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by borski 2y ago
I hear you, but not all “reading time” is equal. > For example, a student could be reading a bunch of fiction on their phone, thereby reducing their time in the school's library. That would be a great exception, but very much not th
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by borski 2y ago
That is not true. Vyvanse, caffeine, etc., helps my brain calm down and focus. I don’t get hyper. In fact, if I have too much caffeine, I start yawning. My wife, who does not have ADHD (at all), gets hyper from stimulants. That’s the differ
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by borski 2y ago
It’s your assumption that 90%+ of people don’t do this that is the issue. People seem to think that once these drugs became popular, suddenly obese people around the world awoke from a deep slumber, like zombies, and decided to see a doctor
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by borski 2y ago
That’s cute. You know nothing about me, but assume I’m not resilient. I have achieved much, largely due to my resilience. It would be very difficult to argue, after growing up very impoverished and getting to where I am today, that I am no
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by borski 2y ago
Because your metabolism changes. If you ate 700 calories per day it would be harder for you to lose weight than if you ate 1400 and worked out. You’d still be eating less, but retaining more weight. Why? Because your metabolism slows down s
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by borski 2y ago
Precisely. It doesn’t do the work for you.
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by borski 2y ago
> Where there’s a will there’s a way. Yeah? Even if I’m disabled, I should got for a walk, just because I want to? Pretending the world is binary is a fun exercise, but it is always untrue.
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by borski 2y ago
You aren’t being flooded with insulin with the GLP-1 meds. You have food in your body, but my insulin levels, on average, are possibly lower than yours (if I’m in need or a GLP-1 med) despite eating the same amount. A GLP-1 med stimulates t
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by borski 2y ago
> I don't think the point is that GLP-1 inhibitors are "cheating," but that maybe some therapy for addiction (of all kinds) and a shift in focus toward health is a better idea than being on a drug for the rest of your life
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by borski 2y ago
The negative connotation of a crutch implies that you are past the point of needing it and should be standing on your own two feet. If a thing is not meant to be temporary, or if you'll never be able to perform a task as well without i
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by borski 2y ago
All significant weight loss includes some loss of muscle mass. Minimizing that is why every patient is advised and counseled to lift and work out, change their lifestyle and diet, and so on. The pill alone isn’t magic. It just makes it poss
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by borski 2y ago
It is easy to call taking the medication easy, but nothing about it actually is. Eating right, lifting, trying to be active… all of that on top of the nausea created by the medication itself. Obesity is such a massive epidemic, and shaming
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by borski 2y ago
I don’t think parent meant it as a negative thing. Those are all good things. It is undeniably true, though, that the pandemic forced a lot of people to do a lot of self-analysis and reflection.
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by borski 2y ago
If and only if this was their intent and timeline. May be external.
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by borski 2y ago
It is legal. The claim was that it wasn’t. I never argued it was ethical. I think it is, but that wasn’t my argument.
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by borski 2y ago
There is no right to privacy in a public space. It is not illegal to record an area where individuals would not have the expectation of privacy, even without their consent. Therefore, this is not illegal. If this were a restaurant, that wou
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by borski 2y ago
That’s true for a lot of cities. I have this in Cupertino, and used to have it in Mountain View. Most people just don’t seem to check their website.
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by borski 2y ago
MAD was one of the first pieces of humor I truly fell in love with. I knew about comedy before it, but I don’t know that I really understood comedy before it. It’s not that it was perfect; it’s that I grew up with it and came of age with it
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by borski 2y ago
Personally, I just ship every user a small Chromebook that runs my software so I can guarantee the environment is the same every time. (I get your point, but docker has made distribution way easier in a lot of ways, and you accept sole trad
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by borski 2y ago
Nobody said it did.
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by borski 2y ago
Israel did not start this war with Hezbollah. It is not incumbent on Israel to begin diplomatic talks. Israel is at war. As the attacker, it is incumbent upon Hezbollah to signal diplomacy. By the same token, it is incumbent on Russia to si
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by borski 2y ago
The wartime friendly fire error from over 50 years ago? I’m not into believing in conspiracies that last that long.
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by borski 2y ago
Israel is at war with Hezbollah. I'm all for diplomatic solutions, but that requires both sides to desire one, and Hezbollah has shown no desire. Neither has Israel, but again: Israel is at war. You don't win a war by not fighting
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by borski 2y ago
Sure, that's true. They would have much worse trauma if these were air-dropped bomb or rocket. As strikes go, this was very surgical; but you're right, war is awful. You'll never hear me say war is good. It's awful.
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by borski 2y ago
You missed my point. Everyone surveils everyone else. There are no exceptions. Any country with the capabilities to surveil other countries does. We do it to every country we can, allies included. Allies do it to us. And everyone does it to
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by borski 2y ago
By targeting Hezbollah operatives, and by including a small amount of explosive rather than a large amount, triggering the explosions was intended to harm the Hezbollah operatives. Is your contention that they should have individually confi
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by borski 2y ago
Ah, I see - thank you for the clarification! Israel undoubtedly surveils US citizens; but as a counterpoint, the US also absolutely surveils Israel. Surveillance is a thing countries do to enemies and allies; it's just rarely talked
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by borski 2y ago
That's a lot of words to say "I discovered one spot in which you misspoke, and that means you must be a deliberate warmongering asshole" But no matter how many words you use to say that, it will remain untrue. I did not inten
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by borski 2y ago
> The „distrust“ cannot be seriously considered an objective, only if for short term. Next time they will add extra checks of incoming equipment, add random distribution and rotation of devices and problem will be solved. That's not
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by borski 2y ago
"Who was hit" specifically refers to who was the target; who owned those pagers. I did not misunderstand what Hezbollah was, please. I spent years working intel. I'm well aware that terrorist groups often provide social servi

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