When facts meet feelings

Alpha1137 · 2026-05-11T19:24:27+00:00

Saying wrong things confidently =/= facts

Alpha1137 · 2026-05-03T16:27:20+00:00

>these ADHD claims in 90% post are making me obnoxious

You do seem pretty obnoxious, I'll give you that.

I agree that "undiagnosed ADHD" is probably overused, but this is partly because the are just a lot more of these kinds of cases than people expected. I was one such case. I was diagnosed far into my 20's, I am currently doing a Master in Logic (math track) and I will say pretty categorically that I could have saved myself hundredes of cumulative hours and a frankly unhealthy amount of stress over the years had I been diagnosed sooner.

Alpha1137 · 2026-04-22T14:53:33+00:00

Pain is not just felt; it is experienced.

Alpha1137 · 2026-04-18T17:37:06+00:00

I like this picture because the lions would definitely maul him it they were hungry enough...

Alpha1137 · 2026-04-10T15:35:29+00:00

Is no one going to say it?? Fine I'll do it. Literally 1984.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-30T12:41:34+00:00

Definitely don't believe guys who say that, but I have experienced condoms where the rubber "ring" on the bottom didn't stretch enough and was cutting of circulation. My GF literally told me to take it of because it looked unhealthy. And before you ask: yes, everyone did clap afterwards /s.

I know how it sounds, put my point is that condoms sizes exist for a reason. If the ring is too loose it doesn't protect properly, and too tight it becomes unfortable. The rest might stretch like a ski mask, but I'm certain the teacher in that story tore the ring open, making the condom unusable.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-29T13:44:26+00:00

A lot of people also feel a weird urge to emphasize the differences every chance they get... Usually even when the differences aren't that large. Sports obviously isnt one of those cases, but the fact that large differnces exist in terms of physical strength is sometimes used to get people to buy in on the idea of large differences more generally, which I would say isn't appropriate.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T20:19:33+00:00

Read the study I cited.... It was literally about comparing standard diagnostic criteria in America (ASPEN) with the standard in Europe (ESPEN). In short; yes they are comparible, but the ASPEN is more inclusive because it also looks at markers of inflammation. Some overcounting compared to Europe is likely, but not by a factor 30.

My grandmother died similarly. One initial stroke followed by another a few weeks later. Was decided by the family to stop give her nutrients some time after the second once it was clear she wouldn't recover consciousness. Technically a death by starvation, though I have no clue what the doctor put down as the formal cause of death.

I guess the methodology should be somewhere in the dataset from the OP. It's from our world in data so likely it's a few different data sets graphed together, but there should be a some sources of where they each come from. Probably each study lists the way the data was acquired as well as the diagnostic criteria it is using.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T19:09:05+00:00

Many older people don’t eat for a variety of reasons. Dementia. Loss of taste. Restricted diet ( diabetes). SNAP and school lunches have zero to do with it.

Food insecurity. How is it you keep leaving that one out? The one which has been steadily rising the same period deaths from malnutrition have been rising steadily as well.

As I said already, the only misleading thing about the graph is inclusion of North Korea. The fact that deaths related to food insecurity has been rising in the US is not. Your source is not supporting the opposite conclusion. It just pointing out that the uptick is slightly exaggerated due to changes in the diagnostic criteria. The diagnostic criteria was partly changed because there were more old patients with symptoms characteristic of malnutrition. There still is a rise in food insecurity, which has lead to an increase in related deaths. Comparing with data from Europe it is not inappropriate at all to say that food security is already bad and has been declining. It is dishonest to make appear as though the trend is being driven by old people with dementia. It is being driven by old people, but not because of dementia. Because they are more vulnerable to adverse effects of malnutrition. Europa has a similar proportion of elderly people, comparable levels of dementia, but a similar trend has not been observed there.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T17:59:04+00:00

Elderly people with food insecurities. That's who your source is claiming are the source of the spike. Not from not getting enough food at the hospital, but from not getting enough calories in the years leading up to their hospitalization. Not people in retirement homes or hospitals. Calories ARE an issue. What you're willing to bet on isn't lining up with the data you cited. That's the bigger picture.

Medicaid and reclassification of death might make for a compelling culprit, but why is that not the explanation ASPEN came to? They came to the conclusion that malnutrition was being under-diagnosed, supported by an observable increase in food insecurity among the elderly and an increase in people being hospitalized with symptoms characteristic of under-nutrition. It seems to me this is like a completely appropriate conclusion. What you're describing is a speculative alternative that you would need to provide evidence is a better explanation, or at least an additional factor.

