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You made the story about you, when nobody asked. Check the comment I responded to. You did exactly what people always seem to jump out of their seats to do when this drug is mentio…

>There were quite a few foods I let go of when I decided to drop weight. Can't say I miss them much, certainly not to the extent to say something like "wow, i can't enjoy food anym…

> If Ozempic is so great then how come our bodies don't just produce more GLP-1? How come we aren't like chimps, with eternally shredded bodies and cheese grater abs, provided we g…

If changing habits were much easier, then people wouldn't be using the drug to make it easier change their habits. They would just do it.

Bread, sugar and potatoes exist on a spectrum from highly processed/refined (truly problematic) to minimally processed whole food versions (nutritionally valuable). There's no reas…

The choice is no longer between "cutting out bread and sugar completely" and "some kind of lifelong moderation for a person that has struggled." The choice is now between "cutting …

He could have lost all that weight and still had bread, sugar, and potatoes but instead he gave up what he clearly enjoyed. Now he gets to live out the rest of his life fighting cr…

That you have the means to make that distinction inside the justice system illustrates the dichotomy. In places that never had the rule of law to begin with, what you described is …

The rule of law generally refers to societies where everyone is subject to the same set of laws. China, for example, does not and has not had the rule of law. Instead they have rul…

>It's called buyer's remorse. We accept it when it's a car or a TV, but suddenly when it's a house we're supposed to give massive government support to correct the buyer's mistake?…

The U.S. is really far behind on this front. Going to even casual restaurants in Germany, I see a menu that has a dozen or so symbols, representing everything from gluten to allium…

I wonder if, like the precision fermentation process, these engineered bacteria can be fed into existing dairy processing machines that make ice cream and other derivative products…

>What is the target audience for these bi-annual shots? In the US, there are certain patients who are at high risk for HIV infection. They are men who have sex with men, intravenou…

Nobody pays that. It's a pre-negotiation price that exists as a factor of many other costs and payments to various stakeholders like PBMs.

>IV drug use is a massively more efficient transmission route than any type of sexual contact. Yes, and people who take IV drugs are much less likely than men who have sex with men…

They bill the insurance companies a lot, plus they take public and private (i.e., government and Gates Foundation) investment.

Lehrer taught me, at a young age, that the “division” between music and mathematics was completely arbitrary, that you can be interested in both, and indeed there is significant ov…

That’s a rather idiosyncratic definition of stability. Evolutionary adaptation is literally change over time.

>I’ve always found the idea of “restoring” ecosystems a bit philosophically tricky. ..we’re shaping nature to fit human values, You’re right to question it, because the philosophy …

So that's why it seemed to say the same thing over and over again.

>That's just part and parcel of being human. Also part and parcel of being a human being is logic and empathy. Anyone who possesses one of these traits, never mind both of them, sh…

The largest generation in US history is retiring and buying property in the state with no income tax.

Tomorrow I'm going to release 100 snakes into your home. Most of them aren't venomous, but I can't check all of them. After I release them, let me know if you don't want any snakes…

This is why walkable cities are important!

>that you will up your calorie intake unless you take explicit and intentional effort not to. Correct, and the "eat less, move more" crowd will tell you, "ignore your hunger. Contr…