• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    1914 artist: will carrying canes ever go out of style? No, of course not, that’s insane. It’s pants that are a fad.

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            7 months ago

            Ok, but it had to be difficult to imagine in 1914 that basically everyone in the 50s would be smoking cigarettes. The inciting incident for the change had begun (WW1), but it’s “they’re giving the soldiers shitty poor people tobacco so they can at least have some comfort and because it’s more logistically convenient than to give them pipes”. And idk if they had started issuing cigs yet in 14.

            This is the equivalent of predicting that in the 2060s wealthy people about town will rather than enjoying a nice whiskey on their nights out or on a lovely night in, they’ll be (like everyone else) maintaining a solid drunkenness on malt liquor the majority of their waking life because the trump administration got so bad that it took free malt liquor to keep people productive in the majority of the developed world and now everyone there is an alcoholic with shit taste.

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        7 months ago

        Weight loss drugs don’t immunise you against food though.

        And usually the people who are on drugs for weight loss arent exactly close to the figure represented.

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          Weight loss drugs don’t immunise you against food though.

          The new ones like ozempic literally kill your cravings and desire for snacking, so in a way they do.

          And usually the people who are on drugs for weight loss arent exactly close to the figure represented.

          You’d be surprised at the figures of some of the people I see at the doctor’s for weight loss drugs.

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            7 months ago

            In a way, they attempt to moderate the hormones that usually are the cause behind snacking. But it won’t eliminate habit.

            You’d be surprised at the figures of some of the people I see at the doctor’s for weight loss drugs.

            I don’t think I would, but if some anorexic person gets weight loss drugs instead of a referral to a psychiatrist, somethings gone wrong.

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              But it won’t eliminate habit.

              Obviously anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen and heard it actually does. Those using it have almost no cravings, you can stick their favourite snack in their face and they’ll politely decline.

              some anorexic person gets weight loss drugs instead of a referral to a psychiatrist,

              Didn’t mean it that way, but slim and shapely.

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                I mean, it will help eliminate the habit.

                The person doing the snacking is addicted to a feeling usually associated with eating because of a hormone that your stomach releases which makes you hungry. (Ghrelin iirc) This medication on either ocunteracts that or helps it’s counterpart, leptin, which signals satiation.

                Usually people with severe obesity have those signalings all fucked up.

                But like with smokers, nicotine patches will help people quit, but some just like still smoke on them and don’t even reduce, you know? Those people are more addicted to smoking than dependent on the nicotine, really.

                Similar thing goes for food addiction. It can be either or, addiction or “dependence” (I put it in airquotes because it’s still not “really” required but your body certainly will make you think it is because it doesn’t know we live in modern times and a bit of fasting is completely safe).

                Usually it’s a mix of both, obviously, like with everyone. But if the psychological component is far larger, than these sort of meds perhaps won’t help as much, and you’d need something combined with therapy perhaps.

                but slim and shapely.

                Yeah eh, if they’re being cautious and abiding by the instructions on the medications, I guess why not.

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      Obesity in the 50’s was more like 10-15%, today it’s closer to 35%, but 40 is close enough.

      Interestingly, the spike started in the mid-1980’s, timed too closely to the low-fat craze to not make me suspicious, especially since that adds up metabolically.

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          Pretty sure fat digests pretty easily for humans, while we are omnivores we lean more towards the carnivore side of things. Remember our big evolutionary advantage is our ability to throw things good and just keep walking, persistence hunting was our big fuck you advantage.

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            Another advantage that we developed later on is our ability to seamlessly shift from small to big team organizations, sometimes working without any apparent hierarchy. Gobleki Tepe is one of the prime examples of prehistoric cities

            Too bad the world as a whole kinda stuck with super rigid top down hierarchies for the past 500 years

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          Eating sugar doesn’t either unless you’re at a calorie surplus but yeah sugar does mess with you hormonally in a way that you’re more likely to put yourself at a calorie surplus vs fats.

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    7 months ago

    It seems like futuristic utopia fashion predictions always feature less clothing. Whether something like this or sci-fi like Star Trek TNG.

    Maybe, they’re prescient shades of the coming global warming or people’s imaginations are just unavoidably horny.

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      8 months ago

      Nowadays burning man is just like the tech bros corporate retreat, so if it’s today’s burning man we just skipped some steps toward technofeudalism

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    7 months ago

    Its actually surprisingly on par considering the clothing at the time. The bikini came about in the late 40’s and the miniskirt was around by the late fifties although the term had not been coined.

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    8 months ago

    Sort of correct? At least the lady is pretty spot on, summer dress, short skirt. The hair is a bit extravagant but we did have more pompous hair styles in the 50s and 60s. The only thing that seems out of place is the bow but not by a lot

    The guy is ridiculous of course. Well at least the outfit. Because looking at today’s rapers with their crazy tattoos …

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      Its not remotely correct if you compare it to 1950 instead of 2025. In fact that outfit is closer to a 20s flapper outfit than anything, but then the flappers had short hair, not super-updos

      The guy is just a straight up quasi-indigenous-esque look, which is pretty spot on for fetishization of that type of stuff that was prevalent at the time this was drawn (and thereafter)