Of course, the problem is that to set a daily limit is a rational decision, while when gambling we are often driven by emotions. A problem gambler, as the OP seems to be, is not going to find it useful to make such a rational decision. The best thing to do is to give up gambling for good. It happens like with an alcoholic, the only solution is that he does not drink another drop in his life, because a single drink triggers the old self-destructive pattern.

No, I don't think I'm reading way too much between the lines, and after reflecting on what you say, I would say that you understood that I wanted to criticize the effect of the vaccine in general, the immunizing effect it has against COVID-19 because of the possible placebo effect on mood, and that is not the case.

LTU said:


This could clearly be due to the placebo effect, and I am not saying that the whole vaccine is a placebo effect. This effect could be placebo and the vaccine could be very effective in immunizing against COVID-19.

Then, after my post, LTU nuances:
So after, he says this you say:


When you said this, I googled the subject and I see that, indeed, many people report feeling well after receiving the vaccine, but it is still not clear if this is due to a placebo effect or not. But the important thing here is that LTU had already said he felt great before he was given the vaccine.
So in any case, his mood had nothing to do with the vaccine as it may have seemed in his first post (quoted above).

Anyway, as I said, I was not trying to say that the vaccine in general, with all its possible effects, such as the immunizer against COVID-19, works because of a placebo effect.

The thing is that to begin with, vitamin D, although it is so called, is not technically speaking a vitamin, but a prohormone. Overdose toxicity can occur, but you have to take whole bottles every day for it to happen. Sunbathing alone you can't get it.  Also, hypercalcemia, which is the danger of taking high doses of vitamin D, is reversible. It is cured by stopping sunbathing and stopping supplementation. Another thing is that RDAs are very low. 600 IU a day is good for preventing rickets, but not for a stronger immune system. I take between 20K and 30K IU of vitamin D in the winter, which by today's standards is barbaric, and I have noticed nothing but positive effects. No hypercalcemia even going over 100 ng/ml of vitamin D in the blood.


Well, I'm not so sure about that. I have said the opposite of what you are asserting, now I will back it up. Vitamin D has a more unknown role (the best known is to bring calcium to the bones), which is to strengthen the immune system:

Vitamin D: its role and uses in immunology

Vitamin D and the Immune System

Vitamin D: modulator of the immune system

An update on vitamin D and human immunity

It is not just a matter of COVID. With a stronger immune system, people would need less medicine.


Yes but do Pfizer and the others also manufacture vaccines altruistically and without seeking financial gain?


To begin with, as I said before, vitamin D is not a vitamin, although it may seem paradoxical to say so. Then, the current guidelines regarding what is a deficiency are garbage, as they consider that 30 ng/ml are optimal and that a dose of 20k IU is barbaric, when that is what you can get on a summer day by sunbathing moderately for a while.


Yes, of course. If I had a life-threatening disease like cancer, I would put myself in the doctor's hands and do what he told me, but for other things I don't trust so much.

For example: some time ago I had put on weight and the doctor gave me some dietary guidelines that are recommended nowadays but they are garbage. Eating five times a day, cereal-based diet, etc. I did what he told me and I didn't stop gaining weight.

Now I do something that is considered barbaric but I have lost a lot of weight, I am not hungry and I feel better than ever: I eat two or maximum three times a day, the basis of the diet being fats. If I go to the doctor and tell him, he will tell me that I am going to faint from skipping meals and to die from a heart attack because of fats. Nothing farther from the truth.

And I could talk about other things, like cholesterol, or how high blood sugar and diabetes can be cured simply by fasting instead of insulin (Therapeutic use of intermittent fasting for people with type 2 diabetes as an alternative to insulin), but I think I'll leave it here because it would be digressing too much.

I see that, if I am not mistaken, thanks to this I will move up in Tier. I understand that it will be a demanding and well-paid job and I wish you all the best. Keep up the good work at your job!

Really? Have you read what I've written before? I have quoted part of it, leaving the relevant part. Do you really think that someone having a certain mood before being given a drug is because of a side effect of the drug? Lol.

If you were referring to the other people who report a certain mood after vaccine administration, I could understand what you are saying, but not in this case.

Fate doesn't exist, much less in poker. What you call Fate is pure variability of short term results, but a winning poker player even though he has those unfavorable short term results, because he makes EV+ moves, or moves that are profitable in the long run.

Well, I would qualify that by saying that if the person investing in the 997th coin but having great knowledge about it and the market, if perhaps he has inside information, then he is not gambling, he is investing. But well, you get the idea of what you mean. The difference is that in gambling there is a mathematical certainty that is against you, in the long term, while in the investment world that certainty does not exist.

That's what I think. Bitcoin was created as a P2P electronic cash system but if it ends up being more of a store of value than a medium of exchange, as it seems, that's OK. If it is used as a store of value, there will be fewer and larger transactions on average than if it is a medium of exchange, so there won't be a scalability problem.

