I’ve also heard the peptide hype. I’m curious, as an aging athletic person - but also I don’t want to roll the dice with cancer

Really, I think a far more charitable (and common) instance of this is an american, say, travelling to Ireland and noting that they actually have Irish heritage. And then some nice local appreciates their interest and they have something to talk about. American tourists these days don’t seem any more annoying or tone deaf than, say German, Israeli, or UK tourists. If you encounter a tourist off the beaten path, then they are almost always polite, curious, and a very nice person. And if you are hanging out where the big bus tourists congregate… well, what did you expect? They are dumbasses fishing for selfies - the lowest common denominator doesnt differentiate based on nationality.

I mean, the context I hear the advice in is “yeah, eat a healthy diet. Take a generic multivitamin if you want - you provably aren’t lacking anything, but it’ll make sure you aren’t.” For context, I hear this advice given to people who already care a lot about their diet for the sake of athletic performance.

Also, your link didn’t convince me of the above claim that you just piss out everything in a multivitamin. It didn’t mention that. It just said multivitamins don’t prevent heart attacks, which… I never thought they did.

I mean… I wouldn’t do this. But millions live on a similar diet every day (minus the multivitamin). Sugary cereal for breakfast with fruit flavored “juice”, a fried chicken sandwich for lunch (kudos for the chicken, but then its white bread, white flour, soybean oil, and flavored soybean oil) plus a soda, and finally, say, boxed mac and cheese for dinner with a canned margarita to take the edge off.

Day to day, you will adapt and how you feel on the diet will start to feel “normal”. But you will get fat, be at higher risk for any number of health issues in the long term, and will likely feel depressed. But relative to, like, starving to death, you’ll be pretty healthy.

Source on multivitamins being a scam? I’m aware that it is preferrable to get nutrients from whole foods - but also, my bias of “the human body isn’t dumb” says that if you are significantly deficient in iron, and take a multivitamin with iron, your body will try its best to absorb the iron and you’ll be better off than you would be otherwise. Plus, multivitamins are cheap, which is one of the main reasons I’ve heard people advocate for them - a days worth of multivitamin costs pennies, so why the hell not? It’s a good hedge.

Yeah, the problem with being anticonsumption is that you are basing your personality off of being opposed to something. And the only people who want to bond over being opposed to things are miserable people who like being miserable.

Anticonsumption? Great! But what are you going to do??? If you make your own things, then that’s what you do. If you barter or buy used, that’s something you do. If you do fun things that dont require material resources, then that’s something you do. But if what you “do” is sit at home and not consume things while complaining about other people consuming things on the internet, then you aren’t a noble crusader for the environment (or whatever) - you’re a hater.

Another vote for seeing a doctor

Electricity arcing over something flammable can also cause a fire that burns down your house and kills you.

It isn’t just your imagination. Houses burning down / exploding really is a rare occurance. This is not by accident. There are layers of dumbass-proofing in every part of the system, from the way wire and pipe are manufactured, to the availability of easy-to-use tools and materials that make doing the job the right way also the easy way, to detection systems like fire alarms, to building codes that set standards for how things should be constructed.

Yeah, honestly OP asking “is this ablist” is a bit of a red flag given the picture they have painted. If they were an otherwise “nice” person using ablist language, then this language and possible categorization might be a clue to tell us more about who they really are. But if we already know they are a piece of shit… it doesn’t really matter what flavor of -ist they are. Just don’t interact with them. Don’t think about them. Problem solved. More labelling isn’t needed.

why… why does everything need to look the same, sell the same junk.

Because it is cheap. Build a warehouse, fill it with cheap shelves full of mass produced products. Costs come down due to economies of scale. It’s cheaper to make a kid’s toy if they are all made of plastic from the same mold, and it is cheaper to make buildings if they are all built from the same engineering documents. Stamp your logo on the building so that people know what quality of goods to expect at your store. You can now undercut local stores with lower costs. People shop there because they want to save a couple bucks.

Walmart hasn’t had their greeters actually greet anyone in 20 years. They just stand there. Sometimes they ask to check your reciept when you leave, but you are free to ignore them and keep walking.

okay so shut down AI datacenters (reduce demand)

Lots of people think that these datacenters are doing important things - and some of them might actually be right! So this isn’t going to happen. What could happen is simply instituting a tiered pricing system for electricity, where the more electicity you use, the higher the price you pay per kwh. Most places already have such a system in place for water usage. Then (ideally) we’d reinvest the profits into something like additional renewable capacity.

and smuggle in the cheap chinese solar panels just sitting in storage (increase supply)

I mean… I have to wonder why these are sitting in storage. And the answer is probably that they are defective or underperforming or are known to cause cancer in the state of California. The company that made them presumably wants to sell them, and there is certainly no shortage of people around the world who would like to buy them if the price was right. People don’t just hoard warehouses full of solar panels for no reason.

I wouldn’t attach myself to any particular battery tech - the field is innovating too rapidly.

Solar and nuclear can go hand in hand. Solar is great because the amout of potential harvestable power is massive - the trick is producing panels, connecting them to the grid, transmission, load balancing, and storage.

Wind is nice right now, as it is a relatively untapped resource. But we’ll run out of windy places far faster than sunny places.

Hydro is ecologically destructive, but has an even bigger problem, which is that we have already picked a lot of the low hanging fruit. Good locations for dams are difficult to find, and we’ve already found most of them and dammed many of them. We would rapidly face diminishing returns. Plus, silt is always a looming problem.

Though, the real solution is to simply tax carbon.

Also you might need to be a fish

Colorado. Except it isn’t a rectangle, but follows the Colorado river watershed from headwaters to the ocean.

As others have mentioned, dense carbohydrates and sugar are also attractive for the same reason.

Even more attractive is a combination of carbs and fat in the same food - which almost never occurs in nature.

You’re going to run into an issue of two low probability events overlapping. You are on lemmy, so you likely have an outsized notion of how common/public these instances with ICE are, and of how common left-leaning gun owners are.

The vast majority of ICE arrests will happen in isolated locations, like someone’s home or place of work. So already, there are few people around. Of those who are around, most will not be gun owners, will not be carrying a gun, will not see ICE’s actions as tyrannical, or will have overestimated their confidence in whipping out their glock to defend liberty.

People want to be on social media where other people are. Lemmy isn’t popular because lemmy isn’t popular

People are enslaved through debt or sword. Money is tokenized slavery tokens.

This is… fucking stupid. The entire modern world is able to function without a central planner because money allows people to buy the things they want and need via markets. There are all sorts of arguments to make about how fair markets are, how they can be reformed, how various incentives or government programs can be implemented to combat poverty, etc. But large scale, non-monetary economies are few and far between, and there is little evidence that they provide better living conditions for their residents than monetary economies, nor that their systems are replicable in other locations and cultures.

Wealth inequality, I think most people here would agree, is a bad thing. But money is a tool, and is a good - or at worst, neutral - thing. You may as well argue that shovels are evil because sometimes innocent people get bashed over the head with them.

I’d recommend researching quality of life metrics and cross referencing with nations’ gini coefficients.