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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • My dad was a linguist, so he'd met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn't listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he'd say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.

    Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.

    That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.

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  • Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we're talking about like "my granma", anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.

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  • (Here. Are. Some. Sources). These are pop articles. Below are some quotes from papers. I go on about this topic a lot!😂

    "Recent evidence has demonstrated that empathic responses are modulated by social power." "high-power people show low empathic accuracy compared to low-power people" "numerous studies have shown that people with high power are less accurate in recognizing others’ emotional expressions"

    "higher socioeconomic status is associated with reduced neural responses to the pain of others" "experiments using fMRI indicates that power promotes greed ... displayed decreased response in the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating a weaker restrain of self-interest when processing receiving more than others" "Power decreases empathic concern" "powerholders may experience less distress and less compassion as well as exhibit greater autonomic emotion regulation when faced with the pain of others" "elevated power impedes accurate understanding of other people’s emotional expressions" "Elevated power is associated with heightened interest in rewards while low power is associated with increased attention to the interest of others"

    "In face-to-face conversations, participants disclosed experiences that had caused them suffering. As predicted, participants with a higher sense of power experienced less distress and less compassion and exhibited greater autonomic emotion regulation when confronted with another participant's suffering."

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  • Powerful people just can't help but be vile.

    As you gain social power, the empathy centers in your brain are suppressed. "Power corrupts" has a neurological basis.

  • Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

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  • Objectively untrue. He lacks the cognition to realize anything of the sort. "Mythos is so scary!!1!1" is a PR line.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • GPL1 is not the only way to get there

    Except that for the overwhelming majority, functionally everyone, they are.

    I'm not a propent of the drug. I'm slightly wary, I don't want it and i don't bring it up to others. But I don't judge people who do.

    It sounds like you're part of the incredibly small minority who have been able to lose weight. Congratulations! It sounds like you worked long and hard to find a regimen that works for you.

    Literally 99% of obese people will never find what you found. For them, these drugs are the ONLY realistic option to perminantly lose weight. Nothing else has been shown to work in more than 1% of cases.

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  • 😊 Right? It really stuck with me. One of those articles that ties together so many obvious and not so obvious pieces into a really clear picture. And in HuffPo no less!

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  • Yep!

    The altered hormone balance is what allows weight loss and if that reverts than so does weight loss.

    I know this "you have to keep taking them" argument is big in anti-glp1 circles, but I don't think it's very good - the same is true of vitamin supplements. You have to keep taking them or the deficiency comes back. They still help.

    I don't care for glp1s myself but i've heard how happy they make some, so i don't judge others' choices.

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  • If you know several people who met the medical definition of obese and have perminantly left that category then you know several outliers, which is entirely possible.

    But that is just not representative. Over 99% of obese people do not lose weight. Those few outliers are heavily visible and celebrated so it feels like there must be more.

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  • No this predates glp1s, the article i linked is from 2018.

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  • No, social factors like the price of processed vs healthy food, the amount of sugar and salt companies are allowed put in food specifically to addict consumers, the food our culture uses to celebrate, the stressors and social pressures that we know drive people towards dopamine sources like high caloric foods, cities designed to discourage walking, etc.

    Edit: no one's claiming what you're saying. Individual behaviour is a factor in most disease. Focusing on the individual behaviour piece has proved to be completely ineffective at producing weightloss. That's just a fact. And yet we keep doing it like it's suddenly going to work. It won't. You could tell people not to go to work in winter so they don't catch a cold, but they won't do that.

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • Yeah for sure one child makes it a less clear example, but even post-one child, china shows the same trends as other rich nations.

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  • This attitude is the problem, yep.

    There's no other medical condition which only 0.8% of people ever recover from where we tell people to just keep trying treatments that we know don't work.

    An individual's behaviour is a contributing factor in most diseases. But the hormones, social factors, etc. which determine that behaviour are beyond the control of willpower. GLP1s work because they treat the hormonal imbalances which cause the behaviour that causes weight loss.

    We don't tell people they're pathetic for catching a cold, though our social organization put them in a place where their biological weakness to that disease was triggered.

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  • people have been losing weight by a variety of methods

    Surprisingly, they have not.

    Before GLP1s, weightloss was a myth. 99. something % of people (edit 99.2% of women) who meet the medical definition of obese will always be obese despite a lifetime of effort.

    We know for certain from decades of research that weightloss from willpower alone, even with diet plans or excersize plans is functionally impossible. The best they do is yoyo effects - no diet has ever produced perminant weight loss on a real scale.

    Very rarely a statistically insignificant sample size enjoy permenant weight loss and these individuals are held up to show it's possible and you can do it too! But that's just not true, and we know it's not true because decades of stats show again and again that perminant weight loss just does not happen.

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  • "The mindset right now is that the GLP-1 hormone itself is the secret sauce to weight loss," DiMarchi said. "What we've found in rodents and monkeys is that the combination of glucagon and GIP activity alone are sufficient to achieve comparable weight loss, without the lengthy dosage adjustment and adverse GI side effects

    This article is saying that slightly different products can also produce weight loss.

  • What's the real reason most countries aren't having children?

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  • As the average income of a country goes up, birthrate goes down. That's just how humans are. We guess at reasons, but it's just a universally observable fact.

    All high income industrialized nations developed low birthrates. North america, europe, japan, korea and now china.

    If rich nations allow room for anyone else to claw their way up out of the low end of the value chain, we'll see the same thing happen there.

  • Spotify adds 'Verified' badge to distinguish human acts from AI

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  • Most AI music will just end up with the badge, right?

  • America shot its arsenal empty in 2 wars. Now it needs Beijing’s permission to reload

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  • Very early on i heard some commentary that putin was demanding his client state spend down large amounts of it's stockpile. And look what we have here.

  • AIPAC backs candidates who fund and promote Gaza genocide

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  • That's a deceptive number - it's ⅔ vs ⅓.

    "A third of genocide advocates are dems" paints a much more realistic picture of democratic responsibility for genocide.

    "90% more genocide from republicans" makes it sound very one-sided. When in fact elite support for genocide is strongly bipartisan, it just skews R.

  • Releasing Full 2024 Election Autopsy Would Be “Navel Gazing,” DNC Chair Says

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  • TIL Navel Gazing is a term that means "prove the left was correct all along".