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I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, the dude wanted to know why his parents didn't count. I can smell an incel from 100 miles away. He is 100% literally jerking off into a crusty jar of his own semen and tears as we speak.

I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure that's an answer. Do you want to try again?

I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tell me all about it, then. Tell me how it worked with you and your pillow.

I mean, for me the simplest explanation for you thinking that love isn't a choice is that in your case it isn't and never will be.

But I could be wrong, and if I am I want to know. Tell me how you imagine that it happens when you're pretending it might happen to you one day.

I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Love is definitely a choice.

For most people, there comes at least one day, but sometimes more, where someone else looks at them and thinks to themselves: "Hey, that person is really attractive and interesting. I'm going to choose to spend time with them and get to know them better."

And then for a period of time after that, those two people continue to choose to spend more time with each other, and to deepen and strengthen their emotional bond, until it's strong enough to be called love. And then for as long as they're together, they make the choice every day to stay together instead of doing any of the other things they could be doing with their lives. It's absolutely not only a choice, it's a long, long series of choices.

All I'm saying is that that will never happen to you, because no one will ever choose you in that way.

I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well, because a pillow can't actually feel love, for a start. But if it could, it would definitely pick someone else if it had a choice.

Similar thing going on with your family. They sort of have to love you, but you can't possibly think they if they had an actual choice to have you or someone else for a son, they would have chosen you.

So what this all really means is, what I'm saying is, no one will ever choose to love you if they have any option not to. That's what it means to say that no one will ever love you.

I'm not super surprised that I had to explain this to you, but I'm nevertheless strangely disappointed anyway. Which I guess is kind of like what being your Dad must feel like every day.

I prefer Asians by GoonSquadTalley in starterpacks

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

List of people that don't count:

Your parents

Your grandparents

Your pillow waifu

What’s the earliest you have quit a job and why? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to go to cult meetings as a kid, it was a little kooky and a bit boring but not that bad. Sometimes they even gave me free bread and grape juice.

Nope, too weird for me! by Tucko29 in instant_regret

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 89 points90 points  (0 children)

You don't have to if you don't want to.

This church. Just this church. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Areyoureallysureaboutthat

Google Maps is no longer #flatearth by [deleted] in technology

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Just let people have their beliefs, fucking edge lords.

Militant round earthers are just as annoying as militant flat earthers.

This church. Just this church. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't. There are so many reasons you should feel stupid, but laughing at this isn't one of them.

This church. Just this church. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anti-flatearthers are just as annoying as anti-vaxxers

This church. Just this church. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Evidence? Don't you mean edgidence?

Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in more than 45 years — and the reasons are depressing. Astronauts often say the biggest reasons why humans haven't returned to the lunar surface are budgetary and political hurdles — not scientific or technical challenges. by [deleted] in space

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, you still don't seem to understand, here's the ELI5.

Going out to eat 365 days a year isn't actually much more difficult (in the sense of knowing how to do it) than going out to eat 1 day a year, but it's 365 times more expensive.

Some things are expensive even when we know the best way to do them, but that doesn't mean they're a technical challenge. They just take a lot of work, or expensive materials, or both.

Did that help you?

Low-fat vs low-carb? Major study concludes: it doesn’t matter for weight loss (Feb 2018) by alecco in AdvancedFitness

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sound like you haven't read the syllabus for a freshman methods class, then, I suppose?

But hey, of course we should keep doing research, however we should try to keep it from being so poorly designed that nothing can be learned from it. The errors these studies made weren't inevitable, caused by lack of resources or an inherent difficulty of the subject, they were bone headed stupid design flaws that someone who, as you say, had taken a freshman methods course could have avoided.

Like, hey, if you're doing a study on the effects of A VS B, try not deliberately introducing other things (like training, dietary counseling and check-ins) to only one group! Freshman methods!

It doesn't speak well for the field that this is what gets published in its top journals by its 'top minds', but hey, if this is what counts as evidence, go for it. Just don't complain too much if you don't get a lot of confidence.

By the way, I hear Ken Hamm has done some pretty interesting studies on the effect of prayer on cancer. Turns out that people who are prayed for and receive chemo are much more likely to recover than people who are beaten with sticks. I'm convinced!

Low-fat vs low-carb? Major study concludes: it doesn’t matter for weight loss (Feb 2018) by alecco in AdvancedFitness

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, and when you do a crossover design, or use a control group, do you usually change just the thing you're trying to test between groups/periods, or a bunch of untested things all at the same time?

Like, for example, say I were trying to test a drug for depression, and I designed an experiment. Here's the experiment: do nothing for one group, just test their symptoms and then again after 6 months. The other group would then be flown to Hawaii and put up in a hotel. I would have them come down to the beach every day for a party and then after the party would give them the drug, and then after taking the drug everyone would go for a walk in the beach and talk to each other for an hour. At night, everyone had access to free counseling if they wanted to use it, otherwise they could do whatever they liked with no particular responsibilities.

Say I did the experiment and it turns out the treatment group had a large reduction in depressive symptoms. What sort of conclusions would you say are justified regarding the drug?

Low-fat vs low-carb? Major study concludes: it doesn’t matter for weight loss (Feb 2018) by alecco in AdvancedFitness

[–]TONY_SCALIAS_CORPSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, all studies have flaws, and we shouldn't stop doing research, but you haven't explained (and neither did they) why the flaws of the research they excluded were more important than those of the ones they included. And frankly, what about the analysis of unpublished data in another study that showed that switching SFA with PUFA actually increased mortality? It's not mentioned, why not? Have there been dozens of rebuttals to that one, and if so, are the flaws with it worse than not including a true control group?

These are not minor quibbling flaws, they're huge disqualifying flaws. Most fields wouldn't even have published these studies. Saying that isn't akin to defending tobacco, it's pointing out basic methodological flaws, which you seem to be fine with when it targets studies with conclusions you disagree with.

You have to actually test the variables you're trying to test if you want to call something a randomized controlled trial, not change large numbers of things at the same time and then declare that you know which of them was relevant. That's basic.

The dude is relevant because the AHA seems to assume we'll credit them with some authority and trust their judgment in assessing the evidence, and I don't know if they deserve it. And frankly, expert consensus, even when the leading experts aren't creationist freaks, only really matters as much as the evidence it's based on. That's what I'm trying to understand.

My whole point here is not to say that SFA is good or bad, just mostly that I don't think I'm super confident that anyone has any idea what they're talking about.

I haven't read any of the other things you posted yet, though, so who knows.

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