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Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Lemon on June 27, 2020, 11:47:59 am
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1e/ea/dd/1eeaddeed2b032c051232054771b33a8.jpg) (https://thefpl.us/episode/325)
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Glitterbomber on June 27, 2020, 11:58:35 am
Oh hell yes I hate these hucksters so much.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: A Meat on June 27, 2020, 12:44:36 pm
Oh hell yes I hate these hucksters so much.
Glitterbomber, June 27, 2020, 11:58:35 am
I hate them so much that it took me two years to make the doc, I kept getting too angry for my own good
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Achilles' Heelies on June 27, 2020, 01:06:27 pm
This episode has got to have our highest rate of angry noises per mintute.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: KingKalamari on June 27, 2020, 05:22:40 pm
A part that stood out to me:

He spent 15 years and $250,000 to hack his own biology, upgrading his brain by 20 IQ points, lowering his biological age, and losing 100 lbs without using calories or exercise.

Well, I can;t argue with his logic, since removing all calories from your diet probably will cause you to lose a lot of weight!
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Hot Cum Jerry on June 27, 2020, 10:58:20 pm
There certainly seem to be a lot of these guys

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbcawJIWkAA_rEk?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: GirlKisser420 on June 28, 2020, 12:31:45 am
nobody says it but the truest thing is that to be successful you have to be at least a little insane. Most people can push themselves with the minor sociopathy of self-promotion, but to be a true champion you have to be psycho enough to knowingly lie and believe it too
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: PublicAnimeNo1 on June 28, 2020, 01:23:21 am
i'm always delighted when the 'hyper rational' silicon valley types are just as sucked in to this kind of bullshit as magic crystal hippy aunts
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: A Meat on June 28, 2020, 01:27:59 am
By the way, I recommend everybody google Dave Asprey, look at pictures of him, and then read how old he is and decide for yourself if he has managed to reverse the aging process
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Achilles' Heelies on June 28, 2020, 01:36:44 am
By the way, I recommend everybody google Dave Asprey, look at pictures of him, and then read how old he is and decide for yourself if he has managed to reverse the aging process
A Meat, June 28, 2020, 01:27:59 am
I do not like looking at Dave Asprey.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: moooo566 (taylor's version) on June 28, 2020, 05:12:08 am
These guys are terrible and all but thanks for picking Bulletproof for the intro song.

edit: I hadn't actually listened to the rest of the episode when I posted this, but holy shit these guys are amazing. And, I've probably just missed a link posted somewhere very obvious but where's the picture of the drywall anchor torture device himalayan salt buttplug?
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Secret Gaygent 69 on June 28, 2020, 10:42:13 am
I had to look up who dave asprey was and found this gem on his wikipedia page.

(https://i.imgur.com/wUWjVXg.png)

Biohacking your way to a better boner.

Also as to the scientific veracity of this bullshit; taking 100s of supplements is fucking dumb, since things like vitamin supplements are worse than just eating foods with the vitamins. Not to mention if your taking 100s there is serious risk of adverse effects. Also using a hyperbaric chamber is only helpful for injuries, it hasnt been shown to be useful for anything else. And finally, injecting stem cells is fucking dumb for youth is incredibly dumb. Stem cell injection is being looked into to help replace damaged cells from things such as chemo therapy, but it sure as hell cant de-age you. Additionally it carries serious risk. It can be hard to get stem cells to differentiate properly, and could differentiate into the wrong type of cell which is real bad. Also they might just be able to cause tumor growth. So in short, dude's a fucking dumbass.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Seth "Slimy" Rollins on June 28, 2020, 11:36:54 am
bulletproof is for mask-on libertarians, Infowars is for mask-offs.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: A Meat on June 28, 2020, 11:52:26 am
I had to look up who dave asprey was and found this gem on his wikipedia page.

(https://i.imgur.com/wUWjVXg.png)

Biohacking your way to a better boner.

Also as to the scientific veracity of this bullshit; taking 100s of supplements is fucking dumb, since things like vitamin supplements are worse than just eating foods with the vitamins. Not to mention if your taking 100s there is serious risk of adverse effects. Also using a hyperbaric chamber is only helpful for injuries, it hasnt been shown to be useful for anything else. And finally, injecting stem cells is fucking dumb for youth is incredibly dumb. Stem cell injection is being looked into to help replace damaged cells from things such as chemo therapy, but it sure as hell cant de-age you. Additionally it carries serious risk. It can be hard to get stem cells to differentiate properly, and could differentiate into the wrong type of cell which is real bad. Also they might just be able to cause tumor growth. So in short, dude's a fucking dumbass.
Secret Gaygent 69, June 28, 2020, 10:42:13 am

the dude talks about "reversing cellular aging", one of the telltale signs of cancer, as a goal, I don't think he understands any biology at all. His goals are absurd and he doesn't understand what it would take to achieve them, which is fine because his actual goal is to fleece techies and write for clips
As far as I can tell none of his products are good for you, at best they're a more expensive version of a thing you can get at your local pharmacy/supermarket, at worst they're actively bad for you. Please don't take activated charcoal, especially if you're taking other meds, activated charcoal adsorbs stuff, you don't want your meds to possibly get adsorbed
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: EYE OF ZA on June 28, 2020, 02:23:25 pm
Actually I would argue that the reverse-aging thing is his primary goal, and he's so insanely dedicated to it that it's powering his drive to fleece rich idiots.

