good message, but bad post:

• climate has nothing to do with the rest
• poverty existed pre-indistrialisation
• poverty kills people in non-fascist organisations
  • fascists always promised to solve poverty (german fascism = “national socialism”)

i haven’t played magic in a long time. is that considered balanced? the card seems quite OP…

does anyone have the actual written law? it is hard to argue using summaries or even opinion pieces of musky boy.

exactly because of allergies it is important to stick to the menu. if someone has a real allergy, not ‘i fart a little more’, they know exactly what they can and cannot eat. so they will order what they know is safe and the restaurant knows how to prepare the stuff on the menu.

i dont know how bad you can mess someone up with lactose, but milk has a large possibility of cross contamination. i know you can kill someone with celiac disease from just a little cross contamination. so lets just not risk it.

as they should. i dont like american culture, where some people seem to think it is ok to take an item of the menu and alter pretty much everything about it.

btw: if you want to be treated like a king in france… look up history

all good. i know it can be frustrating, to constantly repeat the same points. therefore tones may slip. if you allow me to give some advice, keep reading. otherwise have a great day, and ignore the rest of this post.

i think it is useful to target the most powerful party: “you claim that …” (the person trying to learn something) becomes “they claim that …” (the company selling something). that way the person (if that person is genuinely trying to learn) is not pushed into a defensive stance.

additionally dont forget that you may be an expert on a certain toppic. but others are not and therefore need much more context to pick up just the right keywords. e.g: what is DEXA and why does a scan for osteopenia matter for body fat? or is +/-5% your personal quality gate or is it a medical standard?

anyway, i hope this shows why ppl may disagree with a post - even if agreeing with the main message. have a great day.

you don’t seem to get my point entirely, so ill try to explain it here. your standpoint seems to be:

• body fat cannot be determined by impedance
• the measurements are that unreliable that the mere presence of the measurement hurts more than it helps

you present these points as expert, not as your opinion. in the comment thread you write: “I’m happy to delve into this subject in as much depth as you may be interested in”. when someone asks you for sources, supporting these points (presumably because they are interested) - you deflect and take a combative stance. it is deflection, as you ask the person trying to learn something, to find proof that your point is wrong. since you (initially) did not provide sources for your points - you seem to take the absence of evidence (from the companies selling these) as evidence, that it can not work and will cause harm.

This line of argumentation makes me second guess your motivation. even though i agree with the overall viewpoint. i am not asking you to prove it is a scam. as you mentioned it is tedious and wasteful to prove every new scam attempt false. so if you shift your argumentation just slightly (which you did in your reply to me), the whole second guessing of motivation won’t occur:

• The companies selling these products don’t provide any proof, that these scales work as advertised
• especially in medicine it is required to proof, that the benefits hugely outweigh the drawbacks
• who is more likely to tell you a falsehood: the person actively trying to sell you something or the one not selling anything?
  • -> be more skeptical of the person with a motivation to mislead you and ask them to provide proof and sources

these points are a very strong argument IMO and don’t require to do any more research. but they seem much more genuine as you don’t appear go back on wanting to discuss the subject and don’t take a combative stance towards the person probably trying to learn something.

man i largely agree with what you are saying and there are tons of useless ‘fitness’ products.

but you cannot claim to be “happy to delve into the subject” and when asked for sources simply deflect. you have to remember, that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

so if you want to believabily present yourself as an expert on the subject and have such an absolute standpoint - you need to present some good reasons. otherwise you have to soften your standpoint to something akin to: “there has ben no proof of its reliability”. everything stronger seems disingenuous.

or the “Head-up-Display we have at home”

i thought she wants to be more active on bluesky now

link to original artist: https://bsky.app/profile/ironlily.bsky.social/post/3lllqn62cxs2h

please don’t do double speak: calling it a roman salute is already trying to give it any historical rationalisation.

it is a nazi salute. there is little to no evidence of romans doing that salute. the only history with that gesture starts around 1914.

enabled by the american adult. they had to choose between the fascist party and anything else. they chose the fascist or closed their eyes…

there should be a rule that, if you sell stuff, which produces rubbis - you have to provide enough bins for said trash.

ok, that sounds better. does insurance pay for HRT where you are, or what does that cost you? generally i think doing sports should not be behind a paywall (except equipment, which is hard to circumvent).

but in that case, it may be the best thing available to prevent shenanigans like the linked story.

i like that: just sports, not womens- or mens- or trans- or whatever- sports. but by which system do you stop an all males team identifying as women for the duration of a weightlifting competition?

i dont have a good answer. but i was hoping someone in the discussion has.

agreed, testosterone (or other hormones) are a flawed system for categorising competitors. so is weight class, as women generally have a higher body fat ratio. so is any system we can come up with. however what I categorize MYSELF as, is probably the worst system. trans people should, like any other person, be able to do sports. but to have competition we need a better system then people choosing their opponents.

so that is why i am asking what systems you guys suggest.

obviously I care about those too. same as any steroids, PEDs, own-blood doping and whatever drugs, hormones or whatever they invent to increase performance. and stop crying for trans women. the example i mentioned was basically a trans woman with zero treatment. even if he was an obvious troll.

the whole argument is about having a reasonably fair and therefore interesting competition.

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while you are technically correct, most people would consider an iphone american, a samsung korean and a huawei chinese phones. although silicone, transistors, pcbs, etc. are from the same places you mentioned. assembly is likely china for anything requiring soldering…

here are some USB stick brands and where their home base (and most of the money) is:

• samsung - south korea
• sandisk - usa
• kingston - usa
• intenso - germany
• hama - germany
• philips - germany / netherlands
• disk2go (office world group) - switzerland
• toshiba - japan
• adata - taiwan

as you can see, there are many non-american companies selling USB memory. you get to choose where most of the money goes. we both know most of the 30 plus bucks you pay, does not go to the people doing the soldering.

edit: change manufacturers to brands for accuracy