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Big Pharma's revolving door, some things to ge to prepare for the supply chain "shortage" and another day in paradise
Hey, ya’ll sexy humans,
If you’re just now turning in for the new format, let me remind you that we are currently on an every other day schedule.
The format now includes a bit of news, an action-packed Useful $HIT section, and the Truth Seeker, plus some other good stuff.
I’ve long thought about my propensity to do a lot of things.
A byproduct of doing a lot of things—CEO, Newsletter, Podcast, writing articles, kids, family, fitness, cooking, sauna time, getting the occasional massage, going to the Chiro and Egoschue for my lower back (ouch), reading books, taking walks, and sleeping 8ish hours a night—is I don’t get to go as deep into any single effort, which results in less quality than I know I can muster.
The thing I like about this new newsletter format is how it’s forcing me to go deep. The first send took me 4 hours. The second, 3ish. This one, well, I’m hoping I can get it under 2.
I think I’ll probably hover around 2 hours per newsletter as I develop better systems and get more into the flow.
I’m also enjoying the hell out of it.
Such is the power of committing to a schedule that forces you to take action. It uncovers hidden gems and solves the problem of false starts.
Also, each email I send requires research, writing, editing, and thinking, all of which make me better… so def on brand. I hope you can say the same after reading it. 😀
I’m still working on refining the Better Human mission and philosophy, but it def centers around helping you become better with a big emphasis on opting out of the broken status quo (the Matrix), so you can become self-reliant, think for yourself, and build a life of abundance, which will inspire others to do the same.
What to expect in today’s edition:
🚚 Broken supply chains… are they manufactured or not? Who cares? Prepare either way.
🚗 How to escape a sinking car
🚪 The revolving door of the FDA
🥒 The quick-pickle
Let’s gooo…
📰 News 🚨
🇺🇸 🏛 🪙 A $1 Trillion platinum coin with the hashtag #MintTheCoin is being proposed as a way to fund the U.S. Treasury. Just like the debt ceiling, this is just political theater. The government already prints whatever it wants, calling different methods of injecting fiat money into the system various buzz words to make it sound complex and well thought out. This is just another example of the detached reality politicians have from, well, reality. #fiat
🔫 ‘No Time To Die’ is Daniel Craig’s last movie as 007. I’m looking forward to it. Movies have sucked for over a year and a half. #fingerscrossed
🚂 Broken supply chains. Some are claiming it is a “manufactured crisis.” Shrug. All I know is situations like this should highlight the dangers of relying on the system. There is no guarantee the system will be there for you. #rememberkatrina (BTW: we are buying three extra chest freezers and feeling them with local grass-fed beef.)
🖥 Big Tech: Facebook released an internal memo that a former employee will accuse the company of contributing to the Capitol riot. It looks like they are trying to “get in front of” the whistleblower. #doubtanythingwillchange #alreadyquitfacebook
🔥 Useful $HIT CORNER 🔥
🗓 On this day in 1789: The first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed on Nov 26 by George Washington.
🚖 How To: What to do if your car gets stuck: 1. Straighten steering wheel 2. Dig out as much dirt/sand/snow from around the front of the tire in the direction you want to go 3. Place a floormat under each drive wheel. Then slowly move in the direction you want to go (someone pushing also helps).
🫁 Mind-boggling: Your liver regenerates, and it’s the only organ with that Wolverine superpower. If you were to donate half your liver, it would grow back in a few weeks.
🍪 Food: Seed oils are in most processed food… and they are disastrous for your health. Watch this video. And for you ancestral eaters out there, those cassava chips and almond four tortillas have polyunsaturated fatty acids that degrade just like soybean oil. It’s something our family gave up, much to my taco-enjoying chagrin. (An alternative: we get organic blue corn flour and make our tortillas from scratch.)
🥒 Cooking: The Quick Pickle → Whisk some salt and sugar into white vinegar → Pour over thinly sliced raw veggies → ⌛️20 minutes → Eat. (You can also heat the vinegar and follow the same procedure for quick pickles to keep in the fridge for later.)
🏕 Prepping: 🛒 Here are some recent products our family purchased on Amazon in anticipation of the zombie apocalypse: metal gas cans, 7-gallon water cans (best price), collapsible liquid containers, water treatment tablets, gas storage treatment, lifestraws.
