The consistent best thing you can do for yourself and family is sleep well and exercise to increase your aerobic efficiency.

yes, i will become the consummate amazon prime one hour delivery guy

The Fed purchased Treasury securities during COVID QE. Those securities had low yields and cash reserves were created during those purchases.

Those cash reserves are held by banks which the Fed funds rate pays interest on (what was hiked).

Meanwhile the fixed rate debt from QE remains the same.

Long term bond yields are not directly tied to the Fed funds rate.

The problem is the debt purchased by the Fed during QE had extremely low yields (COVID era) the reserves held by banks created by the Fed during QE now cost more to service by the Fed.

Or proof of work to at least deter the increase in transfer volume. Neither are environmentally friendly.

The existing models and higher layer protocols of the web will likely break down over the coming years.

I’m not exactly sure what will replace it yet but communication infrastructure built for humans isn’t going to scale with the volume of communication created by artificial intelligence.

There might be some solutions requiring proof of work to introduce friction but that comes with a real environmental cost.

I’ve personally spent the least amount of time over the past three decades on the Internet this recent year. There are some niche corners I frequent but I find the overall experience more draining than rewarding lately.

SSRIs not Benzodiazepines. Withdrawals from the later can be life-threatening if you abruptly stop after prolonged use.

While you are entirely correct that immediate withdrawal of benzos is life-threatening, the same is true for short-acting SSRIs/SNRIs.

For eg, when admitted to a psych ward, there are a handful of things that the hospital will continue giving to a patient and gradually taper. Benzos, SSRIs/SNRIs, anti-psychotics, anti-convulsants & alcohol.

I mention this just to urge folks not to go cold-turkey on SSRIs/SNRIs as it can be life-threatening.

I don’t think “most doctors” is accurate any more, but a doctor prescribing a month of klonopin for insomnia needs some urgent continuing professional development.

In France it is still "most doctors". They hand out benzos like candy there.

Sleep less and sit more. What a species we’ve become.

My bar is the Kilian Jornet test. Once a humanoid robot can do everything he’s done within the same time constraints it’s officially over.

Until then human is the best at navigating and moving across various terrain.

More ego than practical.

There’s a psychological factor. Many people believed it wasn’t humanly possible to do a sub 4 minute mile before Bannister accomplished it.

Once that was done the flood gates opened and many others broke it in the following months. This is the “central governor” theory in endurance sports.

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

Nah, common misconception.

Progress had been steady for decades, but was interrupted by WW2.

There was one other person who did it a sub 4 minute a month and a half after him, then 3 more people the next year.

It was more down to improvement in training (Bannister was doing interval training, which was a new idea at the time).