The Aggregate
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The Aggregate
@AggregateReads
Temporarily embarrassed elitist
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I’m pretty anti nanny state but at first glance this makes complete sense. Should reduce diet-related chronic disease and have all sorts of benefits.
And generally- taxpayer-funded nutrition assistance should fund nutrition!
What’s a good counter argument?
Sar Haribhakti@sarthakgh
3 million Texans who on SNAP can longer use taxpayer money to buy candies and soda
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@deepseekinyou @pitdesi @RickRoma29 Who is stopping them from buying "normal food" with their own money?
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@pitdesi @RickRoma29 Yes just let them buy normal food. Tomorrow that moron rfk jr will say donkeys piss is nutritional . So we’re going to include that in the list?
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This is a great point. I feel like a lot of doctors tend to overlook the behavioral aspects of something like this (not that there aren't financial constraints for the tests/scans they can order).
A doctor friend of mine was skeptical for years about the value of CGMs for non-diabetics. He finally ended up getting one recently, and—surprise!—he's conceded that he was wrong and marvels at how much of an impact it has on what he chooses to eat.
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@radfugee I’m with you (now), but it took me seeing plaque from a CIMT (and ~6 months to mill it over) for me to agree to a LLT.
For a not-small percentage of the population, having a numerical proof that “the house is already on fire” is necessary for them to act on their own behalf.
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This is now my position as well and why I think calcium scoring is useless. Just treat your LDL regardless.
Dr Alo, DO, FACC@MohammedAlo
You can just check your LDL-C, if it's over 60mg/dL, you are building plaque. You can get it under 60 pretty easily and never worry about plaque. You don't need to wait until you have calcium in your arteries. Calcium is a late stage finding. Would you tell a smoker to keep smoking until a CT scan shows lung cancer? That's decades too late. You tell them to stop immediately. We can now prevent heart disease. We don't need to wait until it's irreversible! 💪🏻🫀🩺
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We do put children and adolescents on statins in high-risk cases (familial hypercholesterolemia) for precisely this reason. Outside of FH, there are more tradeoffs that give clinicians pause (concerns about suppressing cholesterol aggressively during the development phase, minimal risk of near-term events, the initial accumulations of plaque in childhood being different in composition than advanced plaques you start developing in the subsequent decades).
I have no idea what incoherent nonsense "check longterm history of heart disease" refers to, but you don't strike me as the kind of person who is capable of adding anything intelligent to this discussion, so I don't care to know or argue this with you. You have a great day.
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@AggregateReads @MohammedAlo @auntiecoco74 This is an incredibly dense take. The LDL level he suggests statin usage start would have otherwise very healthy kids on them.
Also, check long term history of heart disease.
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You can just check your LDL-C, if it's over 60mg/dL, you are building plaque. You can get it under 60 pretty easily and never worry about plaque. You don't need to wait until you have calcium in your arteries. Calcium is a late stage finding. Would you tell a smoker to keep smoking until a CT scan shows lung cancer? That's decades too late. You tell them to stop immediately. We can now prevent heart disease. We don't need to wait until it's irreversible! 💪🏻🫀🩺
Brad Gerstner@altcap
We started the Center for Heart Attack Prevention to advocate for widespread CAC scans as a standard of care for everyone over 35 - the mammogram for the heart. Grt to see new guidelines moving in that direction. Universal scans will save 100k lives per year! Get your now! 🇺🇸🤍
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This is a rather dense take on the topic. Our bodies weren't designed for longevity, but to survive to the age of reproduction and reproduce.
You can move forward in life with the body "as it exists" / "as it was designed," but cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death presently. There are many ways to die, but modern medicine/pharmacology offers solutions to the issue of cardiovascular disease, and greatly reduces the risk of CVD as a primary causal factor of mortality.
Our bodies weren't designed to be naturally resistant to polio—should we reject the polio vaccine on those grounds?
