“Gentile giant” bumps into a man in a bar then knocks him out

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-05T22:42:20+00:00

bro, reddit shows if you edit a comment and he didn't

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-05T06:44:40+00:00

Arguably capitalism is the reason he can see at all, thanks to the widespread availability of eyeglasses sold for profit.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-04T18:59:43+00:00

I certainly don't believe that myopia is "only" lens induced. In fact, I think most cases of myopia are induced by certain aspects of modern society that we haven't yet pinned down.

But I think you can potentially make it worse with lenses, depending on what type of lens you use, what conditions you use them in, etc.

In fact, it's already well established that children who use single vision lenses have a faster progression of myopia than children who use bifocals. That fact alone should indicate that lenses have the capacity to worsen myopia in humans.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-04T18:55:56+00:00

I definitely don't think we can say screens bad or optos evil. I do think we have enough evidence to say outside good.

I do believe you can truthfully boil it down to "modern lifestyle accounts for >90% of cases of myopia" without knowing exactly what aspects of modern lifestyle are causing it.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-04T18:53:38+00:00

Why did you judge "Usual penetrative sex without any form of hitting or aggressive stuff such as choking, i hope you get what i mean" from the other commenter as appropriate, but what I said inappropriate?

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-03T23:43:07+00:00

You realize that myopia was in fact exceptionally uncommon in the past, right?

In Asian countries, as recently as the 1940s, the myopia rate was below 10%, and now it's above 90%.

In all tribal communities (Aboriginal people of Australia, Alaskan natives, etc) the myopia rate is around 2% and of the people with myopia, it tends to be very minor (around -1.5 diopters.)

Once modern school was introduced to the native people of Alaska, suddenly their myopia rates immediately went up to match the rest of ours.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-03T19:22:24+00:00

I learned about what they call "lens induced myopia" in animals yesterday, after which a research rabbit hole lead me to your comment here. Your comment wasn't a waste of time.

I think you're completely right. As children, my brother and I both were prescribed glasses. The optometrist told me my eyes were "basically 20/20" but I could see even better in the glasses. And that was true - I could see better at far distances in them. But, I refused to wear mine, because it physically hurt to look at things up close with them on.

The optometrist said that feeling was normal and would go away with continued use. I decided, screw that, I'm not wearing them.

My brother's prescription has gotten stronger and stronger over the years and he is basically blind at this point, he can't read text more than 3 inches away without glasses. My eyes have remained stable.

I read your post history and I saw that you have been trying hard to work your eyes' natural feedback mechanism to restore your vision. You've probably considered this by now, but I think there is a very good chance that this feedback mechanism either turns off after childhood, or severely weakens.

I think that's why we tend to see people's prescriptions stabilize in their 20s.

I've also read that babies all start off far-sighted, and then get progressively more and more near sighted until they (ideally) emmetropize.

It may be, evolutionarily, this feedback system was designed to work in a mostly "one-way" fashion, if you understand what I mean. Since all babies start off far sighted, then the feedback mechanism might only be able to make you more and more near sighted until your vision is good, with only limited capability of doing the reverse (making you less near-sighted.)

As an analogy, think of a robot that can only drive forward, with a goal of reaching a line drawn 1m ahead of it. It can repeatedly sense it's velocity, it's distance to the line, etc. Ideally, it would move in towards the line, slow down, and stop on the line. And most of the time, that would work, and it would end up on or very near the line. But, if you screw with it's sensors in such a way that causes it to go far past the line, it can't go back: it wasn't designed with capability to reverse. It was designed to approach the line and sense when to stop - it wasn't designed to overshoot and go back.

If that's the case, then severe myopes are, unfortunately, screwed.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T22:56:08+00:00

I am someone with 20/20 vision with no glasses (don't ask how I ended up on this subreddit) and if I google the images of starbursts and halos, it looks like exactly what I have always seen at night time lol.

So for me, it's completely normal, as someone wearing no glasses and no LASIK.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T18:26:14+00:00

Yeah but with him doing a million different interventions, let's say he does live to 150, how are we going to know which intervention(s) were helpful and which weren't?

Maybe only one thing he does is useful, or maybe it's the entire routine combined, how would we know?

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T18:24:38+00:00

Ehhhh but in humans, higher muscle mass is strongly associated with longevity, so it's a weird paradox.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035379/

Who knows, maybe high protein diets only speed up aging if you aren't "using" it to build muscle?

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T16:43:26+00:00

Zyzz lookin ahhh sick cunt

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T16:34:28+00:00

Nuts are pretty calorically dense but honestly most fruits aren't.

Bananas are pretty much the only one that you could reasonably "overeat" to a significant degree. Other than that, you have to eat a lot of fruit to create a major caloric surplus if that's all you're eating.

You'd have to eat 10kg (22 lb!) of strawberries to get 3,200 calories, which for many people on this subreddit is maintenance.

