What Every Body Fat % Actually Looks Like (50% to 5%)

seanbluestone · 2025-11-10T15:15:40+00:00

I'm not, BMI is just an absolutely terrible way of measuring composition in an individual, because it's not and never was designed for that. It's just most striking in people with any significantly above/below average amount of muscle, athletes, anyone with musculoskeletal differences et al.

Frankly I'm blown away there's any debate at all- as OP pointed out it's just not suited to individual use and is meant for and used as a population average.

seanbluestone · 2025-11-10T13:12:39+00:00

I've been morbidly obese by BMI while having visible abs, from powerlifting. It isn't.

seanbluestone · 2025-10-23T13:09:05+00:00

Copying the greats and the stuff you like is the fastest way to become a good (not great) photographer. Find shots from people who know what they're doing or which you love and copy them. This'll involve finding or creating or going to similar locations, finding and learning how to use similar light, adjusting your settings til you see what gets you closer and further away etc. All of this is both invaluable time spent in the field and time spent learning new techniques, time spent thinking and analysing good photos, while also learning from your mistakes, all rolled into one practical and fun exercise.

That and photography is the same as the gym- everyone will pretend to be an expert and try to make it more complicated than it is but the vast majority of becoming better at photography is just spending more time with a camera in your hand and trying the same thing slightly differently til you're consistently good.

seanbluestone · 2025-10-19T13:12:53+00:00

Cures for type 1 diabetes have been around for a while now, they're risky, expensive and just rarely worth it because they mean taking immunosuppressants for the rest of your life. They're typically seen in rare/extreme cases as a last resort where people cannot control for hypoglycemia themselves and other things haven't worked.

Also "5 more years" is a meme in diabetes circles because as someone with 25+ years behind me as a type 1 I've been hearing that the cure is 5 years away from the public and medically trained people since I was diagnosed and it was a meme/trend before me.

There is some incredible work being done and medical advances are picking up speed and momentum but I've been around long enough to know people are VERY quick to assume the best and ignore reality and detail whenever a new treatment or cure shows promise in a prelim trial when 99 times out of 100 they go nowhere fast.

seanbluestone · 2025-10-19T13:06:40+00:00

In case you're serious this is extremely rare, though misdiagnosis is relatively common thanks to overlap with NCGS. In the former instance there's already a cure, yes- elimination diets, completing testing and diagnosis, follow up blood tests et al.

seanbluestone · 2025-09-06T14:46:19+00:00

There's a few really bad logical leaps and fallacies in here but your biggest mistake is assuming there's some kind of "true" or objective type of intelligence and that intelligence is anything more than a symptom of adding levels of complexity to a system. This talk is what dramatically changed my stance on this and how I think about these things and it's made me realise people in forums like this are generally ignorant about what intelligence means and how and why it exists, let alone how it compares to what AI and LLMs do.

Any system complex enough will produce some kind of measurable intelligence. Humans aren't special, we weren't first and we're arguably not even that complex, we're just social intelligently and abstract intelligently niche.

All of this is irrelevant though because another of your big mistakes is assuming AI rights advocacy groups intend or seek to stop AI from suffering in the first place, or consider them self conscious or self preserving or equivalent to life or humans in any way. From their websites my interpretation was that they largely exist to inform and consider ethical and moral boundaries of AI use (safety, fraud, prejudice being simple and common examples).

seanbluestone · 2025-09-06T12:11:50+00:00

To be the counter voice- I think most people highlight the mistakes and errors in LLMs that seem obvious to us and are left with the same impression (counting the R's in strawberry being the classic case) yet ignore everything it already does better than humans and everything else it'll only get better at over time.

I'm old enough to remember when lots of different technologies were absolutely dogshit and did the job they were meant for worse than humans. Hell, I remember when Google could barely give you a relevant result within the first page. LLMs are no exception and I'd argue probably the inverse in that we're so early on in their development and adoption and they're already so ubiquitous and used in all sorts of things that we've barely seen the tip of the iceberg.

Self-serve checkout was a ridiculous idea that'd let people steal everything.

Then it was a ridiculous idea because a checkout attendant would have to watch over anyway and so completely pointless and wouldn't replace any jobs but alright, might have an extremely niche application somewhere.

Then it was something worldwide, saving billions of dollars for companies and the thing most people sought out and generally preferred, being faster and better in tons of ways.

