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> All economic activity is a key driver to climate change what a pointless thought-terminating cliché > You're clearly imposing a self-serving moral judgement on other people. Just…

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> That doesn't invalidate the first category even though most people in the category are in the latter. so you solved obesity then! people just need to make better choices! Glad we…

wow you figured it out! but wait.. if it's that easy why is obesity such a huge issue?

> They failed to stop capitalism good thing, too!

as someone who has a good amount of experience with psychedelics - there is actually a surprising amount of overlap between the two experiences, but mostly in a generalized "how th…

the literature is very clear about the relationship between high LDL and Atherosclerosis. Are you referring to poor health in general, separate from Cardiovascular Disease?

you didn't read the article did you? Or are you actually here to claim that people with hypercholesterolemia just need to eat better? Do you have the same simplistic ideas about GL…

I love that they made the comparison to Hacker News in terms of request sizes lmao. Yea definitely a representative sample

the vast majority of the anti-statin crowd are just regurgitating talking points they heard from people in their diet tribe - usually keto/carnivore

supposedly that comes mostly from observational studies whereas RCT's seem to show that at some point full regain will probably happen (although can take 1-2 years). The Observatio…

they have long lasting effects if the changes are long lasting. Almost never the case

so you don't have any evidence? you are just hoping there will be evidence in the future? Separately - are you against minimum wage increases as a way to make things more affordabl…

and your evidence that property prices are almost entirely set by wages is?

> It's the opposite of a thought-terminating cliche > You could start by reading Marx, who laid a lot of the groundwork. Are you aware that you just responded with another? You did…

I guess I'm just confused why your entire comment is about landlords and the super-wealthy when the article and message you are responding to don't mention either.

are you referring to NIMBY homeowners? because yes, people who own houses are the most likely to prevent more housing from being built (although not the only reason more housing is…

what proportion of the housing crisis do you think is because of what you linked, and what would be your evidence?

No I am mostly agreeing with the quoted point

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really? you think it's not significantly effected by anything else? like amount of housing available?

> The common factor: the capital class screwing over the working class. This thought terminating cliche is getting real old. What are your solutions? and what evidence do you have …

> Increasing wages will not fix the housing crisis, and will just drive prices higher. This is true though?

Are you saying that you blame apartment prices on landlords? If you build more apartments then market rent goes down and landlords can't charge more if people can just find cheaper…

agreed