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Expectations: picture in the post

Reality: SELECT count(*) FROM watch_history WHERE year = 2022

Why IF works for weight loss: caloric deficit.

Why keto works for weight loss: caloric deficit.

Why %dietname% works for weight loss: caloric deficit.

Why does IF improve health: you lose excess weight and your health markers get back to normal.

Why does keto improve health: you lose excess weight and your health markers get back to normal.

Why does %dietname% improve health: you lose excess weight and your health markers get back to normal.

Yet another study supports this claim.

Mostly, there’s really nothing more to add to it. People often forget that correlation doesn’t mean causation and give diets some exceptional qualities, while the effects they see are caused by the mere fact they lost weight. And you can lose weight on beer and ice cream (literally) and still improve your health.

IF is merely a timing protocol, for the most people it’s primarily helpful to control hunger and to not dive deep into counting calories (as satiety is achieved faster by having larger meals in smaller time window), maybe some can benefit from keeping insulin levels low. That’s all.

So eat a balanced diet, lose excess weight and improve your health markers, but it’s up to you whether to follow IF.

P. S. I see posts like “eating 6 meals bad”, but I can eat 8 meals while doing IF (I guess I’m always in postprandial state while not fasting), so there’s absolutely no relation between those.

Barring “hurr durr Big Beer lobby” and “weed banned cuz racism in 60s”, it’s not studied thoroughly yet. For now we know that smoking weed before an individual turns 25 hurts brain development with repercussions still unknown. And I guarantee you kids will be smoking joints since school. Alcohol, due to its effect and withdrawal effects, is too strong of a drug to be used as regularly by a random individual comparing to weed, so please don’t bring it to discussion.

Edit: Oh no, I hurt the Big Weed feelings.

If a single person setups a CPU miner, they have a negligible chance to mine a block. A single GPU slightly increases the chance. An ASIC - even more. But anyway the chance is so small you won’t even cover electricity bill. Because the complexity of “work” that needs to be done is insane.

So you’re proposing for individuals to organize a pool, I wonder why no one did that to try to compete with people that occupy abandoned mines with ASICs.

Not everything useless for you is useless in general.

Given how much effort and energy does it take to mine Bitcoin nowadays, mining is pretty much centralized. No, not “anyone” can setup Bitcoin miners.

The other user explained it. Chinese pollution is bad, mmmkay, but it doesn’t mean we can litter everywhere until it’s resolved. Or that we shouldn’t solve our local environmental problems. I currently live in a place with AQI 200 at certain hours of the day, people here couldn’t care less about the Chinese and their pollution, let alone fishnets as it’s pretty damn far from the sea.

From my side, I can confirm there’s no fishnets in the forest. No, sir. There are plastic bags though. I’m sure billionaires with their private jets didn’t drop them, it’s ordinary people which got a free plastic bag who do it. However, they kinda lack incentive to get a reusable bag that would last years. I personally use a cloth bag, yet the cashiers still ask if I need a plastic one.

What about the war in Ukraine, ISIS, and starving African children who suffer from malaria? As a humanity, we absolutely can’t tackle multiple issues at once, so let’s sort them from the most severe to less severe first, then solve one by one. Up until then me and my friends will collect fishnets that billionaires drop from their private jets onto the nearest park and forest. And plastic bags.