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How puritanical. Do you look down on everyone or just unhealthy people?
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Too many people take too many pills
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> All humans in environment A get fat, develop heart disease, and are depressed There's plenty of non-obese people in the world.
There are also plenty of w@nkers in the world. You're a decent category example. Have a great day.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is. It only makes things worse, and we're trying for something different here.
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#113Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372 I noticed that taking pain-killers is a very common thing in american TV shows. The main protagonist (male hero) gets hurt, goes to the bathroom, hastily pours a handful of pills into his hand and pops them into the mouth. Not one, but a hand full of pills, cleary too many. I've seen it so much, I'm starting to wonder if it's a TV trope. I'm wondering if…
It's a dramatic trope. I'm an american, born and raised as they say, and I've never seen that. It probably happens sometimes in places I'm not familiar with, but ... come on, it's absurd, anyone would be incapacitated by that many pills. I was thinking about this when watching The Shape of Water, Michael Shannon's character is in his car, arms shaking, pouring the whole pill bottle on his face ... It's a dramatic tro…
I wonder how much these tropes and storytelling techniques shifts the baselines of cultural norms. For example, a sitcom would often find it convenient to have friends meet daily in a bar and somehow drinking almost daily is perceived to be a normal thing to do.
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Who are you to say that spending your millions is foolish this way or that way? We all end up as dirt. Why not live eccentrically and take risks? It makes for a good story which you have conveniently cast as horrible. I bet that story is plenty interesting and worthwhile as is yours.
> Why not live eccentrically and take risks? Maybe because there are dependents that needed that money for school, shelter, clothing, or food. There was a story in the news recently about a guy who spontaneously gave away $200k by throwing bills out of his car window. Seemed like a feel-good story, at first. It turns out that he gave away his family's life-savings and they're now destitute.[1] Money can absolutely be…
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Re: Too many people take too many pills
#115Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372 I noticed that taking pain-killers is a very common thing in american TV shows. The main protagonist (male hero) gets hurt, goes to the bathroom, hastily pours a handful of pills into his hand and pops them into the mouth. Not one, but a hand full of pills, cleary too many. I've seen it so much, I'm starting to wonder if it's a TV trope. I'm wondering if…
Hmm, well I wouldn't recommend taking a whole handful of ibuprofen, but it probably shouldn't kill you (unlike a handful of acetaminophen/paracetamol, or opioids), it would be hell on your stomach, but I suppose fast-paced drama doesn't have time for realism.
Great way to get kidney failure.
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> The more cardio the better, so consider endurance sports. The research vehemently disagrees with you, especially if you’re a woman.
I’ve never heard anyone claim that less exercise is better. Can you point to the research that “vehemently disagrees”?
I assume they are referring to research that suggests that heavy resistance training accomplishes everything you get from cardio, plus more.
Re: Too many people take too many pills
#117Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372 I noticed that taking pain-killers is a very common thing in american TV shows. The main protagonist (male hero) gets hurt, goes to the bathroom, hastily pours a handful of pills into his hand and pops them into the mouth. Not one, but a hand full of pills, cleary too many. I've seen it so much, I'm starting to wonder if it's a TV trope. I'm wondering if…
The relevant tvtropes.org page seems to be "Bottled Heroic Resolve": https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BottledHeroicRes...
Re: Too many people take too many pills
#118Slightly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252372 I noticed that taking pain-killers is a very common thing in american TV shows. The main protagonist (male hero) gets hurt, goes to the bathroom, hastily pours a handful of pills into his hand and pops them into the mouth. Not one, but a hand full of pills, cleary too many. I've seen it so much, I'm starting to wonder if it's a TV trope. I'm wondering if…
This does not logically make sense. It's TV. On TV, a guy can shoot an automatic and not reload for a full ten minutes. He can get shot at by 20 people with rifles and they all miss, while he kllls them all with a handgun that holds 10 bullets.
That is not sponsorship by gun companies. It is TV.
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#119I hate these articles. While yes, this is true, it's also true that _many_ people have severe, untreated illness that they're just "toughing it out." My friend with BPD ruined his life because he's "stronger than the disorder, I don't need to take my meds" Spent millions foolishly, genius engineer - horrible story. Easily fixed.
Exactly. Nuance is the missing ingredient here, no pun intended.
I currently have untreated inappropriate sinus tach where my heart rate is continually 100+ BPM. This will require a cardiologist to sign-off, probably for ivabradine since beta blockers are giving me depression. And it's my understanding that node ablation has a low success rate and I'm not interested in a pacemaker.
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Like the way toothpaste ads show them squirting 3x as much paste as you actually need onto the toothbrush
That's just like how shampoo companies advise you to "lather, rinse, repeat". It's a great way to boost sales, but besides being unnecessary it's terrible for your hair, your water bill, fish living downstream, and your wallet.
I do occasionally repeat and it does make a difference, but you only need 1/10th as much shampoo the second time.