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Comment Re:Put Ozempic in the water supply (Score 1) 139

drug our problems away, we're definitely not going to wholesale change our diet and habits.

Technically these drugs do change your diet and habits - that's what most of the weight loss comes from. Eating poorly for a while causes a mass die-off of bacteria in your digestive tract that helps with digesting healthy and fiber-rich foods. Those same bacteria actually release their own GLP-1 agonists. We can probably do better than these medications but they aren't a cheap gimmick either - these are drugs that try to make your body function as if it doesn't have a metabolic disorder and it drives better behavior as a result.

Comment Re:Moving the goalposts. (Score 1) 139

It's not obvious overeating that is the issue for most. Most people are forced into relatively sedentary careers with long commutes, and it's worse the more education you have. An excess 100 calories a day adds up to 10 lbs of weight gain a year. It doesn't even take much activity to reverse that deficit. And then if you have kids, there is pressure to always be carting them around from one after-school activity to another. A home-cooked meal is unlikely because there is no time. Even if you want to eat healthy, there isn't really much "fast" food that isn't something like burgers and fries.

tl;dr It's a cultural problem, but it's not generally an eating or self control problem.

Comment Re:That the Social Media Companies Support it... (Score 1) 47

Social media companies just don't want to self-regulate and at the same time don't want to be sued by parents. If no laws exist, self-regulating limits your marketshare compared to other companies who don't. When there are no laws and no self-regulation, parents will take liability concerns into their own hands and sue for things.

Comment Re:And TP-Link is being investigated for a ban.... (Score 1) 34

In the real world, I doubt 320Mhz is practical. Too much overlap. It's like trying to use 80Mhz on 2.4GHz. That's been available for a long time, but practically speaking it might as well not exist. It's just there so they can but a bigger theoretical max speed on the box.

Comment Re:Weird subjective niche (Score 1) 83

Regarding speech, I personally think it's a blend between Hollywood and colonialism. The Philly accent is an American one but it's partially influenced by post-RP pronunciation changes because of coastal proximity like a lot of New England accents. Most places around the world that speak English learn UK English but consume more American media in English than British. So they also would pick up a blend of accents and pronunciations.

Comment Re:Again this is not true (Score 1) 110

The real virus does not stay confined to your lungs, nor even mostly confined to your lungs

Of course not - but it is a long way from the blood and the heart.

Why do you think one of the most common first symptoms of COVID (*before* respiratory symptoms) is diarrhea?

Because mucus full of the virus goes down the throat. Epithelial spreading from top to bottom.

If the actual virus was getting to your heart muscles it's already a very serious infection, even if it is relatively asymptomatic. The lungs are the direct conduit to the bloodstream, of course, but what do you think causes the clotting? The binding of the spike protein to the ACE2 receptor. If you forgot the main point I was making, it's that the vaccine platform isn't the cause of the clotting - it's the proteins it produces that mimic the virus structure.

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