i want to repeat that i'm sure i was vaccinated against measles some time in the 80s. i'm 44 years old. this was decades ago.

i did not think covid vaccination was something healthy people should do, because the chances of complications from the vaccine, while low, appeared to be higher than the chances of complications from the virus. strictly playing the odds actually meant you should try to beat it on your own. nor was i very concerned about building herd immunity to the common cold, or did i think it was very plausible to happen. i argued it was the responsibility of the vulnerable to protect themselves from infection, not my responsibility to protect them from getting infected.

measles, on the other hand, has a 20% hospitalization rate. it's a much more serious disease, and you should absolutely vaccinate your kids.

actually, it's apparently not even italian, it's from fucking seattle.

i'll make sure i get an even flow of coffee over it, and maybe checker the marshmallows in a coloured pattern.

what i'm describing is apparently an italian delicacy called Caffè Gommosa, with an extremely unnecessary accent grave that i find starkly offensive. you damned wops didn't need to pull that accent grave out like that. fuck. settle down.

the answer is that it does get rubbery, and i'm supposed to like it.

i guess we'll have to see.

the food bank gave me marshmallows. are marshmallows food? i'm not sure. 

i don't think i've had a marshmallow in over 20 years.

so, what do i do with these things? i decided to try them in my coffee, and it didn't work because i put the cold milk in first (and i used a fair amount of milk). the result is a coffee with a sugar flotilla.

next time, i'll try to put the marshmallow in first, let it melt, and then add the coffee. does marshmallow stay melted or does it re-marshmallowize?

what canada is doing in response to trump is repeating exactly the same mistake that stalin made, and which devastated their economy, and stopped communism from working in russia.

we are the dumbest country in the world.

maybe everybody should sit down for ten minutes and give this a read through:

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

mark carney is the apparatchik that just keeps on failing.

we could have had a smart response to trump. instead, we're getting socialism on one continent.

carney is about the last person in the world that i'd expect to ignore the lessons of ricardo, but here we are. and it's going to hurt.

i mean, i should have <1. if >4 is concerning, 3.9 is a concern. my logic is still valid.

based on that article i posted, i still want to follow up, but it's merely mildly concerning, not the emergency google tried to sell me on.

the creatinine, however, remains extremely high, and remains a clear indirect marker of being drugged with steroids.

see, then you go the webmd and see it's the same as the ai and think it confirms it, but that's backwards. the ai got the wrong information from the webmd.

this is a classic example of why relying on ai is dangerous.

this is wrong because it's confusing urine and blood levels, but the ai only reports what you tell it, and the same mistake being presented in the ai exists at webmd and other sites

and, in fact, i'm realizing that the internet is confused about blood and urine ketone levels.

many, many relatively reliable websites define ketonuria using blood concentrations. that is, they say that urine ketones over 3.5 is a medical emergency, but the ranges they are reporting seem to be the same as blood, which seems suspect.

i had to dig down the results a little, but i think this is a better definiton:

We categorized ketosis according to blood β-OHB levels as absent (<0.6 mmol/l), mild (0.6–1.5 mmol/l), moderate (1.6–3 mmol/l) or marked (>3 mmol/l). Ketonuria was semi-quantified as mild, moderate or marked for urine ketone levels of 1–4 mmol/l, 5–14 mmol/l and ≥15 mmol/l, respectively. The presence of ketoacidosis was assessed using both definitions suggested by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Joint British Diabetes Society (JBDS) [15, 16].

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-016-1462-7#:~:text=Definitions,15%20mmol%2Fl%2C%20respectively

at 3.9, that would put me in the mild category, and not be that concerning at all.

but if the blood results were 3.9, i'd be dead.

there's a reason i couldn't make sense of it - it was wrong.

if you ever saw lou rip a chew toy to pieces, you'd understand his concern.

when i was a kid, i had a dog named lou. it was technically my sister's dog; my dog was goldie. they were sisters, from the same litter. lou didn't live very long, as she got bone cancer.

lou was a good enough dog, but you couldn't give lou anything to chew, as she'd rip right through it. this worried my father, as lou's teeth were extremely sharp and he had two young kids of his own, in addition to extended family and kids in the neighbourhood to worry about. so, he took lou to the vet.

lou, it turns out, was genetically superior to other dogs. those sharp, pointy teeth were wolf dna. it didn't make her more dangerous, but it did mean that humans around her would have to be a little careful.

maybe i'm like lou; maybe i'm genetically superior.

it doesn't alter the evidence that i've been drugged with steroids.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2995232/

ok.

i don't eat several times a day. i eat once a day. i drink liquids like water, coffee, pop, milk, soy milk and juice through the day. it had been about 10 hours since i'd had a meal when i took the test, but i would not have eaten before that for a full day, and a full day before that, etc. i will only rarely do things like eat a bag of chips or a pile of cookies in between, and i may end up skipping meals on days that i do.

i'm not starving myself. i'm not anorexic. if i was more hungry, i would eat more; in fact, i often have to force myself to eat what i do eat. i also make gigantic meals, as can be verified. these pasta plates are restaurant-sized portions and full of carbs.

but i'm eating one plate a day, even if it takes me a few tries. i could go 15, 20, 25 hours before the next meal.

some level of urinary ketones make sense in that context, because i'm burning the fat i'm storing. i eat well and stay thin because my metabolism is working. i was said to have a fast metabolism as a child.

it doesn't explain the extreme elevation. that ketone level should mean i'm dying; it's unhealthy. but, i should have some low level of ketones, and i suppose it's possible that my daily 15+ hour fasts are amplifying the steroid results.

i think that makes a moderate amount of sense.