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Sauna. Daily sauna use for a month will make you feel much more comfortable in the heat and humidity.

I use the sauna for 20m at 85c daily, and it makes living in the tropics a breeze. Adapting your body to heat management has huge benefits

I sweat less
I don't feel hot
sleep better

Normal people aren't going to want to sign up and/or stick around when it's just violent crazies finger pointing about who should be murdered and how.

100%. I'm embarrassed to recommend Lemmy to people now

You, you made me laugh!

Tldr: people calling for the murder of people with different perspectives and opinions. For more details see the yptb community

Mods and admins following their published rules? Inconceivable

I keep Singapore hours and can lend a hand watching reports and matrix rooms while I'm at work.

Max paranoia: Backup your data and apps to a fully encrypted data source you trust. I.e. seedvault.. optionally you can practice restoring a backup on another phone .. a untested backup is just hope. And if your brave, factory reset.. once you arrive and are happy and safe, restore the backup

Reasonable: Prepare a second travel only phone: taxi apps, voip, travel email, secondary im

In the airplane-

Disable biometric unlock unless you have multifactor already (gos)

Turn off your phone before landing, and only turn it on after clearing customs. If your phone leaves your custody at any point then it's compromised and don't turn it on or login.

Be polite, respectful, and efficient in the airport.

Cities that want to keep cars out of bike lanes should keep all cars out of them, autonomous or not, by ticketing them. But they don't, so taxis and delivery drivers stop in them. That's traffic enforcement's fault.

Given that human drivers stop in bike lanes, Waymo then has a tradeoff:

1) Be the only ones to follow the letter of the law, break a lot of people's expectations, and catch backlash for disrupting traffic.

2) Follow the most common expectation, even if wrong, and incrementally add to the problem.

IMO, cyclists shouldn't lobby Waymo directly, but should lobby cities to actually enforce the rules on everyone. Then Waymo would fall in line naturally. And if they're inclined to take direct action against Waymo's they should also act against Uber and DoorDash drivers who are a far bigger problem by volume (and wait time for deliveries).

Not really, they don't slow down your metabolism. You're doing a cardiovascular stress event when you go into the sauna, and when you get out of the sauna, your body is not stressed. It's like going to the gym just for your heart. So as your heart gets stronger it doesn't need to work as much to do its job. But your metabolism isn't down regulated in this event.

Like who has a better metabolism, and is fatter? The guy who goes to the gym everyday and runs 20 km? Or the guy who never runs, and when he walks to the corner store he's sweating and huffing and puffing?

I had a Panasonic crystal clear b&w tv until 2004... I loved that TV.

I watched most of star trek in black and white with a high pitched whine only I could hear

Here is a fun thought experiment:

0.29% of long term glp1 users develop blindness -https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2025.6262
96% of Americans have impaired metabolic health
USA has about 350m people

If everybody with impaired metabolic health goes on long-term GLP one usage, we could expect about a million people going blind....

... 350,000,000 * 0.96 * 0.0029 =974,400

And that's just one side effect

The general assumption is the body should be in balance and self correct. If some external drug is required then there is a problem with the body balance (food, environment, injury, etc)

Glp1s are effective but have side effects, so the premise is it's better to treat the metabolic syndrome and not the symptom (cycling glp1 to lose weight periodically)

And tldw: the cure to metabolic syndrome is to reduce or remove carbohydrates from the diet. Basically, stop eating sugar.

If somebody cycles glp1 for weight management but never learns how to eat healthily, then they are losing muscle mass and not really improving their health. They need to adapt to a healthier lifestyle so once they go off glp1s they can sustain their new health.

I've summerized the video for you. So the conversation is accessible to people who don't want to watch it. Please don't just drop video posts without some text to help build the conversation

summerizer

Michaela Reigns and Reddit snark communities

Michaela Reigns built Save a Fox, rescued foxes from fur farms, and became famous for sharing that work online.
Her husband says Reddit snark communities targeted her for years with false abuse accusations, mockery, and obsessive scrutiny until she died by suicide.
Reddit reduced the harm to a count of 28 active members in the harassing subreddit and banned it only after public pressure.
A small coordinated subreddit devastated a vulnerable creator with no structural protection. Reddit's origin and early failures
Reddit started in 2005, brought Aaron Swartz into the early team, added subreddits in 2008, and gave immense control to unpaid anonymous moderators.
Open voting did not push truth upward because the platform hosted r/jailbait, creepshots, beatenwomen, and the Fappening until public pressure forced action.
The Boston Marathon misidentification turned thousands of users into a false consensus machine that harassed an innocent family.
Ellen Pao's attempt to ban harassment communities triggered a revolt and reaffirmed that Reddit communities accept limits only when they approve the line.

