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  • Yeah I do agree with this concern. That’s why I added the addendum at the bottom of my comment, though I might have been adding it at the same time you were typing your reply.

    Just starving yourself is not a good strategy for health or weight loss. You won’t maintain a starvation diet forever and when you stop you’ll go right back to your old habits and weight. A caloric weight loss plan should absolutely assume that workouts will be the primary driver of the calorie deficit (And it’s actually not hard, even for someone of weak will like me, to do that: One workout = One free meal!). That’s why the tool I linked needs to know your workout routine. In fact if I would change anything with that tool I would add the option to replace the workouts drop-down with a custom workout deficit amount because “1-3 workouts / week” is too vague, everyone’s workouts are different.


  • Nah, they’re correct. Calories are the determining factor for controlling weight. But intake aren’t the only numbers on a calorie balance sheet, workouts go on there too as subtractions. If you want to lose weight you make sure that your daily total leaves you at a deficit (Negative number). Athletes are usually already at their target weight and so they just make sure their daily numbers work out to somewhere around zero total.

    http://justcico.com/

    I would feel negligent if I didn’t also mention to other readers: This is just for weight. If you want to be healthy, it’s important to also get proper vitamin, mineral, and protein intake daily regardless of caloric in/out.







  • No, the US really does spend this much per person on average. Expenses intended for medicine that end up in finance pockets count. You don’t get a handicap in this game merely because your system is corrupt. There is already plenty that isn’t being counted here, like how the costs of poor health externalize onto and make more expensive everything else in our society. If anything, the dot for the US in this chart isn’t far afield enough.

    By the way, this is also how the US spends more per person on education than any other country despite having some of the worst education outcomes. We just shovel money into tech and finance and get nothing back from it.


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    They’re anti-trafficking laws created with relatively good intent. Pretty much unanimously passed the house and senate and got signed into law with little debate. But one thing they do is require website operators to hyper-moderate interactions on any site with potential matchmaking services, to a degree that no matchmaking service could be profitable while doing so unless it operated in the style of a dumbed down swipe-left-or-right service like Tinder. Thus all dating services are now dumbed down apps that work just like Tinder, and open forums like Craiglist pages have disappeared.



  • A change made through court cases in the mid-century. Basically the result of a neoliberal ideological campaign that first normalized the feduciary duty concept in the business world before forcing it on board rooms through the justice system. Before that, boards of companies could make decisions on ethical grounds and not just fiscal grounds. Today, that precedent has transformed boardrooms into terrifying financial automatons.