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by 44520297 1y ago
From reading your comments, it appears you value physical activity over sedentary activity and disagree with the disease model of addiction because of your own experience and belief system. Frankly, individualized belief systems that don’t
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by 44520297 1y ago
But you haven't offered any measurable definition of productive, so we have no means by which to self-measure whether we agree with you or not.
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by 44520297 1y ago
More expensive relative to what? In nominal terms, everything gets more expensive because of inflation eventually.
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by 44520297 1y ago
> productive and worth-while. Productive, as defined by... the people who compile labor statistics, or what? Worthwhile, as defined by... the people who dominate the current cultural narrative? Everyone who ever invented or discovered an
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by 44520297 1y ago
You are writing in the comments section of a website devoted to the discussion of companies and technologies that have changed the entire world. Technologies that, many suppose, will change the entire nature of labor, specifically. And yet
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by 44520297 1y ago
The human body is simultaneously decaying and regenerating constantly, but calling it "rotting" mischaracterizes the process. About 330 billion cells are replaced daily, equivalent to about 1 percent of all our cells. There is not
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by 44520297 1y ago
Sure, but let’s remember that “working” is not the end-all, be-all of human existence. Some will stop working and care for an aging parent. Some will stop working and raise children. Some will stop working and make art. We have the opportun
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by 44520297 1y ago
Considering a large portion of the contributors have names originating in a script and language that has no relationship whatsoever to English’s already arbitrary letter ordering, this list configuration is as good as any.
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by 44520297 1y ago
My friend group got busted for gaming AR and we were banned from it. The interface allowed us to sort the books by points, so we took the top 10 books, split them up among us, summarized them, took the tests, and gave each other the answers
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by 44520297 1y ago
All of language is tenuous overlap between speaker intent and listener interpretation. In this instance, how do you interpret the definition of capitalism for this context? Better to add meaning.
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by 44520297 1y ago
>This guy even says they scour social media! Every, and I mean every, technology company scours social media. Amazon has a team that monitors social media posts to make sure employees, their spouses, their friends don’t leak info, for ex
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by 44520297 1y ago
Cost.
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by 44520297 1y ago
You are free to put addictions in whichever category you prefer. The medical community does not: we treat addiction with medication as well.
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by 44520297 1y ago
> go further than just treating them with drugs alone This is precisely what the FDA guidance contains: that GLP1s be mixed with lifestyle modifications.
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> Does any human technically need medication to eat less calories? Chronically obese people, who are prescribed GLP1s to enable them to eat fewer calories. Are you interested in the reasons why people are unable to eat fewer calories wit
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by 44520297 1y ago
In English, we “instill discipline” in children. When we talk to and about adults, we talk about the confluence of factors that influence habits and help people change them. Discipline implies that an adult, who is otherwise fully functioni
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by 44520297 1y ago
>However there are other tools to supplement with to help learning discipline. The current FDA guidelines support your assertion that GLP1s should be prescribed in addition to other tools to help people change their eating habits. What t
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by 44520297 1y ago
Would you say the same about blood pressure medications, diabetes medications, cholesterol medications, thyroid hormone replacement, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety medications, immunosuppressants, DMARDs, co
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by 44520297 1y ago
Taking medicine is a lifestyle choice.
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by 44520297 1y ago
Which other self-inflicted medical conditions do we deny medical care for?
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Why is obesity the only disease that taking medicine for is “cheating”? Which is more important: instilling your particular version of “discipline” into people, or saving billions in healthcare costs and millions of lives from suffering?
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by 44520297 1y ago
Around once a year I look for a distro that works on a laptop w/fractional scaling and hibernate. I’ve already done that once this year, if Zorin can handle that then maybe 2026 will my personal year of the linux desktop
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by 44520297 1y ago
We do have an answer. It’s 2.1 children per woman. That’s the replacement rate. We are not on track for equilibrium or a slow decrease over centuries. We are on track for a demographic cliff.