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9d ago
Archive Link: https://archive.is/EVkGv
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11d ago
Who are these 100% blank slatist CICO advocates? Especially around here in the land of "IQ is real and probably has a large genetic component."
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11d ago
In the United States, in the sense that it's relatively simple not to be poor? Yes. No, in that having lowing intelligence, high time preference, low conscientiousness makes it very hard to do the simple things.
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11d ago
It's pretty much what I do as well. Also anticipating excess calories, "Gonna get drinks and have a big dinner so going light on lunch.". Bonus, less booze to get tipsy.
Also knowing your indulgences and where calories sneak in. For most I think that's liquids and snacking. I have a huge sweet tooth. I keep snacking to a minimum and cut out sugary drinks over 20 years ago so I can have an extra slice of cake every now and then. Over the last 5 years I've started "light" intermittent fasting so it's even easier to keep tabs on things. Also I think being comfortable with the feeling of being hungery is a good thing.
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11d ago
No, you're poor because you don't do relatively simple things. And yes, hopefully GLP-1s help a ton.
I know it wouldn't be The Motte if it wasn't 10,000 words of caveats. Yes, these are exceptions that apply to a minuscule number of people, yet a bunch of people use them to make excuses for why they're fat.
It would not surprise me one bit that certain drugs and conditions reduce self-control and other's increase it. Some things make desired outcomes easier and some things make them harder. If you've got lots of self-control and you get some condition or start some drugs that make it harder to keep weight off, reduce CI until you stop gaining weight.
I would bet you think I have some normie conception of self-control: "self-control is easy! Just don't eat." Nope, self-control is really hard, and you're probably mostly born with it, like IQ. Can a midwit get a PhD in math from Harvard...? Well, are they black? No? Very unlikely.
You don't need official diets for CICO it's self evident. Reduce food consumption and/or increase activity until you lose weight. Still haven't lost weight? Decrease/increase.
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People tend to lack self control. If you had self control you wouldn't be fat.
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People tend to over-weight the activity part. So really just forget about CO and reduce CI until you start to lose weight. See problem one.
Expand to why you're poor and struggle with addiction.
I never understood this take that evolution is the demarcation of a good education. It was amusing back in the 2000 when dunking on creationists was cool but I would assert it was much more to do with signaling then general intelligence.
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General scientific literacy is awful among the general population.
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Even among those with scientific literacy "Macro" Evolution has to rank very low on the usefulness scale.
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Evolution at the high school level takes a few hours for a smart kid to wrap their head around.
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1mo ago
n=1 Within the last 5 years my wife walked into a firm that she thought looked interesting, no "We're hiring" sign, zero experience in the industry, just with a portfolio showing she was artistic, and got a job.
I think he partakes in engagement farming. I would point to the Sexy women stuff as strong evidence which leads me to highly suspect some of his takes are trolling for engagement.
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2mo ago
I have a under 2, and haven't had to fight any medical staff on vaccines. I don't remember our exact schedule but we spaced things out a lot more, and have skipped pretty much everything we didn't get as children. As you noted many seem to be geared towards degenerate parents. I got a vibe that there are several issues around babies that I highly suspect are from degenerate parents like co-sleeping and SIDS are likely because of parents killing their kid, drugs, or obesity.
I will point out that Scott has given literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money to charity, so whatever else you want to say about the guy, it strikes me as very unfair to accuse him of only giving away other people’s money.
I will consider this if he working as hard as he can, living an ascetic life, giving it all away. One gets zero moral points taking the fruits of another person's labor.
I’ve obviously had to jettison some of the foundational tenets of Judeo-Christian morality.
Where did Jesus say one should advocate Caesar take money from others and redistribute it according to one's will?
From /r/fednews: "Supervisor told us to stop posting on Reddit: We just had a meeting about employees posting memos and meeting topics on Reddit and were told to stop “leaking” information. DONT STOP, the people deserve to know the information." With 69k net upvotes.
It's an incredible bubble that federal employees live in. A big hurdle for the right is that there was plausible deniability, and the Deep State was considered a conspiracy theory. /r/fednews is directly showing that it's worse than even the conspiracy. "Yes, the Deep State is real, and it's a bunch of anti-American commies undermining everything." Keep resisting kids!
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3mo ago
Because of a history of right wing direct action groups being chock full of feds. The more kinetic the higher percentage. Two recent one's Malheur Occupation and the plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer were approaching 50% fed. Probably goes back even farther but Randy Weaver was set up by feds. For decades it has pretty much been assumed any organized far right organization is going to be infiltrated.
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3mo ago
Damn, how can I beat lefties over the head that Institutional racism is directed at whites when Trump's ending one of the largest areas of institutional racism! It's been a good 36 hours. Some of the EO's are kind of silly, but a few of them could be the biggest political turns of my life.
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3mo ago
Much smaller level but the clutching of pearls over the Flag Code when Red States moved the flag to full staff was something. /r/poltiics The fuck have you ever showed a iota of care about the Flag Code?
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3mo ago
I had no idea that this was the largest investigation in Department of Justice history.
NYT: Trump Crushes Justice Department’s Biggest Investigation In an Instant [Archive]
President Trump’s pardons in the Jan. 6 case abruptly ended the most complex investigation in U.S. history. It also raised questions about what he will do next against a department he has said is full of his enemies.
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3mo ago
Same reason "Defund the police" crowd becomes all for throwing the book at Jan. 6 "insurrectionists", or locking people up for "hate speech", or guns, or whatever.
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3mo ago
Is it organic or are they messing with the algorithm. Almost every post on the front of /r/all is about this: https://archive.is/HKkuk
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3mo ago
I've spent the past two years holding regular social gatherings at my house, which is cheap, low-pressure, and I can control the environment to 'guarantee' a pleasant experience.
For about four years now, my thing has been trivia night. It helps that I enjoy it, so I’m almost always there. It’s super low-pressure, and I don’t have to overthink it. Meet a couple at a coffee shop who seem cool? No need to try setting something up, “I’m at the same place the same time every week. If you want to hang out, that’s where I’ll be.” You work through the chaff and start finding a core group of consistent people. Really this is what church was but that's just too much for most people to bite off.
Another key, though, is that if you want to develop a social circle, oneself has to show up when others put on events.
My guess is you and most other's here are high enough status that y'all tend not to associate with dumb/low conscientious/high time preference, fat people.
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