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What do AI or GLP-1s have to do with a casino economy?

• unethical_ban 8mo ago
  AI, being a boom with a lot of companies trying to make something out of nothing. GLP, not sure.
  • bawolff 8mo ago
    I don't really agree, but you could argue that GLP is targeting people who want a magic solution just like casinos.
    • toomuchtodo 8mo ago
      GLP-1s target humans who need a pharma intervention to assist in making their reward center in their brain more defensive against the system they are forced to exist in. We don’t need ads for it, we should hand it out over the counter to anyone who wants or needs it, but I digress.
      • kakacik 8mo ago
        Which evil system do they live in? Veggies are the cheapest stuff I can find in supermarkets anywhere. I agree their reward systems are fried, but thats a result of decades of over-eating on the worst junk mankind ever produced, while this whole 'evil system' screams on them from all sides how stupid and suicidal this is, how sugar is same as cocaine and so on. Its all a mental problem (and here in Switzerland this is general consensus among doctors and I have one for wife), and an attempt to solve it anywhere else down the decision line apart from the head is just (temporarily, in case of glp) fixing the consequences.
        • birthdaywizard 8mo ago
          Not every gas station, convenience store and pharmacy is stocked with aisle after aisle of cocaine. I don't know I would call it 'evil' but I agree it is a system most people are forced to exist in. If we're appealing to authority, my mother, my father, and my sister are all highly accomplished doctors, and they believe GLP-1s will become part of a standard drug package to older adults like Statins because it's far more achievable than education we don't have and wouldn't work in the food system that exists in the US.
        • autoexec 8mo ago
          > Its all a mental problem (and here in Switzerland Ah, that might explain why you'd think that healthy food is easily available and affordable everywhere. I haven't seen what stores are like in Switzerland for myself, but it sure sounds like a massive improvement and may be part of why the obesity rate there is around 10% instead of over 40% like it is here.
        • array_key_first 8mo ago
          > Its all a mental problem Yes, so let's just solve it. Okay, no more mental problem. What's that? I didn't actually say a solution? Yeah, that's because I don't have one, and neither do you. We can't just make people good people. It doesn't work, it's never worked, and it will never work. If you think otherwise, you are wrong. If you still think otherwise, you should think less because obviously it's not doing you any good. We can sit here alllll day and tell people not to inject heroine or smoke cigarettes. But guess what? So long as the human brain is how it is, and we have those things available, people WILL continue to do them. So while you have fake solutions you've made up in your head and can't even articulate, we have real solutions. GLP-1s. They work, as in they actually work. They actually help solve the problem. So on one hand, you have an imaginary solution. On the other hand, you have a real solution. Hmm, which one should we gravitate towards? What a tough call!
    • polski-g 8mo ago
      But GLP-1's are a magic solution...
      • Izikiel43 8mo ago
        Yeah, it's actually revolutionary if you think about it, easy loss weight vs previous approaches, and it seems to help with smoking/alcohol as well. The side effects are minor compared to the wins.
• thrance 8mo ago
  The last times so many tech ads made their way to the Superbowl was during the crypto craze and the dot-com bubble. These are symptoms of an overly speculative economy.