dude i think the shackles might be having to work to not die

the problem with that is having to turn off your brain, which most of us can’t do

I just wish people could take one single step back from actively scamming others, if they just cared a little bit they could at least stop actively harming people, and maybe outright help them deal with emotional anguish if nothing else.

Like come on, do they have to promise to cure cancer? How much money would they really lose on simply promising to stop it from getting worse?

the one thing i’ll say about this is that the medical field needs to get better at PR, because that’s what’s holding “alternative medicine” believers back from it. We need to iron out the culture of doctors dismissing people’s experiences and making terrible diagnoses, and make it all feel less clinical.

Grab the counterculture by the balls and legitimize it, put the scam artists out of business by classing things like massage/cupping/acupuncture as a serious therapy you can get as a first stage of treatment, where the (licensed) practitioners are actually educated in medicine and (importantly) psychology.

Because these things aren’t inherently useless, they’re rituals and ways for people to feel like they’re being cared for on a more personal level. It’s not gonna magically cure cancer, but there’s a lot of stuff it could genuinely help treat and absolute worst case it’s something that helps patients feel better and can be a foothold into getting them more serious medical treatment.

We could just add a new base layer to the ladder of medical workers: People whose job is simply to get to know people and help them do things like schedule appointments, understand what the doctors are telling them, and remember to take medicine and such.
I think there’s potential for a huge amount of benefit here, to everyone really. It’d be a new kind of job that would suit many people, it would help those who find medical stuff intimidating, and could ease the workload of higher-educated medical workers.

yeah i feel like we need to pass legislation against keeping wombs alive just because, it’s perfectly fine if it’s for a limited time while waiting to be transplanted, but there’s very obvious horrifying things that can be done without legislation…

the luddites were reasonably cautious, because the looms were literally driving them out of work with no recompense purely to profit the owners.

literally just skipping beef is a great improvement to your diet and the environment, and isn’t difficult to do

I’ve gone to just chicken at this point, which is by far the healthiest “standard” and cheap meat, and i don’t really feel like i miss out on much. Chicken works just fine for most dishes, you just have to be a little bit smart about how exactly you cook it to get the texture you want.

i mean, yeah. It’s a diet that doesn’t involve fast food, and does involve a lot of vegetables.
Good to have the study, but this isn’t really that interesting.

yeah i was fully expecting to have to comment something like “lmao what the fuck are they on about, how would you fake that video? the cow is very very obviously using a tool, come on”

thing is, if you call that tool usage then it’s also tool usage to… do most things, really. Is it tool usage when chinchillas take dust baths to clean themselves?

i’m not aware of there actually being any evidence for us being the cause of other humans going extinct, could you cite a source for that?
To my knowledge we don’t really have a clue what killed them, and the best bet would just be “skill issue” basically. The world changed, they didn’t manage to survive the changes, we did.

i mean yeah, different scientists, significantly later

or what, do you have to agree with everyone that came before you because you’re a human and they were also humans??

why would you ever eat 2000 calories in one go? Even if you’re an extreme athlete that seems excessive.

i think the problem isn’t the definition, it’s the name. I’d prefer focusing on the convenience of the food, rather than the processing, as that’s one of the major defining features and what makes it bad.
Call it Ultra-convenient food.

how exactly did you struggle with getting calories from vegetables? did you literally just eat lettuce?
Even just carrots have a perfectly reasonable amount of calories, and vegetables are notoriously easy to digest, so the idea of not being able to physically fit more seems wholly made up.

can we please stop acting as if pizza is some horror food? yeah maybe pizza hut is closer to savoury cake, but most pizzas are perfectly fine, and the stereotypical italian pizza is outright healthy.

Of all the things you can eat, pizza is far from the worst, because it’s not absolutely filled with sugar.

no (appreciable amount of) fibre i’ll give you, but there’s absolutely nutrients in mcdonalds lol

let’s not make shit up to hate on fast food, we don’t need to.

then why are you continuing to interact with humans?

god you’re so edgy and profound

fucking ancient egyptians using AI