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Most people are aware smoking causes lung cancer, respiratory issues and is bad for the heart. Most people are not aware they can lose a limb, become dependent on an oxygen tank, get dozens of other kinds of cancer, stunt the growth of their fetus or get other diseases I listed.
I think it is justified to force you to look at a picture of lung cancer on a pack of cigarettes. The mild annoyance you feel is a good thing, and might even cause a minor to question their parental smoking habits.
I really don't mind this practice at all. At most I'd say I just don't care. Like I said, there are other more important hills to die on.

2026-03-15 11:34:54 UTC

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Smoking does cause lung cancer. It also causes esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, mouth cancer, bladder cancer, cardiovascular disease, worsening of Graves orbitopathy, worsening of IBD symptoms, COPD, and much, much more.
Smoking companies have fought a long, hard battle and paid billions of dollars to lobbyists to trivialize smoking. Now other harmful companies employ similar tactics, like pharma companies.
One of their most successful methods in getting women to smoke was using psychology to trick women into thinking smoking symbolizes freedom. They paid Sigmund Freud's nephew for that particular stunt btw.
Libertarians pick the most retarded hills to die on. You should not be defending cigarette companies, ffs.

2026-03-15 11:28:41 UTC

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Oh look, it's a piece of shit!

2026-02-02 21:17:48 UTC

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We need better sourcing for these documents, lots of fakes floating around.

2026-01-31 09:50:29 UTC

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Well how would the Moroccans ever re-conquer Spain otherwise? Read some history! (This is sarcasm btw xD).

2026-01-31 09:38:18 UTC

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I don't know, I found Gloria's explanation done in a valley girl accent pretty convincing.
If you don't like NFTs, or whateveeeer...

2026-01-31 09:34:56 UTC

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It's almost like the majority of Core devs are compromised. Peter Todd and Gloria are verified shitcoiners and nobody should be taking seriously anything they say about, well, anything really.

2026-01-26 21:40:26 UTC

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You are a ridiculous person btw.

2026-01-26 21:28:33 UTC

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Yes, if I was the American government. However, I am not the American government. I am okay with killing some people, like violent recidivist criminals.
I am defending the use of violence to enforce laws. And I am also condoning taxation btw, because libertarianism and anarchism is utopian drivel. It's a seriously deficient ideology.
In a more bitcoinized world, it will be easier to choose which country gets to tax you, and states will have to compete more for your bitcoin, but taxes will always exist as long as there are states. Let's leave it at that.

2026-01-26 20:43:13 UTC

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Alright, what IS happening?

2026-01-26 18:47:38 UTC

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I see no problem in using violence to deport immigrant criminals from a country.

2026-01-25 00:58:07 UTC

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You said it in your OP, I'm not going to quote it to you. Have I misunderstood your statement?
Yes, the pedophile people are in the government, and they should be held accountable, but they won't be and that is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about ICE and illegal immigration.
That still doesn't change the fact you are letting in more of those people on the streets. Do we need to go over the very obvious dangers with illegal immigration? Because I haven't the time, it's fairly obvious.
You think it's crazy that we have people who enforce laws? What is this nonsense? Yes, I think if someone is a thief, there should be a guard, or a police officer that will use violence to remove that individual from my life and from society.

2025-04-02 16:06:59 UTC

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tl;dr install GrapheneOS? Ultimate irony that it can only be done on Google Pixel phones lol.

2025-04-02 11:19:37 UTC

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Bitcoiners are quick to believe insane bat-shit nonsense. Quick not to trust, but extremely slow with verifying, outright rejecting it in some cases.
Ancient aliens and ESP. Fml, I don't want anything to do with such levels of retardation. What's next? Is the Earth really flat?

2025-03-29 12:14:21 UTC

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Reducing the carbon footprint = killing people = elites just want more pencils.

2025-01-23 14:11:01 UTC

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Does Vitalik count? hahaha

2025-01-22 23:08:53 UTC

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You should check out Starting Strength. I think everyone should go through with their program. It changed my life.

2025-01-22 17:01:53 UTC

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I think Dunning Kruger is extremely strongly expressed with shitcoiners and tradfi investors. It is an exercise in futility talking to them.

2025-01-22 12:40:11 UTC

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Goddamn, finally. Glad to have you here!

2025-01-22 12:33:01 UTC

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AFAIK, a Roman-era built dam saved a town during the catastrophic flooding in Valencia, right?
Rome was a phenomenon, we are still obsessed with it, consciously or not.

