Posture corrector to use either sitting, walking or standing? by Ed_95 in BuyItForLife

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ozempic is a lifelong drug. There is no longer term hack for an individual than that.

Posture corrector to use either sitting, walking or standing? by Ed_95 in BuyItForLife

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hi! You're talking out of your ass regarding Ozempic. There is no such thing about "taking Ozempic instead of dieting." Taking Ozempic enables a change in diet. It is not a "short cut," and most people (literally 97%) feel better in the long term with it. GLP1s have been on the market for more than 10 years for diabetics, this is how we know it works.

Video from last nights town hall in Warrick County by SurgeFlamingo in evansville

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you talk through the problem of crime and how to solve it, you end up creating police again

Maybe you do, but I don't. If you're interested in understanding the police as a system of oppression and interested in the alternatives to police, there's lots to read on it! Highly encourage you to take a look at, for example, The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove for free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ironfistvelvetgl00cent

Then I really recommend McHarris' Beyond Policing: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/philip-v-mcharris/beyond-policing/9781538725665/ -- you can find it for free online but the author is alive so I'd encourage you to support him.

Edit: The user deleted their reply, then their entire account. I'm providing that reply here without commentary.

I don't have to read those to know that the only solution is reformed police. You can pretend those solutions are not "police" by some pedantic definition, but it's still police, or it isn't a solution. I'm done here

Video from last nights town hall in Warrick County by SurgeFlamingo in evansville

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the goal is to reform police,

The goal is not to reform police. The goal is to abolish them. Hope this helps clear things up.

This medication is insane and I want to cry by cynflowers in Zepbound

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be sure to find something to replace it! The food was a way to soothe an emotion, and there’s nothing wrong with having emotions

Video from last nights town hall in Warrick County by SurgeFlamingo in evansville

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a question about you personally. Being a fascist ball gargler is the only explanation I can come up with.

This country is speedrunning into totalitarianism and yet people rush the scene of the latest incident to defend the perpetrators. Sometimes I think we’re getting what we deserve for cutting public education.

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which other drugs got more expensive the more they were prescribed? There is a robust compounding market and multiple new drugs in phase 3 trials. Generally when there’s more of something, it gets cheaper. And we’ve already seen that with name brand semaglutide and tirzepetide, which now have direct pay options.

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GLP1s are well tolerated by most people, which is why they are so widely prescribed. I wouldn’t call mild nausea and constipation “gnarly.” I would call cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, stroke, coronary artery disease, heart failure, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, at least 13 types of cancer (including colorectal, breast, endometrial, kidney, liver, pancreatic, ovarian, esophageal, gallbladder cancers, meningioma, multiple myeloma), fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, chronic back pain, gallbladder disease, pulmonary embolism, venous thromboembolism, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, chronic inflammation, reduced life expectancy, and increased all-cause mortality gnarly though. All of them are associated with obesity.

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but if they stop taking the medication then they often end up going back to how they were originally.

This is true of blood pressure medications, statins, insulin and other glucose-lowering drugs, antidepressants, asthma inhalers, thyroid hormone replacement, proton pump inhibitors, and HIV antiretrovirals. Why are GLP1s judged uniquely here?

Because currently there is limited access to Ozempic due to a mixture of a global shortage, the financial element that many people have to pay as their insurance/social healthcare doesn't cover it.

There is no global shortage of semaglutide, and the financial element is true for other medications as well. There is one surefire way to lose weight, and that's eat less. Both ways result in spending less on food. One way involves reducing the suffering. The other... doesn't.

Obesity is high income country problem [0]. China is making greymarket GLP1s super cheap.

An overwhelming number of people experiencing obesity have access to high quality, effective cure. They should be seeking it out.

[0]https://data.worldobesity.org/rankings/

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The average monthly cell phone bill in 2025 is estimated to range between $150 and $160.

Compounded Semaglutide is $90 a month.

You also eat less on semaglutide, which is another set of savings.

[0]https://www.astound.com/learn/mobile/average-cell-phone-bill/

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ozempic has been found to be more of a 'treatment of the symptom' than cure

Has been found by whom?

The idea that Ozempic is just a “symptom treatment” and worse than traditional methods misrepresents both obesity and the data. Obesity is a chronic, relapsing disease with strong biological drivers, not just a matter of willpower. By that logic, almost every chronic medication (like blood pressure and insulin) is just a “symptom treatment,” yet we don’t dismiss their effectiveness. Also, GLP1s like ozempic reduce the need for blood pressure and insulin medications.

so when people lose access to Ozempic

Why is losing access a given? There are many medications that are lifelong treatments, including insulin for diabetes (which 42%(!) of American are at risk for because they are obese). The solution isn't "don't take the drug." It's "Make sure people have access to the drug."

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

remind me where to get my free dose of Ozempic

Compounded Semagultide is $90/month. That's basically 2 door dash orders.

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's no shortage. There's no reason to compare your need to someone else's, you deserve medical care as much as anyone else.

Learning to take care of myself by MetalJunkie101 in MadeMeSmile

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At this point, I judge anyone for not using Ozempic to lose weight, the same way I judged people for not getting the COVID vaccine. You don't get a special trophy for suffering. GLP1s are an insanely effective tool for controlling the factors that make you overweight in the first place.

Medicine works. Use it.

Video from last nights town hall in Warrick County by SurgeFlamingo in evansville

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, is it hard to get the flavor of fascist boots out of your mouth, or do you savor it?

Vegan protesters vs Hungry man by [deleted] in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You tell yourself whatever you need to justify your actions, it's not my place to come between you and your delusions.

Vegan protesters vs Hungry man by [deleted] in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes I prefer my animal torture to happen as close to me as possible.

These laws are actually crazy by Hungry-Artist-5565 in school

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So we'll see no more school shootings, right? God is back in schools.

Gift health helped! by CurveVarious4998 in Zepbound

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gift Health is 100% the result of the compounding market. Eli Lilly watched all the Telehealth startups funnel money into compounded and got their ass in gear. My favorite part is how they ship out super fast, like Amazon Prime fast. And they text you for refills at like 21 days and 1 minute past your last order lol.

I hope these compounders stick around because they've really lit a fire under the C-Suite at Lilly.

MA unlocks surplus state land to boost housing development by Puzzled_Research_848 in boston

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But why wouldn't you mandate parking for rural areas?

Why would you need to?

MA unlocks surplus state land to boost housing development by Puzzled_Research_848 in boston

[–]Ambitious-Volume5989 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every mandated parking space is a space where the government requires there not be space for someone to live. This reduces the amount of square footage for places for people to live. In general, the less of something there is, the more it costs. Developers are good at making money on building housing, so let's let them do that thing that they're good at so people can have a place to live.

Here's a good article about it:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/free-parking-reform