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  • Seems about the kind of activity people tend to do in parks.

    Unless you're causing harm to other people, what someone might think is rarely a good reason to not do something you genuinely want to.

  • Anti-vax people don't generally hold that stance because they're evil. They're misinformed. Doctor willing to sedate a person whose about to get murdered and one that's sceptical about vaccines is not equivalent.

  • Drugs will kill ya faster than fat

    This is just plain false. The health benefits of not being overweight far outweigh any potential negative effects of the drug itself. GLP-1 receptor agonists have been used to treat type 2 diabetes for decades - we're quite familiar with their risks.

  • Losing weight is almost entirely about diet. Exercise plays only a minimal role in that. It’s far easier to not eat something than to burn off those same calories through working out. That’s not to say exercise isn’t important - it is - but you do it for reasons other than weight loss.

  • Finland has similar kind of events called folkrace

    Every car that participates is valued at 2000€ and if you refuse to sell your license is revoked. The intention of this is to prevent people from spending too much on their cars and keeping the competition affordable for anyone to partcipate. It's literally called "everyman's class" after all.

  • With the Hubble Deep Field, they pointed the telescope at a seemingly empty patch of night sky - and it turned out to be filled with distant galaxies. Also, light traveling from far enough away gets redshifted into the infrared range, which means it can no longer be seen by the human eye.

  • People tend to misintrepret what the simulation hypothesis actually suggests. The idea isn't that these simulated worlds would somehow be fictional or like video games. The point is that we take the known physics of the universe and run computer simulations of it. Things like magic would be just as impossible in these simulations as they are in the base reality. There's no reason to expect that things would be any different even if we in-fact did live in a simulated world.

  • I think it was Peter Zeihan who speculated that one of the reasons Putin hasn’t resorted to using nukes is because he knows that we know exactly where he is at all times - and that any retaliatory strike would target him personally. It wouldn’t even necessarily have to be a nuclear strike. In that sense, even a single nuke would be enough - as a deterrent, if you even need that one.