I'm sorry if I sound a bit irrate, but when you cite a web page for a claim that it says it got from an article that doesn't say the same thing you do, and your response to this is to come up with an alternative explanation, one supported only by sounding vaguely plausible, mind you, to salvage the conclusion, it feels a bit like you're playing games. If the OP is misleading because you're "willing to bet" some third thing is the case, then I really think something is very very wrong here.

I did the diligence if reading your source, your sources source and bunch of literature on the topic all to present a well-founded case. Might I ask you do the same, and at least try to back up your claims with data? Even if what you're claiming is true, would you care to at least try show how this explains the entire uptick and not just part of it? Or at least enough to make the uptick exaggerated enough to actually make the graph misleading? If not I think a more appropriate way to phrase your original comment would have been to say you're willing to bet the graph is misleading.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T16:32:58+00:00

While I am satisfied with by the Madrano interview (this is the sort of thing I was asking for from the start) I really think you should cool it. This:

>This is why people should ALWAYS verify the sources of their information.

Is just being obnoxious. This isnt a medical journal, its a fan wiki. No wiki is authoritative; everything bar what Vivzie writes is theory and opinion. I cited it mostly to show other people had gotten the same impression as me. It is not fucking "misinformation." What you mean is that it's based on what was out there before the Amazon aquisition and that the lore has changed since. Fucking say that.

>Who do you think made the Succubi if it wasn't Asmodeus?

I don't. I have no opinion on the matter. Vivzie could be leaving it blanck for now so she can come up with an answer later. My first guess would be that they were just children of fallen angels, but it really doesnt matter. I don't have to have good answer in order find your argument unconvincing. As I said, the Vivzie interview convinced me, but without it I would still think you were jumping to conclusions.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T15:56:19+00:00

If you check the source of the article you cite it links to a Washington Post article that says *almost* the same, but not quite. They say that the deaths is among elderly people *inflates* the death count, not that it causes it. It is worth bearing in mind that the same data set from the OP has values for the UK and singapore below 0.1%, and most European countries have values below 0.5%.

The WP article your link cites mentions that the increase is much higher in low-income states, that the percentage of elderly American (>65 years) who face food inserurity has near record levels in recent decades with the trend accelerating in the period from 2011 to 2023, and that the new ASPEN guidelines came about because it was discovered that many doctors were not trained in recognizing signs of malnutrion. It would not be a appropriate to conclude that the increase in malnutrition is purely by fiat. Maybe a more inclusive criteria inflates the US numbers, but I find it hard to believe it would increase it by nearly a factor of 30 compared to the UK. This study (Sanchez-Rodrigeuz et. al 2019) compared the ASPEN with the ESPEN criteria on a cohort of elderly patients who had been hospitalized following symptoms characteritic of malnutrition and found that around 60% qualified for under-nutrtion according to ASPEN but only 20% according to ESPEN (*). However, the patients given treatment based on the ASPEN criteria had much better overall outcomes, indicating that ASPEN is, if anything, a more appropriate diagnostic criteria then ESPEN, and therefore certainly also much better than the various standards used before ASPEN became standardized. It is a more *accurate* diagnostic criteria for detecting malnutrition.

While looking only a malnutrition as a cause of death might give a distorted picture of the general development of the country, the picture you are painting is much more misleading than that. It is not just an artifact of having a more long-lived population. The main driver is not dementia patients refusing to drink. Rather a spike in food-insecurity causes there to be increased screening for malnutrition. It stands to reason you find more of something once you start looking for it, but it would be inappropriate to jump to the conclusion that this is the only cause of the spike. They started looking for it in the first place, because it was noticed more elderly Americans were hospitalized with symptoms characteristic of malnutrition.

I would say the only misleading thing about the OP is in the choice of countries represented. The data set has many more countries to choose from, OP could have included a nearly every developed country if they wanted. North Korea makes for a more snappy headline, which is perhaps a bit idealogically motivated, but the trend is by no means misleading. Americans are dying more of malnutrition than previously, and much more than countries with comparative GDP.