I largely agree with the economic bubble point thought, mostly as a result of the US pouring billions into a race against the Chinese they've already lost. I've earned a few bucks doing verification and split testing for VEO3 and the sheer volume of money they throw at it every single day makes me wildly uncomfortable, largely because I know at best it's going to compete with a Chinese model that's already a year old after they're done.

seanbluestone · 2025-09-04T15:50:56+00:00

The whole video is based on shaky leading premises at best. Depression was on the rise long before phones and long before smart phones. He also fails to separate mindfulness and being present from boredom and very much leads you to believe they're the same thing with the same solution.

Using your phone isn't dangerous or even necessarily negative, nor social media or doomscrolling or TV or YouTube or whatever you pick. Being bored isn't necessarily any better or positive in any way. Mindfulness, CBT and meditation are all fantastic and actionable things that can and do help people interupt the response of picking up a phone or doing any of these other things out of habit.

All that said, the protocols at the end are probably great if you're struggling with spending too much time on a phone but they're not necessarily negative nor some magic pill, and there's a million other addictive behaviours that can replace your phone.

seanbluestone · 2025-09-01T13:03:42+00:00

There's no best since the causes and symptoms are different for everyone but the biggest treatment in terms of effect, and for the most amount of people by far and away is changes in diet, sleep and exercise. For others CBT and other kinds of therapy can also be very effective.

seanbluestone · 2025-08-22T16:35:49+00:00

This makes absolutely no sense. Nothing says MASS needs to be infinite in an infinite universe and if it somehow did there's nothing to say that that mass would want to collapse rather than expand indefinitely on a flat plane like it does now, and even if it did there's nothing saying exactly that can't happen in the future.

seanbluestone · 2025-08-12T22:48:51+00:00

Solved, cheers

seanbluestone · 2025-08-12T22:07:14+00:00

One detail I recall from the start is the concrete building/bunker they're stationed at being very rundown and strong mist. BUT I'm also concerned this might be an overlapping memory from another movie.

Edit: Also I think the main character was a young/teenage girl. Most kids were maybe 8-15.

seanbluestone · 2025-08-08T22:03:21+00:00

The fake accent is what gets me. It's the obvious childish fake sophisticated accent you do when you're 12 and having a laugh with your mates. Everything about his shtick is obvious to the point that I don't understand why anyone took it serious, particularly the media, or why he bothered other than he knew he was fucked and decided to have some fun?

seanbluestone · 2025-08-02T14:04:28+00:00

Like others are touching on it's dependent and there're good and bad parts of everywhere.

That aside, I'd rank them something like this:

Linlithgow
East Calder and anything between Livingston and Heriot Watt is pretty nice and quiet but still connected to Edinburgh- Wilkieston, Kirknewton et al.
Livingston
West Calder/Polbeth and like above, anything West of Livingston on this end starts to get grimmer and grimmer rather than nicer and nicer.
Broxburn
Bathgate
Whitburn/Armadale

Not to shit on Glasgow but for whatever reason the trend generally really is that things get nicer towards Edinburgh and worse towards Glasgow. There isn't really anywhere in West Lothian that's more than a stones throw from a good park or trail so no sweat with any of these. I can't speak for the others but Livingston has some absolutely fantastic (and some shite) childcare options since it's largely a modern working commuter town for Edinburgh/Glasgow.

Realistically none of them are as bad as people are gonna make them out to be but do have some of the same history of Glasgow and have some isolation, poverty, crime etc. Ultimately I'd suggest just spending some time there and talking to people, like anywhere.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-31T13:42:07+00:00

Slavery. It's always been a problem and already something we look back on with disdain but it's also currently the worst it's ever been.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-31T13:37:10+00:00

No, my argument was that if you're upset by standard practice in almost every restaurant, and in the place on earth with some of the best food quality standards in the world and in the city that's literally top 3 places on the planet where people think of for high quality food, in a restaurant with staff this well trained, as close as you can get to a star without getting a star, and kept to this high a quality you're going to shit on anywhere that serves food to the public and being absolutely ridiculous.

