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by aksss 4y ago
> To understand why these drugs could be so revolutionary, you need to understand how obesity works—which is often different from the way it’s talked about. Many people are under the misconception that their weight can be completely cont
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Is the World Ready for Effective Weight-Loss Drugs?(gq.com)
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Your body covers the energy overhead to break down food into usable energy supply, ideally ending with a net positive. Warmer food presumably makes the digestion a little less costly. Cooked meat is definitely more rewarding (energy-wise) t
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by aksss 4y ago
> To understand the alternative approach we’re championing, though, you first need to recall how the Internet works. Keep Reading ↓ Mm, no thanks.
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by aksss 4y ago
An internet maturing over twenty years full of hobbyist bloggers and forums rather than megacorp media and affiliate review sites is a world I’d be curious to experience.
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by aksss 4y ago
It’s interesting that you responded to a comment about “several thousand murderers” with a rejoinder about “dozens of criminals”, which represents some math or a value proposition you’re making about the “one innocent person”. The innocent
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by aksss 4y ago
“Several thousand murderers are walking free each year” probably needs some more commitment - the thought experiment isn’t just saying these free murderers are living a life with no repercussions for past crimes but that this represents so
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by aksss 4y ago
I hesitate to make blanket statements, but at this point, by and large and for most companies, Windows Defender (particularly with supplemental services from Microsoft like OneDrive backup, and Intune (some way to enforce configuration), et
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by aksss 4y ago
— past that now because in hindsight the criticisms were… right. Largely fair and too-often blindly dismissed. Lockdowns had a devastating impact relative to the benefit, and we’re still suffering the effects. Motivated by fear, often accel
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by aksss 4y ago
I think a consistent criticism has been of their idleness in response to the inflationary threat and not taking it seriously enough, soon enough. It didn’t take fortune tellers to see where things were headed in spring of ‘21 but we kept in
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by aksss 4y ago
Really??
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by aksss 4y ago
We’re confusing “intellectual” with “media”. That ship sailed long ago. Coordinated media narratives are probably the most banal, boring, ham-handed and anti-intellectual sources of thought in this country. Periodically they’re all pulling
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by aksss 4y ago
Funny because I know people still working past 65 because there are not enough youngsters in the pipeline. Everything from the trades to engineers. I’m not sure a lack of opportunity is what’s keeping the young people down. Talent and a g
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by aksss 4y ago
It’s abundantly clear to us that the office is the only refuge some employees have from their own lives - whether that’s the demands of child care one one extreme to loneliness on the other. As a small company, I think the office is a benef
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by aksss 4y ago
One of the main selling points of gun buyback programs is no-questions-asked amnesty.
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by aksss 4y ago
That's not how it works, any more than we make our own cocaine. The local gang member doesn't need to learn the specialist skills. He needs to know a guy who knows a guy.
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by aksss 4y ago
> criminals aren't going to turn in their guns The programs often encourage them to through "no questions asked"/amnesty policies. These programs are a great way to launder a dirty gun, but criminals are hardly likely
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by aksss 4y ago
The US has only very recently started to eclipse other developed nations in suicide rate, and you can probably point to twenty years of war and the 2008 financial collapse as having a significant role to play in this. Maybe social media too
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~13m + 1, dammit!
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by aksss 4y ago
> people being able to make legal choices that result in the death of other people ? ... gun ownership (*30k/year*) As must be frequently pointed out, well over half the deaths by firearm in the US are not the killing of other peo
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by aksss 4y ago
> Typically speaking, the left want government rules determined by scientists and experts that maximizes overall freedom, the right want government rules determined by the church that maximizes the freedoms of adherents to that church. c
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by aksss 4y ago
Well, the foundation of Christianity is the establishment of a source of hope that transcends the tragedies and corruption of the prime material plane. That hope is incredible source of strength for many. I think it's an interesting ex
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by aksss 4y ago
> It's more complex than that. There's always someone, right? Yes, remember that my comment is not about enumerating all the various reasons for why someone may or may not be more or less likely to suffer from depression. My co
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by aksss 4y ago
Just a point on the logic here - let’s agree that the trade-off is not always (perhaps even infrequently) one life for the other life in any given case of a desired abortion. It’s a spectrum that goes from the mother’s at-risk life at the m
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by aksss 4y ago
It’s a difference between thinking of dogs as a species and dogs as individuals. I wouldn’t want “my” dog on the barbie, but generally don’t have a problem with the idea of “dogs” on the barbie if we didn’t have better choices (I/we do
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by aksss 4y ago
This trend in the comments of so many to say “awareness causes depression/hopelessness” is an annoying leap and probably just a salve (“I’m so sad cuz I’m so wise”). The depression is a result of how an individual may respond to an aw
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by aksss 4y ago
I think what we’re all kind of lacking is the idea of statists vs non-statists. The left and right swap positions on issues like military welfare (tell me again our burn rate in Ukraine right now) and state surveillance (generally a left-lo
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by aksss 4y ago
Sounds like a software/firmware fix. Did they never adjust that logic? queue my hatred for automotive closed ecosystem abandonware
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And it's not even a secret process half the time - witness the recent conversations about CBP imaging phones of intl travellers.
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by aksss 4y ago
Not to put on too much tinfoil but the government probably benefits from opaque ban processes in large oligopolistic private companies. “It’s private enterprise, sure we may request it periodically but their cooperation is entirely voluntar

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