Criticize? Get into your local party. Get progressives in as dog catchers, then city council, then mayor, then state legislator, comptroller, a tourney general, then governor, then national representative, senator, then president with a party that will support their agenda.

If progressives are the only ones who win primaries then progressives will be the candidates.

Yimby traitors?

What’s wrong with yimbys?

They won’t solve the underlying problem. Sure, that requires wealth redistribution, but where is the downside?

This is my most common fantasy if I somehow came into a billion dollars.

It’s a fantasy, but I would create an apartment complex with mixed 1 2 and 3 bedrooms and set the rent below market value and then find a lawyer to draw up a legal document to turn it into a co-op so that after enough people moved in I could turn control over to them.

If I were a multibillionaire I would do this again and again until non market housing was normal In my city, and anyone wanting to build housing has to compete with a bunch of non market housing.

I believe everything you have said here. I haven’t looked it up recently but it’s certainly plausible. I don’t think ozempic is a miracle drug, just one drug that will be widely prescribed like statins and blood pressure drugs have been.

Certainly it would be better to get the benefits of ozempic from diet if we could. We should pursue those other avenues I mentioned earlier. I see people struggling with access to Ozempic and other glp1 meds every day and speak to on average half a dozen of them, and the denials and roadblocks out healthcare system throws up has worn on me.

“Again, I just want to again reiterate: Literally everything Ozempic does positively, from dementia to cravings to weight-loss, can be achieved by eating a healthy diet. Period. Full stop.”

I’m not ignoring you. It’s just not relevant. People could eat better, but nobody does. I see the people around me all my life everyone is dieting and resolving to change their behavior and buying healthier food and going to weight watchers and having bariatric surgery and they are NOT losing weight and they are getting diabetes and suffering chronic pain and many of them are becoming disabled.

If anyone could do it, it wouldn’t be a society wide issue. 60-70% of the people in my city are overweight and the percentage goes up over time. Sure, technically, anyone could change their diet, but they won’t.

Maybe we need to change our transportation infrastructure so biking is easier and walking more reasonable. Maybe we need to change our food regulation so our groceries and restaurant food is less processed. Maybe we need to change our taxation structure to encourage the production and consumption of healthy foods. Maybe we need to do all that, but people know what healthy diets consist of and they DO NOT eat that way. Sugar and fat and cheese and meat and deep fried deep fry are delicious and people will eat delicious food far in excess of their needs and telling people to eat their vegetables is tone deaf, counter - productive, and ultimately, cruel.

Nobody around me is suffering from malnutrition. Meat is very nutritious. That is why our bodies crave it. Bread is fortified with micronutrients. Yes, eating more leafy greens would benefit basically everyone where I live. But Lectures are worse than useless, when obesity is killing and maiming people every day.

Factually correct and wrong in every way that matters.

Have you struggled with oveeating? Food is as addictive as nicotine but you have to have it every day, just not too much.

That’s not realistic. Not for the majority. It’s just not.

That’s some Grade A denial right there.

Everything in the Handmaid’s tale was inspired by real life somewhere. Saudi Arabia for women’s restricted travel.

I would put nothing past y’all quaida.

That’s all true.

I learned about Lemmy from reddit.

Soooo…

Where is the trap? There have been tons of women in my life that if celircumstances were (totally) different I would be down for sex, but they aren’t. I’m married, they are in committed relationships, and we don’t bring it up beyond maybe some silly flirting.

I am happy they are my friends. A couple of them turned me down when circumstances WERE different, but I still value the relationship, as friends. I value their company, and that’s enough. I am better off knowing them and I hope they feel the same.

They chose each other.

This is a no true scottsman on critical thinking.

I’m going to copy my reply to Barney above.

We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.

If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.

You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.

You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.

In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.

The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.

We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.

If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.

You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.

You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.

In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.

The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.

All of that can be done, badly. Which is how people do it. See the discourse around any popular drama, people have the skills, they just use them in service of their own pre conceived notions.

It’s bleak, but if you want to persuade a large number of people to think differently, you don’t challenge their worldview, you create new biases that they will then defend in their own.

See: trump’s constant repetition of blatant lies.

The average person has lots of critical thinking.

It’s just not a life hack to truth. You can critical think yourself into any conclusion. The average person uses critical thinking to reinforce their biased instead of challenge them.

I remember learning about Twitter from penny arcade. It sounded moronic then and it remains moronic now.

They lost touch with reality a long time ago. They will blame Democrats, or Canada, or Aliens.

Walmart cut costs to the bone and squeezed down on what thrift stores used to charge.

Thrift stores are a deal compared to Macy’s, JC Penny, and such.