xhieron

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[–] xhieron 16 points 10 months ago

This is fantastic news, but they kind of buried the lede here:

A separate study looking at a new slimming jab has found that it could be much more effective than those already on the market. Retatrutide, a weekly injection, works by suppressing appetite and also by helping the body burn more fat, according to its phase 2 clinical trial.

The trial of 338 participants living with obesity showed that participants lost 24% of their body weight over a 48-week period. [emphasis added] Researchers say it is more effective for weight loss than Ozempic or Wegovy, which only work by suppressing appetite.

That's a quarter of a person's mass in less than a year. For persons with obesity, that's absolutely insane. It's better than gastric bypass surgery (and depending on your perspective, comparing risk of complications, long-term compliance requirements, and potential side effects, semaglutide already is). It would be like taking semaglutide and also taking meth for a year, but without ruining your life.

Now if only the taxpayers who paid for the research owned the patent. ...

[–] xhieron 65 points 10 months ago

Jail them, and jail their "volunteer campaign manager" for conspiracy.

[–] xhieron 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The nepo babies wouldn't serve--same as always. And the political unpopularity of conscription has never changed. The last war draft is still in living memory, and US current military activity hasn't been an improvement in terms of public appetite.

The US introduces conscription again, and there'll be riots--and I don't mean "some kids camped at college and the jackboots locked them up" protests; it'll be government-building burning, widespread-looting riots.

If you want to do conscription, the kids have to trust the government not to kill them for oil.

[–] xhieron 8 points 10 months ago

As an American, I'd be much more receptive to the idea if I knew it would be Swedes, rather than Americans, trespassing on my land.

[–] xhieron 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm happy with Biden. Like, very happy. Biden's awesome.

[–] xhieron 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So you're not running then? Amidst the rampant, unchecked political corruption you claim to observe in every direction, the solution you in your wisdom have found most powerful is to complain about it on the internet.

[–] xhieron 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Easy to complain. Which district are you running in?

[–] xhieron 129 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I don't have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I'm not a fucking inhuman monster.

[–] xhieron 4 points 10 months ago
[–] xhieron 18 points 10 months ago

Or until an angry teenager just takes the gun away from his teacher and uses it instead of having to bring one from home.

[–] xhieron 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Obviously wasn't God's word, was it?

[–] xhieron 9 points 10 months ago

There's a conversation I've seen in tabletop RPG circles and had with my table about this: "the Jedi problem", that you simply can't tell a story that has both Jedi and non-Jedi in it (and on screen together) without a great deal of contrivance to explain why the Force can't immediately solve a lot of problems that could otherwise empower character development. The original Star Wars films really only work because Luke is a student and the other Jedi are either dispatched (Obi-Wan) or too old to hand-wave anything (Yoda). As much as I love watching Ian McDiarmid chew the scenery, the other two trilogies both suffer from having competent (sometimes) Force users basically making everyone else irrelevant by their mere presences. The power levels just aren't compatible.

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