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@MohammedAlo @auntiecoco74 So what you’re saying is God (or whatever anyone believes) designed human bodies to do all these amazing things automatically (anyone that’s had a baby has experienced several of these), but we basically all need a statin regardless of how we eat b/c ldl function was messed up.
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@markkaplan20 Who´s lying? Whoever told you the Masai have "zero heart disease"
extensive atherosclerosis (even in a YOUNG sample)
mostly beware ecological correlations. a) no age-matched cohorts b) no randomization or adjustment for confounders (exercise, BMI, genetics etc)
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@EarthToGazelle @thatdonnyslater The most cynical misogynist couldn't make this sequence of tweets up. Would have been too much of a reach.
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@thatdonnyslater Not having his kids and not marrying him.
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Corporate boyfriend with artsy girlfriend was my favorite relationship. He paid for many of my art projects & loved creating with me and watching me. He said I was the balance in his life that kept him playful and childlike after spending all day at work.
All the “creative” men I dated sucked & always tried to compete with me. 🙂↔️😭
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@DedicationHoops @JuanCantLose I can’t do another single digit loss, Jeff. I need us to win tonight, for the love of all that’s holy PLEASE.
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@dsonoiki @sircalebhammer Well when we come out with drugs that defeat aging, I'm still going to stick to the "divide by 2 + 7" rule. I'm going to be going for the 632YOs when I'm 1250, and anyone who doesn't like it can deal with it.
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@sircalebhammer it’s so bleak how people are trying to say this is okay
he was 25% older than her
this is like someone who is 1,250 years old dating someone who is 1,000 years old: a 250 year age gap
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Bruh. How is this still happening in 2026?
5 year age gap. After he was out of his position. Made out and stopped there.
Please please please our culture HAS to move on from this bullshit.
Look at how confident she is in trying to destroy this guys life.
Disgusting.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
Evanston, Ill. Mayor Daniel Biss, a congressional candidate, gets MeToo’d.
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Why not both? All those things—he's a cone, he's a whiner, etc.—are all 100% true on the court, and I hate his game for it. I think that's perfectly fair of me.
I'm sure he's a very nice guy off the court. I don't really doubt that at all, he seems like that kind of guy. But I hate the way he plays the game inside the lines.
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One of the Lakers staff who works closely with Luka Dončić gives comment about him:
"If people knew what Luka is like to all of us, you would have the best possible opinion about him. Same way we have it of him. Doesn't matter if it's people from minority backgrounds or people that get a job despite being physically handicapped. Whoever it is, Luka as a person and on his human side is even bigger than what he represents as a basketball player. I can't tell you even nearly enough - but believe me, what he is giving us with his kindness, warmth, understanding is worth the most. We feel like we are his, he really gives all of us that feeling. And then when he wins, when his team wins, I say 'we won' and I really feel like that. Because we are his and we win with him. He lets us know that every day"
The Don.
Source: ekipa.svet24.si/clanek/kosarka…
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The way I remember it is that Red on the Right wing would be two R’s & easy to remember, so it’s definitely not that.
Untold Secrets@RealGemsfinder
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@_pamelachalamet @dsonoiki Go ahead and point out for me where I attacked MBJ.
I said it's performative, which it is. He obviously knows what kind of attention he's going to draw when he walks in there with his Oscar. Pointing that out isn't "attacking" him.
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@AggregateReads @dsonoiki A random person on twitter made up that fantasy and you’re attacking him for it 😭😭
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Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that it's performative. Hollywood as an industry revolves entirely around PR. Actors and their handlers know exactly what they're doing.
No shade to him if he wants to do this, but spare me all the fluff about this being emblematic of his humanity/humility.
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@Chelson_95 @SunsUniTracker @Mishbia15 My bad, I assumed I was talking to someone who wasn't terminally stupid and would be able to correct when presented with direct evidence. Honest mistake on my part, carry on.
