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    7 months ago

    Gotta be Ozempic.

    Too many famous people who’ve been overweight for decades suddenly losing weight in the last couple of years.

    Nothing wrong with it though, hopefully it will start helping regular people lose weight as well.

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      Or he was eating to compensate his frustration to promote software for Windows and since they made Proton, he is happy again.

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        I 'm with you, truely.

        But what you’re describing is just how science works in a world where we’re trying to make discoveries quickly due to our lifespans only being around 75 years compared to the billions or millions or thousands of years for everything else existing.

        As long as we continue making discoveries along the way, this is progress. It sucks that we keep getting things partially wrong sometimes, like with asbestos, but we’ll eventually get it right as long as we keep following the process.

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          The examples given are not problems with science and time-scales. They are examples of the corrupting influence of money. Companies push their product as being fantastic, and deliberately cripple any science that would challenge their profits. Cigarettes are probably the most famous example of this.

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      He lives in NZ and therefore isn’t eating American poison that is sold as food

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      People like Gabe are exactly the type that semaglutides were made for. Good for him either way.

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    I assumed this was leftover April fool stuff. Does he really look that good all the sudden? I swear he was just photographed for another story within the last couple months that he looked the same in.

    Damn damn, good for him if real.

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    The actuators are quite surprising. They want to provide feedback to the brain, not just “listen” it’s waves, but “tell” it some too…

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      Musk claimed the same in the past but stopped when he found out people were affraid of that tech

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          Their brain interface will be mostly solidly designed with some rough edges, and 0.0003% of users will run into a bug that makes them constantly feel the vague smell of popcorn.

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        They’re working on providing sight with the implant and he says it’s working in monkeys so they’re clearly still working on sending info in

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    Also, scroll up to see Alan, the dude behind Valve’s Lighthouse tracking tech for VR. And now I just realised it’s >20 years since I first browsed his awesome hobby website Alan’s Lab.

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    You start getting healthier and losing weight just by eating real food instead of American poison, living in NZ or any other country that cares for its citizens will do that for you

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        It’s Lemmy. We’ve got to have at least one “America Bad” comment per thread, no matter how irrelevant.

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          The best is when the core of what they’re saying isn’t completely wrong but they take it absurdly far in a weird direction

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        The ease of access and availability of unprocessed foods, or food products without high amounts of corn syrup, sugars and other additives, is much higher in most of the world outside of the US. I can never stay in the US for more than a couple of weeks without gaining weight. Then again, it doesn’t help that US food is fantastically tasty, either ♥️

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            A lot of people in this thread acting like Gabes a regular old guy and not a literal billionaire.

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              Well it’s ML so they just default to “the only food in America is literal dog shit!”

              Like, America has food deserts, and has a lot of processed options that are bad for you. But for most, normal natural food is available. For the wealthy, premium food is never ever an issue

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        Fruits and vegetables sprayed and watered with preservatives and pesticides at every step of its cycle that end up in our bodies without much long term study before approving it.

        NZ has McDonald’s and other similar trash but like most nations other than the us some restrictions and requirements are in-place and enforced to prevent corporations poisoning us for slightly improved profits

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        There have been account after account of people leaving the States for one reason or another (Military relocation, job placement, etc), monitor their diet and actually find that while they are technically eating more, they are losing weight.

        America’s got problems.

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          Bullshit. The laws of thermodynamics will not be denied.

          Now, if you told me the American food industry was just lying about calorie content in the first place…

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            Probably more a case that people don’t look at calories and make the comparison based on volume eaten, feelings etc.