🌊 Surviving: 🚗 Survive a sinking car → Lower your window as soon as your car hits the water. Escape if you can right away. If not, the water pressure will equalize, allowing you to open the door and swim out. What you don’t want is to be underwater in a sealed car.
🤪 LOL: Michigan offers a unicorn hunting license. #competentgovernment
🌍 Rad: Earth’s core is as Hot as the sun’s surface… about 10,000°. 🔥
👩❤️👨 Health: Touching produces feel-good hormones. Do it often and as much as possible… with permission, of course.
👨👩👦👦 Interesting: The world’s population could fit inside Los Angeles. (But they definitely wouldn’t to.)
🦩Animal Kingdom: Flamingos are born grey. The brine shrimp and blue-green algae they eat contain a pink dye called canthaxanthin. They say you are what you eat…
📽 Movie: 🧻 To surprise viewers, Alfred Hitchcock featured a toilet flushing in the movie Psycho. Apparently, it was the first movie to show a toilet on screen and was shocking to many viewers. #normalisweird
😘 Love: My experience in relationships is it takes two well-adjusted, secure humans to have a well-adjusted, secure relationship. And you def need similar values on health, time, and money.
🌏 Fix Your Minerals
I did the mineral test from Upgraded Formulas and it’s awesome.
I highly recommend doing the simple hair test yourself and in the meantime starting with magnesium and iodine, two of the most commonly deficient minerals for the average person.
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🎙 Better Human Podcast 🎙
A Reminder To Live Your Life → Stop waiting and start living. Something we all need to be reminded of.
💲 Bitcoin Corner 💲
Bitcoin is often touted as bad for the environment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Watch this short documentary on YouTube:
🎥 "This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere → Video Link
䷼ Truth Seeker 🧘
🤐 More Big Tech censorship: When Government Demands Social Media Censorship, Americans of All Political Beliefs Lose → The problem with any form of censorship is easily understood by the problem of determining what is “misinformation.” Fact-checkers are a misnomer… who fact-checks the fact-checkers and who fact-checks the fact-checking fact-checkers? And who even can say what fact really is? Science is the process of being wrong MOST OF THE TIME… 🤔
🇺🇸 Amendment 1 from The Bill of Rights: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
🌎 Climate: Would you think there are more or fewer polar bears alive today than before? If you were to believe the climate alarmists, you’d undoubtedly think there are less. 🐻❄️ (best emoji I could find) → There are more polar bears than in the 70s and 80s due to conservation efforts around hunting. Climate had/has nothing to do with it.
Doctors and Researchers 🤮 Up until the 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed that babies couldn’t feel pain. Some were operated on without any anesthesia. 😢 #keeptrustingthe” experts”
🍟 Big Food: Fake meat is processed plant food. It’s literally just processed food made from monocrops in large factories from ingredients shipped around the world. And the powerful would have you believe it’s better for you or the environment. #literalscam
💊 The Big Pharma revolving door: Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigned and took a position with Pfizer.
🤑 Something Money: Forms of money used throughout history include: cattle, cowrie shells, Wampum (made from clamshells), gold, silver, salt (where we get the word salary from), barley, rice, tea, ramen (US prisons), and many more.
📘 Book Corner: The Four Agreements → A short read that I think I need to revisit. Good stuff.
💬 A Quote To Ponder: “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
🎥 Reddit Thread: Instagram Reality shows you how toxic social media can be → Fakeness.
🙋🏻The Power of Questions: What are your top 5 values? Once listed, consider how you are living up to those ideals each day… or not.
Helping Humanity + Supporting The Show
From the Charity Water Website: 785 million people in the world live without clean water.
The Bitcoin Impact Fund is currently raising funds for an entire Charity Water project. Estimates for completed water projects range between $10,000 and $25,000, so I’ve set a goal of $15,000. Once we reach that, I’ll work directly with CW to fund a project from start to finish. Can’t wait!
→ 50% of all subscriptions to this newsletter go directly to the fund 🙏
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About Me & Better Human
I’m Colin. I’m Pro-Humanity. I believe in Free Humans, Free Markets, and limited (if any) government. I’m also a CEO, Entrepreneur, Father, Podcaster, and Thinker. Read my story.
My thought of the day: Action trumps everything. Knowledge is not power—action from the knowledge and ensuring learning is power.
