Pasha
Defend Kebab
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Why do you think it’s best to try different diets before medication? There can be important opportunity costs and health effects from spending a couple years longer than necessary with obesity. Diets like keto where one essentially eliminates certain basic nutrients might also have other negative health effects down the line especially if you stick with it for years.
Given that not a single diet system ever seemed to actually work for the general population before ozempic came along, I can’t help but to see this as a moral preference rather than a medical one. I agree there is a certain beauty to the idea of physical fitness coming from moral fitness but I don’t think that’s worth %60 obesity rates. We can surely find other things to he virtuous about
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Ottomans used eunuchs only to guard their harems. For administration eunuchs, you are thinking of China. Ottoman administrators were traditionally specially educated Balkan slaves or dynastic families.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
I have made the mistake of habitually mentioning the rape gangs to an average social media lib British woman and I think she would call the police on me if she could. The reaction was quite similar to if I tried to grope her on the spot, gross disbelief, anger and disgust. Unfortunately not in a position to ask further what was the exact source of her reaction since this led to hard social/internet blocks from her. But my point is, this is by no means an event one can talk openly in Anglo polite society.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
I have never been there but I always got the impression that the Chinese government doesn't really care that much what the relatively affluent and educated can access think or do, but cares greatly that it can control algorithmic feeds of the "masses". Is this accurate? It honestly sounds like a better and more acceptable solution to me as European/Anglo governments come nearer every day to the total VPN ban and ID verification model of the internet.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
Doing anything when you don't get paid for it and don't have any external push (i.e. grades and a degree) is always difficult. There has been subjects I wanted to self-study but kept putting out for years, and I could speed-run them in a week when the prospect of a relevant job interview appeared.
Are you really sure about that software development in crypto not transferring part? Convincing recruiters might take some "creativity" but imo often any type of software development skill translates quite easily to other types apart from the exceptionally high level jobs. I assume you are looking for some SAAS and not Jane Street. If you are getting filtered out by keyword checks and "3 years Django experience" nonsense, I recommend simply adding whatever is required to your CV, learning the basics with LLM assisted learning projects as you get interviews, and filling the blanks as you go. You just need to be smart enough to actually learn quickly for interviews and then later the job itself.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
1d ago
So what is your weight-loss solution without ozempic derivatives and do you have any examples where it succeeded at a reproducible scale?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
How confident are you that this work will actually stay so gratifying for the next x0 years of your life? What if the industry gets automated/offshored? Company goes bankrupt or does layoffs? You get a crappy manager? Develop physical or mental health problems? Or everything else goes fine but you simply don't like it so much anymore at some point?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6d ago
I might need to sit out a garden leave period soon in between jobs, so I have actually been thinking about this. Current favorites is bike delivery for the "get very fit and just listen to audiobooks all day long" aspect, or bartending for the social aspects since I am really tired of the extreme tech autism work environments.
Fix what? Actually knowing what to fix is typically 95% of any solution. We aren't fixing "that" because we don't really know what "that" is other than some vague understanding that food being very cheap and widely available to everyone and heavy physical labour all but disappearing is a toxic combination. I would be interested in hearing your solution to fix food abundance and security. Since you won't fix the "culture" (Scott had a good article for this right?), fixing the human body to crave the right type of food at right amounts is your next best solution. And that is exactly what the ozempic derivatives really seem to be achieving.
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