cthalupa

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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Diversity of views doesn't mean the tolerance of all views. It is fine to be intolerant of intolerance.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I was really confused by this because I've spent about 6 months of my life in Tokyo and got very very very few disposable chopsticks at restaurants a tier above, like, shokken ramen shops. But the internet informs me that the composite
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> I suspect you have no idea that your body has two independent energetic circuits - one driven by insulin and glucose, the other driver by ketones. I am fully aware - I have spent several years of my life following a ketogenic diet. Non
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I'm not knocking anyone meeting their goals without GLP-1s. It's obviously possible in absolute terms - people have been making great body transformations for as long as we've had fat people. But everything you did, plenty of
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Pretty much every adult fat person has attempted diet and exercise to resolve their weight issue. Saying they should try this first at this point in the game is like having your support case escalated 5 times already and them saying "h
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
This is a bunch of pseudoscience. "Starvation mode" as people talk about it is generally nonsense - the exceedingly low bodyfat you mention for keto is the same place you would see it in a non-keto diet when we talk about actual
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Muscle loss is determined by your protein intake, muscle stimulus, and rate of weight loss. Plenty of people start lifting for the first time (or after having stopped for extended periods of time) when going on GLP-1s and actually put on mu
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> I'm saying that healthy habits are simply a matter of understanding. Plenty of people have heard everything there is to hear on this, understand it, and still fail to implement it. > I did not change my diet. You plainly did. Y
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
It's always wild to me when I hear about how different the culture is between Osaka and Kyoto when they're so close.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> Now there’s something we agree on. If only we could agree that no one is stuffing cheeseburgers down people’s throat other than themselves. So close. No one is saying that it is forced. What I am saying is that your sense of moral supe
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
They had stopped when the deal was in place. They resumed after it went away, and had most of a decade to get the previous stuff out of mothballs and continue. No one seriously suggests that Iran had continued working on their nuclear weapo
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I couldn't hit my macros on tirzepatide - couldn't get enough protein without feeling sick to my stomach. One of the reasons I swapped to reta. (though as a general note for anyone reading, just getting enough protein isn't e
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Why in the world do you think that taking a once a week injection requires even remotely similar levels of discipline to dealing with daily hunger and food noise? There's like, a dozen orders of magnitude in between. This is a silly ar
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
As best as I can tell, people are very attached to having achieved their body weight through whatever means they have determined are valid and derive self value from it, and believe that GLP-1s are cheating to achieve a result they worked h
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The ability to be disciplined about eating is also a talent. Or do you think that somehow genetics don't play one of the largest roles in your ability to be disciplined when it comes to food?
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The discontinued and paused groups in the actual study had lower BMI than the continuing groups - so it seems like this is at least partially independent of any weight regain. Which makes sense since we have strong evidence for the GLP-1s p
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Israel can't do all of that without the support of the West, and particularly the US, though. Granted, that predates Trump, but he continues to enable it at an even greater scale than Biden did (and Biden enabled it a fuckin' lot.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
> would do once it'd get nuclear weapons. If only we had had a deal that the entire intelligence community had agreed was working where Iran had agreed to stop developing nuclear weapons. That would have been a nice thing to have. W
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Honestly, I don't even really see 'don't touch shared food with used silverware' followed if a place doesn't provide specific serving utensils.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
This is definitely true - but some of these are fairly universal, or at least that is my understanding. I believe the 'no sticking chopsticks upright in rice' one is shared between Japan, Korea, China, etc. for example - it looks
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
You can just slide them with your fingers, even one handed, and it's not like they need to be perfectly aligned. But, yeah, I tap them to align them all the time, have seen Japanese people do it day in and day out. I've even done
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
You are misunderstanding the study (largely because the article heavily misrepresents it, would be my guess) They do not see an increase against their pre-GLP1 baseline risk - they see a reversal of the cardioprotective benefits the drug pr
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
That's unfortunate! It might be worth checking out Tirzepatide or Retatrutide once it is released. The GIP and Glucagon receptors might be better targets for you, even if the GLP-1 receptor seems to not help.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
It's easier (or as easy) to change gerrymandering as it is to change the senate back to it's intended purpose. If you want to argue that an amendment to make gerrymandering unconstitutional should be a prerequisite to returning to
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
We see risk reduction for heart attack and stroke for people on GLP-1s even without weight loss, which belies the idea that the protection only comes from losing weight. Edit: In fact, from the study - BMI went from 35.86 (Continued) to 34.
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
I think something like this actually makes the 'big server' idea feasible - if these are basically plug and play modules for whatever home AI services you use. If the chassis is just handling power distribution and networking for
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
If enough people in any state are bad actors then no solution under democracy is going to resolve the issue without moving away from a system that invests so much power in the states. But then if enough people in the overall country are bad
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
You're looking at how things are now with a situation totally fucked from the things being set up to be totally fucked for decades. The House and Senate fundamentally do not operate in the way the founders intended them to at the momen
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
The splinters come from where they break apart and there's not really any reason to have that part of the chopsticks touching your skin. But you move away from break apart disposable chopsticks in Japan long before you get to high etiq
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by cthalupa 7mo ago
Interesting. Some of these are big deals (particularly the ones mentioned as important) but others I have seen Japanese people in Tokyo do quite consistently. Soroebashi - not on the table, but I've seen chopsticks aligned by pushing t

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