Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 weeks ago:
Correct. I didn’t reply to the binary search post.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s very different.
When you have multiple allergies/intolerances, starting at zero and then adding one thing at a time is a lot more efficient than removing one thing at a time.
Removing one thing at a time will create many false negatives, where you remove a hit but don’t notice because you left another hit behind.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 2 weeks ago:
I know a few dozen boomers who have told me: “just because you’ve slept with or had a few relationships with women doesn’t make you bi. You married a man, so obviously you’re straight”.
Yeah… That’s not what those words mean.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 weeks ago:
In fact, they could be allergic to some or all of the ingredients eliminated. Or to the delivery driver’s personal hygiene.
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 weeks ago:
Was cannabis ever a serious contender for these issues?
Honestly, that doesn’t really matter. You can test unlikely contenders too, especially in a desk study that doesn’t have any ethics problems.
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 weeks ago:
It’s a poor analogy. Using crutches on their own will hugely benefit some fraction of broken legs, compared to no treatment. Not as much as a cast, but it will show results.
That doesn’t really work for medication. Painkillers and anti-nausea medication are poor treatments for almost any problem, but they contribute to the treatment of thousands of conditions.
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 weeks ago:
You could read the paper
- Comment on Morgenthau was right 3 weeks ago:
Now why would a hexbear user make an alt in Blahaj…
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 3 weeks ago:
Private YHΩ Ar.U looks pretty cute though.
- Comment on YSK What are you eating 3 weeks ago:
It absolutely does, just to a somewhat lesser degree.
- Comment on YSK What are you eating 3 weeks ago:
Unfluoridated toothpaste is a very good idea if you live somewhere with water fluoridation, or naturally high fluoride levels.
- Comment on YSK What are you eating 3 weeks ago:
“preservatives” are not inherently unhealthy. But some specific ones are, depending on dose, quite bad for you.
Salt is a pretty preservative, as is sugar, citric acid, vinegar, etc. You can eat those in pretty huge (for additives) quantities before you notice anything.
Other stuff, like BHA/E-320 is banned from EU babyfood becuase it’s very low dayly limit (.5mg/kg) is a risk for babies. If you’re the kind of person who snacks on cereal all day, you’re absolutely in the risk group for it. Sodium Nitrate/Nitrite is not dangerous most of the time, but if you’re eating lots of beef jerky, that can absolutely form a cancer risk increase (It’s in IARC group 2A)
Of course, you can construct argument like this for pretty much every substance in food. The main difference is that some are entirely avoidable.
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 3 weeks ago:
How dare this mindless automaton behave like a real person!
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 3 weeks ago:
Always worth remembering that the OG Incel was a woman blogging about how desperate she was to lose her virginity.
That’s very unfair. She set up a forum, and by all accounts it was pretty decent. Mostly just people helping each other out, men and women.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 3 weeks ago:
Please God, I just ask that reviewer number 2 comes to their fucking senses for 17 minutes to approve my paper.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
I studied chemistry, to as far as I know entropy is measured in Joules per Kelvin… What is 80b entropy?
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 3 weeks ago:
The word “alphanumeric” isn’t in the post… That must be a very serious reaction
- Comment on Haha yes society is great 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but like… Then I would have kids, and even apart from the whole “giving birth” thing, or how expensive they are, having kids sounds absolutely awful.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thanks ChatGPT
- Comment on An uplifting message for you. 4 weeks ago:
Well, since this is a russian soldier, their life getting worse is a good thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
it is a psychoactive stimulant on par with coke
That’s… only true in the most pedantic of ways. The same kind of comparison would say that a supersonic fighterjet is on par with my inline skates, because both are modes of transport
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Fresh beans make SO much of a difference. It doesn’t even matter much how it’s made, slow drip, french press, who cares.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 4 weeks ago:
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth.
- Comment on Dear Faith X 5 weeks ago:
It’s a creative writing exercise someone is posting to Lemmy.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
Running sucks, doing a sport you don’t like is impossible to maintain. Thankfully there are a LOT of fun things out there.
I used to hate “every sport”, but after losing weight I took up bodybuilding/weightlifting, and HEMA for years (can’t recommend sports that cause brain damage though, regardless of fun)
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
The magic number for me was “calories per kilo”. I made a list (I’m sure you could just Google it now) of foods graded by calories per kilo, and just ate the lowest ones.
And presto: suddenly you’re full much faster, longer and you’re losing weight.
Then it was a matter of not snacking out of habit, which is MUCH harder. Of course, you can’t eat food you didn’t buy, so i really only diet at the supermarket.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
A healthy body evacuate from the other end of the system most the excess calories taked in.
It really doesn’t. Your body is amazingly efficient, and it really only stops absorbing nutrients if you’re very sick, or doing something moronic like drinking a few glasses of oil a day.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
Cucumber, tomatoes, celery. And if you’re willing to prepare something, basically every vegetable qualifies.
Nobody has ever gotten fat off of spinach or mushrooms.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
The vast majority of obese people are not willing to admit they caused their obesity, because it’s a human trait not to admit your faults.
Humans would much rather paint themselves as the victim because that’s mentally much easier. “I’m obese because of PCOS/thyroid/magic/metabolism” or “obesity isn’t unhealthy, everyone should be like me”. The alternative is “I caused this, I’m maintaining this, and thus I can stop maintaining this”.
Once I made the realisation that I was working hard to be obese every day, it was super fucking easy to lose weight. But to find the solution, you need to identify the problem first, and if that problem is you, it’s going to be an uncomfortable problem.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
Not the same person, but I’ll add my 2 cents.
Eating less of what you always eat is HARD, because you eat that much to stay full. Feeling hungry 24/7 is super fucking hard, and I don’t think anyone can maintain that for long.
But it’s amazing how not-filling most processed foods are. Swapping out high-calorie, unfilling food for low-calorie filling foods made it pretty much effortless.
I didn’t feel hungry, I didn’t need to eat that much. But dieting is still hard, because I also ate out of habit. A bag of snacks in front of the tv, a snack with a drink after lunch, etc etc. Not because I was hungry just because it’s tasty.
Breaking that habit was also pretty easy. See, you don’t need to diet 24/7. I only need to focus on dieting half an hour every other day, when I’m buying food at the supermarket. If I don’t buy snacks, I can’t eat snacks, it’s really simple. Anyone can be strong for 30 minutes every other day, that’s easy.
So yeah, dieting is done first your head, and then in the supermarket!
Step 1: admit your obesity is your own fault, and thus within your control Step 2: buy better food, buy less crap. Step 3: keep doing step 2 forever.