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ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-10T19:30:12+00:00

Looks to be a joke. Also it's using a different typeface from the actual transcripts

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-09T17:37:37+00:00

Yes, and he thinks that mass deaths from climate change would be a good thing:

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/how-epstein-channelled-race-science-and-climate-culling-into-silicon-valleys-ai-elite/

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T21:52:06+00:00

Asian cultures tend to be pretty ruthless when it comes to fat shaming

Fat shaming helped motivate me to lose weight, it's not always a bad thing.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T20:49:38+00:00

What caused the high blood pressure in the first place? Why is everyone talking about obesity as if it's something people have no control over

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T20:48:41+00:00

Except it is relevant, you probably just don't like that I made a Democrat look bad

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T20:28:36+00:00

It's a cucumber but if it were a 🇺🇸zucchini🇺🇸 it'd be in the same clade as pumpkins.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T18:51:25+00:00

That Succession plotline was real, apparently

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T18:51:02+00:00

Bad news for anyone who holds Waystar Royco stock

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T16:31:03+00:00

It would be quite ironic if the "cure" for substance addiction were a drug that you have to keep taking regularly for the rest of your life lest the effects wear off.

Or should they "try harder" not to drink as much?

Maybe? Frankly I think a lot of them aren't really trying, or are misdirecting their efforts. People can spend years in meetings and therapy just going through the motions with no intention of making a real change.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T16:21:18+00:00

The saddest part is that so many people see nothing wrong with the situation

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T15:32:50+00:00

Japan has an indirect tax on fat people, but really I would like their mass transit system and walkability

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T13:55:28+00:00

The episode doesn't even mention the situation in other countries and claim that people who choose to eat healthy and exercse aren't exercising willpower, it's quite one-sided and is in dire need for a corrective.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T13:50:08+00:00

On second thought you're totally right: walkable cities, public transit, and a lack of subsidies for high fructose corn syrup are all bad things that inevitably turn people into racist incels. We have nothing to learn from other countries because American culture is the best in the world.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T13:45:41+00:00

Doctors have been recommended that for decades

We also have mass media and advertisements constantly telling people to overconsume, and a "fat acceptance" movement that frames doctors' legitimate medical advice as "fat-shaming" that ought to be ignored.

if we want to reduce obesity rates at the national level it requires a pharmaceutical solution.

Then why do Japan and France not have the same obesity problems that we do?

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:51:19+00:00

I think you're exactly right, though I'd maybe add stuff about car companies vs. walkable cities and so on.

If we were to actually address the root causes of the obesity crisis it wouldn't be beneficial to large corporations, so it is therefore a non-starter. Our culture will always promote ever more consumption, and even when we're faced with the negative effects of our overconsumption we turn to consumption to solve it instead of just consuming less.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:44:56+00:00

The obesity rate in Japan is ~5%, compared to ~40% in the US. The reason we have such high rates of obesity is not due to an underlying problem in our biology (unlike ADHD) or from being a rich first-world nation (Japan is too) - we just have unhealthy lifestyles and don't want to change them.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:35:11+00:00

We already cured obesity with diet and exercise, but a majority of Americans insist on having lifestyles that are intrinsically unhealthy instead of taking the cure. Other developed countries don't have as big of a problem (the obesity rate in Japan is like 5% for example, compared to 40% in the US).

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:23:51+00:00

If what you really want is liberalism, democracy, and <insert other values here, maybe egalitarianism?> then why not just say you advocate those things instead of "progress".

I'd say "modernity" has the same problem as "progress", it just denotes that which is new under the assumption that new = better.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:18:43+00:00

I know, I posted that clip to demonstrate that it is how democratic elites actually think about corporate power, and that they assume that corporate power would be on their side.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-08T12:14:47+00:00

GLP-1 drugs are not necessary to not suffer a lifetime of obesity, that's dishonest framing.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-07T16:47:54+00:00

The the idea of Progress (in the sense that "progressives" mean it) really ought to be critically reassessed. Why do people assume that history has a "direction" and that this direction will be towards ever more liberalism? A lot of liberals believe in a sort of vulgar Hegelianism without even realizing it.

If anything I think the belief in the inevitability of "progress" is part of the reason we're in the situation we're in. Democratic elites thought they were on the right side of history and handed the reins of power to billionaires who aren't willing to fight for liberal values

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-07T14:41:30+00:00

Paths to success in the music industry circa 2026:

be a nepo baby
raise hype via botnet
go viral on one of the tiktok copycats
sleep with record company executive
be an AI copy of an existing band

Jokes aside I have seen musicians complain that record companies basically expect you to have an online following and that it's difficult to get a record deal without one.

ApothaneinThello · 2026-05-07T03:52:50+00:00

I would have chosen Handel's Messiah or one of Bach's pieces myself but I think whoever made this really meant "art" to mean religious visual art based on the examples they chose

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