One of the most effective diets I'm aware of is the coffee and cigarette diet. Anytime you feel hungry, have a coffee and a cigarette first, then eat a little if you're still hungry.
It has a much better compliance rate that other calorie-restriction diets.
Smoking increases hazard rates by 3x. Even the extreme obesity (obesity III, formerly morbid obesity) increases hazard rates less than this. So the risk tradeoff for picking up smoking in favor of reducing obesity is not good. It's like saying you'll stop wearing a seatbelt to reduce the risk of being trapped in a burning car; your overall risk profile is still higher.
Or is it that you don't think health is the goal of reducing obesity? If so, most of the metrics we use to deem obesity as sub-optimal are wrong, including those in TFA. Better compliance to a diet that increases overall health risk is not a good strategy IMO.
> Email is this thing you forgot to check for a month because every time you go there it is mostly spam.
As a society, should we allow private entities to destroy valuable institutions?
We used to have a technology (email) that increased productivity and added value to individual lives. That value has been eliminated by spammers trying to cold-extract money from everyone with an email account.
Spammers killing email is an externality we shouldn't accept, similar to not accept Monsanto killing bald eagles by selling DDT.
Don't get too comfy in your chats, spammers are coming for your discords and slacks next, and that wave will be lead by LLMs.
> If you are sending cold emails to people you know will be interested, that’s fine.
This is my rule. If I gave you my info at some time, and you have a new product you think could be relevant for me, fine. If you got a contact list from some convention, and are shotgunning it with "We sell X. If you're not in charge of Y, please direct me to the appropriate person", I'll report it as spam faster than The Flash.
Line between cold calling vs telemarking, or cold email vs SPAM.
As far as what the line is, it's any unwanted unsolicited contact, as defined by the recipient, not by the party initiating the call or sending the email.
IE, there's no universal set of checkboxes that a marketer can follow that magically make unwanted unsolicited email / phone calls not SPAM.
Note the critical difference of "contact" versus "advertisement."
It's not just advertisements that are SPAM, it's newsletters, wrong email addresses, marketing. (For example, I've been subscribed to all kinds of weird stuff merely by attending political meetings. I once was sent a LinkedIn invitation to a party clown business because I attended my senator's information session on a bill he was promoting. Another time, I got a "guess" email from a high school kid trying to contact a school faculty member who had the same name as me. I've also had government demand letters for people with the same name as me, and COVID test results for people with the same name as me.)
Some people don't mind this kind of stuff. (Edit: If it's not 100% clear, I really, really mind this kind of stuff.)
> Am I an outlier for not wanting any?
I doubt it. Spend some time listening to other people, though. Some people are more tolerant of it than we are.
Personally, I think the way to reign it in is to ban all unsolicited contacts to email / phone and require that they go through a 3rd party mediator. (Kind of what happens with LinkedIn or Facebook Messenger) This way, if the 3rd party mediator sends you junk, you can cut them out.
Suppose someone called you and said "I would like to give you $10,000. Here are the private keys you can use to transfer to your wallet w/o me needing to collect any of your information."
I want no unsolicited advertisements but I want that one.
What if you had a some kind of urgent need health/business/personal ? You tried finding the solution but cannot find anything. And somebody reached out to solve exactly that problem. Will you still not be interested ?
Statement: There's been so much abuse of email and phone marketing that I think many people will be hostile to your opinion.
Opinion: The email and phone marketing (cough) spam (cough) industry is full of people who delude themselves into believing what you think. Spam is defined by the recipient, not the sender, and there's no amount of mental gymnastics that you can follow to change the definition of what spam is.
as a daily tinder user, this tinder bios that are trying to do this have become really obvious for me. occasionally one slips through but it's uncommon. but i agree it's super annoying, and while i support sex work and sex workers, it does feel pretty dishonest and crappy for the people who are maybe a little less bright and fall for this. im torn on whether to report these bios, because i understand marketing for sex work is really difficult, and there's not really a "right" platform for it
Isolation has a feedback that makes it hard to break out of once you're in really deep. The more desperately lonely you are, the worse your social skills.
I also dislike the lack of mugs in coffee shops. Big chains don't have them at all, and local shops you need to specifically ask for it or they assume a paper cup.
I'm often the only person drinking out of a mug in a coffee shop full of people.
But I'm a grumpy old man that doesn't understand today's world, and I accept that. Leaving work to drive to Starbucks and buy a coffee (instead of using the kuerig or espresso machine in the break room) is gen z's version of stepping out for a smoke break.
It has a much better compliance rate that other calorie-restriction diets.