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[–] [email protected] 143 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Gotta be Ozempic.

Too many famous people who’ve been overweight for decades suddenly losing weight in the last couple of years.

Nothing wrong with it though, hopefully it will start helping regular people lose weight as well.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Or he was eating to compensate his frustration to promote software for Windows and since they made Proton, he is happy again.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago

I choose this explanation

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nothing wrong with it though

Hopefully. But it feels like we do this very often. We get a drug or something else that does this or that and is touted as being the best at this and then a few years later we announce that it was a horrible decision and has harsh consequences. Cigarettes, plastic, trans fats, so many dietary trends…

I’d love to try it but I’m skeptical just for this reason. Hoping not to hear in a decade that all these people developed the same type of cancer or some other horrible ailment.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Man, remember Fen-Phen?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I 'm with you, truely.

But what you're describing is just how science works in a world where we're trying to make discoveries quickly due to our lifespans only being around 75 years compared to the billions or millions or thousands of years for everything else existing.

As long as we continue making discoveries along the way, this is progress. It sucks that we keep getting things partially wrong sometimes, like with asbestos, but we'll eventually get it right as long as we keep following the process.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The examples given are not problems with science and time-scales. They are examples of the corrupting influence of money. Companies push their product as being fantastic, and deliberately cripple any science that would challenge their profits. Cigarettes are probably the most famous example of this.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He lives in NZ and therefore isn’t eating American poison that is sold as food

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He isn't in Seattle anymore?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Hasn’t been for a while. He was in NZ when the pandemic hit and has since made it his primary residence.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Went to NZ right before/as pandemic really hit and decided to stay

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I just wish I could afford it, but my insurance won’t cover it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Maybe it's Maybelline

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

People like Gabe are exactly the type that semaglutides were made for. Good for him either way.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He lost some weight. He looks good.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (5 children)

When he was living in New Zealand a few years ago it was first noticeable. Good for him. In Gaben we trust.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (1 children)

at this rate HL3 will be full-dive V.R.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If I die in the game and don't die IRL, im going to refund it for ruining my immersion.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The tech isn't there yet but if you fill out a form when you die in the game I'll come beat you to death with a crowbar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Ehhh, kinda. It dose exist but I think the guy only made one for fun.

https://gizmodo.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-created-a-vr-headset-that-1849755223

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Man that's like 2 minutes of gameplay I'd get.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Had to check for fall damage.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What the actual fuck? I thought it looked poorly shopped, but it's legit.

https://starfishneuroscience.com/team/

I choose to believe Gabe had stored all that energy for just such an occasion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

He was just cultivating mass

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago

He's lost a bunch of weight since the last time I've seen him. He looks so much better!! Super proud of him ❤️

[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just Gabe working on a god tier game.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The faster they make new gaming peripherals, the faster a new Half-Life comes out.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nah Gabe working on a god tier game. He just want to be able to say the same thing we all do.. "you mean, you have to use your hands?"

Where we're going, we don't need peripherals.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

HL3 confirmed just close your eyes and play via neural interface

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

HL3 will be a secret minigame you unlock after you beat the HL1 & 2 minigames on hard. Of course HL3 will have been worth the wait.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The actuators are quite surprising. They want to provide feedback to the brain, not just "listen" it's waves, but "tell" it some too...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Musk claimed the same in the past but stopped when he found out people were affraid of that tech

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gabe will focus on steam deck users who trust him entirely with their own mother's lives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Their brain interface will be mostly solidly designed with some rough edges, and 0.0003% of users will run into a bug that makes them constantly feel the vague smell of popcorn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

But it'll be mod-able.

Can't wait for Steam Workshop hacks for my brain!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

I assumed this was leftover April fool stuff. Does he really look that good all the sudden? I swear he was just photographed for another story within the last couple months that he looked the same in.

Damn damn, good for him if real.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They'll never make it to Phase 3 trials

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1, 2, 2 episode 1, 2 episode 2, and Alyx!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You start getting healthier and losing weight just by eating real food instead of American poison, living in NZ or any other country that cares for its citizens will do that for you

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

America might take the crown but I can assure you AU and NZ have plenty of trash to eat.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (6 children)

You think America doesn't have any fruits and vegetables? And NZ doesn't have any unhealthy food? Lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's Lemmy. We've got to have at least one "America Bad" comment per thread, no matter how irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The best is when the core of what they're saying isn't completely wrong but they take it absurdly far in a weird direction

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The ease of access and availability of unprocessed foods, or food products without high amounts of corn syrup, sugars and other additives, is much higher in most of the world outside of the US. I can never stay in the US for more than a couple of weeks without gaining weight. Then again, it doesn't help that US food is fantastically tasty, either ♥️

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For the wealthy? Absolutely not true

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people in this thread acting like Gabes a regular old guy and not a literal billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well it's ML so they just default to "the only food in America is literal dog shit!"

Like, America has food deserts, and has a lot of processed options that are bad for you. But for most, normal natural food is available. For the wealthy, premium food is never ever an issue

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Also, scroll up to see Alan, the dude behind Valve's Lighthouse tracking tech for VR. And now I just realised it's >20 years since I first browsed his awesome hobby website Alan's Lab.

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