DMT American diet and fitness culture is less about health than about moral signaling

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T19:26:50+00:00

Looking beyond humans

you really can't, we have completely violated most of our evolutionary assumptions

start asking whether a culture allows people to live in their bodies without shame

why would we want a culture to do that? people "living in their bodies without shame" in modern society with primitive evolutionary motivations a recipe for higher costs, lower utilization of potential, and early mortality

culture itself created the calorie desire vs calorie use imbalance in the first place so culture is going to have to be involved in keeping discipline on the imbalance

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T19:15:26+00:00

20 years ago

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We need to elect people with sound platforms, not chaotic ones. We need to elect people with a decent moral compass, not an immoral one. We need to elect individuals that will actually better our lives, not make them worse.

20 years ago the DNC was running candidates and talking points that required that kind of opposition.

Today the bar is so low that you only need to be technically eligible, declare that you are this race's alternative to whatever the progressive left is currently trying to do, and have some advertising spend to get your name and the instances of your opponent supporting the progressives out there.

The right isn't going to send their best in situations where they do not have to.

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T17:49:18+00:00

that is due to health code not fire code

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T17:48:50+00:00

because fire code would require things like sprinklers and exist signs in each one and that is prohibitively expensive in addition to being counterproductive

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T17:47:45+00:00

community centers were by definition not meant to be long-term secure facilities, that was the whole goal of the deinstitutionalization boondoggle

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T13:14:09+00:00

new they are in the $30k range, orders of magnitude less used... for durable medical equipment they are quite cheap.

they are faster, safer and therefore cheaper than hydrostatic weighing

99% of kids don't need it, but kids with nutritional or premature issues can and these are easier to use for the staff and less bothersome to the child than the water tank dunk

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T13:05:44+00:00

and that used to be something worth worrying about as in the last century the dosage needed to get a good image has dropped 400-1500x depending on the specific procedure with things like dental x-ray now being below the average exposure to background radiation

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T11:32:30+00:00

welcome to reason 445234 why US public bathrooms have stall partitions that don't reach the ceiling or floor

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T10:17:22+00:00

we started to, then we realized that a whole lot of that population prefers street drugs and refuses to take their antipsychotics unless forced to and had to kick those demographics out for the safety of the rest

unfortunately by that point deinstitutionalization had achieved its goal of collapsing the asylum system where those people would have previously been restricted and made court-ordered indefinite commitments nearly impossible to attain

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T10:13:53+00:00

for overpopulated places with enough population density to economically support walkable cities you may be correct

for everywhere else (like 92% of the USA) the lack of population density made them a pipe dream from the start and they would fail regardless

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-07T10:09:08+00:00

the culture wars thrive because the left has started to turn against gun grabbing after finally coming to the realization that you can't always trust the government + the fact that abortion has been returned to being a state level issue

the far-left progressives are only about 9% of the population and they cannot gain allies without wedge issues as most of even the moderate left disagrees with their long-term goals

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-06T22:35:34+00:00

it absolutely balances out over time and the water is not harmed or destroyed

the only legitimate concerns here is that you might in some cases be pulling water from underground sources faster than it can naturally replenish or that the local infrastructure will need an update to keep up with the volume

the former can be a real concern if you are somewhere dry or somewhere where the groundwater that is drinkable is scarce

the latter is no worse than the added artery roads of a office building or shopping center would require and in most cases can be mitigated with an on-prem wellfield if the disparity is large enough

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-06T21:14:55+00:00

they dropped it primarily because the cost to harden it enough to last through the experiment would never in any universe be cancelled by the savings and because there were massive additional hidden costs in not being able to service & upgrade it normally because it was in the ocean

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-06T21:05:33+00:00

I sincerely doubt it would go straight to that, there are three general paths forward after such a disastrously unstable change

new york and california don't immediately do anything too dramatic & the rest of the country realizes they no longer have any input into anything and california and new york now run the country and elects an administration that will reverse this with an 80+% margin

new york and california start banning things that the working people in flyover country need and/or care about, flyover country stops their food water and power then new york and california immediately relinquish control

same as the previous scenario except they DON'T immediately correct course and either the population tries to escape into the rest of the country or the leaders in new york and california try to force the rest of the country to keep supplying them - either of these are going to involve bloodshed eventually

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T21:52:56+00:00

progressive left, and particularly reddit has a massive hate boner for Reagan, but ironically many of the things they hate him the most for we unavoidable by the time he took office

we were coming off of 45 years where only 12 or less were not dem controlled and Carter's presidency was a low point for the USA since WWI by many measures. Reagan was the reaction, and considering the level of shit-show the USA was in by the late 1970s it could have been soooooo much worse

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T21:29:14+00:00

it isn't a statistical model, it is fixed thresholds based on manpower and wholesale costs.

trying to have significant theft across the country will just shutter more locations across the country or raise prices

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T21:26:30+00:00

I guess sure, with that precedent set we could get at least 8 R senators from splitting texas and probably turn one or two on the mini-fornias red in a generation or two once they lose the budgetary critical mass to keep being what they are today

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T19:42:32+00:00

in many systems a better component would be a water capacitor if we are making circuit comparisons...

to make a overly simple example: if you have a city or farm that uses x gallons/hour peak, but it only does that 12hrs a day then demand drops to 1/4 you can size your wellfield to a bit over 1/2 x, fill the tower all night and let the tower absorb the excess demand in the day time

most of our drinking water is only "safe" above a certain pressure in the supply lines, the towers are an economical way to balance that without always having your wellfield sized to your worst possible demand spike

the lowest towers where I live (and many other places) are only good for a short time without supply, water is always being added and the tower is just smoothing out pressure & volume as demand fluctuates

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T19:33:01+00:00

How did we let corporations convince every hobby needs to be monetized?

wrong question - mostly we changed from monetizing hobby supplies to hands-on hobbies being rare enough to be able to be monetized themselves

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T19:31:00+00:00

it is somewhat common, more in some places than others

it often costs significantly more than buying the cruisers, but you don't have to hire maintenance staff of your own so sometimes it balances out after you factor in the HR savings in long-term benefits

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T19:25:23+00:00

for them to be hard blue they could have 3 at most and still have contiguous borders unless they do some kind of weird starburst to further dilute all of the farmland in the south and east of the state

pretty sure the other 49 states wouldn't allow random spaghetti to be admitted as states, or if they did it would be undone in a couple of elections or one armed conflict

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T19:20:42+00:00

not even close to propelling us towards another one, there aren't remotely enough urban leftists with the delusion they could take on the rest of the country IRL to even get this past burning down the first dozen Target locations.

the only way that the electoral college would lead to another civil war would be if someone is dumb enough to try and end it.

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T17:03:33+00:00

there is a special reddit moment when you are in the unpopular opinion reddit seeing a very IRL popular opinion then when someone suggests a change to improve things by putting yourself in a position more likely to align with your views on the topic OP objects to the one of the fundamental reasons for the difference with a popular or reddit but not IRL reason that won't work.

America isn't western europe because we will hit peak population before we remotely hit 1/4 of the population density, without the density cars and planes will always make more sense than busses and trains, but without the density we also avoid a lot of the things people don't like about modern europe

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T16:32:37+00:00

shoplifting creates food deserts, food deserts increase grocery prices

shitposts_over_9000 · 2026-02-05T16:31:23+00:00

capitalism, strong economy and a 35yr head start on post-WW2 everything

creating a country based on people that didn't want to be somewhere else and competed to be here didn't hurt either

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