Hail Saint Nick
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I have an education in human biology but I'm not a metabolic expert. That said, I do know rough energy conversions and mass balance as an engineer, which helps more than you'd think in having a nose for bullshit
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I have an education in human biology but I'm not a metabolic expert. That said, I do know rough energy conversions and mass balance as an engineer, which helps more than you'd think in having a nose for bullshit
Michael Hobbes has a podcast called Maintenance Phase about this that I've listened in on a couple episodes.
I can't vouch for it 100% but it seems to pass the sniff test for for for not getting suckered in by fad diets or junk science.
I can't vouch for it 100% but it seems to pass the sniff test for for for not getting suckered in by fad diets or junk science.
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Michael Hobbes has a podcast called Maintenance Phase about this that I've listened in on a couple episodes.
I can't vouch for it 100% but it seems to pass the sniff test for for for not getting suckered in by fad diets or junk science.
I can't vouch for it 100% but it seems to pass the sniff test for for for not getting suckered in by fad diets or junk science.
Averages are averages. I'm just pointing out that people gain weight over extended periods of time and it's not like most people just decide to eat 200 extra Big Macs in a month
Also, I happen to be an average sized person for whom my ~25lb makes me pretty overweight
Also, I happen to be an average sized person for whom my ~25lb makes me pretty overweight
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Averages are averages. I'm just pointing out that people gain weight over extended periods of time and it's not like most people just decide to eat 200 extra Big Macs in a month
Also, I happen to be an average sized person for whom my ~25lb makes me pretty overweight
Also, I happen to be an average sized person for whom my ~25lb makes me pretty overweight
For comparison, enough tomatoes to feed someone for a day is probably over $50
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For comparison, enough tomatoes to feed someone for a day is probably over $50
I'm a professional scientist, it's my curse. I literally just spent an hour looking up cost of basic food ingredients on a per-calorie basis.
For instance, just over 1 lb of pure sugar will provide 2000 calories for maybe $1.10. It's the cheapest thing. Really puts the obesity crisis in context.
For instance, just over 1 lb of pure sugar will provide 2000 calories for maybe $1.10. It's the cheapest thing. Really puts the obesity crisis in context.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm a professional scientist, it's my curse. I literally just spent an hour looking up cost of basic food ingredients on a per-calorie basis.
For instance, just over 1 lb of pure sugar will provide 2000 calories for maybe $1.10. It's the cheapest thing. Really puts the obesity crisis in context.
For instance, just over 1 lb of pure sugar will provide 2000 calories for maybe $1.10. It's the cheapest thing. Really puts the obesity crisis in context.
Or one of those Bullet Storm things that fires 1000 shirts in 20 seconds
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Or one of those Bullet Storm things that fires 1000 shirts in 20 seconds
Modified Mk19 grenade launcher with special shells to avoid setting shirts on fire
Within 20 yards it's highly lethal
Within 20 yards it's highly lethal
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Modified Mk19 grenade launcher with special shells to avoid setting shirts on fire
Within 20 yards it's highly lethal
Within 20 yards it's highly lethal
Without pissing off the ATF this is the best I can do. It's gonna run at least $30k though
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Without pissing off the ATF this is the best I can do. It's gonna run at least $30k though
Reposted by Hail Saint Nick
If we took right-wing reasoning to their extreme, the most efficient SNAP payout would be $1 per day, redeemable only for pure sugar.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If we took right-wing reasoning to their extreme, the most efficient SNAP payout would be $1 per day, redeemable only for pure sugar.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
If we took right-wing reasoning to their extreme, the most efficient SNAP payout would be $1 per day, redeemable only for pure sugar.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If we took right-wing reasoning to their extreme, the most efficient SNAP payout would be $1 per day, redeemable only for pure sugar.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
As it stands, SNAP is supposed to be paying out an average of $6.17 per day, because telling poor people to buy pure sugar or flour would be psychotic.
The very cheapest thing per calorie on this 2019 paper is pure sugar. $0.35 per 1000 calories.
If we spent $0.70 to feed people their daily caloric needs in pure sugar so many people would die
If we spent $0.70 to feed people their daily caloric needs in pure sugar so many people would die
The Relative Costs of High- vs. Low-Energy-Density Foods and More vs. Less Healthful Beverages Consumed by Children
To compare grocery costs between relatively high energy density foods and sugar-sweetened/high-fat beverages and lower energy density foods and more healthful beverages in children’s diets. Sixty foods were divided into high and low energy density ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The very cheapest thing per calorie on this 2019 paper is pure sugar. $0.35 per 1000 calories.
If we spent $0.70 to feed people their daily caloric needs in pure sugar so many people would die
If we spent $0.70 to feed people their daily caloric needs in pure sugar so many people would die
The average American male is overweight by about 25lb. That represents about 88k excess calories consumed on average. That's about 44 days' meals worth, spread across God knows how many years or even decades.
We're overeating by maybe a couple hundred calories per day on average, or ~10%
We're overeating by maybe a couple hundred calories per day on average, or ~10%
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The average American male is overweight by about 25lb. That represents about 88k excess calories consumed on average. That's about 44 days' meals worth, spread across God knows how many years or even decades.
