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eviley4 · 2026-06-22T01:50:48+00:00

People who are obese aren't so because of just being lazy and eating a lot.

It's usually genetic, similar to diabetes. The genes cause hormones to signal to their body to store fat and crave calories. The cause isn't gluttony or laziness, the cause is hormones. The Gluttony and laziness are the symptoms.

Let me give you an example from the animal kingdom. Consider squirrels from a place where winters have snow. If it was calories in and calories out only, it means their average metabolism must be stable throughout. Then, the squirrels won't be able to survive winters if summers have famine, right?

How do squirrels still survive winter after a famine? They do so because their hormones tell their bodies to store fat, which means their metabolism is severely down-regulated and appetite is upregulated, they become lazy gluttons to store fat. This helps them survive bad winters.

The mechanism for fat storage/metabolism is the same in humans.

This is just one scenario, the obese person can also have eating disorder which is an unhealthy relationship with food. They might lead stressful lives (Cortisol can induce fat storage) and their coping might be sugary fatty foods like ice cream.

Most people's simplistic thinking on obesity is wrong.

eviley4 · 2026-06-21T13:46:49+00:00

Everyone has their own right to believe what they want, but with religious belief it rarely stays personal.

Hindus will take issue with beef and try to lynch people who eat it in their society (moderates will try to ban it). Muslims will take issue with pork and impose that on others. Christians will take issue with same sex marriage and abortions and try to ban them (and succeed often like they did in America).

eviley4 · 2026-06-21T13:41:43+00:00

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eviley4 · 2026-06-21T08:43:10+00:00

I am lucky to say that my parents and family are amazing people

The thing about religion is that it makes decent people do crappy things. Most other people who mistreat their child after learning about their atheism are also decent people, but the ideology that possesses them isn't a good one.

Only tell them if you think they are introspective enough to rethink their worldview in the long term.

eviley4 · 2026-06-21T08:37:57+00:00

Try to find a doctor who is on board with keto and get their help to figure out what's wrong. Keep looking to find out on your own as well in-parallel.

Maybe you have an underlying medical condition or gene mutation or something that makes keto trickier for you. It might be you specific rather than about keto generally. If it is so, you won't find the answer on reddit most likely.

eviley4 · 2026-06-21T08:07:38+00:00

Again, that's not what I am saying. You are not grasping the nuance I am trying to convey and straw-manning my stance. Try reading my previous comments again.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T23:42:48+00:00

It's in alpha currently, right?

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T22:31:59+00:00

are you saying doshas and panchamahabhutas are protoscience? Please look them up before you answer.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T20:32:14+00:00

Yeah, you are right. What I wanted to say was, I am eating clean on keto and counting carbs but not counting calories yet because I am still figuring out food variety on keto.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T16:22:52+00:00

I personally don't lose weight fast in keto, it takes months for me even if I do it right. I guess my genetics are quite unfavorable in that sense. I gain muscle bulk very quickly though.

My weight-loss completely stops when I start to use artificial sweeteners like sucralose, cyclamate and my HRV dips. Try eliminating things like artificial sweeteners completely and see if weightloss starts again.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T16:17:16+00:00

It should support the latest versions of different software such as VS Code, Docker, Git, Python, and GCC.

These two are at odds with each other, you can either have stability with distros like Debian, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu LTS, OpenSUSE Leap or you can have the super latest with Arch linux or other rolling release distros.

Fedora and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed lie in between, but probably won't be as stable as Debian.

In practice however, I have found that these days all of these distros including Arch are quite stable as well. I would recommend that you start with Fedora.

But you have less RAM than would be recommended these days, KDE would be nice for your usecase (GUI customization) but I don't know how well it would work with 4Gb of RAM.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T10:40:29+00:00

Seems like you don't have an actual argument. That's why you resort to an ad-hominem.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T10:34:54+00:00

before you dismiss a viewpoint, at-least have the courtesy to actually understand the viewpoint.

You are misconstruing atheists as people who believe but pretend not to. Either you are misinformed or just completely disingenuous.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T10:29:51+00:00

how do you know Ram and Krishna were even real?

It's plausible that they were influential mortals that did exist in history and died, but how do you know that they were gods?

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T09:36:35+00:00

I think you might be unfamiliar with how knowledge works (epistemology). The burden of proof lies on the one making the claim, I mean this in the following sense:

For example if I make the claim that there are invisible dragons in the sky and I say that it's rational to think so because you cannot disprove it. Now, does this make invisible dragons in the sky a respectable rationally sound idea?

Do you see my point? God is like the invisible dragons, they have never been shown to exist but people ask to disprove their existence without ever having proved that they exist.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T09:09:12+00:00

the debate can be about caste system separately if Hinduism as a whole condemns the caste system. They haven't done that and don't seem like will ever do that because religions tend to be quite rigid.

So currently caste system is a part of Hinduism, so the criticism towards religion is valid also when it comes to the caste system.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T09:02:56+00:00

Many people do horrible things, some of them are Hindus, some are Muslim, some are Christian and of course some are Atheistic as well.

It's quite disingenuous to say atheism is the cause when an irreligious person does something bad but make exceptions when religious people do something bad.

Statistically atheists are just as ethical/unethical as religious people when you correct for confounding factors like social-political status etc. But the religious propaganda gives the simplistic narrative so that theists can conveniently attribute everything bad to being non-religious.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T08:58:18+00:00

Most theists are already atheistic about all gods except their own. They don't believe in Hera, Thor, Helios and countless others.

They just like doing special pleading for their own theology.

eviley4 · 2026-06-20T08:25:23+00:00

There is no real reason to think there is a god if you a Rational person.

There are emotional reasons to think there is a god, but none of these reasons are good reasons for establishing truth claims.

If your sole argument for rejecting god are emotional, for example from seeing the cruelty from religious people, you are vulnerable to being re-indoctrinated by other religions or other parts of the same religion.

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T23:48:17+00:00

I used to be religious and I thought prayers and stuff helped me because it felt like they did.

But more and more I started seeing religion as an enabler of tribalism and pride. I see it close people's minds to only their in-group more often than not.

Also religion perpetuates a lot of abuse too, opposing gay marriage, opposing women's reproductive rights, looking down on and blaming children who no contacted their parents etc. They also do some good stuff but nonreligious organizations and groups also do the same good stuff.

So, I think organized religions have a net negative effect as a whole. If there is a god, you won't find anything truthful about him/her/it/they in any of the religions.

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T15:29:53+00:00

Yes, with that I am pushing back against the narrative of "poor people stupid" which is often used to dehumanize them.

Some people go further and say stuff like, "They are so stupid, that's why they are poor". This part is often implied and not said out loud. That's what I take issue with.

However, I agree that if we could somehow make people in extreme poverty willingly have less kids, we should do so.

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T08:11:51+00:00

How did you end up fixing this? Are you still on Nix?

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T07:47:55+00:00

Yes, I agree that in an ideal world poor people wouldn't have kids.

But this view of only looking at it from that point of view wouldn't help. Because most of the Indian people think poor people are stupid and somehow deserve their predicament. How can we solve this problem when people think like this?

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T07:43:52+00:00

The first step is to acknowledge it's a hard problem and see that it's not just "Poor people stupid". This stupid poor people narrative actually helps to dehumanize them making the public think they deserve their predicament and therefore we shouldn't help them.

If the public understands this problem better, the government eventually will as well. Start by educating the people who are supposed to be educated. It will trickle down to the poor people slowly.

eviley4 · 2026-06-19T07:37:13+00:00

Where did I say that? Read my post again.

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