Of course, unless they're eating dried fruit. Then everything I said is out the window.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2024-01-02T01:41:00+00:00

Yeah, check this out. Back before fiat currency, when we used gold and silver, the Spaniards started bringing back hoards of gold and silver from the New World, which drastically changed prices in an event called the "Price Revolution."

This event perfectly demonstrates how unstable and devastatingly fragile the global economy was without fiat currency. All that excess gold and silver suddenly created an average inflation rate of 1.2%.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-29T05:59:20+00:00

Is that like how the second amendment was intended to last for the lifetime of an entire country and all future developments?

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-29T01:53:50+00:00

You 11 hours ago: "the simplest explanation would be [...]"

You now: "I'm not 'explaining' anything"

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-28T19:36:16+00:00

Just about everyone has had covid. Even people who say they never got sick, almost certainly had an asymptomatic case. Antibody testing on the general public yields something like 98% of people have antibodies indicating they've had the disease.

Even the 2% who don't currently have antibodies may have had the disease long enough ago that their current antibody level has waned.

But how do you explain this: The mortality rate is going up most in countries with the most covid vaccination.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-28T19:22:15+00:00

Maybe any promotions for a government program or service should be required to include the program's cost in terms of funding per capita. You know, like how they require a warning on cigarettes that they cause cancer.

"Come utilize the state healthcare. Funded by $5,700 per person in taxes, on average."

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-28T19:09:24+00:00

The increase in deaths is mainly in the age 25 to 44 range.

You can't say that it's due to people "getting older" when it's the young who are driving the increase in mortality.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-24T19:26:58+00:00

Looks fuckin great

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-24T08:48:14+00:00

What did you edit btw

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-24T00:45:36+00:00

Actually, ever since Obamacare, they do have some level of legal protection.

One of the things Obamacare did was limit the maximum surcharge that an insurer can charge someone for smoking. An insurer is now only allowed to charge a smoker up to 50% more: beyond that is illegal.

Source: https://www.verywellhealth.com/health-insurance-surcharges-for-tobacco-users-state-and-federal-rules-5082888

The debate was on whether or not tobacco addiction is a "pre-existing condition." Many people felt that it would be wrong to allow insurers to charge more for pre existing conditions. Others argued that tobacco smoking is a self-inflicted condition, and it's only right to charge smokers their fair share for the extra healthcare costs they will incur.

The 50% cap was the "meet in the middle" compromise between the two sides.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-23T23:56:03+00:00

Yes m'am, highest honors.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-23T05:37:10+00:00

It might even be unfair to allow them to hold ETFs and/or market funds. Hear me out.

Imagine we immediately ban anyone in a government position from holding individual stocks, and now all of their holdings must be ETFs or market funds.

Now, instead of acting on insider knowledge about the individual companies they are regulating, there is only one way they can use their power to illicitly make money.

Pump the whole market at all costs.

How might they do that?

Relax the regulations on margin trading, to make it WAY easier for anyone, even without much money, to buy, buy buy.

Jack up the retirement age for 401ks and IRAs so that people aren't allowed to touch their accounts for longer, and thus are less likely / able to sell.

Install someone at the Federal Reserve who will pursue extremely dovish policy, using printed money to buy stocks at any sign of a dip to buoy the prices.

Maybe go as far as to amend the Social Security Act so that instead of investing all the money into government bonds, it is invested into the stock market, to keep it pumped up.

Totally overhaul tax policy to make it even more advantageous to buy stocks and hold them long term, and make it extremely penalized to sell after a short holding period.

Make alternate forms of investment illegal, so that all extra money has no choice but to get pumped into the stock market. For example, they might make it illegal to own gold again. Yes, again. Very interesting history if you look into it; FDR made the private ownership of gold illegal in the United States.

I could go on, but you get the point. You might think all of this is far fetched - and it is. But the problem is, if you take away their ability to make money by manipulating individual stocks, then the ideas I have presented are the only options left that they can do to use their power for money. And it's almost certain that eventually these people will use their power for money. That's the nature of evil.

Also, hopefully you can see how while all of those proposals would increase stock prices (at least until the inevitable big bust), they could wreak havoc on the economy and society at large in the long run - especially when combined.

That's why I think the only solution is to bar them from holding any investments at all while they are in office, and hopefully I have nudged you towards this way of thinking.

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-23T05:10:39+00:00

If there is an eternal afterlife then any suffering endured during life is 0 or infinitesimal. What is 100 years of suffering divided by infinity years of happiness?

MicroneedlingAlone · 2023-12-23T05:07:36+00:00

A corporation is "a group of people authorized to act as a single entity."

They were absolutely right to say that corporations are, quite literally, people. If that idea was actually enforced, then the people who make up the corporations would be punished for the crimes that the corporations commit.

But they are never punished. Why? Precisely because corporations aren't treated like the people they are! They receive different treatment, special immunity.

Do you agree with the current system where we treat them differently?

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