i spent $450 on groceries, $220 on cleaning and bathroom supplies and $150 on supplements, and i'm now entirely stocked up on everything imaginable until the spring, when i'll need to do that again. grocery bills will be for perishables - fruits and vegetables, breads and eggs and cheese. that's how i keep my monthly bills down - i buy pantry items in bulk ahead of time. it requires a little bit of expenditure up front to appreciate the savings in the long run.

let me do this again.

- the b and c are being cut in 4 and taken every six hours instead of all at once. they are here and i've been doing this for a few days, now.

- 100 iu of e at 0:00 on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, with sunday left optional.

- i am going to buy a kelp tablet i can cut in 4 and take 1/4 of the tablet every day at 6:00. this will give me a little more than 150 mcg of iodine/day, which is the rdi. i have sent an email to jamieson to ask if these kelp tablets contain epa/dha as well. they are marketed as "kelp, which contains iodine" and not as iodine.

- 1000 iu of d at 12:00

- the a is being cut in 1/2 and 1/2 is being taken at 18:00 daily. this is 2500 iu daily. this is between the rdis for women and men, and probably right for me. i ordered this yesterday and it should be here this week.

- i am going to take 2 tums after each full meal as a calcium supplement for now on (800 mg elemental calcium)

- i'm deciding not to take pills for vitamin k. i eat a salad-based diet and i take a lot of estrogen. so, i want my blood a little thin and might be concerned about overdoing it on vitamin k creating clotting risks. this is the one vitamin i want to keep a little low. i have seen no symptoms of a difficulty coagulating. 

- i'm going to take a tbsp of flax dissolved in a glass of water daily at 15:00 for omega-3s. i should meet the rdi of them, at 1.7 g of ala, if i do that.

- i'm going to note that i drink at least 250 ml of soy and 4 mini cups of coffee a day and usually closer to twice that

- i have devised a daily minimum meal made up of:

a bowl with:

- 3 tbsp of raw, unroasted, unsalted, hulled sunflower seeds (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of hulled hemp seeds (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of hulled chia seeds (bought, added)

- 3 tbsp of wheat bran (longstanding)

- 3 tbsp of soy lecithin <------not yet

- 30 g of all bran (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of paprika (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of ground cumin (longstanding)

- 1 tbsp of dried oregano (longstanding)

- 2 cloves of garlic (longstanding)

- 1 beet (longstanding)

- 1 avocado (longstanding)

- 50 g broccoli (longstanding)

- dried dill, caesar, hot sauce, nutritional yeast for flavour (yeast does have some b vitamins still) (longstanding)

with

- one banana (longstanding, bought)

- one orange (longstanding, bought)

- two pieces of untoasted quinoa-flax bread with unclear spread (longstanding)

- one tum (longstanding)

that has

- in total, 12+ g of omega-3s

- 23+ g of omega-6s

- 55+ g of mostly complete protein, which is about right on the rdi for my weight, maybe a little more. i would prefer to barely meet the rdi or just miss it for protein. excess protein is hard on your body and stored inefficiently as fat. high protein diets are stupid.

- minimal saturated fat for absorption (some in the dressing, avocado, soy lecithin)

- some carbs. whatever. carbs aren't worth measuring.

- it's all stored the same way. your body uses less energy to process carbs and more energy to process protein but it does the same thing with excess amounts of them, which is store it as fat. what i'm more interested in is the fact that flax, hemp, chia, soy, quinoa and in fact also sunflower are all complete proteins and have all 9 essential amino acids, although the sunflower seeds are low in lysine (and high in vitamin e, selenium, omega-6s). i'm not aiming for a protein salad, but this would be pretty effective if i was.

- 180%+ rdi for magnesium

- 160%+ rdi for phosphorus

- 110%+ of the rdi for potassium

- 120%+ rdi for calcium

- 210%+ of rdi for manganese

- 30+ mg of iron (elemental) (300% of a 10 mg amount but i have absorption issues and need it)

- 195%+ of rdi for copper

- 125%+ of rdi for zinc

- 125%+ rdi for selenium

- 110%+ rdi for molybdenum (not including the high amount in soy milk that isn't bioavailable)

- 175%+ of the rdi for choline (960 mg) & an additional 100% in the form of betaine (550 mg).

