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Yeah, if Muskism is actively trying to eliminate the workers paycheck, and it’s not integrating people via mass consumption, who is actually funding all of this? Like how do you build a planetary scale empire with satellites and rockets and gigafactories if you aren’t relying on a massive middle class buying your products? That is the million dollar question.
And the AI models latched onto it immediately. The answer, according to the sources, relies on two pillars. State symbiosis and financial fabulism.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
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In one preliminary study with mice, Duca and his colleagues found that a fiber in barley, called beta-glucan, induced the most weight loss in obese animals. "At face value and, at least in our settings, it was only beta-glucan that was effective,*"* he says.
Less Snacking, More Satisfaction: Some Foods Boost Levels of an Ozempic-Like Hormone
Michaeleen Doucleff
It is hard to pinpoint where this idea — that it is inherently bad to be disabled — originated, but in the West, examples go as far back as ancient Greece. The linking of virtue and beauty with “normality” appears in Plato’s account of Socrates’ dialogue with Crito, in which Socrates asserts that “the good life, the beautiful life and the just life are the same” and that life is not “worth living with a body that is corrupted and in bad condition.”
Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability? - The New York Times
Bryan W. Van Norden
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