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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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  • "Saying a big hello to all you sentient lifeforms out there and for everyone else the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!"

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  • Action.

    Get organised. Find a group to join, action to take, a specific cause you feel passionate about.

    I won't pretend it's easy - social anxiety is real and really difficult - but we're social mammals and we do better as part of a group. Helping others is always the best way to help yourself.

  • Cardamom rich coffee

    Night blooming cereus

    The smell of my best friend from back at uni - patchouli, henna and well-cared-for dreds.

    Burning Xanthorrhea trunk - the australian grass tree that acts like a firelighter.

  • Dems deserve their fair share of the blame for enabling the ongoing authoritarian coup and deliberately undermining people trying to fight against it.

    The fascist elites who seized control of the nation need the republicans to carry out their will and they need the dems to sabotage the people's attempts to fight back.

  • Janet Mills suspended her campaign for Senate on Thursday, as her progressive challenger, oyster farmer Graham Platner, continued to lead in the polls and in fundraising.

    It’s a shocking fall off for the incumbent governor

    Lol brutal! The current governor and dnc prefered candidate dying in the polls and fundraising (!) to a progressive oyster farmer.

    The democratic party is such a stalwart architect of their own failures. I just wish they werent taking the nation down with them.

  • Not drugs, just weed.

  • That whole bit is SO GOOD. Everything from bang the rocks together, worst dressed sentient being, best bang since the big one, culminating in Zaphod's jist zis guy, you know? 😂

    It's right up there with the 'space, it says, is big' and might even be better than the bit about the marketing division of the sirius cybernetics corporation.

  • Nup! It's the only thing that keeps me going. It helps me get out of bed and fills me with hope and purpose.

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  • Because both the english and korean terms for the dessert are loan words from the same italian word.

    Also scientific terms like tyrannasaur are almost always stay the same across cultures and languages.

  • Good. Impeachment is pointless and accomplishes nothing. Plus trump is a cenile stooge inches from death.

    Jailing regime goons for their many open crimes should be the priority.