost anything. It jives well with Kantian philosophy, tarot, Christianity, theurgy... Just, everything. But those especially. Also bitcoiners used to say it a lot. Bring that back... But now in biology, the problem is that the map is definitely the territory. I regularly stop and exclaim, "but how does it know!?!?" The operations of the Golgi Apparatus is one such point. So, what happens is, first segments of DNA that encode the needed proteins are grouped into the ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum, where they execute and make a protein. Then the protein gets ferried over to the Golgi Apparatus, where it goes in one side and exits the other side slightly modified - usually a short suger is added, and that modification acts as an address label. The label (a molecule) tells a "vescicle" - a different molecule, which acts as a mailman, where to take the protein. Then it gets assimilated into whatever structure its taken to, and that's how cells grow or repair. But here's the recurring problem : where's the corresponding information stored? Like, okay, the short sugar addition is the label, I see how its added and taken off, but a label has to correspond to some inverse receiving function, and I'm not seeing that in the vescicles. Is the whole thing based on the probability of a molecule randomly finding a receiving corresponding shape to fit into? If that's how it works, then why add it to a vescicle first? And if that's how it works, then each organelle - nay, each component of each organelle - must have a unique key to prevent proteins from going to the wrong place. Well anyways. I suppose if the answers were easy, there'd be no bio quest. Yeah, backwards logic, but it's all I got here. The quest continues....

Ever wondered how many people are **_actually_** compromised / state agents in bitcoin? Its a lot. Fewer than their crowd of supporters, but as always, its an IQ test. For an idea of the **_magnitude_** of the problem, look at how many people are conflating "Andy Back" with "Adam Back" and trying to create a hostile environment in this space to push out **_literally the most proof of work developer in this project._** There's your state agents. If you actually take them seriously... these people with exactly zero proof of work behind them... Lol. Then get lost.

This Iran war is actually interesting... I mean, from a zoomed out, dispassionate perspective. We shouldn't have done it, that's obvious... Its early, but I'm thinking the US made a pretty big blunder in killing their leadership. I don't see how this is remotely winnable, in either the short or long term, without Iranians rising up and assisting, and that's a heck of a lot less likely after martyring various figures. Then there's Iran's retaliation against the gulf states, which I think does make sense. Iran's geography and high population make it difficult to invade and probably similar to Afghanistan for any occupying force. That gives Iran some insulation and allows them to adjust the calculations of the gulf states - a "choose your master" kind of adjustment. Those gulf states also have relatively high shia populations, as does eastern Iraq. Trump seems to have been betting on an uprising helping his war, but its possible that its the other states that have an uprising. We'll see... What I really really realllllly dislike is that this stuff makes it less likely that I'll ever get to go explore Iran. Its one of the most interesting countries, with an incredible history.

🤔 I use ghee in my coffee. I just estimated that from my diet of butyrate from ghee vs my gut's ability to manufacture butyrate from fiber, I get 5.7% of my butyrate from my ghee-coffee. I have some kind of problem in my gut that I'd like to heal. Butyrate/short chain fatty acids help repair intestinal lining. The recommended daily amount of scfa's is 5-10 grams, and I'm probably at about 5.7 grams total. So that's low - trying to heal, not just maintain.

fuck war That's my opinion.

☕ been reading more about viruses this morning. This chapter is hard to get through... I get nauseous from seeing blood, and reading about viruses is like double that effect. So it's been three days on one chapter... That rate ain't gonna cut it. This makes me think about aliens. Lots of things make me think about aliens. I'm always trying to think of some explanation for those insane lights and the maneuvers they pulled, which I saw in 2001. So the thought is this : aliens are interested in us and our planet because its a living laboratory for infectious diseases. Imagine you somehow figure out how to cross the ludicrous distances between stars, and you find a living planet... What then? Then probably you die. A living planet has diseases, most of which probably is completely unrecognizable to your own immune system's defenses. Most probably won't infect you, because your biology is new and unrecognizable to the diseases, but there are an absurdly enormous number of different diseases and chances for something to figure out how to infect you. Something will cross over eventually. Every breath of air, every surface touched, is a roll of the dice. Some numbers, according to Mr. Nice AI : there are over 30 nonillion individual viruses on earth, with over 6000 species known. 30 nonillion is a number so large, if you lined up all of them, the line would stretch 100 million light years. For context, our galaxy is 70,000 light years across. All of that packed into one planet... Not even the whole planet - just the one mile-ish thickness of the biosphere. Earth is a disease soup. If you assume that all living planets are similar, and there are probably millions of living planets just in this galaxy, then... Well, then there's a really big problem. So what do you do? You quarantine every living planet you find. The distances are so vast, that its unlikely you find any, even if you're expanding into space in every direction for thousands of years, but suppose you do find one... You have to quarantine it. You have to maintain enough presence to shoot down any of your own species' craft that try landing - there's all the crashed UFOs ; and if there's any organized sentient native life, you send them the clear message of "peace is only possible if you stay on your planet" - and that might explain all the probes that we've inexplicably lost contact with, especially with regards to Mars and Venus. Its been a lot. Idk how many, but a lot. Maybe too many. This might explain the abduction reports, too. Apparently, most abductees think they were a patient of some alien doctors. It could also explain the bio-robot-like nature of the greys - they're disposable, and not meant to return from whatever mission they have on earth. Returning might (IMO probably) be catastrophic for whoever sends them. It might explain the reports from astronauts that they were being watched from the ridgeline/rim of a crater on the moon - if its contamination that the aliens are worried about, I can imagine a crew coming onto the site following our exploration and using high heat and radiation to sterilize every surface. Considering how big of a problem diseases must be, I'd bet they sent that crew in to sterilize the place a dozen times and then still never go near it. This might even explain some religious stuff. I'm not talking about seeing lights and making assumptions - everyone thinks of that. I mean, the archons of gnostic cosmology, which we usually interpret as psychological forces, but could actually have been real rulers who seemed hostile or indifferent to humanity. Ancient gods who rarely interacted with people, but when they did, it was thunder and lightning and explosions - all of that could just be sterilizing some contamination. The "Fall" in Christian theology might have been a literal fall into the earth, where they (possibly us) were damned to death on this world of death, because once you breathe the air of this world, ain't no way anyone up there is letting you back off this rock. Maybe. Just possibilities. It might be the simplest explanation. Anyways, I've concluded that learning biology is the best way to find answers - at a minimum, answers relating to mundane life, but possibly these bigger questions. I don't think rocketry is the big problem preventing us from space colonization. I think that's relatively simple and mostly already solved. And its actually exciting for its own reasons - I can see a clear path to literally programming matter via enzymes, which change their geometry based on pH. That's like... Suddenly seeing how that could work was one of those moments... It was one of those moments where everything shifted in my mind. Well anyways. My coffee is cold.

The reason there's so many illegal immigrants in the US is that corporations prefer to employ them. Less pay, no legal protections. Deporting people will accomplish nothing while the corporations go unpunished. Almost all of the illegals live peacefully, commit no crimes ; all of the corporations bringing them in commit crimes. We're doing this all wrong.

My intestines have become intolerant of milk... I'm getting actual pain when I put milk in my coffee (which has been my habit for yearrrrrrs) but not when I don't.