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>flour from the dark side…….
Is Dark Chocolate Keto-Friendly?
Nutrition
Is Dark Chocolate Keto-Friendly?
Dark chocolate basics
Carb content
Recommendation
Bottom line
Dark chocolate is a sweet and delicious treat. Plus, high quality dark chocolate is quite nutritious.
Depending on the cocoa content, dark chocolate can be a rich source of minerals and antioxidants and contain a decent amount of fiber (1Trusted Source).
However, since it contains carbs, you may wonder whether it can fit into the very low carb, high fat ketogenic diet.
This article explores whether dark chocolate can be enjoyed as part of a healthy keto diet.
What is dark chocolate?
Dark chocolate is made by combining fat and sugar with cocoa.
Unlike milk chocolate, dark chocolate is made with little to no milk solids, and it contains less sugar and more cocoa.
However, sugar is typically added to dark chocolate to some extent to counterbalance the bitterness of the cocoa.
Still, not all dark chocolate is created equal. Both its percentage of cocoa and sugar content can vary drastically depending on the brand.
The proportion of cocoa in the final product determines how dark or high quality the chocolate is (2Trusted Source).
As a rule of thumb, high quality dark chocolate comprises at least 70% cocoa, often resulting in a product with less sugar.
High quality dark chocolate is particularly rich in flavonoids, which are powerful antioxidants found in plant foods (3Trusted Source).
In fact, high quality dark chocolate contains more flavonoids than many other high antioxidant foods like black tea, red wine, and apples (2Trusted Source).
Due to its rich flavonoid content, high quality dark chocolate has been linked to a variety of health benefits, such as a lower risk of heart disease and improved brain function (4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source, 6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source).
Summary
Dark chocolate is a combination of fat, sugar, and cocoa. Chock-full of antioxidants, high quality dark chocolate contains a high percentage of cocoa and less sugar than milk chocolate.
Carb content of dark chocolate
Most sweets and candies are high in carbs and likely need to be limited on a keto diet.
However, compared with other types of chocolate and candies, high quality dark chocolate is reasonably lower in carbs.
Depending on the brand, 1 ounce (28 grams) of 70–85% dark chocolate contains up to 13 grams of carbs and 3 grams of fiber, which means it has about 10 grams of net carbs (8Trusted Source).
Net carbs are calculated by subtracting unabsorbable carbs from the total carb content.
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate that your body doesn’t fully digest. As such, it’s not fully absorbed by your small intestine like other types of carbs (9Trusted Source).
Therefore, most keto experts recommend using net carbs when calculating your daily carb allotment (10Trusted Source).
summary
One ounce (28 grams) of dark chocolate made with 70–85% cocoa contains approximately 10 grams of net carbs.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-dark-chocolate-keto#bottom-line
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The World Is Asking You, Are You Okay With What Is Happening?
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"Did You Agree To This? Everybody's Locked Up": Ed Snowden On Power Of Silicon Valley Amid COVID Lockdowns
by Tyler Durden - Monday, Mar 01, 2021 - 23:40
A new video montage of recent interviews with former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden exposes how the global COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns - which have been particularly severe and far-reaching in Western countries like the UK, Canada, and in a number of major US cities - coupled with the already immense power of Silicon Valley and its allies in the national security state, has served to keep individuals and entire populations 'gated off' from one another. "This is just the beginning," Snowden warns of these unprecedented times. "All of these things today have consequences which we are not informed about."
"I would say this is sort of unusual… we're all spread all over the world in different rooms, everybody's locked up… but for me this is how I've always lived." He narrates that so much of our life is "intermediated by the screens." Increasingly our lives are "intermediated by these screens. We spend less time outside and more and more time staring into glass or through glass to connect with that larger world - something beyond ourselves."
