shlant

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by shlant 1y ago
can't tell if this is sarcasm
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by shlant 1y ago
"the free market is the solution!" you say while defending monopolistic practices
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by shlant 1y ago
> As factory farms already feed those herds, clearly there's enough grain to feed them. 1. Feed Conversion Ratio is worse for pasture-raised vs. factory farmed so that's not a given - animals being able to move more, waste more
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by shlant 1y ago
> Then be angry at factory farming, not eating meat. When one of the most common responses to pointing out how awful factory farming is "well you can just buy from farms" when the reality is that 99% of consumption comes from f
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by shlant 1y ago
I hope more and more people start to see "capitalism bad" as a lazy scapegoat for any modern problem
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by shlant 1y ago
I don't know why they decided to use the term "blood letting" but I'm pretty sure some of the benefits being talked about in the response also come from donating blood (which is essentially the same thing)? You calling i
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by shlant 1y ago
do you think these are comparable? are you equating lobbying to the infiltration of government systems or coordinated efforts by Russian assets inside a campaign team to influence elections?
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by shlant 1y ago
yea considering they made 6 bullet points all just to say "rated and tested capacities are usually different" reeked of pedantry (although not surprising as we are on a tech site) and IMO did not warrant the label of "very po
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by shlant 1y ago
none of this information was available when these comments were made. Essentially the entirety of the right-wing media apparatus had already made up their minds before any evidence was available
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by shlant 1y ago
you care more about morally loaded terms than research and call me illogical. ok
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by shlant 1y ago
ant-seed oil is anti-scientific and prays on people being ignorant about the research on health outcomes and relies on emotional appeals and appeals to nature such as "the genetic engineering and solvent-based extraction of canola oil&
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by shlant 1y ago
> But when an omni dieter looks unhealthy we just say “that guy looks rough” and when we see a vegan who looks unhealthy we say “vegan diets make you look rough”. many such cases. People have no idea about how much their bias influences
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by shlant 1y ago
> But I have yet to see a healthy looking vegan person. This anecdata is so wrong and only serves to degrade the conversation. I can only imagine you have some sort of bias that convinced you this was worth sharing. There are a wide rang
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by shlant 1y ago
I got some 10mg Dexedrine Spansule's when I usually take normal 5mg's and I didn't sleep until 4am :(
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by shlant 1y ago
it has nothing to do with alignment of politics, it's that your description of reality is so wrong that it would be difficult to seriously engage
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by shlant 1y ago
> Adderall can cause a high > Interesting. FYI ADHD people feel none of that. Please don't speak for a whole group of people when you don't know what you're talking about. Euphoria is very common when people with ADHD f
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by shlant 1y ago
the euphoric high also happens in those with ADHD but only when they first start taking it. I would assume if you took it recreationally and not consistently you would have the same effect
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by shlant 1y ago
> You see this kind of dismissal on /r/science all the time and it's always just evidence that they're not qualified to actually read the study. reply In my experience it's more because the conclusions butt up ag
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by shlant 1y ago
"I experienced negative side effects so the science must be bought and paid for"
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by shlant 1y ago
I might have given a shred of charitability to you if you said "far more open fashion than the left." but the fact that you said "liberals" tells me I shouldn't take your political perspective seriously
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by shlant 1y ago
> the majority seem to be trending towards battery/cage chickens. it's not a trend - 99.96% of chicken sold in the US is factory farmed[1] [1] https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/almost-all-livestoc..
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by shlant 1y ago
omg not everything is late stage capitalism
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by shlant 1y ago
it's good we have so many geniuses in these comments solving the obesity epidemic! if only they spoke up sooner :(
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by shlant 1y ago
know what makes it easier to fix/change your environment? when you aren't obese and everything in life is so much harder. Guess what? you can both take ozempic AND fix the problems that caused the need to self-medicate with food (
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by shlant 1y ago
wow people can just not be obese if they fix their habits! what a revelation! Better go tell all the obese people that, they surely have no idea.
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by shlant 1y ago
it's clear you have a personal bone to pick because your comment is so off base
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by shlant 1y ago
enjoy getting (deservedly) downvoted into oblivion for lacking basic empathy
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by shlant 1y ago
> and the side effects can be severe Are there severe side effects that aren't extremely rare? can you provide data on this?
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by shlant 1y ago
in no world is keto the only option for most people. Some may personally feel it's easier than other dietary/lifestyle options for losing weight but it is not uniquely different than many other options in that category (and absolu
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by shlant 1y ago
so there was no bait and switch, you are just complaining about the lack of transparency around the specific limits that they never once said didn't exist

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