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but it seems you’re saying false negatives are a greater concern.

Someone with a bad BMI but healthy will get further testing and told they're healthy...

Someone with a "good BMI" because they have bird bones and no muscle, just fat, will never have further testing done and always insist BMI is all that matters. You can see it anytime BMI comes up, people ignore all evidence that say they may need to look deeper than that single number.

Consider life in the 1830s to now, it would have been impossible for even the wealthiest to avoid exercise and consume as many calories as the average modern human. Shit just isn't comparable.

There's no logical reason to keep using it

What?

How would voting I be voting blue?

Why are people up voting that? It makes zero sense...

Yep, two shit bag neoliberals running I and an actual Republican.

This is both good for Mamdani and what will be used as an excuse when he wins.

Nope.

Because lots of obese people have healthy bmi's

They're usually the ones blowing badly defending it and haven't had blood work done in a decade. They have no idea how unhealthy they are

BMI does work very well in diagnostics and statistical models

It does not ...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bmi-sidelined-in-new-obesity-definition-that-favors-health-evaluation/

It barely worked when it was created and doesn't really mean shit now.

It's gives loads of people a false sense of security and then they latch onto it and just keep insisting it's fine even in the face of multiple sources that show the scientific community thinks its shit.

I guess if people needed an example of that, your comment did serve a purpose.

I've known multiple people who lost federal security clearances for not filing their taxes for an extended period because they didn't owe anything.

But as far as I know they've never been fined or had charges pressed.

Very niche concern, but I don't 100% know all the scenarios, so it's best for people to find out for themselves about their own specific situation

To study this, Anderson and her team looked at the most recent self-reported body mass index (BMI) data from 746,250 Canadians who were 18 years or older between 2009 and 2023.

Maybe because BMI was never intended to be an indicator of health and is just a simple and dirty math formula invented by a Belgian astronomer 200 years ago?

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/publications/health-matters/is-bmi-accurate

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-02/the-problem-with-the-body-mass-index-bmi/100728416

BMI is just weight and height, a pound of muscle, a pound of fat, a pound of bone...

Doesn't matter, a pound is a pound.

I failed BMI everytime I got measured in the military, they had to "rope and choke" which is a more time consuming method where waist/neck measurements were used. If I had still failed that, I'd have been given a buoyancy test as well for an even more accurate tests.

But it's hard to call someone obese after you just measured the circumference of their abs...

When used as an average of a population BMI isbetter but it was made based on what weights were considered healthy for a white man 200 years ago, way before protein and weight training. And when the average person was like 5'6.

Lots of clearly healthy white men are labeled obese because of that. And no one else was even involved in coming up with the system, so they've always been getting wrong results.

It's fucking insane we're still using this ancient flawed method when we have so many better ways. Especially since the largest determiner of height back then was access to enough calories when young. Pretty much everyone is getting that now. And reaching their max height which is where BMI has always been the most flawed.

Like, obesity is an undeniable problem. But BMI is the least scientific metric we could be using short of some bullshit like astrology signs. The obesity epidemic too serious to fuck around like this

Alcatraz was a prison for criminals

Call this what it is:

Alligator Auschwitz

It's a place for anyone based on immutable charetistics like ethnicity, and it's naive to think that's going to be the fascists only metric moving forward.

If we don't defend them now. They won't be here to defend us when we're the ones they're coming for.

Solidarity beats fascists, that's why they crack down so hard on protests.

Am I wrong here?

Yeah...

India is a huge multicultural area that is only unified because the Brits did it...

The majority religion/language/culture is led by Modi who is a full on fascist trying to "erase" everyone who is different. And his actions often meet the definition of genocide.

It's not as bad as Gaza right now. But lots of people care.

Two words about furniture:

Killing machines

I do know...

What's weird is you didn't even click the link or even seem to read my comment:

If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, $112,000 for 2022, and $120,000 for 2023). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts.

