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sdfgtr commented on U.S. maternal death rate increasing at an alarming rate   news.northwestern.edu/sto... · Posted by u/johntfella
oldpersonintx · a year ago
"While this study wasn’t able to explore specific causes of death, a large body of prior research, much of it published by Khan, has found cardiovascular disease (hypertensive disorders, heart failure and stroke) is a major contributor to poor maternal health outcomes."

tl;dr: obesity ("hypertension")

but why stop at maternal deaths? obesity is driving premature death rates in every category

this is a national crisis but no one wants to say it out loud because someone's feelings will be hurt

sdfgtr · a year ago
I love how this is the common sense answer and it's the conclusion in the study as well.

But if you read the other comments here, you see people arguing about Roe v. Wade, racism, statistical errors, covid vaccines, etc.

When the whole time the answer is just right there, the hippo in the room if you will lol. Anything to avoid personal responsibility I guess.

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sdfgtr commented on Gemini Pro refuses to acknowledge yt-dlp   twitter.com/adocomplete/s... · Posted by u/ado__dev
sdfgtr · a year ago
A comment under the tweet says: > yt-dlp stopped working this week. Literal better maintained forks are available

Anyone know what is being referred to? I thought yt-dlp was the best

sdfgtr commented on The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/rntn
llm_trw · a year ago
Would you be happier if we were exploiting Eastern Europeans instead?
sdfgtr · a year ago
I suspect the answer is yes.
sdfgtr commented on Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road   bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/a... · Posted by u/skruger
Ekaros · a year ago
Sometimes I wonder should we go to basics in many sports.

With things like banning any equipment including clothing and shoes... Or with cycling giving one standard mass manufactured piece. And then a pile of standard replacement parts and standard tools. All bought from cheapest supplier randomly distributed to participants.

sdfgtr · a year ago
Lookup Japan's Keirin racing. I think it's pretty much that. IIRC at the top levels they also require the racers to stay onsite under observation for several days before a race.
sdfgtr commented on Tour de France: How professional cycling teams eat and cook on the road   bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/a... · Posted by u/skruger
toyg · a year ago
Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on this stuff, and then someone finds the right, undetectable doping mix, and bye bye.
sdfgtr · a year ago
Tbf, millions is spent on that part. This seems to be a drop in the bucket.
sdfgtr commented on Hawaii home mistakenly built on Bay Area woman's land to be torn down   sfgate.com/hawaii/article... · Posted by u/Stratoscope
sdfgtr · a year ago
The house and property was being sold for 5 million. Spare the "food" and "shelter" schtick, no one involved was going to be starving because of this.

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sdfgtr commented on More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/petethomas
dogman144 · a year ago
Civically we allegedly care about these topics, and note their solutions via remote work

- disabled accommodations: this article, and anecdotes from people we know in this situation

- finding some method for a dramatic enough state change in environmental conditions as to back up from disconcerting climate change barriers we’re pushing into: I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

- preventing sexism, ageism, and other forms harassment at work: can’t sexually harass someone quite as easily in a fully auditable zoom/slack environment vs in office.

- accommodating parents and their child raising needs with policies that don’t come out of 1950: every working parent I know with remote jobs experience significant flexibility here.

- affordable housing space: office space conversions are starting.

The longer the debate goes on about hybrid/wfh and the above tangible proven benefits vs RTO for “The Collaboration” and “My Socialization Needs,” the more I speculate our society doesn’t actually care about the above topics, at all.

Or, if we do care, this should be called out over and over and over. Bc it’s not getting discussed this way.

sdfgtr · a year ago
> I can’t recall the specifics but within a week of COVID lockdowns and no commutes, carbon and pollution in atmosphere plummets

I don't deny the impact of lessening the number of people commuting, but how much of that was commuting and how much was everything being shut down?

I don't know that there would be as large an impact as people may hope.

u/sdfgtr

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