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by blargey 2y ago
"Seed oil" is a broad category, but the most popular (cheap) seed oils would also fall under "ultraprocessed foods". Canola oil in particular is ever-present in the US, and unlike other refined plant oils, requires the
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by blargey 2y ago
In the general case, the reason "they should just eat better and work out!" is a dumb argument against weight loss drugs in general is because the X% of the population that is obese don't and won't "just eat bette
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by blargey 2y ago
> Somehow, humans managed to get by for thousands of years without any of this stuff. By “humans” do you mean 50%, 75%, 90%, 99%, or 99.99% of the population? By “got by” do you mean “lived mentally strong and resilient and healthy lives
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by blargey 2y ago
> a technological solution to many causes of aging and death. I wouldn't count the cryonic freezing of a perfectly good brain (aka immediate brain death) among those, at least until there's a convincing solution to the teletran
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by blargey 2y ago
> And right leaning people have been so far more capable of cooperating with those who don't match their values. Don't follow US federal politics much, I take it?
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Where US culture is concerned, I would associate approval of “maximum suffering for sinners” with the “fire and brimstone hell” ideology that is thoroughly rooted in the imagery of the New Testament.
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by blargey 2y ago
I'm confused about the confusion, really. It's not hard to imagine how "tech company compressing all your traditional art tools into a blackbox" imagery would have struck some nerves that were already rubbed raw by the A
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by blargey 2y ago
> Why? If you're actually interested in learning why the homelessness situation in a particular area is how it is, you can pore over the countless (politicized) discussions of the issue to start piecing together the concrete issues
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by blargey 2y ago
When the topic is "tire wear on cars causes significant environmental damage, not just their combustion-engine emissions ", praising houses for just their electricity consumption seems a little silly.
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by blargey 2y ago
If you’re selling a product or service promising objective utility for a user, maybe. Art is just...there, though. Maybe games can promise functionality that a consumer can expect to have working, but most mediums don’t. Without objective f
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by blargey 2y ago
> Quite who uses this site is unclear. Isn't that what all the tracking and analytics is supposed to determine? I thought ads were supposed to be tailored to the viewer as much (if not more than) the site. > Conversely Adsense s
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by blargey 3y ago
Donate more, and donate to charities that are effective (use more of the donations for actions directly related to their mission statement instead of marketing/admin/etc). The rest is interpretation, as they say. That's all &
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Layoffs, pay freezes, cuts to wages/bonus/raises, etc?
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by blargey 3y ago
> That's such a different attitude compared to people today You don’t notice all the people-today who do hold that attitude because, well, that’s the point! Conversely, many people of Tolkien’s time went on unfair opinionated rant
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by blargey 3y ago
Calling someone a "robotic drone" for working in a specific genre and having a budget is such a bizarre notion.
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by blargey 3y ago
> what if only a tyrannical nobility could benefit from this new technology, and it stayed that way forever?! Yeah it goes without saying that's a bad thing, for any technology. That shouldn't convince anyone that Logan's
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by blargey 3y ago
Exactly. Normal Patreons and such are run by entertainers/craftspeople who aren't pretending to be your friend, or lover.
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by blargey 3y ago
Yes, and X% of drug use is going to be "irresponsible". The societal burden doesn't change from phrasing.
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by blargey 3y ago
"Found art" is a niche that's irrelevant to most 2d-image art, as a producer or consumer. And that's all text prompting / inpainting / etc is at this point. Vague, overbroad suggestions to the AI that leaves al
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by blargey 3y ago
If the plan was literally just "leave the role" they could just pick a capable successor and hand it off. Or set up a co-op (or some other non-faceless-investment-firm ownership/operation structure) and sell to that, if at a
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by blargey 3y ago
Cake, donuts, ice cream, etc derive their extreme calorie density and negative satiety from cream, sugar, and frying, not some recent invention by a "scientist in a lab".
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by blargey 3y ago
Calorie restriction, the topic of the article, is significantly less food than what would otherwise be considered a healthy diet eaten by fit, low-BMI people.
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by blargey 3y ago
Because “What about” is a distraction tactic. It does not overturn anything.
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by blargey 3y ago
Flipping the script from "both parents working to stay afloat" to "a stay at home parent in every home" takes strong financial incentives. But the stronger the incentives to start and keep such parental arrangements, the
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by blargey 3y ago
Yes? What nonstandard non-dictionary definition of "cruel" do you use, that would not apply to eating something alive? (And presumably also does not describe what happens in factory farming, which is the actual topic at hand, and
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by blargey 3y ago
That doesn't constitute a framework for answering "who do you punish" or "how do you punish them", so it's not relevant to my assertion. It is a popular secondary/tertiary/N-ary axiom, though, as demo
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by blargey 3y ago
It's more or less exactly what I expected at this point. 90% of effort/resources into adding more quests and locations, 10% into brushing up surface-level graphics stuff and jiggling the minigames a bit, 0% into "fundamentals
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by blargey 3y ago
Funny, I had the exact opposite impression. It's like Fallout, but without the over-the-top humor to soften the grimdark crapsack universe where most everyone outside a major city wants to kill you on sight.
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by blargey 3y ago
Morality frameworks defined as a single rigid rule will always encounter some "repugnant conclusion" given a sufficiently contrived situation, news at 11. The "retributive morality" the author espouses doesn't actua
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by blargey 3y ago
That argument is about as strong as "oh you like retribution? That means you support <vile torture / mutilation>!" Deliberately confounding "reasoning for choice of punishment" and "severity/extremen

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