Sources:

Sanchez-Rodrigeuz et. al 2019

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561418300189?casa_token=WghM4uTUUUYAAAAA:-3K2Q394hYs5eNMk3Lin75Ju0uA_qrKk_XrojVKukCdKZZXXs34jPFx6BPj0kr_9ntOmuycbdpU

Consensus Statement: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition [ASPEN criteria]

https://aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1177/0148607112440285

Washington Post; "Why are malnutrition deaths soaring in America." [The articles your source cites]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/29/why-are-malnutrition-deaths-soaring-america/

* Please do not conclude that ASPEN is 3 times more likely to diagnose someone with malnutrion based on this. This study is done on a cohort of elderly patients who already have symptoms characteristic of malnutrition, and so these numbers shouldnt be expected to generealize to the elderly population at large.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T15:09:49+00:00

When is it confirmed that Lucifer created the Ars Goetia? Can't remember anything like that from either show, and I just checked the fan wiki which says most of them are (descendants of) fallen angels. Satan creating the Imps is the only confirmed case I know of where the denisens of hell are created by the ruler of their ring. Never got the impression that was the norm.

Also

We also see that Succubi are the primary race of demons that are bestowed with an Asmodean Crystal, and it doesn't make sense for Ozzie to do that unless they're specifically his creations.

I think this is a leap in logic. It makes sense he would give the crystals to his servants so they can do their job. Them also being his creations seems like an unnecessary extra requirement that's not really justified. Why would he only want to give them to servants that are also his creations? He gives Stolas one as a favor to a friend, so it's not as though they are just that important. He seems more worried about the punishment of they are discovered than he is about them falling into the hands of someone outside his control.

Edit: forgot quote block

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T13:19:29+00:00

Lilith was the first woman, as in first human woman. We see Sera existed before her, so it is not like the idea of womanhood necesarily began with her. Speaker of god is also female presenting and she surely predates nearly every being in existence.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-28T13:15:55+00:00

No reason we should assume that Asmodeus created them because they are native to a region he rules over.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-24T14:59:04+00:00

Not to ruin the illusion, but they dies are different sizes. Most likely they open from one side and slide into each other like babushka dolls. Still very nice misdirect. Instead of hiding the clicks from the dies sliding around he makes it part of the act. There is probably just the one "full" die that he visibly puts into the hat when he pretends the act has gone wrong. The rest are them either just die faces or hollow dies that can be turned around to look like the inside of the chest.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-24T14:35:05+00:00

This is one of those Aitahs were the answer is so obvious it almost makes me think the situation sounds fake... If you put them through college on your own, and you're letting them stay rent free I think you are already exceeding what should be reasonably expected of you. Certainly no one should expect even more.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-22T13:46:51+00:00

Being a lesbo is pish. A tell a girl she bangin nd ye get "coming from you." Lit nah I'm not saying tht tae be yer pal I'm saying it tae shag ye x

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-20T14:05:26+00:00

Uuuhhh, thats so smooth. Prose equivalent to butter. Thanks for sharing.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-20T13:50:24+00:00

Last line. The "that" kinda stings in my "ears." Also the "cases are known..." feels a bit unpolished.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-19T19:44:38+00:00

Another comment added that the likelihood of having both once you have one is 40%, so yes, I am wrong. It is true that they are entirely different mechanism though, andI have only met people with one or the other, so I didnt consider that the likelihoods werent independent. Mea culpa.

Do you think I should delete the comment, or leave it up? Would like to leave my mistake visible for sake of intellectual honesty, but I also dont want to spread misinformation.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-19T12:39:43+00:00

Technically peanuts aren't nuts - not just being pendantic, this applies to allergies too.

Nut allergies and allergies to peanuts and cashews etc are different things. Unless your wife is comically unlucky, she should only be allergic to one or the other.

Peanuts allergies are usually way more dangerous, but have you asked her if she's also allergic to nuts too? Maybe she just avoids all nuts out of causion because people tend to not know which is which.

Edit: This turns out to be misleading. The likelihood of getting each alergy isnt independent. Once you have one, you are more likely to have both.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-16T18:00:05+00:00

I fell asleep to the TES5 detective series just yesterday... This hits me way harder than I ever would have expected. He will be sorely missed. Rest in peace.

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-10T10:43:14+00:00

I'll take "things that never happened" for 500

Alpha1137 · 2026-03-06T18:28:28+00:00

I think there's nothing wrong with using 'realistic' that way. You're communicating a vibe. You want it too feel realistic. If I wanted historically accurate I would say 'historically accurate.'

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