2025-01-21 16:26:54 UTC

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Some of the most common pieces of FUD I see regurgitated over and over again are, in no particular order:
- The "imminent" quantum attack
- Inflation is necessary for muh economy
- BTC is for criminals (unlike banks, I guess?)
- Bitcoin boiling the oceans
- Bitcoin being "controlled" by whales
- Being too late to bitcoin
- Bitcoin is risky
- Self-custody is dangerous and hard, so keep all your stack on the exchange
- The imminent danger of a 51% attack due to miner (actually pool) centralization
That's just off the top of my head. I see a very, very strong Dunning Kruger effect in the tradfi community, especially.

2025-01-21 01:55:18 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV5HlbPTM

2024-12-07 17:45:24 UTC

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Those are shitcoin forks with barely any activity on them compared to bitcoin, which makes them completely irrelevant.

2024-12-07 11:29:19 UTC

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So what's the solution? Even if we lower the block size, these morons will continue burning cash to push their scams.

2024-11-30 16:12:12 UTC

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No, Covid was bat shit...

2024-11-22 17:19:41 UTC

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I only get sore from doing squts if I haven't been doing them in a while, and it's not like I am lifting terribly low weights.
Try doing 3 sets of 5, that's usually more than enough to gain strength.

2024-10-26 17:58:38 UTC

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The guy is a fucking vapid piece of shit who treats women like trash. Fuck him and fuck all the people who view him as any kind of guru that needs to be worshiped.
By all means, he should eat blocks of margarine and drink a glass of sunflower oil every morning, at least we'll be rid of him sooner. Moron.

2024-10-17 15:46:12 UTC

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Iodine from the contract can absolutely cause acute thyrotoxicosis called "thyroid storm" in some rare cases, which is why it is (theoretically) important to check TSH/fT4 levels before doing an iodine contrast CT scan.
But it's not an allergy, and is not a contraindication to perform a contrast CT.

2024-10-17 15:35:45 UTC

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It is biologically impossible to be allergic to iodine. Allergies are due to the other part of the iodine contrast mediums, not iodine itself.

2024-10-17 15:28:04 UTC

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Woah, just discovered this thanks to you. Any episode recommendations?

2024-10-17 15:22:15 UTC

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I never actually understood why allergy to iodine contrast mediums was interpreted as an allergy to iodine itself.

2024-10-15 13:20:10 UTC

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It feels like everybody has pre-diabetes (re dubbed insulin resistance) these days.

2024-10-13 14:13:42 UTC

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But how will the unproductive wellfare class influence policy?

2024-10-13 13:56:05 UTC

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I remember reading that all those years ago. Bitcoiners should adopt the same attitude when it comes to the state instead of simping for ETFs.

2024-10-12 13:36:15 UTC

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Unnecessary and also not in line with our ancestral physiology. It was much more common to not have food than it was to not have water. I don't think dry fasts are worth it unless you are after bragging rights.

2024-10-10 21:33:42 UTC

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The purer and harder the liquor, the better.
It's still literally poison lol.

2024-10-08 19:22:43 UTC

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So... we're fucked either way? I thought using my own node with whirlpool would mitigate the problem. And when sw got shut down, I thought I was clever for using jam (joinmarket), lol.
What's the best alternative then? Using lightning, like submarine swaps?

2024-10-07 14:20:17 UTC

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1. Egoxenous cholesterol does not affect endogenous cholesterol production. ~90% of cholesterol is produced in the liver, so if you increase your dietary intake, the liver will just produce less. Cholesterol is very, very important and its production is dictated by very old genes.
2. Sugar is bad, m'kay.
3. Sugar and carbs might as well be used as synonyms. I think this is part of a language game where ignorant people will say that carbs aren't the problem, but sugar is. All carbs except fibre, which is completely useless by itself, gets broken down into monosaccharides, most commonly glucose, which is then metabolized by the body.
4. Seed oils are pure poison.
5. So just drink raw milk 😉
Honestly, though, if you aren't actively doing resistance training, milk probably shouldn't be in your diet anyway due to relatively high carbs. It's a quick source of complete protein, however. Plant protein is not complete protein, though, so I see no reason for ever drinking a plant "milk" product, unless for the taste.

