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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 4h

We're family and we rise or fall together is real insurance. And you're right, it's not ever going to work for the hired help. It's simple sure, but costly in a way that I don't think billionaires would ever want to pay. You can't just buy it.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like there is a clever way to bind your guard. But to be fair this is not a problem I've thought a lot about.

It's certainly not an easy problem in general. "How do we get on the same side in an apocalypse" spans many literary genres.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 4h

It's very important to provide a bunker for your praetorian guard as well it turns out. Incentive alignment rules everything around me.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 21h

That's a huge effect!

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

Milk or Greek yogurt. I'm vegetarian and if you're vegan I eat a ton of lentils. I honestly don't need to supplement that much to hit like 180-200 grams a day. Also a ton of vegetarian refried beans.

Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

The correct amount of lead to be exposed to is not zero, but is very low, and yes it should be limited. Which is perhaps why you should take the articles advice and consider limiting protein supplements rather than trying to avoid all lead (which is not possible).

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

Right, and that one product has a relatively high amount of arsenic. It is nearly impossible to make a plant based product without any lead, because plants naturally take up lead. Your salad, that will have lead in it. You should keep eating salad though.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

Optimum nutrition is "on the list" as one of the much better options.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately it feels like just an aside to this article, the FDA should be doing this. We unleashed supplements in 1994. Americans should be able to buy any food supplements they want and not have to worry about safety.

Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

As nutritionists point out, your average American doesn't need more protein. But I lift pretty damn frequently, so if I don't have a ton of protein I'm leaving a lot of gains on the table.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

You should read through the article.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 1d

T-shirt with your witticism and a flag.

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going to a No Kings march instead of a witty sign that might elicit a chuckle maybe you could just carry an American flag

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 2d

You can do so empirically, by tearing off corners of paper triangles and lining them up OR folding the corners together.

And I wouldn't say it's not rigorous because you can take many things as axiomatic that are equivalent. It's just not the usual treatment.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 3d

2 tons, they're almost at body weight!

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 3d

Very good night tonight! Spotted a Great Horned Owl for the first time which some of the neighbors have been calling "Hooty". Saw Hooty swoop away from a palm tree.

Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite films from the film fest I went to last night, doesn't hurt that the song is a bop youtu.be/FRD0W2-tr64?...

Ben Caplan - The Flood (Official Video)

YouTube video by Ben Caplan

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 4d

You're telling me I have to learn to write χ and make it distinguishable from X? Another indignity of statistics foisted upon me.

Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like I could run a scared straight program for statistics about what happens when you don't master the basics.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 5d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 5d

He did it!

Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 5d

Newsom signed SB79.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Newsom signs massive California housing overhaul

After weeks of waiting, California’s governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California’s biggest metro areas.

calmatters.org

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 5d

New Madison Cunningham album and new Amber Mark album. It's a good night.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 6d

OMG. I had not seen that. My fear is rising to appropriate levels.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe you both. I accept my demise on a bunt that does nothing.

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Marcus Helmer 🇺🇸 @bertrandsballot.bsky.social · 6d

Surely a lot of baseballs at once is easier

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