What you personally believe isn’t really important. You should look at research around obesity intervention from the NIH and other international institutions. This is a well-researched field.

What are you even attempting to prove with this? That fat people are bad because their nurses may get injured from handling them? You really need to reflect on your own motivation in this moment.

I feel like I reasonably addressed the basic issue. I don’t think someone can gain literal weight without eating more calories than they consume, because that is how thermodynamics work. But it’s not always as straightforward as over eating, and it doesn’t always feel like over eating. For example, common cases of obesity in the US are due to a high amount of hyper processed foods that are calorie dense but don’t feel filling. Fat people don’t gorge themselves every meal, they eat what feels like a regular amount to sate their hunger. That’s why semaglutides are so effective, they make you feel hungry less and full faster. And shame based approaches at making people eat less have been proven not to work, because they don’t teach them to choose better foods or make them feel less hungry.

Fat isn’t necessarily just about CICO. Someone might have a disorder causing them to store more fat than, for example, build muscle. You might have a thyroid disorder causing you to feel lethargic despite the fact that you ate a BMR level of calories, so you end up storing the remaining energy as fat. Not even getting into the variety of ways human behavior is illogical and can’t reasonably be answered with “just eat less.” Treatment for eating disorders is not like that.

Well if it’s any consolation, they would probably maintain .ml with or without a living wage made by developing Lemmy. Your contribution to their lives only dictates whether Lemmy the software gets developed, or they take another full time job and continue adminning on .ml

The parent comment provided tons of scientific research providing evidence towards the fact that shame doesn’t motivate weight loss and that epigenetic factors play a key difference in obesity. You laid out a few theoreticals to explain why actually, a fat person I made up in my mind doesn’t have to be fat because they can just stop eating.

The irony being that despite the ironclad argument you wrote, they’ll still irrationally judge fat people for their weight.

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Well, that’s actually the benefit of supporting FOSS. At some point along the way, someone can pick up the project totally of their own accord, fork it, and continue development. But I don’t see many devs lining up for the job of being accountable to someone as well mannered as you.

What’s really funny is that your comment that directed extremely aggressive energy at me for the crime of constructing a poor argument motivated me to shell out a recurring payment for the developers out of spite. I guess we really can get something done when we work together.

The platform itself is apolitical. It can be forked and used for any purpose by other creators. Any instance of a different political persuasion can be spun up and maintained separately, as many defederated instances have. This is a result of the project the 2 devs are paid to produce.

Given the name Dessalines, I’m guessing one dev is French though I suppose that’s too much of a reach. Regardless, I think you would be hard pressed to find many developers willing to commit to a project full time when they have to beg for donations from a relatively fickle audience like Lemmy users, just to reach a target of a middling income. Much easier to work for a financial firm building their app that approves predatory payday loans or whatever.

A federated interoperable platform will always have people to get “mixed up” with.

Comments are a hilarious minefield and a painful reminder of exactly how online leftists can never get shit done. We want FOSS federated social media platforms to escape the tech giants that would happily facilitate a fascist wave if it meant they can serve more targeted ads. But when that platform actually exists in a totally functional and apolitical way, we don’t want to support its development because the people willing to work full time on the project for poverty wages have bad political opinions. It’s so bad that we’d rather support Steve Huffman’s bot farm which is 1,000 times as politically influential as Lemmy will ever be at this rate.

The number of times I totally overshot distance based on the quest description and ended up in the Ashlands…

Environmental impact of gen AI pales in comparison to the environmental impact of alternatively making all the generated pieces manually. Let’s say Shutterstock switches purely to genAI images trained on their own licensed stock images. Do you think their total carbon output will go up or down now that they’ve stopped doing photoshoots of people and objects in seemingly random situations?