- some sulfur in the garlic

- some inositol and salicylic acid in the orange

- extra food-based vitamins (carotenoids, b vitamins, a little c, some d, a fair amount of e and some k)

- around 950-1000 mg of sodium. ish. which is a decent minimum meal amount.

this will be taken at 3:00 am or 9:00 am on days where i didn't eat a full meal the previous day and will be intended to ensure i'm meeting daily rdis while i continue to lose weight. this may mean i go longer between meals. but this isn't a meal, and is not intended as one. it is not high in calories but is very high in nutrients.

the bread is still pretty fortified and the flax-quinoa bread has a fair amount of ala. the soy has lost a lot of vitamins but is still worthwhile. the all bran in canada has been stripped to almost nothing, like the yeast, but it's still a good source of betaine. i'd like to get some better caesar dressing as i eat a lot of it.

i did not initially measure iodine because i assumed the salt in the bread, caesar and hot sauce was iodized. in fact, the salt in the bread and the soy or not iodized and i have not yet heard from frank's, or contacted great value or all bran. i feel this is a failure by health canada, which should be mandating iodine in soy milk, bread, cereal and sauces like frank's and casear. what is a good source of daily iodine, then?

don't tell me to just eat salt. health canada stupidly tells you to eat a teaspoon of table salt a day. that's 6 g of salt. the mayo institute says to keep it under 1.5g. you'd need to eat around 4g of table salt a day to meet the iodine rdi. that's a disgusting amount of salt that is going to make you fat and give you heart problems. in fact, in 2026, table salt is not a feasible source of iodine for healthy people to use because the fortification level is way too low. it should by increased by roughly 5x so that you only need less than 1g of table salt, which is still more than you should eat, to meet the rdi. further, there should be a recognition by health canada that fewer canadians consume table salt today than in the past. i do not use table salt for any purpose at all (i don't even buy it) and i am no longer an obscure minority. there should consequently be further iodine fortification mandated in soy milk, bread, pasta and other processed foods, under the realization that iodine is scarce in the diets of healthy people, today.

when i was doing my initial diet design, i wanted to include seaweed, but it never happened and it still looks to be infeasible. 

i don't drink cow's milk because it's utterly disgusting and i don't eat seafood because it's not worth the risk for mercury and other contaminants.

that leaves eggs and cheese as the only substantive sources and i'd have to eat an unrealistic amount of cheese, daily, to meet the rdi.

i'm left with the reality that i am going to have to take an iodine pill due to insufficiently mandated iodine fortifications in the utterly backwards failed state we call canada. this should be included in bread and soy and i shouldn't need to worry about it. i'm consequently not including iodine levels in the minimum meal because it's in the supplements list.

not measured:

- chloride (i should get enough in the city water in windsor)

- chromium

- boron

- fluoride (windsor's water is back to being fluoridated, that should be fine)

- nickel

- carbs (who cares?)

- glucose (this should be low)

- calories (calories are irrelevant to human health)

the rhetoric from the united states president is idiotic. he is placing the office of the presidency in disrepute. he should show far more respect for the office than he does.

the united states may have the ability to react to steep export taxes, but that shouldn't be a reason to avod enacting them. high export taxes is a less aggressive response than cutting exports. historians will tell you that denying empires from accessing resources has resulted in invasions and conquests. empires will fight wars to secure access to resources. but, i know of no example of an empire launching a war to cut taxes or reduce the price of imports. the americans should be reminded of that when they complain.

there is a good argument to make that the united states owes canada quite a lot of money in backpayments due to the discount on oil we've been giving it for the last 40 years.

nonetheless, i can acknowledge that there's reason to be incremental about this. i'm not an incrementalist, i'm a radical revolutionary leftist. i don't want to see small changes, i want to burn the system down. i do not naturally lean towards incrementalist policies. so, i wouldn't think in that kind of conservative way. i can make a moderate exception here, with caveats.

step one should be to ensure the americans are paying market prices for oil, aluminum, potash, uranium, electricity and other items crossing the border. let the export taxes be the next round. let this round be the imposition of market rates, as a consequence of abandoning the trade deal.

alberta is likely to complain, and the argument they use is atrocious. they will claim they don't have control over "their own" resources. what does that mean?

when alberta entered confederation in 1905, it did so under different conditions than the eastern provinces, in 1867. there is a section of the 1867 constitution act that determines jurisdiction over resources in the maritimes, ontario and quebec. but, control over resources in the prairies actually belonged to the indigenous groups, under the numbered treaties that were signed between 1871-1899. when alberta joined confederation in 1905, it had no control over resources at all, and the 1867 constitution was not applicable to them. rather, the numbered treaties were the legal documents that determined who had control over what, and most of the control fell to the indigenous populations, not to the colonial power. at the time, the indigenous population was drastically larger than the colonial population, which was mostly actually american settlers moving north back to the british empire. by the turn of the century (1900), the colonial government had largely given up on trying to convert the indigenous groups into farmers (which they fiercely resisted) and the canadian government subsequently put a lot of effort into getting people from northern europe - scandinavians, finns, scots, poles, balts, ukrainians, russians - to settle in the prairies and develop the land.