Ultimately he poses the following questions as a warning in the video entitled, "Edward Snowden 2021: The Most VICIOUS HONEST 10 Minutes of your LIFE!"… "Increasingly it feels something distinct from us, something apart from us - something that we are witnessing rather than participating in. Ask yourself: ''Is this your will? Is this what you want? Did you agree to this? Is this consistent with the vision of the future you want to see?''
Snowden continues, "The institutional powers of our day… which have assumed for themselves some mandate - whether to conduct business, whether its to govern the lives of others, whether it's to make war, .. these institutional powers don't seem to particularly care about your answer to that question: is this what you wanted? Is this OK? Did you agree to it?"
The answer is frequently "you don't have a choice" as to whether you agree or not… "because they have the gun, they have the baton. And Facebook would say 'Click OK to continue' - and if you don't you can't do anything…"
"Because they [Facebook and big tech] control the policy and through the policy they control the platform, and through the platform they control the public… they exercise some great level of influence over it by gating us off, separating us from the things that we need to do to connect and engage in just what is considered today a 'normal life'.
"Is time that we recognize these are forced choices," he urges while warning it threatens to become a permanent state of things if the public doesn't become aware and act.
"Edward Snowden says COVID-19 could give governments invasive new data-collection powers that could last long after the pandemic."
"Could"? More like for certain. https://t.co/lFa6RPGzTx
— Paul Huang (@PaulHuangReport) April 9, 2020
These are themes and 'warnings' Snowden began to get vocal about from the moment the pandemic hit the West and North America last March, which in many places resulted in the imposition of emergency 'stay at home orders' from state and local governments:
"Five years later the coronavirus is gone, this data's still available to them — they start looking for new things," Snowden said. "They already know what you're looking at on the internet, they already know where your phone is moving, now they know what your heart rate is. What happens when they start to intermix these and apply artificial intelligence to them?" he said last Spring.
Underscoring in these latest statements that this is a key source for the "growing tide of anger" we're now witnessing globally, Snowden continues: "People recognize that it is not consent, not in an way that really matters… People don't feel a sense of agency… and they don't agree with it."
"What we're seeing is a divorce between the individual and the institutional in terms of power and accountability."
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/did-you-agree-everybodys-locked-ed-snowden-power-silicon-valley-amid-covid-lockdowns
Must watch this video! 10:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHCyyfNslE
g'nite fam
That's also one of the 1st symptom for many people when the come down with the cold that's going around.
Technology
This App Will Soon Unleash Deepfake Videos That Can Frame Anyone
''MetaHuman Creator lets any dummy create deepfakes for fun. Before long, only a fool will believe anything he sees online.''
Epic Games just released the first demos for MetaHuman Creator, bringing us one step closer to living in a simulation. The cloud-based app has an intuitive interface, allowing minimally competent users to create ultra-realistic digital humans “in less than an hour, without compromising on quality.”
Just as Pro Tools gave burnouts the power to make techno, or PhotoShop let perverts alter celebrity images, soon anyone with a decent laptop will be able to generate a deepfake. It’s gonna be hilarious—at first.
MetaHuman Creator was developed for Unreal Engine, a top platform for game design, film effects, and live event production. The package allows users to build detailed humanoids for 2D videos or immersive virtual environments. Best of all, it’s so easy, any amateur can do it. If you’re a talentless game animator or a dating app con artist, now is your time to shine.
MetaHuman’s first generation of digital androids is about as creepy as you’d imagine, if only because their presentation is so natural. Their facial movements mimic genuine emotions. Watching the demos, you’ll notice tiny pores, subtle wrinkles, hints of tooth crud, and even peach fuzz catching the backlight. The facial palette offers a wide range of skin tones, hairstyles, and bone structures.
The creation process begins with a generic face that’s molded like mortal clay. The results are truly remarkable. Unreal Engine explains in a news release: “MetaHuman Creator…works by drawing from an ever-growing library of variants of human appearance and motion, and enabling you to create convincing new characters through intuitive workflows.”
