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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I’ve been completely ignoring typical timetables. Things like lettuce are hard now because it goes from frost to too hot quickly. I grow heartier greens like kale year round, and I’ve had tomatoes producing fruit into November.

    Cold frames have been helpful, as have larger pots for seedlings so I can take them inside for any cold nights while buying a few extra weeks of growth before needing to plant them.



  • For fitness:

    The absolute “best exercise” for someone to do is whatever they find enjoyable/fun, baring some sports, etc, that are harmful to your joints and/or brain (like American football). Fitness is about long term, sustainable effort. Some strict program that follows all the best science isn’t going to help you in the long term if you don’t stay consistent with it.

    As long as you are either creating forceful muscle exertions or getting your heart rate up (preferably both), and it’s an activity you can stick with, you are good to go.

    It’s similar with diet. Whatever you can consistently do to hit reasonable macros, with a nice bit of fiber and minimal junk, go for it. People might tell you that it’s better to get 100% of your protein from meals rather than having protein shakes, but for a lot of people, going without that protein shake will just end up with them undershooting their protein needs.



  • At the end of the day, most of what people care about isn’t age, it’s cognitive function (though age itself is important; why care about the America of 2040 if you won’t live to see it).

    Many of these people in power would fight age limits, but they are usually so sure of their abilities, that they may not fight cognitive tests with published results.

    For example, if you give someone a Montreal cognitive assessment, and their reaction to it is:

    Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions

    And those last 5 questions are:

    What month are we in? What year are we in? What day of the week is it? Where are you right now? What city are you in?

    You might think that person shouldn’t be in charge of the country.

    Oops.