i actually really honestly only agree with about a third of what chomsky says.

he just says a lot.

i was half awake all weekend, but i got some sleep today, so i need to get through the methionine section before i get to the court stuff tomorrow. i'm sure the phenylalanine + tyrosine section will be equally frustrating.

if you get tons of methionine and no cysteine, your body will donate the sulfur from methionine to form cysteine, but that's only one aspect of conversion (called transsulfuration) and while it may be limiting it seems to be wrong to erect any enhanced importance to the connection. conversely, if you get tons of cysteine and no methionine, your body will rebuild methionine from homocysteine, but that has little to do with your cysteine intake, besides the sulfur component as the limiting factor. the amount of methionine that is actually needed is minimal.

so, these numbers that they give you of total sulfur amino acids are in truth of minimal value in determining what you need to maintain optimum health - you are going to need more of both, clearly. it's just about how much sulfur you need, under the assumption of ready conversion.

what i needed to know was how much of each that i needed to get to stop them from converting into each other, which is almost the opposite question that people want to ask (which is how much cysteine you need to minimize methionine requirements). so, how much cysteine do you need to stop your body from converting methionine to cysteine? that 10.9 number was presented, but i'm not following the argument, and wouldn't advise citing it. i erected a very simple linear approximation, but i want a more direct measurement.

let's hope i'm awake and clear and focused enough to figure that out before the sun comes up.

i can tell you that if you tried to restrict my movement in and out of the country, i'd drag you through court for the next 20 years.

trumpism is triumphant, it seems.

what a bunch of idiots...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-travel-restrictions-1.5887163

it's important to be gentle, sometimes.

start here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-wealthy-americans-divided-and-conquered-the-poor-to-create-the-concept-of-race/2016/04/19/2cab6e38-0643-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html

what you want is legislation that readjusts the minimum wage on a yearly basis relative to inflation, after you set a floor that is considered liveable.

the united states has a magic check book and can borrow all it wants, and that sounds incredible, but so long as it's the hegemon, it's true. that is not true in any of the satellites, like canada, which are subject to fiscal discipline by the imf in terms of ratings degradations. it follows that whether is pollin is right about the longterm effects of borrowing or not is a function of whether america can retain it's hegemony, which is not clear. if i was an american policy maker, i wouldn't put all my eggs in the assumption of perpetual hegemony, at least.

taxing the rich is so painless for them that the state should be really pushing a mass education campaign about it, targeted at the higher tax brackets....including educating them about what happens if the status quo carries forwards.

i sent an email to the cops, who claim they're waiting for handwritten notes from the officer, which is probably bullshit, but whatever. they're formally being thorough, at least....

i'm going to file another form 10 just to keep the pressure up.

so, i called the human rights tribunal and they're so backed up that none of the requests have been put before a judge. there are currently no deadlines in place, but the karen is not helping herself by not responding.

technically, her request for an extension has neither been granted nor denied, so the actual legal status of the case is that the respondent has not responded, at this time - and the judge needs to pick it up from there.

if she had responded by her self-appointed date, it would at least demonstrate good faith. but, all i can do is wait for a judge to pick the case up and look at it holistically; when they do, they're going to need to respond to multiple requests, all of which have exceeded their own deadlines.

this is exceedingly annoying, but i'll just have to keep calling to bug them until they finally do it.

maybe i'm actually more like a cross between a kropotkinized dawkins, a young hitchens and this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon

but, it's some kind of accident, if it's so.

to be clear: this isn't actually a differential equation problem, and i'm sorry if i was confusing. it just seems like one because i'm starting with initial conditions and assuming a solution of a form.

so, i'm sorry if i ended up disappointing you with that. ultimately, it's just linear algebra to find a very crude polynomial approximation (it's linear!), and it would be more complicated if i had more data. alas... 

at least it's simple enough to pass the dipshitz condition though, right? or maybe it's so simple it failed it...

(don't box my dipshitz condition in, man. you need to compensate for the intersectionality..)

- if i take 0 mg/kg cysteine, i need 21 mg/kg of methionine (not realistic)

- if i take 21 mg/kg of cysteine, i need 10.1 mg/kg of methionine (that's a lot of cysteine)

- they define the population safe intake for cysteine as the difference, but i'm not sure i'm following that, or that it makes sense (21-10.1 = 10.9)

so, 

f(0) = 21

f(21) = 10.1

f(10.9) = ?

if we approximate with a polynomial, the constant term is 21 because f(0) = 21.

we only have two terms, so we can only get a very simple approximation:

f(x) = ax + 21

f(21) = 21a + 21 = 10.1 <----> a = (10.1 - 21)/21 = -0.51904761904

so, f(x) = 21 - x*10.9/21.

then, f(10.9) = 15.3423809524

10.9*70 = 763 mg cysteine

21(1 - (10.9/21)^2)*70 = 1073.96666667 mg methionine

i can work with these rdis, but i don't know if that's enough cysteine for taurine & gluathione or not, yet. so, is that good enough?

so, i'm able to find data at the end points but what i really want is a function, so that if you give me an amount of cysteine, i know how much methionine i need. and, i'm thinking back to my days solving partial differential equations.

i may have to do some actual math, here, but i'm going to tone it down if i do, too.

let's see how many data points i can get, first.