Ben Kushigian

Have a great day friend!

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You explicitly argued against nuance...saying nothing at all would be an even lower character count ;)

Disagree. You can do this, but if you think that the candidate that is aligned with your views will perform significantly worse in the general, then you might not vote for them.

You're oversimplifying a complex issue and being sassy to folks who disagree with your lossy heuristic.

Maybe it's just the character limit or something, sorry if you weren't trying to argue, it just came off as the standard sort of non sequitur argument that I see on here constantly.

You asked about a completely different scenario like it had anything to do with what OP posted. Maybe your point didn't come across, but for the life of me I can't read what you wrote in any way other than pushback on OP.

Huh? The defining characteristic here was a desire to learn.

Your argument is akin to someone saying "you can take a bus to Denver" and responding "what if I buy a ticket to Boston? Will I still end up in Denver?"

This is absolutely insane lol you basically said there are pros and cons and this person snaps.

Normally I'd write it off as a crazy person but their crazy seems to be resonating. Classic bsky moment I guess

Why is accurate health data their business? Are we now gate keeping science?

"I bet you that it's spelled 'bored'"

- Norm MacDonald

I guess my question: are you arguing this to be pedantic (which I totally get, I'm a pedant), or do you actually doubt the adverse health outcomes of being obese? Do you think losing excess body weight will not be associated with better health outcomes?

Association Between Obesity and Cardiovascular Outcomes This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates evidence from mendelian randomization studies to provide a less biased estimate of any association between obesity and cardiometabolic outcomes, spec...

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The present meta-analysis suggests that obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. Although this analysis of mendelian randomization studies does not prove causality, it is supportive of a causal association.

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association - PubMed The global obesity epidemic is well established, with increases in obesity prevalence for most countries since the 1980s. Obesity contributes directly to incident cardiovascular risk factors, including dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep disorders. Obesity also leads to the develo …

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"Obesity also leads to the development of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease mortality independently of other cardiovascular risk factors."

There is a lot of evidence of a direct link (which is distinct from causality). We cannot run RCTs to establish causality because that would be unethical (e.g., we still haven't "proved" smoking causes lung cancer). However, there are plenty of studies suggesting causal links.

I see heart disease and cancer

Depending on the argument you want to make, I don't think cigarettes are a good comparison.

Also, I agree that there will be long term effects, many of which are documented. But arguing that there is risk without acknowledging the reward is just beating up scarecrows.

It would be more accurate to call it a symptom. For the first time in my life I don't think about food 24/7. When I'm full, I stop eating. I don't have to have a daily battle of wills to eat healthy amounts.

Obesity is the second cause of death in the US, and I wouldn't call living vanity

Vaccines? We have reached the point where people have to make up bad stuff about them.

Also even if there are long term effects, it would be hard to outweigh the long term effects of obesity.

The "legalize marijuana" movement definitely had shades of that

It always sounded like a threat to me

And this is why I stopped using Amazon

"By definition of being America Trump is not a fascist"...what an absolutely batshit argument

Overwater bucket waving

Depends on the gambling. Negative expectation gambling, sure, but there is skilled/profitable gambling like poker or trading

I hope so. But they don't need to actually stop the election. They can beat up voters under some pretense, spark a backlash "insurrection" of folks standing up to ICE, and declare a national emergency because "terrorists" or something.

Clearly BS, but our institutions are useless. Who stops him?

True, but there are other avenues: (1) ICE disrupts election polls (2) citizens push back (3) ICE way over-reacts to "domestic terrorists disrupting elections" (4) Trump declares national emergency due to radical leftist extremists disrupting the election process.

Zero _legal_ control.

He can still send in ice to "stop voter fraud by illegal aliens".

There is a monotonicity property we want to hold: a hand cannot be weaker than a hand it contains. If my hand is AT on AJ9 and the turn is a T, my absolute hand strength should not decrease.

This means swapping 1pair and 2pair hand strength is bad. Swapping flushes and full houses is fine.

No need to apologize! I am very interested in understanding what is making this moment tick, and that all comes down to context.

And I've listened to both throughline and code switch! Though honestly, I'm ADD and I usually space during podcasts.

Absolutely, yeah this is actually a thing I need to learn more about. I know the rough shape of NAFTA and how that absolutely decimated a huge sector of the American economy. I roughly understand some of the major echos of that in today's MAGA movement. Some day I'll do a deep dive on this.

Race is of course always a part of it. If Good had been an undocumented migrant, some folks would not be able to empathize as well. But I think we still see robust protests and robust pushback against ICE as a result.