GIF
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@Chelson_95 @SunsUniTracker @Mishbia15 I think you should probably defer to the guy whose handle is "Suns uniform tracker."
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𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐥@i_love_my_wive
@SunsUniTracker The jersey and shorts are completely different shades of purple, right? It’s not just me seeing it? Same issue last year.
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@SunsUniTracker @Mishbia15 bro i’m sorry but what makes you think they don’t match?? they look the same. it literally just looks like a lighting thing. I’ve never once heard anyone say this. you make it seem like this is some known issue lol
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@AZSportsShow @Less_HumbleTeej It's not just the way he plays. I keep saying it—it's his demeanor.
He is indisputably one of the GOATs on the court, and at the same time, he's an utter malcontent. It manifests in a thousand different ways, and there's just no way to spin that as a net good for a locker room.
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@Less_HumbleTeej Sorry, guys we went through the same thing with Kevin Durant. He’s an incredible player, but the way that he makes everybody play worsens role players.
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Are the Rockets a contender? No
Is the team at least fun to watch? No
Do we have faith that we have the right GM in place? No
Right coach? No
Are we going to get out of R1? Probably not
Have we at least avoided any embarrassing social media scandals this season? Also no
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@geralddavidsson @thestrongchess @drterrysimpson Go through his profile. Virtually all of this posts are written by AI. It's nakedly apparent if you have a pulse.
A shame because I agree with the actual content, but I have no interest in promoting this kind of output.
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@thestrongchess @drterrysimpson What makes this "obvious AI slop"? If you're going to make such an attack, you should make *some* attempt to back it up.
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The “Ozempic body” insult is just aesthetic snobbery dressed up as health advice. When someone loses 20–30% of their body weight, blood pressure drops, sleep apnea improves, joints hurt less, and their risk of heart attack falls. If that offends an influencer’s sense of beauty, medicine will somehow survive.
And the irony is thick: Saladino rails against “pharmaceutical shortcuts” while selling a cabinet full of supplements that have far less evidence than GLP-1 therapy.
Yes — eat real food. Yes — move your body. I recommend the Mediterranean pattern all the time. But pretending obesity is solved by telling people to “eat like your great-grandmother” ignores genetics, metabolism, medications, environment, and decades of clinical research.
GLP-1 drugs aren’t a shortcut.
They’re the first effective medical treatment for obesity we’ve had in a century.
Paul Saladino, MD@paulsaladinomd
"Ozempic bod" is not attractive or healthy. GLP-1s are a shortcut to nowhere good. Eat like a human (single ingredient foods and foods with ingredients your great grandmother would recognize) and move like a human. This is the way.
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I was happy he played Dunn tonight. If you can't afford to give him some burn against the Pacers, then when can you?
If you relegate him to the end of the bench for the rest of the season, you absolutely kill his confidence. He's got a lot of work to do but he's young and he plays hard. I don't want to give up on him just yet.
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@TheMattPetersen Ott feels bad not playing guys. Dunn shouldn’t be seeing any minutes
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Booker and Royce doing their level best to be patient with this weird Dunn-Maluach-Bouyea group.
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I don't care about the women's-rights angle. Women do this stuff, OF, etc. voluntarily, and if men want to partake, let them.
I think it's both reasonable and sufficient to oppose this promotion simply because it's degenerate. There are plenty of people, of all ages, who don't want exposure to this stuff at an NBA game. That is more than enough.
I'm well aware that vices are inherent to the human condition, and we all have our own. But we don't need to get to a place where we actively promote them.
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Wonderful stuff from Steph that should bring Luke Kornet some old fashioned Catholic guilt
Steph Noh@StephNoh
Everyone seems to have voiced their opinion on the Hawks' Magic City Night. Nobody bothered to invite the women in the industry into the discussion. Here's my Q&A with NatsHoney, the president of Strippers United, who shared a much-needed perspective: sportingnews.com/us/nba/atlanta…
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