Tar_Alcaran

Also, let me point out that flying a drone at an armed person is an excellent method of getting them to shoot at it. And while drones are rather hard to hit, schools tend to be full of kids who are much easier to hit.

Also, who is going to operate this? And train on it? It’s not easy to do this, so I’m assuming it’ll be untrained morons fucking things up as usual.

“it was I who cheated. Doesn’t that make me amazing?”

Art is a financial risk. Wide and shallow appeal sells tickets

It depends entirely on what colour baseball cap the base CO wears on his days off.

All these things are true. But they are far from true for the vast majority of obese people. Once you realize that you are, at least partially, contributing to the problem, you make it possible to, at least partially, SOLVE the problem.

I have PCOS, I have hereditary thyroid issues. Those all contribute to obesity. I also retain a fuckton of water when it’s that time of the month. I also used to have BED.

And then I went to a therapist who basically said “so, what if you had to the power to fix a quarter of the problem? Would you do it?” I said yes, and she said “Then why aren’t you?” That was a super shitty thing to say to a 19 year old, but she was entirely correct. I could fix a quarter of my problem!

So I stopped infantilizing myself, and said I was able to lose a quarter of my overweight kilos. And you know, once that first quarter was off, it turns out that taking ownership of a problem will actually let you work on that problem.

PCOS and hypothyroidism and water retention don’t magically put fat inside your body. You can absolutely lose weight with them. It’s not as fast as someone who is otherwise healthy, sure, and that’s kinda unfair, but its also not impossible. It’s just slower, and my caloric needs are lower than other people while my stomach started out at the same size and with the same demands for satiation. And yeah, that sucks. I will gain weight if I eat the same portions as my husband, even though I do bodybuilding, sword fighting and am very active. That’s just how it works, and no amount of crying will fix that. None of my other problems went away, but I decided to deal with them instead of ignoring them. (Although the PCOS is much better without the obesity, and the BED was a lot easier to handle in therapy without the guilt)

You can recognise the unfairness and work on it, or you can just raise your hands, pretend it’s entirely out of your control and deal with obesity. Lots and lots of people opt for number two these days.

Your life on the fediverse improves significantly if you just block the entire lemmy.ml and hexbear.net instances.

The reason is, and I’ll bet a lot of money on this: an LLM told them to.