Newsletter 20230612 Scientific breakthrough on aging, interesting Gay artists, history to use to fight anti-Gay Christians.
My Dallas work. Covid is still around, get vaccinated. Weight loss tips. The usual documentation of some trans extremism.
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Taurine seems to be effective in slowing aging
These are two articles from Nature and Science. They are the two leading scientific periodicals in the world.
Nature magazine has the article which is more readable to the non-specialist.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01910-4
This is more the article for specialists.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn9257
Some cautions. Though they see an effect, they don’t know why it works. This is just the first paper. It remains to be seen if other scientists can confirm these effects and the critical review of the scientific community. There was the sirtuins debacle which was supposed to be an answer for aging, but didn’t pan out.
However, given that they report positive effects in monkeys is encouraging. A lot of times things happen in mice, or worms, but not in humans. Monkeys are rather close on the evolutionary tree to humans.
Should you take it?
I think as long as it is cheap and easy to take you might. It is going to take some time to verify whether it works or not for humans, but you are aging right now. The worst would be a little money lost. A decade ago, taking vitamin E was very popular as an anti-aging supplement. However, investigations showed that it had no impact.
Some thoughts on this.
First, more and more aging is seen as a legitimate topic of scientific study. Also, with modern molecular biology things that really couldn’t be investigated before, can be investigated now. The Science article in the editor’s summary points out that the scientists looked at DNA damage, telomerase deficiency, impaired mitochondrial function, and cellular senescence. With current molecular biological science and technology, scientific investigations can be conducted that were not possible before.
Second, they still haven’t understood how taurine supplements work to produce their anti-aging benefits. This is really of interest. Because figuring out why taurine works, likely will give insight into how aging works and contribute greatly to the understanding of the molecular biology of aging. Perhaps it will lead to something that is more anti-aging, or just build up the knowledge base.
A really interesting artist. Daniel Barkley
https://www.danielbarkley.com/en_gallery
https://www.instagram.com/danielbarkleyart
https://www.facebook.com/danielbarkleyart/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/daniel-barkley
Christopher Shellhammer artist.
https://christopher-shellhammer.pixels.com/collections/classic+nude+paintings
Looking for artists to showcase.
I don’t have any artists lined up for next week. If you know of any good artists that might be interested, let me know.
Jared French 1905-1988
A racist myth dreamt up to justify the betrayal of Uganda to the British Imperialists.
A fable made up to cover up Christian collusion with British imperialism and the betrayal of Buganda to the British. It is a racist story that the racist British would believe.
The Ugandan Christians can't think about homosexuality because it would lead to them having to realize that their religion was just a tool of British imperialism.
https://owaahh.com/the-gay-kabaka/
Hindu Post article about how Islam and Christianity decimated the indigenous religions of Africa.
This would be a useful article for the situation when they want to attack homosexuality as unAfrican. The reality is that Christianity and Islam is alien to SubSahara Africa where as homosexuality existed in pre-colonial times.
About the origin of the word homosexual and its validity.
One thing I have seen being done by certain theorists to undermine the identity of being Gay or Lesbian as homosexuals is to point out that the term was created in the 19th century and so that we being homosexual is somehow just a modern invention and a particular personal interpretation of identity. That is in opposition that homosexual is a real and objective thing.
This blurring out of homosexuals as an objective identity is done to allow all sorts of fanciful theorizing and block Lesbians and Gays organizing as such focused on themselves. They are dissolved into some diffuse spectrum of desire.
The fact is that Krypton, Neon, Helium, and Hydrogen, among many other elements in the periodic table, are modern terms. However, these elements objectively do exist and have existed for billions and billions of years.
It is true that homosexual individuals in the past didn’t have the frameworks to recognize themselves as homosexuals prior to the invention of the term and its popularization with the rise of a homosexual movement. However, that doesn’t mean homosexual isn’t a real objective identity.
I think some academics who were homosexual were apprehensive about being different and having to have an identity, homosexual. Others were off on their theoretical fancies.
I am not afraid of being different, and whether I am afraid or not, I am what I am.
Homosexual has been criticized legitimately as being inadequate as a term for Lesbians and Gays, because it can be reductive of Lesbians and Gays to just medical terms, and not including the whole Lesbian and Gay experience. But for the description of who we are in terms of same-sex desire it is alright, but it isn’t our entire self-description.
Dallas Work
There really is a big anti-drag campaign going on in Dallas. Our local LGBTQXYZ establishment has no fight in it and is assimilationists and craves the approval of the straight community. In short, they are in many ways pre-Stonewall.
I do a local newsletter and I report on what is going on there. I am not ideologically narrow, and my goal is to make sure the news that the local LGBT paper is not willing to report is reported.
The local antifa is really engaged in defending the LGBT. Sometimes they say things that I am not comfortable. However, they are news. The local LGBT paper was erasing them. I reported on them and also pointed out how they were being erased. This resulted in me having support from antifa for my reporting. Also, it got the local paper not to erase them. Do we agree on everything, no we don’t, and they know that. But we also have a working relationship which is good.