Echo-chamber mechanics

Voting buries minority views, karma rewards conformity, and power moderators shape what millions of users can see across large parts of the site.
Reddit's political tilt grows from moderation bias, liberal-skewing user demographics, and a cycle in which dissent becomes less visible, less welcome, and less common.
A University of Michigan study of more than 600 million comments found moderators remove politically opposite comments more often and that this drives echo chambers.
A separate content analysis of top political posts found 112 times more left-leaning than right-leaning content, and Pew data places Reddit news users at 47% liberal and 13% conservative.

Monetization and corporate control

Reddit turned user labor and moderator labor into a fast-growing public company through ads, AI data licensing, IPO gains, and high executive pay.
Google and OpenAI licensing deals turned two decades of user conversations into a high-margin AI training asset while users and moderators received none of that revenue.
The 2023 API price increase and the blackout of more than 8,000 subreddits showed that even a platform-wide protest could not force management to yield.
Communities feel ownership of Reddit, but the corporation sets the rules, captures the value, and waits out resistance.

Politics, regulation, and platform reach

Reddit is dominated by English-language American traffic, so American political dynamics shape much of the platform's global influence.
European regulatory pressure, especially the Digital Services Act, pushed major platforms including Reddit toward broader censorship standards.
Tencent's investment, the GameStop squeeze, and r/place show how Reddit can coordinate millions of people in financial, symbolic, and political battles.
Section 230 scrutiny, harassment liability, user fatigue, and the export of Reddit's biases into AI systems are the major threats ahead. Reddit's current form
Reddit remains extremely useful for niche knowledge, technical answers, reviews, and local community organizing.
Reddit is also a consensus machine that rewards outrage, protects ideological enforcement, monetizes user speech, and refuses responsibility for the harms produced by its structure.
The current architecture stays in place because outrage, engagement, advertising, and AI licensing all benefit from it.
The platform promised democratized speech and delivered volunteer rule by a small class of moderators inside a corporation that profits from conflict.

References

[00:00] Save A Fox Rescue - Fox Sanctuary — https://www.saveafox.org/
[00:00] Overwatch 2 - Blizzard Entertainment — https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-gb/
[00:15] Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation: An analysis of user-driven content removals on Reddit — https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4990476
[00:16] Reddit news users more likely to be male, young and digital in their news preferences — https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2016/02/25/reddit-news-users-more-likely-to-be-male-young-and-digital-in-their-news-preferences/
[00:19] Expanding our Partnership with Google — https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-google-expand-partnership
[00:19] Reddit and OpenAI Build Partnership — https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-oai-partner
[00:19] Reddit Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results; Announces $1 Billion Share Repurchase Program — https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/news-details/2026/Reddit-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Results-Announces-1-Billion-Share-Repurchase-Program/default.aspx
[00:28] The Foreign Censorship Threat: How the European Union’s Digital Services Act Compels Global Censorship and Infringes on American Free Speech — https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-07/DSA_Report%26Appendix%2807.25.25%29.pdf
[00:32] Lemmy - A decentralised discussion platform for communities — https://join-lemmy.org/
[00:33] 47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material — https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

I didn't narrow it down, I suspect it was fdroid

I've also had a app refuse to start if another app is installed (not running, just installed). My gos workaround was putting that opinionated app in its own profile.

meet the general scientific consensus?

sees a lot of conflicting nutrition and medical info

You can't have one without the other. Nutritional research is severely lacking in the literature. any of the cited studies that make the vast bulk of the scientific flotilla are just observational epidemiology... Which is very noisy.

I've done a bunch of reading, a massive amount really, and the only thing everyone agrees about is processed foods are bad... Except not all processed foods (the ones that further some other agenda)

Pick your flavor of opinion and people can suggest good creators in that vertical.

whole foods only direct from a farm, no processing at all
vegan
whole food vegan
Paleo
minimally processed foods
low fat
ketogenic

Personally - After all my reading I've settled on keto/carnivore, but to say there isn't consensus is a understatement. There are many people who make their diet their identify and feel personally attacked if you eat differently than them. The best thing I can say for keto is their evidence is consistent, lines up across domains, and individuals following it see immediate improvements in their health metrics

I can recommend the low carb down under YouTube channel for medical lectures on the keto, very clear about the quality and limitations of their evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcTTiHZtNpiqD2EubIO5HFw

Also, still can't block communities we've been banned from on the community page. What a joke.

It would be a nice improvement! Currently you can go to settings -> blocks and you can add a block.

Voyager let's you block a community by a long press on the community name

Molly on GOS, I will see a 5-10m delay on alerts sometimes.

The default diet today is highly processed, high carb, low fat, low protein... so any change would be a improvement.

As we have seen in the metabolic psychically papers, lots of people would see near immediate benefits in mood.

Selfishly a carnivore world would give better options at restaurants!

Of course, many people 'live to eat', and transitioning to 'eat to live' would be profound... fast food and restaurants would see a fairly big dip in sales, but they would adjust.

I'm not ready to give up on my coffee yet.