2024-10-04 14:12:45 UTC

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I'll just say that the definition for hypertension gets updated to lower and lower values every ~15 years or so. Used to be that a systolic BP of over 140 was considered hypertensive and an indication to treat, but now...
The AHA, which is probably the most corrupt health organization in America, has decided that a BP over 130 is hypertensive and should be treated. As a rule, it is probably best to ignore what the AHA has to say, since it is more of a marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies than a real medical organization. I would treat all the medical doctors working for them as prostitutes.
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2024-10-04 10:51:24 UTC

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You shouldn't trust anyone, ever. The average health podcaster has no idea what they are talking about, yet they are quite confident in their (lack of) knowledge.
Probably easy for me to talk since I am a doctor, so I can smell the bullshit, but any person owes it to themselves to verify information. People should get comfortable using pubmed and get educated on how to verify medical information.
1. Always search for RCTs and Systematic reviews of RCTs, observational studies CANNOT establish a causal link.
2. Always make sure to read the proposed effect size. If the RR of an observational study is 1.2, just ignore it and continue living your life (that's the correlation between LDL and heart disease btw). Anything under 2 is simply not worth your time.
3. Always check who funded and authored the study. I ignore any nutritional study, no matter its supposed quality, published by Loma Linda university because those people have a religious goal with promoting vegetarianism.
4. Don't trust any new drug studies, always wait for at least ~7years before taking any new drug seriously. 7 years is the average time it takes to recall a dangerous drug from the market.
5. Be very skeptical about large effect claims and surrogate markers. I don't care if a diabetic drug improves glycemic control if people die more frequently while taking it or if the mortality rate remains the same.
I recommend reading Malcolm Kendrick's book "Doctoring Data" and "Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime" by P. Gotzsche to learn more.
It is essential for the person to understand that medical research and medicine in general has been completely corrupted by pharmaceutical companies and governmental regulators. It is better to assume deception while reading a research study than honesty.

2024-09-14 15:39:07 UTC

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Wasn't Rumble banned in Brazil last year?

2024-09-13 16:52:29 UTC

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What changed my mind was that I used to be fat, but then out of desperation I wanted to try out carnivore (I really, really never liked vegetables).
I have a biomedical background, so I was programmed to hate keto, for no good reason. I also repeatedly did the calorie counting thing, succeeded only once before yo-yoing back to obesity.
See, what they don't tell you about calorie counting is that it is a miserable existence. Sure, starting out with an 1800 kcal goal will make you lose weight, but in a month that will go down to 1600, then I had to maintain a 1300 kcal intake just to not gain weight. Our bodies really, really dislike losing stored fat, especially if insulin constantly remains high due to ultraprocessed garbage food they give us.

2024-09-10 19:33:24 UTC

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Pizza is probably the worst junk food a human could eat. It is both high in carbs and fat (never mix the two), but is relatively low in protein.
It is also made with harmful seed oils.

2024-09-09 14:48:14 UTC

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I hope in the future we will have many smaller states and people will be able to choose where they want to be taxed. I think it will be pretty obvious which system actually works better.
In my personal experience, most socialist simply can't understand economic thinking. They do not understand working for profit or how it can have a positive impact on society, they need to micromanage everything. Socialism is the ultimate act of intellectual masturbation.

2024-09-06 17:56:53 UTC

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It is still your fundamental right and legal arguments can be made based on its guarantee in the Bill of rights. The people in Europe probably believe their rights come from the state, as opposed to being only guaranteed by the state.
The state has been trying to subvert and circumvent your rights since the very beginning. An argument could be made that even your income tax is unconstitutional, yet it's still there.

2024-09-06 17:43:14 UTC

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There is no more compelling an argument for a 2A than the state of the European Union countries (+UK), Venezuela and Brazil. Our governments have become tyrannical. We are now openly discussing how to censor speech in order to save democracy. The status quo is being maintained by the people with a vested interest in maintaining the power structure.
i.e. our politicians need to learn to fear their people again, it seems.

2024-09-06 17:40:09 UTC

Good, I thought cheap #sats were over and done with.

2024-09-05 15:18:39 UTC

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"Mastercard's card does have fees, including a €1.6 issuance fee, €1 monthly maintenance fee, and a 0.95% transaction fee. "
Mastercard can kindly go fuck itself.

2024-09-03 17:48:34 UTC

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Recently read 6 pillars of self-esteem and the entire book can be probably summed up in this quote lol.

2024-09-03 15:05:04 UTC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9YshY3aEQ

2024-08-24 11:02:45 UTC

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It's absurd considering how many shitcoin shills are still allowed to peddle their nonsense.

2024-08-14 19:56:23 UTC

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As long as we are incentivized to treat symptoms of chronic disease instead of attempting to work out a cure in lifestyle modification, nothing will change and medicine is doomed to become just another long con.

2024-08-13 10:12:59 UTC

Enlightenment brought about the separation of church and state, now we must separate money and state.