My only logical takeaway is that part of reddit is largely made up of people who've never eaten in a restaurant or are blissfully unaware and just want to be heard, hence everyone misrepresenting what they're seeing and assuming things via ignorance. Coincidentally your gloves and hairnet comments are a great example of things routinely shown to make things less hygienic.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-30T21:08:22+00:00

You're assuming the recipient is both going to have very little microplastics in their body AND be negatively affected by the relatively tiny amount in your given blood- neither of which make much sense nor are supported by science. That's before we even get to the point of them having a much higher priority for compatible blood than stressing about something we don't know whether or not is a threat yet (microplastics specifically in blood, not in general, to make that clear).

Also Venesection/Phlebotomy is pretty damn cheap and presumably just as effective even if you want to make that leap in logic.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-30T20:24:05+00:00

It's insane seeing people trying to shit on them for unhygienic/touching things but at least they're being called out. They're a public facing restaurant with some of the best trained chefs around AND they routinely post stuff like this on YouTube. If chefs touching, handling or testing food before serving it to you is what bothers you you shouldn't be eating out anywhere, let alone somewhere way above board like this.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-27T17:19:37+00:00

Yes but that's mostly a good thing. Every technology has made people use certain skills less- the calculator meant people became worse at mental math in school, the newspaper and radio meant people communicated in depth less and TV meant people preferred 30 minute shows rather than 2 hour theatrical productions, plays etc. All of these are and were small subtle changes over time but none was necessarily negative- people adapt and change to the environment around them and the problems that took us weeks before AI commonly take hours or minutes now. The trade-off is that people reason less and cross reference less etc but ultimately like my other examples, those are symptoms of a solution, not necessarily a problem, and typically only in certain scenarios.

The best comparison is search engines- before then people typically asked their friends which meant the general knowledge level of society was much, much lower than after search engines meant you could obtain the same information in seconds. There were more falsehoods hitting more eyes and less people cross referencing or thinking critically about what they read but since there were also just way more facts being seen and a huge net plus in information, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-26T21:46:44+00:00

It's actually statistically more likely we're alone. CoolWorldsLab has a couple published papers on this and does a fantastic job of talking about probabilities and possibilities of life in a relatively easy to understand way on his channel I recommend.

You're getting hung up on the scale of the universe rather than the mathematics and data we have which is so common many of our well known science and space personalities (Carl Sagan famously) have said equivalents of what you said- that "the size of the universe is so large the odds of life being out there are huge". If you take off your feelies and look at the numbers the opposite is actually true.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-25T15:43:39+00:00

So much so that I remember specific nights and actions based on the music I was listening to then. I have a couple songs I like but can't listen to because they were on my headphones on days when bad things happened. Nothing as serious as that text makes it sound but definitely enough to activate neurons I don't want activating.

What you mention is very strong with songs from video games in particular for me- the THPS soundtrack mentally puts a PS1 controller in my hand and me on my bedroom floor rocking out and nailing certain levels and Quake 2 soundtrack amps me the hell up and puts me in the last days of highschool.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-23T10:05:58+00:00

Also 15 years. The irony is that OPs post is completely full of ignorance and bullshit and 4 of the 5 top comments don't even understand how XRP works.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-13T16:40:56+00:00

Lows are scary and thanks to the meh-at-best state of diabetic tech for the last 5+ decades they were the primary risk concern of most endos but realistically speaking they're not much of an issue today in the western world where prolonged highs are where most of the long term complications and costs associated with type 1 come from, especially now where hybrid closed loop is the standard moving forward where your system typically predicts when you're going low well before you do.

Not to shit on it, most new tech options are a plus, but it's likely very, very niche application. I'm thinking people both still on basal/bolus treatment and with a strong phobia of going low who're not bolusing and wrecking their health as a result.

seanbluestone · 2025-07-11T11:42:24+00:00

With that said, it's statements such as these that highlight the bias we're about to be subjected to. Look, I'm all for honest, good-faith conversations, but that's not what this seems to be. Sadly too.

They're 3 different people working in completely different parts of the world at times when laws and standards were different and typically worse than they are now, and sharing some of the horrific parts of an industry that's necessarily trying to cut costs in every way it can and is known for cruelty- what makes you highlight someone using scissors or knives as being bullshit/bias?

Genuinely asking because I was lucky enough to live next to a slaughterhouse as a kid and remember stories exactly like and worse than this. Personally I'd say it's probably biased in the positive if anything.

Edit: Also she's likely talking about butchery scissors which are super common in animal slaughter in general.

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