sw104

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by sw104 3y ago
> The entire experience made me feel like the fitness industry is bordering on fraud with the promises. The fitness industry is very broad and is by no means just about weight loss. There's a large amount of people who are a normal
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by sw104 3y ago
"The dose makes the poison". According to the WHO, there is no level of alcohol consumption that is good for the health. OP sounds like he doesn't get anything out of drinking anymore, so I guess he doesn't even want to
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by sw104 3y ago
I'm not sure how it's counted (whether it includes forcibly migrated), but according to Statista, Russia currently holds the majority of non-internal Ukrainian refugees.
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by sw104 3y ago
The lifting heavy weights just ensures you retain muscle during weight loss, doesn't it? While weight loss is mostly diet, if you did want to use exercise to burn additional calories, cardio would do more than weight training. I burn u
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by sw104 3y ago
Where I live in Northern England, buses are (amongst other reasons) mostly hampered in their reliability by delays and cancellations caused by sharing roads congested with cars. Here there's an almost palpable attitude of disgust towar
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by sw104 3y ago
The most precious IP you own, which you drop in the form of 50-100 fallen hairs every day, and is smeared on everything you touch. People submit more weaponizable (behavioural) data to Facebook, Google and HN every day.
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by sw104 3y ago
Privacy nuts are always going overboard about things that mean very little. Genetic data sounds important but in the bigger scheme of things, it's probably the least manipulatable data about a person on the internet. My genetic data is
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by sw104 3y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogg
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by sw104 3y ago
Stop eating them. Forgive me for the cynical take but "ultraprocessed" isn't stuff that just slips in without you realising, is it? It's garbage like crisps, biscuits, cakes, chocolate bars, burgers, sandwiches, fast foo
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by sw104 3y ago
> somebody choosing to smoke/chew/dip tobacco which may eventually cause them serious health conditions and death In a crowded street, somebody's choice to smoke tobacco isn't just causing them serious health conditio
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by sw104 3y ago
I don't know where you're from, but in the UK, over £50 billion is spent on it each year. If you've seen anybody who lives for Friday / Saturday night and a Sunday hangover, it fits the consumerist image pretty neatly. M
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by sw104 3y ago
My experience is that drinkers are incredibly boring people.
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by sw104 3y ago
Team sport, or any sport for that matter. All of the friends I've made have been through competitive sport, the gym, running, team sports.
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by sw104 3y ago
The cause is too much food/the quality of the food people eat. Exercise plays a small role in weight loss / management, but people should still do it for the other benefits.
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by sw104 3y ago
While I agree with your overall comment, the last sentence really isn't necessary. This isn't Reddit.
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by sw104 3y ago
This is usually labelled quite literally as a "whole foods diet", meaning that the foods you eat are "whole" in themselves and not composed of other refined food. To me, it's the only diet that makes any real sense.
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by sw104 3y ago
A select minority in the local council didn't care, but the citizens and those who protested (and got arrested) over this overwhelmingly did. Since the protests, the council stopped cutting the trees down and reversed course. Sheffield
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by sw104 3y ago
Not to one-up you, but Sheffield in South Yorkshire has even more trees. I visited recently and was taken aback by how much coverage there was for a city center, coming from Leeds, which seems to hate trees. If I remember correctly, London
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by sw104 3y ago
Bad schools are generally in bad areas. A few years ago, primary age students going into high school from my home village were going to be split between two secondary (or high) schools, as not every student could be accounted for in the clo
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by sw104 3y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted for stating this. To add to what you said, environmentally it's awful. Where I live it, most of the food deliveries were bicycle based a few years ago. Now it's all cars, mopeds and e-bikes
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by sw104 3y ago
When you say it allows you uninterrupted work, are you talking about overtime or have you moved towards eating delivered food during working hours? I couldn't imagine eating takeaways during my lunch break or snacks during the workday.
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by sw104 3y ago
> In New York, if I’m coming to the door to meet the delivery, then I may as well just walk the 1/4 block to get it myself. Then people in this situation should do that.
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by sw104 3y ago
Is it really that hard to have a smartphone and just not install addictive/time-wasting apps on it? I think my daily average screen time is 10 minutes (according to Digital Wellbeing), with less than 10 unlocks. Advantage being that I&
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by sw104 3y ago
> Do they not have any purpose for their lives beyond consumption? A lot of people have no purpose in their life beyond consumption. Truly, this is it. If people put the tiniest fraction of work into their fitness, their personality, the
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by sw104 3y ago
Not really sure where you're going with this line of thought. I stand by my point. Many people do purely use these cars for no purpose besides them being a status symbol, or to be more secure on the road (which could be suggestive of a
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by sw104 3y ago
Very defensive reply. Many people use Range Rovers to simply drop their kids off at school, to drive to work, or to transport groceries. If you're really for people leading active lifestyles, maybe those such people should get their ki
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by sw104 3y ago
Range Rovers are a disease in the UK. A brand which had it's origins in the military and farming, which has now been repurposed to drop kids off at a school. It's also the most frequent car I see which is sped around and overtakes
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by sw104 3y ago
For every person that travels and has great experiences, there's many who get nothing out of it, waste their time, and set themselves back. Travelling is a bit of a meme. SOME people of a certain character can get a lot out of it, but
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by sw104 3y ago
> Having to physically go to a gym gives you lots of excuses not to go vs having VR in the living room. The travel time is also a time sink. It's often argued that the act of physically going to the place is what makes you do it. Pe
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by sw104 3y ago
"he believes Black Box solves the fitness problem that’s always been thorniest: getting people to stick to their workouts." This might be a wildly unpopular opinion, but I personally feel if somebody requires VR/video game to

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