Crook Dogg

Like with most new drugs it’s something to keep an eye on, though I would be weary of using a source with such a significant financial bias.

I’m not sure where you read that, but as far as I know it doesn’t cause people to starve themselves. It suppresses hunger so they eat a normal amount of food in an era where calorie-dense, hyperpalatable food is the norm.

Diet and exercise is the gold standard, but some people just can’t regulate their diet for whatever reason. Be it discipline or genetics. Ultimately though it doesn’t matter because the bottom line is a staggering amount of people are at an unhealthy weight.

Being overweight is so bad for your health that known side effects of a drug like ozempic are negligible in comparison. The ones we know about, anyway.

I agree, but if we look at the CDC: Percent of adults age 20 and older with overweight, including obesity: 72.4% (August 2021-August 2023)

72 point freakin’ 4 percent.

With numbers like that, obesity is more like an epedemic and ozempic is a potential treatment.

I dunno, I think the tides of public opinion are shifting on ozempic. Mostly because of how absolutely awful being fat is on your body. Though, where it’s priced now it’s going to remain a designer drug for vain, rich assholes with a touch of sour grapes for everyone else.

In my own opinion I wouldn’t even put it in the same category as those others.

Man, all this time the BUY GOLD grandpas were right.

The worst thing is everyone’s 401k is gonna be left holding the bag.

This was preventable, but US healthcare is only reactionary.

War crime? More like bore crime. It’s time for some cagefighting at the White House! WOOOOO!!!

So, what scams are happening? Is this a “do not redeem” type of thing?

Visa is gonna hand over my bank details to a chatbot, but if I want to buy a game with anime tits Visa flips the fuck out and starts threatening platforms.

This is an insanely poignant analogy. At least the Romans had their collosium before they fell. We ain’t even got that.

It’s okay, the boat didn’t have any trafficked little girls for his operation.

Imagine this is your understanding of “communism” and the history of southeast asia.

Would explain some of the unironic tankposting I’ve seen.

I’ll stop short of eating ze bugs, haha. Despite how min-maxed grubs are nutritionally, I’m too squeamish for that.

It feels like it’s been the last decade or so that alternative products like the plant patty and things like hard seltzers have been formulated to taste significantly less awful than they used to. Or my tastebuds are changing, both can be true to some degree.

Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they’ll actually have a shot when they don’t cost more than the actual meat.

Don’t companies usually wait until after their IPO to enshittify their products?

The browser wars have been kind of strange from the perspective of someone who’s been using Firefox for well over a decade. It’s a bit like hearing about the Civil War while living in Oregon.

But it’s what plants crave.

All they needed to do was not be so scummy with people’s data and I think most would have been okay with the tradeoff. I would have bought one of their VR headsets if I didn’t think they were gonna scrape every aspect of its use and sell my gooning habits to advertisers.