We're overeating by maybe a couple hundred calories per day on average, or ~10%
We're overeating by maybe a couple hundred calories per day on average, or ~10%
Don't worry about how your policy might impact those actuarial tables. In fact, take the GDP growth from 2023 to now and extrapolate that linearly forever! After all, AI will never fail our stock market.
There, where's my job at DOGE?
There, where's my job at DOGE?
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Don't worry about how your policy might impact those actuarial tables. In fact, take the GDP growth from 2023 to now and extrapolate that linearly forever! After all, AI will never fail our stock market.
There, where's my job at DOGE?
There, where's my job at DOGE?
Too convoluted. Set the healthcare cuts you want and the cost projections you need to get there.
Map actuarial tables against those cuts and draft equations for distributing income, inheritance, capital gains tax cuts.
Now feed this into ChatGPT and ask to optimize for max racism and oligarchy.
Map actuarial tables against those cuts and draft equations for distributing income, inheritance, capital gains tax cuts.
Now feed this into ChatGPT and ask to optimize for max racism and oligarchy.
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Too convoluted. Set the healthcare cuts you want and the cost projections you need to get there.
Map actuarial tables against those cuts and draft equations for distributing income, inheritance, capital gains tax cuts.
Now feed this into ChatGPT and ask to optimize for max racism and oligarchy.
Map actuarial tables against those cuts and draft equations for distributing income, inheritance, capital gains tax cuts.
Now feed this into ChatGPT and ask to optimize for max racism and oligarchy.
This is "I don't know why this hospital has emergency power" levels of stupid
You couldn't convince me this was a good idea when I was 9, let alone 12
You couldn't convince me this was a good idea when I was 9, let alone 12
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is "I don't know why this hospital has emergency power" levels of stupid
You couldn't convince me this was a good idea when I was 9, let alone 12
You couldn't convince me this was a good idea when I was 9, let alone 12
Now I'm thinking of an anime or film premise where the contrivance is a group of people have to find the murderer amongst them (or sacrifice someone innocent) or the emperor will entomb them all just to be sure
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Now I'm thinking of an anime or film premise where the contrivance is a group of people have to find the murderer amongst them (or sacrifice someone innocent) or the emperor will entomb them all just to be sure
Beard of sorrow and loserdom. Pic unrelated
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Beard of sorrow and loserdom. Pic unrelated
There's a lot of American food I've had that's nearly inedible without meat. I've never had that problem going to an Indian restaurant
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
There's a lot of American food I've had that's nearly inedible without meat. I've never had that problem going to an Indian restaurant
Better food with less meat would be a strong start. But you're not gonna get that without either top-down government intervention or large numbers of immigrants coupled with rising meat costs
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Better food with less meat would be a strong start. But you're not gonna get that without either top-down government intervention or large numbers of immigrants coupled with rising meat costs
Which obviously we should do as a society. But the same tools that get you an artificial steak with tolerable texture are the gonna be the same multitrillion dollar, generations-long projects that let us rebuild lost limbs and immune systems
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Which obviously we should do as a society. But the same tools that get you an artificial steak with tolerable texture are the gonna be the same multitrillion dollar, generations-long projects that let us rebuild lost limbs and immune systems
Sterility at scale is gonna be a big challenge. The amount of labor and waste keeping microbes from chewing up anything without its own immune system is gonna be obscene. I don't think we solve this one without also solving tissue engineering for organ replacement and reconstructive surgery
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Sterility at scale is gonna be a big challenge. The amount of labor and waste keeping microbes from chewing up anything without its own immune system is gonna be obscene. I don't think we solve this one without also solving tissue engineering for organ replacement and reconstructive surgery
All meat is bad for the environment, but for the US it's a double whammy of culinary traditions loaded with so much meat and so much of it being beef.
I grew up alternating between Chinese food at home and American stuff eating out, and difference is so stark
I grew up alternating between Chinese food at home and American stuff eating out, and difference is so stark
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
All meat is bad for the environment, but for the US it's a double whammy of culinary traditions loaded with so much meat and so much of it being beef.
I grew up alternating between Chinese food at home and American stuff eating out, and difference is so stark
I grew up alternating between Chinese food at home and American stuff eating out, and difference is so stark
I wonder if someone could write some equations summarizing the airspeed of an unladen swallow and troll Elon into thinking it's the moon landing trajectory
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I wonder if someone could write some equations summarizing the airspeed of an unladen swallow and troll Elon into thinking it's the moon landing trajectory
I mean conceptually useful sure but still
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I mean conceptually useful sure but still
It's been 10 years and even I still remember from school that's not a formula it's a fucking placeholder
"Yes, marvelous artistry, it really adds immersion to the gaming experience"
"Yes, marvelous artistry, it really adds immersion to the gaming experience"
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It's been 10 years and even I still remember from school that's not a formula it's a fucking placeholder
"Yes, marvelous artistry, it really adds immersion to the gaming experience"
"Yes, marvelous artistry, it really adds immersion to the gaming experience"