Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]

Cool how their metric for chatbot usage can mean literally anything, very helpful chart

It’s not that the initial owners are supposed to hold their coins because they’re honorable or anything like that, it’s that their accounts get restricted so they can’t sell usually for at least a year or two, which was what was supposed to happen with the hawk tuah coins too. These types of rug pulls are seen as scams because you secretly give away or sell coins pre-launch which does not have those restrictions while regular buyers are kept ignorant. It’s probably illegal, but because crypto is a scammers parardise it happens constantly.

Nah, it was definitely a rug pull. it didn’t just randomly tank, insiders got a bunch of tokens either cheap or for free then were allowed to immediately dump when normal people could start buying, it was obviously intended to make insiders tons of money.

I also don’t think crypto bros are the primary targets of celebrity and influencer crypto scams. Instead they’re banking on that person’s fanbase not knowing enough about crypto to see it’s a scam. What personal role hawk tuah girl played i have no clue, but she has at least some responsibility for promoting it and putting her name on it.

Even trying to see things from a lib perspective the data harvesting argument makes no sense to me. If you’re worried about your data ending up in the hands of someone who could use it against you, a social media app from a somewhat hostile foreign country is way safer than local social media that sells all it’s data to the state that actually has power over you.

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I agree that it’s useless, moralizing advice for people who struggle to lose weight. That doesn’t mean the theory itself is unsound, and for people who don’t have larger issues regarding their weight but want to regulate a little bit it’s basically the only thing they need to be aware of.

It’s not a falsehood. First of, one example wouldn’t disprove literal decades of research proving the contrary, but also this example isn’t incongruent with CICO at all. You can increase caloric consumption and lose weight if other factors causes your body to burn more calories.

When I say CICO is the only way to regulate body weight I don’t mean calorie tracking. Calorie tracking is absolutely not required, or arguably even helpful, for most people. But you have to do SOMETHING that either changes the amount of calories you consume or how much your body burns. If you don’t nothing changes.

It’s useful because for most of us it’s the only way we can realistically regulate our own body weight, which a lot of people want to do. For people who struggle to do that, as well as obviously for people who chose not to, I agree that it’s completely useless and somewhat insulting medical advice. But there’s no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The reason Ozempic is used for weight loss is because it slows down your digestion and reduces appetite and cravings. It literally just makes you eat less. How is that an argument against CICO?

Because humans haven’t been selectively bred for specific traits.

Because dog breeds are not comparable to genetic differences in humans. They’ve been actively bred for certain characteristics, going through a lot of generations extremely fast in controlled environments in a way that’s impossible in nature. All humans are essentially mongrels. The reason we don’t do racial classification of personality traits in humans isn’t just because it’s morally abhorrent, but also because it doesn’t work, while because of the selective breeding of dogs, there can be big differences in their behaviour due to their breed.

It’s also important that while a dog’s breed does have an influence on it’s behaviour, it’s not absolute, and you can’t actually predict a dog’s behaviour through its breed alone.

Zero respect for people who “sympathize” with Palestinians, but who instantly condemns fighting back against their occupation.

Are Palestinians meant to just sit there and die slowly while we feel sorry for them?