porb121

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by porb121 6y ago
being enabled to continue doing something (at the cost of others!) just because you want to keep doing it is not a particularly legitimate reason also, if people move to Berlin, they also become the people of Berlin.
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by porb121 6y ago
that's not what i said. we should have good housing policies, but rent control is a bad housing policy.
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by porb121 6y ago
> There is no way to measurably differentiate between someone feeling good because they're microdosing, or feeling good because they had a nice day, which is why data collected in this study would largely be just noise. i can only r
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by porb121 6y ago
i don't find it particularly compassionate or empathetic to subsidize someone's apartment just because they were living in it when a rent control bill was passed. yes, that person has a claim to some kind of housing, but why shoul
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by porb121 6y ago
> Should they be forced to find a new flat way outside the city because the rent triples over the course of a few years so young tech workers relocating from London can have a place in the cool part of town? yes why should they get to st
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by porb121 6y ago
"imperceptible" refers to the actual psychidelic experience; microdosing is not supposed to produce the auditory or visual hallucinations of macrodosing. that such a dose would or would not have other effects is not analytically o
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by porb121 6y ago
> The conclusions this "study" reached could also be arrived at by just reading what microdosing is. there's tons of anecdotal reports of people experiencing tangible benefits from subperceptual microdosing; this study is
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by porb121 6y ago
With a wide interpretation of "wager", your definition includes lots of human behavior that no one would traditionally call gambling, because all future events have unknown outcomes, and most future events have appreciably unknown
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by porb121 6y ago
a market maker by law has to provide prices better than offered by the current market. frontrunning does not do that.
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by porb121 6y ago
no, it really doesn't depend. there is well-established research on the relative safety of bodybuilding [1]; you have to provide evidence that somehow the diets involved in contest prep increase the injury rate of bodybuilding by a fac
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by porb121 6y ago
bodybuilding is far less injurious than other strength sports and those are far less injurious than any team sports. you are almost certain to sustain significant acute injuries doing gymnastics, football, basketball, etc over a long traini
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by porb121 6y ago
posture (a) doesn't particularly matter to begin with, and (b) is already massively improved by basic compound movements. like, it's hard to imagine what you would do for a better posture other than highbar squats, deadlifts, rows
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by porb121 6y ago
you can be killed by ways other than homicide
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by porb121 6y ago
regarding [1], you would have a hard time getting agreement from big names in evidence-based lifting circles. e.g. I'm fairly certain Israetel, Nuckols, Helms, and others have all disagreed, and I am less certain but believe others (Ja
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by porb121 6y ago
there are lots of anabolic agents that should absolutely be controlled. trenbolone and other 19-nor substances are neurotoxic and thrash your internal organs. fatburners like clenbuterol or dnp are uh, not good. insulin (which is massively
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by porb121 6y ago
why would you link an article from "fatherly.com" as a reputable source contest bodybuilders get lean and that has detrimental hormonal effects and tanks their metabolism / NEAT, but evidence on post-contest weight rebounds s
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by porb121 6y ago
if you need almost 3 hours to do a beginner strength program, something is amiss, or you are resting for 10+ minutes between sets. what do you need to buy? what posture correction are you doing? how is showering a meaningful amount of time
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by porb121 6y ago
if you need 40 minutes to acutely recover from anything but the most advanced powerlifting/bodybuilding training, then something is deeply wrong.
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by porb121 6y ago
> Most of the homeless in these cities are not interested in being apart of society maybe they are not interested in being a part of our society because of how our society is organized, and if we changed our societal structure, they woul
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by porb121 6y ago
There is outstanding evidence that giving the homeless shelter does in fact fix the problem. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9oD3zeBPua7r5wFoHVrMZmmiqK...
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by porb121 6y ago
> In modern western society we have many failsafes that prevent people from becoming totally dislodged from a place of shelter. the US has much weaker social safety nets, and the ones it does have are often conditional on applications or
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by porb121 6y ago
what works in Finland (giving people housing) definitely works in Los Angeles - LA was the subject of a recent research paper demonstrating the massive success of such a program https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9o
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by porb121 6y ago
if it is a joke, it pretty soundly failed to be funny.
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by porb121 6y ago
cities scale pretty well...we can build in a third dimension
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by porb121 6y ago
anyone who thinks single-family residential zoning is a plague benefits from anti-homeownership messages. own a condo or a unit in a triplex instead.
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by porb121 6y ago
> Are you a specialist in the field? yes, I have huge quads. what are your credentials?
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by porb121 6y ago
again: how will someone have a muscle imbalance if they don't even have much muscle to begin with?
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by porb121 6y ago
how much do you squat?
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by porb121 6y ago
most people don't have different weaknesses or special needs. in order to have a pronounced weak point, you need to have strong points, and untrained people aren't strong. highly individualized beginner training is like making min
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by porb121 6y ago
> But to have recommendations on good counterpoint short form content (short stories, journal articles, essays) might get someone who is busy with life and career to spend a few minutes. It's one book.

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