America has bigger problems than migrant workers in other countries who make well North of six figures.

You're not getting any pity from the average American over "filing fees" when you can do that shit on TurboTax.

The vast majority of people really don't have a clue how their own system works...

It's not just Republicans.

Nah, they got a point:

, but the skills, and knowledge of how to make things.

Apple spent billions training Chinese workers how to do highly skilled manufacturing work for pennies and shitty hours with huge turnover rates. Remember the days of suicide nets in factories where the workers lived?

Apple viewed them as a disposible work force, they viewed it as job training.

They wash out, then get jobs doing the same things "the Apple method" for more pay and better conditions for a Chinese company.

Still not great pay, still not great conditions, but there's an incentive there to work for a local company instead of Apple.

Over decades this has led to today where even if we tank our manufacturing away, that just makes manufacturing Chinese competitors even cheaper.

It has nothing to do with discoveries, it's about a trained workforce with the infrastructure in place for them to work and a supply of the rare earth materials they need.

That gets thrown around all the time...

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion

But the exception to it is pretty rational and covers most people.

It's like how billionaires convince poor people that can't afford to retire that a tax only 2% of people will ever pay on inheritance is a pressing issue and society doesn't deserve their cut.of problematic levels of generational wealth.

Like, do you understand how ripe this is for manipulation by the wealthy to turn public opinion against the wealthiest few who pay these taxes?

C'mon man...

It's 2025, we need to learn to recognize this shit on our own, misinformation is going to keep getting worse.

Quick edit:

For clarity, you do still need to file federal taxes every year, even though you have zero withholdings and still owe $0.

But people get in trouble for not filing, same as people who live in Alaska. There's no debt for missed payments, but there may be fines/consequences anyways

Honestly?

I hope he tries

She wealthy and still a household name. She can pay to fight, it would make it undeniable he's abusing power.

And she literally doesn't even live in this country. Absolutely zero danger at all, and she was already saying she might not come back.

You go see a psychiatrist, who is trained and qualified to tell you your self diagnosed condition doesn't exist.

They can probably do it in one appointment, but they might have to keep telling you over and over again before you listen

Superman fighting the klan didn't work because adults laughed at their hand signs and shit that were disclosed...

It's because it got a generation of kids to see the klan as the bad guys

If Superman hated you, how the fuck were you going to indoctrinate your kid into the klan?

That's why they're always bitching about media. The people doing it are ignorant, but the ones telling them what to be mad about it are picking logical targets to fufil longterm goals.

It's why fighting fascism is like losing weight, you can't reach a goal and stop giving a fuck, it's a lifestyle.

I don’t know shit about Hawaii

My advice would be to ask more questions, and make less assumptions...

Especially when you're assuming a disadvantages minority population gets fair treatment in an American judicial system...

https://www.acluhi.org/en/news/special-report-bias-against-native-hawaiians-hawaii-criminal-justice-system

https://justicepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/10-09_exs_disparatetreatmentofnativehawaiians_rd-ac.pdf

https://ictnews.org/archive/addressing-the-native-hawaiian-inmate-issue

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/disparate-treatment-native-hawaiians-criminal-justice-system

It's not subtle, and it's definitely not a secret, why are you trying to form opinions on co.plex societal topics off a handful of social media comments?

The way they're up sizing there'll be a lot of "slide" positions

Where each year you jump two levels, so 5, 7, 9 decent money

The advantage to taking the short term pay cut used to be stability, but that shits gone now

If I was kicking the shit out of a Mexican in the USA and calling them an immigrant, it would be a hate crime.

That analogy doesn't really make sense...

Here's a real life example of what I heard witness multiple fights out there:

Local vs local

You're a bitch ass cuz

Local vs mainlander (regardless of race)

You're a bitch ass haole

That's it.

It ain't deeper than a substitute for a word that denotes familiar relations...

You seem awfully desperate to find an example of white victimhood though