There is just no advantage to being poor in America.
Why should there be an advantage to being poor?
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alvah commented on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth ft.com/content/cfb77a53-f... · Posted by u/hhs
alvah commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15
Why are you assuming I haven’t read the other threads? Are you really that worried about expressing an opinion? You know this isn’t reddit - you wont get crucified for it.
Relax, stop being so combative and engage in some discussion. Otherwise why are you replying to me in the first place?
Because if you have read the other comments (not threads), and you are capable of reading comprehension, you will be aware that this adds compliance costs for everyone in the space, and is especially disastrous for any small operators that cannot afford to employ people specifically to deal with red tape. "Can't hurt" indeed...
Also, thanks for pointing out this isn't Reddit, I wasn't aware.
alvah commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
No, I pay for Apple News, Slate, Stratechery, Downstream+ (podcast), Accidental Tech podcast, etc.
I donate to electoral-vote.com via Patreon. Most of my news comes from podcasts and those ads don’t bother me as much as web ads. I said I wasn’t morally opposed to them.
I don’t use any app that is ad supported without the option to pay for an ad free experience the same with streaming services.
>I don’t use any app that is ad supported without the option to pay for an ad free experience
That is, obviously, still ad-supported content...
alvah commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15
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alvah commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15
alvah commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
Sites rely on ad impressions for revenue. I block ads anyway so either way they aren’t getting money from me.
And if ad supported content ceases to exist, nothing of value will have been lost. I’m not morally opposed to advertising, I find ad supported content not worth reading especially on mobile.
>And if ad supported content ceases to exist, nothing of value will have been lost.
"Absolutely nothing on any website that relies on ads for revenue is of any value" is a wild take.
alvah commented on Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com/posts/... · Posted by u/airhangerf15
You're optimizing for "fairness". The UK government, however misguided, is optimizing for good outcomes for the next generation. The thing that solves this may well be parents taking accountability, but, putting these expectations on online platforms in place doesn't hurt and can only help.
>doesn’t hurt
Are you sure?
alvah commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik
According to all the studies, this is absolutely the worst thing that you can do. GLP-1s are revolutionary, but when you go on them, you should intend to stay on them for life. When patients first go on them, they lose both muscle and fat, and when they go off them, they regain just fat, and in many cases they're in a worse situation than they would be if they hadn't gone on them in the first place.
Letting your weight fluctuate up and down in giant swings is, in many ways, harder on the body than just staying at a steady weight, even if it's overweight.
GLP-1 definitely doesn’t prevent you increasing your percentage of total calories from protein, and doing regular resistance exercise. That was the advice from my doctor, and while I’m only 2 months in, weekly scans have not yet shown any significant decrease in lean mass. I don’t see any reason why they would, as long as I continue eating protein and lifting heavy things.