I very much advise using non-sugar sweeteners for weight control, no matter what the WHO says. The studies they are relying on are nearly all extremely flawed.
Non-sugar sweeteners work great and I’d be 20-30 pounds heavier without them. Fortunately, there is a relatively easy three-step synthesis process for saccharine if they try to take it away. I will then learn how to make it.
People Who Do Strength Training Live Longer — and Better.
Indeed. It’s improved my life vastly. The health benefits are great, as are the aesthetic benefits you’re not supposed to work for or talk about. But I do work for them and fuck anyone who has a problem with it.
And it’s awesome being strong again. It just makes all of life easier. Highly recommended.
It’s weird seeing Covid simultaneously be a real disease with real symptoms that nearly indisputably show up in the numbers and also be a global morgellons situation
— Misha Gurevich, Photographer, Venture Capitalist (@drethelin) May 16, 2023
That has been odd indeed. Not sure what to make of it exactly. Large collective traumas do weird psychological shit to people that also inevitably affects their bodies.
In that sense, Long Covid is completely real — but it’ll also have very nebulous and ever-changing physical etiologies identified. I’ve been seeing that already really frequently.
We live in strange times. And they are getting stranger.
A haircut that a few years ago used to cost $12.95 is now $22. Yes, I get cheap haircuts because to me it just doesn’t matter. But still — that’s 1.7x more in just a few years.
And that doesn’t include tip (I always tip very large).
Something that sounds made up to me but I know is not is that so many people seem to require a pitch black environment to sleep.
I don’t prefer it being super bright, but if it is so be it. I can still sleep just fine. I had a friend that argued with me that it was “impossible” that I could sleep in bright light. Yet I’ve done it quite often in my life, and in fact I used to sleep with the lights on all the time (was too lazy and/or too cold when living in an unheated place to get up and turn them off).
This is what “degrowth” actually looks like in practice:
Economic immiseration amid an energy crisis. pic.twitter.com/oheH38SWqN
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) May 15, 2023
Yep. Degrowth is a numbnuts shit-for-brains assclown dooftastic idea. Just utter gutter trash thinking.
once in a while i get utterly stunlocked by the existence of modern tankies. i can track the radicalization of jihadis or white supremacists, i can see the footsteps there. but you guys are just fucking inexplicable weirdos
— jabuttee – luxurious memes and takes (@jabuttee) May 15, 2023
And there are so many of them! Who would’ve thought? I never would’ve started reading Ian Welsh’s dumb ass in the first place if I’d realized he was a tankie. It’s just not worth it.
with advertising this good, they may yet turn me into a prog https://t.co/51Qut6qAWc
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) May 15, 2023
Sign me up!
It’s always funny when conservatives say shit like, “You just want to make it where medical care is free, being a billionaire is illegal, and you want to give people places to live!”
Well, yes, that is exactly what we want to do. They say it like it’s a death curse which is what makes so fucking hilarious.
Diet sodas are not actually good for your diet, WHO guidance suggests.
Ah bullshit. There’s no fucking way I would’ve lost as much weight as I did (and kept it off) if I hadn’t switched completely to diet soda.
Complete fucking horseshit. Goddamn I am gonna be fucking pissed if they try to take those away from me.
Still trying to figure out why so many neo-Tankies (Noam Chomsky, Ian Welsh, etc.) hate Ukraine and the Ukrainian people so much, and love Putin. Fucking Putin!
Why they see what Putin is doing as anti-imperialist I cannot even fathom. Invading another country, committing genocide and blowing up schools and supermarkets…yeah, that’s very anti-imperialist right there. Makes complete sense.
That the US is helping Ukraine doesn’t make Russia some savior. I will never understand that brand of “logic.” Mainly because it’s the logic of complete dumbasses.
The Russian command post in Klishchiivka, south of Bakhmut, has been struck. The Russian MoD admits the death of Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov and Colonel Yevgeny Brovko.
Russian mil-bloggers also claim that the commander of the 124th brigade has been killed, plus around 20-40 KIA. pic.twitter.com/7sZDCXjl9c
— 1) (@Tendar) May 14, 2023
Damn, the Russians are just winning all over the place! (I hope I never “win” like Ian Welsh thinks they are winning.)
It was supposed to be “impossible” to gain as much muscle as I have in my 40s. The reality is that though it did take a lot of effort, it wasn’t even all that hard.
And no, I do not have good genetics and am not naturally that athletic.
What a lot of people mean by “impossible” is that they don’t want you to even try, as you might exceed them. It’s a de facto proscription aimed to prevent you from getting above your station.
This is the first article I’ve seen in the mainstream press showing that the inflation numbers are just lies.
Those numbers are also inaccurate regarding shelter, too: owners’ equivalent rent is basically garbage, and that’s 25% of CPI.
But hey, TVs are cheaper (because they are now fucking loaded with spyware!).
We can easily afford it, and because we can we haven’t changed what we buy much in the past three years; it’s therefore trivial to see that prices are much, much higher. What cost us $100 three years ago is now closer to $300. Hotel rooms that three years ago would’ve been $150 are now $260. Etc.
Inflation numbers have always been dubious but now they are purely fictional.
The biggest mistake moderate Democrats are making is that they are governing to preserve institutional credibility while hoping that Trumpism will blow over, rather than preparing with grim fortitude for a society-wide confrontation with a fascist movement playing for keeps. /1
— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) May 12, 2023
This is exactly right. The fascists and reactionary “conservatives” are very diligently preparing for the next coup. Meanwhile, the Democrats play games.
The next coup will likely be successful. I give it an 80% chance. It’ll either be in 2024 or, more likely, 2028.
In thinking about the impact of LLMs on creative fields, one needs to appreciate how tolerance for mediocrity will help to drive adoption: LLMs are great at producing B+ stuff — and the (sad?) truth is that, for many purposes, you just don't need A+ stuff. https://t.co/VBgNHeQ76Q
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) May 12, 2023
Agreed. I’m a much better writer than any version of ChatGPT will ever be — but it doesn’t matter. Only other good writers can tell the difference. The average person has not the first clue.
To back that up, I see ChatGPT stuff all the time where someone asks it to “write like Steinbeck” or “write like Hemingway.” To me, the results never sound very Steinbeckian nor Heminway-esque. The fact, though, that it amazes others means that for them ChatGPT very much does get close enough. I can tell it’s not really Steinbeck or Hemingway in just a few words, though. It always sounds like a drunk sophomore in college trying to come up with a Steinbeck para on the fly, or if Hemingway had hired an inferior ghost writer while on yet another bender.
So, indeed, B+ stuff is good enough for most people. It fools them or pleases them and if getting fooled and/or pleased is the goal, that’s all that matters.