I don't know what you think about the role of vitamin D in all this. There are a lot of articles compiled in:

https://vitamindwiki.com/COVID-19+treated+by+Vitamin+D+-+studies%2C+reports%2C+videos

That it's a website run by a retired engineer, not a doctor, but not a kid writing from his mum's basement either, and he puts links to scientific articles, apart from videos etc.

I used to get colds 2-3 times a year, and the colds lasted quite a while. I say cold including flu or sore throat.  Since I discovered vitamin D like 5 years ago, I have gone to having 0 colds. One a couple of occasions I thought I was starting to get a cold but it didn't last more than 24 hours, and it's a common thing that people who have optimal vitamin D levels say: that they don't get colds and if they do, they don't get them for long and with few symptoms. In principle, those studies linked point out that the same thing would happen with COVID-19.

The pharmaceutical industry is not interested in this because the sun is free and vitamin D as a supplement is cheap and it is not a drug that can only be sold exclusively by the industry, you can buy it in herbalists, for example.

The placebo effect is well known in medicine, and in some cases it is not only psychological effects, but physical markers that improve, although this has nothing to do with the drug administered. In any case, I don't know if you mean that feeling great before you get the vaccine is due to some physical causal relationship between the vaccine and mood:


I have googled the subject and see reported cases of people feeling fine and speculation that it has something to do with the vaccine. Good. In principle the most logical explanation would seem to me to be placebo effect, but if it is due to the vaccine, I welcome it.

Don't you see the news? Of course there is a plan to vaccinate everyone. Another thing is that it is achieved, but there is talk of herd immunity from 70 vaccinated. I thought this was a disease that would stay with us like the flu, but recently I have seen talk of possible eradication.

It is not clear to me. Yes, in theory they say they are concerned about privacy:


I actually think, as I think you point out as well, that privacy, if any, is going to be in short supply. What are they going to offer privacy for if a digital Euro is every controller's dream?

In any case, there will always be ways to escape. The ECB will know everything that anyone using the digital euro does but for illicit activities (or pure privacy of licit activities) other fiat currencies, gold and silver coins or cryptos will be used as in Sweden, where cash has practically disappeared.

Regarding the last question, it is not clear to me. I think that both the Yuan, the Dollar and the digital Euro are going to be launched at about the same time, although it seems that the Yuan will be the first, and, when it does, the US and Europe will not want to be left behind, so I don't think it will affect the exchange rate significantly.

I haven't been on the forum long enough to miss him but I do recognize that he was an important person in Bitcointalk, and he created bpip.org if I'm not mistaken, right?

I read the scam accusations and the debate between OgNasty and him, plus about his health problem and his latest posts, but I don't know more details to judge. I hope he is doing well anyway.

At the moment what there was on the day it was announced was a fall in the price of Bitcoin. You have to think that most people buy Bitcoin and cryptos on regulated exchanges. I don't know what effect that may have on small fraudsters, because in principle it is logical what you say, but it is difficult today to buy large amounts without KYC procedures.

Even if the price of bitcoin were manipulable in some way, it is too large for large price manipulations over prolonged spaces of time. It's a bit like the stock market. A hedge fund can pull down the price of a small-cap company, but the leeway it has with large-cap companies is very little.

Anyway, OP, if you are so concerned about the alleged manipulation, don't buy Bitcoin, or sell what you have. If you have.

What there is no scientific evidence for is most of the nonsense you write.

Nowadays religion has a decreasing importance, thank god, we could say, lol.


The clearest example of this is the Middle Ages, when religion served to reinforce the subjugation of the majority of the population in the estates. One had to suffer in this life because God would reward in the next.

That is because of the placebo effect. More psychological than anything else. Unless you have been given some "magic" substance instead of the vaccine, which is highly unlikely.

OP can't be taken seriously, he keeps trolling. He says that people who get vaccinated are going to die from it but I'm still waiting for him to give concrete data:


For him it is safer to pray, that's all there is to it.

For me it is pretty obvious that he is trying to fish some merit. He is simply telling us how cool the merit system is, which I understand does not add much. This is not the first time we have seen such a post, nor the last.

The fancy factory oil you use is probably vegetable oil which is 99% of the time crap. The only healthy vegetable oil is olive oil and consumed in moderation, because of the linoleic acid. Also, if you use olive oil for cooking you shouldn't cook for long periods of time as it can lose some of the benefits.

As for oil extracted from pork, I had never heard of it. I have sometimes used lard for cooking, but for pure fats I usually use butter, cream or mascarpone. I do IF and keto. Regarding IF, I prefer to do it pure, without taking anything until I break the fast. I have sometimes tried putting butter or cream in my coffee but I think it works better for me without taking any calories.