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Taxing almost all sugary drinks including artificial sweetners but not 100% juice is not “missing the goal entirely”. That’s still hitting the unhealthiest and most marketed beverages.

Loud talking during performances. When — and why — did we start acting like undersocialized animals

Loud talking?? At a concert?! Animals! 🙄

I’m not surprised that with absurd monopoly-driven ticket prices, some people will decide that an hour long bathroom wait is not what they paid for.

We don’t need to be pearl clutching about pandemic related difficulties with socialisation to explain what’s going on at concerts. Firstly, the windows for learning soft skills are in childhood and the pandemic was only 5 years ago. The affected cohort would be like 9-13ish.

So if the concert-pooping is all those 10y/o kids at coachella, maybe that’s the cause. But otherwise i think we can all safely ignore what an “ettiquette expert” has to say.

Start offering them US health insurance?

Yeah this whole thing is missing some crucial information.

The paragraph quoted in the post makes it sound like they are near $1b in revenue but i think they’re just speaking rhetorically, “you want 100? You can’t even get 1!”

In 2026, Emarketer projects that the combination of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will bring in under $1 billion in ad revenue. For context, OpenAI had projected that its AI ad revenue alone would hit $2.5 billion by the end of this year.

This makes it sound like openai is projected to make $250m this year, if they’re 90% short of revenue projections for this year. That’s a full 25% of the $1b total ad revenue that OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon make combined. Which is reasonable, but it does make their projections seem absolutely farcical. At least to me, but i don’t know finances.

It would be good to check rhe original analysis the article cites but it’s paywalled and begins with the same misleading comparison of 2030 to now.

My favourite light bulb joke is:

How many Morriseys does it take to change a light bulb? None, because there is a light and it never goes out.

Every other light bulb joke i hear, the number is arbitrary - it could be 10/100/1000 with no loss to the joke. But “none” and for that reason is the only possible correct answer to that joke.

I would guess that B is the “correct” answer because it shows you’re old enough to know a sex joke when you read one.

When i worked at the mall we didn’t have staff bathrooms so we’d often have to listen to someone in a nearby stall ringing the taco bells.

Nice! I’m constantly ranting to anyone who will listen about how valuable the sling was as a weapon. Nevet actually tried one though.

Have you seen those balearic staff slings?

Tally systems and icons. It’s from these icons that writing emerges.

China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.

Pity, not sympathy. They still got grifted and will be laughed anywhere they go. I pity them that.

On one level i do have pity for anyone who got grifted by a nazi and wasted a bunch of money only to commit themselves to an endless stream of repairs and recalls while getting laughed at everywhere they go, all for a shit car with no resale value.

So unauthorized transport of iranian oil? Either the ship was sanctioned by the US in error or a ship that was shady enough to do sanctions-busting for Iran is also shady enough to double cross iran, work for another paymaster, or some such?

part of Iran’s shadow fleet, the network used to move crude outside official channels.

Iran’s explanation didn’t add much clarity. Officials said the tanker was carrying Iranian oil but had tried to exploit regional conditions. No details on what that actually means.

Pretty shady looking site. If this can be believed, it seems like story is that some kind of deniable sub-contractor in the wider shadow fleet network was doing something that caused it to be flagged as suspicious and seized by iranian officials.

GPL1 is not the only way to get there

Except that for the overwhelming majority, functionally everyone, they are.

I’m not a propent of the drug. I’m slightly wary, I don’t want it and i don’t bring it up to others. But I don’t judge people who do.

It sounds like you’re part of the incredibly small minority who have been able to lose weight. Congratulations! It sounds like you worked long and hard to find a regimen that works for you.

Literally 99% of obese people will never find what you found. For them, these drugs are the ONLY realistic option to perminantly lose weight. Nothing else has been shown to work in more than 1% of cases.

😊 Right? It really stuck with me. One of those articles that ties together so many obvious and not so obvious pieces into a really clear picture. And in HuffPo no less!

Yep!

The altered hormone balance is what allows weight loss and if that reverts than so does weight loss.

I know this “you have to keep taking them” argument is big in anti-glp1 circles, but I don’t think it’s very good - the same is true of vitamin supplements. You have to keep taking them or the deficiency comes back. They still help.

I don’t care for glp1s myself but i’ve heard how happy they make some, so i don’t judge others’ choices.

If you know several people who met the medical definition of obese and have perminantly left that category then you know several outliers, which is entirely possible.

But that is just not representative. Over 99% of obese people do not lose weight. Those few outliers are heavily visible and celebrated so it feels like there must be more.

No this predates glp1s, the article i linked is from 2018.

No, social factors like the price of processed vs healthy food, the amount of sugar and salt companies are allowed put in food specifically to addict consumers, the food our culture uses to celebrate, the stressors and social pressures that we know drive people towards dopamine sources like high caloric foods, cities designed to discourage walking, etc.

Edit: no one’s claiming what you’re saying. Individual behaviour is a factor in most disease. Focusing on the individual behaviour piece has proved to be completely ineffective at producing weightloss. That’s just a fact. And yet we keep doing it like it’s suddenly going to work. It won’t. You could tell people not to go to work in winter so they don’t catch a cold, but they won’t do that.

This attitude is the problem, yep.

There’s no other medical condition which only 0.8% of people ever recover from where we tell people to just keep trying treatments that we know don’t work.

An individual’s behaviour is a contributing factor in most diseases. But the hormones, social factors, etc. which determine that behaviour are beyond the control of willpower. GLP1s work because they treat the hormonal imbalances which cause the behaviour that causes weight loss.

We don’t tell people they’re pathetic for catching a cold, though our social organization put them in a place where their biological weakness to that disease was triggered.