You can make your digital humans fat or skinny, tow-headed or bald, hot or homely. You can give them a button nose or a big ol’ honker. You can place them anywhere on the gender spectrum, dress them up like digital dolls, and make them say whatever you like.
Ultimately, this software will democratize deepfakes. It starts with innocent pranks, and ends in international scandals. As the fakes pile up, normal people will increasingly approach media with schizoid skepticism—a trend well underway. Any video evidence a person wants to ignore can be dismissed as a “deepfake.”
The inevitable explosion of phony content will also strengthen our self-designated “legitimate news sources” as the sole arbiters of what is real. If it gets bad enough, we might need a federal Reality Czar to sort it all out.
In a Phony World, You’ve Gotta Fake It to Make It
MetaHumans Creator is part of a natural progression. Digital humans will thrive in an era of fake news, fake revolutions, fake insurrections, fake photos with invented quotes, fake memes with bogus statistics, fake hate crimes, fake bosoms, fake smiles, fake miracles, and an endless parade of phony celebrities. It was a short jump from Patty Duke to Philip K. Dick, and even shorter to presidential deepfakes.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/02/this-app-will-soon-unleash-deepfake-videos-that-can-frame-anyone/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3F1vZYpH8c
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Perpetual doubt is just part of the New Normal. Leading up to the election, I heard multiple liberals claim that Hunter Biden’s leaked nude videos are nothing but a Russian deepfake. After all, who falls asleep with a crackpipe in his mouth? Some even insist that his abandoned laptop never existed.
After viewing a few clips for myself on GTV.org, let’s just say I’m skeptical of their skepticism. Believe it or not, Joe Biden’s son has some serious issues. But lefties aren’t the only ones losing their grip.
In the aftermath of the “deadly insurrection” on Capitol Hill, I heard equally crazy claims on the right. On the night of Jan. 7, Trump released a poorly shot video from the White House. In it, the president condemned the rioters and called for unity.
Immediately, some otherwise sane people insisted this was a deepfake. Some actually thought Trump was being held prisoner in some secret location. All this because his double chin looked weird sagging over his collar. They couldn’t believe their eyes. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Later, a friend assured me, “It’s really not that crazy. Their fears were just a year or two early.”
Who Will Fact-Check Our Reality Czar?
In a world where everything smells like phony baloney, you can either use your own critical faculties, or turn to established authorities for answers. The problem is, when falsehoods reach a certain level of sophistication, we have to question our own perceptions. That’s why our rulers now demand we listen to them, and them alone.
According to The New York Times, “several experts [have] recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a ‘reality czar.’“
Maybe they’ll elevate someone from the squalid pool of fact-checkers at CNN or PolitiFact. As the deepfakes keep coming, our catty Reality Czar will issue decrees like “Yes, Kamala Harris is really human” or “No, Biden can’t rap freestyle—but his son can.”
Experts agree we should leave real thinking to the experts. A recent NYT op-ed warns easily bewildered readers: “Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.” If you come across a dubious claim, the author advises, first check Wikipedia to see if their editors have defamed the source yet. For those wanting to dig deeper, just cut-and-paste the claim into Google, because truth always rises to the top results. Right?
If you can’t trust college-aged fact-checkers, anonymous editors, or global tech corporations, who can you trust?
The Blind Leading the Blind
I’m reminded of a dinner I attended back in late 2019, when COVID was just a twinkle in some technocrat’s eye. The conversation turned to MAGA violence, and I noted the numerous, widely ignored attacks on Trump-supporters over the past few years—many quite brutal. As usual, everyone denied existence of such a thing. If it was real, they would know about it.
When I cited the abundant video evidence—reel after reel of gleeful violence—a professor’s wife said, “Oh, you can do anything with computers these days. There are all sorts of ‘deepfakes’ floating around. That’s why you have to stick to trusted sources, like CNN or The New York Times.”