the situation from 1905-1930 was that the federal government took control of the resources, but only in it's position as the steward of the indigenous groups. that is, ottawa adopted a kind of fiduciary responsibility to oversee development on behalf of the indigenous groups. but these treaties rarely transferred outright ownership, and control was still legally in the hands of the indigenous groups.

this was altered by a manouvre undertaken by the british crown in 1930 to "extinguish" the treaties and place alberta under the 1867 constitution act. a subsequent large amendment to the constitution took place in 1930, which resulted in control of the resources being transferred from the indigenous groups to the prairie provinces and the federal government taking a step back. indigenous groups were not consulted and were ignored when they protested.

so, what does it mean for alberta to bitch and complain about not controlling it's resources? it illegally stole that control from the indigenous groups, when the federal government failed in it's fiduciary responsibility to administer them on their behalf. in fact, this historical wrong should be corrected and control of these natural resources should be transferred back to the crown. the 1930 transfer acts should be repealed.

the elder trudeau, to his credit, tried to correct this historical wrong, but alberta had a hissy fit and told the "eastern bastards" to "freeze in the dark". alberta, still populated mostly by americans at the time, decided it would rather sell to the us than to ontario and tried to block pipelines moving east to eliminate reliance on imported oil. the end result is that they gave the americans a whopping discount when they could have sold it at a higher price to ontario, out of spite and due to hatred for the rest of canada. the idiot mulroney included that discount in the fta, and it's still there in the reworked nafta.

so, complaints from alberta about losing control over their resources should fall on deaf ears as they were illegitimately granted control of them in the first place. ottawa should make decisions about the resources that are in the national interest, and uphold it's fiduciary responsibility to the indigenous peoples by consulting them in good faith.

canada should also ensure it is doing things like building refineries, so that it is less vulnerable to american retaliation. this was an important part of the nep that should have been followed through on but was foolishly cancelled by the foolish people that led us down this path and got us into this mess.

one way for small businesses on both sides of the border to evade the tariffs is to reduce prices to $1 and require a tip of a suggested size before shipping. the tariff will be $0.50.

public funding for "quantum computers" in the midst of a climate crisis is not an intelligent way to utilize public resources.

capitalism is built on the fallacy of infinite growth and a corollary of that fallacy, embraced by the liberal capitalists, is infinite progress, or infinite increases in technological efficiency to be more precise. the processor industry presents this as moore's law. but our understanding of modern physics is that our universe has very hard limits and boundaries that prevent infinite increases in technological efficiency and that moore's law will reach a hard stopping point. all theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that qubit error-correction in an economically and environmentally feasible way is completely physically infeasible and outside of actually real boundaries set by actual science. 

quantum computers are not science, they're science fiction.

research into the real energy intensive stuff done at university labs has a legit purpose. this technology might emerge as a new kind of mainframe for governments and large corporate enterprises, with minimal to no applications for the general public.

but what xanadu is doing is blatant nonsense. this is not cutting edge research, it's a scam to make money on the stock market, and canada should be embarrassed that it's government fell for it and bought into it.

but if you're paying close attention, that is the answer to the apparent contradictions presented by mark carney as an actual human being. much of what we're hearing from mark carney cannot be coherently deconstructed because it is little more than disingenuous bullshit, and the only constituency he really represents is investors looking to capitalize on short term stock options. 

xanadu will make some scummy people a lot of money from inflated trading and then it will collapse without bringing anything to the market. but that's not an error that needs to be corrected, that's the plan.

when i was a kid, my sister became friends with a girl that lived down the street, and my father got to know her father fairly well, through going to pta meetings around the fisher park area, in central ottawa. the school was st pius X. we lived just south of fisher and baseline.

this guy had a phd in chemistry, but he was an unemployed drunk because he made millions on the bre-x scam. he should have been working on fusion, but he gave up on it. he thought it was impossible. it's more feasible than quantum error correction at scale.

he used to get shit faced in my basement fairly regularly and i learned a fair amount from him about what the kind of person i didn't want to become was like. to quote jello biafra when i should be quoting greg graffin, it was a lesson in what not to become.

but that's what xanadu is and how xanadu will end and is what carney actually is. so, cash in and out while you can. whatever.

but don't expect this to go anywhere.

the state of error correction in quantum computing in 2026 is that they are making progress because they've yet to hit that physical limit. hey, you should do the experiment. but at the end of the day we're just stupid monkeys that basically can't learn and continue to repeat the same mistakes.

that $200 million dollars would be better spent on climate resilience policies at the current point in time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quantum-computing-xanadu-federal-support-9.7325434