Also, I looked up that other guy, Ben Greenfield or whoever, and found his website where he talks about how 5G cell networks are destroying your body and why you need to breathe and/or drink molecular hydrogen.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Penultimatum on June 28, 2020, 04:26:52 pm
breathe and/or drink molecular hydrogen.
THE CURSE OF THE WITCH OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB, June 28, 2020, 02:23:25 pm
Wow, that's a fantastically bad idea for several reasons
The primary reason is that hydrogen is highly flammable (and explosive) when mixed with air
edit: artist's rendition of your body after breathing molecular hydrogen
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AcademicUnconsciousAnkole-small.gif)
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: A Meat on June 28, 2020, 06:17:23 pm
breathe and/or drink molecular hydrogen.
THE CURSE OF THE WITCH OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB, June 28, 2020, 02:23:25 pm
Wow, that's a fantastically bad idea for several reasons
The primary reason is that hydrogen is highly flammable (and explosive) when mixed with air
edit: artist's rendition of your body after breathing molecular hydrogen
(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AcademicUnconsciousAnkole-small.gif)
Friend Anemone, June 28, 2020, 04:26:52 pm
to be perfectly fair, consuming ionized hydrogen is also not a great idea, whether you're consuming it in water as pure hydronium, or as a proton beam, which you use to treat irradiate cancerous tissue
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: EYE OF ZA on June 28, 2020, 06:52:18 pm
I couldn't get a clear answer from the website (https://www.osmiowater.co.uk/water-filters/molecular-hydrogen.html/) which was promoting hydrogen (generally in solution with water, after running it through an electrolysis machine) as to what exactly hydrogen does.

H2, like other gaseous-signalling molecules (e.g. NO*, CO, H2 S), modulates signal transduction, protein phosphorylation, and gene expression, which provides its anti-inflammatory, anti-allergy, and anti-apoptotic protective effects.

They seem to go back and forth on whether hydrogen is an antioxidant or not. I'm no Doctor Science over here but I don't know if an extremely flammable gas is really the best way to prevent oxidation reactions.

Also the same website sells water bottles with little electrolysis machines in the bottom...which apparently you can plug a tube into and breathe from?? But I couldn't find anything in the product description about it so idk if you're breathing pure oxygen, pure hydrogen, or both, or what.

(https://www.osmiowater.co.uk/media/wysiwyg/emotional/Hydrogen_Water_H2_Rich_Water_5.jpg)

Oh and in case your water is too heavy (as in, literally, it has too much mass), they also sell deuterium-depleted water, with a lower concentration of deuterium than in normal water. If you just want to lighten up your water a little bit, you can get an 18L pack of bottled deuterium water at 125ppm for £75, but if you REALLY want to drink less deuterium they go all the way up to 18L of 25ppm deuterium water for only £275.

As a comparison, the bottled water I can buy at Kroger costs approximately £3 for 18L, so if you want low-deuterium water you're paying at least twenty five times as much for water that has 17% less deuterium.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: accepting change on June 29, 2020, 12:52:31 am
I think coconut shells is an actual go-to for activated charcoal but I don't know what toxins you'd be going after by taking it. It's used commonly for different poisonings but I think the last I read it wasn't that good for clearing ethanol.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: accepting change on June 29, 2020, 01:07:31 am
It might treat some of the oil-induced diarrhea  tho
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Antivehicular on June 29, 2020, 03:58:44 am
the dude talks about "reversing cellular aging", one of the telltale signs of cancer, as a goal, I don't think he understands any biology at all.
A Meat, June 28, 2020, 11:52:26 am
This guy knows so little biology that, when he had a high-fat hot beverage after a period of exertion in cold weather and  found it rejuvenating, he decided that this could only be because butter in coffee was magic. If this dude had shoveled his driveway regularly as a kid, he'd be shilling for hot cocoa as the AMAZING BIOLOGICAL OPTIMIZER instead and selling 30 mini-marshmallows in a clamshell box for $70.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on June 29, 2020, 06:16:58 am
I feel like Lemon threw down the buttplug gauntlet at the end of the episode.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Oats on June 29, 2020, 11:37:25 am
I feel like Lemon threw down the buttplug gauntlet at the end of the episode.
Dr. Buttplug, June 29, 2020, 06:16:58 am

Is a buttplug gauntlet just a glove with buttplugs at the end of each finger?
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on June 29, 2020, 12:32:57 pm
I feel like Lemon threw down the buttplug gauntlet at the end of the episode.
Dr. Buttplug, June 29, 2020, 06:16:58 am

Is a buttplug gauntlet just a glove with buttplugs at the end of each finger?
Oats, June 29, 2020, 11:37:25 am
NSFW content. Click to show.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Puppy Time on July 07, 2020, 09:38:41 am
bulletproof is for mask-on libertarians, Infowars is for mask-offs.
Seth "Slimy" Rollins, June 28, 2020, 11:36:54 am

I initially read this as referring to masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and it still worked.
Title: 325: Butter Business Bureau
Post by: Tipsy Almond on July 08, 2020, 05:21:15 pm
I did a bit of poking around on the topic of butter coffee. A normal recipe has about 1 tablespoon of butter per 8 oz cup, and the people who drink it are usually undergoing strenuous physical activity, which compensates for the higher fat consumption.

Dumping 4 tablespoons of oil into an 8 oz cuppa joe, eating vitamin pills and activated charcoal, and injecting stem cells into your bloodstream is, needless to say, not healthy. :B