I was appalled. Did she really think I couldn’t tell a doctored cellphone video from the real thing? Those were more innocent times. In the coming years, it may be that only advanced artificial intelligence can detect AI-enhanced deepfakes, at least the really good ones.
The Defense Department has wrestled with this problem for a while now. Two years ago, DARPA announced its Semantic Forensics program, or SemaFor. Their aim is to develop and deploy AI to sniff out deepfakes and other doctored media. This automated system will monitor news sites and social media for disinformation. AI cop-bots will flag any anomalies—such as wonky eyes or mismatched earrings—and send them up the chain for human review.
Using benevolent AI to protect your brain from malevolent AI is classic New Normal.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/02/this-app-will-soon-unleash-deepfake-videos-that-can-frame-anyone/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhFSIR7r7Yo
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It’s All Fun and Games ‘Til You Poke Your Eyes Out
The upside to DIY fakes will be all the pranks and comedic material. It’s gonna be nuts! Cyberbullies will engineer faux break-ups for fun. Deepfake politicians will confess everything to the public. Professional necromancers will resurrect the dead and post cyber-zombies on YouTube. Sketch comedy troops will push offensive impersonations to unforgivable heights.
These trends have already started. Last fall, South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone took a stab at deepfake comedy with their irreverent “Sassy Justice” (not kid-friendly). The fact that many viewers never recognize the main character’s face tells you where our culture is going.
Digital creators build on each other’s techniques, crafting ever more realistic simulacra. The downside will be our increasing inability to distinguish reality from illusion. People will go from believing all sorts of crazy things, as they do now, to believing even crazier things backed by “video evidence.”
Left unchecked, no one will believe anything they see, unless they want to. As this epistemic void widens, various authorities will impose their own madness as the only true path to sanity. If you thought the Fine People Hoax was a doozy, wait ‘til you see the reptile grin behind Joe Biden’s mask.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/02/this-app-will-soon-unleash-deepfake-videos-that-can-frame-anyone/
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Dr. Seuss Is Canceled: Six Books Will Stop Being Published Because of ‘Racist and Insensitive Imagery’
by Simon Kent - 2 Mar 2021
Six popular Dr. Seuss books — including ''And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and ''If I Ran the Zoo — “will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday,” The Associated Press reported.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement marking the late author and illustrator’s birthday.
“Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ catalog represents and supports all communities and families,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said. The Associated Press reported that the “racist and insensitive” depictions played a part in their removal.
The other books affected are McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer.
The move to drop the six titles comes just 24-hours after a Virginia school system removed children’s books by Dr. Seuss from its annual Read Across America program over charges they have “strong racial undertones,” as Breitbart News reported.
According to a school spokesman, the district said they are looking toward books that are more “inclusive and diverse and reflective of our student community.”
On Monday, President Biden omitted Dr. Seuss from Read Across America Day – held annually on the children’s author’s birthday on March 2.
Biden broke presidential tradition when he left out any mention of Dr. Seuss, while both former President Barack Obama and former President Donald Trump recognized Dr. Seuss’ contributions several times in their yearly proclamations.
Books by Dr. Seuss — who was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904 —- have been translated into dozens of languages as well as in braille and are sold in more than 100 countries. He died in 1991.
He remains popular, earning an estimated $33 million before taxes in 2020, up from just $9.5 million five years ago, the company said. Forbes listed him No. 2 on its highest-paid dead celebrities of 2020, behind only the late pop star Michael Jackson.
AP contributed to this report
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/02/dr-seuss-is-canceled-six-books-will-stop-being-published-because-of-racist-and-insensitive-imagery/
Baker, Are all of these notnotable
>>64647 U.S. Treasury names climate economist, tax partner to senior posts
>>64651 U.S. Army Retweeted GEN James C. McConville
>>64652, >>64654, >>64655 This App Will Soon Unleash Deepfake Videos That Can Frame Anyone
>>64653 SolarWinds is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, filing shows
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