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by borski 2y ago
Source? I was accused of a couple things (not plagiarism) at my university and was absolutely allowed to present a case, and due to a lack of evidence it was tossed and never spoken of again. So no, you don’t exactly get a trial by a jury o
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by borski 2y ago
My wife is dyslexic; grammarly makes suggestions, but it doesn’t fix it for her. Perhaps that’s a feature she doesn’t have turned on? She loves it. It doesn’t cause her to be any less attentive to her writing; it just makes it possible to w
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by borski 2y ago
That’s not even remotely true. You can raise it with the local board of education. You can sue the board and/or the school. You can sue the university, and likely even win. They literally are not the law, and that is why you can take
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by borski 2y ago
I don’t know how to break this to you, but cheating was always free, simple, and ubiquitous. Sure, ChatGPT wouldn’t write your paper; but your buddy who needed his math problem solved would. Or find a paper on countless sites on the Inter
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by borski 2y ago
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Could you clarify?
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by borski 2y ago
That’s not true. That’s just what you see. There is tons of research going on using AI for a lot more than memes.
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by borski 2y ago
No. We poured similarly large amounts of resources into hundreds of companies in the dotcom boom, crypto, and so on. This is a phase, just like many others, and will pass. AI and LLMs will stick around and be important. The hype? That will
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by borski 2y ago
I didn’t say it wasn’t a firearm.
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by borski 2y ago
I am certainly not suggesting anyone rely on me for legal advice, to be clear. But no, my understanding in CA is unlike the Feds, California does not have the concept of constructive possession as it applies to assault weapons. As such, se
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by borski 2y ago
Probably. This is a thing with guns, too. In CA, for example, owning an AR15 with certain features is illegal. But separate the upper from the lower, and you no longer have an AR15; now you have parts, none of which are semiautomatic and ce
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by borski 2y ago
Sure. But it wasn’t someone else; it was Columbus. If it were someone else, I’m certain we’d be talking about them instead.
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by borski 2y ago
> There's nothing moronic about the argument that calorie deficits can cause weight loss. That’s not the argument you are making, and that is one I’d agree with. > Most people using Ozempic have never tried multi-day fasting as a
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by borski 2y ago
That isn’t what I said. You are conflating multiple things. I agree we created many of these problems (food being unhealthy, for example). I also agree fixing many of them would be good. I don’t agree that that is the only way to help peo
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by borski 2y ago
> GLP-1 is not a get out of jail free card. It will have long-term side effects. Source? Because so far it seems like you and others really want it to have long-term negative effects, but that the evidence for that is made up and entir
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by borski 2y ago
> ... where far too many people in the US are being medicated for that and various other things. What, precisely, does this mean? If medication is appropriately prescribed, by well-educated and well-trained doctors who have, upon actual
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by borski 2y ago
> Citation needed on this one. Almost all the obese people I know have never seen a specialist doctor about it, so I assume your anecdata have selection bias. You sure? Nearly every single one I know has seen their primary about it ever
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by borski 2y ago
Fine. I was 265. Not morbidly obese, just obese. The rest of my argument still holds if you change that. Your contention of “most of them actually are very capable of just eating more healthy diets and exercising more” is a nonsensical assu
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by borski 2y ago
Not just me. I have plenty of friends who have tried therapy many times. Anecdotal, yes, but I’m unfamiliar with any studies about this. And yes, I’m familiar with the differences. I was simply saying they usually walk in with depression, a
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by borski 2y ago
> No, Wegovy and Zepbound are not diabetes drugs. They are weight loss drugs. Moreover… who cares? Viagra was a failed angina treatment. Valium was originally a dye So?
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by borski 2y ago
> There's no reason to suggest that it works less on food than on heroin. And nobody said it did. But the thought that obese people haven’t considered therapy is absurd. Most of them do so for depression, not the obesity, but they a
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by borski 2y ago
Cool. Let me know if you figure out a solution. Otherwise, perhaps let people get healthy instead of admonishing them to get healthy the way you think they should, which turns out to be… the same way they have always tried and has not wor
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by borski 2y ago
> The majority of people who are accessing this drug have endocrine systems that work just fine, but problems with controlling themselves around food. Citation needed. This is the main assumption you are making that I, and others, veheme
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by borski 2y ago
Are we? Because most people have this conversation and talk about people they think are able and unwilling, when in reality the vast majority are willing and unable, for one reason or another.
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by borski 2y ago
I am not suggesting anyone use their response to stimulants as a diagnosis of ADHD. However, speak to anyone who has it and they will relay that stimulants make them calm, not hyper. People without ADHD get hyper, not calm. Some others also
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by borski 2y ago
Because working out, alone, is not the solution. You could work out all day and still not lose a pound. Plenty of studies have shown this. Moreover, have you ever tried to work out at 450 lbs? No? It is an immense effort, often literally im
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by borski 2y ago
That’s possible, but harder to hide for students than employees. Employees are given, generally, a bit more trust than students are. At a lot of schools, students aren’t even allowed to leave for lunch.
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by borski 2y ago
> I think it is because if 90% of the population did half of what you do (and kudos for you for doing it), they wouldn't have a problem with weight, you just happen to be one of the unlucky few where it doesn't work and these d
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by borski 2y ago
Sure. But I can pretty much guarantee the likelihood of finding worthwhile reading material in the school library is significantly higher than the likelihood of finding it on TikTok or X.
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by borski 2y ago
I’d wager he has less data than you think, and even less knowledge of how to analyze it. Like most local school programs, I can pretty much guarantee this was a “let’s see how it goes” and the success metrics were qualitative, not test scor
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by borski 2y ago
Qualitative observations can often also be useful, even if they can’t be relied upon as proof.

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