Why do we need to try anything? This comes down to individualism versus collectivism.
Besides, the logical consequence of the portion of my comment you highlighted is that the majority of GLP-1 patients will need to be on these drugs forever to maintain these benefits long-term. We have precisely one trial of 5+ years of patients taking liraglutide, and ~2 years for semaglutide. Some side effects and long-term consequences could be entirely unknown.
>It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed,
And as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, needs to be taken forever as the vast majority of patients regain most or all of the weight they lose after taking GLP-1s.
>Why create a new account just to litigate how statistically relevant the grandparent comment's anecdote is?
Red herring. My account was not created today, I’ve participated in numerous other threads prior to this one, and it’s irrelevant to the content of my comment.
Which is no surprise to anybody with common sense, the data for discontinuing GLP-1s show exactly the intuitive outcome. Zero diet change, zero habit change for the vast majority of users. Weight loss is accomplished via biochemical tricks to eat less volume of calorie dense junk food, rather than diet substitution. When the artificial appetite suppression ends, volume of the same food increases again leading to weight yo-yo. Plus why start to exercise when you’ve got a magic weight loss drug?
Don’t get me wrong, there are some people using these drugs to get out of a pit of inertia with weight and sedentary lifestyles. But it’s small. GLP-1 drugs will have most users hooked for life because they don’t have the discipline and motivation to maintain the weight loss without it. Cha-Ching!
Tolerate what, stupid misleading advertising on frozen junk food? Normal people just don’t buy it.
>I also don't understand why everything, literally everything, is fried in oil.
Did you travel here and only go to fast food places or something?
>It's just such a reverse culture shock when you come back to the EU.
When I traveled to EU, I was surprised at the number of nasty people smoking cigarettes outside at cafes, walking down the street, everywhere. You’d sure think that a lot of younger people don’t care about their health in EU based on all the smoking.
>You have really great vegetables and fruits there because of having enough sun to grow them locally, yet it seems like nobody wants to eat them.
That’s a weird assumption because the produce section of my grocery store is pretty much the most crowded section.
The pre-chopped coleslaw mix is like 3 bucks for a huge bag. 1 pound of pre-sliced frozen peppers I think is $2. Some of it depends on where you’re shopping, I’m sure this stuff would be 50-100% more at Whole Foods the next town over.
Yeah the complaints are fair. I stick to RPi OS for maximum compatibility. People have been crying for a Google Drive client for Linux for over a decade, but still have to set it up in rclone.
I build out my server in Docker and I’ve been surprised that every image I’ve ever wanted to download has an ARM image.
Maybe because I don’t do SWE for my job, but I have fun writing docker-compose files, troubleshooting them, and adding containers to my server. Then I understand how/why stuff works if it breaks, why would I want to hand that over to an AI?
Waiting for the follow-on article “Claude Code reformatted my NAS and I lost my entire media collection.”
My work WiFi blocked traffic to port 51820, the default WireGuard port. I was wondering why my VPN started failing to handshake one day. I changed my ports to 51821 that night and back in business. I checked our technology policy and there’s no “thou shalt not use a VPN” clause so no clue why someone one day decided to drop WireGuard traffic on the network.
You still didn’t explain what this has to do with “ICE bounty hunters”, how this is used to specifically identify illegal immigrants, or why I should even care that illegal immigrants who broke the law by virtue of their presence here are being deported.
What’s your assertion, that the government is using images of people in public or various stores to target anybody black, brown, or other non-white humans?
The man pictured stopped by ICE in the article is black. Are you claiming that facial recognition is being collected on all 50 million black American citizens and used to target people? How would this work differently than stopping random non-white people in the street and asking for legal status (I’m not claiming this doesn’t happen, I’m asking how it differs from your techno-fantasy scenario and why the resources would be investigated the way you claim it works).
Major world governments, via the arm of the tech corpos. The intent is to make the internet as an "anonymous community square" for discussion and free speech essentially worthless.
Another dishonest article using the generic "immigrant" to drum up false sympathy... anyone being targeted by facial recognition by definition has to be known to law enforcement already; these aren't legal citizens and they aren't illegal immigrants who work hard and keep their heads down.
Was glad to hear ICE in my area of Massachusetts the other week grabbed several sex pests (including ones convicted of crimes against minors in their home countries). At best, "criminal justice system refugees" is the most appropriate if the term "illegal immigrants" is passe. Or are they fleeing "gang violence" when the gang in question is their own government looking to inflict righteous justice upon them?