I have a total of 148 subscribers, but they are supporters and opponents who want to know what is happening and people who are seriously interested in LGBT affairs.
I call it Dallas Gay Liberation since I am writing as a Gay person. However, in a lot of cases there is a shared interest with the other letters and I do acknowledge that.
In being engaged in the real struggles of a local community I learn and an able to be current. I think it tempers my thinking being engaged with people.
I am mentioning this, since I think that some of the readers might be interested in doing this for their local community. It doesn’t take a lot of time.
If you go to this newsletter, you can read the reports. One development is that I am recognized as the person to contact if you need to know something.
The local Dallas Voice which I call the Dallas (Vichy) Voice, doesn’t want to report on bad things, so major anti-Gay Dallas Christian groups are not reported on. I report on them.
To have an impact you have to be a gadfly and not hold back.
Covid isn’t completely gone, remember vaccination is our superpower over anti-Gay Christians.
It is still out there and it still might evolve into something nasty. With rolling waves of infections of hundreds of millions of infections, the chances of the virus evolving to be more infectious and more deadly is high.
The current surge is caused mainly by a highly infectious subvariant of Omicron called XBB.1.5, first identified in India last August. According to Nanshan Zhong, a prominent respiratory physician in China, as many as 65 million people could become infected per week by the end this month.
One of the issues is that the Chinese vaccines aren’t mRNA vaccines and their effectiveness if poorer, though the Chinese are working on developing mRNA vaccines.
The LGBT have been vaccinated about 90+ percent. We need to get our boosters when they become available. Even if a vaccinated person gets a breakthrough infection, the infection will be milder.
The groups that are anti-vax are mostly anti-Gay Christians and other anti-Gay individuals. They die or get disabled and we don’t.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01872-7
As of March 23, 2023 the daily death rate was 255 and the number of persons in the hospitals was 22,522.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
The CDC has a little over one thousand per week getting hospitalized. Let make sure that it is a few LGBT as possible.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
There are Gay anti-vaxxers and they are a risk to the community. It needs to be emphasized that these anti-vaxxers that are against mRNA vaccines are not likely to be getting an mRNA HIV vaccine when it comes out or a mRNA herpes vaccine when it comes out.
Weight Loss stuff
Some of this probably 90% of you know already.
Read food labels carefully. Some tricks to watch out for.
I am a chemical engineer and retired from semiconductor processing. I usually know what all the ingredients are, including the ones with the IUPAC chemical names. I also did a lot of statistics. However, I think the average person gets fooled by some tricks. Here are some to watch out for.
[1] What actually is considered a serving for the nutritional information. A lot of times the numbers look good, until you find out that they are based on a really small serving.
[2] Less fat than what? Sometimes a package will say 50% less fat in large letters, looking at it closer you see it is a comparison to some other product. It still could have a lot of fat. Judge on how much you would actually use in a meal and how many calories that would be. The fact that it is less than a stick of lard isn’t really relevant. Relative percentages are not inherently bad, but they are often used to deceive.
[3] Percent fat of daily allowance: The percentage of fat of your daily fat allowance might be low. The label might say 10%, but it still could be high in fat, maybe the good product would be 2% of your daily fat allowance.
An important statistic to look for is percent of calories from fat. That is of all the calories in a serving what percentage comes from fat. If 50% or more comes from fat, no matter how it looks or appears not to be fatty, it has a lot of fat.
Plot your weight on a daily basis
I used Excel and graph it, but using paper is fine if that is what you have.
1. Don’t be alarmed if your weight jumps up and down. There is variation of water retention. There is salt in some foods. Your body has its own cycles. If it seems like miracle that your weight dropped a lot one day, it is probably coming up some the next.
2. What to look for is the trend over a week or so as you modify your eating habits.
3. Make sure you have a digital scale and not an old analog scale. The analog scales depend on how you step on them and are unreliable and you waste time weighing yourself multiple times.
4. Make sure the digital scale is reliable. Sometimes they are broken. Weigh yourself five or six times when you first get it and make sure the numbers are close.
Permanent starvation isn’t going to work.
You can lose weight by starving. I have done it. You will gain it back. You will need to look at eating habits and life style. Planning to starve for your whole life isn’t a working plan.
r/gaytransguys
Makes up an excuse why he wouldn’t want to date a another transman. The transman wasn’t the real thing and they come up with all sorts of excuses why they don’t want to date T4T, but denying that they don’t see transmen as real Gay men as their motivation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/1451ie4/a_question_ive_never_had_a_safe_place_to_ask/
r/ftm
In the effort to make Gay be “homogender” as opposed to “homosexual”
Transman is beginning to be suspicious that maybe his boyfriend is just having heterosexual relations with him. This is an ongoing thing with transmen, the person they think is seeing as a man, actually is just having straight sex.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/1415jgn/boyfriend_says_he_sees_me_as_a_man_but/
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