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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 belie…

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.

More expensive relative to what? In nominal terms, everything gets more expensive because of inflation eventually.

> 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 cultur…

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, wi…

The human body is simultaneously decaying and regenerating constantly, but calling it "rotting" mischaracterizes the process. About 330 billion cells are replaced daily, equivalent…

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 childre…

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, …

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, summ…

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 …

>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 employ…

Cost.

You are free to put addictions in whichever category you prefer. The medical community does not: we treat addiction with medication as well.

> go further than just treating them with drugs alone This is precisely what the FDA guidance contains: that GLP1s be mixed with lifestyle modifications.

> 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 th…

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. Discip…

>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 othe…

Would you say the same about blood pressure medications, diabetes medications, cholesterol medications, thyroid hormone replacement, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychoti…

Taking medicine is a lifestyle choice.

Which other self-inflicted medical conditions do we deny medical care for?

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 …

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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 wi…

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